 | The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps by Susan Miller Cavitch
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.48 A good general introductory book to making soap at home.
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 | Small-Scale Soapmaking: A Handbook by Peter Donkor
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $15.74 This is a book which was written for Third World aid workers, so it has excellent low-tech techniques.
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| The Art of Sauna Building by Bert Jalasjaa
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $45.94 Though there are obviously ways to heat water with solar power, wood, and even compost, but a perhaps easier way to stay clean while using less water and energy is the sauna. This book gives you ways to make saunas with standard US stick-framing techniques.
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 | The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition by Joseph C. Jenkins
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $23.35 There are many interesting plans for composting toilets on the internet but Jenkins makes an airtight argument for composting your own feces without expensive toilets or pits. Definitely worth the read. Highly recommended.
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 | The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook by American Red Cross
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $0.25 _The_ reference book for first aid, at least in the United States. Get the most recent edition. An invaluable tool; highly recommended.
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 | Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by Jane Maxwell
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $16.95 Written for Third World aid workers, this is a favourite book for many Peak Oil bibliographies. Highly recommended.
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 | Where There Is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $12.59 Another book in the series above. Essential for backwoods or crash situation.
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 | Gray's Anatomy for Students by Richard Drake
Buy used from: $13.95 A handy reference book. Get the student's edition, not the popular edition.
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 | Wilderness Medicine, Beyond First Aid, 5th Edition by William Forgey
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $9.60 Written with the idea that the ambulance is not arriving soon, or not at all.
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 | Backcountry First Aid and Extended Care, 4th by Buck Tilton
Buy used from: $0.25 Idem.
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 | Survivalist's Medicine Chest by Ragnar Benson
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $10.50 One of Ragnar Bensons series of unorthodox books on the subject of treating illness and injury. Highly recommended.
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 | Survival Nurse: Running an Emergency Nursing Station Under Adverse Conditions by Ragnar Benson
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $14.24 Idem.
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 | Do-It-Yourself Medicine: How to Find and Use the Most Effective Antibiotics, Painkillers, Anesthetics and Other Miracle Drugs... Without Costly Doctors' Prescriptions or Hospitals by Ragnar Benson
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $9.95 Another from Ragnar, this time about using veterinary medicines to treat humans. Unorthodox, but highly recommended.
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 | Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women by A. August Burns
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $12.62 Also on many Peak Oil lists because its written for the low-tech, backwoods practician.
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 | Varney's Midwifery, Fourth Edition by Helen Varney Burst
Buy new: $79.41 / Used from: $84.65 Expensive, but absolutely the standard text for midwifery schools. A tome. Highly recommended (do you really want to deliver a baby without having read up?).
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 | Homebirth by Sheila Kitzinger
Buy used from: $4.98 An alternative to Varney, with a less invasive focus.
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 | Stalking The Healthful Herbs by Euell Gibbons
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $9.00 Euell Gibbons wrote the entertaining book, whose easy style belies its usefulness. A good introduction to herbal medicines, but with mediocre drawings.
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 | The Green Pharmacy: The Ultimate Compendium Of Natural Remedies From The World's Foremost Authority On Healing Herbs by James A. Duke PhD
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This book focuses on use of dry herbs, not so much on their production or gathering in the wild.
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 | The Herbalist's Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines (Chelsea Green) by Nancy Phillips
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $17.06 Seems to be the book for people looking ahead to doing the whole process from growing to using medicinal herbs.
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 | Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria (Storey Medicinal Herb Guide) by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $6.50 An excellent book, focuses specifically on antibiotics found in nature, and is worth the $10 or so used to have on your shelf. Highly recommended.
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