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A very nicely written book that adds a lot to Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection is "The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle" by Amotz & Avishag Zahavi. Only little knowledge about evolution is necessary in order to understand this work because the authors present so many examples for their thoughts and conclusions. I've read it in German so I cannot comment on style and language of the English version.
I'd also suggest getting some cheap used books such as: Sex, Evolution and Behavior or Haldane's classic:The Causes of Evolution. Other authors worth checking out would be Dawkins, Darwin and Zahavi. Between free online courses and erudite but still very accessible books you can get a solid foundation on the basics, for much much less than a single college course, and perhaps find a particular field that really intrigues you. Lastly, there are a number of great blogs out there, John Hawkes is a favourite. I'd suggest steering clear of Gould, but The spandrels of San Marco is a classic, and wrestling with Gould's semantic-based arguments and being able, to your own satisfaction, refute them using facts, is a worthy exercise.
Oh, and I'd be remiss without throwing out Trivers or Lieberman