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EDITOR'S PICKS--We hit the Motherlode today!!:
--9 different issues of Backwoods Home Magazine, most of them never offered free before (at least in the year I've been looking.)
--6 books from Jackie Clay, from Backwoods Home Magazine. Jackie is a columnist there. I have seen her canning books highly recommended by homesteaders. For other books of hers, see here: Jackie Clay's books
.--Natural Remedies for Peeps and Pets (Back To Nature's Healing)
--Winning Back Our Boys
NONFICTION
General Self-Sufficiency and Survival
Most of these B.H. Magazines are brand new--i.e. they haven’t been free before since I've been looking.
Backwoods Home Magazine - Jan/Feb 2010 (#121)
”In this back issue: How to erect the walls and roof of Eric's house in Ashland, OR; How to grow rhubarb and make a rhubarb pie by Jackie Clay; Massad Ayoob writes about women and guns; How to graft fruit trees; Making healthy soups with fresh ingredients; How to make a super-insulated home; Claire Wolfe muses about winter in the high desert; Constructing and using a root cellar; How to pour a concrete floor; John Silveira discusses the U.S. Constitution and how we are losing the rights it guarantees us; Dave Duffy shows how to build an economically sustainable youth golf club; Jackie Clay answers questions about making sulfa apples, growing and storing potatoes, canning salad dressing, making homemade shampoo, peeling pears, using a grain grinder, hens eating eggs, washing eggs, using home-canned meats, growing herbs indoors, grinding buckwheat, vacuum sealing vs. canning.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Mar/Apr 2010 (#122)
”Back issue No. 122 contains: Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment; making the $1 garden; how gardening is good for you; growing potatoes in hay; living in the desert; healthy meals for vegetarians and semi-vegetarians; bovine basics for beginners; your kitchen pharmacy; beat supermarket psychology and save; spare firearms; a quick tour of hyperinflation and the possible consequences for America; and an assessment of America from Russia. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about grinding buckwheat, raising feeder geese, growing potatoes in tires, minerals and fertilizers, root cellaring in Texas, making butter, keeping seeds in the freezer, storing squash, canning turkey soup, heart rot in potatoes, removing snow from a roof, boiling home-canned foods, canning in ½-gallon jars, grain for goats, and processing venison.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - May/Jun 2010 (#123)
Here’s a new one that hasn’t been free before since I’ve been looking.
”Back issue No. 123 contains: The lead article is about The Applesed Project, which is a weekend course in American Revolutionary War history and rifle marksmanship; using wild edibles in delectable dishes; part of the 10-part series, Building Eric’s house; tomatoes, the essential garden crop; tub gardening; the sweet side or sourdough; searching for the perfect goat; pasteurizing milk; John Silveira discusses the Tea Party movement; Claire Wolfe discusses fear freedom, and adventure in the backwoods; curried lentil soup; and Dave Duffy ‘s commentary is about the Second Revolution that is on the way; Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about canning pears, horseradish, seasoning cast iron, getting rid of rats, mold in the cellar, dried shortening powder, and using old lentils.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - July/Aug 2010 (#124)
”Back issue No. 124 contains: Build a goat cottage; moving to our Maine homestead; Vermicomposting; all about healthy elderberries; Ethiopian food with Richard Blunt; Jug lines, limb lines, and trot lines for fishing; part 2 of Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment (part one in Issue No.122, part 3 in No. 125)); the poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove; long gun and short gun shooting similarities; breaking in a sodbuster on the ranch; a peek into the life of Pekin ducks; pecan-coated rock fish; and the California marijuana initiative. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about drying summer squash, seasoning cast iron, making yogurt, canning in gallon jars, making salt pork, a butter mold, having calves or heifers, getting started with homesteading, growing potatoes in tires, and dehydrating apples.“
Backwoods Home Magazine - Sept/Oct 2010 (#125)
”Back issue No. 125 contains: Jackie Clay shows you how to build and stock your pantry; Butchering a hog; making Hungarian liver and rice sausages; build an attached solar green house; how to sharpen a chainsaw; harvesting small game for the stew pot; Mas Ayoob talks about big boomer guns; honey, nature’s sweetener; historic and healthy pistachios; Claire Wolfe’s details how she helped raise a neighbor’s house; John Silveira reminisces about his “Time Travel” ad that launched a Hollywood movie; part 3 of Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment (part 1 is in No. 122 and part 2 is in No. 124). Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about composing horse manure, using fresh horse manure, curing onions, dwarf fruit trees, carrot rust fly, flea beatles, reusable Tattler cans, canning dried beans, canning tamales, canning cheese, canning nuts, canning frozen green beans, using grape leaves for pickles, oil for frying, dehydrating potatoes, and salty bologna.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Nov/Dec 2010 (#126)
”Back issue No. 126 contains: Basic cheese making; a guide to buying silver and gold; finding wealth you can wear at yard sales; cold weather shooting considerations; life-saving snowshoes; John Silveira discusses how we can escape from the current recession; installing a steel roof; Richard Blunt discusses the history and cooking of fried foods; making a hand-built rope bed; using Khaki Campbell ducks as egg layers; how to give a haircut; making homemade gift baskets; and how cops get themselves out of a recession by giving out excessive traffic tickets. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about using dried tomato powder, tomato pickles, trouble with Rutgers tomatoes, GM seed, Yukon Gold potatoes, hollow potatoes, making lye soap, waterless canning, salty goat milk, the fall pea crop, old pinto beans, powdered milk, wood beetles, and canning milk.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Mar/Apr 2011 (#128)
”Back issue No. 128 contains: How to propagate plants; morel mushrooms for beginners; drive your own freshwater well; switch your family to goat’s milk; make a better bucket butter churn; effective LED lights mounted on guns; delicious, dependable potatoes; dehorning calves with dehorning paste; grow gourmet salad greens, advantages of a wool felt hat; downsizing the garden as we grow older; controlling cutworms; an inexpensive compost toilet; part 2 of LED lighting (part 1 was in Issue No. 127, part 3 in Issue No. 129); and Dave Duffy makes the case for defunding government as a sensible voter solution to reining in local government. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about pectin, running the pressure canner without water, half-gallon canning jars, using vinegar, liver recipes, a baked bean canning recipe, re-canning products, rendering lard, dehydrated shortening, cooking oil going rancid, storing red wheat, storing food in plastic jars, and canning pecans.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - May/June 2011 (#129)
”Back issue No. 129 contains: Jackie Clay shows how to save seeds; make your own firestarters; the under-appreciated sweet potato; part 5 of Building Eric’s house; medicating your cattle; learning how to tell a good pig; Richard Blunt cooks family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine; a homesteader’s journal, part1; part 3 of LED Lightning series (parts 1 and 2 were in Issue Nos. 127 and 128); Cabbage and good health and great eating; and John Silveira discusses the dollar’s decline so it is now worth only 2 cents. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about cooking on a wood stove, homesteading, harvesting acorns, removing hulls from seeds, using bay leaves to deter weevils, Pekin ducks, gardening, storing salt and sugar, making rennet, storing food on the damp coast, using hedge apples for repelling roaches, and saving carrot seeds.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Nov/Dec 2011 (#132)
”Back issue No. 132 contains: information on mushing; living with wolves; camping during winter; part 6 of Building Eric’s house; reducing your property taxes; how to make new yarn from old sweaters; dealing with midwinter madness; what to do in case of an unplanned homebirth; building a holz hausen to dry firewood; reloading your own brass; recycling saw blades to make knives; creating a solar-powered chicken coop; cooking with persimmons; making apple pies, savory supper pies, and yogurt; using horse labor and putting up firewood; realizing the threat of electromagnetic pulse. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about cold pack canning, rusty canning jars, cabin skylights, developing a spring, canning salsa and bacon, broody chickens, wash day, pressure canning, goat tallow soap, and saving corn seed.”
Self-reliance: Recession-proof your pantry
And a new one from Jackie Clay, who is a columnist at Backwoods Home Magazine I have seen her canning books highly recommended by homesteaders. Jackie Clay's books. Several of her books are free today! See below and in the next section.
”Recession-proof your pantry with these ideas on long-term storage, what to keep in your pantry, canning basics, freezing and dehydrating foods, and recipes to help you in good times and bad. This self-reliance guide from Backwoods Home Magazine is a must-have for everyone starting on the road to self-reliance as well as those well along their way.”
Ask Jackie: Homesteading
”Homesteading is a must-have book for any homesteader, whether he or she has been homesteading for decades or is just beginning on the path to self-reliance. This installment of the "Ask Jackie" series begins with answers to the questions of those who are just getting started, guiding the reader through buying land, setting up water and heat, making soap, cooking with cast iron, and dealing with homestead pests, among many other things. The book closes with an inspirational chapter on Jackie's childhood, her children, and her joys and struggles with homesteading in various states for most of her adult life.”
Beginning Fly Fishing: Top 10 Reasons Why You Are Not Succeeding With Fly Fishing and What to Do About It
Most of these B.H. Magazines are brand new--i.e. they haven’t been free before since I've been looking.
Backwoods Home Magazine - Jan/Feb 2010 (#121)
”In this back issue: How to erect the walls and roof of Eric's house in Ashland, OR; How to grow rhubarb and make a rhubarb pie by Jackie Clay; Massad Ayoob writes about women and guns; How to graft fruit trees; Making healthy soups with fresh ingredients; How to make a super-insulated home; Claire Wolfe muses about winter in the high desert; Constructing and using a root cellar; How to pour a concrete floor; John Silveira discusses the U.S. Constitution and how we are losing the rights it guarantees us; Dave Duffy shows how to build an economically sustainable youth golf club; Jackie Clay answers questions about making sulfa apples, growing and storing potatoes, canning salad dressing, making homemade shampoo, peeling pears, using a grain grinder, hens eating eggs, washing eggs, using home-canned meats, growing herbs indoors, grinding buckwheat, vacuum sealing vs. canning.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Mar/Apr 2010 (#122)”Back issue No. 122 contains: Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment; making the $1 garden; how gardening is good for you; growing potatoes in hay; living in the desert; healthy meals for vegetarians and semi-vegetarians; bovine basics for beginners; your kitchen pharmacy; beat supermarket psychology and save; spare firearms; a quick tour of hyperinflation and the possible consequences for America; and an assessment of America from Russia. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about grinding buckwheat, raising feeder geese, growing potatoes in tires, minerals and fertilizers, root cellaring in Texas, making butter, keeping seeds in the freezer, storing squash, canning turkey soup, heart rot in potatoes, removing snow from a roof, boiling home-canned foods, canning in ½-gallon jars, grain for goats, and processing venison.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - May/Jun 2010 (#123)
Here’s a new one that hasn’t been free before since I’ve been looking.
”Back issue No. 123 contains: The lead article is about The Applesed Project, which is a weekend course in American Revolutionary War history and rifle marksmanship; using wild edibles in delectable dishes; part of the 10-part series, Building Eric’s house; tomatoes, the essential garden crop; tub gardening; the sweet side or sourdough; searching for the perfect goat; pasteurizing milk; John Silveira discusses the Tea Party movement; Claire Wolfe discusses fear freedom, and adventure in the backwoods; curried lentil soup; and Dave Duffy ‘s commentary is about the Second Revolution that is on the way; Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about canning pears, horseradish, seasoning cast iron, getting rid of rats, mold in the cellar, dried shortening powder, and using old lentils.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - July/Aug 2010 (#124)”Back issue No. 124 contains: Build a goat cottage; moving to our Maine homestead; Vermicomposting; all about healthy elderberries; Ethiopian food with Richard Blunt; Jug lines, limb lines, and trot lines for fishing; part 2 of Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment (part one in Issue No.122, part 3 in No. 125)); the poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove; long gun and short gun shooting similarities; breaking in a sodbuster on the ranch; a peek into the life of Pekin ducks; pecan-coated rock fish; and the California marijuana initiative. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about drying summer squash, seasoning cast iron, making yogurt, canning in gallon jars, making salt pork, a butter mold, having calves or heifers, getting started with homesteading, growing potatoes in tires, and dehydrating apples.“
Backwoods Home Magazine - Sept/Oct 2010 (#125)
”Back issue No. 125 contains: Jackie Clay shows you how to build and stock your pantry; Butchering a hog; making Hungarian liver and rice sausages; build an attached solar green house; how to sharpen a chainsaw; harvesting small game for the stew pot; Mas Ayoob talks about big boomer guns; honey, nature’s sweetener; historic and healthy pistachios; Claire Wolfe’s details how she helped raise a neighbor’s house; John Silveira reminisces about his “Time Travel” ad that launched a Hollywood movie; part 3 of Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment (part 1 is in No. 122 and part 2 is in No. 124). Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about composing horse manure, using fresh horse manure, curing onions, dwarf fruit trees, carrot rust fly, flea beatles, reusable Tattler cans, canning dried beans, canning tamales, canning cheese, canning nuts, canning frozen green beans, using grape leaves for pickles, oil for frying, dehydrating potatoes, and salty bologna.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Nov/Dec 2010 (#126)
”Back issue No. 126 contains: Basic cheese making; a guide to buying silver and gold; finding wealth you can wear at yard sales; cold weather shooting considerations; life-saving snowshoes; John Silveira discusses how we can escape from the current recession; installing a steel roof; Richard Blunt discusses the history and cooking of fried foods; making a hand-built rope bed; using Khaki Campbell ducks as egg layers; how to give a haircut; making homemade gift baskets; and how cops get themselves out of a recession by giving out excessive traffic tickets. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about using dried tomato powder, tomato pickles, trouble with Rutgers tomatoes, GM seed, Yukon Gold potatoes, hollow potatoes, making lye soap, waterless canning, salty goat milk, the fall pea crop, old pinto beans, powdered milk, wood beetles, and canning milk.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Mar/Apr 2011 (#128)
”Back issue No. 128 contains: How to propagate plants; morel mushrooms for beginners; drive your own freshwater well; switch your family to goat’s milk; make a better bucket butter churn; effective LED lights mounted on guns; delicious, dependable potatoes; dehorning calves with dehorning paste; grow gourmet salad greens, advantages of a wool felt hat; downsizing the garden as we grow older; controlling cutworms; an inexpensive compost toilet; part 2 of LED lighting (part 1 was in Issue No. 127, part 3 in Issue No. 129); and Dave Duffy makes the case for defunding government as a sensible voter solution to reining in local government. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about pectin, running the pressure canner without water, half-gallon canning jars, using vinegar, liver recipes, a baked bean canning recipe, re-canning products, rendering lard, dehydrated shortening, cooking oil going rancid, storing red wheat, storing food in plastic jars, and canning pecans.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - May/June 2011 (#129)
”Back issue No. 129 contains: Jackie Clay shows how to save seeds; make your own firestarters; the under-appreciated sweet potato; part 5 of Building Eric’s house; medicating your cattle; learning how to tell a good pig; Richard Blunt cooks family dinner at Backwoods Home Magazine; a homesteader’s journal, part1; part 3 of LED Lightning series (parts 1 and 2 were in Issue Nos. 127 and 128); Cabbage and good health and great eating; and John Silveira discusses the dollar’s decline so it is now worth only 2 cents. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about cooking on a wood stove, homesteading, harvesting acorns, removing hulls from seeds, using bay leaves to deter weevils, Pekin ducks, gardening, storing salt and sugar, making rennet, storing food on the damp coast, using hedge apples for repelling roaches, and saving carrot seeds.”
Backwoods Home Magazine - Nov/Dec 2011 (#132)
”Back issue No. 132 contains: information on mushing; living with wolves; camping during winter; part 6 of Building Eric’s house; reducing your property taxes; how to make new yarn from old sweaters; dealing with midwinter madness; what to do in case of an unplanned homebirth; building a holz hausen to dry firewood; reloading your own brass; recycling saw blades to make knives; creating a solar-powered chicken coop; cooking with persimmons; making apple pies, savory supper pies, and yogurt; using horse labor and putting up firewood; realizing the threat of electromagnetic pulse. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about cold pack canning, rusty canning jars, cabin skylights, developing a spring, canning salsa and bacon, broody chickens, wash day, pressure canning, goat tallow soap, and saving corn seed.”
Self-reliance: Recession-proof your pantry
And a new one from Jackie Clay, who is a columnist at Backwoods Home Magazine I have seen her canning books highly recommended by homesteaders. Jackie Clay's books
. Several of her books are free today! See below and in the next section.”Recession-proof your pantry with these ideas on long-term storage, what to keep in your pantry, canning basics, freezing and dehydrating foods, and recipes to help you in good times and bad. This self-reliance guide from Backwoods Home Magazine is a must-have for everyone starting on the road to self-reliance as well as those well along their way.”
Ask Jackie: Homesteading
”Homesteading is a must-have book for any homesteader, whether he or she has been homesteading for decades or is just beginning on the path to self-reliance. This installment of the "Ask Jackie" series begins with answers to the questions of those who are just getting started, guiding the reader through buying land, setting up water and heat, making soap, cooking with cast iron, and dealing with homestead pests, among many other things. The book closes with an inspirational chapter on Jackie's childhood, her children, and her joys and struggles with homesteading in various states for most of her adult life.”
Beginning Fly Fishing: Top 10 Reasons Why You Are Not Succeeding With Fly Fishing and What to Do About It
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
Ask Jackie: Gardening
”The Gardening book is an expansive "how-to" for anyone interested in gardening. The topics range from saving seeds, to planting trees, to building irrigation, to planting fruit and vegetables, to container gardening. In these pages, Jackie provides a sensible and interesting guide to gardening, whether on acres of purchased land or a small city balcony.”
Ask Jackie: Pressure canning
This Ask Jackie guide contains a wealth of knowledge on pressure canning, and comes chock-full of recipes and advice. Throughout its pages, the book covers dairy-related questions, gives recipes for hearty home canned meals, extensively covers vegetable and tomato canning, and touches on nuts, legumes, and peppers. This is a wonderful counterpart to Water Bath Canning.
Ask Jackie: Homestead cooking
”This large book is perfect for the kitchen. Departing from canning, this installment of the "Ask Jackie" series covers everything from vegetables to vinegar. Spanning from dairy, to grains, to meals, to fruit and vegetables, its pages provide delicious recipes, handy hints, and practical advice for those learning to cook or perfecting their skills as a self-sufficient homesteader. This fits nicely with both Water Bath Canning and Pressure Canning to provide a truly comprehensive guide to food preparation.”
Ask Jackie: Animals
This volume covers a wide range of questions about caring for livestock on the homestead. Jackie's advice ranges from dealing with cannibalistic hens to providing the healthiest and cheapest chicken feed, from finding the best dairy goat to using the safest do-it-yourself method of bull castration. Jackie also explains the reasons for hanging meat, the proper way to dispose of large animals, and even shares a dog food stew recipe from her old boss.
How To Build A Raised Garden Bed
Pretzel Baker: Recipes and Techniques for Professional Results
Ask Jackie: Gardening
”The Gardening book is an expansive "how-to" for anyone interested in gardening. The topics range from saving seeds, to planting trees, to building irrigation, to planting fruit and vegetables, to container gardening. In these pages, Jackie provides a sensible and interesting guide to gardening, whether on acres of purchased land or a small city balcony.”
Ask Jackie: Pressure canning
This Ask Jackie guide contains a wealth of knowledge on pressure canning, and comes chock-full of recipes and advice. Throughout its pages, the book covers dairy-related questions, gives recipes for hearty home canned meals, extensively covers vegetable and tomato canning, and touches on nuts, legumes, and peppers. This is a wonderful counterpart to Water Bath Canning.
Ask Jackie: Homestead cooking
”This large book is perfect for the kitchen. Departing from canning, this installment of the "Ask Jackie" series covers everything from vegetables to vinegar. Spanning from dairy, to grains, to meals, to fruit and vegetables, its pages provide delicious recipes, handy hints, and practical advice for those learning to cook or perfecting their skills as a self-sufficient homesteader. This fits nicely with both Water Bath Canning and Pressure Canning to provide a truly comprehensive guide to food preparation.”
Ask Jackie: Animals
This volume covers a wide range of questions about caring for livestock on the homestead. Jackie's advice ranges from dealing with cannibalistic hens to providing the healthiest and cheapest chicken feed, from finding the best dairy goat to using the safest do-it-yourself method of bull castration. Jackie also explains the reasons for hanging meat, the proper way to dispose of large animals, and even shares a dog food stew recipe from her old boss.
How To Build A Raised Garden Bed
Pretzel Baker: Recipes and Techniques for Professional Results
Health
Natural Remedies for Peeps and Pets (Back To Nature's Healing)
AND
Flu & Cold Treatment 2013 (Back To Nature's Healing)
The author of the above two books is a D.C., M.Sc. (Human Nutrition & Biochemistry), D.I.Hom, DNM, has been in practise for over thirty-four years, and has written for many health journals.
All In My Mind?
”For millions who suffer with adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, it can feel that way. These syndromes are thought of by many as phantom illnesses or polite euphemisms for psychological problems, but they are physical and very real. Jennifer has experienced adrenal fatigue and now exposes the truth through her own journey of pain and triumph over this devastating syndrome.”
The Hospice Experience - making your most important final decision (Boomer Book Series)
Natural Remedies for Peeps and Pets (Back To Nature's Healing)
AND
Flu & Cold Treatment 2013 (Back To Nature's Healing)
The author of the above two books is a D.C., M.Sc. (Human Nutrition & Biochemistry), D.I.Hom, DNM, has been in practise for over thirty-four years, and has written for many health journals.
All In My Mind?
”For millions who suffer with adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, it can feel that way. These syndromes are thought of by many as phantom illnesses or polite euphemisms for psychological problems, but they are physical and very real. Jennifer has experienced adrenal fatigue and now exposes the truth through her own journey of pain and triumph over this devastating syndrome.”
The Hospice Experience - making your most important final decision (Boomer Book Series)
Ideas/Theory
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them): From "Honeybee Democracy" (Princeton Shorts)
”Studies of animal behavior have often been invoked to help explain and even guide human behavior. Think of Pavlov and his dogs or Goodall and her chimps. But, as these examples indicate, the tendency has been to focus on "higher," more cognitively developed, and thus, it is thought, more intelligent creatures than mindless, robotic insects. Not so! Learn here how honeybees work together to form a collective intelligence and even how they make decisions democratically. The wizzzzdom of crowds indeed! Here are five habits of effective groups that we can learn from these clever honeybees.”
The Future of Fossil Fuels: From "Hubbert's Peak" (Princeton Shorts)
”As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing. This selection fromHubbert's Peak, the leading book on the limits of our oil supply, forecasts what the future will bring for fossil fuels and what the alternatives are likely to be.”
The Logic of Murderous Rampages and Other Essays on Violence and its Prevention
”Many people wonder why they do it--why people commit mass murder, rape, and sexually abuse children. This collection of essays gives answers to this question. Violence means many things to perpetrators, such as thrills, chills, gratification, and getting what they want. Furthermore, there is a logic to violence. This book also covers the development of violent behaviors, accountability for harming others, and the prevention of violence.”
How To Overcome Procrastination: The 5-Minute Roadblock Buster Solution (True Life Success Lessons)
Collaboration Nation: How Public-Private Ventures are Revolutionizing the Business of Government
The Last Year Of Your Life
Not a focus on the ‘end of the world,’ but an “action guide on a journey to accomplish everything on your bucket list, have the most fun you've ever had in any year, achieve your greatest amount of personal growth, and create a legacy for the rest of your life. “
When Your Spouse Dies - A Widow & Widower's Handbook (Boomer Book Series)
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them): From "Honeybee Democracy" (Princeton Shorts)
”Studies of animal behavior have often been invoked to help explain and even guide human behavior. Think of Pavlov and his dogs or Goodall and her chimps. But, as these examples indicate, the tendency has been to focus on "higher," more cognitively developed, and thus, it is thought, more intelligent creatures than mindless, robotic insects. Not so! Learn here how honeybees work together to form a collective intelligence and even how they make decisions democratically. The wizzzzdom of crowds indeed! Here are five habits of effective groups that we can learn from these clever honeybees.”
The Future of Fossil Fuels: From "Hubbert's Peak" (Princeton Shorts)
”As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing. This selection fromHubbert's Peak, the leading book on the limits of our oil supply, forecasts what the future will bring for fossil fuels and what the alternatives are likely to be.”
The Logic of Murderous Rampages and Other Essays on Violence and its Prevention
”Many people wonder why they do it--why people commit mass murder, rape, and sexually abuse children. This collection of essays gives answers to this question. Violence means many things to perpetrators, such as thrills, chills, gratification, and getting what they want. Furthermore, there is a logic to violence. This book also covers the development of violent behaviors, accountability for harming others, and the prevention of violence.”
How To Overcome Procrastination: The 5-Minute Roadblock Buster Solution (True Life Success Lessons)
Collaboration Nation: How Public-Private Ventures are Revolutionizing the Business of Government
The Last Year Of Your Life
Not a focus on the ‘end of the world,’ but an “action guide on a journey to accomplish everything on your bucket list, have the most fun you've ever had in any year, achieve your greatest amount of personal growth, and create a legacy for the rest of your life. “
When Your Spouse Dies - A Widow & Widower's Handbook (Boomer Book Series)
Education (Self, Home, School)
Winning Back Our Boys
”Winning Back our Boys provides a front row seat into the minds of today's young men for frustrated parents, teachers, and concerned adults who desire to win back this lost generation of young men. Author and motivational speaker Chris Cannon reveals the specific strategies needed to eliminate the disturbing epidemics of youth violence, negative peer pressure, and key issues that weigh heavily on the hearts and minds of millions daily. Cannon skillfully uncovers what young men are desperately seeking and what has to be done to quickly answer the call of their cries. This resource reveals how young people can use technology in a positive way and become the solutions to their own problems, the five key ingredients that parents must feed their children, and how adults can assist young men in creating a climate of positive peer pressure. It's easy to speak about what's wrong with the world, but it's far more effective to work on changing it. Our children don't come with an instruction manual, but Winning Back our Boys is definitely the closest thing to it!“
Coolest Kids Science Projects: 40 Fun & Easy Science Experiments For Kids
Miss Brain's Cool Math Games for kids in grades 1-2
High reviews
Wild in the West, Discover the Animals In and Around Yellowstone
for children.
Winning Back Our Boys
”Winning Back our Boys provides a front row seat into the minds of today's young men for frustrated parents, teachers, and concerned adults who desire to win back this lost generation of young men. Author and motivational speaker Chris Cannon reveals the specific strategies needed to eliminate the disturbing epidemics of youth violence, negative peer pressure, and key issues that weigh heavily on the hearts and minds of millions daily. Cannon skillfully uncovers what young men are desperately seeking and what has to be done to quickly answer the call of their cries. This resource reveals how young people can use technology in a positive way and become the solutions to their own problems, the five key ingredients that parents must feed their children, and how adults can assist young men in creating a climate of positive peer pressure. It's easy to speak about what's wrong with the world, but it's far more effective to work on changing it. Our children don't come with an instruction manual, but Winning Back our Boys is definitely the closest thing to it!“
Coolest Kids Science Projects: 40 Fun & Easy Science Experiments For Kids
Miss Brain's Cool Math Games for kids in grades 1-2
High reviews
Wild in the West, Discover the Animals In and Around Yellowstone
for children.
True Accounts
Reel Livin'
”As any fisherman ever lucky enough to wet a line in the wilderness knows, nary a working day goes by they don't dream of the smell of pine, a breath of cool crisp mountain air, and a skillet filled with large fat trout. Yet, near that campfire where dreams meet reality, and Murphy tags along, more lures end up in tree bark than trout, camper heaters collect icicles and bears keep fishermen on full alert, pocket knives at the ready. Warren McClenagan shines his flashlight on the trials and tribulations set upon by almost every outdoorsman in their quest for paradise. From the frustrations of erecting a 'simple' tent to the incidental body piercing that occasionally accompanies fly fishing, McClenagan invites readers on a journey of camping and fishing, fathers and sons, and the birth of a legacy known forever as The Brotherhood of Dean.”
How I Roll: Life, Love, and Work After a Spinal Cord Injury
”This is the inspiring story of a Virginia country boy—J. Bryant Neville, Jr.—who became a quadriplegic thirty years ago after a car wreck, and how he refused to accept the medical sentence of a life unrealized. Hard work, devoted family, a caring community, and a determination to live as fiercely as his body would allow helped Bryant Neville earn two college degrees, become a respected banking executive, a loving husband and provider, an adoptive parent, and a biological father. Some 250,000 Americans live with spinal cord injury and impairment. On average, thirty more sustain a spinal cord injury every day. Bryant Neville’s story is a beacon of hope for anyone facing a physical setback who needs proof that life can go on and dreams can be realized, and a guide for those who love and care for them.”
A Brit in Greenland
”Travellers are used to venturing to some seemingly remote spot, only to find on arrival that the remoteness of past years has gone, and that their particular end-of-the-world destination has been colonised by McDonalds. Not so Greenland. Greenland 2004 is still pretty much the end of the world. Here civilisation ends. This is still Thule Ultima.”
ALASKA BOUND: One man's dream...One woman's nightmare!
”From review: “If you have ever wanted to ‘rough it’ in Alaska (or anywhere else for that matter), this is the book for you. It is a totally honest look at surviving in the wilderness of Alaska. No romance here just brutal weather and surviving by depending on your own ability to overcome all the hardship caused by the weather and the remoteness of the location.””
Under my Patchwork Quilt
”Taken as a small child from her parents' farm in South Africa… brought up in the lost world of a traditional manor house in Devon, …her house became a clearing house for refugees, wartime visitors, VIPs, waifs and strays. Among many adventures, …her ambulance, escaping from war-torn France. A life of full of incident which vividly recalls vanished times.”
A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations With Veterans of World War II
Lt Col John Withers, Civil War Confederate Officer, In His Own Words: American Civil War Journal of Asst Adjt General for Jefferson Davis, records of civil war life, battles, history
”An eyewitness account of the American Civil War, never before published in its entirety. Told from the first person perspective of Lt. Col. John Withers, an Assistant Adjutant General in the James Buchanan administration, and later in the Jefferson Davis administration for the Confederacy, this civil war diary encompasses over two years in Withers’ life, from October 1860 - December 1862. Because of the nature of his job, Lt. Col. Withers was closely acquainted with many of the notable figures of Civil War history. His friend, Ed. A Palfrey, later wrote, “his relations with the President and Secretary of War were of an intimate character, as was necessarily the case from the position he held.” …”
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FICTION
Reel Livin'
”As any fisherman ever lucky enough to wet a line in the wilderness knows, nary a working day goes by they don't dream of the smell of pine, a breath of cool crisp mountain air, and a skillet filled with large fat trout. Yet, near that campfire where dreams meet reality, and Murphy tags along, more lures end up in tree bark than trout, camper heaters collect icicles and bears keep fishermen on full alert, pocket knives at the ready. Warren McClenagan shines his flashlight on the trials and tribulations set upon by almost every outdoorsman in their quest for paradise. From the frustrations of erecting a 'simple' tent to the incidental body piercing that occasionally accompanies fly fishing, McClenagan invites readers on a journey of camping and fishing, fathers and sons, and the birth of a legacy known forever as The Brotherhood of Dean.”
How I Roll: Life, Love, and Work After a Spinal Cord Injury
”This is the inspiring story of a Virginia country boy—J. Bryant Neville, Jr.—who became a quadriplegic thirty years ago after a car wreck, and how he refused to accept the medical sentence of a life unrealized. Hard work, devoted family, a caring community, and a determination to live as fiercely as his body would allow helped Bryant Neville earn two college degrees, become a respected banking executive, a loving husband and provider, an adoptive parent, and a biological father. Some 250,000 Americans live with spinal cord injury and impairment. On average, thirty more sustain a spinal cord injury every day. Bryant Neville’s story is a beacon of hope for anyone facing a physical setback who needs proof that life can go on and dreams can be realized, and a guide for those who love and care for them.”
A Brit in Greenland
”Travellers are used to venturing to some seemingly remote spot, only to find on arrival that the remoteness of past years has gone, and that their particular end-of-the-world destination has been colonised by McDonalds. Not so Greenland. Greenland 2004 is still pretty much the end of the world. Here civilisation ends. This is still Thule Ultima.”
ALASKA BOUND: One man's dream...One woman's nightmare!
”From review: “If you have ever wanted to ‘rough it’ in Alaska (or anywhere else for that matter), this is the book for you. It is a totally honest look at surviving in the wilderness of Alaska. No romance here just brutal weather and surviving by depending on your own ability to overcome all the hardship caused by the weather and the remoteness of the location.””
Under my Patchwork Quilt
”Taken as a small child from her parents' farm in South Africa… brought up in the lost world of a traditional manor house in Devon, …her house became a clearing house for refugees, wartime visitors, VIPs, waifs and strays. Among many adventures, …her ambulance, escaping from war-torn France. A life of full of incident which vividly recalls vanished times.”
A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations With Veterans of World War II
Lt Col John Withers, Civil War Confederate Officer, In His Own Words: American Civil War Journal of Asst Adjt General for Jefferson Davis, records of civil war life, battles, history
”An eyewitness account of the American Civil War, never before published in its entirety. Told from the first person perspective of Lt. Col. John Withers, an Assistant Adjutant General in the James Buchanan administration, and later in the Jefferson Davis administration for the Confederacy, this civil war diary encompasses over two years in Withers’ life, from October 1860 - December 1862. Because of the nature of his job, Lt. Col. Withers was closely acquainted with many of the notable figures of Civil War history. His friend, Ed. A Palfrey, later wrote, “his relations with the President and Secretary of War were of an intimate character, as was necessarily the case from the position he held.” …”
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FICTION
Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship
To Find A Mountain
Based on true events.
”Set in Italy during World War Two, … When Benedetta's house is taken over by the German Command and her father is forced to fight for the Germans at the front lines, she is left alone to protect her family and survive the violent, battle scarred German soldiers living in her home. Ultimately, Benedetta engages in a very real fight for her own survival, with the lives of those closest to her hanging in the balance. TO FIND A MOUNTAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a war, a family, and a young woman who faces terrifying evil with incomparable bravery.”
The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising (Volume 2)
“In this second book in the teen/young adult series of The Gilded Mirror, fifteen-year-old Anna Moore is whisked back in time through the forces of a mysterious mirror to the first century AD during the Roman Empire. The year is AD 79 and Anna finds herself in Pompeii just days before the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius. As forces conspire against her, she struggles to escape the danger that threatens the lives of thousands. Set within historical events that rocked the ancient world, Vesuvius Rising is a tale of danger, courage and survival that brings the past to life.”
A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE: A Novel Of The American Civil War
Defying Darkness
“During the Nazi reign of terror, slave labor and starvation are a way of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Anna Lederman's family has been decimated. With nothing left to lose but her life, she joins a ragtag band of rebels fighting for redemption and revenge against their oppressors. This is a fictional account of actual events. It is a story of passion, of love triumphing over hate, of hope conquering despair, of good defeating evil.”
ONCE WAS: AN EPISODE OF THE VIETNAM WAR (STORIES FROM AMERICAN WARS)
”a tale of hope, determination and madness in the nightmare of war. “
Stormbringer (Apocalypse Then)
A westerner infiltrates the German army in 1938 under deep cover. (I got the plot from the review.)
To Find A Mountain
Based on true events.
”Set in Italy during World War Two, … When Benedetta's house is taken over by the German Command and her father is forced to fight for the Germans at the front lines, she is left alone to protect her family and survive the violent, battle scarred German soldiers living in her home. Ultimately, Benedetta engages in a very real fight for her own survival, with the lives of those closest to her hanging in the balance. TO FIND A MOUNTAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a war, a family, and a young woman who faces terrifying evil with incomparable bravery.”
The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising (Volume 2)
“In this second book in the teen/young adult series of The Gilded Mirror, fifteen-year-old Anna Moore is whisked back in time through the forces of a mysterious mirror to the first century AD during the Roman Empire. The year is AD 79 and Anna finds herself in Pompeii just days before the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius. As forces conspire against her, she struggles to escape the danger that threatens the lives of thousands. Set within historical events that rocked the ancient world, Vesuvius Rising is a tale of danger, courage and survival that brings the past to life.”
A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE: A Novel Of The American Civil War
Defying Darkness
“During the Nazi reign of terror, slave labor and starvation are a way of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Anna Lederman's family has been decimated. With nothing left to lose but her life, she joins a ragtag band of rebels fighting for redemption and revenge against their oppressors. This is a fictional account of actual events. It is a story of passion, of love triumphing over hate, of hope conquering despair, of good defeating evil.”
ONCE WAS: AN EPISODE OF THE VIETNAM WAR (STORIES FROM AMERICAN WARS)
”a tale of hope, determination and madness in the nightmare of war. “
Stormbringer (Apocalypse Then)
A westerner infiltrates the German army in 1938 under deep cover. (I got the plot from the review.)
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
18 Hours 43 Minutes Till War (18:43)
Has one poor review, but on reading the sample, I don’t see the basis.
”An extraordinary and frightening peek into the future of war and the evolution of America's changing relationship to international terror and entangling aliances.”
Project Mastermind
”Young Tom Brown's life is not that of a typical teenager in the year 2020. His father is in a mental institution, and Tom and the rest of his family live a ‘self-sufficient’ lifestyle that focuses on his father's paranoia and distrust for the government. Little does Tom know that his father, once a brain researcher for a top-secret government entity, was right about a lot of things. In a shocking twist of events, Tom's life goes from dull and monotonous to terrifying. He makes a discovery that will lead him and his family to begin a battle to protect the rights of mankind against ‘Big Brother’ and a sinister government program called ‘Project Mastermind.’”
18 Hours 43 Minutes Till War (18:43)
Has one poor review, but on reading the sample, I don’t see the basis.
”An extraordinary and frightening peek into the future of war and the evolution of America's changing relationship to international terror and entangling aliances.”
Project Mastermind
”Young Tom Brown's life is not that of a typical teenager in the year 2020. His father is in a mental institution, and Tom and the rest of his family live a ‘self-sufficient’ lifestyle that focuses on his father's paranoia and distrust for the government. Little does Tom know that his father, once a brain researcher for a top-secret government entity, was right about a lot of things. In a shocking twist of events, Tom's life goes from dull and monotonous to terrifying. He makes a discovery that will lead him and his family to begin a battle to protect the rights of mankind against ‘Big Brother’ and a sinister government program called ‘Project Mastermind.’”
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
Dimensional Shift: Millenarians
”Volume 3 of the Dimensional Shift trilogy A secret breed of humans has banded together to revive the Earth from a post-apocalyptic viral plant infection…“
Phoenix Rising: The Battle Begins
The cover is terribly rough, but the book this is a sequel to, Memory's Child
, has great reviews, so this is probably well-written. Memory's Child, in which “Shelana roams a landscape devoid of civilization in a world that long ago managed to advance itself right back to the Stone Age,“ was listed here in the earliest days of this blog, so if you were here then, you may have it. Now, it’s about $4.
”The future of mankind needs a director, someone to shepherd humanity towards the future without making the mistakes of the past. Vernon, … is determined to control the second dawn of civilization, and he will do anything to make that happen. Shelana is just as determined to stop Vernon and make sure that Preservationists …will guide mankind towards the future their Ancestors dreamed of, where humans can thrive without laying waste to the planet again.”
Just Reading
HOW TO WRITE YOUR MEMOIRS--A WORKBOOK AND GUIDE
Seas of Venus
Not free in all places.
50s style sci-fi-. “THE MOST COLORFUL MYTH FROM SCIENCE FICTION'S GOLDEN AGE IS REBORN IN SEAS OF VENUS
Earth is a dead cinder beyond the dense clouds. On a terraformed Venus the land is ruled by savage plants and the even more savage beasts that prey on them, while monsters out of nightmare swim though the globe-girdling seas. Mankind huddles in domed underwater Keeps, living a purposeless static existence—dedicated to pleasure but destined for oblivion later if not sooner….”
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Dimensional Shift: Millenarians
”Volume 3 of the Dimensional Shift trilogy A secret breed of humans has banded together to revive the Earth from a post-apocalyptic viral plant infection…“
Phoenix Rising: The Battle Begins
The cover is terribly rough, but the book this is a sequel to, Memory's Child
, has great reviews, so this is probably well-written. Memory's Child, in which “Shelana roams a landscape devoid of civilization in a world that long ago managed to advance itself right back to the Stone Age,“ was listed here in the earliest days of this blog, so if you were here then, you may have it. Now, it’s about $4.
”The future of mankind needs a director, someone to shepherd humanity towards the future without making the mistakes of the past. Vernon, … is determined to control the second dawn of civilization, and he will do anything to make that happen. Shelana is just as determined to stop Vernon and make sure that Preservationists …will guide mankind towards the future their Ancestors dreamed of, where humans can thrive without laying waste to the planet again.”
Just Reading
HOW TO WRITE YOUR MEMOIRS--A WORKBOOK AND GUIDE
Seas of Venus
Not free in all places.
50s style sci-fi-. “THE MOST COLORFUL MYTH FROM SCIENCE FICTION'S GOLDEN AGE IS REBORN IN SEAS OF VENUS
Earth is a dead cinder beyond the dense clouds. On a terraformed Venus the land is ruled by savage plants and the even more savage beasts that prey on them, while monsters out of nightmare swim though the globe-girdling seas. Mankind huddles in domed underwater Keeps, living a purposeless static existence—dedicated to pleasure but destined for oblivion later if not sooner….”
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Thanks for sharing this awesome list on The HomeAcre Hop!!!
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