Unfortunately, for Maya I cannot think of any unless you go back to a book written for maybe Maya 4.x or lower. NURB's were more in favor then and there were not a lot of competitors (like rhino3d).

Maya's NURBs are really not very good (for detailed surfacing work) and have been neglected for some NINE! releases of maya since 4.x! My feeling is that Maya's NURBs are not destined to be improved in the near future (if at all) because there are much better applications available and alias would have to do a ground up re-write to really compete.

Sorry for the bad news. It saddens me as well as I started as a NURBs modeler and really appreciate there power. But such is life.