Start with almost anything by Michael Dresdner, Jeff Jewitt or Bob
Flexner.
Then read something by one of the others.

A library should do. Anything published in the last ten years will give
you a good start.

Patriarch

I disagree *slightly* :-)

I own the suggested Flexner book. It is not a book that you want to borrow.
At $20, it is a book that you should own. It is the sort of book that you
will want to "go back and re-read the section on shellac" when you get the
hankering to try french polish, or whatever.

-Steve