In preparation for attending your D. Kalinsky Associates course, you may want to become familiar with some of the embedded software resources listed below. The question of "Where can I find a book that explains topic X ?", can often be answered only by: "There's no book that explains this topic well." In the resources listed below, we hope you'll find lucid explanations of some embedded topics that interest you.
"Embedded Computing Design" quarterly magazine Free subscription (US and Canada): www.opensystems-publishing.com/subscriptions (You'll need to pay for shipping of the magazine, if you live outside the US and Canada.)