I am also a woodworker and several years ago wanted to start working with bamboo. What I found was that there are many books about bamboo objects, and making very simple things, but very little on how to make strong joints or bend bamboo with heat. After a lot of searching, I found what I needed, a book written in 1901(!) called Bamboo Work, by Paul Hasluck. At first I could only find it for sale by rare book dealers for about $200 a copy, which was a little too steep for me. I couldn't find it on Amazon or eBay. Then I found that it had been re-published as a paperback a few years back, and I started hunting for it. It's out of print, and also hard to find, but I do know of one source that still lists it: Bamboo Gardener in Seattle. Since I live near Seattle, I drove there to see whether a book written more than 100 years ago would be of any use. What I found was that the basic techniques of joinery and bending were things that still make sense and can be done in your shop with a little practice. While it is not written like modern how-to books, it does have enough useful drawings and descriptions to be quite helpful if you want to securely connect bamboo using a variety of pinned, drilled or reinforced joints; it also explains heat bending. It doesn't have dozens of techniques, but what it does show is quite useful if you are doing anything that is more complex than a bud vase. The only improvements I could think of resulted in being able to do things faster with modern tools like Forstner bits, power sanders, and chop saws. I thought it was worth the $27 charged for it by Bamboo Gardener. If you're interested, here is the link:
http://www.bamboogardener.com/booklist.html
If you have an interest in building Japanese bamboo fences and gates, I know of a great book on that, too: Building Bamboo Fences, by Yoshikawa. It has step-by-step, detailed sketches of how to join and lash together bamboo, and is also very valuable for the builder. It shows how to construct 10 different types of traditional fences. It's available used for about $15:
http://product.half.ebay.com/Building-B ... prZ1982440 Yoshikawa and Suzuki have also written a coffee-table style book called The Bamboo Fences of Japan, which is filled with beautiful color photos, and is a great source of ideas, but it does not show the techniques. It costs about $40-50, or more:
http://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Fences-Jap ... 256&sr=1-3
I have gained great respect for the concept of bamboo swords.