Attached Link: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D

before you buy any books on blender, check out these free wiki books. i've done some playing with "Blender 3d: noob to pro", and i found it a good start. i haven't found equivalently easy or intuitive starts to wings3d, but then i also hate how wings3d hides it's primary functions under the left mouse button when a menu item would acheive the same function without hiding affordances or changing the standard workflow of most computer apps.