
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

