Yes, but thoughtful older people exist who probably do have insights of the sort I'm thinking of, and their existence constitutes evidence that the information I'm looking for could be collected by someone. Since the information exists and the world is vast, it would not surprise me if someone, somewhere, collected it up for a book that would help me.

Maybe they wrote it in 1973 instead of 2008, but that would still be helpful I think. Heck, in some ways it might be more helpful if it was really high quality and then I could diff that versus 2010 to see what has changed and what has remained stable. The stable bits would be interesting precisely because of their stability.

The trick is, I'm not sure how to track the information down. I need the right keywords or an author's name or a good URL and I was hoping LW could help me out on that front :-)