Sample of other Y2K type books available:

-"Patriots: Surviving The Coming Collapse" James Wesley, Rawles (Formerly TEOTWAWKI before released in paperback- publisher renamed it! A survival manual neatly dressed in fiction.) -"Where There Is No Doctor" -"Where There Is No Dentist" -"Lucifer's Hammer" (fiction - possible Y2K scenario) -"Spritual Midwifery" -"Unintended Consequences" (about rockchunkering)

See synopsis' and reviews online. Order Online. Cut and paste this link. http://www.amstarrealty.com/y2k.htm

All would be good to have on your Y2K bookshelf. What? You haven't started your Y2K bookshelf yet?!

P.S. Also listed there are links to 3 of Westergaard's articles on the subject "Protecting Your Home From The Millennium Bug".

-- tim (aa@aaa.com), January 20, 1999

Answers

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

-- Bill (bill@microsoft.com), January 20, 1999.

I found a great book at Barnes and Noble called "How To Survive On Land And Sea". It's by Frank C. Craighead, Jr., and John J. Craighead. Revised by Ray E. Smith and D. Shiras Jarvis.

It's published by the Naval Institute Press in Annapolis, Maryland.

-- Kevin (mixesmusic@worldnet.att.net), January 20, 1999.

AMA Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care

-- curtis schalek (schale1@ibm.net), January 20, 1999.

American Red Cross, Standard First Aid & Personal Safety

-- curtis schalek (schale1@ibm.net), January 20, 1999.

Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, by Rolfe Cobleigh - originally published in 1909, and if you need to do it around a farm, without modern conveniences, this book pretty much shows you the easiest way...

Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny - either if things get closer to the TEOW end of things and/or to show the grandkids why all of us old folks are so glad that at least some of the technology went away...

Also an assortment of Bibles, the Book of Common Prayer, a couple of different denominational service books and hymnals, and the St Joseph Prayer Book for any Roman Catholic refugees who might happen by...

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), January 20, 1999.

Bean cookbooks.

-- Zoe (a@a.a), January 21, 1999.

Putting Food By (ISBN - 0-8289-0163-5)

How to Be Your Own Doctor (Sometimes) (0-448-11894-7)

Carrots Love Tomatoes - this one I'm not sure of the name; I bought and now can't find it (sigh), it's a good thing spring cleaning is coming up! It's about gardening without using pesticides.

Bibles, classics (ie Complete Shakespeare - my husband's wedding gift to me 20 years ago), fiction you can bear to read twice (or more!), how to get along with people type books, how to do things the old way (likeliest to find in 2nd hand book stores). Good plan to read first aid books NOW, not when there's a crisis (duh!).

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 21, 1999.

Carla Emery's "Encyclopedia of Country Living" -- a must have. This thing is awesome; my wife and I consult it weekly, at least.

"Making the Best of Basics" by ??? -- the second must have.

-- Franklin Journier (ready4y2k@yahoo.com), January 21, 1999.

There is an old copy of "The Farmer's Compendium" (possibly "Companion", it's rather worn) in our family library. Lot's of turn- of-the-last century information on how to build farm structures and equipment, that just might come in handy for the turn of the next century. I imagine there might be copies out in old book stores and farm family yard sales.

BTW. HP came through with a Win98 software package and our scanner is now working again. Any takers for possibly posting this book or at least some salient excerpts on a site?

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 21, 1999.

The Boyscout Handbook.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), January 21, 1999.

Survival Guns, by Mel Tappan Raising Small Grains, by Gene Logsdon Life After Doomsday, by Bruce Clayton

-- Noah Simoneaux (noaj@yournet.com), January 22, 1999.

Pearlie: OLD (precomputer, as old as you can get) boy scout manuals. I've got one from the late 1940s.

In general, get OLD books of all types -- gardening, game and livestock raising and slaughtering, dressing, preserving, mechanical stuff like wood turning and metal forming without computerized numerical control machinery, first aid, sewing, bootmaking, chemistry (making black powder, soap, etc., from scratch),

Get all the old stuff, cheap, you can get. You may not use much of it yourself but someone else in community could -- barter it.

Then, for civilization, "Atlas Shrugged", "Economics in One Lesson", the Federalist Papers -- and the rebuttals to the Federalist Papers, "The Case Against God" (by George Smith -- out of print -- wonder why?).

Sheet music of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc. Opera librettos.

This could go on forever. BTW, in "Lucifer's Hammer" (Pournelle and Niven) one of the characters had a sealed cache of books, including medical formulations (insulin, etc.) and chemical (mustard gas) stored in a septic tank.

-- a (a@aisa.com), January 23, 1999.

The "Lucifer's Hammer" book, as part of the story, has extensive information on books and information needed, and use of some.

-- a (a@aisa.com), January 23, 1999.