Hi VaMom,

Kassandra started a thread somewhere too that didn't get very far. I know Pamela posted tons of info somewhere, i can't remember where it is. Check out Pamela's first several posts.

If you like food (ha ha), i really on several books, but one is important for preserving without canning and without freezing:

Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning, The Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante, Chelsea Greene (translation from French), mostly this book has recipes from France, near Italy and Switzerland. I use the book and am currently eating a lot of lacto-fermented food from last summer.

Also, Nourishing Traditions, By Sally Fallon. Excellent. It is one of my bibles.

Thanks, Allissun! Sometimes I think my efforts are sort of like trying to learn how to drive AFTER being hit by a truck ... leaves one sort of hoping those airbags are there and gonna work!!!

I would say check out Lindsay Books
http://www.lindsaybks.com/prod/index.html
They specialize in publishing old technology.

Stuff from say the 1900's and what have you.

There is lots of good survival information on their site, and not too much crap to sort through as you would find in other more modern commentary.

Rawles' book Patriots has many titles in it... In fact, i regard the book more as a thin (and not-so-believeable) narative that helps put the books that he knows in a very useful and credible context... Like "Dentistry When a Dentist isn't Around" or some such title.
I like having a copy of Emergency War Surgery in addition to serious, first aid and home remedy titles (because access to med. facilities is out of the question...)
Better than books are training manuals (Army Combat Lifesaver's PQS handbook) and workshop notebooks that you compile from skill-building workshops. Skills. Skills. Skills.

When a friend celebrated his birthday, his friends got him an urban/suburban/woodland foraging expert's 5-hour talk and walk. 30 folks. Yummy salad. Great notes. (Bring camera.)

Great suggestions ... I'm following through. Thanks.

Just a quick look over my shoulder at the book shelf has a few.

When technology fails by Chelsea Green

The self sufficiency handbook

Staying Alive by Ron Reid Daly

Peak Oil Survival by Aric McBay

Nuclear War Survival Skills is a good one if you've got that sort of thing on your threat assessment matrix. Free too, just google it.