Civics - Where is a good book that helps us understand our relationship with Statues, regulations, etc?

The best place to start is the law itself. In this day and age just about every thing is on the net. After reading the law/statute/ordinance, there is a book at your local law library that is a called "Shepards."

After a law is passed and until the law is challenged in the Courts, you have no real way of knowing how the law will be interrupted. Some laws, when it comes right down to it, conflict with others. The courts can not allow one law to conflict with another law (without declaring one unconstitutional) so their decisions sort this all out. This is where Shepards comes in. Every law that results in case law being written shows up in Shepards. You look the law up and Shepards will give you reference to what case law that involves that law there is. This is modern day "common law." In this country, English Common Law is the case law of England up to 1776, when this country declared it's independence from the King of England.

To my knowledge there is no one book that brings it all together. That's why you need to learn how to read the law and do your research.

Hope this helps.

Stay out of statutes and regulations, they are for U.S. Citizens.  If you're still one then learn about them.  Otherwise forget them.  Your learning is toward
law and they are enrolled in the vaults in every state capital.  Stay away from codes.  Statutes are for statutory courts.  In common law you never quote
a statute, you might compare it to law but thats it and you have to enclose it in a box or in paranthese and put CF in front of it.  That's it or you are to 
be considered as a PRO SE litigant under statutory law in a statutory court.