I like fundamentals. Get rich quick mystery and pulp fiction holds only so much sway. I studied alphabets about 20 years ago and now find that early mixes of Latin/French and how it led to Olde English as described in the introduction to Kingsford's "Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483" Cambridge 1924 with ladies papers as well as the first Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas holds my foundation. Then an excursion back into Greek/Latin of 30 BC and how to target a audience as described in the introduction to Vitruvius "Ten Books on Architechture", Cambridge, 1999 gives the base a little more breadth.