Books Available July 26, 2012

Simple Emergency Food Storage


The Evolution of the Future Revisited
”an update of the 1991 book that uses basic principles of sociology and a thorough background in history to evaluate and critique the forecasts of the ecologists, technologists, utopians and dystopians of the day. While most futurists rely upon simple trend analysis, Elwell contends that one must first understand the structure and dynamics of sociocultural systems—how the various parts of a society fit together and affect one another—before one can accurately identify the forces and likely direction of sociocultural change. There is a well-defined social evolutionary process, Elwell argues, and an understanding of this process is central in understanding the forces that are shaping the future. Revised and updated on its 21year anniversary, the book holds up remarkably well in its critiques as well as in its own unique vision of sociocultural systems and its forecasts for the future of industrial society.”


Deer Hunting Tips  
and another in the series


Canning Made Easy - Perfect Pepper Relish


How to Get to the Future Before It Gets to You
Doomsday humour, "a daring and amusing antidote to those Doomsday prophets who believe that man is destined to destroy himself and planet earth."


Regarding Freemasonry (Conspiracy Theories About Masons, Illuminati, New World Order)


PERSONAL EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCES: Sylmar 1971, Santa Cruz 1989, Northridge 1994


Tornadoes Unit Study
For teaching kids.


Earthcaching series: Earthcaching is a form of geocaching that allows students to explore nature while learning practical lessons about earthscience. Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a GPS and other navigational techniques to hide and find caches. Good for orienteering skills! (Unless you only use GPS, and don’t learn other ways, I guess!)
Earthcaching: Meteors, Comets, Asteroids & Impact Craters (EarthCaching & EarthCaches)
Earthcaching: Volcanoes (EarthCaching & EarthCaches)
Earthcaching: Fossils (EarthCaching & Paleontology)


Financial Freedom Made Simple
”My husband and I were completely financially free and two years away from retirement by age forty. Want to know how we did it? “


Healthcare
US Politics, healthcare debate, not sure of political position of this book.


Audio Digest medical notes:
---Orthopaedics: Forbidding Fractures (Audio-Digest Foundation Orthopaedics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)
---Emergency Medicine: Infectious Emergencies (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical)
---Family Practice: Breathless: An Asthma Tutorial (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME).)
For all their free ones, see this search:
Audio Digest medical notes list, free ones listed first


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THE LAST PRESIDENT
”Will the new president be able to meet the challenges of a collapsing financial system? Will the administration be able to hold its governing coalition together? Will an unforeseen Constitutional crisis challenge the very substance of the government? Or will President Harding realize his greatest fear, that he is to be The Last President?”


Big Box
“A nuclear explosion sets off a series of events that will test the survival ability of some and the morality of others. Discover how a number of people, some related by blood, some by friendship and others with no relation at all eventually come together as a large extended family. Along the way they'll first have to survive the radiation before heading out in a world that is both the same and dramatically changed. Roving gangs, radioactive hot zones and carrying a rifle with you at all times become the norm.Yet, even from the destruction good people rise up and band together assuring the survival of a civil society.”


Sumerity
“A hoax of epic portions has befallen mankind, yet revealing the truth may result in the destruction of the world.”

Books Available July 25, 2012

ESCAPE!: The Preppers Guide to Bugging Out


Deer Hunting Stalking And Cover Scents
Another in the series.


The Amazing Wood-Gas Camping Stove (A Simple DIY Project)


How To Grow Vegetables Without Losing Your Mind
Using the patterns of nature to garden.


The Green Gourmet Little Book of Charcuterie : An Introduction to the Art of the Charcutier - Smoking and Curing Meats, Forcemeats, Terrines, Sausages & Blood Puddings


Fruit Flies: How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies and Other Household Flies


WHY IS THERE NO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AT THE EQUATOR? HOW BRAZILIAN DOCTORS ARE CURING MS WITH HIGH-DOSE D3


The Color of Poop ~ What Our Poop is Telling Us


The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse


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A NEW ICE AGE
Short story. “A scientist discovers what appears to be a climate cooling trend. This is contrary to the overwhelming evidence that the climate has been warming for some time, and that human activities… are a major cause of such warming. At first, the cooling trend is dismissed as a temporary blip … Eventually a plausible explanation for this unexpected cooling trend is identified. The key question is whether anything can be done to reverse the climate cooling that’s relentlessly bringing the planet earth to the edge of a new ice age.”


Gods of Men #3 (Children of the Apocalypse)
Short story. “Jack remembers how his parents died trying to protect him and Mase from the impending apocalypse, and finding Gus and baby Lucy in the process.”


The Chip
“This short film script is a cautionary tale of our world once nano-sized biochip implants are introduced to human beings on a wide consumer scale…With implantable nanotechnology biochips increasing at an exponential rate, this short screenplay examines the concerns of those who will produce and receive electronic implants that utilizing nano technology that monitors their financial information, health statistics, and biometrics.”


BOT: Vector Two > The Green Zone (Book of Bot)
Looks like entertainment only, no educational value. ;) “Raging against the machine when you are the machine proves a very tricky business in this post-apocalyptic tale of an elusive humanoid superbot leading a renegade veteran bot-cop on an epic battle of wits and a deadly wild goose chase across America's great desert basin.”


The Lazarus Stone (Conspiracy Edit)
“It was the worst scenario imaginable, and humanity clung to its existence as best it could. In the aftermath of disaster a former soldier finds himself caught between the horror of a world gone strange and his sense of duty to protect it from those who would destroy it.” Good reviews.


Candaltown
Post-apocalyptic western.

Books Available July 24, 2012

Deer Hunting Guns And Muzzleloaders
Another in the series


The Mushroom Book For Beginners: A Mycology Starter or How To Be A Backyard Mushroom Farmer And Grow The Best Edible Mushrooms At Home (Backyard Farm Books)


How to Easily Grow Organic Superfoods at Home Without a Garden (Backyard-Ideas.org Guides)


How to Use Essential Oils To Make Handmade Soaps (Start a Business for Under 100.00!)


Quite an Undertaking: The Haunting True Story of a Unique Lady Mortician
Being a mortician in an isolated town without running water, little technology--may have some interesting insights for this sort of challenge.


Superfoods List: The 11 Best Nutrient Rich Foods For Increased Immunity, Energy and Longevity


Superfoods: 101 Best Foods to Boost Metabolism And Feel Amazing Fast!


Audio Digest medical notes:
---Emergency Medicine: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical)
---Orthopaedics: Tendon And Bone trauma (Audio-Digest Foundation Orthopaedics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)
For all their free ones, see this search:
Audio Digest medical notes list, free ones listed first


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Enfold Me - A Novel of Post-Israel
“a nightmarish vision of what could happen if Israel were to cease to exit. After a massive earthquake precipitates a tectonic shift in the balance of power, Daniel, an American expat who had built a life and family in Israel and who has survived the earthquake and more, now has to find his way out of the nightmare. Along the way we learn his back story and that of the other main protagonist, George. And we get a vividly painted picture of the details of what has happened after-Israel.”


Fecty
”By 2026, things seem a lot better. In the wake of a siege of natural disasters and unchecked diseases, a peculiar transition has taken place. Most people in the reduced population have armed themselves and holed up in protective condos called bastions, where they work for the Net from home. There is, of course, prejudice and fear of the "Fecty" - persons infected with any of the "big seven" incurable diseases, like resistent strains of tuberculosis and malaria and sexually transmitted viruses. With government failure and the deterioration of the infrastructure, danger is common out on the roads, so the popular mode of short-range travel has become small, junky helicopters called hop-taxis…a cult of women called the “Angelita” infiltrate and dominate the media and health care professions.”

Books Available July 23, 2012

Weekend Homesteader: November
After all the months I've been checking free books, finally the November issue is free!  :)
”Chilly November weather drives even the most hardy homesteaders inside. But the onset of the cold season doesn't mean the end of fun homesteading projects. This month, you'll learn to rotate garden beds to keep diseases at bay, to store drinking water for use during power outages, to put an entire chicken to use in the kitchen, and to bring in cash without going to the office. 


For those of you who are new to Weekend Homesteader, this series walks you through the basics of growing your own food, cooking the bounty, preparing for emergency power outages, and achieving financial independence. Technically, the series began in May (or November in the southern hemisphere), but most of the projects are designed to be accessible even to someone starting from square one each month. This ebook, and each other volume in the series, presents one easy and fun project for each weekend so that you'll keep making headway without becoming overwhelmed.”


Sun Position - High accuracy solar position algorithms - a resource for programmers and solar energy engineers (Programming by Example)


Deer Hunting Equipment
Another in the series.


Growing Things-An Urban Garden


Herbs Gone Wild! Ancient Remedies Turned Loose
Excellent reviews.


How to Grow Potatoes: Planting and Harvesting Organic Food From Your Patio, Rooftop, Balcony, or Backyard Garden (26-page Booklet)


The Ten Trillion Dollar Linear Engine
Design for an engine that uses much less fuel.


Learn to Knit - its not just for Grannies!


Moneymalism: A Minimalist Money Guide


District Attorney's Guide to Total Enlightenment
”contains humorous observations of the criminal justice system in the form of parables and bit-sized nibbles of wisdom.”


AMERICA SHRUGGED
American politics


Audio Digest medical notes:
---Emergency Medicine: The Elderly Heart (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical)
For all their free ones, see this search:
Audio Digest medical notes list, free ones listed first


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DROWNED WORLD
Youth novel; rising water levels.


Dust in the Wind
Youth novel; nuclear disaster.


Evacuation Earth - Book Five of Comet Clement series
One of series of books about preparing for a comet hitting earth. “As the comet draws nearer, the 'Inner Circle' makes their final plans for Earth's survivors. The secret can no longer be kept and when it's announced, the world is threatened with chaos... With Comet Clement just months from striking, who will survive Earth's Evacuation?” Over the few months I’ve been checking for these, all parts 1-6 have come up for free. There are also parts 7-10. Waiting for those next. :)






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REDUCTIONS:   
I get notifications of reductions on books I've put on a wishlist for prep or related subjects.  Here are some.  I haven't read them and can't vouch for exactly what they're like.


Dropping Off The Grid - Protecting Your Right to Privacy and Yourself (Parenting and Families)
Protect your identity, your finances and your privacy. Eg, computer, cellphone, camera, and other threats that many haven’t heard of. (Not about being off the electrical grid, but not being traced.)  
Starting Price: $6.87    Current Price: $2.99


Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse
American politics (conservative.)
Starting Price: $13.42   Current Price: $3.07


Fiction 


Boil Over
“The world has reached peak oil and is quickly running out of reserves, far faster than anyone had perceived. When the real truth becomes public, it stuns the western world, which up until now had ignored all the warnings. With the rapidly increasing cost of oil, the United States is heading toward economic oblivion. But there is one person who might be able to prevent a catastrophic boil over…China's new hard-line president, Huang Wei, is determined to make his country the world's leading economic power. If his strategy works, the United States would be relegated to a Third World nation. … (The) leader of a doomsday cult believes that the apocalypse is imminent. When he accidentally crosses paths with a man who claims to have access to a Russian built suitcase nuclear bomb, he devises a cunning master plan that is aimed at fulfilling his prophesies.”
Starting Price: $4.09  Current Price: $0.99


Nuke em in Jesus' name: Or How the American Empire Can Avoid the Coming Economic Collapse
“paints present-day America as a black comedy, where post-9/11 life has come to imitate art in a weird dysfunctional sort of way. The president’s been shot … by a 12-year-old…? What in the world is happening to America? It’s bad enough the economy is still stuck in reverse – now this? No doubt about it. Time to roll out the nukes. At least that’s what conservative American patriots and Evangelical Christians are screaming. …. nuke somebody. Anybody. … former President Johnny P. Barker is back to snorting endless lines of coke now that he’s retired from public office; his syntax still a jumbled mess. …President Barney Kenton has awakened from his coma only two days after being shot in the head; but uh-oh, he starts doing what none of his predecessors has ever done – he starts spouting the truth about war and economics in direct opposition to the rich-and-powerful people who put him in office. Will he survive this betrayal?”
Starting Price: $4.09    Current Price: $0.99