If you have a practical background, and you want to learn some physics
and how it applies to everyday life, then I would suggest: How Things
Work, by Louis Bloomfield. From there you can find some topic that
taps
your interest (e.g. thermodynamics) and move on from there.

If you want to find out the latest, coolest, bleeding edge things,
without having to learn all the physics that sits under it, then there
are a number of popular science books that make you think you've
learned more than you actually have. I suggest reading a couple of
Michio Kaku's books.

If you have some physics background already (say, high school physics
or 1 year of college physics), then I would recommend the Feynman
Lectures in Physics.

If you have no background in physics at all, and you think you can rub
the rust off your algebra-trig and calculus, and you want to actually
learn some physics, then I recommend Giancoli: Physics. You don't need
the latest edition -- you can buy an earlier edition for cheap.

If you have no background in physics at all, and you want to actually
learn some, but your math is weak, then I suggest using a pair of
books: one by Hobson, and one by Cutnell & Johnson. You read the
Hobson
chapter first, and then you read the Cutnell/Johnson chapter.