I'd like to read about satellite dishes as devices in their own right, rather than from the standpoint of their applications. In other words, their design, construction, circuitry (simple as it probably is), characteristics and anything else you might want to know before connecting them to a circuit. I've been searching on the web and basically what I find are sites that will sell or lend you a satellite dish for some application, or which will advise you on how to select one for that purposes. I don't find sites that simply talk about what it is in all detail and what you can get away with in building or using one. If there is a book devoted to this, I'd like to know about it, but maybe that's like asking for a book on what a resistor is.
I think that a satellite dish is basically a certain kind of antenna with some additional circuitry that one doesn't find in other antennas and maybe also some mechanical features such as motors to control its orientation. I don't know if all of that would be adequately described in a book on antennas.