Reddit mentions of Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, and Entertainment

Your best bet would be to LEARN about lighting design, including fixtures, control and capabilities. It takes more than a semester to be a lighting designer, but I encourage you to pursue it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0240812220/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pdJvCbP8S5PVA

• Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, and Entertainment
  
  
• A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting Third Edition
  
  
• Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life
  
  
• The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook
  
  
• Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business
  
  
• Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting (Great theatrical resource for history and theory, and beautiful photographs.)
  
  
• Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was: The Lighting & Stage Design of Andi Watson (The text reads like an design student's pseudo-intellectual wet dream, but the pictures are great.)
  
  
• Photometrics Handbook
  
  
• Stage Design: Concerts, Events, Ceremonies and Theater

https://www.amazon.com/Automated-Lighting-Science-Performance-Entertainment/dp/0240812220

This is the book they gave us in college. It talks more about moving lights but it does talk quite a bit about power and DMX.

http://www.amazon.com/Automated-Lighting-Science-Performance-Entertainment/dp/0240812220