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Guerrillas in
the Mist
How To Live Without Electricity... and LIKE
it
Living Well on Practically Nothing
PVC Projects for the Outdoorsman
Ragnar's Guide to the Underground Economy
Chem - Bio: Frequently Asked Questions
Future Plagues
Cy Littlebee's Guide to Cooking Fish and Game
Natural Events Calendar
Backwoods Home Magazine
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Author Bob Newman spent time in both training and trying to crush guerilla forces in his 20 years as a Marine, and teaches in this battlefield guide to clandestine warfare exactly what every guerrilla fighter must know to win, such as basic fieldcraft, mines and booby traps, ambushes, tunnel construction and strategy, urban and nocturnal tactics, interrogation, indoctrination, exploitation, and more. Draw on experiences learned from such diverse places as Switzerland, Vietnam, Cuba, China, Peru, and Guadalcanal as you explore clandestine warfare as practiced by victorious guerrillas for thousands of years. For academic study only. Softcover, 220 pages, photos and illustrations, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Shipped only in the USA.
How
To Live Without Electricity
This book by Anita Evangelista entitled " How To Live Without Electricity, And LIKE It ", has lots of great ideas on living off the power grid. Has explanations on calculating actual power usage; employing alternate energy sources; cooking with gas, wood and solar heat; heating and cooling your home; refrigerating food without electricity; maintaining radio communications; generating power and recharging batteries and much more. A list of mail order sources is included, as well as sources for other interesting books and magazines. Softcover, 158 pages, photos and illustrations, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Living Well On Practically Nothing, Revised
This revised book by Edward H. Romney is for people who need to live well on a lot less money. If you have been fired, demoted, retired, divorced, widowed, bankrupted, or swindled - or if you just want to quit your job and remain financially self-reliant - this book is for you. In it are hundreds of tips, secrets and necessary skills for living well on little money. From cover to cover, this book is stocked with proven methods for saving money on shelter, food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, health care and more. Chapters include living on $12,000 a year and saving $37,500 a year; ways to live on no money at all; new career or business; low-cost computers; whether, where and how to relocate; save on utilities or do without; and protecting investments and making them grow. Learn how you can live happily, comfortably and with complete financial freedom. 8 1/2" x 11", softcover, photos and illustrations, 189 pages.
PVC
Projects for the Outdoorsman
This book by Tom Forbes details how to make over 30 different projects using PVC pipe, including a travois, animal control stick, snowshoes, ice-fishing tip-up, shooting brass collector, boot dryer, portable ground blind, cot frame and more. PVC pipe is lightweight, durable, relatively inexpensive and easy to work with, and so lends itself easily to all kinds of uses. Lots of fun for the handyman or outdoor lover! Softcover, 92 pages, photos and illustrations, measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Ragnar's
Guide to the Underground Economy
Through detailed case studies, author Ragnar Benson shows you how to make a living without having a job (this does not mean without working!). The book describes how individuals are cashing in... without having to pay Uncle Sam up to half of their earnings. From the individual case studies, you'll learn how to pick the right kind of work, work and get paid without supplying your Social Security number, prepare and stick to a budget, advertise your services or products, and finance your projects when you can't go to the bank. The potential downsides of working in the underground economy are also discussed. The IRS says, "Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society", while the author says, "I have seen taxes more than double during my relatively short time on Earth. A corresponding doubling of civility has not occurred". Softcover, 147 pages, measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Chem
- Bio: Frequently Asked Questions
This somewhat technical book answers 177 questions you might have about chemical and/or biological warfare, along with an extensive appendix of definitions, abbreviations, binary mixture designations, and toxicities of various chemical and biological agents. Geared more to a college reading level, it will answer questions about vectors, toxins, production, delivery, detection, effects, decontamination, defense, disposal, treatment, terminology, and usage. Here is one Q & A from this book: "Are neurotoxins the same as nerve agents? Many toxins attack the nervous system and and so are known as neurotoxins. Neurotoxins are classified as cytotoxins and and often kill their target cells. Nerve agents are less effective at actually killing nerve cells. Neurotoxins, however, differ from nerve agents, such as sarin or VX, in their chemistry and in the way they work. Neurotoxins are a very heterogeneous group of compounds that act on a number of components of the nerve. Nerve agents are a small group of well-defined synthetic chemicals belonging to the same group as organo-phosphate insecticides that act on a single target, acetylcholinesterase. Care should be taken to avoid confusing the two terms. The respective treatments are also quite different. A nerve agent is a chemical that acts by blocking the action of acetylcholinesterase... , preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine, and preventing a nerve from relaxing after it has passed a signal. This is not how neurotoxins act. Some neurotoxins prevent acetylcholine from binding to its target (the acetylcholine receptor), others prevent acetylcholine from from being released to initiate the transmission of the nerve impulse, and still others interfere with the electrical processes in nerve functions." If you understand this example, you'll like this book, as it is very informative! Softcover, 164 pages, measures 5" x 6.5"
Humanity has always lived with, and sometimes barely survived, plagues, pestilence and epidemics. This book has the subtitle "Biohazard, Disease and Pestilence... Mankind's battle for survival". Improved public health, vaccinations, and new drugs have driven many diseases from large parts of the world, and even supposedly totally eradicated one. But in this age of drug-resistant superbugs, AIDS, fast world-wide travel, genetic engineering and biological weapons, a new age could emerge where we face these scourges once again. Author Peter Brookesmith brings an informative, fascinating and sometimes frightening look into disease, biohazards and pestilence... where we've been and where we're going. Hardcover, dust jacket, color photos, 170 pages, measures 9.5" x 12.5" CLOSEOUT SALE, SAVE $$$, LIMITED QUANTITIES
Cy Littlebee's Guide to Cooking Fish & Game
This is an outstanding cookbook that's got a liberal dose of old-time humor and wisdom throughout. Masterfully written by Cy Littlebee, it tells how to dress, transport and store your fish and game for best quality, and has great recipes for deer, rabbit, squirrel, raccoon, possum, groundhog, muskrat, beaver, skunk, quail, pheasant, goose, duck, coot, field birds like snipe & woodcock, pigeons, turkey, all kinds of fish, frogs, crayfish, turtles and mussels. You'll also find recipes for stuffings, bread and cornbread, as well as recipes for various plants, nuts and berries. All of these recipes come from Missouri folks who take cooking wild meat as an art with a long and cherished tradition. Softcover, 141 pages, measures 6" x 9".
Filled with gorgeous photography and hundreds of daily notes about what's going on in nature, this calendar is spectacular! Did you know that on May 18th that stinging nettle is tall enough to sting and jewelweed is big enough to relieve the burn, that on May 29th bald eagles begin fledging, or that on August 9th that hawthorn fruit ripens and baby bats begin flying? Published by the Missouri Department of Conservation (the best in the country!), each month features a beautiful color 10"' x 14" photo, notes for what's going on in the natural world each day, a monthly list of wildflowers in bloom, and a full-page color spread with photos and descriptions on the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. All of these photos are gorgeous and would be suitable for framing. Although the enlarged scan of an inner page is not very good, it'll give you a general idea. No matter where you live, you and your kids will love this calendar! CLOSEOUT SALE, SAVE $$$, LIMITED QUANTITIES