As far as good reading material on the subject. I read "Chasing Hubble's Shadows: The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time" by Jeff Kanipe. It's a really good book, but it does tend to assume readers have a rough idea of some concepts used in cosmology, such as red shift, arcsecond, etc.
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