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If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
Nuclear War Survival Skills: Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/094248701X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_HhfXDbN41QBQ0
This book points out that the majority of the deadly radiation in the blast area has deteriorated within 3-14 days.
This is more for long term survival:
If you're surviving on rice+beans, or otherwise relying on your dry goods (you do have dry goods stored for zombie apocalypse right???), remember to sprout your daily bean ration at least a couple times per week and eat the sprouts. They can be briefly cooked, but too much cooking can destroy/will reduce the vitamin content. The sprouts contain vitamin C.
If you don't have any source of vitamin C, scurvy can/will set in and things go down hill in a hurry.
Sprouting the beans can give you up to 14mg of vitamin C per 1 cup serving(sorry that link is to livestrong...), and if done a few times a week can keep you healthier.
Many beans have nearly zero vitamin C (Black beans can provide up to 4%RDA and kidney beans 8%) so it's good to make sure you have a source for that important vitamin in your dry goods.
source. Sorry it's not a link to a page in the book, I own the book and read this in it. I was surprised, because while I've read plenty about setting up provisions for long term survival, never once have I read about this tip. It's potentially easier (and recommended in this book) to just buy ascorbic acid, because it's very shelf stable.
Recommended, shelf stable, emergency supplies (according to Oak Ridge National Lab):
How much to eat, depends on the bleakness of the situation. It was recommended to eat a table spoon of the oil per day, as a means of easy calories/fat. There are roughly 120 calories per TBSP of vegitable oil).
Yes! Well reminded, I’d found it then gone off on a tangent and bought a book called “the boy engineer” which is pretty interesting too.
The cheerfully-named “nuclear war survival skills” book by the Oak Ridge national laboratory is what I was thinking of.
Here’s a link - Nuclear War Survival Skills: Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/094248701X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Mi6BCb8DZ4HT9
The YouTuber that makes the auger is called chucke2009.
He says that he actually got the idea from a book published by a welder manufacturer, so I may be wrong about where it came from, but the above book is pretty interesting none the less - I shows how to build a wood gasifier to run a generator, things like that!
He also builds a hench bench grinder from a truck axle, that’s pretty good too.