Category's to look under with key words to look for at used book shops: Animals (veterinary, ranching) Construction Crafts (sewing, quilting, knitting, basket weaving) Farming (homesteading, veterinarian) fix-it Gardening (hydroponics, organic, herbs, vegetable Geology (rock, mineral id guides Health insects Survival (camping, Technical Technical Skills - blacksmithing, metal working, welding, homesteader handbooks, paper making, tanning, chemistry, alcohol, Construction techniques. Basic Bookbinding - Lewis Basketry - F.J. Christopher Blowpipe Analysis - lost technology series Deerskins into buckskins - Richards Forgecraft (1913) - Crowe Foundations of chemistry in the Laboratory - Hein, best, miner General Chemistry - Timm Green-Sand Casting - ISBN 0-917914-08-2 How to Lace 15 types How To Work Sheet Metal - h.j. Dyer Make and use a small chemical laboratory - yates Manual of blacksmithing - Smith Melting iron in the cupola - j.e. Hurst Modern chemical magic - John d. lippy and Edward L Palder Mother Pletsch's Painless Sewing with pretty Pati's perfect pattern Primer - Pati Palmer and Susan Pletsch Natural Baskets - Maryanne Gillooly New Lessons in ARC Welding - The Linconlin Electric Co. Papermaking - Hunter Practical Blacksmithing (1998) - M.T. Richardson part one and part two Practical Inorganic Chemistry - G. Pass & H. Sutcliffe Practical sewing and dressmaking - ann ladbury Producer gas for motor vehicles - Cash and Cash Rocks and minerals - Simon & Schusters Guide to. Simplicity Sewing Book The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals - Knopf The book of Buckskinning - Edited by bill Scurlock The charcoal foundry - Gingery The Library of Pioneering and Woodcraft - Seton The Magic of Spinning - Marion L. Channing The metal lathe 2 - Gingery The metal shaper 3 - Gingery The Milling machine 4 - gingery The secretes of building and Alcohol Producing Still - Vincent R. Gingery The weather sourcebook - Wagner & Adler Welding skills and practices - Giachino, weeks, Brune Farming and related Tech: A Veterianary Guide for animal Owners - C.E. Spaulding (Rodale) Back to Basics - reader's digest Country living The Homesteader's Bible - Charles R. Self First-time farmer's Guide - Bill Kaysing Foxfire 2 - edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton Foxfire 3 - edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton Foxfire 4 - edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton Handy farm devices -cobleigh Homesteading: How to find new independence on the Land - Logsdon (Rodale) How to live without electricity and like it - Anta Evangellsta Raising Sheep The Modern Way - Paula Simmons Small Scale Pig Raising - Van Loon The Foxfire Book - edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton (really no 1) The homesteaders handbook - churchill Veterinary Guide for Farmers - G.W. STAMM Windsor press Construction: Basic Carpentry Illustrated - Sunset (lane) Basic Plumbing illustrated - Lane Boatbuilding Manual 2nd edition - Robert M. Steward Cabinet making and millwork - Feirer Bennett Isbn 87002-374-8 Complete guide to bicycle maintenance and repair - Greg Lemond Construction methods and management - nunnally Cottage water Systems - max burns Fire Facts (the consumer's guide to wood heat) Jerry Kipp Handbook of water control - John a. alford heating your home with wood - Neil Soderstrom Home Lighting - Sunset How to build Fences and gates - Sunset how to plan and build fireplaces - sunset Ideas for Storage - Sunset Manual of home Repairs, Remodeling and Maintenance - Grosset & Denlop Piping handbook - crocker Steel construction manual - American institute of steel construction The Toymaker - Andrew calder Timber Construction Manual (second ed) - American Institute of Timber Construction. Gardening, Hydroponics, seeds, bugs 10000 garden questions Vol 2 - Rockwell A field Guide to the Insects - Borror & White A Fishkeepers's Guide to aquarium Plants - Barry James A Garlic Testament - Stanley Crawford Advanced Auarist Guide - Feroze N. Ghadially Pet Library's guide All about Aquariums - Schneider Beginner's Guide to Hydroponics - James sholto Douglas Beginning Hydroponics - nicholls Creepy Critters - Zigzag Encyclopedia of organic Gardening - J. I. Rodale and staff Five acres and independence - Kains Garden problem solver - Rodale Great Garden Formulas - Rodale Growing and Using Herbs Successfully - Jacobs Houseplants - the American horticultural society illustrated encyclopedia of gardening Hydroponic food production - resh Hydroponic home food gardens - Resh Landscaping for the western living - Lane - sunset Lawns and ground covers - lane - sunset Natural Insect & Disease Control (the encyclopedia of) - Yepsen (rodale) One Circle (how to grow a complete diet in less than 1000 sq ft) - David Duhon Organic Plant protection - Rodale Questions and answers about Ants - millicent E. Selsam Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening - Rodale Gardening Rodale's Garden Answers (Vegetables, fruits and herbs) - Rodale Saving Seeds - Marc Rogers Successful Gardening - a complete step-by-step gardening handbook The Biodynamic Farm - Herbert H. Koepf The New Organic Grower - Coleman The organic Gardener's Handbook of natural insect and disease control - ellis and bradley The potato Garden - Maggie oster The principles of gardening - hugh Johnson The Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides - University of California The survival greenhouse - James DeKorne The Vegetable Garden - Vilmorin Andrieux Primitive skills, survival outdoors Backpacking (why, how and where) - Schreiber Backpacking one step at a time - Harvey Manning Basic Rockcraft - Royal Robbins Boobytraps - 1965 fm 5-31 - us army Camper's Digest - Erwin and Peggy Bauer Canoeing - The American national red cross Care and use of individual clothing and equipments FM 21-15 - USA army Complete book of camping - miracle decker Complete book of outdoor lore - Clyde ormond Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia - Vin T. Sparano Curriculum Enrichment (outdoors) - hug and Willson Diving for fun - Joe strykowski Field Guide to North American Fishes, whales & Dolphins - Knopf (the Autubon Society) Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures - Knopf (national Autubon Society) FM 21-76 Survival (1970) - Department of army (2 copies) Girl Scout Handbook (1953) - Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Handbook of California Birds - Brown, Vinson how to fish the pacific coast - lane -sumset How to stay alive in the woods - Bradford angier Hunting Secrets of the Experts - Vlad Evanoff Improvised munitions handbook (1969) - us army Karate - Mas Oyama's Outdoorsman's handbook - jerome J. Knap Pleasure packing - Rovert s. Wood Skills for survival - dickey horizon Soldier's handbook for individual operations & survival in cold weather Soldier's manual of common tasks (skill level 1) stp 21-1-smct - USA army Survival in the wilds - Shockley and fox Survival Skills of the North American Indians - Goodchild The art & Science of taking to the Woods - Colby and Angier The book of Survival - Anthony Greenbank The boy scout handbook - bsa The Camper's Bible - Riviere The Complete Field Guide to American Wildlife - Collins The Hunter's Handbook - jerome J. Knap The L.L. Bean Guide to the Outdoors - bill Riviere The Official Boy Scout handbook - boy scouts of America The outdoor survival handbook - Raymond mears The Pictorial Guide to The Martial Arts - Jim Wilson The SAS Survival Handbook - John Wiseman (2 copies) The US Armed Forces Survival Manual The wild food trailguide - hall Unconventional warfare devices and techniques - us army wilderness Pocket n" Pak Libray - Wilderness Is-- Wilderness survival - davenport Engineering, mechanical, physics, chemistry reference books: College Physics (ninth edition) Frederick J. Bueche, Eugene Hecht (schaum's Outlines) Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics - Ray Clough & warburton Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulics (2/ed) - Ronald W. Giles (schaum's outline series) Frame Constants for lateral loads on Multistory concrete Buildings - Advanced Engineering Bulletin 5 Portland cement association Fundamental Formulas of Physics volume one - Donald H. Menzel Fundamental Formulas of Physics volume two - Donald H. Menzel Guide for structural Light weight Aggregate Concreted v. 64 no 8 Aug 1967 - American concrete institute Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (24 th editions 1940-41) - chemical rubber co. Handbook of engineering fundamentals (second edition)- Eshback Industrial Wastewater and Solid Waste Engineering (1980c) - Vincent Cavaseno and staff of chemical Engineering Mechanical engineer's handbook (fifth edition) - Lionel S. Marks Mechanical engineer's handbook (forth edition) - lionel S. Marks (2 copies) Pocket ref (second ed) - Thomas J. Glover Production handbook - Alford, Bangs, Ronald Science for you 112 illustrated experiments - Bob Brown Shear Wall-Frame Interaction a design aid - Iain A Macleod (Portland Cement Association) Smoley's four combined tables - c k smoley and sons, inc Steam, air, gas power - Steverns and digler Strength of High-Rise Shear Walls, Rectangular cross section Cardenas and Magura (Portland cement Association) Strength of materials (2/ed) - William A Mash (schaums's outline series) Structural Analysis - jan J. Tuma (schaum's outline series) Formulas handbooks, repair, math, book of secrets 507 mechanical movements - lost technology series College algebra - heart Descriptive geometry - Schumann First course in algebra - milne downey Formulas for profit - h. bennett Formulas, Methods, Tips and data for home and workshop - Kenneth M. Swezey Introduction college mathematics - Milne davis Make it Last - Prolux Manual of formulas - lindsay Materials Handbook (tenth ed) - Brady New fix-it-yourself manual - readers digest Plane trigonometry and tables - wentworth Smith Rodale's book of Practical Formulas - Rodale (2 copies) Six place tables - mcgraw hill Small appliance repair guide - wayne lemons The big black book - bardroom classics The book of secrets - marion buhagiar The Formula Book 2 - Norman Stark The furniture maker's handbook - family handyman magazine The way things work (an illustrated encyclopedia of technology) - simon and schuster The way things work - David macaulay Healing, Medical Nutritional 1983 drug handbook - nursing 83 (3 copies) prescription for nutritional healing - Balch, Balch A handbook of herbs - Richard marshall American red cross multimedia standard first aid student workbook. Earth medicine earth food - Michael a. weiner Home health handbook - subak-sharpe How to survive disasters with natural medicines - cass igram, d.o. Identifying and harvesting edible and medicinal plants in wild and not so wild Places - Steve brill with evelyn dean Inner cleansing - Wade Medicinal plants - foster duke Standard first aid and personal safety - American red cross The complete medical guide - benjamin f. miller M.D. The doctors book of Home remedies - rodale The holistic health handbook - berkley holistic health center The natural guide to medicinal Herbs and plants - barnes and noble Where there is no dentist - Dickson (hesperian foundation) Where There is no Doctor (2 copies) the hesperpian foundation Cookbooks, Edible Plants, Bugs, Food storage adventures in mirowave cooking - ward Basic Butchering of livestock and Game - mettler Eat the Weeds - Harris Edible Plants and Animals - Livingston Edible wild plants - medsger Guide to wild foods - Nyerges Joy of cooking vol 1 - Rombauer and Becker Joy of cooking vol 2 - Rombauer and Becker Let's cook it right - Adelle Davis Let's eat right to keep fit - Adelle Davis pickles and preserves - Brown Stocking UP (how to preserve the foods you grow, Naturally) Carol H. Stoner the eat-A-Bug Cookbook - Gordon The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American - Jeff Smith The Natural foods cookbook - Beatrice Trum Hunter The Natural Healing Cookbook - Bricklin & Claessens The Settlement Cookbook - Charles pierce Typical poisonous Plants - us department of health, education, and welfare Wild Game and fish cleaning and cooking - Pat Billmeyer