The short answer is Kirks' book
Plane talk,but only if you have been playing long enough to know most of the basic bar chords and are reasonably comfortable with your guitar skills.
Sounds like your talking about chord inversions. As you know from Kirks' lessons, chords are made up of !,3 and 5. The same chord can be played with the 1 as the root or the 3 or 5 as the bottom note depending on where you are on the neck. Bar chords would be the place to start looking for inversions. You can also use notes from a chord in one position with notes from the same chord played in a different ,but reachable position.
You might want to consider learning the
caged system of chord playing. It is a very popular way of getting into playing the same chord in various positions over the neck.
I am sure other players here will share their ways of handling it too.