GENERAL

FICTION

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank . the classic (1959)apopcalypse novel ...a small community of people surviving the aftermath of nuclear war

Flee the Darkness by Grant R. Jeffrey,

MEDICAL

GENERAL

Where There Is No Doctor A Village Care Handbook. Clear, concise, illustrated, and practical. The very best reference for providing medical care in an environment where medical professionals are not available

Where There Is No Dentist companion book to Where there is No Doctor

U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Handbook/st 31-91B

Merck Manual

Survivalist's Medicine Chest by Ragnar Benson

EMERGENCY & FIRST AID

The American Medical Association Handbook of First Aid & Emergency Care Covering urgent emergency situations as well as the common injuries and ailments that occur in every family, this AMA guide takes the reader step-by-step through basic first-aid techniques, the medical symptoms to recognize before an emergency occurs, and what to do when one does. Line drawings throughout.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to First Aid Basics (Complete Idiot's Guides) step-by-step instructions for dealing with everything from minor cuts and scrapes to life-threatening injuries. This friendly, comforting guide is chock full of solid, state-of-the-art information, as well as tips, alerts, and detailed checklists that will help readers cope with almost any medical emergency.

The Outward Bound Wilderness First-Aid Handbook Covering general emergency medical procedures as well as specific symptoms and accidents--everything from avalanches to snakebites to hypothermia--the Handbook is well-organized, thorough, and practical.

Wilderness First-Aid When You Can't Call 911

Pharmacology for Prehospital Emergency Care This updated, popular text gives paramedic students all the information they need to know to properly administer drugs in the field. Unit I addresses general pharmacological principles; Unit II offers detailed information about 68 prehospital drugs categorized by type of emergency.

First Responder by J. David Bergeron, Gloria Bizjak

The Streetmedic's Handbook The handbook identifies the most common paramedic emergencies by symptom and addresses each in a problem-oriented format, offering essential information needed to make rapid, accurate emergency care decisions.

NATURAL: HERBAL & HOLISTIC

Back to Eden : The Classic Guide to Herbal Medicine Natural Foods and Home Since 1939 this new edition of the classic guide to herbal medicine, natural foods and home remedies underscores the fundamental principle that true healing consists of a return to natural habits of living.

Herbal Folk Medicine : An A to Z Guide

The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies easy to understand herbal treatments for every day health challenges. A must for anyone who wishes to take health care treatment dependency from doctors and put knowledge into thier own hands.

Natural Pharmacy by Miriam Polunin, Christopher Robbins A guide to natural and alternative methods of healing explores the medicinal uses of more than 250 minerals, plants, and other organic materials, displaying each ingredient in an A-to-Z photographic catalog section.

Acupressure's Potent Points by Michael Reed Galch. The technique of using acupressure to relieve pain has been around for 5000 years and even predates acupuncture. It is possible to learn to perform acupressure on oneself by following the well-illustrated instructions and diagrams in this book. Two clearly written chapters give the history, theory behind the technique, and some general instructions, followed by 40 chapters which cover specific disorders--acne, insomnia, shoulder tension, etc.--and how acupressure can help relieve them.

FOOD

How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System by Anita Evangelista

Beginners Guide to Family Preparedness : Food Storage, Back to Basics, Survival Facts by Rosalie Mason

Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, by Bradford Angier

Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plantsby Tom Brown

SURVIVAL & SOLUTIONS

SURVIVAL

The Complete Book of Survival : How to Protect Yourself Against Revolution, Riots, Hurricanes, Famines and Other Natural and Man-Made Disasters

"Wright's Complete Disaster Survival Manual" by Ted Wright

The Foxfire Book : Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moon by Eiiot Wigginton (Editor)In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living". The Foxfire series continues...
Foxfire 2 ~~~FoxFire 3 ~~~Foxfire 4 ~~~Foxfire 5 ~~~Foxfire 6
Foxfire 7 ~~~Foxfire 8 ~~~Foxfire 9 ~~~Foxfire 10

Back to Basics : How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American SkillsWith so many urban and suburban dwellers moving toward simplifying their lives, Reader's Digest has updated its popular Back to Basics series to provide the ultimate how-to book.

The Encyclopedia of Country Living : An Old Fashioned Recipe Bookby Carla Emery.This definitive classic on food, gardening, and self-sufficient living is a complete resource for living off the land with over 800 pages of collected wisdom from country maven, Carla Emery--how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, catch a pig, make soap, work with bees and more.

Strategic Relocation by Joel Skousen. A practical home safety and relocation assessment aid.

How to Implement a High Security Shelter in the Home by Joel Skousen

The Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson

Live Off the Land in the City and Country by Ragnar Benson

Survivalist's Medicine Chest by Ragnar Benson

The New Way Things Work by David MacAuley. "Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?" If you, like Nathaniel Hawthorne, are kept up at night wondering about how things work--from electricity to can openers--then you and your favorite kids shouldn't be a moment longer without David Macaulay's The New Way Things Work.

No Such Thing As Doomsday by Phillip Hoag

Country Bound! : Trade Your Business Suit Blues for Blue Jean Dreamsby Tom Ross, Marilyn J. Ross.Includes criteria for selection and steps for investigating potential places to live, the logistics of moving, adapting to small-town life, social activities, business opportunities such as franchising or professional practices, home-based employment or entrepreneurial possibilities, and job hunting in small-town and rural markets . . . helpful maps, charts, and graphs are also included.

SOLUTIONS

Community Technology by Karl Hess, Carol Moore ; In the 1970's the late Karl Hess participated in a five-year social experiment in Washington D.C.'s Adam-Morgan neighborhood. Hess and several thousand others labored to make their neighbohood as self-sufficient as possible, turning to such innovative techniques as raising fish in basements, growing crops on rooftops and in vacant lots, installing self-contained bacteriolocial toilets, and planning a methanol plant to covert garbage to fuel. There was a newsletter and weekly community meetings, giving Hess and others a taste of participatory government that changed their lives forever.

The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy by Richard W. Rahn. Imagine a world in which: you make all of your purchases without ever handling currency - bills or coins - or even writing checks; most money is issued privately and digitally, rather than by governments; inflation is largely a relic of the past; you choose which transactions you wish to be on record and which you wish to be anonymous. This world is not science fiction, but the world that increasing numbers of people will come to enjoy over the next couple of decades, according to the new book, The end of Money, by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Richard W. Rahn.

SHELTER

Mortgage-Free: Off the $$$ Grid, by Rob Roy and Malcolm Wells (Chelsea Green Publishing)

Earthship: How to Build Your Own, Vols. I, II and II (solar homes constructed from old tires), by Michael E. Reynolds (Solar Survival)

The $50 & Up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler (Mole Pub. Co.)

Complete Book of Underground Houses, by Rob Roy (Sterling Publications)

WATER & WASTE DISPOSAL

Cottage Water Systems: An Out-of-the-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Water Purification and Privies, by Max Burns (Vanwell Publishing, Ltd.)

The Home Water Supply : How to Find, Filter, Store and Conserve It by Stu Campbell, Roger Griffith

Wells and Septic Systems by Max Alth, Charlotte Alth, S. Blackwell Duncan: A guide to building and maintaining a well or septic system, revised and updated to conform to current codes and requirements, and expanded to include new material on well and septic installation, water storage and distribution, water treatment, ecological considerations, and septic systems for problem building sites. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Disinfection Alternatives for Safe Drinking Water by Edward A. Bryant, Ted Bryant, George Fulton, George Budd

Finding Water : A Guide to the Construction and Maintenance of Private Water Supplies by Rick Brassington covers all aspects of building and maintaining small water supplies for individual properties, farms and small-business users, and should also be useful to people looking for their own water supply in order to become independent of the public water system.

The Outhouse Revisited by Don Harron, Sherman Hines (Photographer)

Psychological Preparedness

Anthem by Ayn RandA stunning and brilliantly realized future world in which individuality has been crushed is the theme of Ayn Rand's best-selling masterpiece, Anthem.

The Reasonable Woman" by Wendy McElroy

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne

The Postman by David Brin. Paperback. Audio cassettealso available. He was a survivor--a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale--of a nation on the road to recovery.

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