Though most of these are taken from the "Treasure" book list, I am putting them in this new Recession Proof GLP thread for ease of finding. They are organized into categories. If you like what you see, check back occasionally, because I will add to them, but will put additions at the foot of each category (in a new color) rather than on a new post.
These are what I consider to be, essential or very helpful books and information (all free downloads) for the times we're living in and coming into rapidly.
Gardening, Wild Foraging and Self Sufficiency
The City People's Book Of Raising Food
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link to www.scribd.com]
Encyclopedia of country living Carla Emery
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link to www.scribd.com]
The complete book of self sufficiency by John Seymour
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link to www.scribd.com]
Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia With Special Herb Section
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link to www.scribd.com]
Gardening Without Irrigation - Dry Farming
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link to www.scribd.com]
Intensive Gardening For Profit And Self Sufficiency
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link to www.scribd.com]
Joy of Gardening
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link to www.scribd.com]
Indoor Gardening Secrets
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link to www.scribd.com]
Wild Edibles - Nutrition & Medicine
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link to www.scribd.com]
Herbal Manual - Herbal Medicine 1936
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link to www.scribd.com]
Culpeper's The Complete Herbal
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link to www.scribd.com]
Edible And Medicinal Plants
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link to www.scribd.com]
survival - how to make herbal preparations
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link to www.scribd.com]
Edible Rooftop Gardening
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link to www.scribd.com]
Handbook of Herbs and Spices, Vol. 1 - K. Peter
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link to www.scribd.com]
Handbook of Herbs and Spices, Vol. 2 - K. Peter
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link to www.scribd.com]
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G.
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link to www.scribd.com]
How-To Hydroponics - A HowTo Guide to Soilfree Gardening
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link to www.scribd.com]
bill mollison - permaculture design course
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link to www.scribd.com]
Saving Your Own Vegetable Seeds
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link to www.scribd.com]
Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon
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link to www.scribd.com]
Growing & Curing Tobacco
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link to www.scribd.com]
Organic Tobacco Production
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link to www.scribd.com]
grow organic potatoes
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link to www.scribd.com]
Home Composting Bins
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link to www.scribd.com]
Organic Insecticides For The Garden; Home & Garden
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link to www.scribd.com]
Barrel-ponics
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link to www.fastonline.org]
An Integrated Fish Culture Hydroponic Vegetable Production System
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link to www.fastonline.org]
The One Straw Revolution _excellent (no tilling or plowing) permaculture
[link to ebooks.du.ac.in]
Food Preservation _Cooking, Canning, Curing, etc.
Preserving Food: Drying Fruits And Vegetables - Nutrition
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link to www.scribd.com]
Complete Guide To Home Canning
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link to www.scribd.com]
Canning Meat, Wild Game, Poultry, & Fish Safely
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link to www.scribd.com]
Preparing And Canning Fermented Food And Pickled Vegetables
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link to www.scribd.com]
Every Step in Canning
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link to www.scribd.com]
Small-Scale Food Drying Technologies
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link to www.scribd.com]
Field Care Of Harvested Big Game
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link to www.scribd.com]
How To Build A Wood-Fired Oven & Start A Home Bakery
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link to www.scribd.com]
Solar Cookers - Natural Living
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link to www.scribd.com]
Earth-Friendly Cooking Technologies
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link to www.scribd.com]
Solar Distillation & Water Purification
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link to www.scribd.com]
Rain Water Harvesting
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link to www.scribd.com]
How To Make An Upesi Stove
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link to www.scribd.com]
Wood Conserving Cook Stoves - A Design Guide
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link to www.scribd.com]
How To Make Liquor With Fruit And Berries
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link to www.scribd.com]
Cheese Making Made Easy
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link to www.scribd.com]
Cheese Making
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link to www.scribd.com]
Canning Meat, Wild Game, Poultry, & Fish Safely
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link to www.scribd.com]
USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning
Guide 1, Principles of Home Canning
[link to www.uga.edu]
GUIDE 2: Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Fruit and Fruit Products
[link to www.foodsaving.com]
GUIDE 3: Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Tomatoes and Tomato Products
[link to www.foodsaving.com]
GUIDE 4: Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Vegetables and Vegetable Products
[link to www.foodsaving.com]
GUIDE 5: Preparing and Canning Poultry, Red Meats, and Seafoods
[link to www.foodsaving.com]
GUIDE 6: Preparing and Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Vegetables
[link to www.foodsaving.com]
GUIDE 7: Preparing and Canning Jams and Jellies
[link to www.foodsaving.com]
Water
Handpumps for Domestic Rainwater Tanks
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Using Treadle Pumps
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Treadle Pumps _Non-motorized Irrigation
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Recommendations for Designing Rainwater Harvesting System Tanks
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Water Well Manual
[link to www.scribd.com]
Windmill Construction Manual
[link to www.scribd.com]
Heating, Energy and Fuel
Solar Water Heaters
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link to www.scribd.com]
Water as Fuel
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link to www.scribd.com]
Run Car on Water - stanley meyer resonant electrolysis cell system collection
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link to www.scribd.com]
Homemade Batteries [2003, 14 Pages]
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link to www.scribd.com]
Wind Energy Systems
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link to www.scribd.com]
Wood Burning Handbook
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link to www.scribd.com]
Oil Drum Stove For Cooking And Water Heating
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link to www.scribd.com]
Water Power For The Farm
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link to www.scribd.com]
Pumping Water For Irrigation Using Solar Energy
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link to www.scribd.com]
Generator Power For The Homestead
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link to www.scribd.com]
How To Make Biodiesel Fuel
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link to www.scribd.com]
Build Your Own Biogas Generator
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link to www.scribd.com]
Using A Biogas Digester
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link to www.scribd.com]
Livestock
Small-Scale Chicken Production
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link to www.scribd.com]
The Homesteader's Handbook To Raising Small Livestock
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link to www.scribd.com]
A Poultry Mini-Manual
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link to www.scribd.com]
Small-Scale Freshwater Fish Farming
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link to www.scribd.com]
Poultry a Practical Guide _Very old, Very excellent comprehensive guide
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link to www.scribd.com]
Hog trapping
8 documents and trap plans
[link to www.fastonline.org]
Poultry raising gold mine!
nearly 100 documents!
[link to www.fastonline.org]
Raising Rabbits start to finish
[link to www.fastonline.org]
Small Scale Dairy Production
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Why and How to Keep Dairy Goats
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Constructing a Simple Wooden Cart
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Making a Straight Hame Collar
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Single Donkey Harness for Cart Pulling
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
Medicine
Holistic & Alternative Medicine 101
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link to www.scribd.com]
Herbal/Medical Contraindications_ Using herbal remedies and pharma products: interactions
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link to www.swsbm.com]
Herbal Formulas for Clinic and Home
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link to www.swsbm.com]
First Aid Full Manual FM21-11
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link to www.scribd.com]
Where There is No Dentist - Murray Dickson
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link to www.scribd.com]
Where There Is No Doctor - A Village Health Care Handbook - David Werner
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link to www.scribd.com]
Wilderness Medicine Course
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link to www.scribd.com]
Healing Pets With Alternative Medicine
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link to www.scribd.com]
Physicians Desk Reference: Herbal Medicines
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link to www.scribd.com]
How To Treat and Heal Your Pet at Home?
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link to www.scribd.com]
ONE MINERAL CAN HELP _Potassium Iodide
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link to www.nogw.com]
Ditch Medicine - Advanced Field Procedures For Emergencies (1993)
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link to www.scribd.com]
Survival Manuals and Info
Compact Survival Kits
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link to www.scribd.com]
SAS Survival Guide
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link to www.scribd.com]
Wilderness Survival (FM 21-76)
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link to www.scribd.com]
Nuclear War Survival Skills
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link to www.scribd.com]
USMC Winter Survival Course
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link to www.scribd.com]
US Marine Corps Summer Survival Course
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link to www.scribd.com]
Survival Attitude
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link to www.scribd.com]
NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION AVOIDANCE
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link to www.scribd.com]
Kearny Homemade Fallout Meter
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link to www.scribd.com]
survival - personal wilderness medical kit
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link to www.scribd.com]
Building Related _Survival Shelters and More
Seven Survival Shelters That Could Save your life!
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link to www.scribd.com]
Building With Stone And Earth - Part 1
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link to www.scribd.com]
Building With Stone And Earth - Part 2
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link to www.scribd.com]
Barn Plans And Out-Buildings (1886)
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link to www.scribd.com]
How to build your own underground home
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link to www.scribd.com]
The Complete Book of Underground Houses _How To
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link to www.scribd.com]
the manual of free energy devices and systems
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link to www.scribd.com]
Communication
The Complete Manual Of Pirate Radio
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link to www.scribd.com]
Crystal Radio Project
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link to www.scribd.com]
Field Antenna Handbook
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link to www.scribd.com]
Shortwave Radio _Build Your Own
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link to www.scribd.com]
A Handbook On Shortwave Radio And LEO Sattelite Communication
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link to www.scribd.com]
Shortwave 101 - How To Listen To World Radio
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link to www.scribd.com]
Shortwave Radio Networking When Phones Fail
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link to www.scribd.com]
Other Skills and Useful Info
The Foxfire Books are simply some of the best old time skills books around!
Foxfire One
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link to www.scribd.com]
Foxfire Two
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link to www.scribd.com]
Foxfire Three
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link to www.scribd.com]
Foxfire Four
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link to www.scribd.com]
The Foxfire Five
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link to www.scribd.com]
Sharpening Small Tools
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link to www.scribd.com]
Farm Shop And Equipment
This publication offers suggested assortment of tools, special tools, and how to keep and care for them.
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link to www.scribd.com]
Tools For Agriculture - A Guide To Appropriate Equipment
Appropriate Equipment For Small Farms
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link to www.scribd.com]
Soapmaking - How To Make Soap
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link to www.scribd.com]
Village Technology Handbook
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link to www.scribd.com]
W.F. Vickery, Advanced Gunsmithing, 1940
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link to www.scribd.com]
Manual Of Bicycle Repair
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link to www.scribd.com]
The Formula Manual
Make your own recipes for almost everything other than food.
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link to www.scribd.com]
Land Clearing
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link to www.scribd.com]
Axe Manual of Peter McLaren
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link to www.scribd.com]
Crosscut Saw Manual
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link to www.scribd.com]
Basic Plumbing Skills
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link to www.scribd.com]
Basic Plumbing Course
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link to www.scribd.com]
Hoppe's Guide To Gun Care
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link to www.scribd.com]
Pistol Preventative Maintenance Guide
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link to www.scribd.com]
Emergency Sanitation At Home
Interesting DoD publication from 1958
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link to www.scribd.com]
Spinning With Simple Tools
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link to www.scribd.com]
Introduction To Spinning
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link to www.scribd.com]
Natural Dyeing Of Textiles
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link to www.scribd.com]
Handloom Construction
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link to www.scribd.com]
Blacksmithing Basics
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link to www.scribd.com]
Practical Blacksmithing 1891
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link to www.scribd.com]
Farm Blacksmithing 1921
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link to www.scribd.com]
Alternatives To Portland Cement
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link to www.scribd.com]
How To Make Candles
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link to www.scribd.com]
Candle Making
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link to www.scribd.com]
Hide tanning
4 documents
[link to www.fastonline.org]
Pond Construction and Management
about 50 documents
[link to www.fastonline.org]
Fighting fires
[link to www.cd3wd.com]
This is a great resource site for homesteaders, people interested in sustainability and survival techniques. There is so much here that the site deserves its own listing.
Downloading directly from the site is free, but does require sign up and some information (including info on what you plan on doing with the materials provided). It's worth it!
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link to www.itdg.org]
This is yet another almost incredible information resource for all things homestead. It will take time, but is well worth the dig and everything is available for free download.
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link to www.fastonline.org]
