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YOU CAN BE AN INFORMATION WRITER
THE BEST BOOK CATALOG IN THE WORLD
THE RESURRECTION OF ARISTOCRACY
THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER
THE ANARCHISTS GUIDE TO THE BBS
THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND byM. Hirry
JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BLACK MARKET
BLACK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD
GUERRILLA CAPITALISM
How to Practice Free Enterprise
In an Unfree Economy
THE ORGANIZATION OF
ILLEGAL MARKETS
HOW TO DO BUSINESS “OFF THE BOOKS"
HOW TO MAKE CASH MONEY AT SWAP MEETS. FLEA MARKETS, ETC.
BLACK MARKET OPERATIONS
Mariretfng Theory end
the Fencing ot Stolen Goods
GETTING STARTED IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE
GETTING STARTED IN
THE ILLICIT DRUG BUSINESS
THE CONSTRUCTION & OPERATION OF
CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES
HOW TO USE MAIL DROPS FOR PRIVACY AND PROFIT
INVESTIGATIVE METHODS
FOR WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Edited by William B. Moran
THE BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
The Completa Manual of
Long-Term Underground Storage
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY & NEVER BE FOUND
HOW TO GET LOST & START ALL OVER AGAIN
HANDBOOK OF VITAL RECORDS INFORMATION FOR ATTORNEYS AND WELFARE WORKERS by Anonymous
THE CRIMINAL USE OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE
WIRETAPPING ANO ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
COVERT SURVEILLANCE & ELECTRONIC PENETRATION
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
TECHNIQUES OF BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
SURVIVING MAJOR CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS
HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
MANUALS ON MAYHEM
A Complete Guide to the Literature
of Combat Martial Arts and Serious Self Defense
THE RIP-OFF BOOK
The Complete Guide to Frauds,
Con Games, Swindles and Rackets
TECHNIQUES OF THE PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKET
ESCAPE FROM CONTROLLED CUSTODY
SHOPLIFTING ANO EMPLOYEE
THEFT INVESTIGATION
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
IMPROVISED WEAPONS
IN AMERICAN PRISONS
THE COMPLETE GUIDE
TO GUN SHOWS
PHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION REGARDING BOOKS SEIZED BY AUTHORITIES
DONT MISS THE SPECIAL ARTICLES AND FEA TURES IN THIS ISSU EH!
Selling Your Time & Labor Comic
THE HIDDEN ECONOMY
The Context and Control of
Borderline Crime
by Stuart Henry
ALL THE LIVELONG DAY
The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work
by Barbara Garson
THE ABOLITION OF WORK
and Other Essays
by Bob Black
(Be viewed by Michael Hoy)
THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN
The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
FINANCIAL FREEDOM FOR THE COMMON MAN
900 KNOW-HOW
How To Succeed With
Your Own 900 Number Business
by Robert Mastin
HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH STOCKS $3 A SHARE OR LESS
BETTER THAN A LEMONADE STAND
Small Business Ideas for Kids
by Dary! Bernstein
ACTION CAREERS
Employment In the High-Risk Job Market
by Ragnar Benson
HOW TO MAKE CASH MONEY
SELUNG AT SWAP MEETS,
FLEA MARKETS, ETC.
FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Self-Employmont Opportunities
In Recreation, Sports and Travel
by Crawford Undsey
HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT A SALARY
HOW TO FIND AND BUY
YOUR BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY
by Frank Kirkpatrick
HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR
AND MORE WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN
MAKE MONEY READING BOOKS
How to Start and Operate Your Own Homo-Based
Freelance Reading Service
HOW TO MAKE $100.000 A YEAR
AS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
by Edmund J Pankau, CU. CPPh CFE
HOW TO GET PAID $30,000 A YEAR TO TRAVEL
Without Selling Anything
THE TEN BEST OPPORTUNITIES
FOR STARTING A HOME BUSINESS TODAY
THE HOLLYWOOD JOB-HUNTER'S
SURVIVAL GUIDE
HOW YOU CAN MAKE $25,000
A YEAR WRITING
HOW YOU CAN MAKE $25,000
A YEAR WITH YOUR CAMERA
No Matter Where You Live
by Larry Cribb
SHADOW MERCHANTS
Successful Retailing Without a Storefront
by Jordan L. Cooper
HOW TO DRAW AND SELL COMIC STRIPS
For Newspapers and Comic Books!
by Alan McKenzie
Stay Monte and Mind
YOÚR OWN BUSINESS
HOMEMADE MONEY
The Definitive Guide to
Success in a Home Business
by Barbara Brabec
FREELANCE WRITER’S HANDBOOK
The Real Story
by James Wilson
YOU CAN BE AN INFORMATION WRITER
HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE
ANTIQUE BUSINESS
by Ronald S. Barlow
EXPATRIATE'S EMPLOYMENT HANDBOOK
Seeing the World... and Getting Paid for it!
CREATING MONEY
Keys to Abundance
by Sanays Roman and Duane Packer
THE TRICK TO MONEY IS HAVING SOME!
FINDING YOUR NICHE
Marketing Your Professional Service
by Bart Brodsky and Janet Gels
80+ GREAT IDEAS
FOR MAKING MONEY AT HOME
A Guide for the First Time Entrepreneur
by Erica Barkemeyer
PROFITS FROM YOUR
BACKYARD HERB GARDEN
by Lee Sturdivant
FLOWERS FOR SALE
Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers
by Lee Sturdivant
SUCCESSFUL SMALL-SCALE FARMING
An Organic Approach
by Karf Schwonke
THE POTENTIAL OF HERBS
AS A CASH CROP
by Richard Alan Miller
SMALL SCALE CRAYFISH FARMING
For Food and Profit
BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Selling
What You Grow
by Andrew W. Lee
WAR TAX RESISTANCE
A Guide to Withholding Your Support
From the Military
A LAW UNTO ITSELF
The IRS and The Abuse of Power
by Da vid Burnham
IRS IN ACTION
“Straight Talk from a Former Treasury Agent“
by Santo Presti
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF
INTERNATIONAL SMUGGLING
by M.C. Finn
THE ORGANIZATION OF ILLEGAL MARKETS
Æn Economic Analysis
FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THE TRACING OF FUNDS
JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BLACK MARKET
HOW TO DO BUSINESS
“OFFTHE BOOKS"
by Adam Cash
GETTING STARTED
IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
by Adam Cash
HOW TO DETERMINE UNDISCLOSED
FINANCIAL INTERESTS
BLACK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD
THE GARAGE SALE BOOK
Turn Your Trash Into Cash
by Jeff Grobcrman and Colin Yardley
PERSONAL AND BUSINESS PRIVACY
A Special Report on Why and How
Your Privacy Is Invaded
by BUI Pryor
DON’T BUG ME
Tho Latest High-Tech Spy Methods
by M.L. Shannon
THE EDEN GUIDE TO
COMPLETE FINANCIAL PRIVACY
by Barry Rdd
THE BIG BOOK
OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
by Jack Luger
KAHN ON CODES
Secrets of the New Cryptology
by David Kahn
CREDIT SECRETS
How to Eraso Bad Credit
by Bob Hammond
HOW TO BEAT
THE CREDIT BUREAUS
The Insider's Guide to Consumer Credit
by Bob Hammond
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
The Complete Manual
of Long-Term Underground Storage
by Eddie the Wire
HOW TO USE MAIL DROPS
FOR PRIVACY AND PROFIT
by Jack Luger
REBORN OVERSEAS
Identity Building In Europe,
Australia, and Now Zealand
by Trent Sands
REBORN IN CANADA
Personal Privacy Through a New Identity
Expanded Second Edition
by Trent Sands
UNDERSTANDING
U.S. IDENTITY DOCUMENTS
by John Q. Newman
THE GUIDE TO LEGALLY OBTAINING
A FOREIGN PASSPORT
SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE
STATUS FOR SALE
The Complete Guide to Instant Prestige
by Wayne Yeager
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
AND NEVER BE FOUND
by Doug Richmond
HOW TO GET LOST
AND START ALL OVER AGAIN
SCRAM
Relocating Under A New Identity
by J âmes S. Martin, Attorney at Law
THE CRIMINAL RECORDS BOOK
How to Regain Your Good Name
by Warren Siege!, Attorney
PASSPORT TO FREEDOM
A Guide for World Citizens
by Garry Davis
PART-TIME DIPLOMACY
For Fun, Profit & Prestige
by James Basii-Hnrt
MUG SHOTS
A Police Artists Guide
to Remembering Faces
by Douglas P. Hinkle
THE FINGERPRINT
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
U.S. ATTORNEY'S MANUAL
ON ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
PISSING AWAY THE AMERICAN DREAM
Government-Mandated Urine Drug Testing
and the Fourth Amendment
Criminal Justice: New Technologies and the constitution
WIRETAPPING AND
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
Commission Studies
COVERT SURVEILLANCE
& ELECTRONIC PENETRATION
Edited by William B. Moran
SNITCH
A Handbook For Informers
by Jock Luger
"ENEMIES"
World War II Alien Internment
by John Cristgau
HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
A Handbook tor Investigators
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
THE MUCKRAKER'S MANUAL
Handbook For Investigative Reporters
byM. Harry
BAIL ENFORCER
TThe Advanced Bounty Hunter
by Bob Burton
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY—BOOK II
The Encyclopedia of Personal Surveillance
by Lee Lupin
THEY WRITE THEIR OWN SENTENCES
The FBI Handwriting Analysis Manual
HOW TO USE THE FEDERAL F.O.I. ACT
OBTAINING YOUR PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR'S UCENSE
by Orlon Agency. Inc.
SPY GAME
Winning Through Super Technology
by Scott French and Lee Lapin
TOP SECRET: A CLANDESTINE OPERATOR'S
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
by Bob Burton
WHEN IN DOUBT CHECK HIM OUT
A Woman's Survival Guide for the 90s
by Joseph J. Culligan
REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A P.I. IN THE 50 STATES AND ELSEWHERE
A Reference Manual
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO : PHOTOGRAPH INTELLIGENCE
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE
A Complete Guidebook
by Burt Rapp
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION
A Practical Manual
UNDERCOVER WORK
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
LIP READING MADE EASY
by Edward B. Nltchle
INVESTIGATIVE METHODS
FOR WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Edited by William B. Moran
THE "TOP SECRET” REGISTRY
OF U.S. GOVERNMENT
RADIO FREQUENCIES
by Tom Kneltel, K2AES
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SOURCES
PROTECTIVE SERVICES
US Army Military Police School
TRICKS OF THE BURGLAR ALARM TRADE
THE POUCE SNIPER
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
SUCCESSFUL ARMED ROBBERY
by Harold S. Long
S.W.A.T. TEAM OPERATIONS
by Burt Rapp
VEHICLE THEFT INVESTIGATION
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
GETAWAY
Driving Techniques
for Escape and Evasion
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
TECHNIQUES OF
THE PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKET
by Wayne B. Yeager
THE BEGGAR'S HANDBOOK
A Guido to Successful Panhandling
byM. T. Pockets
CREDIT CARD FRAUD
by Burt Rapp
CHECK FRAUD INVESTIGATION
by Burt Rapp
MAKING CRIME PAY
by Harold S. Long
ESCAPE FROM CONTROLLED CUSTODY
by TonyLesco
DECOY OPS
Fighting Street Crime Undercover
hy Capt. Charles Beene, Het
HOW TO STEAL FOOD FROM THE SUPERMARKET
by J. A ndrew A nderson
SURVIVING IN PRISON
by Harold S. Long
ESPIONAGE: DOWN AND DIRTY
by Tony Lesee
YOU CAN’T WIN
The Autobiography of Jack Black
DEFEATING INDUSTRIAL SPIES
by Duncan Long
THE RIP-OFF BOOK
Tho Complete Guide to Frauds,
Con Games, Swindles, and Rackets
by Victor Santoro
INTERROGATION
A Complete Manual
by Burt Rapp
FRAUDS, RIP-OFFS AND CON GAMES
by Victor Santoro
COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME
US Army Military Police School
DIRTY TRICKS COPS USE
(And Why They Use Them)
by Bart Rommel
BLACK MARKET OPERATIONS
Marketing Theory
and the Fencing of Stolen Goods
ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER SYSTEMS FRAUD
THE NEW HACKER'S DICTIONARY
Second Edition
HOW TO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING
by Desert Publications
COMBINATION LOCK PRINCIPLES
by Desert Publications
THE GET OUT OF JAIL FREE BOOK
by Maxwell Hutchklnson
LOCK OUT
Techniques of Forced Entry
by Desert Publications
TECHNIQUES OF
BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING
by Wayne B. Yeager
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING
by Wayne B. Yeager
HIGH SPEED ENTRY
(VHS Video)
Instant Opening Techniques
ADVANCED LOCK PICKING
by Steven M. Hampton
CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT
KEY CASTING MANUAL
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
by Eddie the Wire
KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING TUBULAR LOCKS
by Desert Publications
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
HOW I STEAL CARS
(A Repo Man's. Guide to Car Thieves’ Secrets)
HOW TO OPEN HANDCUFFS WITHOUT KEYS
by Desert Publications
SURREPTITIOUS ENTRY
by Willis George
EXPERT LOCK PICKING
(VHS Video)
PRINCIPLES OF
PERSONAL DEFENSE
by Jeff Cooper
STREET LETHAL
Unarmed Urban Combat
by Sammy Franco
THE MIND IN THE MARTIAL ARTS
A Key to Winning
by Thomas J. Nardi, Ph.D.
THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR
The Violent Side
by Loren Christensen
A BOUNCER'S GUIDE TO BARROOM BRAWLING
Dealing with the Sucker Puncher,
101 SUCKER PUNCHES
by Kurt Craven
GOUZAO GONGJI
Seven Neurological Attacks
for Inflicting Serious Damage
by Master He! Long
KAMIKAZE FIGHTING
The Self Defense of Last Resort
by Mike Vassofo
THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
OF PERSONAL COMBAT
(With and Without Weapons)
by Bradley J. Steiner
DRAGONS TOUCH
Weaknesses of the Human Anatomy
by Master He! L ong
THE 100 DEADLIEST KARATE MOVES
by Dr. Ted GambordeHa
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
KNOCKOUT PUNCHING
by Leo Fong
BLACK MEDICINE II:
Weapons At Hand
by N. Mashlro, Ph.D.
FISTS, WITS, AND A WICKED RIGHT
Surviving on the
Wild Side of the Street
by Marc nima! * Mac Young
GUGE GONGJI
Seven Primary Targets
to Take Anyone Out of a Fight
by Master Hei Long
FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
The Secrets of Streetfighting
by Ted Gsmbordella
DEAL THE FIRST DEADLY BLOW!
An Encyclopedia of Unarmed
and Hand-to-Hand Combat!
POISON PEN LETTERS
Using the Malls for Revenge
by Keith Wade
RIGHTEOUS REVENGE
Getting Down to Getting Even
by George Hay duke
THE POWER OF POSITIVE REVENGE
A Winner's Guide to Exacting Vengeance
by Michael Connor
TAKE NO PRISONERS
Destroying Enemies With Dirty
and Malicious Tricks
by Mack Nasty
BE YOUR OWN EQUALIZER
How to Fight the System and Win
by Victor Santoro
SWEET REVENGE
A Serious Guide to Retribution
by George Hayduke
GET EVEN 2
More Dirty Tricks from
the Master of Revenge
by George Hay duke
DIVORCE DIRTY TRICKS
by Robert H Morrison
TECHNIQUES OF REVENGE
by Victor Santoro
YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL
by Keith Wade
TECHNIQUES OF HARASSMENT
How the Underdog Gets Justice
by Victor Santoro
GUNRUNNING FOR FUN AND PROFIT
by Ragnar Benson
FULL AUTO
Modification Manual
by J. Flores
ARMED DEFENSE
Gunfight Survival
For the Householder and Businessman
by Burt Rapp
GUNSHOT INJURIES
(2nd Revised Edition)
by Louis A. LaGarde, M.D.
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
A Complete Guide
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
VOLUME II
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
by Ronald B. Brown
THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK
Quick and Dirty Homemade Silencers
by George Hay duke
LEAD POISONING
25 True Stories from tho Wrong End of a Gun
by Chris Pfouts
DEADLY WEAPONS
Firearms & Firepower
VHS Video Tape
THAT EVERY MAN BE ARMED
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
by Stephen P. Holbrook
MODERN WEAPONS CACHING
A Down-to-Earth Approach to Beating
the Government Gun Grab
by Ragnar Benson
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF
GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK
by Don McLean
IMPROVISED MODIFIED FIREARMS
Deadly Homemade Weapons
by J. DevJd Truby end John Minnery
INSTINCT COMBAT SHOOTING
Defensive Handgunning for Police
and Personal Protection
by Chuck Klein
BREATH OF THE DRAGON
Homebuilt Flamethrowers
by Ragnar Benson
TRADITIONAL NINJA WEAPONS
by Charles Daniel
ART OF THE BULLWHIP
(VHS Video)
Produced by Mark Allen
CLOSE SHAVES
The Complete Book of Razor Fighting
by Bradley J. Steiner
ROLLING THUNDER
Turning Junk Into Automobile Weaponry
by Ryan K Kephart
ZIPS, PIPES, AND PENS
Arsenal of Improvised Weapons
by J. David Truby
PERSONAL DEFENSE WEAPONS
by J. Randall
IMPROVISED WEAPONS
IN AMERICAN PRISONS
by Jack Lugar
SWITCHBLADE
The Ace of Blades
by Ragnar Benson
EXOTIC WEAPONS
An Access Book -
by Michael Hoy and Duncan Long
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND
by Kurt Saxon
THE SLING
For Sport & Survival
by CUff Savage
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND
Volume 2
by Kurt Saxon
HIDDEN THREAT
A Guide to Covert Weapons
by Mark Smith
UNARMED AGAINST THE KNIFE
by Oscar Diaz-Cobo
PRISON'S BLOODY IRON
Deadly Knife Fighting Tactics Revealed
by Harold J. Jenks and Michael H. Brown
SLASH AND THRUST
by John Sanchez
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Advanced Mantrapping Techniques
by Ragnar Benson
PUT EM DOWN, TAKE ’EM OUT!
Knife Fighting Techniques
From Folsom Prison
By Don Pentecost
Disarming the Armed Assailant
by Bradley J Ste/ner
DEATH ON YOUR DOORSTEP
101 Weapons in the Home
by Ralf Dean Omar
BUILD YOUR OWN LASER, PHASER,
ION RAY GUN, & OTHER WORKING
SPACE-AGE PROJECTS
by Robert E. lannlnl
FLEXIBLE WEAPONS
by John Sanchez
WEAPONS OF OKINAWA
A Devastating Kobudo Arsenal
by Sfd Campbell
CIA CATALOG OF CLANDESTINE WEAPONS,
TOOLS AND GADGETS
by John Mlnnery
FINGERTIP FIREPOWER
Pen Guns, Knives, and Bombs
by John Mlnnery
BLOWGUNS
The Breath of Death
by Michael D. Jan ¡ch
CIA IMPROVISED SABOTAGE DEVICES
CIA FIELD EXPEDIENT INCENDIARY MANUAL
RAGNAR’S GUIDE TO HOME
AND RECREATIONAL USE
OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES
by Ragnar Benson
IMPROVISED RADIO DETONATION
TECHNIQUES
by Lawrence Myers
HOME WORKSHOP EXPLOSIVES
by Unete Fester
Don’t Be Misled By
So-Called "Black Books”
BLACK BOOK COMPANION
State-of-the-Art
Improvised Munitions
BLACK BOOKS, Volumes 1 & 2
CIA and Special Forces
improvised Munitions Handbook0
KITCHEN IMPROVISED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES
by Tim Lewis
KITCHEN IMPROVISED FERTILIZER EXPLOSIVES
KITCHEN IMPROVISED BLASTING CAPS
by Tim Lewis
KITCHEN IMPROVISED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES II
by Tim Lewis
150 QUESTIONS FOR A GUERRILLA
by General Alberto Bayo
TERRORISM:
THE SOLUTIONS
by Michael Connor
DISRUPTIVE TERRORISM by Victor Santoro
MERCENARY OPERATIONS MANUAL
by Franklin J. Camper
THE PARTISAN FIGHTER'S MANUAL
by James C Krohn, Ph.D.
COUP d'ETAT
A Practical Handbook
by Edward Luttwak
FIGHTING IN THE STREETS
A Manual of Urban Guerrilla Warfare
WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE STREETS"
by Capt. S.J. Cuthbert, Scots Guard
IMPROVISED RADIO JAMMING TECHNIQUES
Electronic Guerrilla Warfare
TO BREAK A TYRANT'S CHAINS
Nco-Gucrrilla Techniques for Combat
by Duncan Long
MERCENARY’S TACTICAL HANDBOOK
by S/d Campbell
MANUAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER
A Guide to Mercenary War,
Money and Adventure
ByPaulBator
TOTAL RESISTANCE
by Major H von Dach Bcm
DIVINE HUNGER
Cannibalism as a Cultural System
by Peggy Reeves Sanday
'KILL WITHOUT JOY!"
The Complete HowTo Kill Book
by John Mlnnery
HUNTING HUMANS
An Encyclopedia Of Modern Serial Killers
Michael Newton
HUMAN SACRIFICE
In History & Today
by Nigel Davis
EXECUTION
Tools & Techniques
by Bart Homme!
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS
An Inside Look
by Burt Rapp
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
A Practical Handbook
by Burt Rapp
21 TECHNIQUES OF SILENT KILLING
by Master Het Long
THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK
by Maxwell Hutchkinson
PHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
DEATH SCENES 2
(VHS Video)
Produced and Directed by Nick Dougas
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS
OF BYGONE DAYS
by Alice Morse Earle
THE DEATH DEALER’S MANUAL
by Bradley J. Steiner
SILENCING SENTRIES
by Oscar Diax-Cobo
BE YOUR OWN UNDERTAKER
How to Dispose of a Dead Body
SURVIVAL WITH THE ATLATL
by BUI Tate
FUR, FOOD & SURVIVAL
An Expert’s Guide to Trapping
by EmIIR. Johnson
SURVIVAL BARTERING
by Duncan Long
OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS
by Larry Dean Olsen
U.S. ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL (FM 21-76)
TRACKING:
A BLUEPRINT FOR LEARNING HOW
by Jack Kearney
THE ART OF FLINT KNAPPING
byD.C. Waldorf
THE ART OF MAKING
PRIMITIVE BOWS AND ARROWS
by D.C. Waldorf
SURVIVAL POACHING
by Ragnar Benson
HARD-CORE POACHING
by Ragnar Benson
SURVIVING MAJOR CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS
And Chemical/Biological Warfare
NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL
by Duncan Long
HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
by Duncan Long
WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE
How to Set Up and Maintain
A Worm Composting System
by Mary Appclhof
THE ART & SCIENCE OF
DUMPSTER DIVING
by John Hoffman
THE HAGGLER’S HANDBOOK
Ono Hour to Negotiating Power
by Leonard Koren & Peter Goodman
TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY
by Ivan HHch
TOWARD A HISTORY OF NEEDS
by /van lllich
HENLEY’S FORMULAS
For Homo and Workshop
Edited by Gardner D. H/scox, M.E.
THE SENIOR CITIZENS' SURVIVAL MANUAL
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCEBOOK
7th Edition</strong>
SIMPLE LIVING INVESTMENTS
For Old Age
by Michao! Phillips
COOKING WITH THE SUN
How to Build and Use Solar Cookers
by Beth Hafacy and Dan Halacy
CELEBRATION OF AWARENESS
A Call for Institutional Revolution
by Ivan NHeh
LIVING CHEAPLY WITH STYLE
Live Better & Spend Loss
by Ernest Callen bach
LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING
by Edward H Romney
WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR
A Vil lage Health Care Book
' by David Warner
WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST
by Murray Dickson
THE "HAVE-MORE" PLAN
A Little Land — A Lot of Living
by Ed & Caro! Robinson
PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING
by Enoch Tompkins and Roger M. Griffith
THE SURVIVAL RETREAT
A Total Plan for Retreat Defense
by Ragnar Ban son
WHERE TO RETIRE
by John Howells
GREAT HIDEOUTS OF THE WEST
An Idea Book for Living Free
by Bill Kay sing
HOW TO BUY LAND CHEAP
Fourth Edition — Revised and Updated
by Edward Preston
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
by Erwin S. Strauss
VONU
Th© Search for Personal Freedom
by Rayo
THE EDEN SEEKER'S GUIDE
Edited by William L. Scavcy
THE LAST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN
The True Story of an Idaho Solitary
by Harold Peterson
UNINHABITED OCEAN ISLANDS
by Jon Fisher
THE WORLD’S TOP RETIREMENT HAVENS
Edited by Marian K Cooper
HOW TO BUY AN RV
WITHOUT GETTING RIPPED-OFF!
HOME IS WHERE YOU PARK IT
A Guide to Mobile Living as a Life-Style
by Kay Peterson
THE BEST INVESTMENT
Land in a Loving Community
HITCHHIKING IN AMERICA
Using the Golden Thumb
by Dale Carpenter
HIGH SEAS SECURITY
by Frank Camper
THE ETHNOSTATE
by Wilmot Robertson
ALTERNATIVE HOUSEBUILDING
by Mike McClintock
THE $50 & UP UNDERGROUND HOUSE BOOK
Fifth Edition
by Miko Ooh Jar
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES
by D. C. Beard
LOW-COST, ENERGY-EFFICIENT SHELTER
For the Owner and Builder
THE INDIAN TIPI
Its History, Construction and Us©
by Reginald end Gladys Laubln
BUILDING THE CORDWOOD HOME
by Jack Hcnstridge
THE SOLAR ELECTRIC
INDEPENDENT HOME BOOK
by Fowler Solar Electric Inc.
THE INDEPENDENT HOME
Living Well with Power from the
Sun, Wind and Water
by Michael Potts
HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE
by Malcolm Wells
EARTHSHIP: Volume I
How to Build Your Own
by MlchaeJ Reynolds
EARTHSHIP: Volume II
System and Components
by Michael Reynolds
EARTHSHIP: Volume III
Evolution Beyond Economics
by Michael Reynolds
LIFE EXTENSION COMPANION by Durk Pesrson and Sandy Shaw
GROWING OLD IS NOT FOR SISSIES
Portraits of Senior Athletes
by Etta Clark
DISEASE-MONGERS
How Doctors, Drug Companies and
Insurers are Making You Feel Sick
by Lynn Payer
LIGHT: MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE
by Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D.
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WEB HACKING
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</strong> by Stuart McClure, Saumil Shah,
and Shreeraj Shah
HACKERS BEWARE
Defending Your Network from the Wiley Hacker
by Eric Cole
BUILD, UPGRADE, AND REPAIR YOUR COMPUTER
STEAL THIS COMPUTER BOOK 2
What They Won’t Tell You About the Internet
by Wallace Wang
THE GIANT BLACK BOOK
OF COMPUTER VIRUSES
by Mark Ludwig
HACKER’S CHALLENGE
Test Your Incident Response Skills
Using 20 Scenarios
by Mike Schiffman
APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY
Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
by Bruce Schneier
HACKING EXPOSED
Network Security Secrets & Solutions,
Third Edition
INFORMATION WARFARE
How to Survive Cyber Attacks
by Michael Erbschloe
ECCENTRIC LIVES
AND PECULIAR NOTIONS
by John Michell
THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING EDUCATED
And Other Essays
by Albert Jay Nock
UNCIVIL WARS
The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery
by David Horowitz
RUNNING ON EMPTINESS
The Pathology of Civilization
by John Zerzan
SHIT MAGNET
One Man’s Miraculous Ability to Absorb
MILK
The Deadly Poison
by Robert Cohen
ODD GODS
New Religions and the Cult Controversy
Edited by James R. Lewis
THE CHURCH OF SATAN
A History of the World’s Most Notorious Religion
by Blanche Barton
SEX, DRUGS, & THE TWINKIE MURDERS
APOCALYPSE CULTURE II
The Sequel to Adam Parfrey’s
Underground Phenomenon
Adam Parfrey
THE ALMOST UNPUBLISHED LENNY BRUCE
THE WATCHDOGS
A close look at
Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups
by Laird Wilcox
AGAINST CIVILIZATION
Readings and Reflections
Edited by John Zerzan
UNDERWATER AND UNDERGROUND BASES
SEX, DRUGS, VIOLENCE AND THE BIBLE
by Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen
Foreword by Richard Cowan
VAMPIRES OR GODS?
The True Stories of the Ancient Immortals
by William Meyers
GAUNTLET #7
Exploring the Limits of Free Expression
Edited by Barry Hoffman
THE CIA’S GREATEST HITS
6th Printing — The Real Story Series
by Mark Zepezauer
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT THE MID EAST AND OIL
by James M. Day
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1492 — PRESENT
THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Before Lexington and Concord
by Ray Raphael
REVISIONIST VIEWPOINTS
Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition
by James J. Martin
LIES ACROSS AMERICA
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by James W. Loewen
THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY
Reflections on the Exploitation
of Jewish Suffering
by Norman G. Finkelstein
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF THE VIETNAM WAR
Military Information
SECRET AND SUPPRESSED
Banned Ideas & Hidden History
Edited by Jim Keith
DID JESUS EXIST?
Revised Edition
by G.A. Wells
THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR JESUS
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
HOW HITLER COULD HAVE WON
WORLD WAR II
VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS
Race, Sex, Class, and Justice
in the Origins of America
by Thomas G. West
WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD
New Edition
by David C. Korten
BLACK CONFEDERATES AND AFRO-YANKEES
IN CIVIL WAR VIRGINIA
by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.
DARK ALLIANCE
The CIA, The Contras, and
the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb
WHITE SLAVES, AFRICAN MASTERS
An Anthology of American Barbary
Captivity Narratives
THE INCREDIBLE INTERNET GUIDE
TO SCANDALS & CONSPIRACIES
by Peter J. Weber
THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin
BIBLE OF BIBLES
Or: Twenty-seven Divine Revelations
by Kersey Graves
THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT!
by James Ronald Kennedy
and Walter Donald Kennedy
TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE
by Mark Zepezauer
and Arthur Naiman
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL
THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER
CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
ANCIENT MAN: A HANDBOOK
OF PUZZLING ARTIFACTS
Compiled by William R. Corliss
THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY
The Greatest Story Ever Sold
by Acharya S
THE RAPE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
ANCIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Remarkable Roads, Mines, Walls,
Mounds, Stone Circles
A Catalog of Archeological Anomalies
THE WORLD’S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS
or, Christianity Before Christ
by Kersey Graves
BANDITS
Revised with a new Introduction by the author
Eric Hobsbawm
BIBLE MYTHS AND THEIR PARALLELLS
IN OTHER RELIGIONS
byT.W. Doane
CONFESSIONS OF A HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST, PART I
AGAINST METHOD
Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
by Paul Feyerabend
CAMP 38
Current Model
of Northern European Lifestyle
Before Christianity
by Jill von Konen
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY
by Karl Hess
With an Introduction by Carol Moore
STEALTH JUROR
The Ultimate Defense Against Bad Laws
and Government Tyranny
MURDER AT THE CONSPIRACY CONVENTION
And Other American Absurdities
ANARCHIC HARMONY
The Spirituality of Social Disobedience
by William J Murray
UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM
Social Revolution through
Individual Empowerment
by William J Murray
NATURAL LAW
Or Don’t Put a Rubber on Your Willy
by Robert Anton Wilson
RESIST NOT EVIL
by Clarence S. Darrow
ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST
Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
by Carlotta R. Anderson
IT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND
A Libertarian Odyssey
by Jerome Tuccille
ANARCHISM
Arguments For And Against
by Albert Meltzer
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL ANARCHY
CRYPTO ANARCHY, CYBERSTATES,
AND PIRATE UTOPIAS
DON’T SHOOT THE BASTARDS (YET)
101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom
by Claire Wolfe
SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS
Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998
by Vin Suprynowicz
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
Revised Second Edition!
by Erwin S. Strauss
HARD CORE
Marginalized by Choice
by Peter J. Nebergall
FINANCIAL FREEDOM NOW
How to Work Less and Live More
by Max Edison
THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN
The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B. Schor
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS Thought Control in Democratic Societies
INTO THE BUZZSAW Leading Journalists Expose The Myth of a Free Press
THE CROWD A Study of the Popular Mind
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
Edited by Russ Kick
The Kiwi thought polie try to make sense of the Loompanics Catalogue
FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES
THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL
How to Write, Print & Sell Your Book
by Dan Poynter
SEIZING THE AIRWAVES
A Free Radio Handbook
JAMMING THE MEDIA
A Citizen’s Guide
Reclaiming Tools of Communication
by Gareth Branwyn
PIRATE RADIO OPERATIONS
</strong> by Andrew Yoder and Earl T. Gray
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING
BEFORE YOU SHOOT
A Guide to Low-Budget Film
and Video Production
by Helen Garvy
REBELS ON THE AIR
An Alternative History of Radio in America
by Jesse Walker
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF
IN EVERYDAY LIFE
by Erving Goffman
LEVER ACTION
Essays on Liberty
by L. Neil Smith
THE GAS
A Novel of Sex and Violence
by Charles Platt
MODERN PAGANS
An Investigation of Contemporary
Pagan Practices
Interviews by V. Vale and John Sulak
THAT’S DISGUSTING
An Adult Guide to What’s Gross,
Tasteless, Rude, Crude, and Lewd
by Greta Garbage
MICRORADIO & DEMOCRACY
(Low) Power to the People
by Greg Ruggiero
SHOCKED AND AMAZED!
On and Off the Midway
by James Taylor
and Kathleen Kotcher
A NATION OF VICTIMS
The Decay of the American Character
by Charles J. Sykes
ASSHOLES FOREVER
How to spot ’em
How to stop ’em
by X. Crement, M.D.
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Introduction: Loompanics! The Story of the World’s Most Extreme DIY Books
Author: Daz Lawrence
Date: May 30, 2023
Source: <weirdbones.co.uk/loompanics-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-extreme-diy-books/>
Loompanics was your go-to one-stop shop for ‘grey area’ and ‘very black indeed area’ books for thirty years. At this risk of this sounding like one of those cataract-viewed pieces which suggest everything in the old days was better, pre-internet, to find out anything beyond the mainstream, whether it be weird films, bootlegged music, or counterculture books, required a certain amount of digging. This almost always required sending off an SAE to an address that may or may not exist to receive a catalogue of what was available. What you received in return could be little more than a scrawled list of what someone had for sale (think eBay but with crayons) or, if you were lucky, a nice stapled catalogue of a world you didn’t know existed. Tiny typewritten listings of gigs recorded on string and yoghurt pots pressed onto butterscotch-coloured vinyl; 9th-generation video nasties on unmarked video cassettes which required 90 minutes of you pressing the tracking button and swearing/crying; books promising you ways to unpick locks, build a bazooka and decipher codes. What?!
Loompanics was founded by publisher and editor, Mike Hoy, in 1975 in East Lansing, Michigan. A self-proclaimed anarchist, he named the company after National Lampoon magazine, at the time one of the premier vehicles for cutting satire. Thinking ahead, he thought that it may help his advertising in the magazine by incorporating ‘lampoon’, though circumstances meant that the magazine flew the roost well before Mike had dug his nails in.
The aim was always to challenge the norm – to question authority, and the government, and to forge your own path. Above all, it rallied against censorship and asked that people be allowed to have all the information possible to make their own decisions. Initially, Mike published relatively thin volumes written by himself, as well as selling questionable books from other publishers which fit in with his own mindset. The business grew to the extent that larger premises and distribution were required and in 1982 he moved the business to Port Townsend, Washington, on the recommendation of his friend, R. W. Bradford, future publisher of Liberty magazine. By now, Hoy was being sent manuscripts directly from authors and had developed a catalogue of books which covered an extraordinary variety of subjects but always written with great care and knowledge – usually as the writer had significant personal experience of their given subject.
Loompanics specialised in non-fiction, in fact, many of the books could be considered ‘do it yourself’ manuals. How to avoid paying tax; how to fake ID; how to hide things (like, REALLY hide things); how to manufacture drugs; how to make your own weapons – these weren’t books you’d ever find in stores. However, it wasn’t all crime, hedonism and illegal practices – there were guides on self-sufficiency, one of Loompanics’ biggest sellers being ‘Rancho Costa Nada: The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead’ by Phil Garlington, a guide to building a life in the dust by a man who had lived that life through no fault of his own. There were volumes on living sustainable lifestyles – ‘Dumpster Diving – The Advanced Course’; ‘How to Build an Underground House’; ‘How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found’. There were guides to self-publishing; homeschooling; cooking food in the wild; even founding your own country.
Once you’d found Loompanics, you became part of a secret guild. As well as a rather hefty annual catalogue, you’d be sent thinner volumes periodically of recently-published books or pamphlets or those about to sell out. It was quite overwhelming as to where to start and even though you had no intentions, it was difficult to resist learning how to make explosives, pick a lock or read about the lives of obscure eccentrics or religious crackpots.
Of course, Amazon’s limitless inventory means that some of the unwieldy books Loompanics distributed are now easily available (sometimes, admittedly, at a healthy price) – John Fisher’s guides to uninhabited islands; John Q. Newman’s ‘Be Your Own Dick: Private Investigating Made Easy‘, Jan Bondeson’s books on human deformity. Nothing to spook to horses, as such, but books which otherwise were unlikely to be stocked by mainstream bookstores ‘back in the day’. Those that did attract suspicion led to Hoy being investigated and interviewed by both police in Europe and the FBI – he was found to have committed no crime in publishing the books in both cases. “Sold for information purposes only!” was regularly emblazoned on both books and their catalogues, a bit like ‘Have I Got News for You’s’ use of ‘allegedly’ – unlikely to help much in court but better than nothing.
In 2006, Mike Hoy called it a day. Ironically, the ability to advertise his wares to millions more potential customers was stifled quickly by Amazon, eBay and Google, who weren’t risking having any books which might get them into trouble on their platforms. In any case, the secret information contained within much of his inventory was now free for all to read on the internet without so much as a self-addressed envelope required. At 60 years of age, Hoy was unwilling to adapt to a digital world and his stock was sold off to both individuals and other publishers.
Hoy was once asked what he thought the implications were of a child getting hold of one of his books on drug manufacture:
“In the first place, I do not sell to fourth graders, but for the sake of argument, let’s say that I did sell a copy of ‘Secrets of Meth’ to a 9-year-old – what could the “harm” possibly be? Here is a brief excerpt from that book:
‘Another way of doing the electric cell method of turning the propenyl benzene into phenylacetone is given in the Journal of Organic Chemistry article, Volume 49. If, at the conclusion of passing current through the reaction mixture, a little 1% solution of sulfuric acid is added and stirred for an hour, the product of the cell in 98% yield of the same glycol by the formic acid and peroxide method.’
That is from page 72. Now, I submit that if we had a fourth grader who could actually understand that passage, what we ought to do is give that kid a state-of-the-art laboratory and get the hell out of his way. A guy like that might discover a cure for cancer, or something. A phenom like that ought to be encouraged to study chemistry.”
Daz Lawrence
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1991 Main Catalog
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CONTENTS
Coming Soon
The Counterculture
Dropping Out
Computers
Underground Economy
Drugs
Privacy
I.D
Surveillance
Investigations
Locks
Self-Defense
Crime
Weapons
Murder & Torture
Revenge
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INDEX BY TITLE
Abolition of Work, The
Anarchist's Guide to the BBS, The
Armed Defense
B & E Book, The
Basement Nukes
Beggar's Handbook, The
Best Book Catalog in the World
Big Book of Secret Hiding Places, The
Birth Certificate Fraud
Black Market Operations
Black Markets Around Ihe World
Bodyguarding
Building With Junk
Check Fraud Investigation
Close Shaves
Code Book, The, Third Edition
Code Making and Code Breaking
Comparative Data. State and Provincial Licensing Systems
Complete Guide to Gun Shows, The
Complete Guide to Lock Picking, The
Computer Underground. The
Computer-Related Crime
Construction & Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories
Counterfeit Currency
Counterfeit I.D. Made Easy
Covert Surveillance 4 Electronic Penetration
Credit Card Fraud
Crimes Involving Poisons
Criminal Justice
Crimmai Use of False Identification. The
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
Directory of U.S. Mail Drops. 1991-92 Edition
Disruptive Terrorism
Eden Seeker's Guide. The
Escape From Controlled Custody
Execution
Fighting Back on the Job
Frauds. Rip-Offs 4 Con Games
Fraudulent Credentials
Freedom Road
Freelance Writer’s Handbook
Gemtology
Getaway
Gening Started in the Illicit Drug Business
Getting Started in the Underground Economy
Great Hideouts of the West
Guerrilla Capitalism
Handbook of Vital Records Information
Heavy Duty New Identity. The
Hidden Economy. The
Home Workshop Explosives
Homemade Guns and Homemade Ammo
Homicide Investigation
Howto Beat Honesty Tests
Howto Bury Your Goods
How to Buy Land Cheap, Fourth Edition
How to Collect illegal Debts
How to Disappear Completely & Never Be Found
How to Do Business Oft the Books
How to Find Missing Persons
How to Get ID In Canada, Third Edition
How to Get Lost & Start All Over Again
How to Make Cash Money at Swep Meets. Flea Markets. Etc
How to Make Your Own Professional Lock Tools. Vol 1
How to Make Your Own Professional Lock Tools. Vol 1-3
How to Make Your Own Professional Lock Tools, Vol 1-4
How to Make Your Own Professional Lock Tools. Vol 2
How to Maka Your Own Professional Lock Tools. Vo! 3
How to Make Your Own Professional Lock Tools. Vol 4
How to Start Your Own Country. Second Edition
How to Survive a Nuclear Accident
How to Use Mail Drops for Privacy and Profit
Hunting Humans
Improvised Weapons in American Prisons
Interrogation
Investigative Methods for White Collar Crime
Job Opportunities in the Black Market
Last Frontiers on Earth, The
Lip Reading Made Easy
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Loompanics' Greatest Hits
Lucifer’s Lexicon
Making Crime Pay
Manuals On Mayhem
Methods of Disguise
Might is Right
Muckracker’s Manual, The
Myth of Natural Rights, The
Native American Anarchism
Natural Law
Night Movements
Occult Technology of Power, The
Organization of Illegal Markets. The
Outlaw's Bible, The
Person-Number Systems of Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Israel
Physical Interrogation Techniques
Poison Pen Letters
Poisoner's Handbook, The
Police Sniper, The
Political Trashing
Practical Guide to Photographic Intelligence. A
Principia Discordia
Professional Kilters
Protective Services
Psychedelic Chemistry
Rants and Incendiary Tracts
Reborn in Canada, Second Edition
Reborn in the USA. Second Edition
Recreational Drugs
Resurrection of Anstrocracy. The
Right to Be Greedy. The
Rip-Off Book. The
Rip-Off Book Volume 2. The
Secret Science of Covert Inks. Th®
Secrets of Methampnetamine Manufacture
Selections from Free America
Selective Assassination
Sex Crimes Investigation
Shadowing and Surveillance
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties
Shoplifting and Employee Theft Investigation
Silencing Sentries
Silent Death
Sling. The
Subterranean Worlds
Subway Survival
Successful Armed Robbery
Survival Bartering
Surviving in Prison
Surviving Major Chemical Accidents
S.W.A.T. Team Operations
Take No Prisoners
Techniques of Burglar Alarm Bypassing
Techniques of Revenge.
Techniques of Safecracking
Techniques of the Professional Pickpocket
Twisted Image
211 Book. The
Undercover Work
Vehicle Theft Investigation
VONU
Who Says Paranoia Isn't “In" Anymore?
Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance
World Power Foundation. The
You Can Be An information Writer
Your Revenge Is In the Mail
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The market for information writers is booming. Duncan Long shows how you can make good money in technical writing, articles, investigative reports, how-to books, and advertising. The author of more than 30 books and hundreds of articles, he shows you how to find paying markets, how to write proposals that get results, how to get paid before you start writing, and much more. The chapter on research alone will cut your writing time in half while doubling the value of your work. 1991. 514 x 814. 168 pp. soft cover.
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FREEDOM ROAD
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Have you dreamed about leaving the rat race but don't know where to start? This book will take you down the road to freedom, one step at a time. It will show you how to make a plan, eliminate your debts, and buy an RV. You'll learn about beautiful places where you can live for free. You'll learn how to make all the money you'll need from your hobbies. And you'll leam how to live a comfortable, healthy lifestyle on just a few dollars a day. Why wait for retirement when you can live a low-cost, high travel lifestyle today? Get on freedom road! 1991, 514 x 814.174 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
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CHECK FRAUD INVESTIGATION
by Burt Rapp
Because check fraud is small-time come. "serial swindlers” are able to move from town to town, passing bad paper wherever they go. Police writer Burt Rapp takes a look at all the techniques of the paperhanger: bouncing checks, stealing checks from banks and print shops, counterfeiting, and much more, including dozens of ruses that get people to accept bogus checks. Also covers money orders, warrants, drafts, even certificates of deposit (CD's). 1991. SW x 814.' 167 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-965-4.
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Subjects covered include: • The Underground Economy« Moneymaking • Tax Avoision • Privacy • Hiding Things • Fake I.D. • Surveillance • Investigative Skills • Crime • Police Manuals • Frauds & Cons • Computers • Locksmithing • Ninja • Self Defense • Revenge • Guns • Silencers • Bombs • Guerrilla Warfare • Murder • Survival • Self-Sufficiency • Homemade Shelter • Life Extension • Paralegal Skills • Sex • Drugs • Rock'n'Roll • Intelligence Increase • Science Frontiers • Heresy » Anarchism • Reality Creation • Mass Media • Self Publishing • And Much. Much Morel You simply must see it to believe it! 1991. 8-1/2 x 11. 254 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
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THS ABOLITION OF WORK
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THE ABOLITION OF WORK
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Bob Slack's opposition io work has landed him on the pages of USA Today, ne Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice, among others. His writings have appeared in hundreds of counter-culture publications. The title essay in this collection is probably the most well-thought-out condemnation ol wage labor ever to appear in print. The other essays are equally provocative and include the now-famous “Feminism as Fascism" and “Theses on Groucho Marxism.” 1986. 5’4 x 8W. 159 pp, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-41-5.
RANTS AND INCENDIARY TRACTS
Edited by Bob Black & Adam Partrey
Subtitled “Voices of Desperate Illumination 1558 to Present," Hants end Incendiary Tracts is a collection of very loud outcries from very disturbed writers. Timothy Leary, the Marquis de Sade. Judge Roy Bean. Ezra Pound, Wilhelm Reich, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Max Stlrner, Valerie Solanas. Rabbi Meir Kahane. Anton Szandor La Vey. Kerry Wendell Thornley. Earth First!, and dozens more. “Why is a rant so important? Because no one dares speak his mind anymore." 1989, 5% x 814, 220 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-941693-03-1.
THE RIGHT TO BE GREEDY
®he Higlft Ula 8e (Srcetrç
These» On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything
ot Demanding Everything by For Ourselves
A communist defense of pure greed? Out ol the Situationist movement of the 1970's comes a challenging attempt to reconcile Marxist commu- msm.with capitalist egoism. The authors propose that selfishness is the highest form of communism. that all morality is a form of self-sacnfice. that the true egoist transcends petty materialism tor a more rewarding form of self-fulfillment. One ol the most challenging books you will over read. 1974. 514 x 814. 94 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-35-0.
"Arguably the beat book ever published on the history of Anarchism In the U.S.” — Left Bank Books
“J «old mine- Anwne interested in the mots of free thought will be rewarded by reading «."—Claustrophobia
NATIVE AMERICAN ANARCHISM
by Eunice Minette Schuster
The history of anarchism tn the Uniteo States from colonial times to the early 20th Century. Covers the abolitionists, women's rights movements, supporters of reproductive and sexual freedom, pacifist ana anti-war movements, alternative communities and much more. 1932. 5'w x 814. 202 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-94-6.
“A prophetic ttaempl at dMmwtg a coming utopia," —
TbeEgost
"(Evans! forges. Bke a sword a svmhesB of left. and right»
wing critiques—“ — Small Frkm Review
THE RESURRECTION OF ARISTOCRACY
by Rudolph Carlyle Evans
Not everyone dreams of a "kinder, gentler”
world — especially not Rudolph Carlyle Evans.
His book is a call lor a new feudalism where a
warrior elite will dominate the masses without
apology. Stunning, frightening and inspir-
ing.1988. 514 X 814.328 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-71-7.
O 94117
SELECTIONS FROM FREE AMERICA
by Bolton Hall
Bolton Halt was a pioneer in "alternative economics" at the turn of the century. One of the most creative thinkers of his time, he rubbed elbows with the likes of Emma Goldman and Benjamin Tucker. These 20 essays cover subjects such as taxes, co-operative living, potitical reform, money reform, monopolies, free trade, and much more, including an introduction by Mark Sullivan. 514 x 814, 199 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-65-2.
Segnar Kcbbearb
“Redbeard's vulgar (but eloquent! bombast, for all its affeaaaon. is a purgative, clauamg the mental system with its roughage— “ — SmaU Press Review
MIGHT IS RIGHT
by Ragnar Redbeard
An egoist classic, Might Is (tight is a tireless, juicy rant against both political and moral rights. The world is governed by farce, not by genteel political or religious creeds, and the rule of Power is just natural, and will never be changea by ideologues. Those who have enjoyed Nietzsche and Stimer will not want to miss this exciting work, which includes an introduction by S.E. Parker. 1984. 5'A x 8%. 154 pp. solt cover. ISBN 0-915179-12-1.
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"An underground classic that's in a class by iisef."
—Small Pres« Notes
"_i/ you’ve got a funnvbone, this'll lickte it pink."
—Amazing Stories
"Al least once a week someone comet in and oda for this book.”
—Abrakadabra■
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
or How I Found the Godden and What I Did To Her When I Found Her
by Malactypae the Younger
Is it a joke disguised as a religion, or a religion disguised as a joke? This Is the official bible of the Dlscordian religion, which worships Eris. Goddess of Chaos. A classic of guerrilla ontology, includes an introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. 1980, 554 x 8%. 100 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-040-9.
'Wital ir an ‘Culla»' who debunks — nay, demolishes — ite idea of natural righisi laws-”
—FREFANZINE.
NATURAL LAW
or Don’t Put a Rubber on Your Willy
by Robert Anton Wilson
A continuing episode in the critique of natural rights theories started by L.A. Rollins The Myth of Natural
Rights, Wilson lets fly at Murray Rothbard. George Smith. Samuel Konkin and other purveyors of the "claim that some sort of metaphysical entity called a ‘right' resides in a human being like a ‘ghost' residing in a haunted house." An entertaining, informative and well-thought-out book that should be read by anyone who has ever bean attracted to any ideology. 1987. S!4 x 8». 72 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-61-X
".<» engrossing lour of Inner Earth"
—Sdence Frontiers
“For those who hare enjoyed Ike Hobbit. Lord of the Rings, and similar alts Kaftan- Hihkei offer a stmewhat feasible explanation oft- the theory oft « hollow earth and sublet*- ratteen civilizasiQns,“
—Bookie
“This book ft written in such an exciting wgy rta I wanted to find various underground beasties. And that is the author's magtci“
—Fme
SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS
by Walter Kafton-MlnM
A delightful work tracing the histories of hollow earth theories to their origins. A journey into the human imagination as much as a journey to the center at the earth. Includes dozens of rare photographs and drawings. An excellent book for both teens and adults. 1S89. 7 x 9.306 pp. illustrated, soft covar.
ISBN 1-55950-015-8.
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THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER
by Alpine Enterprise
This book is reads like Machiavelli's Tha Prince edited tor the 20th Century. A masterpiece of conspiracy theory, it provides detailed instructions for achieving and maintaining total power over society. Knowledge • Power • Finance Capitalism « Politics • Education • Secret Societies • And more, including an excellent bibliography. Fascinating stuff! 1974,6 x 9.62 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-009-3.
“A devastating antidote to Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty." —Jeff RIggenta*
THE MYTH OF NATURAL RIGHTS
by LA. Rollin*
In this seminal work. LA Rollins effectively demolishes the myth of “natural rights." He exposes the “bleeding heart libertarians" who promote these rights, including Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard. Tibor Machan, Samuel Konkin and others. Rollins dissects the arguments for natural rights, cutting through the faulty logic to the core of libertarian dogma. An Important book for libertarians who take their ideas seriously. 1983. 5'4 x SVt. 50 pp. soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-007-7.
’A joy a read.” —Liberty
“Lucifer's Lexicon is great stuff” —New Libertsrisa
“Don't deny yourself these extraordinary puns and «ata- "
—taspiracy
LUCIFER'S LEXICON
by LA. Rollin
In the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Dewi's Dictionary, this is the first collection of Rollins' biting definitions and aphorisms which have singed the pages of many libertarian periodicals. A deliciously satirical piece of work. 1987, 554 x 854,135 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-13-1.
“4 shocker!“—Ubestf Loves Library
THE WORLD POWER FOUNDATION
It* Goal* and Platform
by Harold Thoma*
Certainly the most reactionary book ever written. A group of millionaires plot to create a world where they are the masters and everyone else is either a slave or dinner: "Ultimately, everything is food, so the greatest sin is to waste it and the greatest folly is not to recognize it." Beyond Nietzsche, beyond Machiavelli, beyond even the Marquis de Sada. 1980, 554 X 854, 90 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-002-6.
Dropping Out
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES
by D.C. Beard
A fascinating book with over 300 pen and Ink illustrations and step-by-step instructions for building various types of shelters. Fallen tree shelters • Indian wickiups • sod houses • elevated shacks and shanties • tree houses • caches • railroad tie shacks • pole houses • log cabins * and many more. One of the great classics of outdoor lore. 1914,5 x 7,259 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-69-5.
CREST
HIDEOUTS
OF THE WEST
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties
D. C. Beard
“We tkomughly enjoyed this book aid give it the high sign of approval" — Mongo Stack
GREAT HIDEOUTS OF THE WEST
by Bill Kaysing
An idea book for living free, this is a guide to imaginative hideouts in eleven western states and Canada. Caves, treehouses, cabins, mines, ghost towns, bams, warehouses, islands — even moveable hideouts like RVs and boats are covered. The needs for hideout survival are also covered, including food, water, clothing, cooking, bathing, security and communications. You never know when you might need a hideout. 1987. 5’4 x 8!4. 170 pp, heavily illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-82-8.
“You have to see this book for yourself.” — Inter- neikusal Brotherhood of Mercenaries
THE LAST FRONTIERS ON EARTH
Strang« Places Where You Can Uve Fr««
by John Fisher
This amazing book discusses living in Antarctica. on floating icebergs, on platforms in the ocean, underwater, as a nomad, in an airship, and much more. For each place, the author considers cost of living, the availability of food and shelter, the climate and other important factors. There are places where you can live free — if you’re determined. 1985. 5’4 x 84 125 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-24-5.
VO.NU
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1Sv Inn
■y hnndv source of information on feiling trees. splitting logs, making shakes, —and wmous npes of pumeemg skids." — Amerfcsa Survival Guide
VONU
The Search tor Personal Freedom
by Rayo, edited by Jon Fisher
Rayo was an early pioneer of libertarian theory. He coined the term “vonu" (invulnerability to coercion) and discussed non-political means of achieving freedom here and now. This collection of articles draws on Rayo's experiences as a van nomad and wilderness dweller. Loaded with practical information on how to squat on public or private lands and live well in the wild. 1983.5H x 8». 112 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-96-2.
’The advice is detailed, true, fill of wit. “ — Whole Earth Ecolog
“...for home handypersons and prospective
_ Booklist
“One person’s Junk may be tmoiher person’s
haute.- and Broadstmt tells how. A handy I
book."
— The Arkansas Gazette
“It’s all here in this book."
—HOME Magazbe
BUILDING WITH
And Other Good Stuff
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BUILDING WITH JUNK
And Other Good Stuff
by Jim Broadstnot
A complete guide to building and remodeling using recycled materials. Millions of dollars worth of building materials are thrown away every day. This book shows how to find, store and use this good stuff. Covers floors, ceilings, walls, foundations, roofs, plumbing, wiring, utilities, windows, doors, cabinetry, trim, insulation, appliances, furniture—even solar powerl 1990,8» x 11,159 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
ISBN 1-55950-036-0.
HOW TO BUY LAND CHEAP
Fourth Edition
by Edward Preston
Now in its Fourth Edition, this is the bible of bargain-basement land buying. The author bought 8 lots for a total sum of $25. He snows you how to buy good land all over the country lor not much more. This book takes you through a step- by-step process for 1) finding cheap land 2) evaluating it 3) bidding on it 4) closing the deal. Addresses for hundreds of sources are provided, along with proven form letter* that get results. You can buy land for toss than the cost of a night out — this book shows how. 1991, 5’4 x 8’4. 146 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-064-6.
HowTo
Buy Land
CHEAP
Edward Preston
HOW TO START YOUR OWN’ COUNTRY
’There’s hope for you would-be potentates.“ — The Straight Dope by Cedi arfaww,
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
Second Edition
by Erwin S. Strauss
Start your own country’ Yes! This book tells the story of dozens of new country projects and explains the options available to those who went to start a country of their own. Covers diplomacy, national defense, sovereignty, raising funds, recruiting settlers, and more, including names and addresses of current projects. Over 100 page* of fascinating case histories illustrated with dozens of rare photos. Second Edition. 1984, 5'4 X 8'4, 174 pp, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0915179-01-6.
"Anyone looking for thru peal escape for more than just a visit will do well to read this down-home, fact-filled sampling of suggestions.” —Book Reader
THE EDEN SEEKER'S GUIDE
Edited by William L Soany
A cornucopia of articles on where you can go to live The Good Life — and how to get there — from people who know. How to Leave the City • How to Make a Living in the Country • The Best Places to Live in the U.SA. • Affordable Hawaii • The Ozarks • Best of the West • Costa Rica • Oregon • Living on an Island • And Mora — including information on how to buy rural property. Get started on the road to your own personal Eden. 1989. 5'4 x 8'4 169 pp. soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-89-X.
Computers
"4 guile io the 'underworld' of bulletin board
systems.**
— Personal Computer Magazine
"The Anarchist's Guide to the BBSistke book
to read if you're looking for a gmind-letiet
entrance to the tnmUe work! of electronic
— Anarchy
“The Anarchist’s Guide to the BBSls essentia!
for anyone who has verboten btfomation to
share with others.’'
— Mongo Slack
THE ANARCHISTS GUIDE TO THE BBS
by Keith Wade
A fascinating journey Into the world of computer Bulletin Board Systems.
Tells you how to use bulletin boards, how to find the best of them and how
to start one of your own. The author is a computer security expert. He lakes
you on a lively tour of an invisible electronic universe. What you find there
will surprise youl 1990.5'A x 8K. 94 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-5595O-O37-9.
"The Computer Undergroiuui is a highly detailed and closeup look of computer hacking, piracy, phreaking and crime. **
--Popular Communications
THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND byM. Hirry
This book should be read by anyone who has personal records on computer files — which is to say everyone, since there are an estimated 50 computer databases that keep track of each and every one of us. This huge book shows the tricks of the computer crook's trade. No other book takes you behind the scenes to meet the computer criminals and show you their methods. 1985, ; 8'4 x it. 280 pp, illustrated, soft cover. ,
ISBN 0-915179-31-8, !
. .. ~ ^riume i* a descriptor of a dozen
ntunKruRiMH different aimutal tedtnigees.“ —- Personal Computer
Magxrine
COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME
by the U.S. Army
This manual was prepared for the exclusive use COMPCTKtt—RELATED Qf (he u s Army c^OTj |me|lig8nca DMsron. |t
provides explicit details on how computer crime _?• Is perpetrated, how to detect it and how to
J®", prevent it Covers Data Diddling • Trojan Horse
• Salami Techniques • Superzapping • Trap ~ Doors • Logic Bombs • Scavenging e Piggy-
~—--------------------- backing « Impersonation e Wiretapping • Simu
lation • And Much More. 1990. 8’4 x 11, 79 pp. " ' illustrated, glossary, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-027-1.
'Tre often wished that every writer submitting material m
us understood and followed the advice Wilson includes
regarding editors. " — Writers Cecacctioa
FREELANCE WRITER'S HANDBOOK
by James Wilton
Written by author of more than 45 books and
hundreds of magazine articles, this is a realistic
guide to writing for a living. James Wilson tells
you how to avoid being ripped-off while getting
the most money for your efforts. Topics include:
Branching Out to New Markets • Recognizing
Turning Points • How to Handle Editors • Neg-
otiating Contracts with Small and Large Publish-
ers • Getting Paid • And Much Morel 1988.5’4 x
8%, 180 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-70-9.
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LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED • PO Box 1197 • Port Townsend. WA 98368
UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BLACK MARKET
by Burg»** Laughlin
A complete survey of working conditions in the
U.S. Black Market (the illegal, but victimless,
economy). Covers pay, organization, risks,
advancement, culture, society, prices and bene-
fits. Some of the businesses covered include:
Gambling, Narcotics, Abortion, Pornography,
Loan Sharking, Prostitution. Liquor, and People
Smuggling. Also includes organizational dia-
grams and a glossary of slang. 1978,554 x 8%, 144
pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-004-2.
These businesses are honest — but flfegoi"
— living Free
BLACK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD
by Burgess Laughlin
The color and drama of illegal but victimless
economic activities around the world are
revealed in this fascinating book. Visit Ireland,
The Netherlands, Sweden, Zambia, Singapore,
Australia, Thailand, Canada, and many more
places where people much like yourself earn
their living by offering products and services that
other people want and are willing to pay for —
but which are declared illegal by their govern-
ments. 1981, 554 x 8». 144 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-003-4.
"A no-holds-bamd guide to the wide open
world of the underground economy. "
— Critique
“The Mmate book on financial privacy. “
— Eden Press
“ifyou belie ve that government regulations are
wise rules set up for the benefit of all of ta and
taxes are our fair shore of common dudes,
thenyou wouldn't want to read this book.”
— Dillinger Relic
GUERRILLA CAPITALISM
How to Practice Free Enterprise
In an Unfree Economy
by Adam Cash
What good is "believing in" free enterprise it you don’t practice it? This book gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do business "off the books": Doing business without a license « Getting customers to pay tn cash • Keeping two sets of books • Investing unreported income • And much more. Highlighted with case histories of successful guerrilla capitalists. 1984.554 x 8%, 172 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-16-4.
THE ORGANIZATION OF
ILLEGAL MARKETS
It is widely believed that monopoly control, based on violence, corruption or risk-spreading, is charactenstic ot the black market in illegal goods and services, such as marijuana and bookmaking. This book refutes that notion, and shows that illegal enterprises are likely to be smaller than their legal counterparts. A fascinating and iconoclastic look at the black market — which reveals more competition than generally exists in legal markets. 1988,854 x 11,54 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-34-2.
HOW TO DO BUSINESS “OFF THE BOOKS"
by Adam Cash
tnGuernlla Capitalism, Adam Cash showed you exactly how millions of Americans are defending themselves against a greedy government by evading taxes. Now he digs aven deeper into the secrets ot the Underground Economy with this amazing book. Learn to keep your underground income "off the books” and deal with (he IRS and others who want to burden you with taxes, fees, licensing requirements, etc. 1986.5W x 854, 156 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-25-3.
THE HIDDEN ECONOMY
The Context and Control of Borderline Crime
by Stuart Henry
This is one of the most unusual books you will ever read — it is about an aspect of the Underground Economy not discussed In other books. It is about people who steal from their employers. There is a social network of petty thievery in every community in the world. This book explores that network: the people, the products, the impact on the economy. Well written and informative. this excellent book was out of print tor many years. 1978,554 x 8'4,206 pp, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-76-8.
“Bow to run a profitable cask banners either part-time or fitUMra-
— The Whole Work Casto*
HOW TO MAKE CASH MONEY AT SWAP MEETS. FLEA MARKETS, ETC.
by Jordan Cooper
After years of making good money at flea markets, the author lets you in on the secrets of success. What to sell • Transportation • SettingUp • How to Display Your Wares • Pricing * Saving Money on Food • Advertising • Rain and Bad Weather • The IRS • And Much More. 1988, 514 x 814.180 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-82-2.
BLACK MARKET OPERATIONS
Mariretfng Theory end
the Fencing ot Stolen Goods
An examination of the fencing of stolen goods as an example of how the black market functions. Includes how the goods are stored, how they are sold to wholesalers (the fence) and retail customers (the street), how prices are set. how the goods get to market, and much more. 1971,555 x 8'4,102 pp. charts and graphs, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-017-4.
GETTING STARTED IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
by Adam Cash
Every year.billlons of dollars go unreported and untaxed in the Underground Economy — and. contrary to government propaganda, it’s not all drug dealers and criminals, but ordinary Americans like yourself that have chosen to not report all or part of their income. Adam Cash tells you how to ease your way into the tax-free Underground Economy.Soto for informational purposes only. 1987.514 x 854.160 pp, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-46-6. .
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DRUGS
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Uncle Fester
A step-by-step how-to-do-it book on the manufacture of methamphetamine and psychedelic amphetamines. The result of ten years of practical experience. This book is not meant to encourage anyone to break the taw, but it does point out the ultimate futility of government prohibitions of '■controlled substances" by showing just how easily these substances can be manufactured. The second edition includes methods for making MOA and MDMA from plant oils. 1391.5% x 8». 160 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-070-0.
RECREATIONAL DRUGS
by Professor Buzz
The single finest book ever written on the manufacture of recreational drugs. Profusely illustrated, it covers the equipment, techniques and reagents used in the clandestine manufacture of illegal drugs. Procedures for crystallization, chromatography, distillation and reductions are given for the following types of drugs: Amphetamines • Hallucinogens • THC • Analgesics • Hypnotics, Sedatives and Tranquilizers. Also includes detailed instructions tor buying and maxing precursors. Sold tor Informational purposes only. 1989.8'? x 11.166 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-88-1.
PSYCHEDELIC CHEMISTRY
by M/cheaf Valentine SmUfi
The biggest, best, most complete book ever written on how to manufacture psychedelic drugs! Intended only tor those who have a thorough knowledge of advanced lab techniques in organic chemistry. Extracting THC from marijuana. Making LSD. Synthesizing cocaine. Mescaline, harmallne. muscimole and more. Out of print tor years, now available in a revised, updated edition with much new material. 1981.514 x 8'4. 200 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-10-6.
GETTING STARTED IN
THE ILLICIT DRUG BUSINESS
by Harolds. Long
Here Is a nitty-gritty, no bullshit Insider's look at the illegal drug business — the most Had about business in the world. Every facet of getting started in the drug trade is covered, including finding a source of supply, growing your business, packaging for sale, protecting your operation from competitors and the police, staying out of jail, and much more. This is the kind of information you cannot find anywhere else (except at the school of hard knocksj.Sold for informational purposes only. 1988.5’4 x 814.86 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-81-4.
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THE CONSTRUCTION & OPERATION OF
CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES
by JadtB. Nimble
This book describes, in step-by-step, illustrated detail, how to set-up and run a clandestine drug lab — without getting caught! Jack B. Nimble reveals how to select a location, discusses safety precautions — including how and when to shut down — and gives advice on covering your tracks. Sold tor informational purposes only! 1988,514 x 8’4. 60 pp. Illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-40-7.
PRIVACY
‘The sinpiimly moa comprehensive listing e/
confidential mail drops. A+ in my book!"
— Rebel
"For the mere, spook or moa of the
shadows-“
— Covert Intelligence
'The moa comprehensive directory available "
— Personal Finance
"Husbands, wives, and people who hold
sensitive positions most often resort to otaU
drops in order to carry on their illicit ajftàs.
It's for these kinds of chanteurs that the
Directory of U.S. Mail Drops will be of
greatest service"
— Screw Msgatiæ
HOW TO USE MAIL DROPS FOR PRIVACY AND PROFIT
by Jack Luger
Mall drops are the number one most important technique for Insuring your privacy. They are confidential mailing addresses that allow you to receive and send mail anonymously. How to select a mail drop; How to run a mail drop; Dodging creditors; Private safe deposit boxes: Sex in the mail: Fake ID; Financial privacy; Electronic mail drops; “Branch" offices; And much more. 1988, 514 x 8’4112 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-75-X,
DIRECTORY OF U.S. MAIL DROPS
With an Appendix for Foreign Countries
1991-92 Edition
Complied by Michael Hoy
This comprehensive directory lists over 800 companies all over the world who will rent you an unlisted address tor receiving and sending mail. Includes a detailed list of the services each company provides, such as secretariat support, fax service, telephone answering, and much more. Also includes hints on using mail drops for maximum personal and financial privacy. Widely recognized as the finest book of its kind. 1991,814 x 11.62 pp, more than 850 listings, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-063-8.
INVESTIGATIVE METHODS
FOR WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Edited by William B. Moran
This book was originally prepared to assist
prosecutors and police in the investigation of
white collar crime, it reveals in detail how govern-
ment agents gather information, develop evi-
dence, plan for search and seizure. and “link"
suspects to each other. Recommended to anyone
interested in the discovery of shady financial
transactions or other investigative sciences.
1985,514 x 814.112 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-28-6.
HOW TO BEAT “HONESTY" TESTS
by Sneaky Pete
So-called “honesty" tests are now used widely
by employers to screen applicants for jobs and to
test current employees to see if they're harming
the company. This book takes a close look at
these tests. Most honesty tests are provided by
three companies, and they have predictable
patterns. This book will show you how they work
and how to defeat their attempts to probe your
psyche. 1989,514 x 814,46 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-013-1.
THE BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
by Jack Luger
This is the biggest and best book on concealment of physical objects ever printed! Thlshuge book tells how searchers find hidden contraband and how to hideyourstulf so it can't be found. Topics include where to hide, what to hide and how to hide your stuff. 1988.814 x 11.128 pp, more than 100 illustrations, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-66-0.
-Hits IS MY STASH OF UJOMPAaHcS Books ON HOlO TO SURVIVE-
“A good book," “Pfaneer
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
The Completa Manual of
Long-Term Underground Storage
by Eddie the Wire
A completely illustrated guide to all the in's and out's of underground storage. Burial containers • Proper packaging • Locating a good site • The burial process • Protecting your site from discovery • Finding your site when you need your goods • Burying large machinery and gasoline • And Much Morel You never know when you will need weapons, food and other survival items. 1981.554 x 814.72 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-56-3.
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“If you are interested in disappearing successfully, Ms book can tell you how to avoid being easily found-. An axeltent reference book.“
— Scfenee FkUon Review
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HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
“An excellent book
— Tracer Msgpnine
"A must read for those who don't warn m be
found.“
The classic book on hunting down anyone, anywhere. The author is a missing persons investigator who shares his hard-earned tips for finding people who do not want to be found. Shows how to use public and private records to track someone. Includes many practical ruses to get information from those who are unwilling to divulge it An essential book for any investigator, and for those who want to preserve their privacy. 1984.5’4 x a’4.102 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-04-0.
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY & NEVER BE FOUND
by Doug Richmond
Heavy-duty disappearing techniques for those with "a need to knowl”
This amazing book uses real case histories to show how to: • Plan a
disappearance • Arrange tor new t.D. • Avoid leaving a paper trail• Cross
international borders e Cope with the separation from a former life • Even
how to stage a “pseudoclde" (making your disappearance look like death).
Remarkable! 1986. SU x 8’4. 107 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-52-0.
HOW TO GET LOST & START ALL OVER AGAIN
by GeryB. Cinrit
Got money problems? This book will show you
how to solve them and. if that fails, how to run
from them. Includes: Keeping creditors at bay:
The advantages and disadvantages of bank-
ruptcy: Getting money to Get Lost with: Starting
off with a clean slate - - including how to fake a
job history and re-establish credit in your new
name. 1986,5'4 x 854, 138 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-53-9.
METHODS OF DISGUISE
by John Sample
Here is an incredible, completely illustrated book on how to disguise yourself! Covers everything from "quick-change" methods to long-term, permanent disguises. Includes: how to assemble a pocket disguise kit you can carry with you and use at any time: ways to change your face, body shape, voice, mannerisms, even fingerprints: mail order sources for makeup, wigs, elevator shoes, fake eyeglasses, and much more. More than 139 detailed drawings. Learn to disguise yourself so completely even old friends wont recognize you! 1984,514 x 6'4.133 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-915:79-92-4.
COMPARATIVE DATA
Slate and Provincial Licensing System*
by the US. Government
This hidden gem of a book covers the drivers
licensing procedures for all 50 states and all
Canadian province*. Shows exactly how drivers
licenses are issued, recorded and filed. Includes
Learner’s Permits • Original Drivers Licenses •
Drivers License Renewals • Driver Testing •
Replacements for Lost or Stolen Licenses *
International Drivers Licenses • Non-Oriver ID
cards • Obtaining Driving Records * And Much
More. 8'4 x 11. 136 pp. numerous charts and
tables, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-51-2.
"A swiple and rufevetKe mafwaifor Ae mvesagfr
HANDBOOK OF VITAL RECORDS INFORMATION FOR ATTORNEYS AND WELFARE WORKERS by Anonymous
The birth certificate is the cornerstone document in any set of 1.0., and this tells you everything you’ll ever need to know about it: Confidentiality • How to get official transcripts of birth certificates • Adoptions • Replacement birth certificates • Name changes • And much more. 5’4 x 8%. 82 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-14-8.
Handbook of
Vital Records Informatica for Attorneys and Welfare Worker*
$7.95
Cis
Fsasoiu-iayaasa
S'/5T£«I3
THE PERSON-NUMBER SYSTEMS
OF SWEDEN, NORWAY,
DENMARK & ISRAEL
by the U.S, Gotremmertt
At look at how Big Brother plays in many
Western nations. The "person number" is a
unique identifier assigned to every citizen of a
nation. The government report discusses how
these numbers are created and used by govern-
ments the world over. Essential reading for those
interested matters of IO. 8'4 x 11, 67 pp, tables
and charts, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-36-9.
LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED • PO Box 1197 • Port Townsend. WA 98368
THE HEAVY DUTY NEW IDENTITY
by Jahn Q. Newman
Learn what It's realty like living under a new identity, in this hard-hitting book, you’ll meat undercover cops, federal witnesses and fugitives from the law who've tried living the tie of an assumed identity. Newman provides a detailed program for establishing a new identity that will not fail. When there is no other choice — when your life depends on it — get The Heavy Duty Next Identity. 1991. 554 x 8». 69 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-062-X.
REBORN IN THE U.S.A.
“Sands lays out a master pint for— building a new identity, wish cautions on the points where b's easy to uni-iienacnaUy leave a trace. "
— Factsheet Five
Personal Privacy Through a New Identity Second Editton
by Trent Sands
A complete guide to building a new identity in the United States from the ground up. Covers birth certificates, social security card, drivers license, passport, credit cards, and much more. Learn how to thoroughly document your new identity without revealing any information about your former life. 1991. 554 x 854, 121 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-057-3.
“A valuable reference on the poUcies (or lack of them) that «ate and federal agencies fallow in issuing documents." — Privacy journal
THE CRIMINAL USE OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION
by the U.S. Government
Members of the U.S. Congress wanted to understand how fake I.D. is procured and used in the United States, so they conducted an in-depth study and put together this incredible report, □escribes all the criminal uses for fake I.O. and how they work: credit card fraud, welfare fraud, food stamp fraud, insurance fraud, and much more. 1976, 554 x 854, 198 pp, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-05-9.
The Crtnur.il Cse œ
False
Identification
REBORN IN CANADA
Personal Privacy
Through a New Identity
Second Edition
by Trent Sands
A complete guide to building a new identity in Canada from the ground up. Covers birth certificates. drivers license, social insurance card, passport, credit cards, and much more. Learn how to thoroughly document your naw identity without revealing any informMion about your former life. 1991.654 x 854.83 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-058-1.
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD
by The Inspector General
The birth certificate is the foundation, or breeder document for all other forms of identification in the U.S. The amazing government study shows exactly how birth certificates are obtained under false pretenses, counterfeited, or made from stolen blanks. Includes case histories of fraud by illegal aliens, minors, con artists and lawbreakers. 1988,854 x 11.36 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-85-7
HOW TO GET tD IN CANADA
by Ronald George Eriksen 2 and Mlstar Completely
There are many books available on how to get 1.0. in the United States. Now. you can get documented north of the border, with How to Get I.O. in Canada. Learn how to get these pieces of I.D.: • Birth Certificates • Drivers License • Social Insurance Card • Passport • Secondary I.D. • And much more, including tips on using mail drops and staying free. Third Edition, 1990, 554 x 854,81 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-033-6.
FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS
by the U.S. Congress
A government manual on phoney degrees, diplomas and academic credentials. Full of fascinating case histories of how doctors and other "professionals'* use lake credentials to engage in businesses they have not been trained or licensed for. Learn how fake diplomas from “Harvard" and "Yale* are bought and sold, and what they're used for. 1985, 6 x 9, 83 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-68-7.
FRAUDULENT
CBBDENT1AL8
COUNTERFEIT I.D. MADE EASY
by Jack Luger
A complete guide to making your own IOI Using common tools and readily-available materials. you can make photo IO cards, drivers licenses, birth certificates, and much more. Includes illustrations of forgery techniguas and tips on using the ID you create. There’s no secret to making great looking ID — not with Counterfeit IJJ. Made Easy! 1990. 554 X 854, 131 pp, illustrated. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-90-3. -
LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED • PO Box 1197 • Port Townsend. WA 98368
Surveillance
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE
by Harold Hough
A guide to taking and Interpreting surveillance photographs, team how
to: Take useful photos of objects miles away, and determine their
dimensions • Read documents burned to an ash » Take aerial photographs
• Use infrared light to capture invisible images • Develop film anywhere,
anytime • Legally use surveillance photographs for commercial purposes
• And much more, includes actual spy photographs and many helpful
illustrations. 1990,555 x 854,135 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-053-0.
WIRETAPPING ANO ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
Commission Studies
A gold mine of practical information relating to the nuts and bolts of wiretapping and bugging. Topics include: Audio Eavesdropping • Telephone Wiretapping « Infinity Transmitters • Special Purpose Microphones • Radio Eavesdropping Devices « Wireless Microphone Transmitters • Microwave Devices « Tape Recording Systems • Tracking Systems » And More. Contains surprisingly thorough, illustrated descriptions of a wide variety of electronic surveillance techniques and equipment, 1976,854 x 11. 112 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-005-0.
MADE EASY
EDWARD B. RITCHIE
LIP READING MADE EASY
by Edvard B. Nltchla
Here's a James Bond-type skill every snoop
should be familiar with — "listen-m" on conver-
sations you can't hear! Find out what deals are
being made over seemingly casual lunches.
Eavesdrop to your heart's content, Videotape
now. translate later. Learn secrets — secretly!
The author taught thousands of people to read
lips. His easy-to-use. step-by-step. Illustrated
method enables you to become a creative spy in
just a few short lessons. 1985, 554 x 854. 136 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-22-9.
"This is not by any means a 'boy's book on »mapping'bur a serious text“
— Police Marksman
COVERT SURVEILLANCE & ELECTRONIC PENETRATION
Edited by William B. Moran
A how-to-do-it manual for government agents, this book details professional techniques for spying and eavesdropping. Topics covered include: Shadowing & Tailing • Fixed and Mobile Surveillance • Night Vision Devices • Electronic Eavesdropping Devices • Concealed Microphones • Wiretapping • Interception of Computer Data • Telephone Bugging » And Much Morel Is Big Brother watching you? You bet he is — and this book tells you exactly how. 1983, S'A x 854.124 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-20-2.
CODE MAKING
AND CODE BREAKING
by Jack Lugar
Wo Iwa in an information age: information is
bought. sold and stolen like any other good.
Businesses ano individuals are teaming to keen
their secrets safe with this practical, illustrated
guide to building and busting codes. Learn how
to construct simple or complex codes, team how
computers are used to make and break codes.
Learn why the most unbreakable code isn't at*
ways the best Ideal lor those interested in pro-
fessional and personal privacy. 1990, 554 x 854,
125 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-034-4.
“UnuzuMr weU-tmmn. sucarta. easy io fmfi" —
^stkMsal lâteftfgewe Cmter
THE CODE BOOK
Third Edition
byiffchw.EAIaro.’t»
All about unbreakable codes and how to use
them. No prior knowledge of mathematics is
necesuty to understand the easy-to-follow di-
rections. One time pads, modulo based codes,
public key systems, function ciphers, and much
more. Obscura secrets known only to interna-
tional espionage agents and professional crypto-
graphers— now revealed for you to use! 1987.554
x 854, 106 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-
915179-49-2.
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS
by Ssmusl Rubin
There are many books on codes and secret
writing, but no others on secret inks. The author
has opened his clandestine files to reveal formu-
las, recipes, directions and instructions for
making the most amazing covert inks. Vanishing
inks • Poison Inks • Incendiary and Pyrotechnic
inks • Inks used by Gamblers • Mail Opening
Techniques ® And much more. Over 60 years of
research has been brought together In this mas-
terwork. 1987. 554 x 854. 136 pp. illustrated, soft
cover.
IS8N0-915179-44-X.
LOOMPANI.CS UNLIMITED • PO Box 1T9.7» Port Townsend. WA 98368
Investigations
Undercover Work
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
Undercover operation« have acquired a mystique and image of glamour that overshadows how truly grimy they usually are. This book gives the real inside story on how undercover operations are conducted. Contents include: • Getting Started • Training Agents • Establishing Cover * Infiltration • Gaining Confidence • Using Informers • Blackmail • Entrapment • Industrial Espionage • Planting Evidence • Getting Paid « And Much More, 1986,5H x 8%, 143 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-32-6.
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE
A Complete Guidebook
by Burt Bapp
This is a no-nonsense guide to shadowing and surveillance techniques with an emphasis on do-it-yourself, low-support methods. Tailing on foot and in a car • How to lose a tail • Using decoys and disguises • Searching property • Photographic surveillance techniques • How to conduct a stakeout• Electronic surveillance • And much more. 1986. 5'A x 8'.4,136 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-33-4.
BODYGUARDING
by Burt Rapp
A professional, how-to-do-it manual on bodyguarding. Every aspect of protecting the life at the client is discussed in nuts & bolts detail. With over 80 photographs and illustrations, this is the finest manual ever written on the subject. 1988.5» x 8I4.290 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-63-6.
"Otte of those esceprionat books that way
outclass evaythmgelse on the subject "
— Whole Earth Catsto«
~1 consider Ms book to be of gnat Mite to me
and ad persons wuh mmatgaave needs"
— Rebel
Tour Muckraker's Manual has the front
page worn off because is has been read be
investigative reporters from the Cleveland
Haus Dealer to the Columbus Dispatch. .VfiC
etc. These guys are always borrowing « and
are too cheap to buy their own copy. "
— Bounty Hunter Magazine
THEMUCKRAKER'S MANUAL
How to Do Your Own Investigative Reporting
by M. Harry
How to dig out the dirt on anyone! Written far investigative reporters exposing political corruption, the detailed professional investigative techniques are useful to any investigation. Developing “inside" sources • Getting documents • Incredible ruses that really work • interviewing techniques • Infiltration • When to stop an investigation • Protecting your sources • And much more, including an extensive bibliography. 1984.5’.4 x 8’A. 148 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-03-2.
PROTECTIVE SERVICES
by tho Ü.& Army
A bodyguarding manual that describes the techniques used by the Secret Service and the State Department to protect diplomats and high- ranking officials. Guarding in public places; Securing private residences and offices; Bomb threats; Defensive driving; Trave! security; Secure communications; And more. Including worksheetsand checklists. 1990,8»x 11.140 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950429-8.
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INTERROGATION
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
A complete manual on interrogation — including how to survive being interrogated. Contents include: The history of interrogation. The basics of effective interrogation. Examination and cross-examination. Why interrogations sometimes fail. And much more. Everything you ever wanted to know about interrogation, but were’ afraid to askl 1987, S'A x 8». 230 pp, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-59-8,
Locks
of there days."
— Privacy FubBcarions
■techniques of
: SAFECRACKING.
— The Seattle Times
"The most comprehensive book ever written on the subject"
— Phoenix Systems
"Everything you ever wanted to know atout
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
by Eddie the Wire
This Is the single finest manual on tock picking ever written — over five
years of research went into its preparation. Detailed, illustrated, step-by-
step instructions are given for picking ail the commonly found lock types.
Also covered are various other ways of bypassing locks, how to mount
practice locks, and much more. 1981. S55 x 855.80 pp. Illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-9151794)6-7.
Burglar Alarm Bipasmg
TECHNIQUES OF BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING
by Wayne B. Yeager
Any alarm system can be beaten. This book shows how. Dozens of security systems are described tn illustrated detail: ■ Magnetic Switches * Window Foil • Sound and Heat Detectors • Photoelectric Alarms • Central Station Systems • Closed Circuit TV • And Much Mora. You'll learn how they work and how they can be defeated. A must book for anyone concerned with security. 1990.555 x 855.104 pp, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-032-8.
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING
by Wayne B. Yeager
No safe is secure, because locksmiths must be
able to get inside if the lock breaks. This book
illustrate* every known method tor breaking into
safes, vaults and safety-deposit box« ® Combi-
nation Guessing • Combination Theft • Drilling •
Punching • Peeling e Torches • Explosives. For
all those fortunate enough to have something
worth keeping safe. Technique» at SafecrtKic-
Ing is eye-opening reading. 1990.555 x 854.88 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-559504)52-2.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
Four Volume Set
by Eddie the Wire
Complete, illustrated instructions for making your own professional lock
tools — better than manufactured tools and much cheaper! All the tools
you need are available In hardware and hobby shops with no questions
asked.
Volume One: Lifter picks • Diamond picks • Snake picks • Plug spinners
• Tools for spring latches • Car-opening tools. 1980, 555 x 855. 31 pp, 23
illustration*, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-047-8.
Volume Two: Tension wrenches • Carrying cases • Mass production
techniques • Impresstoning tools • “Stoning” picks. 1981, 555 x 855.50 pp,
24 illustrations, softcover. ISBN 1-55950-048-4.
Volume Three: Pick guns • Simulators • Tools for tubular locks • Tension wrenches for lever locks • Weighted tension wrenches. 1981.554 x 854, 44 pp. 28 illustrations, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-049-2.
Volume Four: Using a computer to generate pick profiles • Making "soft”
break-ins that can't be detected • How to “case” a subdivision • One-
handed tension wrench • Magnetizing picks tor concealment 1988,5’4 x
854.55 pp. 8 illustrations, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-050-8.
Three Volume Set (Vol*. 1-3) (ISBN 1-55950-0S9-X)
Four Volume Set (Vol* 1-4) (ISBN 1-559504)60-3)
THE B & E BOOK
Burglary Techniques and Investigation
by Burt Rapp
A practical manual designed for the police officer tn charge of a burglary
investigation and civilians interested in reducing their vulnerability to theft
Includes: • Illustrated Breaking and Entering Techniques • Getaways •
Safe-Cracking • Fencing Operations • Gathering Evidence * A Guide to
the Best Tools and Equipment. 1989, 555 x 855, 145 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-021-2.
THE 211 BOOK
Armed Robbery Investigation
by Burt Rapp
This is a practical manual for the police officer
working an armed robbery investigation. Learn
how to handle a ”211'’ in progress, how to take
statements and process the crime scene, how to
work informants and work-over suspects. All the
tools and techniques are at your fingertip*.
Includes valuable information on how to prevent
armed robberies. 1988. 554 x 854. 172 pp, illus-
trated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-559504)194).
■LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED • P.O Box 1197» Port Townsend. WA 98368
Self-Defense
‘This handy little manual leUs you htnr the spies and supertenesdoit,‘ — Classic Moiorbooks
GETAWAY
Driving Technique» tot Escape and Evasion
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
A veteran dirt-track racer and high performance driver reveals everything you need to know about escape and evasion techniques. Cornering, right-angle turns, S-turns. hairpin turns, the “bootlegger’s" turn, the “moonshiner’s" turn and other*. Ramming, blockades, vehicle modification and eluding .a tail are also covered. 1983,514 x 854,48 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-98-9.
ARMED
DEFENSE
»«■me
4VaHUMVSSS«AV
"This book is for the person who has decided » luaaju« far self prelection' —American Survival Guide
ARMED DEFENSE
Gunfight Survival for the
Householder and Businessman
by Burt Rapp
This book will show you how to teach yourself to shoot well enough to save your lite in a variety of ugly situations. You will learn techniques and tactics that work, not Just reflections of somebody's theories. This book also covers what you need to know about the legal and emotional aspects of surviving a gunfight. 1989. 514 x 814. 214 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-92-X.
"ma ht of usefid infomotioit." — Journal of Gvil Defense
SURVIVING MAJOR CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS
And Chemlcal/BIotogicat Warfare
by Duncan Long
Hardly a weak goes by without the report of some major chemical accident. This book tells you how to respond to chemlcal/biological threats. Includes a discussion of the types of dangerous chemicals you are likely to encounter, how they work and what effects they cause. Initial reaction, protective measures, and decontamination are then discussed, including complete addresses for ordering survival equipment and supplies. 1986.514 x 854,172 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-38-5.
CLOSE SHAVES
The Complete Book
at Razor Fighting
by Bradley J. Stainer
This is the only book ever written on the bloody art of razor fighting. More than 60 photographs demonstrate the easy-to-understand techniques. Carrying and Concealing Razors • Fighting Grips • Stance and Body Movement • Vital Target Areas • Basic Attacks • How to Win a Razor Fight • And Much More. WARNING: This book is pretty gruesome. 1980, 554 x 854,86 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-008-5.
510.00
"4 W-U researched and highly readable Mirk on a subject that, like it or not. concerts us alt“ — American Survival Guide
HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
by Dunean Long
Even with all the built-in safeguards, nuclear power plant disasters are possible — witness Chernobyl and Three Mite Island. This book shows what you can do now and in the event of a nuclear accident. Detection equipment• Protective suits, masks and filters • Deciding whether to flee or stay • Decontamination procedures for home, food and water • And much more. 1988. 554 x 814. 154 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-915179-67-9.
NIGHT
NIGHT MOVEMENTS
Tranalatad from the Japanese
This rare translation of a Japanese military text is generally regarded as the finest study of mgnt fighting ever written. Used to train snipers, scouts and saboteurs in World War I. it has become one of the classic training manuals for insurgents all over the world. Cover« Psychology • Silence • Dress • Vision • Hearing • Shooting • Demolition • Battles • And more. Essential tor the study of counter-insurgency and clandestine activities. 1913.554 x 854, 132 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-78-4.
survival
QARTERIK6
DUNCAN
LOBO
O 13083
“4 fine book on banmng." — Freedom Guide
SURVIVAL BARTERING
by Dunean Long
People barter for different reasons — to avoid taxes, obtain a better lifestyle, or just for tun. This book foresees a time when barter is a necessity. Three forms of barter: Getting good deals: Stockpiling for future bartering; Protecting yourself from rip-offs: And much more. Learning how to barter could be the best insurance you can find. 1986.554 x 854.56 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-37-7.
"Most valuable is the inclusion of many old and out-of-print books that may be looted if you ¡am» they sass in the first ptace." —Warriors
MANUALS ON MAYHEM
A Complete Guide to the Literature
of Combat Martial Arts and Serious Self Defense
by Bradley J. Stainer
Review» of over 150 books covering every conceivable type of combat self defense. Covers martial arts books, military combat texts, police manuals and civilian defense instruction publications. Each book is rated, with information on where it might be found. 1979,514 x 854,86 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-001-8.
SUBWAY SURVIVAL
by Bradley J. Steiner
Subways are dangerous places, as any New York commuter knows. Home to scores of thieves and delinquents, they are the scenes of murders, rapes and robbings. Bradley Steiner, a martial arts instructor and author of several books on the martial arts, teaches you to defend yourself using your wits and the resources available in the subway. Men and women will team to protect themselves from armed and unarmed attackers. 1980. 554 x 854, 141 pp, heavily illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-000-X.
CRIME
COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY
How to Heatly Make Money ;
by M. Thomae Cotlint '
Learn how counterfeiters make money that
looks, feels end spends like the real thlngl Exact
counterfeiting techniques are shown in step-by-
step, illustrated detail. Printing money, "aging"
money, passing money, buying equipment,
setting-up shop — all the secrets of the counter-
feiter are revealed In this book. Sold for informa-
tional purposes only. 1990, 554 x 854, 137 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-042-5.
“For the iton-angeb among us this ‘jattuitae lawyer" mamud can be a handy reference an! eye-opener, interesting, tasty, and scary. "
— Whole Earth Review
THE OUTLAW’S BIBLE
by EJL Baoxhle
The best "jailhouse" law book ever published — for people on the outside who want to stay there. This is a real life civics lesson for citizen lawbreakers: how to dance on the fine line between freedom and incarceration, how to tiptoe the tightrope of due process. Covers detention, interrogation, searches and seizures. The only non-violent weapon available for those on the wrong side of the law. 1985. 5» x 854. 336 pp. index, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915173-80-6.
CREDIT CARD FRAUD
by Burt Rapp
Written for police officers, this book is for those
stung by credit card fraud: the merchant, the
banker, the man on the street. It reveals all the
scams, from forged cards to telemarketing np-
offs. Learn how crooks turn credit into cash,
automobiles and other big-ticket items. See how
they gat cards and card numbers, and how they
beat credit limits. Most importantly, learn how to
spot frauds and stop them before they get
started. 1991, 554 x 854, 127 pp, illustrated, soft
cover.
ISBN 1-55950-055-7.
CREDIT CARD
FRAUD
Burt
FRAUDS.
RIP-OFFS
AND CON GAMES
FRAUDS. RIP-OFFS A CON GAMES
by Victor Santoro
A startling and often humorous look at the wolves who are after your skin. Some of the fascinating scams covered include: • The Dirty White Collar • Securities Swindles • The "Terrible Williamsons" • The Gypsies »-Credit Card Cons & Catches • “Financial Planners" • Selling Counterfeit Ideas • Coat-Tailing • Fraud Salad: An Assortment of Con Games. 1988.5’4 x 854.188 pp, soft cover.
ISBNG-915179-57-1.
MAKING CRIME PAY
by Hm!d S. Long
What does it take to make crime pay? Written by a professional criminal, this book is packed with information not available anywhere else (except, maybe, in jail). It explains what makes some criminals successful while others get caught, it also discusses how to deal with police, courts, and the criminal justice system to minimize apprehension and conviction. 1988.554 x 854, 81 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-63-0.
THE RIP-OFF BOOK
The Complete Guide to Frauds,
Con Games, Swindles and Rackets
by Victor Santoro
Learn what frauds are, how they work, how to
protect yourself, and how to strike back when
you're the victim. Classic Cons • Land Swindles
• The Badger Game * Entrapment Frauds • Job
Offers • Sex • Mail • Telephone Traps * More
than 100 specific frauds exposed. The most
complete book ever written on frauds and cons.
1984, S54 x 854.200 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-18-0.
BIP OFF
BOOK
VICTOR
S.'Hr'TORO
SUCCESSFUL ARMED ROBBERY
by Harolds. Long
A nuts-and-bolts manual on armed robbery written by a pro. Once inside, you’ll find loot like this: • How to plan a robbery • Factors affecting your success • How to carry out an armed robbery • How to avoid self-caused failure « And much more. Must reading for cops and robbers everywhere. Sold for informational purposes only. 1990, S54 x 854.50 pp. illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-023-9.
THE RIP-OFF BOOK
VOLUME 2
by Victor Santoro
Most people think of con artists as flim-flam men working Three Card Monte on a streetcorner. Victor Santoro exposes the big time rackets: doctors, hospitals, shrinks, lawyers, cops, military recruiters, stock manipulators, inside traders, the mafia, and more. An encyclopedia of gyps, schemes, frauds and swindles, and ideas on how to strike back. 1988, 554 x 8’4. 129 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-47-4.
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PICKPOCKET
TECHNIQUES OF THE PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKET
by Wayne B. Yeager
If you wonder how someone can get inside your pockets without your knowing, then get inside this book. You’ll team all the techniques of the pickpocket: how they guess which pocket holds the loot, the grab and ran, the finesse lift, cutting the pockets, how they use accomplices, how they can steal a watch right off the wrist Learn how the pros get into your clothes, and what you can do to protect yourself. 1990,554 x 854,71 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-046-8.
ESCAPE FROM CONTROLLED CUSTODY
by Tony testa
Right now, there are people held captive all over the world. Some of them will try to escape. A few will succeed. This book takes you captive to show you what It’s like. You'll learn to make knives from toothbrushes and printing presses from shoes. You'll follow prisoners through tunnels and over walls. Along the way, you'll hear about some of the great escapes: acts of bravery and cunning that stir the human spirit, 1990,554 x 854,144 pp, illustrated, index, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55960-038-7.
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INVESTIGATION
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
by Burt Bapp
A detailed police manual on the procedures for Investigating a murder. This is a fairly grisly book, not for the weak at heart. Covers » Arriving on the Scene of a Murder • Handling Murder Suspects • Estimating Time of Death ® The Investigators Log • Sketching a Murder Scene® Using Psychics and Hypnosis • What Really Happens at an Autopsy • And Much More. 1989, 554 x 854, 180 pp. Illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-020-4. '
'The realities of prison Ufe ante through ¡nfbmuumty in this rottgk-cut, ocatsioiudly profane book."
— Booklist
SURVIVING IN PRISON
by Harold & tang
A disturbing account of life behind bars. The author has spent the last ten years in prison. He describes how prisons are run: the penal code and the cellblock code. He takes you out to the yard and into the hole. He explains why rehabilitation programs fail. And he reveals what is required to survive the personal degradation, brutality and humiliation found in contemporary American prisons. 1990.854 x 11,128 pp, softcover.
ISBN 1-55950-044-1.
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A Complete Handbook
by Burt Bapp
Auto theft is big business today, and getting bigger. This invaluable handbook will serve as a source and investigative guide tor the patrol officer, the plainclothes policeman, the civilian insurance investigator or claims adjuster. Covers vehicle theft techniques, the illicit parts business, insurance frauds, the crime lab, and much more. 1989.554 x 854.120 pp. Illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-55950-010-7.
HOW TO COLLECT ILLEGAL DEBTS
by Hamid S. Long
If a deadbeat owes you money for drugs or a gambling dabL who ya gonna call’ This book shows how to collect illegal debts, and ths tactics may surprise you. How to find a subject's weaknesses; Making arrangements for payments; Creating an atmosphere of fear; What to do when all else fails; And much more, including how to set-up an illegal debt collection business. 1990, 554 x 854.69 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-041-7.
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CRIMES INVOLVING POISONS
by th® U.S. Army
A military police manual on the investigation of crimes involving poison. Covers • Poisons and Their Effects • Symptoms of Poisoning • Crimes Associated with Poisons • Crime Scene Investigation • Laboratory Tests • Interviewing Witnesses ® And Much More. 1967. 854 x 11.16 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-028-X.
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SHOPLIFTING ANO EMPLOYEE
THEFT INVESTIGATION
by Burt Bapp
Hvary year, businesses lose billions of dollars
to shoplifters and dishonest employees. This
book will help them fight back. It includes an
incredible, illustrated encyclopedia of alt the
methods used by shoplifters. Also. 12 methods
employees use to steal their bosses blind.
Detailed information on how you can battle
losses due to theft. 1989, 554 x 854, 172 pp. illus-
trated. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-87-3.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
New Technologies and the Constitution
by the U.S. Gangrene
A truly frightening assessment of new criminal justice technologies and their Impact on our basic freedoms. Includes: Electronic Surveillance • Computerized Data Matching • ONA Typing • Automated Fingerprint Identification • Biometric Security Systems • Electronic Monitoring « Drug Therapy • Hormone Manipulation • Due Process and The Right to Privacy. 1989, 754 X 10, 56 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-016-8.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
NEW TECHNOLOSIES
4NP THE CONSTITUTION
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION
by Burt Bapp
AH sorts of sex crimes are in the news these days — more than ever before. This book is a police manual for the Investigation of sex crimes. A practical guide to investigating rapes, prostitution. pornography, child molestation, snuff films, sex in the mails, computer sex crimes, and much more. No modem police or investigative library is complete without this book. 1988. 554 x 854. 198 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-72-5.
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WEAPONS
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
by Ronald B. Brown
How many "homemade gun" books have you read, only to discover that you need a metal lathe or milling machine? This book will teach you to make guns — and ammunition — with simple handtools and everyday materials. Step-by-step photographs, drawings and plans show how to make: A12 gauge shotgun • A muzzleloader • A double-barrel • A wooden gun. Five simple gunpowder recipes and two simple pnmer recipes are also included. 1986.514 x 814,190 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-39-3.
SWAT.
TEAM OPERATIONS
'This book will help S. IK4.Z team members
deal with a broad range of threats quickly.“
— Law and Order
”.4 guide to putting together a crack SWAT
team through proper training, recruiting nnd
equipping."
— Police Magazine
S.W.A.T. TEAM OPERATIONS
by Burt Bapp
All the available information on S.W.A.T. team tactics combined with over 100 photographs and Illustrations make this the best S.WJLT. training manual ever. Covers these threats: barricaded gunmen, snipers, hijackers, terrorists, wild mobs, rock houses, and much more. It’s also a training guide, including entering buildings, team deployment and movement, setting-up ambushes, using snipers, gathering intelligence and using sophisticated weaponry. 1990. 814 x 11, 151 pp, heavily illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-035-2.
HOME WORKSHOP EXPLOSIVES
by Uncle Fetter
A guide to making demolition-strength explosives using readily available materials and supplies. The detailed, illustrated instructions rely on fairly simple procedures. Covers »Nitroglycerin • Nitroglycol • Nitromannitol • PETN • RDX (Cyclonite) • And more, including detonation systems. Sold for informational purposes only. 1990. 514 x 814, 126 pp. illustrated, soft cover
ISBN 1-55950-022-0.
"Professionals and intmsud laymen should not be without
it" ’
—The Official Cop Catalog
THE POLICE SNIPER
by Burt Bapp
This exciting book examines the police sniper's
role, since his duties will determine his equip-
ment and tactics. Every phase of the police
sniper's mission, from selection and training to
actually shooting people, is examined. Covers a
variety of realistic situations in illustrated detail.
1988.514 x 814. 196 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-77-6.
THE SLING
For Sport and Survival
by CHH Savage
A complete, illustrated guide to making and
using a sling — the ancient weapon David used
to kill Goliath. Slings are silent, accurate and
deadly. Easily improvised and highly portable,
they are increasingly used in urban guerrilla
warfare, particularly in Northern Ireland and
Israel's West Bank. Step-by-step, illustrated
slinging stances, construction techniques and
ammunition ideas highlight this book. 1984.514 x
814.72 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-19-9.
IMPROVISED
WEAPONS^ gr. in AMERICAN
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IN AMERICAN PRISONS
by Jack Luger
Dozens of rare photographs highlight this fascinating book on how weapons are made and used in American prisons. Covers knives, garottes, fire bombs, blunt instruments and guns. Also includes information on how weapons are smuggled into prisons, how they are hidden once inside and how they are used in escapes. 1985, 514 x 814,83 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-26-1.
"Easy and very practical reading no matter which side of the display table you re on. "
— Gun Week
THE COMPLETE GUIDE
TO GUN SHOWS
by Thomas W. Thielen
Gun shows are great places to buy not only guns and ammo of all kinds, but also survival and military surplus gear at the lowest prices anywhere. This guide tells you how to locate a gun show, how to get the best deals, how to be a dealer, trading tactics, even how to promote and run your own gun show. 1980. 514 x 814. 118 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-99-7.
MURDER & TORTURE
THE POISONER’S HANDBOOK
by Maxwell Hutchklneon
One of the most gruesome books ever printed. Covers poisons and how to use them, including: Plant Poisons • Animal Toxins • Chemical Poisons • Terrible Polsons * Lethal Drugs • Poisonous Gases • And More. Also covers some methods of delivery and antidotes. Sold for information purposes only. 1988,554 x 854,64 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-73-3.
UKCHE FESTER
SILENT DEATH
by Uncle Fetter
Underground chemist par excel lance Uncle Fester turns his attention to poisons — and the result is Silent Death. A complete guide to poisons, their administration and detection. Inorganic Poisons • War Gases « Nerve Gas • CIA Shellfish Toxins • Time Delay Poisons • Botulism « And much more. Sold tor informational purposes only. 1989,554 x 854.123 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-86-5.
"Hunting Humans is must reading for anyone interested in crime, sociology or human behavior."
— Jack Olsen, author o f Son and Doe.
"Hunting Humans is a book which should be hunted down by anyone and everyone who is aware of the menace of murder in our midst — it's a veritable mo’s Mo of whodunnits in serial slayings.“
— Robert Bloch, author of Psycho
“7 highly recommend it “
— Maury Terry, author of The Ultimate Evil
14 grim but good popular reference work “ — Booklist
“A must-have book. Highly recommended. “ — AFRAID
HUNTW.G ! HUMANS
HUNTING HUMANS
An Encyclopedia of Modem Serial Killers
by Michael Newton
More than 500 detailed case histories of serial killers from the 20th Century. This disturbing book describes their lives and their exploits without any varnish or puffery — the chilling details speak for themselves. More than 60% of the killers described here have never been mentioned in a published book before. This huge book is an unforgettable chronicle of the world's most deranged homicidal maniacs. 1990. 854 x 11. 353 pp, illustrated. hard cover.
ISBN 1-55950-026-3.
PHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
by Richard W. Krousher
One of the most disturbing books ever pnnted. Detailed instructions for torturing information out of an unwilling subject. Includes humiliation, confinement, sensory deprivation, abrasion, electricity, and other painful techniques. Most people will not have the stomach to read it; those who do will learn more about torture and torment than they dreamed possible.Sold for information purposes only. 1985, 554 x 854, 93 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-23-7.
EXECUTION
by Bart Rommel
A chilling examination of capital punishment, including detailed descriptions of all the techniques used by governments to put people to death: • Hanging • Electrocution • Beheading « Shooting • Gassing • Lethal Injection • Burning • Drowning • Entombment • Death by Nature • And many others, including a section on future technology such as microwaves and lasers. WARNING: The explicit writing in this book may ba disturbing to some readers. 1990.554 x 854. 119 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-051-4.
EXEEUTIDn
TOOLS a TECHNIQUES
SILENCING SENTRIES
by Oscar Olax-Cobo
Oscar Diaz-Cobo shows how to take out a sentry without making a sound. He should know. He's instructed members of the Elite Military Forces and Security Agents in the art of close combat. Learn how to approach a sentry, what his weak points are. how to remove him. what defenses he will likely use. and morel Dozens of incredible photographs illustrate this well-written manual. 1988. 514 x 854, 92 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-84-9.
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS
An Inside Look
by Burt Rapp
A professional police writer. Burt Rapp has explored the world of paid killers in-depth. Come along as the hit goes down. Leam how hired guns get their assignments, get nd of their victims, get away without a trace. Leam how much hit men get paid, what weapons they prefer and why. Meet super-assassins from the Soviet Union, Israel and the United States. Get the inside look at a dark profession. 1990. 554 x 854. 157 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-054-9.
SELECTIVE ASSASSINATION
As An Instrument of National Polley
by the U.S. Government
Reprint of a government document that discusses the United States Government's use of assassination to forward political goals. Includes details on how targets are selected, how missions are planned, how personnel are chosen and trained, how cover-ups are conducted. A shocking but true account 1990, 6 x 9, 57 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-030-1.
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS
by Alice Mono Earle
A book on tortures inflicted by Church and State. Originally published in 1896. this strange book will fascinate anyone interested in crime and punishment and the never-ending saga of man's inhumanity to man. Chapters include: The Bilboes; The Ducking Stool; The Stocks: The Whipping Post: The Scarlet Letter; Branks & Gags; Branding & Maiming; Public Penance; Military Punishment: The Punishment of Authors and Books. 1896.5 x 754,149 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-54-7.
REVENGE
“Chillbig aid effettive."
•— Science Fiction Review
TECHNIQUES OF REVENGE
by Victor Santoro
The “Godfather of Harassment* strikes again with this collection of techniques for inflicting devious mayhem on the ones who make life miserable for the average guy. Whether you’ve been mistreated by the media, dumped by your date or berated by your boss, you'll find sure-fire ways of getting “satisfaction." Includes advice on determining your target's vulnerabilities and Improving your timing. 1985.5'4 x 8’4.98 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-29-6.
“This is not a book for ma guys This is a book for people who sincerely wwu to toot
other people."
— Fscttheet five
TAKE NO PRISONERS
Destroying Enemies with Dirty and Malicious Tricks
by Mack Nasty
Mack Nasty doesn't believe in holding a grudge. He believes in swift, sure and devastating retribution. In this book. Mack reveals the most deliciously despicable revenge techniques ever conceived. How to destroy your enemy's house or car. How to get someone arrested for drug trafficking, kiddie porn, firearms violations or product tampering. Sold for entertainment purposes only. 1990.5’4 x 8'4.118 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 1-55950-043-3.
FIGHTING BACK
Pomo«
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VICTOR SANTORO
FIGHTING BACK ON THE JOB
by Victor Santoro
One of the most satisfying "revenge" books ever published! Tells how to strike back against a lousy boss, lent fellow employees, ihe company spy. and anyone else in the workplace who has ticked you off. It you're getting canned, why not take everyone else with you? How about sailing company secrets to the competition? Remember, your boss can only wreck your life, but you can wreck his business. Sold lor entertainment purposes only. 1982,5'.v x 8*4.149 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-11-3.
"Sveiythingyou need to kame to get wmge front the safety tf a malbost “ — Mfaokoota
POISON PEN LETTERS
by Keith Wada
A complete guide to getting revenge through the mail, if you've had problems with people or organizations that seem too big to fight back against, this book is for you. Covers retaliation against Individuals, corporations and even government agencies. Includes nearly 100 letters, along with tips on stationary, mailing, and how to keep from getting caught Sold for entertainment purposes only. 1984.5’4 x 8'4.103 pp, soft
ISBN 0-915179-15-6.
DISRUPTIVE TERRORISM
by Victor Santoro
One lone gunman with a .22 rifle can shut down the etactricat power for an entire city. This chilling book reveals how a handful of terrorists can bring America (or any other modem nation) to its knees by systematic disruption of centralized services: power, communications, transportation, water supply and food distribution facilities. One of the most illuminating books on terrorism ever written. 1984.5’4 x 8’4.140 pp. soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-17-2.
YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL
by Keith Wada
There are a lot of jerks in the world who need to ba taught a lesson. The problem is, how to get to them without causing yourself a lot of trouble? The answer is this book. More than 60 letters you can copy and use to get even. Insurance adjusters, bank tellers, salesmen, even government officials get their just desserts. Sold tar sidesplitting entertainment purposes only. 1988,554 x 8'4,168 pp, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-74-1
“Very timely in the wake of the Gary Han scandal, explaining hot» to d&cow (or set up) a candUae in that very way, among «tax "
— tapiracy ~-
POLITICAL TRASHING
by Victor Santoro
This book will help many people express their true political leanings — by trashing a politician's campaign so bad he'll have to cast his vote from the landfill. How to plague a campaign with dirty tricks and get away with it You could vote, or write letters, or join causes — or you can have somefunand trash the bums! 1987.5'4 x 8’4.168 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ISBN 0-915179-64-4.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Index by Title
Main Catalog
Order Forms
Special Articles and Features
Selling Your Time & Labor,
by J'rn Hcgshire, edfied by Derns P. Efcbhom. artwcrtc by Marte Zngarelli Gnttv MW> Tbo SuporHacker, An Interview w«h Tto KrJghlrrAte,
conducted by MchMl E. Marotta
Kw£«*w! TboFùtà Co-Op.
by Ste»ve Schumacher
Transform And fífibok /bo CaSco /cataos And Jbo ArM-fícnf War.
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Inbcductbn.. Index by Titta Man Cátelo-) Order Forms.
Introduction
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WORK. Work hurts. Work scars. Work wounds and marks... Work. Work. /¿/¿tfWork. Pages 1 thru 9)
MONEY-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES. If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? (Pages 10 thru 22)
THE COLOR OF MONEY IS GREEN. Who says money doesn't grow on trees? (Pages 23 thru 26)
TAX AVOISION. How to get the government parasites out of your pockets. (Pages 27 thru 23)
THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY. The booming tax-free ’Off The Books” economy — and how you can profit from it. (Pages 29 thru 32)
PRIVACY AND HIDING THINGS. We an have something to hide, don't we? The world's finest becks on stashing your contraband and valuables, and attaining and keeping privacy. (Pages 33 thru 38)
FAKE I.D. Wa aro very proud of this amazing section. It contains the most comprehensive and excellent selection of books on I.D., fake I.D. and related subjects ever offered for sale. (Pages 39 thru 46)
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. 1984 has come and gone, but Big Brother is watching you... (Pages 47 thru 51)
CONDUCTING INVESTIGATIONS. Professional and effective techniques and methods for gathering Information and intelligence — now revealed for you to use! (Pages 52 thru 60)
CRIME AND POLICE SCIENCE. For cops and robbers everywhere. (Pages 61 thru 77)
LOCKS AND LOCKSMITHING. The most complete selection of bocks on locks. lock picking, and lock bypassing ever offered. Theso becks will open many doors for you... (Pages 78 thru 83)
SELF DEFENSE. Protect yourself, your property, and your loved ones. What good is the ’right* to self defense without the knowledge? (Pages 04 thru 90)
REVENGE. How to kick ass and take names. Don't get mad — get eiw/(Pages 91 thru 95)
GUNS. Guns are even more American than Mom and appte pic. Come on. America, show us your guns/ (Pages 96 thru 100)
WEAPONS. The right to buy weapons is the right to be free? —The Weapon Shops of tsher by A. E. Van Vogt. (Pages 101 thru 108)
BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES. Things that go Boom!\c\ the night (and day). (Pages 109 thru 112)
GUERRILLA WARFARE. Will it happen here? It has In many (most?) other countries... (Pages 113 thru 116)
MURDER, DEATH AND TORTURE. Little discussed areas ot the political arts. (Pages 117 thru 124)
SURVIVAL. Survive and prosper in the coming ’interesting* times. (Pages 125 thru 128)
SELF-SUFFICIENCY. Taking care of yourself — without government *help.a (Pages 129 thru 141)
HEAD FOR THE HILLS. Dropping out, retreating, uninhabited islands, nomadic living, and more. (Pages 142 thru 149)
GIMME SHELTER. Real housing for real people. (Pages 150 thru 154)
HEALTH AND UFE EXTENSION. How to live longer and better. Did someone say something about death and taxes? (Pages 155 thru 159)
PARALEGAL SKILLS. Free yourself from the Legal Guild. (Pages 160 thru 164)
SEX. Sex is great! Sex is goodl Yea, sexfff(Pages 165 thru 174)
DRUGS. The ras/dope on dopel (Pages 175 thru 185)
ROCK 'N* ROLL. Kian does not live by bread alone... (Pages 186 thru 197)
INTELLIGENCE INCREASE. If you're so rich, why aren't you smart? (Pages 198 thru 210)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Visionary science for the future... and now. (Pages 211 thru 217)
HERESY/WE1RD IDEAS. Kicking around some sacred chaos... (Pages 218 thru 229)
OUTLAW HISTORY. 'What is history but a fable agreed upon?'— Napoleon. (Pages 230-241)
ANARCHISM AND EGOISM. Forbidden philosophies for far-out people... (Pages 242 thru 252)
MASS MEDIA. The blow-dried ‘reality" of TV, magazines, newspapers, movies, etc... (Pages 253 thru 256)
CENSORSHIP. Censorship, sebmensorship. Seriously disturbed cretins want to control your access to ideas and information. (Pages 257 thru 262)
REALITY CREATION. Make your own world. Make the worfd you want by doing what you want. (Pages 263 thru 266)
SELF-PUBLISHING. The ’press’ is “free" only if you own oncl (Pagos 267 thru 270)
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Selling Your Time & Labor, by Jim Hogshire, edited by Dennis P. Eichhorn, artwork by Mark ZingareiH (Page 1)
Online With Tho Super Hacker, An Interview with The Knightmare, Conducted by Michael E Marotta (Page 72)
Your Friend, The Food Co-op, by Steve Schumacher^P^e 137)
Transform And Rebel: The Calico Indians And The Anti-Rent War, by Th. Metzger (Page 194)
The Biodiversity Of Races, by Robert Masters 230)
Lucifer’s Lexicon, by L.A. Rollins (Page 279)
Index by Title
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Selling Your Time & Labor Comic
Work
Introduction
Work hurts. Work scars. Work wounds and marks....
Work is what they Uy to get you to do in order to bo able to buy what they try to make you think you want. Work is what //toy try to make you do in order to got what they try to prevent you from obtaining otherwise.
Work. Work. Fuck work.
THE HIDDEN ECONOMY
The Context and Control of
Borderline Crime
by Stuart Henry
Tho Hidden Economy is
one ol the most unusual b2o<s
you will ever read — it is about
an aspect of the Underground
Economy not d&cussod in
oifwbooto. This tock is about
th© preparty crimes committed
by ordhary pacplo in faptimate
jobs. It is about the pilfering
and fiddling of goods and
services that goes cn every
day in faeforios. shops and
offices up and down the
country. It describes the
context in which these crimes
occur, Iho relationships
between the peep’o who take
part in thorn and die sub-
economy they form. It locks
beyend technical preperty theft
into a world where the
aoqusitkn and exchange of
'cheap* goods, ’bent gear.’ ard 'bits ard pieces’ has a per serial flavor;
where fiddling can bring exci ternent. status and honor; where buyrig ard
soiling stolen gocds signifies doing favors for workmates, friends and
relatives; and where lire relationships among ’trading partners' and Ilie
flow of goods bO’een them forms a hidden economy which operates as
a socially supportive community supplying otherwise unobtainable
resources.
7 dont to «taafap from smxS businesses. That's
certify bad But if you seo some Marks and Spencer's shirts with ti)o tube's cut cut. you're not bothered it doesn't hurt them. ft doesn't matter ifbig firms Ake thatbse a bit/
—A trader in the hidden economy
The Hidden Economy gets into areas not (focussed in other books — people who steal from the* X>bs. Wen written end informative, ths excellent bock has been out ci pnnt for years. Now Loompanfcs is very prcod to offer to its readers Stuart Henry's The Hidden Economy.
1973, 5H Xt>i, 206pp, Wired. softcover.
THE HIDDEN ECONOMY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13076)
ALL THE LIVELONG DAY
The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work
by Barbara Garson
Th'<8 is cne or the rneas books on work that
we have seen.
What do employees do In a tuna-fish
factory or a P/ng-Poog plant? How do
koypuncbers. auto assembters. and clerks in
irtsuraoco coirpanles keep from go'ng crazy?
To find <m, Rarti*ra Garson travel wd
th© country tor tao years, spying out no
g.imos, thn gimmicks, tho rrtnuta-tomlnulo
davicos people use to restore moaning Io
ci)s drained at meaning in tha h.ito of
industrials™. Sho found resentment. she
found humiletfon, sho even found sabotage.
But above nil. sho found that people
passknately went to engage in productive
(as opposed to useless toll).
In this book, the quality of everyday work is revealed, along with the methods used by peopto to survive < Ko matter how rar the division of labor goes. people will stlD try to keep from being reduced to robots.
1973, 4)4 X 7t 239ppf sort cover.
ALL THE LIVELONG DAY: $5415
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THE RIGHT TO BE LAZY
by Paul La fargue
A litre communist propaganda epees up any catalog. so this time we have ncludod this pamphlet, whch was wntlen by Kart Marx's son-in- law In a French prison during 1883.1: has been called 'the first modem pamphlet in favor oí leisure for the worker.'
Paul Lafargue, classic scholar and physician, who spread revolutionary leachrigs erd agitated for me eight hour day. wrote this pam- ptitel In prison and argued that nwNnery should ease the life of worWng men. For rinety years, its kony and humor have delighted readers ri many tangueaos
The present edition of this labor and socialist classic adds an introductory sketch of labor and pottrial cor d tons In the France of lafan gue's time ard short notos cn the persons he lampooned, it includes a brief life history ci this ight-hearted agitator, who dd much to estabish May First as World Labor day. and spent three terms in prison for his radicalism.
1663, 4* x7K, 123 pp. softcover.
THE RIGHT TO BE LAZY: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94072)
THE ABOLITION OF WORK
and Other Essays
by Bob Black
(Be viewed by Michael Hoy)
Beò 8UKk has been around the fringe of
extremist potecs In America for several years
row — but be is ro ¿oner of causes. not Beò
Black! Bob Black analyzes and dissects,
probes and provokes, and specializes in
pointing out areas of underlying accord among
C&ensibto ’anarrtos.*
I orco saw Bob give a talk to a group of
libctf.nna.ns and conservatives, in which ha
brought up things Ike (his: ’Ubertariahsm and
Lennsm aro as different as Coke and Pepsi
when it comes to oonsecrafrig class society
and the source cf is power, wo* Only upon
the firm foundation of factory fasc<$m and
office oligarchy da fibertarians ard Leninists dare to debate th© irrrial
Issues drrding Ihomu* Al the end of the talk during the 'Qunstton and
Answer period, ano prominent libertarian stood up and announced. ’I
ddn*t understand a word you said, and I'm glad I didn't.* IWs Lcarc-My-
Head-In-Thc-Sand-Where-lt-Belongs roacOcn was actually rather mild
compared to tha responses Bob eften provokes from True Believers —
on more than one occasion. Bob Black has actually been physically
ossauUcdlot what he has written.
You have seen some of Bob's sluff In the Loompanes Catalog and
Supplements: Let! fWes, AwdHsm 6 Other toprofcroftr To Anarchy
.nrd The Libertarian As Conservative — Bob doesn't pul punches
against leftists, anarchists. Ibartarians. cc anyone else, and that is why I
Ike him. LoompANcs Unlimited is very proud to bring you the f«rst col-
lection of Bob Steck's wo*- The Abolition Of Work And Other Es-
says Here are a couple ol bncl excerpts from the title es-say. 77,(7
Abolition of Work:
’Socrates said that manual laborers make tod friends and bad Citi-
zens because they have no time to futili the respensbiities of friend-
ship and citizenship. Ho was right. Because of work, no matter whet we
do we keep tocking Gt our watches. Tho only thng 'free' about so-cafod
free time to that fl doesn't cost the toss angling. Free time is mostly
devoted to gating ready fee work, gcir.g to work, reterning from work,
and recovering from woric.*
liKfuded h tois Important bock are such Bob Black classes as The-
ses on Groucho M-rdsm, fighting Words. Cèc&hA Deceit a review of
Processed World, Feminism as Fascism, A Lunatic Fringe Credo, and
much more! Altogether utero am 35 of Deb Diack's bust, er, works,
sebeted by Dob himseT.
If you want Io transcend the studying boundaries of the leftfright
dichotomy, tho works of Bob Black ace essential!
15SS. Sfix Sfi. 160 pp, softcover
THE ABOLTDON OF WORK: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94096)
FRIENDLY FIRE
by Bob Black
A now col bet ton by Beò Bteck! Described
variously as A lengua tike a hot poker, ard
"A rope stretched over the abyss between
RaoU Vanagem and &d Vibous.* Ek>b Black
to one ot todays most enlightened writers,
«spoetar? C« the subject of work, and this
fine new ccflecton mcludas three cf Bob’s
tosi anti-work pieces. No Figure for the
Workplace. ’Primitive Affluence.* end
•Smoki^tack Lightning.* the latter a hilarious
and devastating rebuttal of a ham-handed
•Libertarian* attempt to deal with The Abaft-
bon of Work Aso included are stories, re-
views. rantt. and even a tibiography of Bob
Bfacvs academic publications.
190Z 4fi x 7. 282pp. 9Cft cover.
FRIENDLY ARE: $6.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94205)
SABOTAGE IN THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE
Anecdotes of Dissatisfaction,
Mischief and Revenge
Edited by Martin Sprouse
Sabotage In The American Work-
place, a controversial mtpcso of tha way
Ameres reaSy works. Is a bock that
txjsses wit want to keep out of their em-
ployees’ hands. It provides new nsght
into both tho smM am th© roasoning
bohlnd sabotarja. and proves tcyond
doubt that aven the most mild-mannered
arc labio to use some form of sabotage
during their working Sves.
Authentic firsthand accoutts gathered
from ail over tfw United States dspel tho
myth of the model worker, and show that
the majority of employees soe Ute steeling
of time, company property ard preste as a
remedy to the dab/ frustrations and
convicts cncixxilered white earning a living from a job
Safoguanded by anonym*/, contributors tafc candd>/ about i&og sabotage as a moans Of surviving wo*. Pecpta as diverse as tank tellers, meet iridia, paramedics, fight attendant and paperboys describo how tltey creath^fy strike back at mortolcny. tow pay. bad company ethes. poor working condittona, harassment, and asshoto tosses.
The sabe-tope ranges from Qutet acts of slackng oft and petty theft. Id pacing computer to<>c bombs, ar mod robbery and whdesate destruction ot company property. Motives range from allrusm to an over- w*helm'ng doslra tor revenge.
This unique book gr.’as the insido story on Che American wrxk experience Rcdchnng sabotage as a significant and w’ida-Spraad reaction to tw problems of work, it chaicngss lie accepted kfea that a worker's first allowance Is to toe company. Sabotage In The American Workplace to tho antiDasls ot the arrptoycc tranng manual. Arr/One who has f dreaded another day at work shcxjkl read it
1MZ m x 11, 1S3pp. (PustfAted. soft cover.
ZMCTMiE IN THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94201)
SHADOW WORK
bylvanlilich
Ivan lllch Is cne ot the most important
' writers orrenity working In Shadow Work,
tern of his essays are reprinted, feflowed by
cxtcnsfrc nales and bt>lk>gf^)Nes llhch
embarks on a major
soctologca! analysis of
occncme existence.
"We have seen that
historical
end
rrodt-n man's
wherever wage
labor expands. Ils shadow-. x>dus*.rial serf-
dom. also grows. Wago labor, as tho dom>-
nant form of produetton. and housework, as
the kteat type of its unpaid ccmptemcnl. are
boto forms of activity without precedent in
history or anthropology. They thrive co'y
wham ton absolute ard. totcr. the industrial
state destroyed the social ccndllcns tor subsistence kving. They spread
as small-scale, divoratori, vernacular communities have been made
sceiotogtaby .wd legali/ impossible into a worfd AfterG indMduate. throughout their lives, live oriy through dependence cn education, health sensee». transpnrtaticn and other packages provided through the multiple mechanical feeders of industrial tostitutons.*
Illich deals pro/ocairvcly with the controlling uses of language and science and the valuation of women and work. Drawing cn unlamllar historical sources, he lays bare the roots of much of toe social ordering which affects industrial man: hfe o*n crcaiton. but eno wh’ch. at the
sarro time, ccnnives al h’s own oppression.
ISSI. 5x9, 156pp. soft cover.
SHADOW WORK: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94229)
THE ELECTRONIC SWEATSHOP
How Computers Are Transforming the Office
of the Future into the Factory of the Past
by Barbara Garson
Tin: I
KLH TRONIC I
SWEATSI It )Pi
IkmOiiiMKilcp;
An-TniiistoniiiiiK
•tf the Future
iutotheFarfixy
r- >
tolbe 1970s. Bartara
Garson explored
assembly Une In a ctes-
eto account ot blue collar
are. AS the Livelong Day.
Now she Ma done th*
sama for white-collar
automat ton In ths re-
vealing dasenptton of
how compute« aro
being used to transform
secretaries, cxocutvos
□nd prefossionate into
dorks.
In Electronic
Sweatshop. Gerson
shows ha* tho McDon-
ald's system o1 beeps
and buzzers that turns
an incxpr.nanccd teen-
ager into a short OTtor
cook has been adapted
to thn world of tho
stockbroker and finan-
cial planner. At Merrill
Lynch and Shearson Lehman we see how brand-new coiege graduates are aww&fted with the help of so-called expert systems into instant fnanaa! whizzes whizzes who can just as toslantiy be replaced by newer graduates, Garson totroducos us to an executive at Proctor and Gamble who dosenbos how ha autonomy d mini shed when his secretary was moved ¡nlo a word processing pool, /md in perhaps the mc&: surprising intorvxnv, a formor chairman of tte Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how computerized inventory control revealed the secret berating of Cambodia.
But as was the case with the sewing machine at the turn of tta century, It la not tie computer mat U to blame. Rather computers are being used to serve a moan-spirited management that dstrusts humans ard their dcsyncraskte. In tho quest for central tho automate« are rapidly degrading our cbs and rendering cur notions of privacy obsolete.
Anyone who works In an office. Invests money, reserves an airiirc ticket, or eats a Bg Mac will be fascinated by this tavcsbgalicn of tho brave new* office.
1933, 5f+x3H, 233 pp, Index. hardcover.
THE ELECTRONIC SWEATSHOP: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94235)
GONE TO CROATAN
Origins of North American Dropout Culture
Edited by Ron Sakolsky & James Koehnllne
'America' was
founded as a tend of
drop-outs. Almost at
once It began Io pro-
duce cs own crop of
dissidents — visonar-
$8. utopans. Marcons
(escaped staves),
white and black
'Indans,' sailors and
buccaneers. tax
róbete, angry women,
crank reformers, 'tri-rackat isetato* commixiities — all on thn lam from Babyton. from control. Their self-liberalicn was carried cut under the sign of Wid(er)ness and its guardians, the ’Natives." Having disappeared from 'History.’ they have ever since been ignored by tho Consensus and its guanians. tho acadomcs.
Now here they arc again, coming back at you. claimng Io have been Iho real 'America' all along. They speak from the past, through the madumshp of radical historians, and in the present, in their cr*n voices. They ere speaking of other pcesibliitee — speaMng for a romantic becoming — for an Insurrectionary moment — for a restoration ot the unknown.
Gone To Crosfan is cne of the most fascinating history books you wil over read. It contains 25 arttotos cn tfie hkkton history of North America, by such writers as Peter Lambom Witeon. James Koehnlne, Neal Keating. Thom Metzger, and other rarScate.
/Ttvn the Fsetece by Ron SaWsty- this to a took about me origins of 'drop-cut* cultura in Norin America. Il Is not simply about escapism, ’A'non iho Roanoke scalars, who wore of Eu rape an descent, said to hell with Sir Walter Ra'cgh and the plutocrat and ran off to join the Croatan Indians, they wore no*, merely ‘going native.* In essence, they were challenging Ute iwMy ccnitru'Jed boundaries between wilderness and civüzatton. and, to so doing, were rocking the freshy tekl co'onial foundations oi North America.
ThA A nr> mean feat. If we can qi^stion tho division of our wcrld into thn categories of 'crnltzation' and 'earbarism,' than wo have begun to question oil frxms of heavchy. So. in spile of any fateo pretenses io solidity, the foundaions of co Vona ism ha\e been shaky ever since ttiu original journey to Croatan, and the ensuing cultural confiéis have not ccasnd. Subscqucnlty. many others have seized the opportunity (cither freely or In need) to send out new fractal tremors which in turn have caused the seemingly monolithic cdifEo ci North Amercan 'cr.ilizab'on Id quake.
'... By rejecting peeudopposilional remedas because they are rooted in the miseraMsl pragmatism of the lesear of two evils.' this bock charts a dfterern course. Instead of chronicling the results of such a daadsning Yeaicsm.' the authors wtthn seek to cetebrate the spark of transgresston by examining some compelling examples of those who have ‘drepped out* of the striated grid of domlrent Euro-American society. whether by orignal acts cf refusal, by lanc/ul chace or by dro nocossby. Thcugh not withcul their flaws, tho protagonists emerge as flesh and biood rebels.
'...We think of this votome. then, as encompassing a series of iliuml- nat'ng and inspirational communiques from the autonomous zones of cuf insurgent tonagtoaion as it has unfokfed historically, to standard histories of North America indigenous peoples (much ikn mo forces of nature) make a brief inbal appearance only lo bo cut do*n by tho inevitable Won ot progress: and people gf ootcr are other assent or viewed primarily as nagging probtoms n nood of solution. V/a instead. Ikn H'.'.irzjing Ishmoeltes. pdntody oaruTo up mo cugcnicats night- mara: rot only in tho body of tho bcok but by ending our story with me very people targeted for 'removal' being th© prime actors in tomtog history on és head and imagining a transcendent future. In stepping out of the shadows of consensus hstory, cur immediate reflexive reectton may bo to Wink in wender at the blinding ight but so much the better to then be dszzted by tr>e sp’endor revealed.'
1993, 6x9, 362pp. dfu^trated, sett corer.
GONE TO CROATAN: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94236)
THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN
by George P. Brockway
George Brockway's The End Of Economic Man renders a good swift kick in the seat the pants to epotogW for corporate capitaRsm. Eccrom.'c man. who is tte model tor most schco’s c4 economic, is greed incarnate. As a result. lb© schools celebrate things — the wealth of nations. the gross. national product, the bottom Ihe, an Imperscnal oquiitxium. in each case. the doctrine is. as Carafe said, a dsmal science.
The End Of Economic Man GAftotos Iha principles of an economics based cn the free activity cl responsibto men and women. Il is a spacial actWty to that it concerns money. (Woody Altan was right when he sskf that econcmcs is about money and why it is good.) Tl>e consequeroes are startling ard stimulating, as these samples suggest
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Without money, the employment relationship is at best share- cropping and at worst slavery.
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A bull mark« is an economic tfeasier. The market can rise only by sucking to more and more money, which is thereby denied to the producing economy.
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Credit amounts to nothing unless you use it Credit becomes money by becoming dObt
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Property is what you can do wtth it It Is rot a datum tut an idea.
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High interest is a caixo ci. inflation, not its euro.
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Labcr is not Ihc source of value, it is the source of right.
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Iha taw of supply and demand works backwards. Price is lb© independent variable cn which supp>/ and dorrond depend.
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Capital pains are resized cns/ when an investment is withdrawn and ceases.
Hero are a ceupto cf quotes from this challenging and liberating bcok:
'The noSon of the underlying reality of enSghtened seri-irtterest (however deferred) is the very mode! of a priori judgment. it assumes what if pvtends to prove, it claims that no should behave in a certain way ef wc know whaf's good for us. if we don't behave in a prescribed way ifs because wo don't know what is good for us. There is no way of attscichg or bvm defending this form of argument. Enkghtened seif- interest is a dogma no more successful in subduing the riot of human behavior than is seif-interest without the eniightenmen!.9
let us say that i am a profit-maximizing man. Kot only am ! cfev&r, bod artrbthtess; nor any do / sirstch the law as far as ft wiifgo in my favor (butp'vdenffy no farther); not only do i push my ompfoyocs to tho Amit ond doa! ns sharpy as / am without my suppt'ors and my customers; not enty am f udmimd and foa/od as a keen and tough competitor— beyond these defightfuf quafides fam necnssarify a workahofic As iongas there's another dottar- another penny - to be mode. fam after if, if not tike a hawk (t have no time for scaring), perhaps kko a badger, tf thorn's no way to squeeze more out cd my regular employment, fit go moonkghang- and when f ttnaky fak into bed, if / fio awake, i am scheming ways to incmaso my profit tomorrow.
'Unfortunately, t never got to onjoyrry winnings, fm too busy fa if! worn to retox a moment, a main chance might pass me by. Literature is fuk of monsters fixe me. tokens would have had to shut up shop if he hadn't had such people to write abot/t
literature ¿s &tso fuff of ufkty msuin^ars— chamkng westrais who kve a kfe of endtess pteasure. Women are supposed to be enchanted by them. Untk very roc&nity nx>men ware themsutves supposed to kve such fives. As ffabten saw if, if was any when women nere successful in this utkity-maxknining way that their przrit-maxirizong husbands en- /eyed any utkify— afbeif a darivod uWy— from the proftts they pifod up.
'So we have a conflict. A p-offt maximizer has to forego utkkies for tack of rime. Ard untess a utkfy maximizer can manage to be supported by someone else, he (or she) wik not have resources to pay for possk^e pteasures.
'iko producer is orky a producer, and very few besides chifdmn, trio se'\ke. a fid the inrirm are onty consumers. Since producers are eiso consumers, they muat sintukaneousfy be both profit maximizers and ufkitymadmizars, and that is tmposskke. *
1993. 5x3, 320pp, trxUxad, softcover.
THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94215)
THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN
The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Ju Het B. Schor
Work. Work. Fuck work. ThU pfltntxroklng txx>k ©xptolns why, contrary to oil exportations, Americans are working harder then ever. Juict ¿chc< presents the o&tonfchhg rows that over tho past twenty years cur working hears have incroasad fry thn cqutvatant ct Czna month per year — a dramatfc spurt eiat has hit e'/erybody: mon and women, professionals as woB as low-pad workers. V/hy are we — unIke e/ery otfw irdiMtrialfcad Western rutticn — repoAtodV "ehce&'/vg' «wey over time? And what can we da to get off the treadmill?
The author says, 'One of capitalism's most durable mytb.s is tixst it has recuoed human ton. This myth is typfcaiy defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty- bour counterpart in tho nineteenth century. The rnpUrit - but rarely articulated — assumption is that the eighty hear standard has provafed for centuries. The comparison conjures up the dreary lile of medieval peasants, toiing steadly from dawn to dusk.
These images are backward projections of modern work patterns. Ard they ar© taUe. Before capitals™, most propte dd rot work very tong hours nl all. 7ho tempo c4 Ido was slow, ovon talsuroty; Cho poco o1 w>ark relaxed. Our ancestors may not have bscn rzh, tat they bod an abjndar'co od to'suro. When capitalism raised their neemo, it also took away their time.“
In chapters like "Timo Squeeze: The Extra Month c/ Week.’ * 'A Life al Hard Labor’: Capitalism and Working Hours." "O.'orwark in tho Household." The Insidcus Cycle of Work-and-Spend." and "Exiting tl-e Squirrel Cage." Scbor cuts though consumerist propaganda about bow "rich" wo Americans aro and shows just how much of our lives Is wasted in wago and debt slavery. The Overworked American is an important book which should ba read by everyone who values frcodccn.
1992, 5xS, 269 pp, fndtxtd, foheovtr.
THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94216)
BUSY BODIES
Why Our Time-Obsessed Society
Keeps Us Running In Place
by Lee Burns
This bco'< Is a warning atom the late twonttalb-cenlury Amercan dsoaso — tho increasing trno pressures that aro crodng car quality of life.
Today many Americans are harried and frustrated with their Ir.-es, despite being richer In material goods. Lee Burns expians this through what he calls The Paradox of the Gocd Life. In our affluent society, technology was supposed to free us for greater leisure time and creativity. instead, the demands of our tocreatfngfy ccmptex Pres have come up aganst the unyielding 24-hcur day. As a resUt we have become Busy Bodies, working frantically to maintain cuf standard of living, tut rot seem ng to gel much satisfaction.
Wth hurrtof and wit the author shows how this obsession with lime has crept into every aspect of our live®, from our changing romantic and eating habto to the way we run our economy and poitics. He shows how we ail urconsclousry measure every aoMty In terms of the time It wJl take versus tho satisfartbn it brings us, and then ascend the fess personalty rewarding artMties. The author warns us that our time obsessfen has much more serious Inplfeations for the future. V/e have toss time for friends, romance, charity work, ard thinking all aclivZtas vtfitfi once defined a fuiy ived lite.
M we aro not coreful. We author angles, the very mastery of time that has rroce our socefy rich may undo us. Already, hn warns, wo aro witnessing the fa I taro to Invest adequately in tha oooromiy cr protect tho environment, tho triumph of imago ovor subslanco, and tho ncgtoct of tho emotional bonds that nurturo us and bind car communctas. Busy Bodies Is must reading for, the many people who are struggling to make some time to- "smell the roses," amid the unrefenVbg time pressures cf our modern life.
t99J, SHxSM, 400pp, frustrated. Indexed, softcover.
BUSY BODIES: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94217)
TIME WITHOUT WORK
People who are not working tell their stories
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How They Feel • What They Do • How They Survive
by WalfIF. Lcff& Marilyn G. Haft
Wall* F. Loti and Manlyn G. Haft traveled across the US collecting in- deprti pccjcnal accounts of what it is like not to work in this society where working is such am important part o* identity.
In their own words. 73 mon and women — a reporter wliose newspaper had just folded, a pregnant welfare mother whose job training program taught resume writing W no Job eMWt ^ki-oit construction workers, community volunteers. retired pcoplo, rich pooplo. victims of industrial disease and dozens of ocher interesting ard unusual peepte — ten thtir poignant, angry, funny, tragc. and Inspiring stories.
They use statistical. historical and cross-cultural cvxkinco to challenge the myth trial most people In this society actually work and that the work ethfc te well-entrenched and pervasive. They outlno changes in work expectations and work demands brought about by newly-rased consciousness and by post-industrialism. And. drawwg on the stories, they trace a psychological road map lor readers who may find tbem- so?.*qs cut of work in tho future.
Tho authors say: ’Seventy-three stories about one experienoa. al very different from one anollter. But look al them as a whole and patterns emerge. If you track the forms forward, somo of the shape of the future can be seen in ouClne. The stork» exhibit how tho quaity of kfo without work hinges cn how a person relates to tmo and money.
•..utility to hancto unstructured time is something one loams from experience.... Hardly anybody has had much unstructured time. Our sccety Is remarkable routntzod, and regardloss of whether peop’e work or net they lend to observe tho cor.venlicnal routines. Significantly, most of the dvi Jens Into which our Inos arc chopped are based largely around work. Wo go to school from nine to thru«, work from nrie to five, □nd observe our holidays on Mondays, regardless of the date they commemorate, tn erdor lo have a throe day week-end. We might tad sleepy at three-thirty in Ute afternoon, but do rot lie down to rest unti eleven-thirty at rnghL..
’Happily, no social conditioning is absoUte. There are people who do •ricw time as a predous resource and know how to u» it In their own interests, people who cen fully appreciate trio hours ncti working puts at their dsposnl despite the hardships being jobless can bring.
•...Transferring money as tho organizing principle in life can spur a wealth of creativity. A number of people we met had turned activities tocy enjoyed doing, such as carpentry, or cooking gourmet meets into sctablc services that helped pay their expenses and felt them free to conllr.ua doing tho other thngs they want to do. Sitoh as paint, write, counsel yourg people, or just Lvc without having to endure the rcuine of a Job.
•...this beck Is tut a beginning. But if. in addition to the reveling stones It offers its readers, fils book suxoedi in cutFnbg patterns that turn out to be fruriul dimensions when traced forward to the future. It will have served Its purpose...’
ZASJt 6 x9.417pp, soft cover.
TIME WITHOUT WORK: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94232)
FIGHTING BACK ON THE JOB
by Victor Santoro
if you Vo toon a workplace victim, but cic'rrt know herw to slrka back without fear, then don't miss this collection of crafty trtaks and cunning schemes!
Ths guide to vengeance covers everyone from the nasty, cheapskate boss to Gw company spy. and g'ves you plenty of courses of action. Jirt take a took st these topics: ★ Being Fired * Cubing * Tho Hafchct Man * The Company Spy * Methods of Attack * Physical Sabotage * Organizational Sabotage ★ Go to Work for the Competition * Framing Your Boss * Unconventional Tactics * Keeping Safe ★ And More!
Everything you ever wanted to know about getting revenge at work, but wore »trad to ask. Don't got mad — get even!
19S2. 5H X SH, 149 pp, Muflnrtert softcover.
FIGHTING BACK ON THE JOB: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19079)
WHY WORK?
Arguments for the Leisure Society
by Various Writers
Tlte tide of this collection by various writers, pest and present. te meant to be provocative. Here the distinction is made between work and employment. bohveen useful work ard useless loll, between pleasurable work and boring, well-pad, useless omplzymcnt. More than 30 articles are Included, injuring Tony Gibson's Vkto Wk' Do Tho Dirty Wort?.* whch in itsci is worth the price cd the book.
’What is work? Week is cf two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at cc near the earth's surface relatively to od»er such matter, second, toting other peepte to do so. The first kind ¡3 unpleasant and it paid, the second Is pleasant and higNy paid. The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: there are not only those who give orders, but those who give adrice as to what centers shoUd be given. Usually two opposite kinds of advice are given slmutaneousty by two organized bodes ot mon; this Is caltod polrics.* — Bertrand Russell. Z? Praise of tiSvmfss
Pte conkibulixs to this volume rang® ffom WIKam lAorris with Ks ever topical essay on Wort ^-orsus Usoioss Toll which was first published mom thnn n hundred yoore ago. new translations of Kropotidn s Wapv System and Camillo Bomcri's The Prubern of Wort. to oantompccay writers who all draw Ute same cocdusicns as Bob Black in Tho Abandon of Wort: 'No one should ever work.'
19S3. SH xSHf 210 pp, fofdouK Wuolntloa, ^oftcoyr.
WHY WORK?: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94140)
THE JOY OF NOT WORKING
by Ernlo J. Zcllnskl
Work sucks If you want to add Id tho tcoc. quality, and experience of your Uto. th« book will be a valuable asset. You can use The Joy Of Hot Working as a practical and reliable gude to create a paradise a-A-ay from tho workplace whether you are retired, unemployed or overworked.
Success and satisfaction aATiy from tho workplace are not based on being lucky in Gto. To attain Ute two takes elfort in following erd applying certain retev-ent principles. Those principles aro tho bass for Uns tXJCk Being without work shouldn't be a time of despair, instead it should bo n umo tar celebrating. AXhcugh rxX working can be a Challenge, f. can bo much mcco productive than working.
Some quotes from Tho Joy Of Not Working:
The majorrty of us wit spend tho greater part of cur adult ife working. Taking Into account getting ready for week, commuting to work, talking about our jobs, and wonyirvg about getting laid off. we will have spent more limo during our working Irves thinking about work, than thinking about all cur other concerns in life."
’Let us use nn exrzr.pto Id ilUsIrato the ludicrous results whch can occur from hanging on to tho bold hard wrxk is a virtue. Suppose al any given momoni tho world roods X number of paper clips for its operation. With conventional technology, Y number of people are needed to prodjoo those paper clips. They al work Ion hours a day and everyone wshes they had more leisure time. Supposes somteono invents a new and more efficient machno for making papar dips. Noa; on>/ half as marry pacplo as before aro required Id produce X number of paper clps. In a sensible world, the paper dip makers wcukJ al work half as many hours as they worked before. They would all have much more leisure time. The world is not thia sensible. Because p^>f^ sill hang on to Ute belief that they shoUd all work ten hours a day. all paper dip maker» work these hours until there is a surplus In paper clips. Eventually, half The workers are laid oft. This guarantees cvcrycoa is miserabfe. The ladoft wofcera have to much toUuro timo and net enough money. The retained workers are overworked, and havo Ido tilde leisure. Instead of contributing to everyone’s heppnoss. tho unavoidable ¡'»crease in leisure adds to everyone’s misery. Tho moraity cf work ends up contributing to major unhappiness. Only by having cur morab ettenge. to keep pace with our changing world, can wo avoid these unhca'xhy situations.’
Wort sucks. So g>/e Tho Joy Of Not Workings Uy - we bet you will bo realty glad you ddl
1O9S, SH X 10, 194pp. iihntratcJ. softcover.
THE JOY OF NOT WORKING: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER M226)
Money-Making Opportunities
Introduction
If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
ilTIES
Freedom costs money, time erd energy. The books In this sccton esn pot «toted on tiw money part. Our mow/ wetion indudos theoretical general material on money ard monay-mAtong. ar. wot as many txwks suggesting specific unusual ways of mntorvg big bocks that you can &A started on right now.
Financial irdeperderx» can bo yours, and this section is a gcoti starting place. We have chosen those books carofuly for their usefulness and re’evarce. These books wore written for you.
OFFBEAT CAREERS
The Directory of Unusual Work
byAfSacharov
Work Is a four-letter word. Its up to us to decide whether that f cur- fetter wrxd reads ’drag’ or •tovo.’ It’s the o'd square peg in a round bole routine, Poopta find thcmsci’/os trapped in dead-end jobs for a variety of reasons parental pre>:ure. hunger fix prestige, or lack of courage to try something different. For most of us. ifs a lol easier to complain about the present than to risk the future. But one of the saddest reasons for a person to stay stuck is nc< knowing the rangs cf options that arc available.
Offbeat Careers: The Directory of Unusual Work Is ircondod to pash bock parameters for people. These are real jobs heto by real people. Iba placement information Is time*/, accurate, nnd often no more than a phone car or letter away. Obviously, vw> positions tn ths took arc not foe evt?rycoe. But even if you don't chcow to work in trie Antarctic, you can use this book to stimulate the thought process and open up mere avenues on the road map of life
Wo spend one-third of our IMes working. That Is a leng tkno to be dong something that you don’t ike. Tho key is to trust your heart to move ycu where your talents can flourish. Once you rcaizo that life moans more than just punching a time ck>ck. you win begn moving year energies into Helds that realty do need work.
19SS. 6x9. 165pp, softcover.
OFFBEAT CAREERS: $6.95
(ORDERNUMBER 64115)
FINANCIAL FREEDOM FOR THE COMMON MAN
by Frank M. Cassady
This took describes hundreds of unusual proven mcneymaking businesses anyone can start rognrdtoss of their education of financial background or experience. Make irritation work fur you instead of against you. There Is money to bo made n America today, ye*, most poepfe don’t know how to do «.
Maybe you went become a mlllcnalre, but you can at toast reach a comfortable level where you can live where you want, cat healthy toed ycu like, and have enough money no! to worry atxxx inflation. You can ga far in ifo. and this book can get ycu started.
Among the hundreds of maney-maMng Ideas discussed arc: • Buyng ured Volkswagens • Ecology boxes • Mlitary pbefos • Mcbio mechanic • Jink • Factory seconds • Dating clubs • Cattsh ponds ♦ Bcycto rentals • Clam shells • Cargo freight containers • Catering truck • And much more.
If ycu want to get rfch. you must first wwir a working man’s bod. Thora is no better time Io get started than now.
1931, SJixSH, 37pp. softcover.
FINANCIAL FREEDOM
FOR THE COMMON MAN: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64061)
900 KNOW-HOW
How To Succeed With
Your Own 900 Number Business
by Robert Mastin
Four Facts Ycu SiwuU Know Ab-out SCO
Numbers:
1. Dial-a-pccn is cn lite way out ard even
now accounts for onty 3% of all 903
programs.
2. Many new 900 programs fai because
they are launched by people who have
not done the* homework to team too
business or to find out what it takes to
8UX»»d Bacausa tho 930 business
has so marry tnjy unique advantages,
the fere cf easy profits has been
Irreskjtibto, and too many would-be en-
trepreneurs have jumped onto the
barxfAogon completely unprepared.
3. Ttere Is A lot of hypo ard btotarrt misinformation out there surrounding Ihe 500 industry, porpetoatod by snake ol hucksters who are Ceecing naive opportunity soakers. For example, you canrot 'uttrC a 930 number, and the government does not l«mit thn quantity of 930 numbers that are available.
4. Established businesses are getting into the 900 industry in ever growing numbers. Virtual»/ every business has access to uriquo. trnely or specia’ized Information that can bo sod by means of a 930 number. A 900 number is a amvenlerri. efficient information delivery medium, for both the caller and the tofixmabon provider.
The 9CO number business is tho toeaf home business. Launch your own 900 number badness and sell pre recorded Informaban orcs the telephone to a national market - - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Learn the secrets to one ol the most exciting busmass opportunities of the century — this industry has expkxtod from zero to 5975.OCO.OCO In just four yea/sl And it has only just begun
You will be amazed how easy It is to start year own 903 number business. Very tow start-up costs. Work part-time from homo, anywhere n tba country. Tl»e only equipment needed Is a tcuch-tono trfcphonc. Ycur poterz a’ market Is huge — tho entire country • enty a telephone call away- Ard best ol all. the pficoe company cor«45 all your money for you — collection costs are zero!
To feurxh a profitable 9CO pregram, you muit learn the secrets to success What 9CO programs work, and why. What pitfars to avdd Ycu ncod honest advtoe from experts — poepto who have scon ti»e mogahits as well as Iha flops. You need 900 Know-How: How To Succeed With Your Own 900 Humber Business. You can gal all the tacts in the test, most corrpreltensiva book yet written abort ths exerting new bus nnr.s opportune/.
1997, SK xSh, 160pp, softcover.
900 KNOW-HOW: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64137)
HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH STOCKS $3 A SHARE OR LESS
by R. Max Bowser
fAora than 100.(XX) erpfas o1 this booklet have boon sdd since its first edbon was pu Wished in 1979. ¡1 cut Ines a plan fee scooting low- priced slocks Via! are ikety to go up h price, how to purchase them, and when and fiow to ser them.
TTie factors that Bowser advocates ccns’dering Indude:
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"Rie exchange the stock *e traded co
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The princpaJ business erf Ito company
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Annual sates of it« company
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The highest price per share in the teat two years
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The average daily volume ot the Mock traded
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Dividends
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Current ratio on the company's balance sheet
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Long-term debt of the-company
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Number erf shares outstand ng
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Earnings over the test the years
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Current earnings
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and Current sales at thw company.
R. Max Bowser tells you how to evaluate and weigh each of these factors to pick the low-priced stocks ttiat are most likely to double in value, and How To Make Money With Stocks S3 A Share Or Less. With low-priced shares. ycu can start with a small amount erf capital, devote minimum time to thia venture, you are protected from severe tosses, and there is a chance tor large gans.
R Max Bowser's How To Mako Money With Stocks $3 A Share Or Less Is the best inirodUctbn we have soen to speculating m low- priced stocks.
1333 adkion, a (9 x 11, 33 pp. tkuxi/afvd. ioft cover.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH STOCKS
$3 A SHARE OR LESS: $5.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64101)
BETTER THAN A LEMONADE STAND
Small Business Ideas for Kids
by Dary! Bernstein
Hoy. yea don't have to ba a kid to
make some spending money off those
ideas. But H you’re bred of being hit up
for your hard-earned bucks, you might
buy this bock tor your tods and let them
earn H themselves.
Daryl Bernstein is fifteen years od.
He’s owned and run more successful
businesses as a kid than most poepte
do as .-touts. In this book, ho describes
51 small businesses that are easy to
launch arto require little or no start-up
costs.
Some of iho c’ovcc Ideas in this
book Include: • Babysitting Broker •
Birthday Party Planner • Computer
Teacher • Delivery Pcrscn • Gift
Wrapper • House Checker • Launderer • Photograph Organizer • Price Shopper • Recycler • Snack Vendor • Wake-Up Caller • And Many More!
Daryl gves tips on supples. time needed, whst to charge and how to advertise. He suggests special strategtes for each venture, based cn h’s own experience.
TNs book Is great lor kds looking to gat an early atari cn the road to success. And fas hcfptU tor adults, toe. It you're looking for «nccrne sources so far off tho books that no con will evor fnd them.
1992. SfixSH. 170 pp. Rtostrated. xoft cover.
BETTER THAN A LEMONADE STAND: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64139)
mcmji t< m>:h
ACTION
CAREERS
err Nr NT »4 TIE
HlX-ftSK uce MARKET
ACTION CAREERS
Employment In the High-Risk Job Market
by Ragnar Benson
Lning on the edge... its a
common theme with songwriters,
filmmakers, arto advertisers. The
popular appeal of adding excite-
ment to your fife runs through every
strata of American society.
So how can the average Joe.
bogged down In a 940-5 nut with
onty the lawn mower to look forward
to on weekends, acconrpitsh this
dream? By breaking into a new
career in the high-risk job market!
The many jobs ava table to the
action-oriented man arc delated
here by an adventurer who has
experienced first-hand how exciting
and Invigorating such jobs can be.
They all email risk; some entail
great risk. Rodeo riders. for
instance. are notorious for gelling busted up. Gunrunners go broke, gel
shot — or make a milion.
imagine guiding folow adventurers through massive, bcuWcr-sIrcwn waterfats. br^ng tossed about by tons of fretny. wild water amdsl the nde&tfbabte beauty Miura n Its primeval slate. Or, experience midnight encounters with sholgun-lotng drug smugglers while working as a Border petrol officer. Escape burning cars, crash aircraft, and ski Off of precipices as a stunt man. while hobnobbing w.-.h movxi stars arto directors.
Many, many other job opportunities are covered here. The possbiities are enctess. and easier to get Into than you realize. Dcnl waste another moment daydreaming. Let Action Careersgive you a new tease on life. Now is the time to go ter II!
1937. 6x9, 360pp. MfiKtrated. hard cover.
kCmOU CAREERS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 60045)
SMALL BUSINESSES THAT GROW
AND GROW AND GROW
Start Your Own Business
With an Investment of $100 or Less!
by Patricia A. Woy
Instc.to erf sitting around wishing
for more money, hundreds of
thousands cf Arr>ar>cans are dc<ng
sometling atxx/1 it — th-sr/re
staring thcr own business. These
are mt unusual pocpln with special
tataris and unimitad funds to risk
on nsw ventures. They are ordinary
people with ordnary skills. Bui they
da share a coup'e cf 'special
ingredonta' — plenty of
enthusiasm for a business odea and
a strong desire to succeed. While
there is no cnc guaranteed
success formula, taking certain
factors into considoraticn will
reduce youf risk -orf failure.
1. Select a business you wit Ike.
not only today. btX several years into the future.
2. Start smal. Doni overcommil Initially. Gro* with your business and profits.
3. Analyze tie market. Be sure your business tills a corrmunity need.
4. Find CLi everything you can about the business. Read trade journals; tak to others already Invohrod. Mako yourself an export — a professional — as quk:Wy as possible.
"Dus book offers stop-by-stop instructions for setting up and suocossfiily operating scores erf drfferent businesses. A comptele index and hundreds af information sources are inciudod in this excellent book.
1333, 6x3, 213 pp. indexed, soft cover.
SMALL BUSINESSES THAT GROW
AND GROW AND GROW: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64088)
HOW TO MAKE CASH MONEY
SELUNG AT SWAP MEETS,
FLEA MARKETS, ETC.
by Jordan Cooper
You can make cash
money soling at swap
meets. flea markets. etc.
— com in □ while an a
pan time toocme. or as
a full time business.
Several years ago. Jor-
dan Cooper found htot-
setf laid c« and wthcut
an income. He ard his
wile held a yard safe,
and then tock live tott-
over items to a bcal
swap meet. In coo day.
they look in several
hundred dollars. He
hasn't worked at a regu-
lar job since. Sen»,
times, his prcC for a
singte weekend g more
than an entire month’s
salary at his former job!
In the 'exciting new
buck. be offers you a
professional toskfers
view o' tha swap med scone, from sdcdng your merchandise to how to (toal wth IRS. His tips and how to's were learned in the School of Hard Knocks - and can save you some hard knocks of ywr own. Topics covered toclide:
▲ Working swap meets vs. opening a retail store — nine adraniagcs of working swap m
▲ How to select your merchandise — finding the right Items fee tte right Icca’e
▲ How to sei up your booth to both attract more customers and reduce your own woteoad
▲ v/hat to da ¿bring stow periods — surefire methods to got customers to come to jw/lattes
a Equipment and supples — 12 things you should always take with you
a How to s.Tva money cn food and transportation costs a How to fgurc out how much to charge foe your merchandise a Th© easiest way to keep track of sates
a Profiles Of typical swap meet venters — and typical customers a How to handle hassles with other dealers
a Dna'ing w.th obroxbus customers
a Quck and easy methods ©f prelecting your stuff from rain and citer bed weather
A Hew tD advertise at the swap meat — the test ways Io draw customers to year axhibtt
a Tte swap meet vender and the IRS—whet you /rxitfknow a How to gel tte most out of swap moots as a customer ycursel a An exlenslv© listing of publications, organisation» and soirees of merchandise
a Expandhg your ino — what to took for ard what to watch out for a A complete Glossary c4 terms uste at swap meets
a How to select th a bc^t wNcie A And much, much more.
Ycu can get started making cash money soling al swap meets now! k tow initial investment to a’l that Is roqured. you can still hokl your regular job whle youYe getting stated, and you wil bo your own boss. Jcrdito Cooper Is an ©xpertencod professional and How To Make Cash Money Setting st Swap Meets, Flea Markets, Etc. is Ite single finest bock of its type ever pubFshed. highly recommended
!9SS, 5Hx6H, 160 pp. frustrated, softcover.
HOW TO MAKE CASH MONEY SELLING AT
SWAP MEETS. FLEA MARKETS. ETC.: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13077)
FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Self-Employmont Opportunities
In Recreation, Sports and Travel
by Crawford Undsey
Ooos tho itea of tong your own boss white working al ytxjr favorite
recreational activity appeal to you? Many of tho peepte interviewed to
this bock ana teng just that, and they offer corxiusivo proof that it is
pcstibfe to combine business with pleasure — and make money at it.
Amencans am spending more money en recreaban than ever be-
fore. About $1 cut oí every $8 of consumers’ personal spendng now
goes for reernaton. mece than is spent on national defense.
Ite enormous sums now spent on rocrcaiicn fava created al sorts
of sett-employment opportune©:;. Ths book takes s» how-to approach
nod ©xptorcr. cppcdunitios in:
*• River rating * Personal Uncss coach ng *
★ Ski tounng * Spading goods businesses * Aerobios *
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Bicycle touring * Sports promotion *
-* Rock climbing * Leading tours abroad *
★ And much more. *
If you are Interested to explcdng tte opportunities for self-employ-
ment to tte rec rea Ben a I hold. For Fun And Profits tho bock Io gel you
started.
1W4, SHxSH, 179pp, aottcovar.
FOR FUN AND PROFIT: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64077)
HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT A SALARY
by Cheries Long
This to coe of our favorite
bxks here at Locmpenica. and
we are '/er/ pleased to seo it
back in print again. How To
Survive Without A Salary to a
book for everyem* wormed
with tte diminishing purchasing
po^er of their dollar. This no-
ncnsense guide will help you
hang onto your money, to add-
tbn to valuable end specte tps
on saving money, you will l(»m
all about the eccnom'c philoso-
phy behind the Cons&ver
LUcstyto. Never again will ycu
acccpl Iha bind consumer solu-
tion io every problem — buying
that which the manufacturers
and advertisers tell ycu you need
to have.
As a Conservar, you will team haw 1o:a nvod ccnsumcr tre^s • budgel effectively • areP/ze your true needs • plan your personal attack on infialon • make a casual toccme • utitze second tend buying and auctions • find attemattves to buying • save en laxos and Insuranoa • begto tte Conserver Ltestyte yourself • and mixh more.
This unlq.ua beck Is not a •back-to the-oounlry’ gukic. Tte hundreds of iteas and common sonso principios alow you to reduce your need 1o< money and get along anywtero. Wtethor you arc employed now or without a salary. Ihe In tte city or tha county, tn© author stews you tew to get atong with less and make (to with what you already have. Besides hc'png yvu teng ento your money. How To Survive Without A Salary am het ycu r^p many citer tenafits. such as: • Spnrd yatr timo as you wtoh • Take off a year or two for travel • Return to schod withcu! debt • Start your own business on a shoestring • And much, much moro.
How To Survive Without A Salary is a book foe those looking tor indvidusl freedom end opportunity, tt you want to lake charpa of your IHq without poveerment ‘help’ or tolertereoce, then How To Survive Without A Salary will be one of tte most important books ycu wil ever road.
teas, 6x9, 232pp, sort cover.
HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT A SALARY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13084)
HOWTO
SURVIVE
HOW TO FIND AND BUY
YOUR BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY
by Frank Kirkpatrick
It ycu feel a strong attraction
toward runrtng a country
business. but have no Wea
where to begn. this book wit tell
you what you need to Yrw* to
make the daemons that are
nght 1oc you. Ite is a slop-by.
step, henest and rolcnttosshy
practical gudo to locating and
buying a financially scund
business that will pro-ide a
tving for you and your terrify.
You wil learn:« How to
answer ads deserting
businesses for sale • How to
get Che feel of a place when
you’re boxing it over • Her* to
'earn how well the business has
really been doing • How 1 o ge< a
bonk loan • And much mere. with case histories so you can loam from the mistakes cl ethers.
Buying a country buaness te not for the fazy or tho limd. Yc</t work hard, and youtl probably rr.ake mistakes: cvorycne does But with this book as a guide, you wil avoid tho big mistakes—the khd that can put you out of busness.
tSSS, Mt x it, 199 pp. cisxnx xndtonns, indexed, son cover.
HOW TO FIND AND BUY
YOUR BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64097)
MAIL ORDER MOONLIGHTING
by Cecil C. Hoge, Sr
After sales cf over 1O3.CO0 copies,
after nine consecutive reprints, the best
book on Man Order is better than ever.
Mali Order Moonlighting, the book
that launched a thousand businesses,
has been comptotefy revised to
incorporate the vasty increased
opportunes lor mail order success
Cedi Hoge draw’s on aver titty years
exporters* in the business. During that
uno. he‘s sod every imaginabto
product. pioneering mall order
techniques that have become common
praettoo. Ard bo shares te hard-
Gamed experience ard insights with
you. Mail Order Moonlighting is really
five books in one:
♦ Book Ono: Welcome to Mail
Order An totrodxtton to the ups and downs. Ins and cuts of the trail order business.
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Book Two: The Expanding Universe A guded tour of thousands of products that can successfully be sdd through fie mail.
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Book Three: Mail Order Persuasion Valuable, tested advtoe on how to create ads that sol.
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Book Four: Selection and Negotiation Iba numbers of mad order—choosing advertising outlets and buying time & space.
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Book Five: Nuts and Bolts Recommendations and warnings for tho beginner to the biggest success.
Mxi! Order Moonlighting teaches you to start your own business in weeks from home m year spare time, at your own pooe and with little cc ro risk .. all you need to create capital increase your income, gradually chanr^ careers or even make a fortune. Highly recommended.
1998, 6x9, 359pp, softcover.
MAIL ORDER MOONLIGHTING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64018)
HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR
AND MORE WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN
by Don Lilly
This completely revised and
up-dated book Is ore of Ilie finest
moneymaking publications we
Ivave seen. Il is work-oriented and
leads its reader through each step
necessary to setting up their own
bue’noss with virtually no capital
investment and rw export cnee. If
ycu aro unemployed or
undcrcmpioyod. don't be at the
mercy of employers. economic
slumps, job shortages, or skit
(feftaencies. You can start your
own business with virtually no
espialinvestment
A hawing storvfce can be
started In any city, town or viltogs,
h any season srd at ary time
convenient to you. Ycu set the
poco. accept or reject work as
you see fit. nrd have the freedom
and ftowbiity to carry on important activities. And, you will have a chance to do a tot of business oit the books. whch makes the an idea wsin worth considering.
O sc over tho secret of tnppng sources of tree merchandise a genuine treasures. And get paid a minimum cf $15 an hour to take away items fc< the home, office, or business. Such things as construction materials, iccte. auto parts, hardware, piumbing and electrical supplies, furniture, sportng poods, toys, dotting, small & large appliances, carpets, .tnd objects of art. aro $UI usable, some txand new — end you will bo paid to Ixsiul it a**ay!
1 lustrated w?.h Fno drawings, tho tock includes a rale chart, sarrpta ads. practical fps. tots of soori. workable advice, and has all tho information you need for turning your vehicle Into a ‘rncnuy machene.*
19B7,5Hx3H, 119pp. iffvttrxtod, softcover.
HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR & MORE
WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64073)
WORK WITH PASSION
How To Do What You Love for a Living
by Nancy Anderson
Tte bock is w rxinn to help you Lvg tho Ute ycu were bom to l?.e — a life that works in the true sense ci the word •’works.* When your ife •works’ your life comes together, wZh a hamtonfous balance ameng all its facets: ycur work, your family, your ler.os. your finances, and your mental and spiritual gro^h.
There are greet simfarilles among successful people who love their work While it is true that tire/ think in a certain way. what is more important is that successful, powerful people act. How tlxry act is tbs subject of thfe took. The technique cf observing powerful behavior and then reproaxing the desired action is the Quickest and easiest way to achieve personal change and bring about bettor oocdilbns.
The book begins with a thorough analysis of the product to be marketed you. Most sci hclp books focus on techniques, mfccmaticxi and other external sources. Ths book, however, insists that >ou fir^t focus MWraaty' — kfentifying ycur pnsslfxt — before focusing cn techniques for success. One must precede the other. In fact, self- knov^dge defines all else, ¡nctodog technique. If the business ycu chooso to ostablsh or tho job you're after Is In twnmeny wrtt your passion and your values, you wit suococd with it. But rt It is nc < in hamxxry. rx>matter how much monoy ycu make, you will sabotage that business or job so that you can gst cut of It Rotnquishng what is not right for ycur lie's purposes allows you the freedom to head for ycur passton.
1994, SH x 9H, 315pp, soft cover.
WORK WITH PASSION: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64103)’
MAKE
MONEY
READING
BOOKS
tniXA mt
MAKE MONEY READING BOOKS
How to Start and Operate Your Own Homo-Based
Freelance Reading Service
by Bruce Fife
Would you like to have a job Hat
pays you to sit back in yctx own
living room and rood books, playa,
magazine artictos and unpublished
manuscripts? If )oj would, this book
will open up a new world or opportu-
nity to you. It explains In dotali how
you can sot up and epnrato a suc-
cessful freelance reading service in
the comfort of your own hemo.
Tltore are thousands of busi-
nesses and IndMduals who nocd
and use martora and pay well far
the? services. In ills book ycu will
discover the marry exciting oppor-
tuna» available lo freelance read-
ers. and bow to start your own mati-
ng service business. This is not ¡usi
a "hew to* book. it is e r.P/v to make reeding a business9 book.
An/body can txaAk Into this business. Having a co l ego dograe Is helpful tut not necessary. The ablrty to read well and a genuine levo of reading are the two primary roqurcmonis needed to operate a profitable reading service.
Chaters include: Making mono)* reading * Freelance rearing op- portunVes * Sertng up your business * Marketing your seMces a Gudolines lor success A How to become a publebod author a Literary services A Book reviewing ★ Researching ★ Transit ng A Indexing * LMerary roprosentaton a Manuscript resting a Qtfiw roading jobs * and moro.
The author has practical, first hand totoA<edga about reading sor- tfc«. Ha Is an nio^cndwil bock putfShGf who hrnr. and works wXh many freelance readers throughout no country.
1993. SH x OH, 209 pp. indexed. soft cover.
MAKE MONEY READING BOOKS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64143)
HOW TO MAKE $100.000 A YEAR
AS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
by Edmund J Pankau, CU. CPPh CFE
How would you Ike to ba part cf
cna of Die testest-growlng busi-
nesses of Uto 90's. with tow over-
head. no inventory, end profits di-
rectly related to your ability to do th©
ob?
In ths book - tho first of As kind
to focus on finding jebs ard making
money — Ed Pankau. a PI with
more than 20 years' experience, tells
ycu what reefy works and what
(foesrit. Which cities are gumshce
goldmines and which am invest go-
bve wastelands? Where should yea
advertise year services? (This an-
swer will surprise you: lor instance,
successful Pls never advertise in the yellow pages.) What businesses, industries and governmental agencies are crying lor ’data detectives' to track down missing people. info and assets? What three essential tods must you master in order to succeed In today's «formation age?
Tho answers to those questions. as woi as other insider tricks Of the trade. will help you start earning your way to the tcp.
1993, x 11. 112 pp. iififstrafed. softcover.
HOW TO MAKE $100,000 A YEAR
AS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: $19.95 (ORDER NUMBER 55003)
NCWIHTrnMATWHU EOlTdW
7>tr XANADU SYSTEM
Iknv to,
a$et iNtKl
$$^10,000
io tìwvl*
HOW TO GET PAID $30,000 A YEAR TO TRAVEL
Without Selling Anything
by Craig Chilton
This a corrptole
placement manual and
Quid? for cna of the
most Incredible jobs on
earth. It to the b’po of
portion that most
pooplo droam afoul
but do not realize exfete.
The position to aVncel
unknown to these
otzsefe Uto field, simply
because people almost
never g?/e conscious
thought to the way
recreational ard
specced vohtods
reach their respeetve
dealerships and desti-
nations. Chances are
you have never seen a
motorized vehicle of a
rocroabcnaJ cc special-
ized nature being
transported cn a truck.
Pvat is because they almost novar .vo. duo to their size and height. AJmcst invariably, they arc driven from their hundreds of points d msnufacturn, to their thousands upon thousands of deaiorshps and customers. iFrcuqbout the USA and Canada
How To Get Paid 330.000 A Year To TravoiWta you oxactiy how to find ths kind of work. Virtuaty al drivers who own ffiis took and work full-bmc at i earn at least $33.000 a year, and most of those wbo fellow tho bock's marry lips and hslrvctcns wm between $40,000 and S52.0CO a year. $iO.COO per ye6f Is a comtortablo tovcl of carrings, because Uis provides you with tho amount of time off per y©ar that Is enjoyed by most office workers. The difference b: delh'ery drivers enjoy a special txnnd of freedom that is avaitable to very few people doing other types of work. If you would like Io explore making good money in this unique field, there is no better starting place tian How To Cot PM 330,000A Year To Travel!
1991, OH x 11, 192pp. softcover.
HOW TO GET PAID $30,000 A YEAR TO TRAVEL: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64144)
PROFESSIONAL GUN DEALING
Buying, Soiling and Trading Firearms
for Fun and Profit
by Ryan K Kephart
If you havo a passion for firearms. Ifce to barter or acker ard woUdnt mind tots of extra cash in your pocket, this bcok ks woi worth the smal investment of tme and mcnay. ITS not ycur typcrJ reference bock with information on specifC firearms (X prtong THs guda was des'gnsd with one purpose In mind — to hep y-u lum a profit by becoming a bo Iter trader.
In his easy, down-home style. Ryan Kephart shows you tho ins and cuts of the firearms business that would normally take years to learn .and coaches you in Uto 'art of the trade.' You wrt loam what you need to get started, sthi» and Miqustfe. steMafd oporating prtz&Uuto and methods of grading and assassmont For tho experienced dealer, there are lips on obtaining financing, hnts atout marketing and promotion, pus valuable information ycu may have forgotten or don't use to your advantage.
Regardless of your level of invo>remen! in Uto industry, this valuable resource Is chock ful of proven facto that will help you enhance your business and pet Uto most for ycur money.
1993. 5Hx3>i, 224pp. Wuatrated, sort corer.
PROFESSIONAL GUN DEALING: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25074)
THE TEN BEST OPPORTUNITIES
FOR STARTING A HOME BUSINESS TODAY
The New Careers Center, Inc. with Reed Glenn
There are two basic types c4
home txisJness Cooks: Those that
briefly every type of business
tut can conceivably be operated
from home, and those mat cover
one spoerte business in exhaus-
tive debit. Th© problem with those
(hat briefly ccrrcr epportu cities (up
to 1.COO in one bock we knew ci)
is that they give noAhere near
enough detal to make an in-
formed decision about whether
the opportunity could reaty week
for ycur unique situation. They
also give the irrpressicn that
there are hundreds or equally
good home business eppor-
lunrtos. which is simply not tn;a.
The proMem with opportunity-
specific books, on the other hand,
is that most peepto only know they want to start a homa-hasod business and haven’t deeded mfarA business to pursue.
This book is dfterent. h recognizes that there are only a few homo businesses tfiat realistfcall/ after sold, proven oppertunihos for ordnary people with itde exart-up money, and it presents enough in dapen information on each to allow ycu to choose which opportunity is most Bksly to work for ycu.
77>e Ten Bast Opportunities For Starting A Home Business Today achieves a nice balance between tho facte and figures ycu neod to know. and inspiring. persocATzcd SUCOBS8 storios that make fascinating reading. A full chapter ts devoted to each o1 the ten best opportunities, and an intrcduciory chapter dscusses atert-up Questions. bps and ad- wco corrmon to all. Would you Ike io be complG^ly indeperxlerrt. Ifee of corpccatc politics, and make a good ncxima win almost uMimted potential? The businesses covered n this tock otfar rcakshc oppcrtunl- ties for achieving just this type of success.
1993. 6x9. 241 pp, SOftOOVer.
THE TEN BEST OPPORTUNITIES FOR STARTING
A HOME BUSINESS TODAY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64151)
THE HOLLYWOOD JOB-HUNTER'S
SURVIVAL GUIDE
How To Survive (And Succeed) In Hollywood
Without Being Sleazy
An Insider's Winning Strategies
by Hugh Taylor
What kind of job woud you da to start a career in the movte industry? Would you get coHee for a Elude cxecutvo? Work in the mailroom? Take tie producer's wife's deg to lunch?!!!
The competton for jobs in Holywood is fierce, and man)’ think that only the unscapulcus survive. Out the truth is. there arc many jobs cut thore for those who are w Hing to stert co the lower rungs cl tlxs ladder.
Hugh Taylor knows al the ins and outs of finding, and keeping, a job •n thn bz.’ Mr. Taytor has successfully navf$>ated his way through the career c(x>3cfe8 o! the mocon picture ndusary. Frcm Leng a film producers driver and gofer to current?'/ working as toe Vtoe President of Development for a leading independent production company. Hugh Taylor te wefl versed in the motion picture job market.
This wen-written Tufcde includes chapters on Getting The Jeb. Setting Up the Office and Getting to Work. The Script and Story Development Process. Productton. Information. Putting it All Together, Issues and Perspectives, and much, much more.
19*3, 5x3. 336pp iifuitreted, soft corer.
THE HOLLYWOOD JOB HUNTERS SURVIVAL GUIDE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64149)
19 9 4
WRITER'S
MARKET
Whrre A how .
to sell wh«>y»u write '
1994 WRITER'S MARKET
Where & How To Sell What You Write
4.000 Places to Sell Your Articles, Books,
Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Scripts,
Greeting Cards, and Fillers!
Invaluable tor writers,
this is one ol trite most
useful reference works
anyone can own. This
now edition of Writer's
Market is your key to
getting ycur work to the
rigN buyers' hands, to
addition to ths more
than 4, COO places to sell
your work, you will a'so
find he'pfU artefes.
interesting and useful
— sklebars ard fols cf
inside tips from the
cdtors co ovoiything
frem targeting your
magazine submissions
Io convincing an cdtor
that there rcafcy is a
market for your tock.
You will find every-
thing you n*ed to mar-
ket your writing, includ-
ing
-
More than 4.003 potential markets for ycur writing
-
700 ncvF’lislings of buyers of freelance material
-
Interviews with professionals in th© fteld. tocludng Mariana Liddell, articles editor tor Smihsonian: Jamas Cohen, armor editor at Sierra Club Bocks: Alee Wilkinson. author of A Wofcnf Act and a writer co the Staff of the Afcrr rtvAw;and Caret Wiley Lorente. managng od tor of Times
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A special ont-page sidebar ’Publishing Outside The Main- slrwtm,“ featuring Loompenics Unlimited and Editorial Director Steve O'Keefe
-
Prcjcctons on where year opportunities as a writer wll Ite In 1994
A quck lock at the Table of Contacts will familiarize ycu with th© arrangement of the 1994 Writer's Market The three largest scctons cf the book are the market listings of Book Publishers; Ccnsumcr Magazines; and Trade. Technical and Professional Journals. Within each category. The markets are Sated alphabettoalty. You will also find sections for scriptwriting markets, greeting card publishers, and syrxtcatcs. Be sure to re^d the Irv/oduction for each section tefcco you turn to toe l-stngs. The section Introductions contan specific rifoematicn about Herds, submission methods and otlter helpful resources for the material included In that section.
The 1994 Writer's Market conte'ns articles on soiling to magazines, pitch ng a bcok proposal, current trends In book and magazine pubish- ing and much more. ’Insider Reports* - interviews wzh writers and edtote—offer stf/fce ard an inside look at pubishng.
Mincing the Dctafo offers valUabto Intormation abrurt rigtxs. taxes end oilier practical matters. New or unpublished writers sboUd also mad Before Ycur First Sato. There e also a helpful section tfiod How Much Should I Charge? that offers gudanco for setting yo<x freelance writing fees.
The 1994 Writer's Market is the s-ngte hnsst reference work any professional or aspiring professional writer can own. And Its tengthy listings of book pubisbers, consumer and trade magazines make It a valuable research tool in isctf. We highiy rocommend the 1994 Writer's Market
1993. 6 x9h. 1,00Spp, Hfustrated, indexed, futrd corer.
1994 WRITER S MARKET: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64150)
HOW YOU CAN MAKE $25,000
A YEAR WRITING
(No Matter Where You Live)
try Nancy Edmonds Hanson
You can make J2S.OCO or mom wrtong —
no matter hnw far you are from New York City.
This tock 15 about making fdl-trne freelancing
8 foll-fiacfgod budnoss. How You Can Make
$25,000A Year Writing will help you:
-
set profitable ycarty. monthly, weekly and
hrxrrty rata; -
regelato successfully for the money you
nred tor Iha pb -
cUbvatn magazine markets and write books
- prof tatty—in the boonles -
break into broadcast writing
-
dn-vatop a base for commercial cfente
-
and mixh, much more.
How You Can Make $25,000 A Year Writing shows you tba many ways ycu can capitalize co your islervt to earn men? money writing than you ever dreamed possible. This eye-opening and lire?/ bock uncovers an abundan» of lucrative writing opportunities no matter where you Irra.
1990. 6x9,232 pp. indexed, softcover.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE $25,000
A YEAR WRITING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64125)
ncv ice CL« Mite
$25,000
A VfAR WITH YOU«
CAMERA
i V» »L<V» VW*» !•
HOW YOU CAN MAKE $25,000
A YEAR WITH YOUR CAMERA
No Matter Where You Live
by Larry Cribb
Your plwic^raphy sNto esn e*n
you money — right in yaur own
community. This book shows ycu
how! Larry Cribb. 8 hghly
successful freelance photographer,
gives ycu scores of surefire, time-
t€<=tod opportunities fee mak ing
money in your to*n. With each
idea. Cribb explains how io got
started, where to tock for potential
customers, how to approach them,
what photo packages to otter, what
equipment to use. and how to
determine wlvat to charge.
Ycu will find freelance photog-
raphy epportunilies at:
-
Schools
• Churches -
Real Estate Agencies
-
Daixo Schools
-
Conventions
-
Garden Clubs
-
Day c*ro Con tors
-
Mamas
-
Department Stores
-
And Many Moro Places.
In ths updated odbrxi, Critb efiers even mote helpful lips tor mak- ing money with ycur photos. You wil fnd detaied information on prWng and negotiating rights, how to use a computer in managing your business. and an expanded IM of moneymaking opportunities.
At eaoh step, you win benefit from Cribb’s experience: ha has worked at every job listed here, and made a gocd profit In doing It. By foltowing his advice, ycx/lt llnd that your potential incccne is limited on?/ by the amount of time you're wiling to spend
1991, 6x9,221 pp, Mustrafed, fadered, soft cover.
HOW YOU CAN MAKE $25,000
A YEAR WITH YOUR CAMERA: $12^5
(ORDER NUMBER 64124)
SHADOW MERCHANTS
Successful Retailing Without a Storefront
by Jordan L. Cooper
In Shadow Merchants, the
author of How To Make Cash
Money SeXhg At Swap Metis,
Ftea M&k&s, Etc. continues
your education In uncon-
ventional ways to make money
without twog a job. or wwWvg
a conventional retailing busi-
ness. It takes a lot ot tme .v>d
mcney to start a smni busi-
ness such ns a laundromat,
restaurant, shoe store or ma-
chine shop. Most people dent
have the time or money. but
they do have tho tmo and
money to become a shadow
merchant.
A shadow merebstf Is a
retailer who dcesnl have a
storefront. but eels hs wares
in any cot? c< a comb’nsticn ot
alternative market locations.
Bong a shadow merchant may not effer the prestige cf bong a store o*ner. but It definite?/ offers soma ad/arJagcs that far outweigh 7»e regatta aspects. Thcsa include:
■ Low inc al investment
■ Can bn dene part-time whtc still hddng down a ful-time job
■ l ow Initial er.-erhead. an important consideration even lor existing txjsncsscc
■ Mobility — If your initial chocc of locations is wrong, its easy to change
■ The fiexbiity cf being able to walk away from the business wxh a minimums loss if it fails
With co?/ □ sms! investment of time and money. It’s possible to become a shadow merchant coming weekend. cr oven before, h can be done n less than an hcur. with a local casm investment of under $10.
Contents inebde:
■ Why Become a Shadow Merchant?
■ Why Merry Businesses Fail — Before They're Started
■ The 'Winning Combination
■ Soil What You Lfce
■ When To Diversify ■ Othcf Pecp’e. Other Units
■ Types oi Markets
■ Swap Meets and Flea Markets
■ Street Corners
■ Arts and Crafts Shews
■ Fairs and Camr^ats
■ GunSho-A’s
■ Speca! Interests - Special Events
■ A Storefront VAthout a Storefront
■ Off-Season Markets
■ Beware t he Hgh Rent District
■ Ard more.
In Shadow Merchants, ttie aulftor share* h<$ yeers of oxpnrcncc Wrth you. One way out of the rat race is to become a shadow merchant!
19W>SHAM, tSSppi ifh^t'ated, soft cover.
$HADOW MERCHANTS: $12.95
(ORDER HUMBER 64145)
CAREERS IN THE OUTDOORS
by Tom Sttenstra
Your dream job in the cukkwrs
exists, and Careers In Tbe Out-
doors tells you bow to ge< iL
Sound too good to bo true? Il's
not. Discover.
-
What jobs are available
-
Salary ranges and pay scabs
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Training arri education re-
quirements -
Seasons*. part-time and full-
time oppcdunllles -
Industnos that have» growth
potential -
Strategies tor getting the job
you want -
Ptoses and minuses of each job
-
Professional organizations,
associations and information
numbers to contact for more
information -
Anri much mrxe. nolinirrj
mow than ICO interviews w.th people who (15 those Jeds oreiy day and tovn it!
Whether you’re just cut of school end looking for your first job. n the midst of a mld-lrie career change, or searching tor part-ome. seasonal or freelance work. you c^n fnd an outdoor jeb to fit your stolls. educaton and desres. Aixnor Tom Sbcnstra Is roputod to bare the host job in the world. As a syndicated outdoors writer and author of eight outdoors books, ho spends 365 days a year dong wlvit be tores and getting paid for it In Careers in Tbe Outdoors, he shows you all yuu need to know lo get the job of your dreams.
1992. SU x 6H, 414pp. i.Vusfrated. softcover.
CAREERS IN THE OUTDOORS: $12.95
(ORDERNUMBER 64142}
HERS
The Wise Woman's Guide to
Starting a Business on $2,000 or Less
by Carol MUano
Do you hare great l.-l oas and Imltod
capital? Hers provides bno practical, no-
nonsense advtoo that yzu need to sen
ytxjr idea grow into a money making
business. Step-by-step you wil bn able
lo clarify your ablilics and goals and start
a business on $2,COO or loss. Ibn stones
of real women who started Ihor oati
businesses and tove being their own
tosses grre a human dmcnston and
depth to the atMco to Hers.
Hors tala you baw to choose the
business that's best for you from tho
infinite range of possibilities. To start you
thinking in tho right drecbon. Hers
describes over 100 specific businesses that women have started. Coze you study Iha criteria for what makes a
successful entrepreneur and sole« yovr business otters ups on
getting started, secrets of tow-cost marketing. eduOone to typcal small
busmess problems, and a resource section of the most useful sources
of information, tn addition to tho how to process, Hors ghres practical
adrice on Iba emotional issues of entrepreneurial afo as well. Whatever
11*6 business and however smal your budget. Hers offers everything
that you need to become a successful entrepreneur. And of course, you
don't have lo bo a woman In order to uso this advtoe.
1991, 9x9, 207pp, indexed, soft cover.
HERS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64146)
HOW TO DRAW AND SELL COMIC STRIPS
For Newspapers and Comic Books!
by Alan McKenzie
Ttife txx* wil l teach ycu wl>a!
you need to knew to draw and
sell your oati come strips lor
both newspapers and comic
books, inclutfng ho* to master
the an of (fcpictirg three-dmen-
sonal $lcfl99 iMlh'n the confirm
of a two-dlmenslcnal strip and
how lo reduce yo<x script to just
a few acticn packed quotes .and
captions. Using more than 160
illustrations. the author and other
professional ccmic strip artists
share Ihe^r secrets ard dcmcn-
abate how to: draw the human
figure in ccm-incing poses and
motion; depict super-heroes or
heroines and other special character typos: render facial expressions that replace tho written caption; distort perspective lo suit your story's needs; use light and shadow to add drama and create moods.
McKenzie takes you step-by-step through too precess of writing a script, then explains bow to break it doAn Into action-packed panels. You'J learn which seitens h your story sbaiid bn framed, how to frame lf»em, how largo to make each panel, and how to convoy tho passage of time. In the final section, yoi/l discover how lo sell your work in this competitive markeiplaco. Including: low many sample submit al ono time; r-ow to ptoh by ma« vs. in porson. ptos how to maintain a now cf ideas and draw Inspiration from unilkoty sourcns once you get a job. A special appendix of comic publishers and syndicates corr-ptaio with addresses gives you Ibo contacts you need to gel slatted.
1947, ^x 10, 144 pp, Utestrated, Indexed, Herd cover.
HOW TO DRAW AND SELL COMIC STRIPS: 519.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 99085)___________________
THE GAME INVENTOR'S HANDBOOK
by Steve Peek
Games and game playing are
bigger than eve*, espccaly with the
adeem of computer gareas. And many
people who enjoy playing games also
think tb=ry c^n c^sgn a game worth
prod.ic'ng and marketing. The Gnmo
inventor's Handbook is tor them.
The toW of game publishing can be
both confusing »and fascinating. Tbs
bcok is a rRAt lifesaver tor anyone
wtx> has already in-rented a game but
nacds help in manufacturing and mar-
keting. its a real treat to all players,
buyers ard sellers who are interested
In knowing hOAr too whole process
works.
This book covers the entire pro-
cess of inventing a game, from de-
vetopng a concept to selling the dea to a pubisher, to marketing the game, lo proledng the inventton through copyrighted trademarks, and patents. Af%t a brtef iotfoduettori to Ite NHMy of games, tte su'.'hx guides game enihusiaste through generating ideas, improving a game concept, de-retopmg prototypes and •pteytesTng’ Then, he goes into the corrpcnnms ot soling your Idea or game to a publsber, self- publishing, and marketing. Board games, role playing games, car games and computer games arc all dscussod Sieve Peek has boon to the game business tor more than twenty years. Snce 1971. he has d?stoned. developed, andtor marketed more than 150 games.
1993. 019x11, 192pp, softcover.
GAME INVENTOR'S HANDBOOK: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64148)
The Teaching
Marketplace
Moke Money With
Freelance Teaching,
Corporate irutnian.
And On The Lecture Circuit
tUrr Biowkt u»i» Rmct Cen
THE TEACHING MARKETPLACE
Mako Money with Freelance Teaching,
Corporate Trainings,
and On the Lecture Circuit
by Bart Brodsky and Janet Gets
Based cxi tto experience of two
nationally recognized pioneers In tto
field of marketplace educaticn. The
Teaching Marketplace hAS ovorythng
you need to attract students, to organize
ard set your classes to schools and
corporations, and. if you choose. Io
frco'Anco on your own.
Chaplets ineluda: • The Benefits of
Skfelne Teaching • What Stider-ts
Want • Choosing Your Topic • Where
the Jobs Are • Freelance Teaching
Opportunities • Legal Constraints •
Best Times to Toach • Class Size •
Setting Feos ♦ Uabilty and fosurar<o •
Promoting Classes • When Things Go
Wrong • Ard much, much moro.
Become a pad of to exciting toachng mariwtplao=*. This book suggests what topics to otter, where to find jobs, and how to market your own daises Incfopondontty on the open market. Whether you want to leach tor money o r just for the love of it. this book wll show you how.
1991, 9x9, 175 pp, fSfustratod, Indexed, soft coref-
THE TEACHING MARKETPLACE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER Ml 17)
SMALL-TIME OPERATOR
How to Start Your Own Small Business,
Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes,
and Stay Out of Trouble
by Bernard Kamorotf, CPA
Small-Time Operator Is a gocd and widely-prated book on star.ng and running your cwn sma1 business. The topics covered are general lo moat (i1 not all) smaJ businesses. That te. ¡< dees net suggest specific Ideas 1or what kind of busness you ought to go hlo (lice seme of cur Olher Money books). It assumes toat you have already picked a particular business Idea you want to get started, and goes from mere. Contenfts ¡tordo:
Soctlon One: Getting Startod — the market; location; tnarwg & loans; soto propriatorsh'p; fkrtiious name statements; licenses & permits; federal & stale regutolions; insurance; cash outlays; business name.
Section Two: Bookkeeping — selling up the books; bank accounts; CA$h vs. accrual accounting; recording Income; sales returns; bounced chocks; crodt sates; expenses; petty cash; calculators & addnj machnes; financial ana’ysis & management.
Section Three: Growing Up — business expansion; becoming an employer; outnkSo contractors; partnerships; how to incorporate a business.
Section Four: Taxes — federal & state income taxes; sett-employment tax; retrenwnt deductfons; operating tossed; inventory taxes; gross receipts taxes; how to deal with the IRS.
Section Five: Appendix — balancing bank accounts: balance shoots; finding an aooountant; information for farmers; ard •Access.* an annotated Utttcgraphy of bocks ard soirees
Section Six: The Ledgers — a fut year's worth of heemo and expendcuro lodgers; year-end summaries. rteproowtion wo.-kslvwld. credit, payroll ato equipment ledgers, profossonatty drawn to the author's spcc/.catons.
Smail-Timo Operator is well worth the price rf you are thinking of staling (<x have already started) your own small txistoss.
1937. 9Ji x 11, 199 pp. fítustreted, Indexed.
*jjrtp<c forms, sof! cover.
SMALL-TIME OPERATOR: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64017)
STARTING A MINI-BUSINESS
A Complete Guide to Starting
a Low-Risk, Part-Time Home Business
by Nancy Olsen
Starting A Mini-Business te a complete and practical guide to
beginning a very sma'I sca’o busness. Written especially for senior
citizene seeking to supplement retirement income or take on a
chaiengng new life activity, this bock wJl to of value to people of firry
age who are Interested to enmng extra dolors in a low-risk, part-time
Itofne-based buthocs. Hero Is everything the mtol^micewcrsoci
needs to krww... from tip« on fining a good don. to affordable
advertising, and simple record-keeping and base legal roquromonts.
Easy-to-understand information. hefptul exorosos. resource lists, ard
down-lo-earth advise combine to make this ar. unusually c'lfeotrve ard
encouraging gudebock.
The author says: The average persco Who retires at age 65 can
expect to Ivo another fifteen lo twenty years, and thanks to advances to
to held of health care, more of those years wJI to vigorous, active
ones. To fully cr^oy this lengthy retirement ported means, for many,
having some sort ol on going work actvity. Scene choose volunteer
work, dtors part-time emptoymont. Out for these who have akvnys
dreamed of being tok own boss. a mini-business is often the answer.
Mini-businesses pro’.kfo the things that sonors seek in their work fives
— a sdf-dctemvned work schedt/e. the stimulation of loaming new
skits, and opportunities to bo useful to others. And there U nothing like
operating a successful busness. even a very smai ono. lo bring a
sense of accomplishment and personal sa tie faction ’
19S3, SH x 11. 144pp, indexed, eoflcever.
STARTING A MINI-BUSINESS: $8.95
(ORDERNUMBER 64110)
STAY HOME AND
MIND YOUR OV/N BUSINESS
How to Manage Your Time, Space, Personal
Obligations, Money, Business, and Yourself While
Working at Homo
by Jo Frohbletcr-Mucllcr
Stay Home And Mind Your
Own Business Is ndveo that an
e-stmaled 20 mdlcn Amorcans
have hee<»d already. Thots how
many of us earn al or pari of our
income from a homobasod
bu8inn$u3. In tor. bock, too author,
a successful homo business
entrepreneur, addresses al me
aspects of working at Mrrte — nd
just the business Usef. but nif toe
elements of tho ’balancing act*
with which a homo business
person has to cope. The first
seefien focuses on those
elements: relaionshps with
spouse and chldron. tmo ard
sp<yue manaf^frert. maintcnarcc
d housetoW routines, school ard
convncntry obligations, maintenance of a work ¡veo. heath consldcraboas. in effect. aS the noci-buainess» fesponsbutics that must be mm i the tusness is to to
Tto second half of too bock is devotod to tho business itself: everything from chcosng an appropriate prcdixt or service lo ddrg tto necessary market and feasiMity Modes; from bookkeeping and financial management to satisfying legal, tax and insurance obfigatons; from choosing tto best tegai form of ownership and cdlecticn poktes to bring conployoes- and much more. Stay Home And Mind Your Own Business*^ help you do exactly that.
1997, SHxSH, 259pp. Indexed, soft corer.
STAY HOME AND
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64089)
Stay Monte and Mind
YOÚR OWN BUSINESS
EARNING MONEY WITHOUT A JOB
by Jay Conrad Levinson
Tired Cf the rlne-lo-five (readmit? Want Io te year own boss and do work that interests and stimulates you? Until now. ftx millions of Anted- cans, being cut of a fc>b meant being cut of work. But no longer. Jay Conrad Levinson has frE»toed thousands of indrvduate leave stagnating careers and get on independent courses toward pcnzznal and fhanoal saftstaclicn. This compteteiy revised edition of Earning Money Without A Job Is loaded with practical, money-making ideas iltat dorrt require fancy degron»; or hugo start-up costs (Of any $tart-up M. in many cases) — from selling ard mail order to catering and high-tech repair services. In addition. Levinson shows you bow to size your strengths and weaknesses, bow Id market yourself, and how to gat thn help and financing you will need to succeed.
Earning Money Without A Job is a book about freedom frem an economic system that probably has been contrctiing ycur nfa. Once you have conboJ. ycu will have the freedom to decide your own inooma. your own working hours, your own workweek, your own working conditions.
Even better, you will have enough mcnoy to expand your freedom further. Ycu will have the money and time to discover what you are al about and then to ba it Until naw. to rrriltons of peepe. out of a job rresrrt cut of work. But no longer. Now. ycu reed no job to eam money. Ycu need no job, period. In feet, once you have acted upon the information ¡n these psgss. you may never want a job again.
199!, 5Hx8H, 2S6 pp. softcover.
EARNWIG MONEY V/TTHOUT A JOB: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64114)
HOMEMADE MONEY
The Definitive Guide to
Success in a Home Business
by Barbara Brabec
What is •horrerr-ado money?’
The fulltime and side I no income
milions of Americans — women,
men. couples. entire families —
are now generating from an
incred bta variety of hemebased
business activities.
Homemade Money is Iha
ltofr<?tased business how-to ard
research guide for everyone:
• Dreamers will) ideas ard
talent who want to make
money at home, but need
hep and encouragement to
get started
-
’Sideliners* win have storied
a part-time business but need
more know-how and guidance
to grow -
Establshod home business entrepreneurs who want to increase revenues through better marketing and growth pfenning.
Ths huge took includes practical, expert advtoe on gelling started, selecting the right homo business, planning tor profits, strategies tor drversricaticn ard exparvsicn, and much more. Also nctoded is an invaluable "book within a bock,’ an A to Z Course in Home Business Ba- ste, sources of further inlonnalicn and much more.
We always ercouraga cur readers to break free of Iha job eccoomy Homemade Money can help you get gc4ng.
1989, 9Hx 11, 325 pp. Hiustrated, indexed, softcover.
HOMEMADE MONEY: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64057)
RUNNING A ONE-PERSON BUSINESS
by Claud# Whfanyer, Salil Rasberry
& Michael Phillips
Times fave changed, and
the one-persen business, espe-
c^ly small txielnessos run
from thn hama or Ite profes-
&onal office, are a permanent
part of our now occrramy. Ytftn
interviews with tlx, marry suc-
cessful cnlrnpmnours who havo
set out on their o^n and stuck
with It. Running A One-Per-
son Business Is lull of the
practical nlcmvificn needed Oy
these currently in business tor
themselves or Itese who are
pfcnrtng to bo.
Many of you are ttrod dt
Irving for the weekend, for two
weeks* vacation with pay, »and
for the promise of the good life
when you retire. This book is for those of you who are daydreaming about thn possfality of running a soto proprietorship. those of you who are knee-deep in lie first year of being ycur cwn bo^s. ard those of ycu who are cid hands at it but nt**d specifics and refinement to ho p you slay a onc-pcrscn business. Ths bock Is for at of you who suspect Of already know, that you can create rneanngful week that paralcb all chat ts Important n year Mo.
1589. TH x9X, 218 pp. fituatrsted, indexed, softcover.
RUNNING A ONE-PERSON BUSINESS: $12.00
(ORDERNUMBER 64116)
MONEY IS MY FRIEND
byPhULaut
Does money slip through your fingers
with elusivenasa of water? Would yea
like to step wotKng for money, and have
money work for you? Would you like to
make friends willi money? If your answer to
any of these Questions is ’Yes.* ttoi you
vrart this book.
Money Is My Friend s the best book on
mcoey to come along in a tong time and we
highly reccmmerd it. The purpose of this
book te to etmnete poverty in the wodd and
to make aburdent Irving socteiy accept-
able. This book is about achieving finsnda
freedom. Financial freedom is when you
never do anything that ycu (font want to for money and you never omt doing something that ycu want to do because of lack cA mor.e>’. Another way of describ’ng the condton of finartotel freedom is that money works for you. instead cd ycu working for money.
The author probes every possible area of life that ccukf be holding th? reader back from reaching h^ fUlest potential. If money has aUays teen a problem Icc you. you will fird In lb's book some real insights frito Ite cause of your situation. He draws attention to those areas of cut emotional make-up which may te stopping tfi item 'gening ahead.' He tten offers suggestions for spec»te affirmations to be used by tie reader in dealing with those areas of Inner conftid.
What yo-J can expect to rcoar.e from tte Information presonted In Money is My Friend vi\ A. thorough understanding of The Four Laws of Wealth: Increased income; A right-hearted attitude ard sense of self- rclnnco nbcut your financial problems: Tte Information you teed to start and prosper in too career you want Monty Is My Friend s Cte of the very test books on metey ever written. Highly reccmmerded.
f.W. Mx8^, 144pp. softcover
MONEY IS MY FRIEND: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64040)
FREELANCE WRITER’S HANDBOOK
The Real Story
by James Wilson
The book is a realistic look at wilting for a IMrg. written by □ pro who
does just that —'James WUson’ has had two dozen books published,
and hundreds of magazine artfctes. Thia book wii gho you a basic
undorstanding d Hie practical tactcs you ncod to be a professional
writer. Il indudee a tot of nuts-and-boks Information toat isn’t usually
available in ore volume. In thia book, you wdl dscorer the do*n-and-
drty Ucte about writing for pay. You wil Answer the hidden pitfalls. Ite
bcobytraps of the writer's market II win tell you what errors to avoid ard
what sucker-traps you may encounter.
Topics covered in detail inclxto: • What ITs realty ike to write lor a
ivfng • Myths About Writing Quick success. Fair-mlndod oditors.
Following the ’proper* slaps. Writer's Block, and more • What
oquprrcjnt you rcaly need ard what you can do without • Four thngs
a writer shouW never do • How to introduce yours** to a naw
pUblcatfon ♦ Understandrg a publisher's ’Writer's Gukfcdnos’ bow
to rood between toe Ines • inside an edtor's office — knowing what
QOBS bnhnd tho scenes wi3 help your work be accepted • The 11
problems you are most Hkely to have with editors —- ard how to deal
with them • How to handle rojocticns • Undcnstancfing Contracts —
dffcronces between small and large publisters • How Writers Get Paid
— royalties ard otter arrangements — which fa best for you? • Base
Photography for the Writer — photos make yeur work mere salable •
The Pen-Name — wtoen to use con — and when net to • Do you need
an agent? — the answer wil surprise you • Hew to locate markets for
your work • And much, much more.
Freelance Writer's Handbook ¿a toe single most valuable bcok over
written for anyone who wants to earn money writing. Old pros and
beginners alke will team what tttey need to know from its hard-earned
advice.
19SS, SHxSH, 190 pp, Hhntrsted. softcover.
FREELANCE WRITERS HANDBOOK: $12.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 64060)___________________
STUNTMAN
A Freelancer's Guido to Learning the Craft
and Landing the Jobs
by Jack Bucklin
Being a stuntman is a hghly pad.
Chalenglng cUrr.dcvil profession. But
rot everyone has the courage to
enter a profession that roqurcs thorn
to team how to get turned alive,
wrack cars at high speeds, swing
from nooses, tall Coati Hights Of
stars ard fall off runaway horses.
Stuntman is a haw-to book on
becoming a stuntman and finding
work In television, the movies, and
live shows. The aixhcr. Jack Buckin.
has been in the entertainment
business tor the past twenty years,
and he prorides information found
nowhere else.
The first pan ol Ite book expkwns
what stunt work is and the stunts you must master to get pbs — indudiog fafe. bums, dming, fights, and marc. Tlw wcond part of the book rs a step-by-step gude to marketing yourself, without havlrg to pay outrageous toes, duos, or commissions. Part three includes names and add'esses to contact Him bureaus, assccia’ons, casting services, directors, and producers wte hro stuntmen.
Stuntman taachos you how to master the required slants safety and quickly. No one can promise you success, but if you think youVe got what it takes, here’s your chance. Reading ths book can be your first step toward a new. exciting career.
1992. BHxll, 135 pp, Wustrsled, softcover.
STUNTMAN: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64132)
STUNTMAN
YOU
< A.x 111 As
INI'ORMATION
Writer
YOU CAN BE AN INFORMATION WRITER
by Duncan Long
It youYo locking for help marketing
tho no.-ol you wrote, tl»is ¿9 not the
book tor you! Thousands of novels are
wrxtcn tor every cos that gets
published. Few of them make money
for thex authors.
However. H you want to quit getting
rrjeoon notices ard atari ccflecllng
royabes. read cn. You Can Ba An
Information Writer wil teach you
everythin; you need Io know to turn
your ecnoepcs into cash.
This book will show you herw to find
paying markets, how to wrttn proposals
toat txirg contracts. and how io get
paid before you start writing — not
attar. Tho chapter on research will lz*'p
you cut your writing time in half while
daubing the vatoo of your work. Whether you’re interested in bong a
freelance writer, a technical writer, an editor, a consultant or an autoor.
You Can Lie An Information Writer will put you cn the path towards
fnancial success.
Duncan Long is the author of mere Ilian 30 books. Including six
n0‘/C«’-S His hooks have been published by Avon Books. Harper S Row.
Lcomparics Unlmr.cd. Paiadn Press and other noted pubflsters He
has published more than 40 articles in a wde variety of magazines. A
former teacher, he is also a public speaker and writing consultant.
1991, Sit x 174pp, fampte outlines 9 proposals, soft corer.
YOU CAN BE AN INFORMATION WRITER: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64112)
HOW TO OWN A YACHT AND MAKE IT PAY
What to Do and How to Do It» with Illustrations,
Sample Forms, Insurance Guidance, Tax Reforms,
Success Stories and Instruction
by Captain Jack Seaborn
Owning a yacht and mak-
ng it pay for its** may sound
ike sheer fantasy, but Cap-
tain Jack Seabern has dene
just that for years, and h his
book How To Own A Yacht
And Make ft Pay, be tolls you
how you can (to ttte very
same thing.
In plain EngKsh. Captain
Jack guides you through ton
selection and purchase of
your first boat, and covnm
many different merwymakng
Opportunity for yacht own-
ers. Topics ccvorcd ¡ndude:
★ Anttopato nc Risks tn-
voNod * Bnofing Your Cus-
tomers * Bareboat Rental
Clteckist ★ Navigation
Charts k Ttw Charter Agreement * SueceesM Brochures * Lets Go Fishing * Boat Management by Professionals ★ Vessel Management Agreement * Wind/jrrmcr Cruises * Submorsfotes: a Lock In Depth * Dinner Safi Mede * Sportftshing for Real * Scuba Diving Charters * Augmenting Your Dive Boal * Waler Skiing w Para-Sailing * Glass Dollern Boats ♦ How to Ui ri a Surveyor * And much more.
So cimb aboard with Captain Jack Soabcm and learn How To Own A Yacht And Make ft Pay!
1SS7, Sfi x 11, 112pp, Ktustnfed. softcover.
HOW TO OWN A YACHT AND MAKE IT PAY: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64134)
Hi>w To Be Successful
hi The
ANTIQUE BUSINESS
HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE
ANTIQUE BUSINESS
by Ronald S. Barlow
Ths book is written for thn
American cclkxrtor who
dreams of some day opening
an antique shop and living
happily ©ver after. R is not an
impossible dream, but it will
require as much pfennig and
preparation as any other
serious rotnil venture.
Chapters include: Gerting A
'Degree' tn Antiques (Where
to Study In Your Own Heme
Town); The Great American
Garage Safe (Basic Backyard
Cepttafism); The Show Must
Go On (How to Make a thing
on the Road); Order
Mrxchan&iing (Soling
Antiques from Your Own
Homo); Myths From Madiscn Avenuo (A Sheet Course in Effective
Adrertising); Buying y?$XM’(What to Buy. What to Pay. Whore to Buy it):
Going, Going, Gone! (How to Buy Successfully al Auctions); Buying
Privately (Estate Lots. Waft-Ins; and ’Jve Law); Store Layout and Display
(Merchancising Techniques Thal Work); The 'CoSector' Menta&ly (Are
Freudian Impufsos Involved?); and much, mudi more.
This book has it all! How to project a profit or toss; rrventory and
cash ccntrd forma; successful fiea market operations; choosing -»0
boat location; Importing; buying from charitable Instituttons; sating at
auctions; appraising antiques: buying ard setting M books ard jewoYy;
cosmetic furniture refinfeWng; metal precessing technlquea; and much
more.
Thia book stresses the fact that broad AnoMedge is essential to
auMvai ard aucosw In a field where metf (Mis ate made on M basis
of one parly imowfng appraciarity rrore than trio ofherf You can gain this
knowtedge the hard way, from wperionco, or In a much shorter time by
subscnbhg to sovoral of tho ooltoctoc publcattons listed In this bcok.
Just whore you might fit Into tho spectrum of opportunity is a question
that this bcok can answer.
1965. 8 x S, 190 pp. ittuxt/xtod. toft cover.
HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL
IN THE ANTIQUE BUSINESS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64095)
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!
The New Product Handbook
by Tony Husch and Linda Foust
This book dea’s with hew lo geL evalúale, protect, develop, and sail new product ideas. It is lor entrepreneurs, professionals. Inventors, linkerers, intrapreneurs, urd anyono oteo with a great idoa fee a now product or service.
Contents helado: ♦ Keys to now product success ♦ Unique brainstorming techniques to liberate and Inspire the imagination ♦ Evaluating an idea's commercial potential ♦ Making prototypes and doing market research ♦ How to decade wt»ether to sat a corcopt c< do it yourself ♦ How to protect ideas, inctoding tie sobering truth about patents and trademarks ♦ Presenting new product concepts to etrtáib'íírfiod Gompaniw ♦ Sample submission agreement and royalty contract ♦ Extensive bibliography ard resource glide ♦ And much, much more!
That's A Great Meal to prtmariy about creating, designing, and marketing new consumer products and servers. but the principles apply to devetoping any good concept It may be anything from a silly gsmo to a p5an fcr a real estate development or a premise for a blockbuster movie. The scul of this book is its inquiry into the nature ard practice of idon generator, evaluation, and Implcmontn'.jon.
1286, 6x9,228pp. indcx&d. xoft cov*r.
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!: 9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64071)
EXPATRIATE’S
EMPLOYMENT
HANDBOOK
I
Seen »y íIm-
UfccM
a’vj Cretin^
Bak! Jfr ft.*
DENNIS RILEY
EXPATRIATE'S EMPLOYMENT HANDBOOK
Seeing the World... and Getting Paid for it!
by Donn Is RHey
Have you over fantasized about
getting away from it all —
abandoning a humdrum job (or tho
unemployment tine) in America and
going off in search of exotic
adventure in a foreign land? You
have swn the ate W W,
adventure, travel., a# these cou<d
bo yours it you take one of the
multitude of avaSabfe positions
abroad, /ust waiting to be fttied by
someone Ste you.9
. If you have ever responded to
cne ot these ate you were probably
tfseppontad with the fruits ot your
efforts, partfeuterty 11 your skills and
interests Ite net w.:n desk K>bs and
volunteer positions, but with
technical work or hard-core, down -and dirty labor. Wott. hero Is a book
written just for ycu — the rest wod< force. tr»e technicians, consvucticn
workers, engineers, and service toduslry personnel —by someone who
has been there and back, wtn is making a living ard an adventure cut
of working orerseas. After years c4 experience. Domte Riloy has
devotoped an ir/allbh system, a simple job search procedure that has
nerer tailed to bring him an offer.
Al )W need Ea ths book, a typewriter, and seme stationary. Ycu will
get the low-down cn how to launch an al-out job search: what to look
for. what to ccnstoer. how to prepare, and how to get tiere. Plus, ycu
will discover what the real world ia like overseas and how to pel the
most out cf it once you are there.
When you consider things like free housing, free food, liberal
vacation time, and no-tax status. It wont take tong to realize that a year
In the tropica can produw a Un and rr^ney In the bank. ¡uM for stMere.
Open this book and you have opened the door to a new life and a world
of adwnkiro.
1^90, S'rixS'ri, 144 pp>fffustrxted, soft cover.
EXPATRIATE'S EMPLOYMENT HANDBOOK: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64109)
CREATING MONEY
Keys to Abundance
by Sanays Roman and Duane Packer
This step-br-alep guide to creating
money and aturdarce was alleg&cly
channeled to the authors by their ’spirit
guidas’ — but deal tot that bizarro
circumstance prevent you from benefiting
from the very sensible processes contained
in this book.
Leam how to:
-
forow the tews cf money and abundance
-
develop unlkn lied thinking
-
listen to your inner guidance
-
use advanced manifesting techn’qies
-
create your ite's work
-
iransformyourbellefs
-
magnetize and draw to ycu what you want.
Abundance te your natural state. As you use the Information In this
book, you wMI loam how to tot money how roadly into your life white
dong what you tovo. Those oosy-to-toam toohnques. positive
affirmations, ard exorcises wit help you create rapd changes In ycur
presperity and load you to mastery ever your lite. Ycu do rot have to
work hard to have abundance. Ycu can team to work with energy to
easily create what ycu want.
19SS, SH x 6%, 241PP, soft cover.
CREATING MONEY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64107)
THE TRICK TO MONEY IS HAVING SOME!
by Stuart Wilde
Ths is noe a 'how-to' book
rather. It to a book cn
changing your attitudes toward
money, so that you can be in
the right place at too right time
with Iha nght idea and the right
attitude Serre qix>tr.s Irem the
book:
•Moneymaking is no*, a
serious business It is a game
that ycu play. At first it may
seem that n Is a game nat you
play wen forces cutsde of
yeursef — tio economies of
the market-place so to speak
— but as you proceed you
dscover it Is actually a game
you play with yoursed.'
"All phfosophes which
teach that poverty is groovy,
dj so as a cop out. H keeps
the nooperiormng members
happy so they can livo in the ego-trip of thinking that somehow their r^ck of creativity and effort wit be bfossed at a later dale.*
'Our work) is abunctant. There is a sirpXjs of food, mono/ and resources. in tact. It tha total wcaf.T cf the work! were divkfod equally among a! of cs otzexns, ovary man. woman ard child woiXd bo a millionaire. Yet wo experience lack. Why? Because en'y a very small percentage cf people arc free of negative emotions eround money and even fewer have a cortanty in ther heart that says. 'I am always in tHo right place at tho righ t limo, abundance is simple and natural to mo. all of my needs arc ccns tantly mol.” .
m SM xN, 221pp. HSuttnW, M ww.
THE THICK TO MONEY IS HAVING SOME!: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64119)
HOW TO START A BUSINESS
WITHOUT QUITTING YOUR JOB
The Moonlight Entrepreneur’s Guide
by Philip Holland
What's keeping you from gong into business for yourself? Marr/ ponpo havo the skills, drive. and desire io become entrepreneur — but all 100 Otten, they aro hokl back by fears of teikure. Author Philp Holland begins with tho sensible assumption that you dent have to curt your 'rear jeb in order to become an entrepreneur... and proves that you can do ri. This pcactcal gudo shows how to choose the right startup business, budget tmo wisely, and make sure n^VWjOb suffers. Other chapters discuss financing, iabitey. involving your family, and dccicirg when (<x If) to qu< your job.
From the author* tiitroduc&n: 'One reason that few Americans go Into business a that we have a deep-rooted fear of failure. Free enterprise gr.es us the opportunity to go into business, but not tho courage. We took upon going into business as an unacccptabfo crapsboot Or we're afraid of toeing our vacations. pension plans, and medcat insurance. Our upbringing derates that olt duty is to find a jeb when wo graduate from sebeo'. In the past. American jobs did provide us with dependable pay envelopes and toeg-rang© security. Not anymore. Job security is now the crapshoot as American companies struggle for survival. But who says wo arc obigod to quit our jobs when we start a business? You are geirg to team hero how to overcome ths fear of going into business and how to havo both a job and a busness at the samo bmo: to en.oy the boat of both worids.*
1992, 6x 9, 176 pp, indexed, toft cone
HOW TO START A BUSINESS
WITHOUT QUITTING YOUR JOB: $9.95
(ORDER 64136)
FINDING YOUR NICHE
Marketing Your Professional Service
by Bart Brodsky and Janet Gels
Coders, lawyers, tharapsts. teachers, consultants, program admin-
Istralors, performing and fine artiste — virtually every professional in
busness or private practice can benefit from Finding Your Niche.
Based cn tho front line e>periGnce of two oxperfonood marking pros.
Finding Your Niche has everything you need to market your profes-
sional service and become widely known as an expert h your chosen
field.
Creating your own jeb on your own terms is stn mo Amencan dream.
But about hall of al new businesses and professional services fail
within the first year. Lack of money ard «experience often gels the
blame. However, lots of people sttooec.d dcspte starting out g-een and
penntess. Successful peepta know how Io dream. btX they also know
bow to plan.
It’s a mistake to thlrk of marketing as an afterthought to your profes-
sion. Quite the contrary, It's the most professional Nng you can (to.
Good marketing means mat you understand ton needs and wishes of
your clients. If your service te highly spccalzod. your marketing has to
be pinpoint accurate. You havo to knew where to find clients, what they
want what they will pay. and hew to motivate them to purchase.
The book presents practical information that almost everyone can
mptoment. Anybody cen build a satisfying career dong what C»ey tove.
Ycu don’t need a tel bankroll to market your own professional service.
There are countless ventures that can ba started for less than the ccet
c4 a night cut on the town. Ard marry or ir^Ro require rw special educa-
tion or training ether than reading, writing, end archmctic. However, if
you are fortunate enough to havo special training and access to money,
so much tf’»e better. This bock will htfp you avoid common metekes that
l ave cost Others much valuable ‘.me and money.
1992, SU x 11, 2SSpp. Musirxicd. sort cover.
FINDING YOUR NICHE: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64130)
80+ GREAT IDEAS
FOR MAKING MONEY AT HOME
A Guide for the First Time Entrepreneur
by Erica Barkemeyer
For recossjcn victims, retirees,
or anyone who wants extra
Income, this book catatogs
innovative and realistic sug-
gestions for making money in ycuf
home, whether you havo previous
bus<r>3ss ox pen once c< net It
focuses on itfoas for business«
and outlines the information ycu
ncod to know for a successful
launch.
Whether you want extra
Income to supplement a shrieking
pey-check. or ycu have ambitions
to make a hobby booomo
profitable as well as fun. you will
find this bock to be a practical
guide. Here are over 80 busness
kteas, tips, end action plans you
can uso. talcrtxi Io your own bttokgreund. cxponorco, and things you need to krifr* to get start«!. In ths took, ysu will find »dual exairolM of what other peep’e fa-re achieved, specific stops to he<p you begin, suggested research, books, and magazines you will want lo read, end plenty of invaluable edrice. This is a handbook for people of ell ages ard circumstances: retirees who want to start 'mni-businasses'; people stuck In dead-end jobs or seeking a second career: and rroonlghters everywhere.
Vrtiy stay in a job you hate when the great Ideas m this helpful gjde can lead you to independent success?
1992, 6x9, 240 pp. Indexed, toft cover.
8(H GREAT IDEAS FOR MAKING MONEY AT HOME: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64131)
THE COLOR DF MONEY 15 OREEN
Introduction
It is amazing the money-making opportunities that
exist in growing things. The books in this section reveal
how your can make money with plant* and animals,
flowers and veggies. fruits. crops and seeds. Who says
money doesn't grow on trees...
PROFITS FROM YOUR
BACKYARD HERB GARDEN
by Lee Sturdivant
Comptaio details cn growing. packaging and marketing CtffWy herbs and cdbta flews! Backyard herb growers can earn some money from their gardening efforts by following tho step-b/slnp methods in ths excelen! new foe* Writing for the spare tme gardener with a small space to grow in. Sturdr.-ant describes in great detail exactly which barbs to grow, hew to package, label, and sell them to ICC# grocers ard restaurants, plus some simple biting and bctokkscplng methods. She promisee tier techniques will brir<] sn ¡rooms cf $50 to $2S0 per week.
Yftifch r>0ft> varieties to grow. How many c4 coch to plant. How to Choose end sol to market and restaurant accounts. How much to charge. Slmpta fading methods. How to harvest each herb. Low cost labeling methods. Information on seed germination, taxes. other herb bushcss possbiilies. and lots of informaton on the new odioln flower business: what to grow and how to sell and deliver them All you need to know to start your own (xoOdbte backyard herb business!
1955, 5H x 5#, 115pp. Mwr/nr.'ed indexed. toff cover.
PROFITS FROM YOUR
BACKYARD HERB GARDEN: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64093)
INVEST IN YOURSELF
How to Put a Cash Business on Every Comer
by Jack E. Strauser
It yxxi are serious About creating a cash flow today, starting your own fos'ness, creabng financial independence for yourself and your famly, or just oxchangng your ifostylc for something better, this took is ter you. Invest tn Yourself contains valuable information lor creating e cash business whh roaPifo examples of how others have succeeded n the flower vending industry. Ths took covers everything from planning and preparation, Io how to buy ard what to soli. Invest In Yourssff will teach ycu how to work 20% of the Cmc ard make 80% of Iha profits h your spore tvne ard on specific days cf too year.
The author says: •Rower vending is a cash business with fabutous profit poterxal... This bock contains al you need to know to get your own Ifowor vondng business up and running — ard of course, prof- itab'e! teds you how y*ou can make the sama ford of serious cash that I made. You wll loam how to locale mcnay-making comers of the cty lo set up your displays and how lo hire, manage, ard morale your employees so iicy roman happy and profitable (wNch makes you happy and profitable as well). Ycu will learn how lo negotiate the bast deal with your local wholesalers end how to set up simple displays that draw the customers to ycu I provide you with Summary Success Steps at the end of each chapter which will morally lake you step-by-step toward your own fnaroa! success.'
Start from hemo and wort in your spare time. Make hundreds of dolors a day and enjoy tho swoot smell of success!
1291, SMxSM, 210 pp. iitetratod, indexed, soft cover.
INVEST IN YOURSELF: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64127)
FLOWERS FOR SALE
Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers
by Lee Sturdivant
* Wtetft Ficw&s to Grow to How to
H&wsf and CondMon Flowers *
to $&<!•& How to Price Hi How
SuccpssM Growers Operate
Lea Sturdivant say's. 'I live on a
12D by 18(X town Sot in Friday Harbor.
Washnqton. where I have foen
growing fruit and vegetables for my
fam<ty. plus culinary herbs. and lots of
flowers for cutting. I started a itCo cut
ftowor fosnests from dial garden a
few yours ago and cn a typical day in
late June, I ccuto walk o<X and cut for
seling M try local market and to
pfMle CMFlomnrs:
20 btoe delphiniums - $20 00
10 mixed bouquet* 34O.CO
40 stems of Sweat Wiliam. $ 7.00
2 wedding bouqixjls 435.00
•That's over □ hundred dollars worth of Powers in a day. frem a relatively small garden full of ptants that will keep on producing even more ftowors. Mos! of the plants IVe just picked from Wil produce more blossoms for site in only a lew more days.
•Fresh garden flowers are a seemingly ordinary product of so many fockyards all around us. yet they can have a tar greater monetary value than you mght irnagno. They are one of the most valuable things ycu can grew on ycur property — far more valuable. I found, than almost any fruit cc vognteblo you mght chcoss to grew and self
PJowcrs For Saia c cnc of tba fines! how-to. footstrap, cottage Industry books that we haw seen.
Tho inria’ section of the book. ’First Bouquets.’ glvns dotaltod plans for starling a simple supermarket bouquet Ixismess. ncludrg selling, pricing, and Cteplay IrVormatJon. business and lax details, equipment needed, harvest and conditioning techniques, and even a section cn ccriocting Hewers and grocnary from the wid.
In tho next sectbn. Taking Flowers.’ the author visits ftowor growers, buyer®, ard salters m throe states, ard details ihcir business operations, from successful Saturday Market ftowor sellers, to Internationa! fle-wor brekors. from U-Pick flower farms to ere grower who takes In $650.OCO a year on less than an acre of flower production. There are niso visits lo whdeeate florists, flower auctions and many other possbiltes for seling cut flowers.
The final section of the book. 'The Cut Flower CelaJog,’ lists hundreds of vartetlas cf perennials, annuals, fobs, tubers, fees, vines, ahrfos, ard herbs that can fa© used successfully as commercial cut flowers. References, seed waxed, associations, and an irdex are irduded. Want to make mcnay at home? Grvo Flowers For Satetry!
1922. SU x SU. 205pp. fNuslretcd. indexed, sori cover.
FLOWERS FOR SALE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64123)
GROWING SHIITAKE COMMERCIALLY
A Practical Manual for Production of
Japanese Forest Mushrooms
by Bob Harris
The cubvation of Shilako —
the most popi/ar edbo
mushroom in Asia is a billon-
dollar industry in Japan. In tto
United Stales. tto demand for
Üteèê délWôus ârid (fttltttfV*
mushrooms is just begrining to
Lake otf. so ShlUke production
has potential for enormous growth
and profit.
Growing Shiitake Commet
daffy is the first and only
comprehensive manual on this
exciting topic. Bab Harns gives
¿Mailed rislructiorc and errer 50
iîustratkms to tofc you at every
step from leg seteca'on to markeL
This took is essentia* lor errjone
Interested ¡n growing these
gourmet mushrooms (whrtosale prices ter dried Shiitake vary from $20 to $50 per pound).
Contorts rictodo: Surtabo tree spodos. log preparation. Stu take spawn and strains, inocutaticn ntolbods, the spawn cun. fruting procedures, harvesting, peste and contaminants, and Shiitake strain mtermatlon and production nurtoere. Recommended ter anyone interested In profitable part-time coltege industry.
1966, 6x9, 60 pp. iffustreted, indexed, softcover.
GROWING SHIITAKE COMMERCIALLY: $13.50
(ORDER NUMBER 64122)
SUCCESSFUL SMALL-SCALE FARMING
An Organic Approach
by Karf Schwonke
Successful Small-Scale Farming introduces anyone own ng (or planning to own) a sma! farm to both tie harsh rcalr.es and the real potential involved in making a iul or part-time bring on the land. Karl Schwenke’s ctear-eyed approach to the best farming methods covers a wide cargo ol proven techniques and practical advise, including:
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How Io improve, conserve, and enrich your soil orgariCaly te ensure the highest (and heaXhiest) yialds
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Whai machinery youil need and tow io use it
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Ito tost "cash crops’ and specialty crops to grow for profit and how to raise them
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A concise overview of essential farmstead skits, such as toyrig. fencing, and managng a woodtal
♦ Numcrcus charts and tables mat put useful catutetlons at your fingertips
♦ And much more.
With lods/8 inxeasod concern for Ito Quality of the Joed we cat and the heath of cur environment. Successful Small-Scale Farming offers a unique and invaluable perspective on tto future of agriculture. Kart Sdrwanke’s message Itoi small-scale farms can bo cleaner, smarter, and more efficient than corporate agnbusincss — has never been so relevant as It is today.
1991, SM x 11, 144 pp, ff/uxtreted, indexed, softcover.
SUCCESSFUL SMALL-SCALE FARMING: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64121)
MAKE MONEY GROWING PLANTS, TREES & FLOWERS
A Guide to Profitable Earth-Friendly Ventures
by Francis X. Joxwik, Ph.D.
Why not grow piante for profit?
Hero is all the help you need to gat started in a profitable, cnpyabic business growing plants, trees, and towers. Learn tow easy it b to become a successful entrepreneur n ventures which not cn>/ make money but contribute to tho beauty and harmony of cur plane*. Earth.
Discover:
♦ Why special crops such as ornamental plants. trees, end towers are in such groat demand — and why they command princely prices
♦ How it Is pcssbte 10 gel started earning significant income growing plants, trees, and flowers in your own backyard
♦ How little start up money it takes lo begin: your present financial condition Is no barrier
♦ How different hortfcultirai crops are grown and sold.
Detailed examples shew the ’ins and oute’ of each type of business and review actual economc date for specific operations:
♦ The secreta successful business people use to reap bg pref-te year after year
♦ How tesefltortfcullixal crops and producís at a prof«
e How to start your business quickly end easily using logfcal. step-by- step motoods
a Hew te finance a now horticultural business
e How to make sure tto success you nchtavo Is permanent and helps you enjoy lía.
Dr. Frutos Jorwk has personally operated a successful greenhouse ard nursery business ter over 20 years. This practical experience espectaty qua/ifies him te help oltors get a runring start in the boomrig hccticullural industry.
1992, Sti xStri, fS9pp. tttostrWd, irrdexed. soft cover.
MAKE MONEY GROY/ING
PLANTS. TREES & FLOWERS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64133)
BACKYARD CASH CROPS
Tho Source Book for Growing
and Marketing Specialty Plants
by Craig Wallin
Which one of these specialty
crops will start ycur growing
tosnoss?
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BUta
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Cut Flowers
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Live Flowers
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Culnary Herbs
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Fragrant Harbs
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Modtehal Herbs
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Cut Crops
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Landscaping Plants
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Small Frubs
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Bcnsel
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Ornamentals
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Dried Pbnbs
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Sprouts
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Exotic Mus hrooms
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Tree Crops
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Vcgolablos
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Greenhouse Spedatici.
You will loam about over 200 spcdalty crops How lo market your crops. How Ie deddo on tto best spedaity crops tor you. How te sol all you can grow. Hew io make Value-added’ products from ycur crops — resulting ri still mare hccmo. How to set up a successful ’pick-your- own’ patch. Row to get free expert adrico for any crop. Hew to tap e/er 2C0 hard-to-find wha'essta sources for seed and ptart starts. Ard much, mixti morel
Loe* readers hsve s&kf about Backyard Cash Crops:
‘fmodo $30. COO on 1h acres last year growing frosh tind dried ForyersF
— LV/.. Oregon
‘J 11,608 worth of vegotabies from a ono-acro pJof. ‘
— R.W..Oteah(xna
/SSS. 6x9,240pp, fffustreted Indexed, softcover.
BACKYARD CASH CROPS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64092)
THE POTENTIAL OF HERBS
AS A CASH CROP
by Richard Alan Miller
One of the trigpest trends in
the U.S. and Canada today is
lie increased number of smaB
farms. Marry1 see a homestead
arrj valuable acres as the
ultimate security in a world
read/ to come ©pan at me
soama Teo tew small farms
cam the dollars needed to kr,op
a family in the country. There
arc protfd potentials aptenty In
herbs and specs. r.t of which
can bo produced in the U.S. and
Canada. I hr. book answers thn
questions and explains thn
answers to those who want to
grow herbs as a cash crop.
Chapters ncludo:
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The Survival of tha Small
Farm Through Ahcmalrvc
Agriculture -
The Farm Ran. with Specific Examples
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Techniqjcs o! Bulk Dehydration and Storage
• The Art of Precessing -
Direct (Retail) Marketing
• Bulk Marketing -
The Coctego industry. with Specie Examples
• Source« tor Further Information
• And much more.
/.W. d r a 240pp. Wasf/aftd, soft cow.
THE POTENTIAL OF HERBS AS A CASH CROP: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64118)
SMALL SCALE CRAYFISH FARMING
For Food and Profit
Crayfish are big business
now! You've seco buckets of
boiled crawdada in beer
cowne'dafe; 'Red Lobster'
restaurants sell them as spicy
'cajun popcorn;' Popeye’s fried
ctickon franchises have a fried
crayfish dinner. That's nationwide,
tn Louisiana and Texas they have
been sought after for generations
as a delicacy.
Crayfish can be grown to a
large, food marketing size
anywhere in the USA except
Alaska. The pond habitat can be
any size and need rot e>e over a
foot deop. The crayfish habitat can
ba on swamp or marginal land,
and feed can be easily grown,
while supplemental feeds are inexpensive. The teed ccmerson ratio is IW than any other meat-producing anmai or ish. The flesh Is similar to shrimp, crab, and lobster. The crayfish need less than a year co mature, breed and fatten up for haivesL They are sell-sioddng after the initial stocking the first year.
Small Scale Crayfish Farming covers:
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DsMbutlcn • Reprodixldn • Life Cycle • Melting • Food • Site Selection • Water Needs • Stocking • High Growth Foods • Harvesting • Baits • Traps • Intensive Cirture • Supply Sources • Marketing • Ard much, much more.
1969, 5H xBH, 49 pp, iitaslnted, soft cow.
SMALL SCALE CRAYFISH FARMING: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64111)
MICROLIVESTOCK
Little-Known Small Animals
with a Promising Economic Future
</strong> Complied by the Board on Science end Technology for
International Development of the
National Research Council
Lika computers, livestock for use In developing courr.rtes shou'd be getting smaller and becoming more 'personal.' Conventional 'man- frames.' such as cattle, arc too largo for thn wcd.Ts poorest people; they require loo much space and expense. 'Minifarms." such as tho conventional trends of sheep and posts, hove an increasingly important rote to play. But thy. 'usec-frkjndly' species for home uso are Ito ones highlighted in this bock, where they are called 'rrrfcro-lrvcstock.' There are two types of rmcroivesicck. One consists cf extremely small forms of conventional ivesicck — such as canto. sh«p. goats, ard pigs. The other consists of spader, that are inherently small — poultry, rabbite, ard rodents, lor instance.
Microffvestock la written with an eye to he’ping impoverished people in dovitfoplng nations, but tho information can also be useful to «mar market farmers in America rghti now. Topics covered ¡ntfUde MICROBREEDS (MIcrocaRto. Microgoats. Microsheep. Mfcroplgs) ♦ POULTRY (Chicken. Ducks. Goose. Guinea Fowl. Muscovy. Pigeon» Quad. Turkey. Potential New Poultry) • RABBITS ♦ RODENTS (AgotO. Capybara. Coypu. Glam Rat. Gra5.scuttftr. Giinr.ii Pig. Hutia. Mara. Paca. Vizcacha. Other Rodents) ♦ DEER AND ANTELOPE (Mouse Deer. Munljac. Musk Deer. South Amenta's Mcrcdcor. Water Deer. Dukers. Other Small Antelope) • LIZARDS (Green Iguana, Black Iguana) • BEES • And more.
t991, 6x9. 463 pp. Ptusfrated indexed, *oft cow.
MICROLIVESTOCK: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64140)
HOW TO FIND A GOOD JOB
WORKING WITH PLANTS, TREES, AND FLOWERS
Earn Income and Enjoy Life
by Francis X. Jozwlk, Ph.D,
In his business as a commercial
grower of plants, the author has
hrod hundreds of people, and also
had la fire some. In ths short book,
ha offers his professional advice to
jeb sectors in tho field of
horticulture to improve their
chances d finding employment.
Chapters inrfudc:
❖ An tntroductbn to employment
in the field ol horticulture
❖ Specific employment opportuni-
ties in horticuhurc
❖ • Huw to gel the job you want
❖ H&w Io advance in the job you
find
❖ > A summary of things k> do
1994, x BH. 63pp, soft cow.
HOW TO FIND A GOOD JOB WORKING WITH
PLANTS. TREES. AND FLOWERS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64152)
BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Selling
What You Grow
by Andrew W. Lee
Discover how easy and prof-
itabta it fc to grow and se<l vegeta-
Wes. fruits. flowers. herbs and
small livestock from your own
backyard market garden.
team howto grow andsdh
□ 14.(XX) pounds ol food. or. less
than ono eighth aero (Ohio)
□ $150,000 frem one half acre. 10
fancy restaurants (California)
O $40,000 from cnc acre of orien-
tal raised back (Oregon)
□ $35,000 from % aero, to dty
f Armors markets (Massachu-
setts)
Learn how to:
□ Earn top cfollsr. with minimum
efltxt and maximum profits
O Improve your garden soil for
super yields and superb flavor
❖ Enjoy a guaranteed sa'ary from community supported agriculture or
a membership garden
•In Backyard Market Gardening Andy lee shows the tandedoct
how to sell quality garden produce 10 the pubic for fun and profit. Small-
scale agrkulture as described by And/ can be very re warring to the
sod. tho environment, ard the flow of capital We know this to be true
here in Texas because we have had groat success in inking small-
scale farmers with urban consumers through a rcvitalzcd system c/
farmers markets/ - From tho Fbreword, by Jim Hightower
1993. 6x 9, 391 pp, indexed, softcover.
BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64147)
HEMP: LIFEUNE TO THE FUTURE
The Unexpected Answer for Our Environmental
and Economic Recovery
by Chris Conrad
Just two generations ago. they caltod tie hemp ptant (maryuana) the most profitable and desirable crop that could be grown. Today it is banned.
This book demonstrates that cannabis hemp is the ultimate green industry. There e/e many long-term ecological benefits wtifch can be reaped by using hemp, Anything made of wood or petroleum can be made more eoonomiCBJty with hamp Hemp is so easy to prow ard use tost it lends itself to the most primitive handicrafts and Uto most sophisticated h’gh-tecMnotogy appfcotions.
Hemp's use will yield financial bc-ncifcs that will reverberate throughout toe economy tor generations to co mo. Given the sccpc of Icda/s environmental and economic emergencies, it is hgh limo for a natonal crash program to restore hemp to too world ard explore its vast poien-
This book strips away toe misconceptions about hemp which have been foisted cn our society over toe past few generations and takas a frosh, new tock nt this amazing plant. Hemp: Lifetine To The Future contans practcal and technical information useful to researchers, environmentalists. farmers, investors, students. teachers. cottage industries, mUtinattonal corporations and all sizes of businesses in between. Whan people mgtfarty use hemp paper, wear hempen doihes and eat hemp- based foods. they wi I recognize Uto importance of Iul>/ restoring tho hemp ptant and will become empowered to take toe initiative and bnng «back
When all these feelers are regarded in perspective. there can be no doubt that hemp is. indeed. cur lifeline Io the future.
1993. SHxSH, 329 pp. Nua&atod, indexed, soft cover.
HEMP: LIFELINE TO THE FUTURE: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85164)
THE GREENHOUSE AND NURSERY HANDBOOK
A Complete Guide to Growing and Selling
Ornamental Container Plants
by Francis X. Joxwik, Ph. D.
The Greenhouse and Nursery Handbook to truly a corrplnte ’bow to* book od omamornal horticulture a poldmhe of practical nitxmalicn foe professionals and sertous amateurs.
Here'S what you wll find In The Greenhouse and Nursery Handbook:
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Compete Instructions on how to grow hundreds of ornamental plant varieties according to prolsssicnal standards
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Clear, down-to-earth exptanatons of how plant growth ord devekwnent are inlluonced by major culivntí ticiorr.
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Practical advtoe about how to soil ornamental plants at a profit
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How to plan greenhouse and nursery fociities ard how to organize growing cp-cralicns
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Spncrtx: suggestions for major plant requirements such as soils end nutnents
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The latest in pest and ciscase control — boto practcal and thecrofical aspects
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Management guidelines ftx commercial horticultural produetton and marketing.
Dr. Francis Jozwik luis personal/ operated a successful greenhouse end nursery tusness for over 20 years. This practice! experience especially qualifies him to help others learn the ‘ins’ and ’cuts’ of hef1touHur.nl crop prortoclion and marketing.
Dr Jozwik slates In the Preface: ’This bcok contains the base technical informático necessary to produce containerized crops of fiOA’ors. folia pc plants, trees, and shrubs, tt is a’med primarily at toóse people who already arc cc mho would ike to become commercial growers ol those crops. Secondary users of this bcok might be park and grounds personnel. students and teachers, and amateur enthustasta wto roqurc more detailed information than is available from consumer oriented Ifceralure sources.
The information presented win typically lx« most useful In smai or medium sized greenhouses ard nurseries. White a good deal of the subject matter is applicaWe to larger operations, readers must to aware that some modfication in interpretation and employment of information might to necétóáfy ¡ft mes* «fies ProdKting Rwaral milisn contanerizod plants a year ¡8 a somewhat d-terent task than when the objective is ton thousand or cne hundred thousand.
•Most of IItechnical recommendations conlained n tha following pages resUl directly from over twenty years of tho author's daily experience as a commercial grower.’
The Greenhouse and Nursery Handbook shcuto ba on the shed of everyone interested in making money growing plants.
1992, 6x9,519pp, KfustrJlcd, Indexed, hardcover.
THE GREENHOUSE AND NURSERY HANDBOOK: $59.95
(ORDERNUMBER 64153)
Tax Avoision
Introduction
Taxation Is theft!
If you ar© tired of seeing your hard-eamod money taken from you and spent on military boondoggles, overseas vacations for bloated bureaucrats, and fancy offices for parasitic legislators, then you would probably like to reduce your taxes. The books in this section have been carefully selected to be of maximum help to you In avoiding taxes of all kinds. They contain methods of tax avoidance that really work. Whcss money is it. anyway?...
STAND UP TO THEIRS
Everything you need to know to successfully:
Defend yourself in an audit; Challenge an Incorrect
tax bill; Represent yourself in Tax Court
by Tax Attorney Frederick W. Dally
No three lexers frighten the average American more than IRS. And its noc surprising given that nearly 50% of all taxpayers ore likely Io be audited al ano time or another. But with too help of Stand Up To The /RS. taxpayers need not foar. Fred Daily reveals secrete that the IRS doesn’t want you lo know and arms you with all toe information ycu need to confront America's larges! and meet powerful agenoy.
This book shows you Iww to: put together documentation to support your deductions; challenge incorrect bills; petition for the remove! of a penalty; request the efiminaion of a Sen or wege att^chrront; negotiate an installment plan tor your tax bill; and much, much more.
StandUp To Tho //»Sis the taxpayer's best friend when confronting the IRS. Ite chapters give (totalled strategies on surviving an audit with tho minimum amount c4 damage. appaaAng an audit ccesicn, gong to Tax Court and dealing with tho IRS cd lectors. Other topics include: fling tax returns when ycu haven't dene so in a while, tex crimes, concerns of small business people and getting licfc Ihe IRS ombudsman. Ths tock also includes confidential forms, unavatable to taxpayers, usod by the I RS during audits and ccltecticn interviews.
1'252. S& x If, 250pp, indexed, soft corer.
STAND UP TO THE IRS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73070)
WAR TAX RESISTANCE
A Guide to Withholding Your Support
From the Military
by Ed Jiedemann and Ruth Benn
If you dent bellevo >n war, why pay foe
Z? Especially naw that the Odd War Is
aver. Evon tha majority c/ us who are not
SOkttcrs support too miitery with cur texes
ard often our work. War Tax Resistance
describes h data:! □ classic ard effective
form of resisting war. Based on the
experiences of thousands of war tax
ressters and enlivened by dozens of
inspiring stories of creative resistance.
War Tax Resistance prowtos the
inspiration ard loots needed by anyone
who resists, or is considering resisting,
paying taxes for war. Excelent lor
students of militarism and c<ril
disobedience, War Tax Resistance is a
thorough introduction to Iba posslWWies end risks of a particularly potent
forum for education and dissent
Topics covered insude: O How to resist O How much nc4 to pay O
The toephone tax O Income lax resistance O Wilhhddng O Tho IRS
audit €v>d appeal process O Tho ooCeclbn process O Resisting
collection O Hstery of war tax resistance in tlx? United States O Global
war tax resistance O Pa ylng under protest O And much, much more.
tSS2. 6Hx 11, 131pp, Mustreted, indexed. softcover.
WAR TAX RESISTANCE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76045)
HOW TO GET TAX AMNESTY
A Guide to the Forgiveness of IRS Debt,
Including Penalties & Interest
by Danie! J PHta
Deep wZhln our economy Iles an entire culture comprisod of these who have resigned thom3#/98 to a lifetmo ot running and hdng from Ito tex man. Thwre is ro freedom and there is no rest. Their tope ouch toy te erty tor survival and someday ion TAX AMNESTY! Today's stAttsbcs reveal that a staggoring 6 milion citizens have been driven lo non-filng of lax returns. They have boon forced underground by abusive tax cotioction, the assessment of strangulating ponah'es and usurious interest. With tax debts increasing at a crippling 24% arnua’ly, it has actually become more productive for ttom not to work. 10 Stay underground!
In How To Get Tax Amnesty. Daniel J. Pila describes in tote« feur tax amnesty programs hat can work tor ycu today: 1: ’The Life Jacket’ is designed to hut-p you from slipping dooper into the aa of debt and wil save you from current collection eKorts. 2: ’Contr. cn too Dollar talk yco how to get the IRS to setto your tax debt for cents on the dolar. 3: V/age-Eamer Payback Plan’ te tos'gnod specifically for those who have steady wages or salaries from which payments can bo made. 4: 'Ffosh Start' is d«igh«f tor thwto who have liltla
to toso, and atows iftdMduafe to be lOteUy torgven of ail tax tott. Under the program, the IRS must accept the taxpayer's or or as payment in ful. even if the offer is noth’ng. You win a Fresh Start! Tho programs cutlned in this book are the direct result of potoy changes wr.hin toe IRS. If IRS indebtedness has become a way cf life tor you. Its time for ycu to reap toe benefits of these new policies. Now Is too time for TAX AMNESTY!
19*3. SU xSK, 220pp. softcover.
HOW TO GET TAX AMNESTY: $12.95
(ORDER HUMBER 73071)
A LAW UNJO
IBS
AKU THE
ABUSE
OF puwia
DAVID BUKNIIAM
A LAW UNTO ITSELF
The IRS and The Abuse of Power
by Da vid Burnham
Il Is bigger than the FBI cc H e
CIA. M has the financial gcods cn
more than 194 trillion irrirv-duaSs and
corporations. Its regulatbns - 9.8CO
pages worth are so complex that
not even its own agents uruforsiand
mem. n Mb the authorty to ¿olM the
assets of poitical parties, thriny len-
yrwr-tfefe, or any taxpayer who notes
that his return «3 'signed involuntary
under penalty of statutory punish-
ment.'
It e the Internal Revenue Service,
Uvj United States government's most
powerful bureaucratic institution. and
its operations and abuses are ex-
posed in this groundbreaking work
©f mvesbgativo journalism.
David Bumham says. 'The self congratulatory cialms by federal tax
officials that most of the poepfo ot ths United Slates pay the? taxes on a
voluntary basis is extremely rrisloadng. Tte supposed weeder of
VolurXary compianco.' thn favored catch phrase ol generatdns o1
congressmen and IRS erfpats. mates for nice speeches. But it has
very little k> do wxh how federal taxes are col'ected. The withholding
process e so efficient that lour out of five of al lax dollars paid by
ind'rfdual Americans In 19&3 were landed to Uw government without
the money ever passing through the hands of the taxpayers. Tlx?
principal explanation tor Iha effectiveness of withholding lies in the way
work is organized in the United States.'
A Law Unto ttidftMti to reed by eve<y taxpayer — and by every
lax avoidor.
1999, 5x9, 447pp, indexed, soft cover.
A LAW UNTO ITSELF: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73069)
HOW ANYONE CAN NEGOTIATE
WITH THE IRS —AND WINI
A Daring Expose of the Vulnerability
of the System and the People Who Run It
by Daniel J. Pllla
Without this tock, dealing w*h the
IRS is iko playing cards against a
slacked deck Tbs IRS is the dealer
ticking al the aces and llo btuft.z his
most effective weapon. Without an
ace up your sleeve, the risk of eating
a bluff is too great. Let ths bcok show
yea the IRS's cards and bo the ace up
your stoeve needed Io
Discover: • 15 IRS bli/fs and
Inbmldatons and how to counter »14
secrets to effective communication
with IRS personnel • 11 critical IRS
notices and the correct response to
each • 10 forms that snake-bite tax-
payers • 11 ground rules you can
establish before an audit conference •
10 ways to prove deduclfons and verify income • 2 ways Io eliminate taxes you cannot aflocd to pay • and mixh more.
Daniel J. Pills, author of The Naked Truth (about thn IRS), is con of the nation's meet successful IRS negotiators. Ho reveals his trade secrets to you to How Anyone Can Negotiate With The fRS— And Win!
1S5S, 5» x oH, 267pp, fitustfsted, softcover.
HOW ANYONE CAN NEGOTIATE
WITH THE IRS AND WIN!: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73066)
How Anyone Can
Negotiate With
the IRS —
And WIN!
A F.spcor nf
Vubcn¿«líi>ur Ue Syrian
asd the ftxplr Who R tn II
Dania) J. Pilla
IRS IN ACTION
“Straight Talk from a Former Treasury Agent“
by Santo Presti
The tRS wSt get you it you don't watch
out!
Why? Because the IRS has to get you
(or someone like ycu) to show that it's
needed. It will get ycu because you
probably don't know ar.y boticr. The IRS
Ites to keep secret live way it operates
how it coitacts taxes, auclts tax return»,
and investigates fee criminal vfo’attoc«.
Pie lass you knew. Iha toss ycu will
question what thn IRS is dang.
That's why tho IRS doesn't want you to
rood the sensational book IRS tn Action.
Written by a former tosder. it provides
astonishing Insight into the toner workings
of inis very secretive agency.
TNr. bock will tell you:
□ The tack door* approach to audits and tovcstgeficns
□ How the IRS polices its own employees
O Why IRS agents late a Sunday drive by >xnx homo
□ The three steps to take alter being contacted by an IRS special agent
□ How the IRS 'Shope around* for unrcnjpUour. return prep^m
□ The 'unusual ways' Ute IRS targets an audrt
□ The most common lax crimes and what happens when the IRS decides Io tovestigate somccoc
□ Why is !ho 'IRS enforcement curve* on the rise?
□ Whal's ahead frem the IRS
□ Ard mjch. much morel
The author spent 10 years worfctog wvth the Criminal Investigation Division U the IRS. Remember, thn IRS works all year tong — even after April 15 oomes and goes. Don't you think you ought to find cut Shoot IPS tn Action befoco !RS caXsi Or boffcryet bofyro yw
your next fax return?
1983. SU XS, 160pp. ifh^frxf^d. xofr covtr.
IRS IN ACTION: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73057)
IT'S EASY TO AVOID PROBATE
by Barbara R. Stock
Unless you are a child or a pauper,
you win probably ha\*e assets to be
prebated. The author's research of
5C0 cases in nine stoics shows the
cost of probate s 6% to 22%.
depending cn tn© size of tha estate.
For example, an estate of So.OCO
would cost 22% or $1,100! An estate
of $503,000 would cost an average od
6% or S30.0CO. These costs occurred
despte the feet that three out of four
of these people had a perfectly pood
Wil prepared by an attorney!
One-thrd of th? peepte reading
Tie book will need something caled a
living (re/ocabta or amerxfabta) trust
Tli6 basic difference botwonn n Irving
bust and a Will is: assets held under
a bust (to rot have to be probated. With a Wil. assets held cn>/ in your name al your dealh must go through the peebnto 'wringer.' This book tells you all about the Irving trust, gves you formats C< several (009 of these will fit 98% of the poepo readng tte book), and gives you slep- by-S'.ep instructions on how to go about implementing a Irving trust.
Written in ptato oasy-to-understand language. K's Easy To Avoid Probate is cnc of the best investments you will eve? make.
19&S, 6x9,225pp, Music»fed, indexed, hardcover.
ITS EASY TO AVOID PROBATE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73061)
UNDERGROUND Economy
Introduction
The "black" market, as every libertarian knows, is merely the real market driven underground by government controls. As politicians and bureaucrats cat away at your money with taxes and inflation, more and more people are beginning to participate in the ‘Underground Economy" a booming economy whose transactions are not reported to the govorn-ment. The government itself admits that billions of dollars a year go unreported in the underground economy.
This section contains the most complete collection of books on the underground economy and related subjects ever offered for sale. The books range from scholarly treatises to the nuts-and-bolts of moonlighting. bartering, evading price controls and rationing, smuggling, and. in general, dodging the regulations and taxes which hamstring the ‘mainstream* economy. The underground economy is tho free market. May your taxes be low, and all your trades be profitable...
THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY!!!
GUERRILLA CAPITALISM
How to Practice Free Enterprise in an Unfrce Economy
by Adam Cash
Here’s the book you*ve all been waiting for — the first and only how-to-do-it
book on the Underground Economyl
As the government eats up our regular income with taxes and Inflation, more
and more people are joining the underground economy and doing business tax-
free! They are becoming ’Guerrilla Capitalists,’ people who are practicing free
enterprise in this unfrea society of ours.
The Guerrilla Capitalists arc the last bastion of free enterprise in America. If
you want to Join them, you simply must read this book first! Guerrilla
Capitalism ccNeis In vast detail all the ins and ouls of making money in the
underground economy — and not getting caught?
Here are some of the contents of this amazing manual:
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What ’Guerrilla Capitalism* te and why it might savo America
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What kinds of businesses are best tor the underground economy
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How to do business without a license
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Principles of falsi tying tax returns- how to keep your underground
income'off tho books" -
Keeping two sots; of books — how to do it and why you might not want to
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Barter— why you should use it. and why you should stay away from barter
clubs -
The trouble with banks — and how to avoid thorn
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How to invest yocir unreported income — and one thing you should never
do
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How to get your customers to pay you in cash
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How to cash checks without running them through your bank account
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How the IRS discovers unreported income — and how you can keep out of
their dutches -
Case histories of actual underground businesses — how they avoid getting caught and what you can learn from them
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How to skim money from an above-ground business
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And much, much more!
This bock takes you into tho underground economy like no other book could. What good is "believing In’ free enterprise if
you don't practice it? This book shows you how to practice froo enterprise in an unfree society — how to be a Guerrilla
Capitalist. Loompanics Unlimited presents Guerrilla Capitalism, the finest book ever written on the underground economy.
1984, x 8H, 172 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
GUERRILLA CAPITALISM: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13044)
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF
INTERNATIONAL SMUGGLING
by M.C. Finn
THE CWfttTr ÍKXX CF
SMUGGLING
Dnskjnor pans. parrots. bitlcs.
weapons, drugs, watches. Each 04
those comment/ smuggled items is
high?/ dosirabla to smugglers and
buyers alike. Smuggling smacks of
adventure and odrenaine rushes. It
also means easy money for the
savvy lounst and a padded wale!
tor thn International businessmen.
A defense investigate«; M.C.
Fnn has seen smuggling through
tho eyes of the Agente and the
prates. He's studied the casual
traveler who makes his house
payments setting fake goods to
coger buyers. Now he tells Weir
secrete.
Learn which goods sol wen n
which countries, how to avoid
trouble whether toying or soling, what customs agents took fer.
surveillance equpmenl used by the law and effective counter-
surveillance measures, how drugs are smuggled (usual?/ unwisely),
fardteobtah i.dto frequencies, the profile of a smuggler. and mixh
morn.
1553. SH X Sri, 160 pp. photos, soft corer.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF
INTERNATIONAL SMUGGLING: $17.50
«ORDER NUMBER 13085)
THE ORGANIZATION OF ILLEGAL MARKETS
Æn Economic Analysis
It is widely believed that
monopot)' control, b8S8d on
violence. corruption or risk-
epreadhg. is characteristic d tho
black market in illegal goods and
servees. such as mar^uana and
bcokmaking. Tbs rew bcok refutes
that notion, and shows that Illegal
enterprises are likely to bo smaller
than their legal counterparts
The most important reasons for
this are the lack of exiomni credit
markets. *sell a ccnsoguorce of tho
non-exesterce of audited records,
lite lack of ccurt enforceable
contracts, and the need to restrict
kncrnlcdgo of porticipafon in tho enterprise.
Corruption is ike?/ to affect the organization of the rrerket only under special circumstances. where there is a SingTe agency which monopolzcs cnfcrccmcnl. Though ll’at condticn held for most Jlcgal markets thirty years ago. enforcement now ¡a fragmented and mor’appng. which inhibits an agency from granting a monopoly franchise.
A fascinating end Iconoclastic look at nc black market which reveals more competition than general?/ exists in legal markets.
x 11. 54 pp. soft cover.
THE ORGANIZATION OF ILLEGAL MARKETS: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13082)
FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THE TRACING OF FUNDS
Written Io train Miitary Potco investigators. this ittfo-known manual covers financial nvcsbgaticns and the tracing of funds. Anycne can be Iha victim of financial swindling and fraud. This manual outlines the laics: investigative techniques u-yyd by special agents who crack fiscal enmes of greed.
Topics covered include: • Getting access to a suspects financial records • Ct)tain ng federal court orders, search warrants and subpoenas ♦ Interviewing suspects • Dealing wth banka and interpreting bank records • Indrcct methods for tracing Financial transactions • Legal considerations • And much more.
1550. SH x 11, 60 pp, tifustrated, sort corer.
FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS
AND THE TRACING OF FUNDS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 13081)
JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BLACK MARKET
by Burgess Laughlin
This widely-praised book is the single best «MrotWon to too organization of illegal businesses ever written. Job Opportunities tn the Block Markets a cemptate survey of working cordrtxms in the U.S. Black Market (the Hegel, but victimtoss economy).
Exa miring in vast detail Nack market businesses as dvorse as narcotics, people-smugging, gambling and milk bootfogging. tho author covers: ♦ Pay ♦ Orgahzattor<s ♦ Risks ♦ Advancement ♦ Cultum ♦ Soccty ♦ Prtoes ♦ Benefits ♦ And much more!
The author also shows the reader the role of rotators. wholesalers, organizers, smugglers. mtetf ¡emen. entrepreneurs, and tholr assistants.
Job Opportunities In the Black Market alee notodfis an Index. a gbsssry of black market slang, and organizational diagrams of typical black market business operations. Based partly cn the author's experiences, the book to thorough?/ documented. inducing references and an extorts to bblography.
This is tho singta fnest book co black market businesses ever written — highly recommended
W4 M *&, 144 pp. Rtostnt&f. sort eow.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BLACK MARKET: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13018)
SNEAK IT THROUGH
Smuggling Made Easier
by Michael Connor
Does sneaking something
ttircogh a checkpoint sound lite
something >ou'd never (to? Waltl
Items such as fresh fruit end meat,
medicines and B*b'es are maro
valuable in certain ccunlnos than
firearms or dope. You never know
what you mght want to hkto when
things get tough!
In Sneak tt Through, author
FAchaei Connor covers tho places
of concealment he coutonl posabty
ha\*e covered in us»t eno volume.
This Is not a rehashl In the
companicn p'oen to Duty free,
Comor explains how to improvise
large and scroll stash areas where
no one will took. Hero are
instruebons ard liustralicns for
transformng cciinar/ items into secure, made-to-order hiding places.
Also indixfed are chapters cn security evasion and airdrop technique«
and .mpcv/isc-d tending strips.
With thoso molltods and the proper mott/ation. you can use
practical:/ anything ytu Oftcx as a hiding place to smuggte goods.
Weapons, controlled substerrces. oranges ycu name ¡L you can
sneak it tbrougt)!
15S4. S'/i x Sti. 59pp. tXustrated, soft cover.
SNEAK IT THROUGH: $12.50
(ORDER NUMBER 13041)
MICHAEL CONNOR
HOW TO DO BUSINESS
“OFFTHE BOOKS"
by Adam Cash
Adam Cash, 8ir.hc< of the tfass'c
Guerriti returns with hb
<x*»rd took co the Urrfsrgrcund
Economy.
The IRS continues »is abuses of
the rights of Americans, and
government; at all levels scn'.nu©
to raise taxes and spend tx*/ond
their means. Millens of Americans
st all economic tevels are feeling
the squeeze, arrf are fighting bac*
— not enfy try pretesting and writ-
ing letters to their Congressmen,
but by actuary disobeying tho law
by just simply nc< reporting income,
and by falsifying Utoir tax returns.
These people are what we call
•Guerrilla Capltaists.’ poepta who
are practicing tree enterprise in the
unfree economy of ours. Adam Cash first showed ycu exactfy how milions of Americans aro decoding themselves against a greedy and eoercfva government by evadng taxes, and now be digs even deeper nto tho soorote of live Underground Economy with Ns amazing new volume. How To Do Business "Off tho Books."
Contents of this amazing boc* incirfe:
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Why taxes wit keep going up. roganScss of the promteos of poWans
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How the government wastes your money — and how millions of people are evading taxes to fight back
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How tho IRS uses selective enforcement of lax laws to terminate aganst tho ’ittto guy’
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Hcrw the tat cats avoid payhg taxes - and why them techniques are not for you
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Locking tor loopholes in the tex laws • The Underground Economy and the law
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What ycu can expect your C.P.A. to say about the Underground Economy
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The Ins and outs of reedpts — how Guerrila Caphafisto can mu»tip*y •business’ deduction*
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How io ’backstop’ your tax returns and falsify doductons
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Caso histories of actual urdcrg-cund businesses — how they avoid getting caught and what you can loam from them
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What typos of businesses are best tor the Und.irgroi.rrf Eoorxomy - and how to got coc started
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Privacy — the key to Uto Underground Economy
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And much, much m<xo!
Wo aro very proud Id offer our readers Adam Cash’s soccnd bock on tho Underground Economy. the Si-quel to Guom&>Captetem: How To Do Business "Off TDo Books.* What good is •believing in’ free enterprise it you cant practice tf? How To Do Business "Off tho Books •shews you how» milions of your fellow Americans are practicing free enterprise m tho Underground Economy.
5Hx6M, 156 pp. softcover.
HOWTO DO BUSINESS •OFFTHE BOOKS’: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13056)
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ships all orders within
24 hours of the receipt
of your order with payment
GETTING STARTED
IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
by Adam Cash
Adam Cash, author of the best selers Gucm&t CapdaXsm nrrf How To Do Business “Off Tho Books" returns with his thbd how-to book on the Underground Economy — Getting Started In 77>e Underground Economy. In this easy-to-read volume he tolls you how to case your way into the tax-free Underground Economy. Topics covered include:
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Tlie myth of a steady job — W working for someone etee wil never bring ycu th© financial security ycu doiare • Case histories of underground busnossos — what yea can team from others already doing « • How to decide what you want from the Underground Economy — and bow to keep year parttopatfen at the level bx^st for ycu • The Four Levels of tho Underground Eccnomy • Traps to watch cut ter • How to make Uh* most of your regular job — using information and contacts you already have to get into Uto Underground Economy • Getting too most from your money now why a penny sav*d is bettor than a p<or.y earned • Trio bast kinds of businesses for gening paid In cash • And much more.
Including an extensive Recommended Reading 1st
Every year. billons of dollars go unreperted and untaxed in toe Underground Economy—arrf contrary to government propaganda. It Is not all drug dealers and ©tier criminate. Milions of ordinary Americans like ycursoT have chosen not to report al or part of thoir Income — to evade the excessive taxes Uto government keeps tovyhg. This excling naw bosk tola how you can join them’
Don’t believe tho propaganda you hear about tex ’cuts’ — whatever the Federal pevomment cuts to taxes. < win make tp In inflation and now taxes — arxl you can exp«! stale and local taxas to keep rising ns well. Why not do as milrfns of your fellow Americans are doing arrf join tho Underground Economy? Become a Guerrifa CapXaltel!
Let Adam Cash show you Uto way.
1SS3, SHX8H. tGOpp, sort cover.
GETTING STARTED IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY: S14.W
(ORDER NUMBER 13068)
THE SUBTERRANEAN ECONOMY
by Dan Bawfy
if yvj fed you pay too much in taxes and get too tttte to return — if you’re tired Of swing your hard-earned money swallowed up by bleated burca-ucracy or wasted to toetfWent government programs — it you resent tho inequality of the tax laws that seek Uto salaried worker but let milionairea slip through tax free — youVo got ptonty of company! Pecpte on both sides cf Uto Atlantic are becoming increastogly critical cf tho lax setups in the>* countries. And more and more of thorn aro fooling justifiod in reprxtiiYj less and lose of their tocome on thor tax returns. Tax avoidance errf e-vaarfn two now becomo commcnplac© in all Western neriona. This book Is the first cf its tard to dosoty examine this growing phrmsmonon. It shows: who evades taxes; where they do it whythoy do it; ard Aoirthey do iL
The Subtwraneon Economy discusses In Malt 1b^ tax-frno urdorgroirrf economy to the United Stefas end othor dcmccracicc. This cash-and-bartor economy incudes overythng from individuals mooriighting ’off the books' to money free cxchangos cf goods and services to multinational dealings. Right at tha start Uto book points OU how big government ¿soil is a major cause of tho situaton. Because cf the heavy social wolfaro ©omrritm©nts based cn over-ambiticus and uiYAieltf/ lax programs, many Western governments aro perceried as overburdened and ineffoebvo. This bock demonstrates how Inapt govammanl arrf inflation togothor food Uto hidden econcmy. It shows how tex evasion is develcpng in al sectors of the cconcmy. Ard 4 tovestigatee Uto various means by which governments coUd attempt to cento to terms wvith tho subterranean economy.
Dan Bavriy's. Tho Subtorrancjm Economy is on© of Uto very finest books ever written on the Undcrgrcxjnd Economy. We recommend it very highly to our readers.
6x0, 204 pp. hard coior.
THE SUBTERRANEAN ECONOMY: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13035)
HOW TO DETERMINE UNDISCLOSED
FINANCIAL INTERESTS
This is a manual written fee govc-miuxit rr/^nixj agonto d»<scrit>oj in amazing and chilling detail how to AJ Capone a guy — bow to snoop into your prr.-ate financial records. (Sscover unreported Income, and nail you for income tax evasion.
Do you think your financial privacy is sate from the pr><r>g eyes of Bg Brecner? Hot a chance! Novar before has there boon a book Neo this! Learn how government revenue agent; pcoo tegethar -your entire fl- nancial NstOfy u^'ng atf of your "private* records. Stawty but surety, tho .agents prepare an alr-tiffrt case against you — w.zhojt ever havng to inform you about the investigation!
It is a tact of modem life that any transaction you make, any action you take, teaves some »nd of paper trail. Even if you are careful to cover year tracks, your affairs can be analyzed from al the surrounding Informaton the sama way a puzzte is put together, and the shape of the missing pteces known. This shocking book demonstrates the exact methods used by government agencs io create an effigy of your financial Ifo. so they can bum you b tex court*
Contents of this amazing book include:
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How agents obtain your confidential tank records
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Haw your checking account is analyzed
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How to reccgnize cashed chocks and what they tell about tbo target
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How agents determine tho origins of al your deposits in checking and savings accounts
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Sate ttepcew boxes — how agents can accurately guess at theJr contents
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Why banks keep lean files, how agents got at them, and what r»ey reveal about the target
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Brokerage accounts — all your securities tradings are epen fee Inspection
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How crodt card records are acquired and used
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How cashiers* .-vto iravotorts checks are tracod
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Acquring information from banks and governments about tho target's property holdings
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Tmcng your holdings in foregn bank accounts
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A complete listing of Bank Identification Symbols on your chocks, and bow they are used
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How agents obtain •confidential* Intcxmattcn cn your financial activities from banks, financial institutions, branches cf gcvommonl. and oilier till'd parties.
If you thought there was such a thing as financial privacy h America, ths took slows you just how wrong you are. You r.ro the 'Largo:' and you* cooperation is not n coded I Government agents (and knoAfcdgeobto private- investigators) can find out everything about year most private transactions, without you mon knowing ycu'ro undor teveetigation!
Thte is the single most revearng book on financial investigative methods we have ever seen. Highly recommended to anyone concerned with their financial privacy and how it to being violated.
1933, 6H x 11, 65 pp. Nustnted, softcover.
HOW TO DETERMINE UNDISCLOSED
FINANCIAL INTERESTS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 56065)
BLACK MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD
by Burgess Laughlin •
Tho cofor and drama of ¡logo! tut victrnlotp economic oclivitios draw Burgess Laughin into writing his first bock. Job Opportunities tn tho Black Market, a study of tho black market in tho Unted States. Those attractions were even stronger in drawing him into examining tlx? back markets in olhor countries. From Ireland to Uu> Netherlands, from Sweden to Zambia, from Singapore to Australa. from Thafcsnd to Canada. Diack Markets Around The WotM'ks a unique look at the subterranean econcmies of more than 25 countries.
1981, SH xSH, 84 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
BLACK MARKETS
AROUND THE WORLD: $5S5
CORDER NUMBER 13024)
THE BLACK MARKET
by Marshall B. CUnard
k must for any’ono Interested In free trade, this book covers in JeiaO exactly what methods were used to dedgo ratoning n WWII, and what methods were used to apprehend semo violators. White the authors Intention was anything but to wnte a hcrw-to-do-lt book for black marketeers. that is exactly what Tho Black Market ¡a. il read •backwards.*
Topics covered xvetodo:
♦ Counterfeiting and theft ot ration currency
♦ Comparison wfch ordinary crimes in wartime
♦ Voluntary methods of control
♦ Opposition to volunteer price panels
♦ Tho problem of using votonteere in enforcement work
♦ Tho meat black market
♦ Tho gasoline black market
♦ Landlords as violators
♦ Enforceability ot the regulations
♦ Invostgativo techniques
♦ Economic factors in tho Wack mo ricot
♦ Suggestions for future controls
♦ And much, much more!
With todays incrassin^y piggy governments and tho constant spectre of price controls and other absurd regulation of economic transactions, a knowledge of the principles and appkatbns of black market skfls — knowing t-c«w to doal in contreberd — & of particular relevance for tl»oee concen>ed with personal freedem. Don't tot tho government's paper reality become yoor reality. Froodom of choice always exists for those who seek It!
What this book is» to a comprehensive study of just about en-ery way poepte thought of and executed to gel around the ridicUous controls ard rationing system. At mo reasons why It cidnT work before are laid cut boro in detai so yrxj can uso thorn to got ready for next timer H^Ny rccommondodf
1952, 5H x8H, 392pp, itrdexed, softcover.
THE BLACK MARKET: $9.95
(ORDERNUMBER 13013)
NEW LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO
by Samuel Edward Konkin Ui
This Short volume dscusses moving from the present ccndilbn of statsm to the free market, by using counter-economics. 'Countcr- econombs* means using market means rathnr than pziltcal means. Ideas such as libertarian nsuranco com^nntea soling insurance against orcroochmonC by Do State (taxation, Iho draft, eto.) are discussed by Konkin.
Inle<estfng and thought provoking, recommended to those Interested in tte Underground Economy.
1963, SH xSH. 33pp, softcover.
NEW LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO: $2.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13030)
THE GARAGE SALE BOOK
Turn Your Trash Into Cash
by Jeff Grobcrman and Colin Yardley
Turn >our trash into cash with Tho Garage Salo Book! Topics covered indude:
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When to hold your garage sale
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How to sei prices
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How to advertise
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The art of haggling
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How to deal w:th people wtx» show up before are ready
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The best way to set up and lay out >*our stuff
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What to do with leftovers
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And much more.
Thto book la cbcck-fui of sage adrice to help net eny the garage sate rooks but also the experienced back yard entrepreneur.
1937, SMxSh, 90pp, ikostratcb, softcover.
THE OARAGE SALE BOOK: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13060)
Privacy and Hiding Thing
Introduction
We all have something to hkJo, don't wo? From nosy neighbors, cops, tax collectors, burglars and other riffraff who havo no respect for privacy. The books in this section contain specific instructions for hiding guns, gold, sexual implements, survival foods, or anything else you want to bo YOURS. There are also several books on general privacy — how to get it. how to enjoy it, and how to Koop it. This section is a /ws/for every private citizen.
HOW TO BUILD A BUGPROOF ROOM
by Angus Gtes
George Orwelfs chi Ung portrayal ol
an all-seeing Big Brother sp/ng on our
lives has become a realty, with a big
bOOM from th« technical advances ol tie
I960«, th« ta-A-and-ordcr 1990s wd see
more and more tetoplvonc taps, room
bugs, ard other intrusive devices being
used lo pry into our personal and
professional Ives — untoss team to
protect ourselves from this invasion ot
pnracy now!
How to Buiid A Bugproof Room will
loach yea to put today's lecrindcgy to
work ensuring your privacy instead of
rnvn.ving fl. It contains everything you
n«XKl to know to take elective ccunter-
mnasuros agahst vkfoo ard audio intrusion. Loam how io make smp'c. Inoxpansxvo quek-fixes, or, for the ultimate in socunty. how Id build a space age, acrylic, soundproof. impregnable) room within a room imide your homo, office or car. You can’t afford to ignore th© information contained in this book.
1990. SHjtSH, 96 pp, Wustftted, softcover.
HOW TO BUILD BUGPROOF ROOM: $12.00
(ORDER HUMBER 10055)
PERSONAL AND BUSINESS PRIVACY
A Special Report on Why and How
Your Privacy Is Invaded
by BUI Pryor
PERSONAL AND
BUSINESS PRIVACY
a srtUÂl errtff tx
WHY 4»P HOW
AA9 WHAT
rt 9f itNUf
«r utl
DON’T BUG ME
Tho Latest High-Tech Spy Methods
by M.L. Shannon
Everyone in America should be allowed
to enjoy the rights guaranteed by tho
Fourth Amendment, including the right to
bo loft atone by government, busnnsscs.
and others who can — and sometimes rfo
— listen to or observe everything you ard
your tarrlty say or do in your home. your
office, and even your car. Everyone has tha
right to know about ths invaston of prr/acy
and haw to stop iL
Don't Bug Me shows ycu how to pro-
tect yourself from electronic eavesdrcppirg
and iron tho surYeilance and counter,
survo dance experts who prey co unin-
formed citizens. Ths comprehensive study
discusses every kind 01 spying rfovfon. from inexpensive transmitters
oh on hidden in potted plants, lamps and stereos to super sophist catod
systems favored by governments or bg business. It indudes the latest
technology that allows if kj watchers to spy on ycu from your TV. VCR.
computer, ccfrjlar phone, baby monitor erd cthnr seemingly innocucus
devices.
1992, 8H JT11. 147 pp. ttiustrafed, »oft cover.
DON'T BUG ME: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58079)
BUG
IVIE
THE LATEST HIGH-TECH SPY METHODS
*s Ml
Here Is a book wo havo al been watting tart Written by a former 'spook' and pro- fessjonal agent. Persona! and Business Prfracy explores ©wory facet c/ privacy, from plannod invasion to practical protection. Iha authoritative bock deters exactly how agents ard invesigators 'set up' their larqets and uso various devices to obteln private data.
But this book is more than just methods of privacy protection and -current tools of the trade. Personal and Business Privacy you bow to recognize sgns of possible sroepng ard avoid situations that can oompccmiso
privacy. The author believes Americans just don’t know how to bn ’suspicious.’ THo detailed lessens in ths sobering book, however, will enable you to become vtluaty impossbk? to spy cn. Contents Include:
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Why there is a privacy problem • Proprietary business data • Financial data • Technology • Private relationships • Employers • Insurance • Court Acticns • Setups and FBI scams • Black bag ¡obs • Mail surveillance • Telephone taps • Illegal entry by police • Corporate cloak and dagger • How surveillance Is ccrductcd • Bakings and rooms • Industrial areas • Vaults • Pubk: a-xas (hotels, restaurants, spas, motels) • VeNctes. public and private • Outdoor areas (parks, beachass. dcsortod roads, shopping mafia, sports stadiums) • Telephones, pubic and private • Agenbln- pUco • Wired agents • Technical devices (micro- phenes, taps, relays, sensors, recorders, etc.) • New mnthads (tow fight, infrared, video, lime lapse) • What to do to protect yourself • Review operations • Prcpctotary dscussions and data • RSfdOrtl CfiA/VJAS • Spot searches • Rat petrel • Meeting places • Body alarms • Cold telephones • Codea'crypto systems • Elminate or tom agents • Delouse yeu'setf
PLUS numerous t&btes. figun» ard queotions-and-answers that emb’o you lo determine your own opbonr, for protecting both year bur.ncss and personal privacy. Here is thn most professional bock avaiablc on bow to go about doing tha job toteUgorXy and effactively.
19S6. 8'4 x 11, 13Spp. tHustnted, Indexed, g<onMry. sod cor»r.
PERSONAL AND BUSINESS PRIVACY: $2495
(ORDER NUMBER 53033)
OUR VANISHING PRIVACY
And What You Can Do To Protect Yours
by Robert Elifs Smith,
Publisher, Privacy Journal
▲ Will personal bar cedes soon bo
required for each man, woman
and child In tho Unted S’-ates?
▲ Why door. Quaker Oats Company
want to knew your views on gun
COOVOT?
a Is your pharmacist soling infer-
motion about whch drugs you
use and ho* often you buy them?
a Why won’! the phono company
tell you about 'Cal Trace.' a form
of 'Calor I.D.* that dccsnl let
telemarketers shatter your pri-
vacy?
Our Vanishing Privacy to a
shocking book that reveals just how
much strangers know about your pn-
vato ifo. Rght new. someone Is collecting information about your health, your finances, and your love life. And they dent have year best interests at heart Our Vanishing Privacy tells yea what yea need to know to fight back.
Subjects covered msUdc: a The rapid dec Inn n information privacy a Your Social Security number: guard fl with your Lfe a Haw tho Post Office sals )X3ur privacy a Caller ID: my prrracy or years? a How target marketing turns birds of a leather into sting ducks a is your medical information really confidential? a How tabloid TV has changed American privacy standards a What privacy rules govern the media? a Short Takes: quick -essays cn fax fax and oilier privacy problems a Twenty principles to protect information privacy a And nudi more.
Robert Elis Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal is one of the worlda tearing authorities ©n privacy. A graduate of Harvard Colege and Georgetown University Law Center, he uses hto training as an attorney to ad/ocate strong recognition ot the right to privacy. Our Vanishing Privacy covers the entire spectrum of modern privacy Invasion and lays tho groundwork foe a new respect for privacy, bed in principle and practice
W $H x SH, 136 pp. soft ct»*r.
OUR VANISHING PRIVACY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10060)
PERSONAL PRIVACY
THROUGH FOREIGN INVESTING
by Trent Sands
If yotfro frustrated w.th all the paperwork and taxes that burden tho American investee, tot Trent Sands shew yea how to safely and secretly mer.'o year dollars overseas.
In Persona! Privacy through Foreign investing. Sands exp’ans how to research fora Ign investment markets and how to set up an overseas bank account. Tho author then explores tho economic climate and pnvacy safeguards n each of these countries:
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Swtzartand
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The Bahamas
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The Cayman ts'ands
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Bermuda
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Groat Britain
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Australia
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tier* Zealand
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Lixrcmttourg
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Canada
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And Mero
Persona! Privacy through Foreign investing presorts a world of opportune fen the prtvacy-ccnscous Investor.
1993, StoxSU, 72pp. softcover.
PERSONAL PRIVACY
THROUGH FOREIGN INVESTING: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10059)
WAR STORIES
Accounts ot Persons Victimized
by Invasions ot Privacy
by Robert Ei Us Smith with Erie Siege!
Robert Ells Smith, publsher of
Privacy Journal. has asscmb'oo
hundreds of verified eases cf privacy
invasion. and says, '...we feel that
the anecdotes reported here consti-
tute an impmsfro ease Via: infor-
mation technotog/ and government
Intrusions in the past 20 years have
adversely affected large numbers of
indvtouals. Although we deal with
thess issues daiy. we are slit sur-
prised by the array of problems
created for persons like you and me
problems n employment, in gel-
ling credit. In maintaining peace of
mind In one's heme. In protectingthe
sanctity cf one's cmyi bed/ and iden-
tity. We have have often been asked. V/naTs me worst that can happen? What do people heve to hide?* This collection of 'war stories* answers those questions.'
The incidents of privacy invasion are arranged by categories which Include the Allowing: • Adeptton • AIDS testing • Bank Records • Clearinghouses • Computer Hacking • Computer Matching • Consumer Reporting • Credit Bureaus • Credit Cards • Criminal Records • Direct Mail and Marketing • Drug Testing • Electronic Communications • Electronic Surveillance • Employment • Employment Testing • FBI Record-, • Government Rooerds • Government Su'veillarce • House- tod Privacy • Insurance • Libraries • Medical Records • Nudity • Photography • Physical Privacy • Polco Records • Polygraphs • Press ♦ Prisons • Rght to Ono’s Narro • Hight to Publclty • School Record; • Searches • Searches of Employees • Searches — Strip Searches • Sexuality ♦ Social Secure/ Numbers ♦ Tax Records ♦ Totoptoncs e Tenant Screening • Trash • Video Rentals.
Robert Ellis Smith’s War Stories is an excellent research Icci for anyone concerned with the erosion of our privacy.
1993. SHx 11. 137pp. soft cover.
WAR STORIES: $17.50
(ORDER NUMBER 10061)
TELLING UES
Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace,
Politics, and Marriage
by Pau! Ekman
The suxeas of business negotiations and personal relationships, as well as international dptomacy and espionage, often hinges on deter- minng what others may or may not be conceding, to this book. Paul Ekman, a renowned authority cn emotion, facial expression, and gesture. reveals bow to identfy deceil. By knowing wtet to look lor to others* faces, voices, bodes, and words, we cun detect leakages and de- cepton clues that todedte ties.
Chapters ¡ndüdo:
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Lyng. Lenkf>g0. and Cues to Deceit • Why Ues Fail • Delecting Deceit from Wcrcfc. Votoe. or Body • Facial Clues to Deco« • Dangers and Precautions • The Ptfygraph as Ue Catcher • Ue Checking • Ue Catohing in the iSOOs • Lias to Pubic Uf« • and much more.
in eddticn. the author cíes the case of Lt. Col OlNer North and vice Admiral John Pondexter during tba IrarVCcnlra scandal congressonal hearings, to demonstrate his iudto'ous use of behavioral ckies to detect les.
Ths is the First book to explore the many dimensions of lying the markings of a suxessful liar, why so many of us become wiling víctima — end to offer straightforward ard cautious methods for uncovering deception.
1922. SSixati. 3SSpP' iHustrstcd. intfexerf. softcover.
TELLING LIES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58164)
The Eden Guide
Io
Complete
Financial
Privacy
THE EDEN GUIDE TO
COMPLETE FINANCIAL PRIVACY
by Barry Rdd
You Irve in a world al envy. You
must fight to keep your money from
being taxed, wed. or stolen. How
many times have you wardered how
you cca'd tegaty hkto your money
from those who would try to wrest it
from you? This book offers authod-
tath’o and up-to-dato information on
hdng year money from government
agents, tfsgrunUed relatives, liti-
gants. and professional thieves.
Ycu wil loam how- to: Reduce
your financial visibility • Keep year
bank account(s) away from prying
eyas • Set up secret foreign ac-
counts— It^eily • Bc.cofr.ij a private
Investor • Use fictMous business names to generate privacy •
Purchase real estate, stocks, gold, and ccJoctfctes anonymously •
Avoid swindles who prey on your desire for privacy • Write □ private
will • BUld socrct safes in your home • Borrow money ccnfrienlialty —
by ma? — wenout revcalng the purpose • Use cash, money orders,
and casNors checks to dto business discretely • Create a 'mainstream
ktonlity* that will deftoct ¡merest in your actual financial affairs • Explore
offshore options in banking, investments, residence, and even
citizenship • And much more.
Ycu will also team how to make use of the foHowIng information on subjects that will prove to be cqualy as important. Stxh as: • Ho* to use another name, yot avoid fraud • Four risks of handling large amounts c-f cash • Su ccnditfcns to consider before investing overseas • Ten ways that others can penetrate your privacy — and how to get ercund them • Thmo basics for maintaining financial privacy • And much more.
SMwn chapters and nwi?/ 2C0 pages epen exciting new ways lor ycu to enjoy maximum financial privacy. Order your copy today!
1939, S%jrt1, 122 pp. Indexed. soft cow.
THE EDEN GUIDE TO
COMPLETE FINANCIAL PRIVACY: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58061)
HOW TO HIDE
ANYTHING
ucnxgwrranitiiiti
HOW TO HIDE ANYTHING
by Michael Connor
burglaries, break-ins and
armed robberies escalate. the
need for secret hiding places for
vatoebtos Is vital for ¡mycoa who
has something word) hding. With
the aid of ths book, you can
construct small or largo socrot
hiding places that wu protect your
valuables from unauthorized
hands, yot keep them accessible
for when ycu want them.
With links effort or expense,
yrxj can hide cash, armaments
and even iarrtly msmbers right in
your own home. How to Hide
Anything tote ytu how 10
construct dozens of hking p'aces
In your house and yard. Here are
sma’I hiding places for conceding
money end jnwo’.-y and large
places lor securing survival supples of even persons. Over one
hundred drawings show how to turn cccinary items into extraertfnary
hiding places. Consktorng what you ccuto lose, the money for this book
may be Uto best you ever spendl
19S4, SHrSH, 170pp, Nustrated, soft cow.
HOWTO HIDE ANYTHING: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10043)
IlMlCHAEL CONNOR)
THE BIG BOOK
OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
by Jack Luger
Thu biggest end best
book on conoMlmant of
physical objects ever
printed! This huge book
tolls how searchers find
hidden ccnlraband and
haw to Ixde you/ stuff SO ft
can’t bo found.
Topes covered
Include:
• Hiding p’aces in the
home • I id ng places co
your person • tiding
paces ct automobiles •
The dfforent types of
searchers >vj may en-
counter. and the intensfty
of the searches they may
conduct • Toate and
technques used by
searchers. Including
mirrors, metal detectors,
vapor defectors, dogs,
and more • Two sure ways of foiing search (togs • The tools >ou will need lo build your own secret hdng places and where lo get them • Thngs to consider when chocsing hding places • How much work is involved? • A ler^llr/ chapter co ccnceanng weapons and tho best tactics for employing them • And much, much more!
What cfo you have to hide? A partial 1st might Include:
• Prohbited items
• Ur^iainabte-aner-ttte^ssh items
• Homs ¡hoi must remain secret
• horns d^t can be easSy hidden and eestiy stoton
Wo havo all got something to hide, or scmetelng that shexid bo h idden — that Is why The Big Book Of Secret Hiding Places is so vakiabto. Crdef your copy today.
19S7,S%r11, 12/pp,
more then 100HtestnHions, son cow.
THE BIG BOOK OF
SECRET HIDING PLACES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10048)
MODERN CAMOUFLAGE
by Duncan Long
Here is an Insider's look at both tried and tn» camot/bgo techniques as well bs new tacus that professional soldon; uso lo axxeal themeebos on today's modem battlGfwWs. Modem Camouflage abo discloses the secrets of hiding personnel and oqupmorft from obsorva- ton and hew to confuse and decehe an enemy as to tho oxistor.co. locaticn or nature of vehicles and buildings.
The bock aHo gives a straight, no-holds-barrcd assossment of infrared equipment capable of defeating many types of camouflage ard shOAS how Sifpple thrd-woeld todies Oin surmount tho throat paced by tho most expend eavesdropping equipment madam armies have, included is a tock al creating decoys, dummy omplacomorft .and fake vehicles which will draw enemy attention and fire away from hidden tnpndy sites.
in an ago wtxm fortresses are easily txeached by artllwy and ’smart* bombs and missiles, tlto techniques of avoiding (totecbcn through camouflage are essential and wil often deocto whether an army tacos quick and disastrous defeats or comes cut on top. Whether you’re in the satety of your hemo, simply interested te modem miliary tactics, or sitting in a foxheto concomod w?.h surviving on today’s high-tech battfefieto. Modern Camouflaged an cyo opcner tl^at belongs on your must read took 1st.
r99Z SU XS‘4, 79pp. iifuiUAtcd sort cow.
MODERN CAMOUFLAGE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10058)
KAHN ON CODES
Secrets of the New Cryptology
by David Kahn
KAHN ----- ON------- CD'S
SECRETS Of THt
NEWCRYPTOIOO’
In Kahn On Codas, Dovid Kahn, America's foremost authority on codes, ciphers, end spies, gives us a far- ranging look at tho new cryptology — from its standard use in warfare to its growing impact on industry. •CwtoW Ms gono pubic? Kahn writes. 'A field that was once the exclusive domain ot gcn-emmcnls has become a oorcem of businesses and individuals.'
In this absorbing and cdoctfe coltoclfon, Kahn, author cf Iha best soling Tho Codcbroakcrs and Hitter's Spies. expertly explores Uto cryptographer's world, loading us into
and through Ks dark labyrinths Wo I cam about the legendary Herbert O. Yardley's 'lost manuscript,' investigato tho origins of polyalphabetic
substitution. and foltow the adventures of Hans-Thilo Schmidt — whom
Kahn cafó the grealesl spy of World War a
Among the other fascinating sections in Kahn On Codes:
■ Cede breaking In World Ware I ft It Thrir major successes and failures, their causes and e.iocu
■ Lgcn Otuu Wtwgh VTI Etfown. or 'They Will Attack at Midway*
■ Cphere and computers
■ Tho Soviet Spy Ciphers used by Reino Hayhanen and Rudolf Abel
■ Public versus prr/ato cryptotogy
■ Codos to context
■ Opportunities in cryptology
Kahn On Codes also rictodos a list of cryptotogfc term«. The Che Guevara Cipher. Tho Politics of Cryptology, and much, much mere.
1933. 6 x9H, 352pp. /frustrated. indexed. hardcover.
KAHN ON CODES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10050)
CODE MAKING AND CODE BREAKING
by Jack Luger
Jack Leger
COM MAKINS
MO
COM BREAK/NS
Enter the fascinating world of code making and code breaking!
We live In the information ago. Infornnatton ia bought, sold, and stolen, Just ike any erfwr goods. Spies sell mlMary secrets. Businesses are victims of corporate espionage Smut-seeklng tabloids pay huge sums fee tho intimate details cf celebrities’ Ilves.
Businesses and private individuals are fighting back with tho same weapon used by governments the wcrid over: codas
Code Making And Code Breaking is a practical, illustrated glide to buldrig and busting codes. Learn how to construe codes from
the simple to the complex. Loam about computers and other devices uwrf In Cbito making and coda breaking. Learn why the inost unbreakab’e coda Isn't always iho best code.
Chapters inctodb:
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History • Secret Writing: The Bastos • Substitution Ciphers • Elcctro-Mechancal Ciphers • Transposition Ciphers • Codos • Codo-Broaking • Quasi-Cryplo- systeme • Communication Security • And mare!
Code Making and Coda Breaking Is must reading for those who want to keep the’r seorela sate
1990. 5HX&H, tZ5pp, Mustrsted, indexed, soft cover
CODE MAKING AND CODE BREAKING: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10052)
CREDIT SECRETS
How to Eraso Bad Credit
by Bob Hammond
Solve your financial and credit problems once and for alll Credit Secrets la a dynamic, easy-to- foltow program that provxfos specific, jargon-free Insaucttons on how to eliminate your debts and remove negative items from your credit fitos regardfoss of your past or present financial situation.
TNs book will save you thousands cf dollars in foes, finance chargas and interest payments as ycu loam tho latest techniques in creative firvm^ing — proven methods of bccorring debt-froo and establishing good credit. Discover tiio inside into used by lawyer» and crecit consutants. including:
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how to become debt-free without barrawrig ar bankruptcy
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dynamic st ratogios for negotiating with crcdtors
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secrets cf file segregation — the ont/ compteteiy tega! method for erasing bed credit overnight. Don't miss out on ths amazing Opportunity to got yourself on sold financial ground.
1990. 5% x8H, SOpp, softcover.
CREDIT SECRETS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61121)
HOW TO BEAT
THE CREDIT BUREAUS
The Insider's Guide to Consumer Credit
by Bob Hammond
HOW TO BEAT the CREDIT BUREAUS
The Insider's
Guide to
Consumer
Credit
BUB IIAMH0ND
■Y.
It yrxj'rn like most adjX American consumers, you have at toast ono inaccurate, misleading or obsdeto piece d Into to your crcdt files. Sixh Items can cause ycu to be tomext down 1c< credt cards, loans or even employment In this sequel Io Hnn-mcoo's bestseller, Crcdt Secrets. yxxHl discover how the bureaus secretly gather Information about your private hfo and financial standing and then profit from retaining as much nognv/o data aa possibte, who may request a ccpy of ycur credit report and for what specific reasons, what your rights arc under the Fair Credit Reporting Act — oxpiainad in plain
language — and cases where the bureaus havo violated it. and finally, how you can taka legal action on grounds o( defamation, rivaslcn ot pnvacy cr neÿocl.
By revoaLng I bo inside riformatton used by attorneys and professional fcnancial oonsUtanto. this book wfl ôa*.e ^ou thousands of dottare and help you resterò your pood cretfi cnoe and for al.
1990. 5ÜX8H. 135pp. softcover.
HOW TO BEAT
THE CREDIT BUREAUS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61122)
CAMOUFLAGE
THE CODE BOOK
U.S. Army Field Manual FM 5-20
This Army manual cri camouftago r. a
handy addition to oar line of bocks on rid-
ing Clings. It provides a comprehensive
reference and guxto to all aspects of cam-
cufbgo.it describes in detail the principles
and how-to involved In concealing or dis-
saving troops, weapons. vehicles and fieki
installations. The last chapter dscusses
planning and techniques for decoy opera-
tbns.
Every ange is covered in profusely
illustrated detafr from the use of mud srri
natural material In camouflaging individual
persons to the technical aspects of detecting enemy camoufiago with infrared Um — from sandbags and screening nets to stereo photography — from how positions can be delected to the disguise and concealment of large scale permanent installations — it's al here in ths bock. Whether yxrj are ted ng an entrance to a concealed storage area or cars and machinery, whether you are hieing from a fleck of dicks or enemy search p'anos. you wii find ths to be fascinating and Informative roading.
1999, 9H x 11, 104 pp, titustrsted, soft cover.
CAMOUFLAGE: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10041)
IrtCCCfECCH
>WM(cUrt<u»)tk Cedes
xdltu KUcllttr
fWcHcl l.mxclta
3rd Uiticri
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS
by Samuel Rubin
Now. for tho very first time, a boak
devoted exclusively Io covert yrto/THs
is a reference vofurrto for those
dcr.ir.ng ready access to Information
about the covert inks used by
criminals. Inten-gence agencies, and
others. Except for the limited
Instruct on In spy centers, there la no
course in covert inks av arable to law
enforcement officers, private
investigators, and crypt ©legists. This
bock is offered as tho basis for such a
ccurse ci instruction. It Is a how to self-
study tock fee pclico and security
officers, federal agencies, stalo police,
ccunty shenffs. prison wardens, and
ochers — for anyone who wishes to
improve thw knowledge -of secret Wts.
Some of the contents; include: * Invisible inks * Vanishing inks ♦ Disappearing and appearing inks ♦ Ultraviolet inks * Poison inks 4 Secret Inks used by gamblers to mark cards * Incendiary and pyrotechnic inks ♦ A sscticcn on covert pens ♦ Covert mail opening techniques i And much, much more! Altogether more than 130 formulas and recipes for making )our own secret Inks are given!
If you want to team aB about hOA' to make and use secret Inks. The Secret Science Of Covert tokste the book you have been wakng tori
19S7, 5HX.8H' 120 pp. fffustratod. softcover
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55056)
The Code Book
All About Unbreakable Codes and How to Use Them
by Michael E. Marotta
Compteldy revised and up-
dated. and exqandod to indude
the btest deveropments n cryp-
tology, The Code Book is the
only book wmten for the layman
to reveal ittto-known methods of
wnbng unbraakAbte code?,
Now you can keep whnt-rjvor
secrete you want — from any-
one?
• Ftnandst records for under-
gmund businesses
• Erections to buri&d or hidden
vafuab^es
• Secret formulas or recipes
• Times and places for clan-
destine meetings
• Membership lists of covert
organizations
• Of whatever .Information you want to keep from the prying eyes offtig
Brother
Ccmp’ote instructions for writing codas by hand, using pocket ce'cu-
lators, or rrkrccomputcrs arc explained in easily understandable lan-
guage. Ab knowledge of mathematics or cryptology is needed to under-
stand the easy-to-fctiow etimetions In The Code Book! Here ate a few
of the topics covered in this amazing book: • A brief history of codes
and ciphers • Mow codes and ephors am broken • How to write an
unbreakable cocfe • Ovw pads — how to make them and bow to
use them • Usfng your pocket calculator to write unbroatebk) codes •
Tps on disguising your coded mossegos so they rosembie everyday
Hems • And much more.
Obscure secrets known only to tnfsmational espionage agents and
pfOfaSSlOhSl cVy&tegrSphers — now rovtmiod for YOU te usef!! Every-
thng you rood to know in order io write unbreakabte codes ard ha\*e
ccmpiote privacy of foformaton is reveated in this astonishing book.
1997, SHX9H, 120pp, ktustnted, softcover.
THE CODE BOOK: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10046)
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
The Complete Manual
of Long-Term Underground Storage
by Eddie the Wire
Ths Is a handocro bcok for hardcore
indK-idualsts who don't trust banks, or
anybody cilxi. for that matter.
It tells you In step-by-step (fetall how
to bury any valuables or contraband >vu
might wish to stcce and conceal, and
how to dsfeat se^archors who might try to
find year caches.
Contents incudo: • What du you
have to Ndo? ♦ When Io bury it so you
won’t to seen • Where Io bury i so H
cant be found • How to bury it without
leaving teltalo traces • How to peck
burial containers — and where to got
them • How to beat metal detectors •
How to outfox search teams • How to
retrieve your burial containers • Protecting against moisture • Burial containers: Built and bought • Above-ground caches • Information security • And more, inducing source Is’.ngs for Cosmoline and other hard-to-find items.
How To Bury Your Goods r. the singe hnos>t book ever wntten cn methods of long-term underground sUxage. Bury it now and (tig it deep!
1997, SH x 9H, 72pp. tiiurtnted, soft cover.
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10019)
triCH T€
BURY
YOUBCOODS
THE POOR MAN'S FORT KNOX
Home Security with Inexpensive Safes
by Duncan Long
With government restrictions on what we can and can't own. with searches at supposedly private safety cieposZ boxes becoming routine, mono and more people are taking control cr.'er guardng their vababtes. For tococ who arc -wary o* putting money and CO or vababtes in Ite hands of unreliable inslilutons. hemo safes offer a sane alternative. But what kind of features do you need, and how can you get them tor the least amount of maney?
The Poor Man 'a Fort Knox provides a dciaiod analyss erf the wide range of hemo safes avaZabte — Jo average citizens — everything from pistol strongboxes to walk-in vaults. Using ¡lustrations, photographs ate a tot Of hamfe-cn experience. Duncan Long reveals:
♦ tte secret to finding top-of-tho-tino safes at bargain- basement prices ♦ dirt-cheap alternatr.'os to safes ♦ the best custom safes Cfosgnte specifically for firearms ♦ tho most secure fireproof locaton in any frame ♦ tricks for getting btxglars to ¡grxire your safe ♦ and much more!
The Poor Man's Fort Knox will show you how to safeguard your valuables without rod tape, scrutiny, cc intertomneo. With your heme safe, ytu will enjoy tho peace of mnd erf hnvxxj central over those things you value most.
1991, SH xSH, 41 pp, iiiustftted, softcover.
THE POOR MAN'S FORT KNOX: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 1CO57)
HOW TO USE MAIL DROPS
FOR PRIVACY AND PROFIT
by Jack Luger
There are many reasons you might want to us* a mail drop: • Nomads with ro fixod address • rt your mail has been stolen from your roskfontial mailbox • To keep credim and ctxrespondonta at aim’s length • To avoid dcalng with iho Pest Office • To obtain a ’prestige* address • To epen a ’tcanch office* n another city ♦ Id keep year actual whereabouts secret • To obtain alternate LD. • And many more tho uses you can make of a mall drep are llrritod only by year imagination.
How To Use MaM Drops For Privacy And Profit Is tte erty txrck that delves deeply into mai drops — what they arc, bow to find teem, and how to use them, for privacy ate profit. Rod ouL
♦ How to chlain secrecy by using a Peet Office box ♦ Twelve things a mail drop can do for you that a Post Office box cam ♦ How to use mail drops to obta'n financial privacy ♦ Private safe deposit boxes — better than banks ♦ Etoctronic mail and message drops — going high loch for privacy and profit ♦ Sexual uses of mai drops — youll bo surprised ♦ How poice soT^lIrr^s use mail drops tor 'Sting* and inleHgenoei operations — what to watch cut for ♦ Tho qukkost and cheapest wny to obtan a take address ♦ How to doloonno tho roliatxlity of a mail drop ♦ How ycu can bo traced through tte mail — and tew to avc4d being traced ♦ Haw to use mail drops to ¿¿appear — for as tong as ycu wart — oven penrenontly ♦ How to avoid leaving a paper trail ♦ Seven techniques investigators will use to penetrate mat drops — what you need to know ♦ How to tell if ¡tomnccM you are corro&pondirg with to using a ma I drop — five surefire ways ♦ And much, much mere. Including a section on how to start and run your own mail drop.
A book Ike How To Use Maif Drops For Privacy And Profit has been needed for years. Now Jack Luger takes ycu behind too scenes and tela you everything there Is to know about them: what they can do for ycu. how to select a good one. pitfalls to avoid, and even how to start and run your very own mail drop. Anyone concerned with our eroding right to privacy will benefit from this exciting book!
19M, SHxSH, 112 PP, iffusfrsted, soft co ver.
HOW TO USE MAIL DROPS
FOR PRIVACY AND PROFIT: $12.50
(ORDER NUMBER 61092)
The Privacy
Poachers
Tony
Lesee
Ha« The Gorernmwi and Big Corporalions
Gather, Use and Seii Infoemation Afoul You
THE PRIVACY POACHERS
How Th© Government and Big Corporations
Gather, Uso and Soil Information About You
by Tony Losco
Tho amount of ^fccmaticn about you kep! cn computers ia staggering: bank statements, credit card reports, madcal records, school transcripts. job applications, driving hstory. videotape rentals, tax returns, legal records... Ura list goes on and cn. Ate wherever there's irVomnatton. the Privacy Pcudiero are trying to got their hates on it.
Tho Privacy Poachers explains exac#/ who is collecting information about you ate what they're doing with II. Government ate private sneeps can combine data from your financial transactions with information from survoilance. telephone taps, mail monitoring, ate other privacy invasions to create a detailed doastor of your Ite. Thto tofocmaticn is then packaged and seta, over and over agan. without your ktew'edge or permission.
Tho Privacy Poachers can have a devastatng impact on your life. Many Now Englanders found out the herd way when a national credt bureau fatooly tagged them as deadbeats. An Arizona man found out when a potiso computer responded to hs name with the warning. 'High Risk: AIDS.* Despite pr.va.7y laws, false or damaging Information can bo broadcast around tho globe In the blink of an eye. Chapters include: • Tte Birth of Bg Brwtef • Wte Waals to Ktew About You — ¿hti Why • How Big Brother Collects Informatton • Does the Law Protect You? • Who's Opening Your Mail? • IRS Cross-Matching Programs • Universal Registration • Eye In tho Sky • Surveillance of Businesses • Modem ElccCronh Surveillance • Protecting Yourself • Ate mere.
In The Privacy Poachers, Tony Losco explains bow you can take central over most of tho Information oolooted cn you. After you road this book, you wil know what your legal rights aro and hew to keep porocnal informatian away from the Privacy Poachers.
199Z 5Hx3H, ISSpp, ¡Hustrsted, indexed, softcover.
THE PRIVACY POACHERS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 56080)
FAKE I.D.
The Famous Loompanics "Fake I.D." Section!
The Most Comprehensive Collection of Fake I.D. Books Ever Offered For Sale!
INTRODUCTION
If you wonder why
wo have a whole
Section devoted to
Fako ID, toko a good
look at the picture on
the right, and think
about it realty hard.
Many times through-
out history, having the
right •papers* has
meant the difference
between slavery and
freedom, if not life and
death.
The government
always lies when they
offer excuses for why
they want to tattoo
numbers on all of us
— they say they want
to do it to ’prevent
crime," or to stop
•illegal aliens/ or *so
you can co’loct tbo
proper amount of Social Security/ or some other bullshit. The real reason, of course, is that they want to have as much control over each and every one of us as they can get. ID cards. ID numbers, *identi1icat»on papers/ and other garbage heaped upon you by the government telling you who you are — these are the ^/trappings of totalitarianism.
At Loompanics, we believe each citizen owes it to himself to find out as much about ID cards as he can. as a matter of self-defense. This Special Fake ID Section will remove the mystery from ID cards and reveal the government's paper reality for what it really is: ONL Y PAPER...
In this amazing Section, you will find out all you ever wanted to know about Fake ID. A couple of extra sets of ID in •sate* names should be in everyone’s survival kit (look at that picture again!). From all tho best ways to got ID in what-ovor names you want right from the government itself, to how to make your own ID, to books on makeup and plastic surgery — Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to offer our customers the most comprehensive selection of books on Fake ID and related subjects over assembled.
We strongly urge you to buy these books NOV/. They could easily ’disappear- from the market...
Are your papers In order, sir?
METHODS OF 0
John Sample
METHODS OF DISGUISE
Second Edition — Revised and Expanded
by John Sample
V/hethcr you*rc an
actor, an undercover
cop. a garr.bkjr, an
armod robber, a fiugbvo.
a ©on man. a practical
joker, or a host tor a
costume party. Methods
Of Disguise will show
you easy ways to:
♦ Change your racial
characteristics
♦ Ater the toefcs of >our
eyes and mouth
♦ Change the shape of
y curbed/
♦ Disguise your voice
♦ AJtor year apparent
heigh! and weight
♦ ’Ago’ yourself by
adding years Io your
appearance
♦ Control and charge
habits and manner-
isms
♦ Choose and apply makeup
♦ Undergo plastic surgery
♦ Use wigs, mustaches and beards
♦ Change sex <x cross-dress
♦ Create talse fingerprints
♦ Bulk! a handy pocket dsgulse kit tor instant changes
♦ And much morel
Naw nvaiablo in a rovisod end expanded $ooond John
Sample’s Methods Of Disguise ts an casy-to fotow gjkto which
includes over 130 detailed ilbslrabons as well as sources for makeup,
uniforms, shoe tits. Lodges and I.D. cards, contact lenses, prosthoscs.
skin tanning preparations, take tattoos, transvestite supplies, voice
changing devices, wigs and hairpeocos. and mixh more.
Tho single most corrprohonsjvo tow-to-dolt manual on the art of
disguise ever prepared. Methods Of Disguise chapters on:
♦ How Pocpto Idorzfy Olhor People
♦ How Much is Enough?
♦ A Basic Phiosophy of Disguise
♦ Natural Disguises
♦ Mnoc Aids in Disguise
♦ Wigs. Mustaches. and Otter Facial Fuzz
♦ Criminal Disguises
♦ Make-up
♦ Casting Prostheses
♦ A Pocket Disguise Ki
♦ Disguising the Vc«co
♦ Mannerisms, Hab’rts. and Gait
♦ Blending in witt the Crowd
♦ Camoufiage
♦ Plastic Surgery
♦ Body Imago
♦ Foroskn Restoration
♦ Going All Tho Way
♦ Futuristic Pros poets
♦ Cross-Dressing and Sex Change
♦ Fabifying Fingerprints
♦ Impersonation
♦ Sources of Needed Suppies
♦ And More!
With Methods Of Disguise, you can team how to change yourseli
so completely even oW friends won’t recognize you!
SH x Ml, iHusfrxted, soft cover.
METHODS OF DISGUISE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61139)
Second Edition
THE HEAVY DUTY NEW IDENTITY
by John Q. Newman
THE
NEV/ IDENTITY
.’etin O Ntwman
Wouldn't it be great to wake up ono
morning as somebody else: a drtnrnnt
name, a new ife. al your troubles and
debts toft behind? But be careful what
you dream — it just might come true.
Actuary vying to ive under a now
identity would be most people’s worst
nightmare. Ask the people who have
triad n — John Q. Newman has. In The
Heavy Duty Now identity, Newman
reveals how dlfficuX it roaly Is ivfng
under an assumed identity.
Chapters Include: • Heavy Duty:
V/ho r* *ed> the Heavy Duty New
Identity, and why • They Want Your
Ass: The NCIC computer and America's Most Wanted • Who Am Ycu?:
What makes 'you' you — end how to change it • The TranttonaJ
Identity: How to be 'co tho lam' w?hout appearing to to • Tbo
Transitional Idcntey: ’Hardening' your new dentty • Making the Break:
Gelling away soot free — and what not to do • Living In the Transionai
Identity: Gating ready for tho Heavy Duty New Identity • Tho
Permanent Now kientily: Designed to withstand any amount of scrutiny
• The Problem of Mental Stress: Other ID books (to not cover this •
Bondng With Your Now Identity: Making sure all the bases am covered
• Bondng With Your Now Identity. Traps to avoid • LNtog the Uto: Tho
long haul • And mom.
The Heavy Duty New identity Uvxaz what it is like iMng a to. John
Q. Newman provides a program for building a row Identify that will net
tall Tho orty thing toa? can break down is you.
When there is no other choice — when tho stakes are high — when
your l^e ctopends on c — got The Heavy Duty Now identity I
1S91,5\i x 8H, 69 pp, »oft cover.
THE HEAVY DUTY NEW IDENTITY: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61116)
REBORN
OVERSEAS
REBORN OVERSEAS
Identity Building In Europe,
Australia, and Now Zealand
by Trent Sands
Ph? wa7s bebvaen nations are
crumbling, openng rare opportunities for
those who need a new ktoncty. Reborn
Overseas, the latest in Trent Sands’
popular Reborn series, shows how to
build a foolproof identity in Europe,
Australia and New Zealand.
The formation of tho European
Common Market has created a paper-
tripping paradise. With an Identity in any
one ration, you can live, work and travel
in al twelve. Reborn Overseas shows
hew to penetrate Vvat system wxhcul
leaving toe United Stales.
Chapters include: • Th* European
Opportunity • Laying the Groundwork •
Firing out the IO. • Completing tho Basic Identity • Employment.
Education. and Crodt ♦ Tho British European • The Auslralan
Opportunity • Austfaian Birth Cartifcalos t Suppoting I.D. h AwWia
• The Australian Drivers Lkorate • Tbo Australian Passped •
EmptoymenL Banking and Crodt • Identification in New Zealand • And
morel
Reborn Oversow shows how to gc< al the documents needed for a
complete paper Identity. It also shows how to take educator,
employment and credit roforoncos so you can Wend right into your now
home. Join th© now brood oi global identity changers — got Robom
Oivrsoas.
1991, 5H X8H. 114 pp, H\ntnted, soft cover.
REBORN OVERSEAS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61127)I
FALSE IDENTIFICATION
The Problem and Technological Options
A deUied report on too uso of fake identification and the techniques the government and varous worldwide security firms use to discourage fraudulent use of IDs. Falsa identification show? you the ingenuity and fruavafons security pomcnnol and legal ID manufactirers face when criminals lake up the task of counterfeiting IDs.
From the bask: pinstc-inminatad photo IDs to the most complex laser-prcducad Image of the human retina. every mode of personal kJentificetion Is subject to falsification. As banks and high-security Institutions protect themselves from prying fingers and spying eyes, crooks am ioamng how to duplicate magnetically coded PVC IDs. passports, high-tech currency, fingerprints, voiceprints and various sophisticated pho to-ID systems.
Find cut how tbo security pros are staying one step ahead of too crime wave. How far can security techniqjes go? Here you will find some techniques that oven James Bond cant yet bypass Techniques □fitting rackxtoth'o isetopos. hobgrams. fiber opto a rd nuomscont cloth fibers are stepping out of the future into our lives.
1933, 5H X 8H. 40 pp, soft cover.
FALSE IDENTIFICATION: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61095)
REBORN IN CANADA
Personal Privacy Through a New Identity
Expanded Second Edition
by Trent Sands
Ei pinded Saxxid EACCfl
REBORN IN
CANADA
Pcrwnal Privacy — through — A New Ideniiiy
Trent Sands
Canada offers many opportune*«
for the new ktontity seeker. Tho
Canadian liiestyto <s very simfar to
that of the United States, and
Canada woUd bo too oaslost foreign
country for an American to adapt to.
R&bom In Canada, Expanded
Second Edtdon, to the single bos!
book over written on getting now I.D.
h America’s ctoscst neighbor — ard
contains more than 50% new
material Ilian tTwa bestsaling first
edition. It is a ccmptete Qukfe to
buidhg a now ¡dentt/ in Canada
from Iha ground up.
It is possible to create a new
identity in Canada, but Iha Canadian
identification system, while similar to the U.S. system, differs in Important ways. Onco you understand toe Cansdan system. It Is easy to penetrate, arvd tho classic methods of identity changing work very well.
Tepes ccrvnrnd r depth include:
-
Identifies Son In Canada
-
Canadian Birth Cort heater.
-
Secondary Idantjhcabcn
-
Drivers Licenses
-
Provencal ID. Cards
-
Socal Insurance Cards
♦ Canadian Passports
♦ Emptejmenl. Banking and Credit
♦ Tho Total Canarian
-
CSIS. Canada’s Secret Poke
-
Tho Cara dian Privacy Act
-
And much morel
Reborn in Canada, Expanded Second Edison, is tho complete guide to buikfing a ne*w Canadian identity from too ground up. It ovon includes an hgenicus chapter on how to got a new Canadan identity in your orginal American rarro — with no connection to your Amencan past! Reborn In Canada, Expanded Second Ed&on, s tho total book on Canadian I D.—and how to get t.
1991, SU x 8H, 86pp, sort cover.
REBORN IN CANADA
(Expanded Second Edition): $1200
(ORDER NUMBER 61114)
UNDERSTANDING
U.S. IDENTITY DOCUMENTS
by John Q. Newman
Locmpanica Unlimited <s
very proud to p'esont the
largest and most in-de^th
stud/ of the United States
ktentiffealicn system over
prepared — tolm Q. New-
man’s Understanding U.S.
identity Documents. Must
randng for al now identey
sectors. and anyone efee
interested in iduntficafon.
false ¡tonification and alter-
nate LDJ
You know who you are.
Your Inends and (amity know
who you are. But thousands o<
people you deal with in
government end business
know you only from a docu-
ment. It you alter your docu-
ment, you can evade taxes. regulation and supervision. You can a’so
reap a wkto spectrum ot benefits and prr.ilcges that are bestowed on
those people the system Ikes.
Understanding U.S. identify Documents provides a detafod examination of the most important doaiments for establishing identity: brth cortfiCAteS. Social Security cards, dnvers lccnr.es and passports. It shows how each document is generated and used, and explains Ite strengths and weaknesses of the agendas issuing them. For each document, you wil learn:
-
Hew numbers are generated and wtel they mean: b'rth certlhcata numbers, drrrnrs Icorsv numbers. Social Security numbers. passport numbers
-
How government computer systems are set up: what ntormahon your lies contain, how bureaucrate use Che fifes, how no Information is updated, and who Nas access to it
-
How to control your interaction with tte government in □ way that keeps your computer Clos clean
-
Which documents each government agency wil accep< as proof Of identity when issuing I.D. — there are some aTemav/es to standard I.D. documents, and ttocrc arc seme bureaucrats wto are more le- nfent than ethers
-
What mistakes you must avoid when dealing with government agencies to keep from' exposing a fatee identity.
Some of the information will surprise you. For exampfe:
-
Did >vu know that your driving record — which, in most states, is available to anyone — contains a detailed medical history?
-
Did you know there is an easy and legal way around the requrement tar a Social Security number as proof of your eligibility to work n the U.S.?
-
Do you know tte cos document almost alt bureaucrats will accept in place of a birth certificate?
Understanding U.S. identity Documents contahs the must detailed examinabon of bask: identry documents over made available IO the pubic. Each of the tour scctons contains mure information than most entire bocks cn tho subject AJI die information and material on each typo of decurrent has been reviewed. and Ite best information gicrjiod for the tock. Finsly. al the knowledge preseired tore has bear, updated to consider state-cZ-the-art government programs for establishing dentibzatien and elminating fraud.
in shed, there is no more thorough, up-to-date reference on U.S. dentey documents and Ite U.S. identity system avalabfe anywhere Jcta Q. Newman's Understanding U.S. identity Documents is an essential reference for anyone ccnccmed with Iteir official Wentffy and how it te maintained and manipulated.
1991, targe x 11, 212 pp, iiiustratcd, softcover.
UNDERSTANDING
U.S. IDENTITY DOCUMENTS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61129)
€ » rar tai W o <•
REBORN IN THE U.S.A.
Personal Privacy Through A New Identity
Expanded Second Edition
by Trent Sands
Reborn in The U.S.A, is Ite single best
book on new identities. ewi lai ring the most
current and up-lo-date information. Now
the expanded Second Edition U Reborn in
The U.S.A, contains nww ¿is much
materials the best-seiing first editioni
Ar. Amoricanr.. wo va’ua our right ot
privacy vary hghly. The average persen is
concerned about ti c details of his personal
Ifo being made public. Information about
his income, amount of savings, birthplace,
marital status, and other personal data and
much more is stored In many different
computers ttet are accessible by many
people. Most worrisome Is that in tte age
of the computer ell of thia data can be qUckly assemblnd nto ono t-'o
on any person.
Ths bock wn show the renrte- how to regain Ns privacy through
conlroltng what Is stored in those vanous corroutarr.. Tho rn.-vder will
ertoy all fte benefits of scckrty. but with coa Important ruttoronco: he
wll do it on hts own forms. Ho wil keep his true identity private, and tte
computers wil cocila n only tte information he wante to provide.
Topics covered in depth ttotode:
-
Tte U.S. kfentiffcaticn System • Tte Birth Cortncaio • Dflrers u-
censos • Passports • B.mk Accounts • Credit Cards • Emptoymont •
Child Support Laws ♦ Driving Records Databases • Vital Records
Cross- Rofcrcncing • And much, much more •
Reborn tn The U.S.A., Expanded Second Edition is tte best and
most complete gukfe to bukling a new itentrty now available.
1991, 5HxSH, 126PP, softcover.
REBORN INTHEU.SA.
(Expanded Second Edition): $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 51115)
THE GUIDE TO LEGALLY OBTAINING
A FOREIGN PASSPORT
The Easy Way to Get Additional Citizenship
by D. O'Nes
Thousands al pocple have multiple
citizcnztiips and tekl legally obtained
passports of their ’otter countries.' People
with these va’uab'e multiple citizenships and
passports hav-e not en’y enriched the? lives,
but enyoysd incraascd fracdom — Including
tax ad/antagos — grantor pcrscnnl sccunty,
and a host of other benefits.
This book reveals the ittfe-known
loopbotes that permit »’most anyone to
legally acquire foreign cillzenGhp. tte key to
obtaining passports in oounttes other man
one’s own. The Butter's easy-to-lclicw method wri guide you step by- step through tte procese, and contains ccmptólo Instrucions on how to Obtain passport* ,r(xn fourteen countries Contetó ineluda: • Finding inve&mfinta Atroto • How to Organize an investment Plan • Passport by >Zefl Order • Marnogo fee Passport ♦ Passport as a Retirement Reward • Diplomatic Passport • Dual Citizenships — Advantages and Disadvantage • Ar,:1 much, much more.
Recomo a World Cúren! The Guide To Legally Obtaining A Foreign Passport wJI bo of value to anyone interested in passports and otter I D., as wxHI as those interested in tong business in foreign countries
1999, 6x9, 204pp, soft cover.
THE GUIDE TO LEGALLY OBTAINING
A FOREIGN PASSPORT: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61130)
SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE
New I.D. in Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand by Tony Newborn
Written especiaiy for use in
Britain and the Common wealth
nations. Secrets of international
identity Change 8how& haw 1.7
obtain the leosl and veld docurrtonts
ycu need to support an id change.
No counterfeit IO is included bare —
cnl/ ways to get ID through
legitimate channels: nght frem tie
government Itself! Credit cards, birth
certificates and drivers licenses are
yours lor the asking, as woi as a
British passport nod medical card —
two ct th© most important documents
in th© world today.
Examples of applcaton forms (passport, motor-vehicle registration,
unemployment ttennto. drivers icense. mail-redirection) and
documents (birth and death certificates. unemployment benefit info) are
included Ko take ID library is ccmptole wthcut Secrets of
international identity Change.
1285. SJA x 11, 120 pp, Piustratcd, sort cover.
SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE: $17.35
(ORDER NUMBER 61071)
STATUS FOR SALE
The Complete Guide to Instant Prestige
by Wayne Yeager
'ifyou don ctaftto cut bud at
.toast mo or three tones per page
white reading this book, you'd
barter have your chucMer
checked It has tong been evident
that Americans have a tin ear for
tatecyf but a morbid fasanatten
with cetebfky and success if
therefore fuitews that those who
JUeratfy purchase status are, attar
aS, orty satisfying a national
appetSe for if 7bis book batengs
on every library she#.. '
— Steve Alien
Do you know bow to' 4- Buy
phony credentials o Buy a mlltory
commission •> Beirne an
ordained minister llvough the mall
O Buy □ real coat-of-arms <r
Legal'/ change your r arre O
Acquire prizery colcge degrees <•
Obtain almost any ©ward Imaginable ❖ Bccoma a Knight. Baron. Viscount or DUke ❖ Get backstage passes to any event O Obtain honorary doctorates ❖ Get great references ❖ Win awards and beauty contests * And much mwl This book will show you hew.
•Status For Sate is a handy, Rrsf-dass ruin-bock for anybody and everybody wanting to ptey te the p&tteum playground of the winner's drde. This book is a fun reference manual that covers everything from bow to acquire an Etogtisb /Oxghthoocr to 'getting a tinner date with a Hokywood star. ’ it's fun and serious and packed cover to cover with vaAtabie information "
— Robin Leach
1992. 5# X 8A. 126 pp. tort cover.
STATUS FOR SALE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61135)
STATUS
FOR SALE
FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS
This reprint of a 1965 report front the US Hcuse of Representatives covers phony diplomas. degrees, and academic credentials, Ft conta'ns Information co the FBI’s 'Oporalicn Dipscam’ which in the past few years has shut down dozers of dpbma mite ¡n the US.
The report cont.ilnr. reproductions of nff/ortscn-ients from diploma mil's, and photos of phony degrees purchased through trie mail. I: goes into ccnaderabto detoi on how daclcrs and other professionals use these fraudulent credentials. with rrany fascinating case histories.
•The FBI has found that an individual
could obtain crocfontials from a wide sctoction of institutions by the
meeting of one single requrement — the payment of a fee ranging ,r<m
$25 for a meritorious oUtton to $28,030 for a mcdcal degree complete
with transcripts a.->d letters of rccorrmcndatbn... The FBI found that
fraudulent diplomas ma-y be issued in the name of the diplcma mil iteol
or tncy may to falsified duplicates of dptomas issued by legitimate
colcges and unnerves. During raids dosing one dploma mil. FBI
personnel have confiscated thousands of falsified diplomas Ktenocal to
trioso conferred to graduates of such reputable insfitultons as Harvard.
Yaks. Emory. Uto University of A’abama as well as those of non-existert
’sound-alike schools.’
Fascmstin-j reading for anyone Interested in the ’proWom’ of
Fraudulent Credenttaisf
teas. 6x9. ejpp, Must'afed. softcover.
FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61088)
NEW I.D. IN AMERICA
How to Create a Foolproof New Identity
by Anonymous
Did you ever wish you had just (Xte
more chance at lite — :ne proverbial
’Coan stale?* Do you want to shake free
frem those alimony payments or your
tousy credit record? Cr would you like to
have a couple cf extra sets cf ’alternate’
I.D. just in case Big Brother gets a little
Ido frisky?
W«i New f.D. in Amerfca, can
gel lost permanent-
This excellent tock is a step-by-step
gude to precis#/ sealing a totally now
rfcnlrty — to having □ tona fide birth
certificate, drivers license, passport.
Stoat Security number, credit cards —
all you need to make a ctoan break with
ycur past and got ynursctf New LD. tn America.
The autbar. a pnvalo nvc^tgator who has spent a lifetime both local ng missing parsons and helping clients ’get lost’ permanently, reveals his socrols to you. Learn haw to became □ totally new parson. prc»ncl exactly th© Imago yau want to and then pcovo you are wfto you say yea arc. Chapters neb de: • Inlroduetbn • Ycu Are Who You Say You Ara ♦ Sctthg Ue Cornar&tone • Drivers Licenses • Ancillary rtocumcnteli&n ♦ SqqsI Security Gatite • Mal Dw? and Answering Sanxos • False Business EnU'es • Banking • Credit Cards • l.osir^ a Past Identity • Cordui-on.
You can project the reputation cf being a successful, infiucntal business person with 8 presb'gous address a rd corporate backing. Or do yea desire a shetered business savings account ltv»t Is virtually’ untraceaUe? Ycu can create eiher at will — for personal or business reasons. And you can do all this without fear of ever being caught, with these careful instructions. Here’s your chance for a new identity! Grab it! 1962, SHx8Ht 120pp. iSustrtttd, xortcovor.
NEW I.D. IN AMERICA: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61048)
HOW TO
DISAPPEAR
DISAPPEAR
DISAPPEAR
DISAPPEAR
DISAPPEAR
^APPEAR
EAR
COMPLETELY
AND NEVER B£ FOUND
by Cojjc
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
AND NEVER BE FOUND
by Doug Richmond
Heavy-duty rtlsapfwiring tech-
nquas tor thce-a with A “need to
know!" Ths book tolls you how to
pal eft a dsappaarance-. and how
Io stay freo and never be found. It
analyzes all tho ways you ootid bo
feund by whoever might be looking
for you — hissing parsons
bureaus, the Feds. Private eyes
and skip tracers. Insurance com-
panies — and tells you how to
evade their pursuit.
TNs took tela yoj how to prfan
ler a dseppearance. how to
arrange for naw Identification. and
even how to stage a •Pscrjdozdo’
to make your pursuers think you
are dead!
How to make it appear that you
have left tho country when you
reap/ haven't. haw to cop* with th© first how to get a job,
cslabUh erode, and find a place to live. Haw to avoid Slaving a paper
trai. who might bo looking tor you and how to avoid them, case
histones, and moral
¿VwytteKjyou need io know absut How to Disappear Completely
and Never Be Founds in this amazing back’
1966, SHxSH. 107pp. softCMf.
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
AND NEVER BE FOUND: $12.95
(ORDER HUMBER 61082)
HOW TO GET LOST
AND START ALL OVER AGAIN
by Gary B. dark
This book Is for al people who
am so trouWod by financial
problems that tho only solution
seems to bn to ’got tost* from c
all. Ab.ni/. half of ton book Coals
whh ton fnancul problems that
night make a person want to get
lost. Tho other half prov>dos
information on haw Io get lost. The
reader is left with chokes: * Deaf
with the problems end overcome
those problems ♦ Get test on a
short term basis, then deaf with
your problems * Get font on a
permanent basis and start aS over
again.
Ths book lens you how to gel
your crcdtors oft your nock —
how to Gel Lost from them so you
have Orne to thirfc things over and
decide what course of action is in your best interest. Tepes covered ibtfUtié. * HOw t<> Gèt LôSt ★ How tixry can find you i Establishing take identification ♦ Estsrbfàhfog a fake job history * Wxz/ shoud do it you can't pay your debts * 72w advantages and disadvantages of bankruptcy * How to get money to Get Lost with ★ Keeping your emdsors at bay * hnd much more.
In today’s plastic world, £ r» easy to got In over your bead — rt ths happens Io you. you will need to know How To Get Lost And Start AB Over Again.
1966. SKxBH, 138 pp. softcover.
NOW TO GET LOST
AND START ALL OVER AGAIN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61081)
VANISH!
Disappearing Through ID Acquisition
by Johnny Yount
Ex-wife, creditors, or Uncle Sam arc they trying to Ice you? Are yea at wit's end. dodging letters, phone calls, and physical confrontations? Want a way out? Want to Ive free? Van&hf
Got the facts on dsapp^arances through ID acquisition. Know 11« mail drop, the untraconbto signature. supped (tocunte<)latk)n, acquiring someone else‘5 birth certificate, and mod importantly, how to get your story squared away.
Loam haw to ’die’ through ad.sarfisement — how to do it fast and make 4 last Die and Ihe. Vartsfi!
1966. SHxBH 96 pp. fffostfAted. softcover.
VANISH!: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61091)
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD
Reprint of a Government Report
the foundation. or breeder document. for aknost any other kind of identification for citizens is the Mh corticate. Over 7.000 State and focal vital records offices issue birth c#rtt6c#fos with no uniform standards for issuance processes, controls, or quaSty of documents tn some jurisdictions, birth certificates arc easSy counterfeited, obfainod through imposture, or crested from stolen feptimato blank forms. *
This US Government report covers birth certificate fraud. It deals with: The ProWems • The Issuing Agendas • The Birth Documents ♦ The Issuing Procedures • Tbs User Agencies • And Roccmmandaticcis tor control log birth certificate fraud.
Birth Certificate Fr*ud\* the very latest information on what tlx? US Government knows about take ID. and bow it is trying to stop it. Must reading for anyone interested in identification and false identification.
1983, 8M x 11, 36 pp iftestnrted. softcover.
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61008)
DISGUISE
TECHNIQUES
ToulAII uCUk-People
Some of the Time
DISGUISE TECHNIQUES
Fool All of the People Some of the Time
by Edmond A. Madnaugh
Have ycu ever wanted to
pass through a crowd unrecog-
nized? Transform yeurset! so
ccmplotoly that not oven your
best friend recognizes yr.u?
Discover year oncmics’ secrets
without arousing suspeion? Co
this — and more — using tte
irted-and-troe techniques civulg-
ed here by a true disguse
master. Uke live chameleon, ycu
too. can blend in with your
surroundings, or better yet. be
■nvisbk? using Iho infarmaficn
to ths book.
There 1$ more to a succeed
dtogurre man a change of
o’oihes and makeup. With
imagination and acting abllty to gu'de you. no one will know who you arat Laam to size up people and siluaticns at a glance, bow to change your personality, and just whan to discard your defuse. Disguise the mind — and the body — create a new personality. Beller yeL use your menial powers to blend chameleon like into year surroundings, or create any number of characters for a quick-change or long-term d&appa.vanoc. Snoo poep'-a tend to see only what they expect to see — arxl not wfxal is realy there you can use these tochnques to fco! ai of the people some of the time!
1984, x6>1, 88pp. ithrstrsted, softcover.
DISGUISE TECHNIQUES: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61073)
. .
SCRAM
JOWATIK« UK»
a xix identity
¡**1* »x<l>
»x U-
SCRAM
Relocating Under A New Identity
by J âmes S. Martin, Attorney at Law
Have you over watebed a ship go out to
sea and wished you were on it. leaving
you.- problems behind? You’re not atone.
M-any people wou’d tore io make a fresh
start, in a new town, undsr a new name.
But how? Jamas S. FAartn. en atlcmoy
w-Xh years of experience bom in the umd
States and abroad, answers all year
questions about relocating under a new
Wentlty. Questions ike: □ Shoo'd I divorce
before leaving? □ Should I declare bank-
ruptcy first? □ How can I get a birth certifi-
cate in a afferent name? □ How do I got
a brand new Social Security card? u Who
wil be looting for me and bow will they try
to fnd mo?
SCRAM: Relocating Under a New identity Includes tan real-life case historiée that ahow the problems ard oppcrtunrt»s for idcnlity- changers. If you've ever wardered wha: It would take to start over, e»en check out SCRAM!
Chapters include: The Comm-.fr.ertf to a nr.w ideality □ Social reoc- ganizalfon □ Personal reorganization □ New Identity papers □ Tracing missing persons □ Changing your looks □ The right to travel □ Faking death □ Chances Of success □ and more, Including Case Histories of reaHife ktentity changers!
The author stator. In Ms Introduction: ’Nothing herein should be construed as Insbuctwn on bow to break toe law. nor should 31 be read as encoumgomcnt to do so. In fact, all of the Information provided te intended to atfrise against breaking tho law while 11« indvictoal plans or eftects a new identity. Every day. the federal Aislfoe Department creates new idenfitteo for criminals and tho worst examples of society, as well as assisting them with taxpayer money! Why shotidnl that choice be avarablo lor other citizens? Why sboddnl you have the opportune/ 1er a ‘clean slate?* M yea do have the aim of reinventing yourself, bo aware that you are not atone, nor were you the first to dream of It*
SH xSH, S3pp, son cow.
SCRAM: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61136)
CREDIT: THE CUTTING EDGE
by Scott French
Perfect plastic — a dean rating is your key to power. muscle of the financial kind. In his latest work. Seed French has complied informaricn on every Imaginable aspect of credit and how it affects you! Thia Is a hard-and-fast course in professional credt counseling, with Step-by-Step »-»structlcns on bow to kxgtiy ropair damaqud credl the same way the pros- (to it. pkis more dcvicus tricks that work Ike financial black mage’
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Read about the 70 least-known credit facte, where to gel cheap cards, how to gel cards with no credit chock, how to deal with ooltoctfcn agenotos. and how to categorize year cred I card use erd profit from It.
• French also rove ate the lep crodt card crimes bow they're dore □nd why tbey'ro rarely prosecuted and almost never served.
Establish a credit Uno 1er $100.000 — loam about credit scoring (how barks and credit àgéri66S fâtê yW) ÔAd hOW to IfFprOMO the rarrbers. These are tire 'rery same ’ns'derte techriqucs otlcrcd by lep lawyers for several thousand (tollsrs! Now Jtx/can usa this nftxmalicn for your cwn cred*, needs or set up shop as a CfCdri counselor.
Gleaned from in-depth interviews with criminate, countorfohors. scam artists, attorneys, credit counselors, and ctolechcn exports. Credit: The Cutting Edge reveate strategies for coo of the most Important g.-mos in your Irie. Pfay to win with these inside tricks of tho money garnet toss, sk x iir 2S4pp, son cow.
CREDIT: THE CUTTING EDGE: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61093)
THE CRIMINAL RECORDS BOOK
How to Regain Your Good Name
by Warren Siege!, Attorney
WeVe at done something illegal. If you were one of those who gc< caught, your Juvedte or criminal court records can complicate your life even years later, wten you apply for a job. a professional Ikxsrec. or if you are ever In court again. Fortunately. them nra many ways to dear up your record.
The Criminal Records Book takes you slcp by step through al tire procoduron that ora availabto to got your records scaled, destroyed. Of changed. It shows yea brew to do ?. yourself will-out an attorney, wilh dealt/ written insbuctrens on twyw to fil out the forms ard go to court. R contains detailed information on:
• Yoor CkhwmJ Rec&d: whst it is. how it can harm you. bow to got a copy of it and bow to correct Inaccuracies.
• Lega! Reftt&des to Seat. Destroy or Change Youf Record:^ off oct of each remedy on your record erd how they wll artect your future.
• Mar^uena Fossession Records: hrew io totally o imnato theso re
cords.
• JurenUe C&vrt Records: and destroy tneso records completely.
OiiACcvT.- Tha bcok only carers criminal rtxxxds resulting from contacts wito too Caifomia criminal iustico system. Also, seme of these records carrrct be cleaned at all. while others cen only be partially criminated. For most cf you. however, this book w»l prov'de helpful rfccmation and assist yea in your efforts to rega'n your good name.
1&W, SU x 1ft 139pp, iiiustratod, soft cow.
THE CRIMINAL RECORDS BOOK: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61108)
PASSPORT TO FREEDOM
A Guide for World Citizens
by Garry Davis
From noted polticiiins to
anonymous refugees, more
than a milion peoplo arourd
tho worid carry a unique srd
controversial passport.
Isaued by the World Secvtee
Authority, ii identifies its
bearer as a soveregn cozen
of the wortd with all tt-re
human rights of word
passage. Passport To
Freedom shows yea haw to
obtain your ve<y own Word
Passport. Thousands of
people have used the tools
described in this bock to
enter and leave more ard
more countries and suc-
cossfiily cliaflenge naicnal
authorities around the worid.
For many refugees. Word
Citizenship means mo dif-
ference between freedom
and death
Davis ateo discusses ard
shows you haw to otteh: a
Polacal Asytom Cant an
IhtemaKcnal Exit Visa: and an international Resident Perm«. Passport To Freedom draws on Davis* four decades of oxpcrionco. offering timely and practical insights ard aOrice for arr^ono who agrees that tho natfon-slate system itself is one of the greatest thread io humanity today. Davis argues persuasively that indivkJual sareregnty is tho key to chalrengng tho arbitrary power of nations. As an inspiring story and pmctcat how-to-do-il-gude. this greund-braaking book will pranda readers win their own Passport To Freedom.
1092. 6x9,203pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cow.
PASSPORT TO FREEDOM: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61133)
V/orfd Marriaœ Certficaw; a WwW
COLLEGE DEGREES BY MAIL
100 Good Schools that offer Bachelor’s,
Master's, Doctorates and Law Degrees
by Home Study
by John Bear, Ph.D.
Since 1974. Dr. John Bear has hooped thousands of people enm affordable. legitimate usable cdlcgc degrees entirety through homo study. The time spent ca n be as short as three months, and the cost can 1» as atria as $500. Th©' problem is that meet cologes and universities that offer such degrees never advertise — and many schoo’s which do advertise are tesa than wordedU
College Degrees By Mafi\3 the most useful tock ever written on its subject m this took. Dr. Bear has selected 1 CO of the best schools. and devotes an entire page of complete, detailed information about each program. Including:
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Tutxxi
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Majors and degrees offered
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Kay contact person
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Address. phono, and tex
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and Dr. John Bear's personal evaluation of the school.
College Degrees By MaUdto ncludos valuable material on getting coliege credit for:
-
Lie experience
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Equivalency exams
♦ Honorary doctorates
♦ as wei as how to get personalized degree counsel ng.
Dr. Boar also inobdon a long 1st Of schools to avoid.
College Degrees By Mali is the sourcebook for anyone who wants or reeds a ccllege degree, but just doesn't have the time to go back to school.
1991. 3H x 11, 222pp. indexed softcover.
COLLEGE DEGREES BY MAIL: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61126)
REBORN WITH CREDIT
by Trent Sands
If you’ve played with credt and
to«L you don't have to stay out of the
asms forever. In Reborn With Credit.
Trent Sands, author of Reborn in 77.v
USA., Reborn tn Canada, and Re-
born Overseas, shows you how to get
tack In the credit game. You will loam
who el the players are. and you will
teem the rues as no coy has ever
explained them to you.
Foltow a cred« application as <1
works Its way through layers of ap-
proval. Learn how the application is
"scored." ard what wia cause it lo be
approved or rejected.
It you have a bad credt history,
you don’t have to spend thousands of ddlara at a "credt repair clinic* to
fix it. Reborn With Credit wit show you how you can terytty force the
credit bureau to remove negative .terns from your report Even it ycu
have had liens nganst you. Even 4 you have declared bankruptcy.
Once ycu have cleaned ycix credt. Reborn With Credit will show
you haw to build a great credit rating, in a matter of months, ycu can
have access to tons ot thousands o! doners. And ycu will team how to
convert high-interest credit card debt to manageable, low-interest loans.
Contents include: • Cradt Basics • Credit Bureau Services • Fixing
Bad Credit ♦ Crontng a Blank Slate at ne Bureau • Ami-Fraud Pro-
grams • Stop-by-Stap Through the Creclt Appflcatdn • Becoming a
Credt Card MMkmalre • And more.
You don’t have to stay socked cut c< the credt market forever. Get
Reborn With Credit today, and get back in the garnet
SHxSH, 72 pp. softcover.
REBORN WITH CREDIT: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER61131)
PART-TIME DIPLOMACY
For Fun, Profit & Prestige
by James Basii-Hnrt
Have you ever dreamed of
becoming a wortd-dass dpb-
mat? James Basil-Hart has. So
he contacted several countries in
Eastern Europe- and before tong
they were issuing him creden-
tali.
Part-Time Diplomacy tells
you exactly how lo acquire gen-
uine dpfornatic cradanuYS hW-
oof having lo purchase them
Basil-Hart didn’t have riches or
infiuontal fnends. But he dd
have persistence and thn desire
to be a diplomat. In this exciting
now book, ha shows how you
can get dptomatic credentials
witoout spending a lc< of money
and without ever leaving home.
There are many benefits that
come with diplomatic aratus. You get invited o lavish parties where the
powerful and famous mingle. You can use the connections you make lo
bene« you' business. You can even get diplomatic immunity, .ind be
shielded from prosecution for any crime. Chapters inctoda: A How
Diptomacy Developed A Benefits of Diplomatic Status A What Diplomats Do A Dp’omatic Protocol and Traditions A Private Diplomacy and Pubic Pdky A Why Cour4rie& hfeed You A Picking Your Country A Planning Your Campaign A Making Yctr Proposal A The Pubic Rela
tions Campaign A Your Diplomatic Cuties a Pitfalls of Part-Time Diplomacy.
Using the techniques and information revealed in this book. James Basil-Hart was able to obtain genuine diplomatic credential from several countries In Eastern Europe. In Part-Time Diplomacy, James Basil Hart lakes you slep-by-stop through the process of finding lbs right country and drafting a proposal they cant resist With new countries sproutng up aU over the glebe, there may nover be a better lime to get n cn the dptocnalic ground Boor.
So (>sl Part-Time Diplomacy today — and get started co the read to fun. pro« and presligol
1992,5h x SH. 137pp, xxmpi^ teft^re, aott cover.
PART-TIME DIPLOMACY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61134)
THE GATE CRASHERS
The Book Which Reveals the Secrets
of the Society of the Uninvited; Imposters;
Party Crashers; Stowaways
by Ken Huthmaker
Why gate crash? Revolt against high prxes? Avoid standing in never-ondng long 5nes? Lack ot sufficient funds? Desire to attend an un'nvr.ad affair? if ycu want to be In. but cton*t have the means or an tnvttabon. this bock is for you. H shows ycu how others have dore It. how you cah do it nnd what to (to after you've done 4.
Chapters indudo: • Uncommon Crashers • Parry Crashers • Athtotic Crashers ♦ Crashing Spins • Kgh Flying Crashers • Frausu c.nl Crashers • Crashing Capom • Country Crashers • High Seas Crashers • HcltyAocd Crashers • Confessions of toe Author • Sozrots of Suxoss • And more.
Tbo chapter on Gato Crashing Pto)*s (Double Stub; Single Stub: Stamp Transfer; Member of the Press; One. Phase; Good Name; Sacrificing the Lamb; Impersonation; Good Scout Already In; Adranco Call; Stage Door; Good Samaritan; Walk In Backward) la alone worth Iha pr.ee of the took. Gate crashers. Iita bad girts, go everywhorel
7992. 3x11, 123pp, iffurtmted, softcover.
THE GATE CRASHERS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61132)
MUG SHOTS
A Police Artists Guide
to Remembering Faces
by Douglas P. Hinkle
Fc< anyone with a need to see t*y>nd
the obvious. to pierce disguises or to
identify persons who may wish to remain
unrecognized. ths bock provides precise
instruction in the techniques of identifying
faces, as wel as a fascnab’ng glimpse
into the criminal mod. Written by a vet-
eran police artist the entertaining and in-
structive manual is the only one of Its kind
that leaches poice eff eers, private de-
tectives. security chiefs, store owners,
bark tellers or arrjtooe how to observe
faces, comma them to memory and da-
scribe their features to others, as won as
how to elicit periinent Information about
faces from others urxfer stressful ccndl-
ticns.
Most peopto. police officers and private investigators included, coni know how to describe faces very accurate*/ tx>cair.n they haven't teamed how to observe them. Mug Shots shows you what to took for and haw to priorffize the important features. Learn what can be changed easily ard cheaply; what can c<Vy be changed with time, nw/ and effort; ard what cannot be changed at all.
After reading this book, ycull never look at faces in quite trio same way.
1990, SH x 9H, 129pp, Kustrxttd, softcover.
MUG SHOTS: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61113)
NKW THIVD EDITION
HOW TO GET I.D. IN CANADA
Third Edition
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
& Mister Completely
Now ycu can get dccumcntod
north of tto border with How to Get
LD. tn Canada. Completely revised
and updated for ths Third Edition.
How To Gat ID. tn Canada tells ycu
how to gm the folkiwng pxxres oi
Canadian LD.:
-
Brih Cortricats
-
Driver's License
-
Social Insurance Card
-
Passport
-
Supporting I.D.
And much more. Includng tips co
using mai dreps. staying free, and
documentary requi'ements for rocns
In the United States. This completely
updated eriben of How to Get LD. tn
Canada Wfo you everything ycu need to know to bold a new identity In
Canada. Sold for intormattonal purposes only.
1990, SJix 9 Ji, SSpp, ffUjstntod, sort cover.
HOW TO GET I.D. IN CANADA: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61109)
THE FINGERPRINT
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Theft and burglary can hit you any-
time. and the culprit Is often somebody
>ou know and wcu'd teas! expect.
Now. with The Fingerprint Identifica-
tion System, ycu no longer have to
helplessly sit by while 'innocent*
friends and family members rob you
blind! Based on the famed FBI fin^r-
prinling system. Wie AS uses dimple
training methods and a variety of ac-
cossibto material to teach those with or without prior fingerprinting ex- panonco how to xfenflfy tho thxrf — whether it rrvotves a security breach at >our company or discovering who’s been hoping himself io your Iqucr cabinet!
The Fingerprint kfenfification System covers all aspects of the science of fingerprinting. inducing equipment, terminology, cfassffica- fon, interpretation and identification. Sections inctode improvising substitute items for primers Ink and receding surfaces, peeper procedure for lading a suspect's prints, overcoming the four major problems when taking prints and converting fingerprint Into into redo eerie for qUck and easy ccmmunlearicn.
M the FBI can do k with 2CO mil On prints on record, so can youl 1999. 9Ji x 11f rttustrated. sort cover.
THE FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61094)
Jack Luger
COUNTERFEIT I.D. MADE EASY
by Jack Luger
See how easy
making counterfeit LD.
can be! Counterfeit LD.
Mede Easy includes
$iep-b/-8tep instructions
on how forgers make
these authenbe-tookrig
documents: • Drivers Li-
censes • Photo ID.
Cards • Crerit Cards •
Birth Cert/caies • And
much, much morel
Tcptas covered in-
dude: • Tho different
purposes counterfeit LD.
k used for • The wide
spcctum of fake I.D. •
What gees into real LD.
• Obtaining simple
genuine I.D. • The
fergoris kit: sources for
the supplies and equp-
ment I.D. ccunterfeters
use to produce their bogus documents • Forgery techNQjes: paste-up,
phoicccpies. watermarks, signatures, altering photostats, aging tho
document, ultra-vfalel ink. and mexe • flow bark cards and photo I.D.
are ferged • How counterfeiters use professional seevioos without
arousing suspicion • How iorgers oxeroso quakty control ov-or their
counterfeit I D. • How forgers pass fake I.D. • And much, much more,
¡nctodlng banking, knpersonabon. on-fitoyment. end morel
Wfilen bry a prete$£onal In tho printing and grapriis arte trad». Counterfeit LD. Mede Easy fakes you nlo trio basemorZs and workshops of professional torgore to reveal thwr techniques. Tho tods are ample, the supples madly aveilabe. Counterfeit LD. Made Easy «xfudes defalcd Illustrations, as well as tps on bow forgers use tho fake I D. they make and how ycu can spot counterfeit credentials.
There is no secret to how great-tocking LD. is prodxed — not with Counterfeit LD. Made Easy.
1990, SJixSH, 137pp, Riusrtated. soft cover.
COUNTERFEIT I.D. MADE EASY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61111)
Big BROTHER IS Watching You
Introduction
Well. 1984 has come and gone, but Big Brother is stiff watching you. If you don't think so, take a took at
some of the books in this Section. The latest in
wiretapping and electronic surveillance methods and
equipment, techniques of spying and shadowing,
snooping, super-secret government agencies and
more — prove that Big Brother is watching you.
THE MANIPULATED MIND
Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination
by Denise Winn
This is the single fins st book wc have ever seen cn 'brainwashing.'
Ever since American priscocm of war n Korea suddenly switched sides to the Ccmmunist cause, thn concept of brainwashing has continued to fascinate aind confuse. Is it realty possible to Iccco any thinking person to act in a way completely alien to he character? What makes so-cafed brainwashing so different from tie cqualy insidious effects of Incfoclrtoation and conditioning. or even advertising and «toucetion?
Research lindnga from psychology show titol txanwasling is nee a special subversive technique; it Is ttie clever maripulation of unrea'ized Influences that operate in all our Ives.
This book. by breaking down so-caled brainwashing to its individual elements, shows how aooal condtioning, need for approval, emotional dependency and much else that we arc unaware of. prevent us from being as self-directed as we think; and converse»/. which human traits make us the least susceptible to subtle influence.
An important took — the best avatable on the subject. We are all •brainwashed' every day and ths book can help you to recognize the ways and protect yourself. High»/ recommended.
1993, 5HX 9H. 217pp.hx/d cover.
THE MANIPULATED MIND: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58023)
U.S. ATTORNEY'S MANUAL
ON ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
Your private conversations am Coing iru>rt
against ycu in a ©curt of law. Is that legal?
Scmetmes It Is. other times II fenrt. Your rights
may have been violated!
Whether you are bugging, or being bugged,
this edltlcn of the U.S. A ttomey's Manual On
Electronic Surveillance will tet ycu every-
thing ycu need to know. From court aiZhcriza-
ion. appication procedure, conduct of riter-
coption. dsclcsure of intercepted communi-
cottons. pretrial proceedings, trial uie of sur-
veilanoe information arid video surveillance
(on the legal side) Io Interstate extortion, inter-
naticnal criminal use d surveillance and criminal soflcilaton.it's all here.
Can you bug someone who is openfy dscussing murder? Is a public restaurant subject to live same surveitance afowances as a jail coll? Must you obtain an interception order from the courts for every bulging, phone-tapprg or video-survellance team you employ? Discover tbs answers to these questons and hundreds more in this comprnhorr-'/o gutoo to tho use of efoctrcnto surveillance,
1953, 9Mx 11, 160 pp, softcover.
U.S. ATTORNEY'S MANUAL
ON ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58062)
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THE PUZZLE PALACE
A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency
by James Bamford
The National Scanty Agertoy (NSA)
Is the most socket agancy within the US
Govommont. For many years the
government denied that It even existed.
It was cslabishred not by law but by a
top secret presidential memorandum
that has been seen by on»/ a ver/ few
officials. Yet it is many times larger than
the CIA. spends bilions of dollars more
per year, and its drcctor is the most
powerful official in he American
inteligerce ccmmurrty.
In the three decades since Truman
secretly created the agency tn 1952. the
NSA has managed to clurto publcity to
an extraordinary degree. Now, in the first
tock ever written cn the National Socixtfy Agnocy. Jarnos Bamford
traces its origins, details its inner woriongs and expesos tar-tkirg
operations.
He describes the oty of fifty thousand people and naarty twenty
buïdngs (hat is the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA — where
there am ctosn to a rtozon underground acres of computers, where a signhcant part of the wortefs communica'.bns are monitored, and where reports from a number of sophisticated satelite eavesdoppng systems am anat/zftd. Ho also gives a detailed account oi NSAs complex network of listening posts both in tho United States and throughout much of the rest of the worto.
The Justice Department tried to suppress the publishing of this tock? Read Uto truth about the super-secret piggy NSAI
fS62. 5x8, aSSpp. indexed. soft cover.
THE PUZZLE PALACE: S12.C0
(ORDER NUMBER 10040)
CIA FLAPS AND SEALS MANUAL
Here it is — A Ci A Manual on How To Open Mail!!!
I&xrtf cf the techniques taught in ths book were used by Ihe CIA and FBI to effect surrcptiticus openings al mall during Iha past three deca dos.
Chapters iniudc • Ocs.gn of ©paring toots • Dry openings • Removal of cellophane tape • Wat openings • Steam epenngs • Wax scats • Repars • Rcsoallrg ♦ Traps • Examination of received mail • and more!
This fascinating oxpose wii be valuable In determining if mail la being tampered with. A valuable addition to anyone's clandestine reference Ibrary.
1975. SU x Sh, 55pp. very tveff Wi/sfrated. soft cow.
CIA FLAPS AND SEALS MANUAL: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 59012)
AGENTS OF REPRESSION
The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther
Party and the American Indian Movement
by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
From the Red Scare o' 1919-1920 to the McCarthy parted cf toe 1950s to toe COINTELPRO (Counter'nteU’geooe Program) era of toe 1960s, the FBI has operated prirnarih/ as America’s political potee. Set against this eordd background, the complex of FBI operations corxiucted aga'nsl Iba Black Panther Party and the American Indian Mwement including murder, kidnapping, and a range of otter ir^aJ activities, provides a shocking indictment of the ta^essneaa of the ’law enforce rs.-
Contrary Io official! announcements Uvat COINTELPRO-type activities ended h 1971, the autocns demonstrate that the FBI not only continued thorn, but in some cases actually increased their leva’s of rtensiy and violence. Agents of Repression cccdudcs with ccns'doraticn of recent FBI attempts to disrupt or destroy too Puerto Rican Independence movement end the Central America sanctuary and sokfority movements.
Profusely ilustratod nnd Indexed, Agents of Repression is the benchmark text fix tncsc concerned with ixv.kxste'xirg not c<i\ whs! happened Id tho Diack PanIhors ard the American Indian lAovement. but tho functional realty of America’s political police. Highly roDnrrm ended.
1266, 6x9, 52Spp, iHustratod, soft cow.
AGENTS OF REPRESSION: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58059)
WAR AT HOME
Covert Action Against U.S. Activists
And What We Can Do About tt
by Brian Glick
Government harassment of U.S. polecat activists clearly ousts today. violating our lundamecilai Constilixonal rights and creating a cimate of fear and cistrust which undermines our efforts Io challorgo official policy. Similar attacks on social justice movements camo io ight during the 1 GCOs. Only years later dd wo loom that these bod been merey the v&ibfo tip of an tontxirg. Largely hidden at tho tirro was a vast gr/zommont program to r-outralizo demos tic political oppositon through ’covert action- (polrtxoal repression carried cut sccrcO/ or under the gtfse of legitimate law enforcement).
The 196O> program, coordinated by ne FBI under the coda name •COWTELPRO.- was exposed in the 1970s and supposedly stoppod. But ccrzcrt operations against dornsslio dissidents did rot end. They have persisted and become an Integra! part of govemmefV. activity. Ths book Is designed to help today's activists learn from the history Of COINTELPRO. so toat future movements can better fight this war at homo.
Iha opening sect on reviews what wo knew about COINTELPRO. It explAns hew the pnogram was unccvorod when the FBI arxl pcfice were corrpclfod to mkraso previously secret documents. ft outlines CONTELPRO's methods and targets and assesses its contribution 10 tho dccllro cf tho rrovarnonts cf tho 1960s.
the next section shows that domestic covert acton dd rot 6Od wten COINTELPRO was officiary dsbanded. Il remained in effect under ether names and ft contnuos to to a serious diroat teday. Persisting under Democratic as well as Republican adm'nstrafons, ?. lias become a permanent feature cf U.S. politics.
The final section discusses what wo can do about this danger. It analyzes tho specific methods used th COINTELPRO — Ihfltratdfi, psycliotogicaJ warfare, harassment through toe legal system. and extralegal force and violence — and preposes steps to lima c< deflect thcr impact cn our movements. It shows that these methods do not protect "national security- of combat terrorism, as darned by too government. but actual’/ serve to loment vfo’ence and subvert democracy. Various tactics are suggested for publcly exposing toe reality of cfomnslic covert action and mobiizing bre^d-based protest against Its continued use.
1969, SH x 84, 96 pp, tifuitrstod, soft cow.
WAR AT HOME: $5.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58060)
PISSING AWAY THE AMERICAN DREAM
Government-Mandated Urine Drug Testing
and the Fourth Amendment
by David Ross
“The Right of tho People to Bo Secure in Their Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects Against Unroosonabto Searches and Souvres, ShaV Hot bo Violated; And Afo Warrant ShaS issue, but upon Prof^abio Cause, Supported by Oath or Affirmation, and Pamcutarty Ooscnbiog tho Place to bo Searched and tho Person or Things to Bo Seized'
— The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States
n Is called toe "War on Drugs," but« te realty a "War co Tho Poopin.- R is a war or decet, a war of economics, and melrty a war for power and control. It is toe kind of war where you soon realize that even many poepfo cn your sidt, won’t admit to being on your side; nor will they offer much h ths way of empathy, support, or understantfng. The warmekecs have used the meda to perfection. Tbsy have fed so much propaganda into toe minds of so marry Americans that our brains probably cb resemble those goddam fried eggs In ton! ubiquitous talovison commercial.
Pissing Away Tho American Dream Is a now book chronding toe iivyoductfcn of mandatory urine drug testng Into too Irfo cl a libertarian. A loud cry In the bureaucrats wilderness for a rolum to sonify and self- responsibility in the face of the freedom-destroying madness cf the War on Drugs.
1991, 6'4x11, 66ppt Mi/xfnrtrd, soft cow.
PISSING AWAY THE AMERICAN DREAM: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58070)
NOW HEAR THIS!
Electronic Eavesdropping Equipment Design
by Winston Arrington
If you hava been looking for the ’real thing- in electronic eavesdropping equipment design, then this book is for you AS 58 schematic diagrams presented in < are from Sheffield Etoctronics’ produ'/.on nvyfofe Circuit oxplanabons nro included. Schematic diag-ams are cf sitocamer Uansmciers and cmcdulator. earner current transmiler and demctoU’atcc, nlrarod transnvtter and dcmcdulalcc, firePy. automobile monitoring transmitter. Infinity •Dhoccms- transmrter, wideband RF detoctcc, high impodanco tap detector, and a telepboce Ine usag^fout Indcaicc Circuit examples of 32 to 3to MHz room ard telephone iransmctera are shown.
There are schematic diagrams for battery powered room menrtoring transm^ers ranging from a tai point pen transmitter to a 1-mita-plus VOX transmSlor. Also schematics for mains powerod transmitters such as the cube fap and duplex .ire Included. Several typ-os of crystal controlled fra remitter drcults are given.
Telephone leech transmitter drculls proscnlod are mUnos. drop-ins, subcarrier, crystal oorxroiled. and a dual telephone and room monitoring transmitter. A varfety of batte<y powered telephone transmitter circuits are slwn that fulfil al requirements. Schematic diagrams cf ottor useful equipment are also presented.
Police agency toclmcians who buld their own electronic surveirance oqupmanl may find tils book useful, because they will then be able to make a comparison of filers with that cf a commercial egupment manufacturer.
THs forgo formal book is fully llustrated with photographs and diagrams. It contains information not feund elsewhere.
19S3t 64 X 11, iHuttratod, aehcow.
NOW HEAR THISI: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58054)
Criminal Justice: New Technologies and the constitution
US Congress Office of Technology Assessment
Three categories of advanced scientific knowledge appear meet promising for use by tha police and tire criminal justice system: Information science, mofocJar bidogy. and socal science research. Each has a dark side, an aspect of social cost or social risk. Information technologies, for example, can lead to gross violations of individual privacy. The use of molecular biology to substitute 'treatment for behavior cisoedors' for 'punishment for criminal actions' is a profound change in the p-aradgms of social coctrd. It brings ¿nlD question the assumption of indvidaal responsibly for behavior, which e one cf t>e underlying principles oF const tuticnal government. Social sconce models are constructed from data on papulations or largo groups of people. If used to preofct individual behavior in making decisions about probation or sentencing, they codd reinforce discriminatory etereofypes ard penalize people who are jxxx. urderedjcaled. or members of mnorities.
This report examines now technologies ard thair rnp&cations for indvidual constitutonal rights. Topics discussed include:
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Duo Process
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The Right of Privacy
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Electronic Surveilance
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Computerized Data Malching
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DMA Typing
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Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems
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Biometric Security Systoins
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'Less-Than-Lechai' Weapons
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Social Sciecevs and Computers
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Electron's Monltorirg
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Drug Therapy and Hormone Manipu’alfon
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Electronic Records and Due Process
-
And more.
Must readog for anyone interested in c’lrr« and police science! 1939, 7H r 10, Wpp, soil cow.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE:
NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CONSTITUTION: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58066)
Deep Cover
Police Intelligence Operations
by Burt Rapp
The police undercover officer moves in a shadowy world of informers, crime lords, drug traffickers, corrupt officiate and petty hoedbrre. Bi by bit, by gathering and reccrtfrvj soum- Ingty trivial and unrelated pieces
Burt Rapp, an export on I invcstga&ons ard undercover N wjr». tjrr.-, is ?.1:n!cr to rnr B Of the least understood — and most important — aspects of rrodom polke work. Ths up*to date guide covers sotting up. staffing ard securing an Intnllgcnce unit; building trust and mter-agancy cooperatici: Informante. Informers and ether sources: cm» fights issues: ard occtpaticnal hazards such as Ngh turnover, officer exposure, political monlputatfoa and corruption.
1939, SHx3U, 138 pp, sufico™.
DEEP COVER: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58058)
PRISONER OF WAR RESISTANCE
Any soldier — despite his skill and experience — can be captured by tr»e enemy in a combat situatfon. Onoe captured though, his mastery of resistance can mean the dfterence between walking out of a POW camp or coming out feet
Prisoner Of H'jr Resistance is a gacd addfixin to our Inn of 'brainwash'ng' and 'psychobgical scT-dafonso' books. You don’t havo to be a soldier to find it usafui.
x 11, 112pp. tffustfAtcd,xppef>d!e^ ¡poxxxry, softcover.
PRISONER OF WAR RESISTANCE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58035)
WIRETAPPING AND
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
Commission Studies
This remarkable tock is a
compilation of two special
reports commissioned by the
Federal Government in response
lo tho rising use d electronic
surveillance for legal and illegal
purpsaes. Representing the
collective knowledge of a snoot
group c>1 experts, Commission
Studies is a vericabto gold mlno
of practical mfoanaticn on tho
nuts and belts of wiretapping
and bogo'ng. Never before has
tNa kind of sophisticated
fttallgonco boon available to tho
general public!
Commission Studies contains
surprisingly thorough, illustrated
descriptors slzuw’ng how
eavesdroppng, bugging, wiretapping ard interception of data
transmissions aro .y>^omplL%hcd. Certains detailed tfe&oriptbns and
comparisons cf al tho devices used: wiroloss transmitters. microphone
systems, tape receding systems, rtdio eavesdropping Osvices.
miniature dmicos, and many others.
Moro Importantly, you'll be shown ways to detect these devices.
d<sarm them, and protect yourself from becoming a victim of ¡rrvlsbto
spwsl
Commission Studies also includes a priceless section on tope
recordings and the law. InoVJes the rules Of ovdoncc for tapa
recordings in court, the quality of recordings, methods of falsification,
and haw lo determine if tapes have been aba red. loom to insure your
conversations could r»ot be used in court even if they wore recorded!
Wintipping and Eleclronlc SvneHtincxt raven's the profcsacnaJ
secrets of government ard private experts so that you can protect
/ixvyitfTrom privacy Invasion ard sudo entnipmorz. Among the finest
books ever printed cn the subject! Highly recommended!
1976, 9H x 71, 112 pp, profusely fffuMretod. sort cover.
WIRETAPPING AND
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE: $12.35
(ORDER NUMBER 58021)
THE SEARCH FOR
THE “MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE*
The CIA and Mind Conlrol
by John Marks
k ’Manchurian Candidato' is an unwitting assass’n. brainwashed and programmed io kill, tn this book, former Stale Department officer John Marks tells tho explosivo story of (he CIA's highly secret program of expenments in mhd control- H’B curtosity first aroused by Information on a puzzling suiode. Marte worked from thousands ol pages of naw>/ released documents as well as interviews ard behavioral sconce eludes, producing n coak teat 'accomptislted what two Senate committees coud nor (Senator Edward Kennedy).
Winner ol no Best Bock of tho Year award for Investigative Reporters and Edcors. 7be Search for The 'Manchurian Candidate' covers those subjects:
♦ Origins of Mird-Controi Research ♦ LS.D. ♦ Mushrooms ♦ Brainwashing ♦ Electrodes ♦ Hypnosis ♦ Sensory Deprivat’on ♦ The Search for the Truth ♦ And Much More.
The Search for Tho *Manchurian Candidate’ reveals the secret history of the CIA's experiments In behavioral science and rnnd control. You wil be Shocked to find out just how far tee/ wont
1979, 6x 9,264 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE SEARCH FOR
THE -MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE*: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58076)
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
AND CIVIL UBERTIES
Federal Government Information Technology
Analysis and commentary by Eden Press
Here is a complete look at how federal agencies, such as the FBI. DEA. IRS. INS. Customs. Treasury and the Postal Service, am conducing investigations cf private citizens based on the latest techniques of surveilance. Originally published by the Office of Technology Assessment, this report also details tho lagal — and ncn- legal — aspects of federal snooping. Tho tncscap-abta conclusion is Uvat Big Brother is no longer impeded by taws or court decisions that can never hope 1o keep rxxte with technical advances.
Federal sleeping is in high gear in ail of these areas: • Telephone SurveHenco • Elcctnxilc Mad Su rvo fiance • Electronic Ptry^cal Survellance • Electronic Visual Survollanco • Data Base Surveillance • And morel
Government agents proceed virtually unchecked with now devices and techniques, imply because prchbrtrvo laws dcnT ex&tl Find out just what methods arc being used now. and what new developments are on tire horizon. Agency-by-&g£<»cy listings spell cut Ihor pccscnt spying metecds. if you ever wondered how Big Brother got all hr. muscles, tiiis book wil lake you Inside h’s private gym... Espocaiy valuable lo privacy-seekers who can now find ways lo avoid Big Brother.
1966, 6H x 11, 60 pp, sod cover.
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55062)
COVERT SURVEILLANCE
& ELECTRONIC PENETRATION
Edited by William B. Moran
sitami»^!
This bow-te-do-it manual will to of
great interest to citizens, law enforcement
personnel end private Investigators. It is a
ccmprehons?/Q guide to :no techniques and
equipment used in secret surveillance. The
knowtodga brought together h tills one
work is essentia! for security persennet
operating in today's competitive N’ph-tech
cimate. Contents indude:
Techniques of Shadowing and Talling: A
description of me processes used in
physical survoitenco. Includes vahxte
and foot survoitenco in both mobile and
'stakeout' settings.
Night Surveillance Equipment: Describes the types of night viewing
devices avAtiabto. tbdr capabitifos, tbetir drawbacks, and special
options ftice cwnoras.
Electronic Eavesdropping Techniques and Equipment: Covers ¿he
whole tiskf of transmitters. rcccivors, micropbonos, tape recorders
and other survctifasco egupment. fnckrdos discussions of
n\>nisfuri2ation. corx^aSmont, bib A tietd tests of performance and
other important taefors.
Wiretapping: Defated explanations of how rooms are bugged and
teieptiones tapped. Describes the egi^nent and techniques, and
offers countermeasures, fnedudes indepth hypothetic.^ oxanp/cs cf
¿Perception of con^uter data transmissions, long distanco faxphone
cate and suburban tetepnono service.
And MlKh Morel Wilting Appteabio Laws on survciifance,
wiretsppirtg and bugging, and an Annotated GrbS.'ograpby cf
surveitence books.
Wiliam B. Moran has compiled scattered and hard-to-fird
information Inte one Indr.pensatilo tock. If ycu'ra concerned with
security and privacy, make suro ycu have precise up-to-date know<ed<>3
cf tr>9 technques and equipment of spying. Order Covert Survefiisnce
A Electronic Penetration todayl
1S83. SHx8H, 124pp. ¿tiusfrxM, softcover.
COVERT SURVEILLANCE &
ELECTRONIC PENETRATION: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55043)
COINTELPRO
The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
by Nelson Blackstock
THs book provides am n-dcpth look at too covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence pregram: code name COINTELPRO. Contents indude: • ’Prevent these people from petting elected* • Inciting violence • Targefog a Black canddalo • •Determine if there is anything derogatory m his background" • 'Drive a wedge between ton foltownrs of Malcolm X and tho SWP' • ’Cause disruption n the peace movement’ • Rod-baiting ♦ Firing lcoz*icrs • Tho tight to step COINTELPROpoes before tho public • And mere, including a lengthy Introduction by Nc«am Chomsky.
Much of what is knoAn about this polittaal disruption program is Ilie rssut of evidence forced to light through a lawsuit brought by the Soc^let Workers Party and Young Socialist AIFance against FBI spying. harassment and dsrupibn. Most of Uie FBI documents reproduced in this txx>k were obteined in 1974 and 1975 through this lawsuit
These papers on tne COINTELPRO operations provide an unprocodentod look at som^ of the surreptitious methods used by Vie American secret police
ZfW S xO, 190 pp, tilwftfxted, softcover.
COINTELPRO: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55064)
SNITCH
A Handbook For Informers
by Jock Luger
Every (Say ¡n tho USA. there
arc marc laws, mom law-
breakers. and more people
willing to pay cash to find
tawtreakars. Fodcml. stale and
'■oca I governments; txismn^s and
obzen groups; prr.'atc dofcctvoR
and insurance agencies — all
pay quick cash for the right
informaticn.
In fact )vj can become a
professional hlormer, developing
information for a Infog. if you
know how. The IRS pays cut a
percentage of taxes ccrtcctod
from bps. Tt*o CEA ha reds ever
money seized from drug dealers.
Ana tho Foocra.' Government will
pay up to hundreds of thausancto
of dalors far advance notice of
an assasshalon attempt!
In Snitch: A Handbook For Informers, Jack Lugor teds you what information is valuable, hew to gather it. and how to sell il. Ho shows you how to snitah and collect completely anonymously. Ho details how crooks negotiate their way out of prison sentences, how cops treat informe«, and how to keep from bang finked out yourself.
Chapters include:
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Who Informs
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Motives
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Corrpcns.itng Informers
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Working Criminal Informers
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Civilian Informers
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Informers in Prison
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Cops and Haw They Th nk
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How Io Become an Informer
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Protecting YcurseH Against Informers
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And mote.
II you are tocking for an unconventional way to make mcney, gel Snitch: A Handbook For Informers. Because the drt you dig up could be paydirt.
1991, MxU, 149 pp. Mtxad, xoflcMf.
SNITCH: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40075)
SPECTRE OF FORFEITURE
by Judy Osburn (Ben There)
‘Owing tn& last Eve years,
forfoitums both stole and federal have
taken on a high priority tn the
government's nw on drugs. The
government's strategy is a twoprong
attack sacking both conviction and
incarceration for unlawful activity and
very harsh nconomic sanctions which
have had a moro dsasfrous effect on
tho parties involved than an actual
period of incarceration.
The government witi often irtitiato
civil forfeitures where very smaS
quantities of narcotics are found in a
á’prrírp
OF FORFEITURE
house or vefticfo and even when no
person was arrested or charged with a crime.
The recent statutes amending and expanding forfeiture tews wore specifcstty designed to give the government every conceivable advantage Attorneys representing cteanants in forfeiture cases are confronted with & body of taw (hat is different from and inconsistent with the procedural and substantive taws with which they are fcmikar. Defense attorneys whether Cirri or criminal have operated under tho concept that a ptetntff or a prosecutor must prove their case, that a person is innocent unfi proven gukty, and that a case must be non before a propedy right involved is determined. Under forfekure tews none of these concepts appry ’
From the Introduction by //mw R. MSter, Attorney at Lew
The author ol Spectre Of Forfeiture was plunged into the nightmare world of govarnrrumt forMura when her hueband was arrested for cuf/aiion. Then home w.is sr»od. though police found ro mer(uarva on thcr property. Judy Osburn, jewelry designer and instructor, mother of two and 4-H kinder spent ovor 1.000 hours to law Ibraites uncovering the tnxh ¡focui forfeiture tow to defend their home and expose this lnmico. Spectre Of Forfehuro is wntien for lay readers, yet is an extremely valuable reference usod by attorneys.
Spectre Of Forfeiture details tho statutes pcotcctng .•vto dotendrg property. Slopping automatic default judgment, and starting history. R contains sample fonns. case cifogs. Constitutional defenses, and more.
Forfeiture law is based upon medieval superstition and legal fiction that declares property rcsponsblo far iltocpl acts, depriving owners of Constitutional protoc liens.
Spectre Of Forfeiture is must rcadng for everyone concerned with haw tho phony "War On Drugs’ is being used to crcda the Consbtutkxial rigtits ef all ef us.
199f, SU x SU. 197pp. tnd^r^d. toft eov*r.
SPECTRE OF FORFEITURE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58078)
"ENEMIES"
World War II Alien Internment
by John Cristgau
In our rxTver-andng quest to bring )txi hidden histories and bunod truths. Loampanizs Unlimtod ts pccud to offer ths riveting tock at Tic Alen Internment Program: tha ccncentratton camps operated by fhc U S. Govcrrmcnt during Vfodd War I!.
Cristgau has combed through previously untouched documents from toe FBI and tho National Archives. Ho has combined those othclal reports with tatters, diaries and photographs from those hr.kl pnsoncr. And he has ritervicwed several of the sunivors of those camps.
The resist is a moving bcok that tots the story of Amoncan concentration camps — and the stones of their survivors — through five case histories. The author shows haw people were targoled lor placement in a carrp. what toe living oondbons were like, and what happened once ll*ey were set free.
Fc< anyone interested in toe hidden side of World War II history. •£/wnA?s”wil be □ tock you’ll never forgejt.
1SSS, Sx 9, 1STpp. photogrxphx, btbtfogrxphy, hardcover.
’ENEMIES": $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58082)
CONDUCTING INVESTIGATIONS
Introduction
Professional methods and techniques lor Information and Intelligence gathering — now revealed for YOU to use! Now you can find out anything you want to know atout anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your ’need to know" with these revealing professional manuals.
HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
A Handbook tor Investigators
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
Professorial in-
vesbgalive secrets
— now revealed for
jex/to use!
This highly prais-
ed bock wil Lv of
value Io al types of
missing persons In-
vestigators. Bcunty
hunters. private In-
vestigators. akp
tracers. process
servers ard auto
repossessors wil ai
learn somethng
new from ths
toocough manual.
More important,
this book will en-
able toe rwpro-
fcsslonal to locate
any missing person
without paying the
often outrageous
fees of ths investi-
gators mentioned
above.
Tba investigative
techniques covered
n ths book écrit
have to be limited to missing persons cases. Toper, covered in this □mazing volume inckjcfe:
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Phone books • Credit bureaus ♦ Telephone records •
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The Post Office • Fnords and rotatives of Iha subject •
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Driving records • School records of «ho subjects chidfen •
• Po'ice records • Credit card records • Garbage • Welfare rolls •
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Occupational Icenslng bureaus • Uconso plates ♦
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Medical and hosp’tal records »Travel agences, nrihes and buses •
• Barks and frxeign banks • Movers • Locating rrriitary personnel •
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Voter registration records ♦ Social Security records •
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Labor union records • Caso histories •
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Finding missing parsons fcr msney •
• And much, much more! •
Ths comprehensF.e book reveals how io obtain ail of these records, and use ths information to track down whomever you arc hunting. How to Find Missing Persons is the most decaned, accurate and thorough book over written cn this subject Hghly recorrmended tor al investga- tors — and others wXh a ’need to know.’
19S4, Sf4 x*K, 96 pp. frustrated. softcover.
HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61061)
BE
YOUR
OWN
DICK
FrirAlr
BE YOUR OWN DICK
Private Investigating Made Easy
by John Q. Newman
Is thorn somocne speeal yea want to
got Io know better, but you*ro afraid to
ask? Lol John Q. Newman hep.
Ma y tn you'd Ike to chock out your
fiancée before getting married? Maybe
you’ve got a neighbor who acts suspicious
and you went to know why? Maybe you
nood to vonfy job applications before you
hire someone?
Just talking to a detective Is going to
cost you more than this book. But you
don't have to spend big bucks to dig cut
the dirt on someone.
Most detective work irv/oh^S simple
research ycu can do for yourself — If you
know where to look.
Ths beck is deigned to allow almost
any person to do invnstigativo work cn indviduals from tho comfort of titer heme In many ways, this book is the altcc-cgo of other books on establishing a new Identity or increasing your personal privacy.
These sa me databases can bo tapped by too person who wishes to do toe opposite, that ts. to invade ton privacy of others. In this age of compulenred hies and databases, thts can to dene very easily. The moral rnpfica'.kms of such actons arc toft to the individual Out betora ycu make a hasty value judgment, consider this:
Have you ever wondered how a rival long distance company ’knew* you Spent $P5 a month cn long distance calls to Japan? Have you ever wondered how a cred/t card company ’knew" yea would be a good prospect for to«r crcdt card, cc how an insurance company ’kne^ you were in need of new auto Insurance? To one extent or another those corporations- invaclod your personal prr/acy by consulting certain databases and ether Information sources that conlanad personal dotais enyou.
Other toaks have been wrfcten on ths subject, but al loo often they ha-.-a detaïed methods and systems that are eiher too arcane or expensive to be used by the average person, or they dotal procoduros that will ahicst certainly lead the reader into a confrontation with toe law. This bocA explains what 90% ol private detective woric involves doing — thaï is. cblccfing data cn a ’target’ person.
Be Your Own Dick will leach you the simple tricks Of the private deteetve*» trade. Ycu wai loam how to find cut everything ebcut year targets finança, heath. Ofrpfoymenl. pastimes ard ’past Ihns.- You will learn where to find the easy information and hew to uncover tho tough stuff. Youll even tasrn to do debtor searches and backgxund investigations, in case you want to try your hand as a paid prorate in- vostigator.
if you want to know whether someone is rich or a deadbeat, whether they're on the level or □ fraud, whether thc/ro cheating cn you. stealing from ycu. or tying to ycu. torn Bo Your Own Dick! Yctfll be surprised at how much you can fird cut.
5Hx8^ 118pp. softcover.
BE YOUR OWN DICK: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55090)
GET THE FACTS ON ANYONE
How You Can Use Public Sources
to Chock the Background of
Any Person or Organization
by Dennis King
In mis Ngh-iech information
apo. you can find cut almost any-
thing about anyoco: Confidential
background data on business or
legal clionte • PwsiNa criminal
records cf prospective om-
ptayccs • Malpractice judgments
□gansl your physician • Finan-
cial Information cn candidates for
pubic office • Evan the phone
number of your favorite
cetebriry... This imovstive
reference book shows you bow!
irxJispensabv» for Journalists
and researchers, this practical
handbook Is also ideal tor check-
ing out business contacts. job-
seekers. employers, customers,
companies and organlzabons of
all kinds. Step by-stap instruc-
tions explain exactly how to dg out the facts you want from pubic
records and on-line sources:
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Criss-cross directories, lcor.sc bureaus, and phono records — Io
tocate hard-to-find people -
Biographical Indexes. newspaper databases, professional ard trade
pubfeatbre. and rriiiUbry and medical records — to check out peo-
ple's backgrounds -
Tax lien files, bankruptcy court records, and bank account records
— to co Icct crcdt and financial infixmaticn -
Court records and cnso files — io research people and companies
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And much, much mere.
1992, SH x 9H, 222pp, soft cover.
GET THE .FACTS ON ANYONE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55091)
TUNE IN ON TELEPHONE CALLS
Scanner & Shortwave Frequency Directory
Revised & Updated Edition
by Tom Kneltel, K2AES
YouVo scon it on TV. YcuVe h^ard about it on the radb. Now you
can own too completely revised and updated new edfcon of tlx? took
that made hstehng-in co phene cafe the boomng hobby it is today.
What do people discuss over tr»e telephone when they think they
nave total privacy? They ¡argue, exchange personal and tusness sc-
crols. make legal and illegsl deals, condxt lurid or illicit romances,
gnpo about money woes, gossip, brag. lie. and more. These are busi-
ness poopco. pottcians. prostitutes, the meda. celebrities. criminals,
and your neighbors*
Fowr poepta are awero that 'private' cafe made over car phones,
cordoss phonos and othor such devices are broadcast over the air-
waves. Thane calls can be easily overheard by anyone with an inex-
pansr/o shortwave receiver or police-type scanner. Il lakes no technical
expertise io oA'/osdrcp. and istening-to has become a popular pastime,
dospito wiuaty unenforoeab’e leg&ation enacted to regulate such
invason of privacy.
This book Is about such telephone calls, and 11» discrete frequencies
arrf channels they use that can ba casiy rcccr.-od on homo and
portable recovers. TN# new cdribn contains hundreds of new fre-
quencies. Now you can Tune tn On Telephone Cails/
1992. 6x9, 160pp, Maxfrefe^ soft cover.
TUNE IN ON TELEPHONE CALLS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55092)
THE MUCKRAKER'S MANUAL
Handbook For Investigative Reporters
byM. Harry
The Muckrskfir's Manual
* itto single finest book ever
written cn Investigative
reporting.
Anyone can use the
professional Information-
gathering scorots in this book.
Loam tow to dg out the dirt on
anyone. Veteran investigative
reporter M. Harry cuts through
al the P/ baloney about
•journalism' and shows j’Ou
what investigative reporting is
really all about — and how you
can do It yourself. Topics
covered In this excellent
manual Include: • What kinds
of information be most
damaging to your target •
Where Io look tor this
information • How to develop
•¡riskle' sources • Ruses to use In cbtanng confidential information •
The best interviewng techniques • Infltraton — by phone, by mail and m person • Dcreloprig special sources • How to analyze and chart your Information • Pitfafe to avoid • Haw to protect your confidential sources • How to make sure your information is accurate • Using etoclrcric databases for investigations • Harry's Laws — inside fps from a real hves^'gator • An extensive tibiegraphy of sources • Anri much, much more!
The Muckraker’a Manual & a true cassis! Find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about The Muckrakar's Manual teVi you how!
tSS4, 5H x6H, 148 pp. iffuitrsted, softcover.
THE MUCKRAKER S MANUAL: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55072)
BAIL ENFORCER
TThe Advanced Bounty Hunter
by Bob Burton
I fc.’Ur.f xrJ rUnr; Hrier
No prey is as wily and
dangerous as a hunted man. It
lakes a special breed, equally
cunring. Io track the fugitive
down, capture h'rn and bang him
to justkxi. It takes a professional
bounty hunter.
Bob Burton is coo of the most
sixcossfii and feared bounty
hunters in America. As a lolow-
up to his bost-seling book.
Bounty Hunter^ Burton goes
beyond the nuts-and-bofe at the
tor-enforcement profession and
shares the subtiu details of the
trade that only someone who has
hunted humans cn toe streets,
dcrAn aitayt;, and into drug tons
could krxxiv. Yct/B get toe ns de stony cn cblalnng an arrest contract,
the right cblhing for a bust, hunting tricks of the trade, surveillance fps,
working with toe police, hazards of weapons and toe use of (featfy
force, your arrest and how to avc*d it and much more.
The text is highlighted with photos ard stories from Burton's thou-
sand of arrests. Appendices include necessary forms and ihreo in-
vabebb. hard-to-ebtain fegal stucies documenting the jxccoddnts of
ptast court decisions cegardng the bail enforcement p<ofassion.
1990, x 6H, 216 pp. tttuMntoO, soft cover.
BAIL ENFORCER: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55080)
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY—BOOK II
The Encyclopedia of Personal Surveillance
by Lee Lupin
From electronic Surveiftitnee fo Databank Cracking— it's AH Here!
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AUDIO SURVEILLANCE. Equipment professional tricks. and more.
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ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS AND HARD-WIRING PbOlC<> and operation notes on the super secret CIA fine wire kit. and rrore.
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ACCESSIBLE HIGH LEVEL BUGS AND TAPS. Tl* hottest items available, operating tips, sources and suggesions. and more.
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RECORDERS. TTe nones! government undercover recorders and whore to gel act-alkes lor tocusands of dollars loss, and more.
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THROUGH WALLS The art of sccng and hearing through sold wate. plus a brand new material that works as a hidden mfcrephone. and more.
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INTELLIGENCE KITS. Sexy spy MU and do-4 yourself systems. and morn.
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RECEIVERS. SCANNERS AND THE RF SPECTRUM. How to hkfo transmitters, how to set up and run listening porJs. and more.
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THE PHONE COMPANY How to lap a pheno with no equipotent, phantom phone taps, and more.
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OBTAINING CONFIDENTIAL PHONE COMPANY INFORMATION. Unlisted numbers, new CNA's. and morn.
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CELLULAR TELEPHONE OPERATIONS AND INTERCEPTS. Hw to eavesdrop cn any cellular, anytime, anywhere, and more.
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VIDEO SURVBLLANCE, Spectel cameras and trick lenses, and mere.
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NIGHT VISION. A tow cost alternative to IM startght scope, and mere.
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HOW TO TAIL ANYONE ANYWHERE. FOOtteutO teiirg tactics, and more.
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SURVEILLANCE PHOTOGRAPHY. High Speed. low light, hdden camera, document copying. and more.
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SOURCES. Over 200 suppliers of sirvellance and counter- measures equipment. and more.
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COMPUTER CRACKING. A brand now. ready made, Inexpcnsrvc unit lliat will read wry computer from hundreds ol leert away, and more.
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INFORMATION TRACKING. Thousands of databases hotting personal. financial. and 'private' information on literatty everyone, and nxxo
How To Get Anything On Anybody — Hook # is a must fof anyone interested In ths very latest in the folds of survellance and counter-surveillance. Order you- copy today.
1991, 8H x 11, 232pp. iffuttnrfed, soft covor.
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY BOOK H: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55067)
THEY WRITE THEIR OWN SENTENCES
The FBI Handwriting Analysis Manual
An endorsement on a chock, a signature on a letter, a scrawled note cn a memo pod everything you set down cn paper creates a uriqus image. These images can be traced, analyzed and reconstructed, reveling evkfence urtw.n by the naked eye.
The FBI Laboratory* Document Section specialzes to the study ol handwriting. typewriting. rubber stamps, seals, printing methods, watermarks. oblteraticnr.. altcrab'ons. and charred paper. This manual reveals the rang« of methods used by investigators to follow tha elusive trail, drawing on examples from actual cases In the FBI ftes Involving forgery, bad check passing, extortion, murder, and fraud
Sophsbcnted methods of physical and chemical analyse. infrared and ultraviolet photography, microscopic analysis, and ether techniques ar© described here, as well as Ite procedure used by investigators to fink together series of related crimes. They Write Their Own Sentences reveals the little bits of information that, when rcconstnKted. can seed many an othcrwxo successful criminal to jar
1937, 5X8. 58 pp, Wuitrstrd, soft covor.
THEY WRITE THEIR OWN SENTENCES: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55069)
HOW TO USE THE FEDERAL F.O.I. ACT
AND THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974
A Citizen's guido on using the Freedom of
Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974
to request government records
Find out last what government agendas have in trier files about you. your activities, your associations ard anything else some snoop/ investigator found 'of interest.’ It's not always easy doaling with government bureaucracies, but this tellnitive guide spalls cut the quick- and-easy ways of getting dlrectiy Io your targets of inquiry.
The task Is made rranagcab’e by a step-by-step prosenlaton, from Initial tetters (serrplos included) to appeal forms (samples ftteo prcrvkfed}. Details cn foes tb-ol can to charged, as wel as the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of various federal agencies are given. Everything you rood to know is spelod out in easily undersisndabe language. Al the 'exemptions' are spoiled out giving the reader a dear prosentaton for dcaSng with the beast of governmental secrecy. Recent court decisions complete the analysis of how tte ordinary citizen can take on the btiraaixz^Qs. if you over thought the government was keeping rites on you. hero is the indispensab’te gukfo you need to hrd out tor sure.
1987, 8U x 11, 62 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO USE THE FEDERAL F.OJ. ACT
ANO THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55074)
SATELUTE SURVEILLANCE
by Ha raid Hough
Once the exduwo tod of
governments, salcllte tcchno'ogy is
now available) to anyone who knows
how to use it Using actual satellite
photos, alp I Ui diagrams and Simple
language, Satellite SutvetfeiK*
explores the many commercial uses for
satellite imagery, irxiudlng:
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Land and water navirpuon
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Pest control
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Zoning and tend use planning
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Fghtng forest Tires
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Mapping
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Investing in commodities
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Tax assessment
• Pollution control
• Environmental monitoring
• Hsbtat creation and protection -
Oil ard gald exploration
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Organizing disaster rnlof
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Bufdng ronCb. bodges and dams
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Earthquake preparation
-
Crop damage assessments
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And much more.
Satetiitc Surveillance gr/os you access to this powerful technology. You wil team where to buy satehte images. You will learn how to enhance and interpret them to bring cut the exact Information you need. And you wil also learn huw to hide from The eye in tho sky.’
Satellite SurveiUence is fto essent^l reteronco for ervi engineer», farmers, c^y planners, insurance companies, envuenmentafsta. geologists, freight carriers, investigative reporters — and arryonc eancGTztl wilh the uses 8PiJ abuses Cf salc'llti? inchndcgy.
199f, SHxSH, 192 pp. !Xu9trsted, color photos, soh cover.
SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58075)
Sate/Me Surveillance was named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of the Year by Chaco magazine, a publication of the American Library Association.
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY
State of Art Investigation/Surveillanco Techniques
From the World’s Best Intelligence Organizations
by Lee Lapin
This took Is a giant
consumer's gudc to the
latest surveillance oqup-
mont and techniques. Th©
author's previcu!; book was
banned ^together by the
British Government and
earned him threats both
from the FBI and the U.S.
Attorney General. How To
Get Anything On Any-
body is recommended for
law enforcement agencies,
private deteclK’OS. mam-
bars ot Ito Intel» gence
community. and just plan
private dozens concerned
with foaming the tech-
nique*. methods and
equipment used In ntet-
Ignnco gatharng and
survoitarce operations.
Among the topics covered are: ■ A consumer's gu'cfo to elnclroric surreilarxxj equipment. Actual skfo-b/skfc tests, price compar-sons and sources tor the smallest, tho best, tho most exotic ard least ex- pc.nsvn ’Cogs’ available. ■ Easy sources fee the CIA chemrcel that lets you road nghx through arry envelope and nen disappears a trace? Ptoc? About $1.00... ■ Listening through wats: Dtos the Bierac Ear exist? A side-by-side examination of sloven (tariccs that can put sound out of thn air and even through thek walls. ■ Four exports tel their pet ways to bug any target, pkts how to avoid suivoilancc. ■ Eleven bugs that are not detectable by any moans! ■ Specie ©valuations Of every t>pe of counter measure oqupmcnl. Do dead bugs reaty tell lies? A look at the non-linear junction detector. Ito TRD — is it the ultimate answer fee beating telephone tapa? Secure phenes: the ex- ccut.vn duam. The aizbcc boots the two t>pus on toe market with some surprising conclusions Understanding scramblers — choosing Ito best system for you ard how to boat □ Io! of them... ■ And much more, in- ctadng hard-to-find information on skip tracing, lock picking, investiga- trve and surveifanco lectmicues, and much more!
An ADC news reporter dubt«*J this book ’possbty the most clangorous book ever published.’ Order your copy today!
/.W. SH x 11. 263pp. Nteetrsted, soft corn.
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58025)
OBTAINING YOUR PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR'S UCENSE
by Orlon Agency. Inc.
Private investigator. Private detective. Do th*se terms bring forth visions of daring car-chase scenes, shoot-outs ard knock-down. dragout fights? WatcNng TV shews and movies doalng w.*h Pls can be entertairing, but they won't give you any loads on tow to become a gumshoe
At tost, hero is an up-to-date. slate-by-ateta gude to ouTIring tho requirements needed for beoorring a private Irwestlgator or socunty guard. Find cut about ^duration and experience requirements, exams. Hoons© duration. ID and badges, licensing and insurance fees, firearms rcstnetons. and more.
1'255, Sli x SU, 60 pp. soft cover.
OBTAINING YOUR
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR'S LICENSE: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55055)
SPY GAME
Winning Through Super Technology
by Scott French and Lee Lapin
Formerly titled AV£?
1990. ths is tto tong
awaited sequel to two of
the most popUar Intali-
gencorin’/ftstigahvQ books
ever puWstod. The Big
Brother Game and How To
Get Anything On Anybody!
Spy Game Is tho uhmate
retemne© source fee any-
eno interested n survei-
lance, ntollgcnco. shadow
bring, self datum©. tratf-
tfonat ninja techniques ard
tccto. detective work. or
pst self survr.’at in today's
world.
Partial contents Include:
• Electronic voce chang-
ers
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Urusuel Alarm ord
socunty devices -
No* methods for climbng slick surfaces
-
Interestng posons and potions
-
Camouflage and recognition
-
Bea: ng psyctok><}icai tests
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Surreptitious infrared audio moritoring — the very latest trick In oavosdroppng
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Using lock codes for prrrste communioalicns
-
Now techniques for finding and deteaSng electronic surveillance devices
-
A cheap, but effecthte. anti-tep device
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How to duplicate expensive ccurirx. electronic surveltanco. undercover cop. ard repeater bncfoascs tor toss money
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Remote optical surveifance — an unusual device that arws eptfcat taring and targeting <y/er great distances
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How to buld year own rrotrin survailanzc van • High ard low technology in tho art of surveillance • Pcokog: toor opec keyheting ♦ vision devices
♦ Cordtoss ard mobile ph'jrvj details
♦ Lia detector tostng and countermeasures
♦ Laser commuricatons
♦ And much, much more! 119 Sections»
The secrets ot tho Utra-tcch wamors of the 1990s — now revealed for you to use!
1965, 9x 12.503pp. Kfustndcd, softcover.
SPY GAME: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55070)
TOP SECRET: A CLANDESTINE OPERATOR'S
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
by Bob Burton
Spy dust BUMUTT. cryptography, COSMfC TOP SSCHST — team (he meaning of these and over EO3 mere terms of ntcfnatjonal espionage. Avaiable to the public for tba frst lima, this A to Z of spy jargon Includes al tto most up-to-date terminology felted not just to Ito CIA, but to unccmenlicoaI warfare erd spcciA' operations, codas and cl- ptiecs, security and tite Intollgnnco community in general.
Every inteligenco snrvtoo around tto worid wil make this must reading for theY operatves. Ham is your key to understanding world events. Appervdces <x>ver eddticnel relevant Information on intclbgcrco operations.
rWi xSH, 136pp, son cover.
TOP SECRET: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55054)
WHEN IN DOUBT CHECK HIM OUT
A Woman's Survival Guide for the 90s
by Joseph J. Culligan
1,789.20) wtyr.w? w/B battered by their boyfriends during a recent 5-year period (Bureau of Justice statistics)
<r Ho** much alimony doos ho pay? O How much chid support doos ho pay? <• Did ho rcaly graduate from ccficgc?
<r What assets docs he own? <• Docs his divorce lite say he test his wife? ❖ Is ho a! that he darns to bo?
Now Jersey: A 27-yea'-c4d woman is viciously beaten and raped by her ive-in boyfriend. He was on probation for attempted manslaughter of his ex-wMe.
MicNgan. A 53-year-ofd widow reports her lover is overdue from a weekend fishing trip. She then teams he hss withdrawn nearly all the money from the* font checking account. Poice teil her ro one by his name ever existed.
Morida: A tether loams Ns daughter's 1Unc4o has throe wives. The fanctio is subsequently arrested for bigamy and lergery of marriaga records.
Texas: Two young chiklrcn of a dr.orcod woman are Hied in a car sodden* caused by her boyfriend whose license was twice suspended for D’JI charges.
Could these tragedies have been presented with an inexpensive badground investigation?
From the Preface:
The informatian that ts provided in just cna chapter can possibly save you from the physical or mental abuse of a potential male who had a hbtoiy of violence and dishonesty. When ycu read Iho infocmaticn contained in dvorce files fourd n Chapter 2. I am sure you will a(yee this bcok is a tx>od place to start in order to prevent invovernent with that wrong 'Mr. Right' ...In this book. I will ahow you methode to use to find an ¡rdivduara Social Security number and ho* to use a company (used by law enforcement, governments, pekate Investigators ard attorneys) to run a background check on that number so you wil be ab’e to see what addresses re has cared 'tome* in past years. You win read About fho valuabta types of court records, licenses and reports that will enable ycu to know a trtllo more about year friend.' I ho point e vary simple. Because you ara roaring this took, you are no** h too frame of mind to save ycursclf years cA financial woes or physical .md mental .abuse by being aggressive and find ng out what h\i realty is. After ycu road The Trouble VAth Boytr-ends’ article at the end of Chapter 6. ycu win get a jolt that will gtvo you the Impetus to taka charge and Investgate.'
Sooo... When n doubt, check hrn out.
1923, Sti x 814, 352pp, Muxuasad, »off cow.
WHEN IN DOUBT CHECK HIM OUT: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55094)
REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A P.I. IN THE 50 STATES AND ELSEWHERE
A Reference Manual
Written & Compiled by Joseph J. CulUgan
This is too most comprehensive and
complete reference manual available giving
you needed information about the licensing
requirements in all 50 states. all Canadian
provinces, as well as Guam, and the Virgin
(stands.
The bock includes addresses where you
can write to obtan a complete licensing
requremenl package and other relevant infor-
mation. Ycu will see that some stales do not
have ary statewide icensmg requirements,
whereas other slates have a rigorous
screening process for applcants. A must-have book for anyone interested n toccmhg a private investigator.
1992, 5M x 8M, $74 pp, tthrttratrd, »oftcow.
REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A P.L IN THE 50 STATES AND ELSEWHERE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55095)
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO : PHOTOGRAPH INTELLIGENCE
by Harold Hough
With an inexpensive
camera, you can take
Surveillance photographs
that are nearly as gcod as
Itose coding governments
millions of dollars.
A Practical Guide to
Photographic Intelligence
to a gude to taking and
interpreting survellance
photographs. Using actoel
spy photos and helpful
^lustra tions, this book will
show you haw Io:
■ Pton a photographic suf-
veifance assignment
■ Taka useful photographs
of objects miles away,
and determine ther exact
dimension
■ Read (fixumonu that
haw been tamed to
ashes
■ Develop him anywhere, anytime, usng minimal equpment
■ Um aarial photography to spy co distant targets
■ Use infrared photography to capture rnagos that would ocherwso benvisible
■ Legally use survedtanze photographs ftx commercial purposes
■ And much more, inebrirg rccorrmcndalisns for film and oqupment. ard haw Iha government uses high-tech sur/cilancn methods to get around your Fourth Amerxlmcn* guaranloo against inroascoaNo searches.
Although photographic inteligenoo can llvealen cur freedom, it can also protect IL We often associate intellpence with governments, but it can be used against them. Oucside the obvious uses in guerrilla warfare. we can use pboicgraphc inteligence in peacetime to cut away Vie veil of secrecy that crooked politfclans and bureaucrats use to hide theif actions. Although txwk deals rnainy with m’litary subjects, the same technique® can used to track the civilian sectors of government.
Chapters rr.Uda:
■ Bastos ct Photographic totellrx»nce
■ Equpmont
■ Planning the Photograph
■ PbotorynpNng
■ Mittary Targets
■ Commercial Intcltgcrtoe Targets
■ Documenting the Photographs
■ Collecting Adrihcnal Information
■ Ccpytn g Documents
■ Acral Photography
■ infrared Photography
■ Choosing the Right FiTn
■ Devote ping the Film
■ Measurement and Resolution
■ Photographic Interpretation
■ Ard mrjch mere, ncljdng photographic rcs'.riclicns h ptooe in van* cus foreign countries
A Practical Guide to Photographic /nte/iigence is an essential book not only tor spies, but for businesses Icokhg to gel a jump on the competition, fc< attorneys verifying claims, tor private investigators and poltoo officers, for investigative reporters and celebrity photographers — even for those concerned they may be the victim of photographic intotigoncc.
1200, StS x 814, 142pp, Htoxtrattd, f off cow.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55082)
SHADOWING AND
SURVEIUANCE
Ur twl R«pp
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE
A Complete Guidebook
by Burt Rapp
Want 10 tail srxntecdy without them
knowing, or conduct a slako-out? Here Ie
o no-nonsense gudn Io stvxtoAfng and
survattanco techniques, with tho
emphasis cn do-it-yourself arto tow-
support methods!
Topics covered in detail mciude: ♦
Fact vs. Helton In surveilla roe — it atot
like the rnevies • What a prh'atc citizen
can do — including several advantages
you have over tte police • Tailng cn
foot: Loose tails, close tails, and rough
tare — ate when each should be used •
Automobile tailing — stone and with
partners • Decoys. dsgulse. and de-
ception • How Io condjcl a physical
search without your subject finding out • Photographic surveilancc
cameras and equipment to r both day and night • Stake ouls: Observa-
tion posts and fixed survoilance • Rural observation posts secret
surveillance in live country • Electronic survcifanco bugging and
telephone tapping • A chapter on how io tose a tail If you ere being
folowed — how to tell if you are being folowed. and several surefire
methods to shako any tail. cither on loot or In an aulomcWe • And
much, much more.
Professional survcilancc operatives, pobzte officers, and the private
citizen alke can all learn from this cxcctont manual. If you want to keep
labs co an unfarttiki spouse, a dishonest employee, or a business
competitor, ths information you need to know to do it right is h Shad-
owing And Surveillance: A Complete Guidebook. And if pu what to
find out if ycu are under surveillance, you wil find that n hero. too.
1936, 514x314, 136 pp, Wustnitod, son cover.
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE: $14.96
(ORDER NUMBER 55052)
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION
A Practical Manual
by Burt Rapp
Sexcrimes!All sorts of sex crimes arn m
the news tod*y — more than ever before.
For some time, there has been badly
needed a bock to help police officers (and
otters Invoked) investigate such crimes.
Now. Burt Rapp has produced such a
volume. The emphasis in Sex Crimes
investigation is on practical matters, net
philosophy. law. or politics.
Tcptos covered indude: • Sex as a
movre tor murder • Pornography —
rteterto and realty — different kinds of
pornography and where they ore sdd •
Tte 'Snuff' Film — a popular myth de-
bunked • Rapfl - first, second ard third-degree rapes spouse rape • Prostitution — other crimes relating to prostitution • Use of Ite mails — sex clubs and sex-related scams • Computer Sex networks — sexual 'bulletin boards' • Miscolbneom Scx-rcfatod offenses animal contacts fomcaticn —cbsccno language — telephone callers • And much more, ¡r&jGrQ an important chapter on rape preventicn, tew to dovetop and exploit information sources, and a complete Glossary of terms useful In sox crimes investigation.
Sox Crimes investigation A a tock ro modern pole* officer can afford to be wthoul. This fine professional manual wil also be of interest to anyone interested n sax enmes and their Investigation — hghly reccm mended.
1963, SH x6H. 196 pp, ptosxary, soft cmt.
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55071)
UNDERCOVER
WORK
A Corrplcic tlt^ibook
V/ Run R*yp
UNDERCOVER WORK
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
Undercover? Utec-rco’.'cr opera-
tions and their relation to the tech-
niques Of espicnajge have acquired a
rrr>‘SlkqL>3 and image of glamour that
Overshadows how buy grimy they
often are. and the abuses that can
result from (ham. tn reality, an under-
cover operation A
a tool, morally neutral, and It la Ite
people using the tod wte make it
worthwhile or sleazy. This book will
ctor up the mlsccnoepltons and give
the real Inside si cry cn undercover
operations and how to conduct them.
Contents include: • A complete
glossary of undercover terms and
what they moan • The strange and
bizarre world cf undercover operations • Actual case histories of real-
life undercover operations • Undercover work and the law — what ycu
can and can’t da legally ♦ Tte seven qualities- a good undercover
operative must have • How to recruit undercover agents — and the
problems wr.h the hirirg of ox-cops • A quick and inejpentwo training
program for undercover oporeltves • Briefing and debriefing the
undercover agent • How an undercover agent estaMshos his co\'«r —
six vital details • Ddecent typos of assignments employee ttett.
narcotics, and mor o • How to avoid detection and what to da if your
cover is blown • How pclrca pay informors • How po»ce protect
Intormors — and why they will ’burn’ informers lo teip iter own
careers • Tte best weapons to cany on an undorcovar asslgnrr^nt •
How to terminate an undercover assignment • How to Is4 If undercover
agents have irVitra'.ed your estabtshrnem and what to do abcut it •
And much, mixh mnm»
All in all. Burt Rapp's Undercover Work A Ite single best bock ever
written on the subioct — highly recommended!
103S, $14 x 314, 143pp. xo/f cover.
UNDERCOVER WORK: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55053)
BOUNTY HUNTER
by Bob Burton
foreword by Ralph "Papa" Thorson
Adventure is his job; money is
his rewa'd. He's a professional
bcuntyman and ha slakr. the mast
dangerous ol al prey — a wanted
man. Here is the txisnr.ss of
bounty huntng tokl by a pro.
Learn how to gat your first }sb as
a bail bondsman’s agent, tew to
track a fugitive when tte tral
scorns ©old, tew to arrest him as
paacanby ns possibto and turn him
over to ttio polioo. Acquiring the
necessary tods, subduing fugtrves,
and more, including a state by-slate
list d tte laws cl bounty hunting.
•No body, no booty,' is tte motto
of ne modem bounty hunter. Like
hs Wild Wcot counterpart, te
tracks the bail fugitive, arrests him
in tho name of justice and surrenders him to the poice — ar for Cie love
ol money. Wilh an estimated s« rrdlico bail Jumpers waging tte streets
(over 300.0C0 h Now York City atone), bounty hunting is a goto mme for
Ite smart and daring MvtoUal.
W4. Mx6?f, 13$pp, Mustrofed, son cover.
BOUNTY HUNTER: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55045)
KMrwcovrr 8XF1 DKCICX
LICENSE PLATE BOOK
The Hidden Letter and Number Codes
on Plates Unknown to the Public
But Used by Police
by Thomas C. Murray
LICENSE £
PLATE.,.»
Idont^-ng lizorco plates and
their many codec is a skill valuable
to any mvesogator. License plates
havo hidden meanings which can
bo recognized by law enforcement
and motor vehicle authorities. Ths
book explains how slates and
provinces code their bates. so you.
like the authorises. will be able to
look at a license plate and te* l such
things as: • In what courty a
vohicio is registered • Occupaton
of the owner • Special plates and
what they mean • Age. weght and
vehicle use reslrttons • Her to
recognize a rented car • State.
City, Federal Govamm-cnt. and
Diplomatic codes • Indan tribes •
Firs? initial of the owner's last name or birth month • and much more.
The License Piste Book also tells you how to trace the name and
addxss of a vehicle owner by the plate number. The pot co in ovory
state know these codes, and use Item dafy. Wow you can know and
use thorn. Ico! Al yru need is a copy Of the ¿taw.? Plato Book. tho
one ccmpJote. auihccilatve gude to code. In every slate. An
irr.aluabta adtftion to the library Of every Investigator and researcher!
199T. 5H x SH, 127pp. litvstraled hardcover.
LICENSE PLATE BOOK: $12.05
(ORDER NUMBER 61136)
LIP READING MADE EASY
by Edward B. Nltchle
UP
MADE EASY
EDWARD B. NITCHIE
-
Bo .n creative srx>cp!
-
Loam important secrets!
-
Boat the TV censors!
-
listen’ n cn conversations
you can’t bear! -
Outsmart your Mends — and
enemlosf
Hore’s a little known James
Bond type skill you will be
interested in loam ng. Fnd cut
what deals are nw^beng made
over eoemngly casual lunches.
Eavesdrop to your heart's content!
Find cut what people realty think
ol ycu. Learn secrete - secretly!
Now ycu can say 1 hoard It first.*
even betore you hoar ¡r
Edward B. Nitchte taught
literally thousands of people to read lips. His easy-to-use illustrated method enables ycu to become a creative spy in just a low short lessons.
Topics covered Include:
-
Poscons taken by Iha lips in enunciating the various Engish sounds — with complete ittoslrarions
-
How to pmctica with your friends
-
How to use a rnrrar Io practice
-
Iha Do’s and Don’ts of Ip reading
-
And much mono
Up Reading Made Easy k a gocd addition to our series cn spying, snooping, eavesdropping and undercover & clandestine eperatdns.
1902, 3H x OH, Wpp, M/st/aMl sort cover.
LIP READING MADE EASY: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55046)
INVESTIGATIVE METHODS
FOR WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Edited by William B. Moran
INVESTIGATIVE
METHODS FOR
WHITE COLLAR
CRIME
Originally prepared by the U.S.
Department of Justice. In ve stiffs’
five Methods Por White Collar
Crime reveals n data I how
government agents gaTicr- informs-
ticn. dewfop evidence, and how
they plan for search arri seizure.
What mey look tor during searches,
bow they ’link* one suspect to
another, arri how shady financial
transactions arc uncovered — all
are dvuiged by Moran, with
¡Lustrations.
Tepes covered include:
-
Why search warrants are better
than a subpoena -
How government agents can
seize items not ksted cn tho
search warrant. -
What they can learn frem golrg through your trash.
-
How government agents can question your errptoyoos.wrthcut having to notify anyone of their right to remain slent.
-
The complete checklist used by prosecutors in drawing up search warrants — with sample lustrations c4 actual search warranto. How searches can be made withotA warrants.
-
Die of undercover investigators end consent rocordngs.
-
Tables of potential sources of Inkxmation tor white collar crime investigators.
-
And much more, including sample Investigations showng how evidence is gathered and suspects are linked to each other.
Investigative Methods For White Collar Crime Is tasclnating road ng. RodOmihSriddd to snyw interested in Invostigatans and government activities.
19*$, StixtH, 112 pp. iHusteated, softcover.
INVESTIGATIVE METHODS
FOR WHITE COLLAR CRIME: $7.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 58028)___________________
HOW TO INVESTIGATE
YOUR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
by Louis J. Rose
One of the best to our Inn of
investigative techniques bocks. How to
investigate your Friends and Enemies
tells ycu how to:
♦ cultivate the baits used by prorate
detectives to get important Information
frem people
♦ uncover information from car Itoenese
platos. even in states where scenses are
not public records
♦ traco a business through its Me span
just as you can track a person
♦ ccnslruct the lifest/*. physical charac-
teristics and financial tistory of friends,
business assoSales. or enemies
♦ and much more, all of it dene largely by
using only pub'x: records open to anyone!
Chapters octode: Investigating Real Estate: Find ng the Hridcn Owners; Evaluating Tipsters; Understanding Pubic Francos; Inveshgatng a Business; Freedom of Information Act. and much more. Recommended for anyone^ ibrary of pcofessional irwestigattve mulhxfc.
19M Sx 9, 127pp, muxiretod. sort cover.
HOW TO INVESTIGATE
YOUR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55040)
THE "TOP SECRET” REGISTRY
OF U.S. GOVERNMENT
RADIO FREQUENCIES
by Tom Kneltel, K2AES
Want io eavesdrop on
B*g BmCher?
TNs unqixi book has 240
pages of hard-to find data of
Interest to all seamer users,
including station locations,
cal signs and coded identi-
fications. codo names used
for specific frequencies. info
on suiYoittanoo and "bugs."
scramblers. the UHF aero
band (225 to 400 MHz) info
on focforal statton monitoring
In the 1930s. and pictures of
federal QSt cards.
Moro than 50. 000
listings!!!
Hero is a partial Istrng Of
agencies included: • FBI •
Secret Service • CIA • Federal Prisons • Alcohol. Tobacco A Firearms • Drug Enforcement • Immigration • Army ♦ Air Force • Marinos • Space Shoes • NASA • Environmental • Forestry • FCC ♦ Border Patrcf • Dept, of Justice • Treasury • U.S. Marshall • teuclear RcgUatory Commtsston Coast Guard • Navy • Satalftes • Postal Scrvkxt ♦ FAA ♦ National Parks • White House Staff • And much, much morn.
Ths erition a’so lists frequencies used by many major government contractors from the private sector — especialy those working in aerospace, awnics. eloctrodcs. missiles. ordnance, aviation, shp- Ouildng. scientific rosoarch. etc. An expanded introductory section detvas deeper Inw unraveling the my&tertes of federal station monf.oring a rd lets you how and where to discover adaiicn.nl stations!
Author Tom Kneltef has spent many years marrtoring ard expiring these •secret’ frequencies. Now you have tiro chance to share his private data files! This bock is an absolute must for firry mongering installation! Dent Ixj without it!
1993, 6K x 11. ZSSpp. over 50,000flstings, softcover.
THE “TOP SECRET* REGISTRY OF
U.S. GOVERNMENT RADIO FREQUENCIES: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55022)
ARSON
The Complete Investigator's Manual
Arson is America's fastest
growing crime. Hero is a com-
plete gude the arsen investi-
gator can utilize at a fire- scene
Id help bring these faceless
criminals Io justice, h’s all here:
Hi© initial procedures at the
scene; interviewing checkfsts
for fire fighters, witnesses,
owners and occupants; ferreting
cut teitate insurance and
financial ’red flags’ that indicate
arsen-kx -profit; exhaustive
sources of information from city,
county, stalo and federal
scurcos; and marc.
A valuable resource for
polco. private and insurance
Investigators. or anyone wrth an
interest In solid dctect'/o work.
1990. 5HxW. 176pp, soft cover
ARSON: $15/10
(ORDER NUMBER 55031)
ARSON
THE
COMPLETE
INVESTIGATOR'S
MANUAL
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SOURCES
Public and Private
Second Edition
by John M. Carroll
Anyone trUy corcernod with their privacy shoUd add the new edition c4 this took to the* Ibra/y. Considered an essential referenoe for corporate security officers, private Irr/estigators aod pecsonr^l (fopart moots. Confidential information Source# te a stunningly detailed gude to exaevy each of tfie data-gcwipg NreewfMfee knows shout each eno of us.
This massive compendium of privacy invasion oxplans exactly haw corporations, crodt bureaus. direct marketers. government agencies ard others colk) cL store ard use al sorts of personal information about us A sampling of the contents includes:
-
Personal Records (Filing practices & procedures; Acquisition of information; Exchange of informatton; Personal information and Jie law)
-
Credit Reporting Agencies (EquZax; Insurance services; Health professional: MorcanUo credit reporting agencies; Cun & Bradstreet)
-
Law Enforcement Information Systems (International police systems; National police Information systems; Canadian Pciicc Information Center; Pdico information in the United Kingdom; State and Municipal police systems; Breaking into law enforcement files; Fingerprints; Handwriting; Property klonttticatioci; Intelligence investigations; Pole© records access)
-
Credit Card Security (Bank cards; Wireloss wiretapping; Gasolhe cards; Travel 3 entertainment cards; Air travel cards; American Express; Charge account cards)
-
Motor Vehicle and Other Government Records (California OMV; Manitoba MVB; Britain’s dnver and vehicle fitos; Problems with motor vehklo records; Census bureaus; MQtary records)
-
Medical Records (Adverse effects on the individual; Present climate concerning disclosure; Pressure tor medical Intonnation; Proposed Wormaficrt systems: Existing ¿Mabanks)
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Student Records (Public school records systems; Urv/ersty records; Probtems of tmo-sharnd computing; Can there bo Information security?)
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Personnel Investigations (Backgrounding; Positive vcttrig; Polygraphing; Vocc stress evakjatton: Profiling; Organizational Investigations; Applicant investigative summary; Special Investigative services; The private investigator's ’hot ine')
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And Much More!
TNs book reveals the amazng array of methods used to capture and Store Infrxmaton about oix pnvata M/es. The author also explains ways lo secure pnvacy. IncUdng various pnvacy taws. For those who want Id safeguard their privacy — or for Hose who need to dig out informatton co people — Confidential Information Sources will quickly become the most overworked book in >our library.
1991, 606pp. 6H x 9H, ittus/ntted, indexed, hardcover.
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SOURCES: $52.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55038)
PROTECTIVE SERVICES
US Army Military Police School
TZv President Of The United States Is one of tho most heavily- guarded persons cn tio planet. An army of protection professionals are assigned to Nm. Including advance mon. site security professionals and personal body guards, all backed by emergency response teams and local law er/xxeomont. Yet President Reagan was sho! by a waeked-OiX kid wito a revolver.
TNs proves that no matter what precautions are taken or Iyjw many poopfe are assigned to tha task, the safety ol any client fe not guaranteed. The oriy thing a professional txxlypjard can do is be SS prepared as possible.
Protective Services is not some fcttonal account of the glamorous Irie of a bodyguard. This manual was prepared by ne U.S. Army Mlltaiy Poico School as part of the training for police escorts, it contains information and lochnjqixjs used by the Secret Service, Stale Department and U.S. Marshall Service in the protection of diplomats and other high-ranking officials.
Tire information presented here la designed to bo used by one- person or small protectn-e teams as well as large-scale, muti ur.it efforts. Protective Services Contains Delated lnlcnr.at.cn on procedures as dh-erse as: Guarding whie on foot or in largo crowds.PfCtection in pubic places, Including sports stodums. theaters and churches; Securing private residences. offices. mooting rooms and hotels; Dealing with bomb threats: Defensive driving techniques ard the use of armored vehicles; Driving In molorcados or co small outings; Security when traveling by air, sea or rad; Secure communications including telephones, radio transmssions and dosod orcurt TV.
To help you organize your mission. Protective Services includes worksheets and checklists for al the important tasks. There is a sample Personal Socunty Order, seating charts for air travel baggage security chockltst, and much more, including preferred equipment list for outfitting bodyguards.
Bodyguarding isn't ttxi easy or glamorous job ycu stxi on television. Your life and the Irie of your eflont are always on tho lino. Yc4 99 olX of ICO times everything goes smooth^. Tho bosl you can do is be prepared And oro of the best manuals ever written on protective services is available to you.
1990, SH X 11, 140pp. iffustnrtod. soft cover.
PROTECTIVE SERVICES: $14.95
___________________ (ORDER NUMBER 55078)_____________________
HOW TO LOCATE ANYONE
WHO IS OR HAS BEEN IN THE MILITARY
A Guide to Locating Present, Former and Retired
Members of the Armed Forces, Reserves,
and National Guard
by U, Co/. Richards. Johnson
• Directory of Basa/Post Locators • Directory of Armod Forces World Wide Locators • Directory of Mi&tary, Patriotic and Veterans Organizations • Directory of MUftary (/nd Reunion Associations • Directory of Veterans Softotin Board Locators
Hsre fe some of the- information covered In ths unique bock: How to obtain the unit of assignment, home address and tetophono number of any member of the Army. Navy. Marine Corps. Air Forcn. Const Guard. Ure Reserve Components and National Guard. How to have a letter forwarded to a current, former or retired member of tho Armed Forces. Reserves or National Guard; How to coioct a debt or delinquent child support from a service member;Hcw to have a letter forwarded to any of 27 milon veterans; How to get an active duty senxe member homa in the event of a family emergency or death; How to locate people through the Social Security Administration, tho internal Revenue Service. U.S. Post Office and other stalo and federal agendas; How to locate people through their drivers license or vohado registration; How to locate someone who works for Civil Service; And more. This book explains how to cut through the red tape and the bureaucracy, so you can find the people you are looking for qufckty!
1990, Sfi x If, 92 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO LOCATE ANYONE
WHO IS OR HAS BEEN IN THE MILITARY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61110)
BODYGUARDING:
A Complete Manual
by Burt Rapp
BODYGUARDING
by Burt Rapp
This professional manual is a bow-te-do-lt book on body-guardng. EVeiy aspect of the nuia ard boia of protecting too lite of a diem is discussed in vast detail. Contents Inctode:
□ Protective Theory — avoidance is better than confrontation
□ Threat Assessment — crowds, kidnappers, pranks and nuisances. IndMdual assassins. otc.
□ Determine how venerable your client is—and read fast
□ How assassinations are set up and Irew to avoid llrem
□ How kidnappers and terr crisis choose their targets — and how to keep a tow profile for your ctent
□ Training the bodyguard - which skills are essential — and wlwch are not
□ How Government Bodyguards work — what you can learn from them and how toe* Job differs from yours
□ What kind of people make the best bodyguards and the best clients
O Bricfng tho ckont — what you need Io know about him - and vice versa
□ Security nnd Access Control Systems — protecting tho client at he home base
O Choosing wonpens — the best typos to carry
O Weapon concealment — carrying everything frem handguns Id shoulder *vcapans inconspicuously
□ Body armor — whet it will and wii not do
□ Special Purpose Weapons — knives that will pass through metal detectors, collapsible batons — where to get them and how to use them
O How to bulletproof an automobile
O How to counter ambushes and kidnapping attempts
□ Where bombs are most Italy to be planted
□ An important chapter on how Io bodyguard yourself
□ Legal aspects — licensing, lability, and more
□ And much, much more.
This huge professional manual is U« single finest bock ever written on Bodyguarding.
19SS, Sh xSh, 290pp, fttuatratod. softcover.
BODYGUARDING: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55067)
CRIME AND POLICE SCIENCE
Introduction
For cops and robbers everywhere...
Did you ever wonder how criminals commit crimes? Did you ever wonder how police investigate crimes and apprehend crooks? We've all wondered about things like that, haven't we? And now you can learn the answers to your difficult questions on crime and police science — with the books in this section!
TRICKS OF THE BURGLAR ALARM TRADE
by Mike Kessler
No technical background or relatori
experience « reeded Io understand
every pago of this oxcoiont took. be-
cause It is written in ordtnnry language,
with no contatti) s^nMn.rxs or elec«
lnc.nl thnevy to struggle wf.h.
Tricks of The Burglar Alarm Trade
tods the reader one stop .nt a limo
through a compiale. Inctopth under-
Starting of prctessonai gr,>io burglar
alarm systems, equipment, and
msUNatkXi rrethods. Everything you
need X) knew to ristali and service the
same type of equipment used m costfy
onrrmerclal and rnr.iricnli.il systems is
carefully explained, with ne? assumption
a' previous fochnicd krxzvrfcdco Of
experience.
All of tho separate burglar alarm components, devices. tods ard
techniques used by prolessicnal installers are dearly explained, head-
ing thorough. ilUstrated instructions on applying window foil and in-
stating shunt locks.
Tho technique of ’jumpering* (shading), which is the most common
method used by bun/ars to corrpromtse alarm systems. is revealed in
debdi, afong with a simple countermeasure for reducing or eliminating
the possibility c4 a system being bypassed This intormaton e ex-
tremely valuable X) anycna who alronriy has a burglar alarm system, or
ntends to install one. This information should be required reading for di
law onforcemcnf officers and members of the private security profes-
sice.
Es^t of tho dear. Eirrple iluclrafons h this bock e sippcdcd by correspond ng, plain-language text. II yea can rood a newspaper, ycu cen quickly learn the burgSar alarm craft with this bock Whether your interest in burglar alarms is limited to instaling and maintaining >\>ur own system. c< beginning a highty profitable sideline, thfs bock represents a rare opportunity. If you want to learn about burglar alarms, hero’s your chance Io loam from an experienced pro. who has taught dozens of apprentices - and knows how to get tbs information across to you
1964. 6H X 11, 94 pp. Ufuxtrxied, idlcwu
TRICKS OF THEBURGLAR ALARM TRADE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40035)
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS,
I’LL TELL YOU NO UES
How to Survive Being Interviewed, Interrogated,
Questioned, Quizzed, Sweated, Grilled...
by Jack Luger
Every day. innocent peepto
are grilled by cops, attorneys,
security guard*, crrpbyers, the
media. and a slew
government agents. Even it
yodVe ctone nothing wrorq. ycu
can cauio youfMfl a world of
trouble by giving the wrong
answer.
-
The police want to talk to you
about your neighbor. Stxx/d
you cooperate? -
The cash register is short srd
you are bong blamed. Do
you know what your rights
are when dosing with
company secure/ people? -
A job application asks if
youVa ever boen convicted
of a crime.
ttow shetfd you respond if you’re an ex-con?
Chapters include: • People Traps • interrogation: The Basic Facts • Types U Interrogators • The Interrogator's Mind-Sot • Techniques of Applying ’Pressuro’ • Deceive Tactics During Irterrpgaticri • Covert Interrogation • Torture • The Polygraph • Prisoners of War • Media Interview* • Depostions and Court Testimony • The Language of Ues • Ard more.
Ask Me No Questions, m Ten You No Lies shows exactly how to protect yourself. You will learn how to hartie polos interrogatons. ho* to respond In job interviews, tow to answer questions n court, hnw io beat tho polygraph. and mere. You wi! team al the tndcs interrogators use Io make ycu talk, and her* to condticn yourself against them. You will team haw to provide answers that will satisfy year interrogators without giving too much away.
II you’re accused, don’t be abused’ Ask Me No Questions, TV Tell You No Lies wil teach you bow to defend yourself.
1991, 5H x 6M, 164 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS,
I LL TELL YOU NO LIES; $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58072)
COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY
How to Really Make Money
by M. Thomas Collins
Loam bow counlcdeters make
money 1M1 looks, feels. and speeds
Ike th? real thingl Counterfeit Cur-
rency: How To Realty Mako Money
reveals all the tricks of the counter-
feiter. You wJl team baw
countertenors make bushels of bogus
tolls and ’pass’ them without fear.
Chapters inc/ude:« A Tear Of Ute
Bureau U Printing and Engraving •
Haw the U.S. Government Manufac-
tures Currency • Safeguards Against
Counterfeiting ♦ Basic Printing Tech-
niques Used in Counterfeiting • Pur-
chasing Equipment and Supples •
Setting Up Shop • The Fine Art Of
Counterfeiting Currency • Tbs Ulti-
mate* Counterfeiter • Passing Counter-
feit Money ♦ WiE the U.S. Government Change Ilie Currency* • Ard Morel
Exact counterfeiting tcchnques are sltewn in step-by-step, illustrated detail. Every aspect of printing morey is covered, ¿nctodng inks, paper, negatives, platemukinq techniques, and even a section cn ’aging’ money so it tocks and feels authentic. You wMI toam about an irganous platemaking technique most counterfeiters don't oven knew.
You will see lx»w serial numbers are printed on counterfeit currency, ard learn how counterfeiters matoh the exact shade of irk they need, and even how counterfeiters can fake the red and blue sik-lfco fibers that are ¡n the p*apor of genuine currency.
Our money is just pretty pictures cn paper. Counterfeit Currency: How To Realty Make Money sho^s you jusl how vdneratoe government currency real»/ is!
/AV, SH jc SH, HOpp, iihfsirxled, fffoswy, mtHcvw.
COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40069)
HOW TO COLLECT ILLEGAL DEBTS
by Harold S. Long
HOW TO
CO1ÍCT
ILLEGAL DEBTS
if you are cwnd money for a drug
or gambang debt, ard the deadbeat
wont cough < up. who ya genna call?
In hte latest bosk, veteran criminal
Harold S. Leng discusses everything
you rood to know to set up a busi-
ness collecting Regal debts.
Contents include
THE SYSTEM: tnlroduclcry impros-
atona. clients and subject relation-
ships. ard molhodofogy in coioct-
TYPING A SUBJECT: Iba personali-
ties of tubiects and bpes of debts,
trow they are incurred, oto.
VULNERABILITIES OF A SUB-
JECT: How to determino a sub-
ject's weaknesses to app>y as
leverage to secute payrngix o<
rfebts
FEAR AS A WEAPON: The integrity of fear as a tool in maniptfaling
subjects
LEVEL TWO CONDITIONING: The scccod stage of force and manipu-
lation of subjects not cooperating with ccllccton efforts.
LEVEL THREE CONDITIONING: The third and final stage of condtion-
ing force n the colectton process.
And mom.
1990, $HXSH, 74 pp. softcover.
HOW TO COLLECT ILLEGAL DEBTS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40057)
COP TALK!
Monitoring Law Enforcement Communications
by Laura E. Quarantlello
COP TALK!
Omtm n n ñwirávs
Many of us pot some of
otr earliest radio kicks
from listening to the pole*
calls just above the top of
tho AM txcodcasl band —
tong before scanners ever
existed. Despite ail the
Changes s-rco than, tuning
in poico calls remans ore
of the most papular
aspects of tee fastening
hobby.
Cop Talk! is an
oxr.totent guides to this
fascinating world — a
gude that goes beyond
pust telling tie reader
where to fasten, to hefc Ute
istener understand what's
heard. Il's at here: Ute
jargcci. the ratio systems,
the soctizns. divisions, squads, and deportments.
Cop Talk!also discusses low proiie monitoring, the laws on Inton-
ing to the law. bow to tone in dispatch. uctical. car-to-car. emergency,
undercover ard talk-around frequencies, bow to set up seamer banks,
uo-scanner mohtoring. 803 MHz. frequency numbering. and mixh
more.
1992, 3H x 11, 79 pp. ittuMraled, soft cow.
COP TALK!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40030)
THE POUCE SNIPER
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
Ths polfce manual covers
all aspects of police sniper
operations. Not just Brother
rehash of m?itary texts. The
Police Sniper is an aVnew
work that deals with the topic
differently from any other book.
Topica covered toctoda:
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Military Firelighters vs.
Civilian Armed Encounters
-
The Urban Setting
-
Snip ng in the Open Country
• SWATTac&cs -
The Felice Sniper's Hole
-
Snpng Techniques
-
Barrdaded Suspect Types
-
Night Operations and Tac-
tics -
Training ard Maintaining
-
Weapons
-
Ammunition
-
Haotfoadng
-
Sights end Scopes
-
Auxiliary Equipment
-
Appendix I Ballistics: A Quick Primer
-
Appendix ll: Glossary.
This book examines the polcc sniper's rule, since his duties win determine his equpment and faces Every phase of the polico snperts mrssicn. from selection and training to actuary sbeohng pezpto is ex- plaiited in ilus’.rated detail.
1903. Sri x6H. f99pp>fHustrateO, softccvw.
THE POLICE SNIPER: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55073)
SUCCESSFUL ARMED ROBBERY
by Harold S. Long
If you busted for armed
robbery, it most ikety won’t be
alarms of witnesses or even the
cops that hip you up. Most ike>/. it
wil be your own faul!
KaroW S. Leng, author of Making
Crime Pay and Getting Started In
The iitiert Drug Business. knows. A
graduate of toe school of hard
knocks. he is currency cnnolcd al an
inlensrro ctflcgo for criminals: a
federal penitentiary. In Successful
Armed Robbery, ho reveals tricks
and traps teamed from colnvrtos.
•professional associates.' and
personal experience.
Successful Armed Robbery ts a
nuts-and-bdts manual writton by a
pro. in it. you will find kxrt Ike ths: • Choosing Iha right target • Ptenring an a-nvud rubbery • I tow to cany out an armed robbery • Serf- caused failure — and how to avod It • Ard much. much more.
An amazing lock inside the world of tte professional armrd robber. Successful Armed Robbory 5 a must fcr crime hurts, and lor all cops and robtx*rs everywhere.
1990, SH xJH, $4 pp, frustrated, soft corer.
SUCCESSFUL ARMED ROBBERY: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40065)
S.W.A.T. TEAM OPERATIONS
by Burt Rapp
A S.W.A.T. team member has
the mart dangarous cb to law
enforcement. He's ealed in cn>/
when the situation is cdltoal. Ha
must bo prepared 10 hancie a
broad range of threats quickly —
wth mnimum loss of ife.
Veteran police write* Burt Rapp
has assembled al tte ova table
information co S.WA.T.
organzatton and tactics. Ard lie's
put n togethe* wr'to over 103
^lustrations to help S.W.A.T. teams
prepare for the unpredictable.
5. W.A. T. Team Operations
shows exactly how to handle these
threats:
-
Barricaded Gunmen
• Deato-Deal ng Snipers
• Hostage-taking H ¡ackers
• Political Terrorist» -
Cfug Lords
• wild Mobs
• And IZore!
5. T. Team Operations teaches these important skits:
-
Huw to enter buildings • How to gather intellgoncc •
S.WAT. deployment and movemenl • Raw Io deal wih Ite
press • I tow Io use sophisticated weaponry.
S. HG4. T. Team Operations is ateo a guide Io putting togoton* a
crack team: recrufing. training, cquippng. With Burt Rapp's straight tek
and reiiabto rcccmmondahcns, you'll team wtet oqupmont works and
what’s overpneed gimmckry. Itere has novar b<wn a concentrated
S.WAT. manual like S.W.A.T. Team Operations. Ideal for learn
members and those responsible for organizing, va'nng. and
supervising S.WA.T. teams.
1990, OH x 11, 1541 pp, Nfustrated, indexed, softcover.
S.W.A.T. TEAM OPERATIONS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58065)
VEHICLE THEFT INVESTIGATION
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
Noted polk» writer Burt Rapp
turns hte attention to Vehicle
Theft Investigation, and has
produced en toveiuatfe hand-
book. whfch win serve 88 a
SO4XC9 and imwlfgaM gvidi
to* too petrtf officer, the
plaJnctotoes policeman, ard the
cMllan insurance nveetfgato* or
claims adjuster. Tcptes covered
•nsiKto
-
Amateurs and protesstonal
thieves • Vehicle ttett tech-
niques e Totfs 1or bypassing
vehicle locks • What happens lo
stoton veheies e The Hito« parts
business — bchM toe scenes at
a 'chop shop' • Organized
crime and stoten vehicles — why
thcry aro so soxessltf •
Insurance frauds — four games Iheves play • The officer on patrol — how to spot a stofen car • Investigative techniques — stfving vehicle thefts • The crime lab — what oquprmnt you will need and how to use it • P.'o-actr.-e investigation techniques — using daooys. undercover operations, arxi sling operations • Provo nt ng vnhi^o thefts — how to keep your car from being sloten • And much, much more.
Auto theft is big business today, and getting better. No investigator can afford to be without toe up-to-date Informaton in Vehicle Theft Investtgationl
19SV. SHxSH, 120ppt mustrated. softcover.
VEHICLE THEFT INVESTIGATION: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40054)
GETAWAY
Driving Techniques
for Escape and Evasion
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
This exciting book covers everything
ycu rood to know to ba an expert
wheelman. Rona« George Eriksen 2 is a
veteran dirt track rstoer. and a graduate of
tte Bob Bondurant school of high per-
formance driving bn Sonoma. California.
In Getaway, ho shams his knoMedge of
drMng incbnquc^ for escape and
nvnsicn.
Ccr.'orod aro comonng. right angle
turns. Stums, hairpin toms, the
•bootleggers' turn, the 'moonshiners’
tom, and mom. Ramming pfocedurea for
both sngte and double vehicle blockades
are &ho*n in irustrated (fetail. Eriksen
also covers how to run another vehfcto off
the road, how lo jump a curb, and bow to handle chase stuabens.
Additional chaptiers cover vehicle security, vahido medrfeettons you ori make, bow to detect ii yxxj a?e being survcillcd. and tew to elucfo a toil Everything there is to know about fast drreng for escape and evasion is now revca'ed in ano casy-to-road book, with llkislraticns!
Gentiemen, start your engines...
19SZ SU xan. 4Spp, ftiustratod, softcover.
GETAWAY: $6.95
(ORDERNUMBER 16037)
TECHNIQUES OF
THE PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKET
by Wayne B. Yeager
.VX^'sai
ef rnpeekMi
PICKPOCKET
Going lo Ite racetrack can be a
bpger gamble than you think You
make your bet. lean over tte rail,
and Ite crowd doses to. You go to
cdtact. only to discover that youVe
won your tel. tel lost your biltokl.
Don't waste your feme aearcNng
tte grandstands. It you want to tied
where your wallet went, tock mrjrto
the bock, hances are. < was lifted
by a professional pickpocket.
This book tells a’l about
Techniques Of The Professional
Pickpocket Chapters cover: • Why
Pockels Can Be Picked • Tte Pants
Pockets • Tte Jacket Pockets •
The Walch • How Pickpockets
Practice • Tte Guide Hit Art« •
Foiirg U>e Pickpock et and Purse Snatcher • And more.
This book wil show you tew pickpockets operate. from the clumsy grab lo tte pro who stake his rnsrk lor days. You will see tew pickpockets use aocorrph»s lo divert your attention white they dtoert ycur cash. You wil read about training camps where novices two their techniques on booby-trapped mannequins.
Techniques Of The Professions! Pickpocket reveals tew tte pros can steal from any pocket in ycur dotted, and even how pickpockets can steal a watch right off ycu' wrist. Ths book shews tew tte pros got into ycur dotes, ard what you must (to to protect yourse«. Don't leave home without M.
1990, 9»x3H, 74 pp. iifustrated, softcover.
TECHNIQUES OF THE PROFESSIONAL PICKPOCKET: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40068)
THE BEGGAR'S HANDBOOK
A Guido to Successful Panhandling
byM. T. Pockets
THE
Bl EG ©AH'S
llliA&DDE'WK
Hi «T I'KilTJ
It is a sad but true tact of tile in
America today that peep'o can ba
reduced Id Ite status of begging in the
streets. Anyone Iving in any medium to
larga dty can attest io the fact that
panhanders are everywhere on the
urban Landscape. Seme are
aggressive and obnoxious white otters
are passive ard restrained; all of them
are very noticeable.
What is net so well known ia how
successful seme pantenders are.
While most beggars hope to earn S10
to $12 per day from their panhatelng.
others cam ns much as $2CO a day.
And ft Is possible to cam sgnilkantty
more and mind you. this is tex-free
CASh.
What th’s book dees is provide tte reader w«m the tochdquos necessary lo pantende one's way kite me h'gher Income brackets, in this bock you wil learn:
-
How to select your inteteed gtore ♦ How to dress • How to
choose a location • How to use props • How to avod De po’ice
-
How to ryel atong wtth otter panhandlers • How to avoid Ite rrfatakes most other panhandlers make.
So lie ctefco to yours: you can approach people asking for ’spare Changs’ and s’owfy starve to death, or do wtet tte competent beggar doc* ard live ratter well, even in an expense.« c<y such as New York or Boston.
19$9. 5HxSU, 39pp. softcover.
THE BEGGARS HANDBOOK: $5.95
(ORDER HUMBER 40057)
HOT CARS!
An Inside Look at the Auto Theft Industry
by Marcus Wayne Rutledge
Hot Cars! gkros an iratto look into tho mines and mcchods cf profossjcnal car Ihiovcs. Author Marcus Wayne Ruiodgo. now so-ving a ife sentence. reveals tte trxfcs of tte multi mihon dctlar Industry te know* * so wr?l - car theft.
An ex-car thief. Ridedge was once part 01 a mincn-dollar theft ring Now he tells private buyers, dealers, insurance claims adjusters. and law cKcer*. wtel the thieves knew and dcn'l kriaw about legitimizing take papers ard serial numbers on sldcn cats, trucks, motorcycles.. boats, trailers, ard oven arptanns.
Clear photographs stew what to look lor to detect whether rx nc < a vehicle's serial number has been altered. A corrprohcnsnvi checklet Mans what questions x>ask a seller to te sure te's lege.
Chapter liitos indude: Ospellng tte Mylte. Title and Savage laws; Changeover Mistakes. Ho: Car lor Sale; Private Purchasers. Beware'; Auto Conversion; Auto Duptcaltog; SleaLStrip-Purchase-Repalr. Tracoor-Traier Conversion; Motorcycle Conversion; Camper ate Traitor Conversion; Boat Conversion; Airplane Conversion; Protecting Dealership Vehtods; Insurance Agents ; First Aid for legal I ooptetas; ard more.
DonT te left ted ng tte loan payment bock tor an auto that has been coni ¿scaled by poicel
7.W. SHx9H, 136 pp. frustrated, softcover.
HOT CARSI: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40046)
CREDIT CARD FRAUD
by Burt Rapp
Did y^ou know that scmcone can
drain your bank nccourz using your
cash machine card without your
secret code? Or that eta ver
criminate can got a tuB menthte
from a sldcn credit card tetore
aroujung any suspclcn?
Ttese are some of tte starting
facte revoatad In Credit Card
Fraud, ty vrteran polce writer Burt
Rapp. This ts a practical manual on
tefenjlng yourself It was wr.ttcn for
pot co officers working an Investi-
gation of credit card fraud, and for
ttese stung by crodt card fraud: tte
merchant, the banker ard the card
tekler.
Why is cretfl card fraid ere of
tte fastest growing crimes? Be-
cause credt cards are easy to get ard easy to steal, a'd most insti- tutons acccp< the losses as ’Ite cost c/ doing business.’ But now. tte costs are gong sky high.
Chapters hetode. • Cradt Cards: Uses and Abuses • Cred* Card Security • Credt Card Ferrary • Credit Card Frauds • Consumer Victimzaton • Poice Response • Prevention of Credit Cato Fraud • Counter-Attack: Striking Back at Fraud • And much, much mere
Credit Card Fraudce.eals ¿h? the scame, from forged bank cante to totarrarkeing rip-offs. Il stews tte security measures tult into credit cards and to’ls you how Id telect frauds. And it expb'ns wtet businesses -nrd indvidunls must (to to keep firm becoming viclims.
lP9t. 6% x 130pp. iifustrsted, indexed, softcover.
CREDIT CARD FRAUD: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 49024)
OUTLAWS OF THE OCEAN
The Complete Book
of Contemporary Crime on the High Seas
byG.O.W. Mueller and Freda Adler
Outiaws of the Oc&an is a
lively and fast paced account o! a
subject taken droclfy from the
front pages of today's nows-
papars: crime on tha high seas.
For ton test limo in book form two
wcrtdronr/Anod crim'ndogisls
examine piracy, drug smuggling,
tradng in aiens. kiting of whales
and other marine life, ocean
potation. marine insurance
frauds, and boat theft.
Intamaficnal in scope, this
back covers every type of
criminally on the water. evaluates
marllime la** enforcement
systems and suggests strategics
and solutions for problems en-
countered on the waterway’s.
Mueller and Adler. tt*o cn!y
dviians ever permitted on board
a US Coast Guard vessel while it was on a combat mission of chasing
drug smugglers. vUked ©W stety-fivo countries and had access to
worldwide lites on crimes at sea. What has emerged from these
firsthand experiences and tha mohctJcus research tlw? authors
conducted is a mix of ¡rrv68ti<>aitve reportng and eyewitness accounts.
19S5, 6x9, 357 pp, Wustrated, Indexed, hardcover.
OUTLAWS OF THE OCEAN: $9^5
(ORDER NUMBER 40060)
IK? GirfJrr ftxl at C«HTf • r¿n
Crirrai the Hn Sei»
CHECK FRAUD INVESTIGATION
CHECK FRAUD INVESTIGATION
by Burt Rapp
Check fraud may «ion
small-time In the world of crime,
and thafs exactly why -serial
swindlers’ have grown so fond
of it They more from town to
town Ike Johnny Appleseed,
sowing ’bad paper' wherever
they go.
in Chock Fraud
investigation, police writer But
Rapp takes you hs'rfe the worid
cf toe paporhanger. YcuHI see
cvcrylhng, from the person
who bounces a chock at the
grocery store to big-bmo
embezzing scams. You’ll see
thieves who stea' blank checks
from banks ard print shops.
Ycull sec counterfeiters who
lko computers and laser
printers to make fantastic lakes.
Youll also soo dozens of ruses used to get people to accept begun
checks: Uttie old ladies asking for cash iof ¿-¿blafe; A Stute Cashing <1
'local payroi check’ tn enter to make a big sate: Cons who buy used
cars from classified ads. then resell them bolero tfxj cftack bounces.
Ard it's not just checks that bounce. Money enters, warranto, drafts. gift
certificates. even certificates Of (teposfl (CDs) aro vuncrabc.
Chock Fraud investigation w»1 help those most hixt. It wS help
polco conduct a serious irr.esligaton hlo rrefor fraud epnratons. It wil
help bankers boef-tp their defenses against the bad-paper pushers.
And a win help merchants rocognzo chock fraud and prevent me
enccmous losses it can ca use.
1991, 5Hx8H, m PP. Hfuatratod, Indexed, soft cover.
CHECK FRAUD INVESTIGATION: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40072)
MAKING CRIME PAY
by Harold S. Long
What you are going to road In ths
book is Informaton which comas from as
far west as California, as far east as
Virginia, as far north as Ohio, and as far
south as Florida. Beyond the
geographical scope. however, is the one
critical clement lacking in pubic
understandng óf ftó IflW fil'd Cte
government eveeyth’ng you read hero
will be the truth. Everything you road In
mis book wil be fact recounted in part
from personal wycricnoos, and in part
from the experiences of jail and prison
inmates frem across me country.
What does it take to succoed at
crimnal activity — what docs it take Io
make crime pay? In Making Crime Pay an experienced crimnal delves deeply into the realities (Y the criminal Justice system, a->d offers many hard-won suggestions fry suxesstully evading tro system.
Topics covered include: • What ’probaUe cause’ realty amounts to • How to harrfto encounters with too poico — how Io Iio and gel away with it • Preparedness for possble ccrtfrontattons wth perico • The criminal process and attorneys — what you can oxpoct a court- appointed attomoy to do (and not lo do) for you • Why a trial by jury Is preferable to a trial by judge • What lo do if ycur court-appointed attorney Is Itxklng up your caso • How youf wife or girlfriend should act if tfro polco ccmci to toe doer and start questioning her • Tbo seven most corrmcn mistakes made in crime — and how you can a-.oid them • Planning an armed robbery • Crime partners pro and con • Crime scene ccnfronlaton with perico — what to do if you are caught in the eel • The harsh reatóos of tifo in prison • And much, much morel
Written by a professional criminal. Making Crime Pay to packed w«h níúrrnáGóri M avBilabte In any other book.
Making Crime Pay & must roaring for all ccps and robbers, and for snyoce interested In crime In Arronca. Highly roccrnrryjixled
1968, 5Hx6H, 65pp. soil cover.
MAKING CRIME PAY: $9.96
(ORDER NUMBER 40050)
ESCAPE FROM CONTROLLED CUSTODY
by TonyLesco
Behind every escape is the wil to
survive.
Those few who make their way to
freedom have ono thing in common: tha
drive to survive They never give up.
n*ey escape in their funds a thousand
limes, so mat when meir opportunity
arises, they arc ready to Cupbit it. It <Xte
toea fads, mey employ petoatence and
creabvity to find new ways out
Chapters include: • Prison Systems •
Physical Security • Socurzy Systems •
The Human Fooler • Escape and
Evason • Ptanring the Escape •
Preparations for Escape • Escape
TeclYikjues. A to Z • Fcrgwy of Passes and LD. • Tunnels • Some Classic Escapes • if Ycu*ro Captured ♦ And more!
This book is about escaping, h takes yxxj cap:.vo to show you what it's like inside: ttie locks, toe walls, the iron bars You win learn Ixy* to mako krwos from toothbrushes, ladders from bedsheets, printing prows from shoes. You wil fotew prisoners as they crawl through tunr^ts and scale wall. And you wil learn about toe psyebotogy of those who run prisons — and those who cun tom them.
Someday yvu may be on the inskte Icokng out. Do you have whsl it takes to escape?
19M. 5i9 x SU. 144pp, illustrated. Indexed, xott cover.
ESCAPE FROM CONTROLLED CUSTODY: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40066)
THE HOT HOUSE
LJf-e Inside Leavenworth Prison
by Pete Earley
Pete Eartoy the first writer ever permitted unlimited access Io America'« ctefest fetfereJ prison. Out of me ren bety of tfiis maximum- security pcntonliary comes his stunrvng account of Ute behind bars — the nerion’s hardest criminals dong terd time. It's a scd-contoned metropolis behind vast walls bull in 1895: a lethal ptaco governed by ruthless clans corrpetirg for domhance. Murder is frequent. rape is toss (or sex than lor power, and respect is live coin of the reafm. Onco disrespected, a Leavenworth inmate ties two choices: ho can submit io virtual slavery—ar ho can fight hb antagonist unU one cf them dies.
NWcnamed 'the Hot House’ because of the sweltering ccodr.ons ol <s celbkxAs, the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. seethes with the pervasive threat of riot R is the most dreaded facility in the system — rot because of «$ maximum-security rating, but because c* its fierce pcpulathn: sooopatbc gangsters, Aryan nation neo-Nazi Miers, musefe toughs. rutbess narcotics profiteers, and heovys*! bikers ptackmarkod with tUXet wounds lire acne scars Even the shaven- logged ’pinks.’ the drunks, and tho ¡unices may bo carrying homemade ’shank* krivos under Ihor shirts.
Pele Earley conducted literary hundreds of bears cf ntnrvows. all but Iving ireido the pcimcrtial world of Leavenworth. Out of this extraordinary first hard access. as wol as essential dccumente. telephone trarcerpts. and pmon Iios, comes the r.vr/.ng star/ ot what life is actually ike inside cur most famous pnson.
1992, 6x9, 403 pp, NtiMxted, hard cover.
THE HOT HOUSE: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40078)
DECOY OPS
Fighting Street Crime Undercover
hy Capt. Charles Beene, Het
V/ith street crime rurnng rampant,
courts and prisons ovarfowirg. ord
convicted criminals being put back cn
the stroats in over greater numbers,
the safety of citizen* — parTcUarty
those wba appear weak or defense loss
— ¡8 serfouafy threatened. Desperate
times call for drastic measures, ard
hnovatvo pcdco dapartmnre. across
the country arc hcodkvj that cat
Tho strategy? To set up polco unis
to go deep undercover in doocry refes.
blond in with the street pepuhton, and
catch robbers. pkApoctols, and ether
criminate red-handed. Tho goal? To
beat tho bad guys al Ihor cvm game.
The resUts are Impressive — the track records of these units speak for themselves.
Written by no man who spco±*xjecd the Street Crime Unit dcccy opcraScci in San Francsco, the book describes hew such arils arc organized, staffed, ard superv-sed and revoate tbn uncccT.’onlhnal tactics used to catch street criminate who arc not susccpCbto te traditional intomwid patrol methods.
for thosn n law or/orcoment look ng to break wy from thn status quo in firdng a way to take back the stroote. this bock is an oyo- openng account of how and why decoy units work. For tho average dtizen, <*s a valuable Insight Into how the criminal mind works and what one can (to to avoid becoming a vtoim.
199Z SHxSH, 113 pp. Ktutfreted, toft cow.
DECOY OPS: $15-95
(ORDER NUMBER 58081)
How lb
STEAL
FOOD
Rom The
Supermarket
HOW TO STEAL FOOD FROM THE SUPERMARKET
by J. A ndrew A nderson
Wo live In a wonderful
country, whore wo get io pay
taxes for farm subsides so that
we can bo overcharged for fcod at
too stere. A country where poepto
starve outsdo stares that sot
gourmet de*, dog food. A country
where wo can pUblsh a book that
tots you bow to steal food from
the supermarket.
Written by a supormarkol
security guard. Hew To Steal
Food From The Supermarket
wit teach you how to puriori soma
sirloin, how to snatch a batch of
cookies, how to poach eggs.
Here’s tho real sWrvry on gating
fat • Tho myth of tow profit
marg’ns for supermarkets ♦ Using
coupons for sluff you didn’t buy •
Andersen’s Three Laws cf
Shoplifting How to dress for shcpHtfhg success ♦ Do it-yoursalf
markdowns • How America's food distribution system screws ycu —
why >ou should steal food • Switching bar codes • What to do rf a
security guard sees ycu steslbg • Scamming tbo Seamer • Nest-
tuidng and od>er sboplilling techniques • How to find out if tho store
usee plsinctothes guards • Tlie one item ovary suxessful shopGtoor
must tf.Wa/s carry • How to tol if mirrors aro two-way • How to use
poriners arrJ confederates to hep >*ou steal feed ♦ What to do if you are
caught red-handyd • And much more!
Did you know that meet supermarket security cameras aro fako? Do
you know tba one mistake ifat trips up meet sboplitlecs? Co ycu know
tho w item yw 5b?uW ata-fty» cany wtft you vtfian anopflNty? Ycul
find the answers to ttv»w questiervs. and dozens of ether clever ideas,
tosdo this amazng manual. Better pick up your copy today.
1222, SH x SU, Srpp, coyw.
HOW TO STEAL FOOD FROM THE SUPERMARKET: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40079)
NEVER SAY LIE
by Scott French and Pau! Van Houten, Ph.D,
Do your unconscious body
movements call you a liar?
Can you tel when somocne
else is lying? How do
government inteligen»
age<ils trfck ie-deteefen
systems? Never Say Ue ex-
poses the ’science’ of Ie
detection and shows how
screening tests can be In-
Cuancod by mnchancAt tricks,
drugs. practice arri
krxntfodgo.
Tbo FBI. IRS. CIA. ;Cd-
screcnng firms, (tolOCllres
and oter.rs depond on Iho
foraging techniques: • Tho
tydfashoned polygraph •
Graphology • Drug-screening
teste • Kir^sto inteMewng.
Do these techniques reaiy
work? VAII you lose a jcb. got fined cc even go to jail because of a false
positive cn n shaky system? Loam how these system* work and bow to
manpulato tho tests and testers to mislead anyone, anywhere, anytime
— and gut away wr.h it.
1SS7, SU 11, 160pp, Htoffttod, xeftcow.
NEVER SAY UE: $19,950
(ORDER NUMBER 58048)
NEVER
SAY LIE
THE BIG HOUSE
How American Prisons Work
by Tony Lesee
Burv.ng at tfra seams. cur pnson system is h a slate of crisis. Marry prisons are under court order to roduc© ovoxrowding. New drug laws ard mandatory senteneng reqjiromonls onfy add to fro prebtem. There's no place toll to put criminals oxcopf back on the street.
The solutions dent come easy. Who should bo let out early? Who sbet/d slay behind bars? Will taxpayers loot the bil for more Jails? Will capital punishment help solve overcrowing? Thousands of fives and bilions of dollars wall on the answers. That's why The Big House Is so important.
The Big House is not a collection of reform thooros. Rather, it is an Incrodibly detailed tock al exactly bow prison» work: how do you hcuse. feed, and control thousands of violent, angry people? The Big House takes a gritty look at issues like capital punishment, psychcsurgory. not control a rd doalng with tho sexual needs Of phionors
Tony Iosco ixdcretands the interplay between convicts and thoir keopors. A frequent ccatrbutor to law enforcement publications. ho is also Cho author of Escape From Confronted Custody. In The Big House, he exam no s the prison system from al perspectives: the Inmates, tho •>J9rd8. the polhcfans. and tho taxpayers.
Chapters include:
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History • Basu: Incarccralicci • Physical Custody • Prison
Life • Custody Personnel • Security Procedures • Reform and Rehablitebcn • Psychiatric Treatment • Escapes • Riots and Disorders • Public Relations • Training • Toots •
The Future • And more.
The autlxx says. 'A slrrole way to reduce immediately the number of people in prison is to ¿©criminal^© certain non-violent arid viOfmleSS crimes. It may take years before people with enough imagination ctomnsle Legislatives, but gradually we may expect to so© decrminaJization of pornography, proswution. any form of sex between consenting adults, drug possession, gambing. and various typ««s of status offenses.*
Tho crisis in criminal Justice touches tho lives of everyone. Those concerned wzn how the prison system works — and how It can work better shr.ud start with The Big House.
1991, SH x 11, rSSpp. Htostroted, Indexed, soft cover.
THE BIG HOUSE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40071)
SURVIVING IN PRISON
by Harold S. Long
Corr.kls don't Ive to prisons —
they survive thorn. Harold S. Long has
written a disturbing and deeply
moving account of prison Ho. Long
has been behind bars for over ton
years. He describes how prisons aro
run: the penal cede and tho co I bosk
code. He takes you out to tho yard and
Into the bolo. Ho oxpans th©
complete fahuro of most
'rehsblinabcn' programs. And be
reveals what it is Ifco to survive tho
ladaton. hun-rilaticn. and brutality of
prison life.
H&re are some Priof excerpts from this powerful new booir.
The first end most Important thing a prisoner must realize 18 that he is a meaningless body among hundreds of other meanlngtess bodies. No emptoyeo within an institution is going to stick his neck out for an inmate. It makes no difference if ho Is entangled In an to/jstfoe or gross misunderstanding.*
The black market has such hems as radios. TVs. tapes, fans, street doming, and an assortment of Jewelry. Anyming else you mghf need that can be commandoorod from state supply rooms, such as stationary and office supples, janitorial supples such as foundry soap, furniture pofoh. or anything esc they may stock, can bo purchased for a retet?.©!/ small fee. If the state uses f.. < can bo bought cn tho black market. Weapons, of course, aro always available. They will be homemade knives constructed from a shaft or flat piece of steel, sharpened well enough to pass easily through skin and dothing. For those who prefer a tluot s tri tong instrument pipes may be purchased for a lesser fee. end In all mapr institutions, at toast a couple of tomales will be to the business of manufacturing weapons.*
In the free word. a man faced with... provocation can g&l another job. find another place to socalzo or pursue recreational Interests, and in severe cases, relocate his place of roskferc©. Even if Itofte Of thflSO remedial actions aro fcosblo. ho can stil find al least temporary sanctuary from th© frustrations by simply going lor a walk or a ride. In prison, there are no such options.*
The constant and unending growth of the prison popUafon has caused the by-product of dcubto bunking in coils which were designed for singTe occupancy, thereby Intensifying tho already violent atmosphere. An area an Inmate onco shared with 100 man must be shared with 150 or 200 men; more people, more personalty traits, and an increased proximity of visual, auditory, and corloct. With all the other stresses, of prison firing, the last thing an Inmate needs to to have what he consdors a detestable person within constant range of hs everyday perception, and Ihis is where Interpersonal stole ard hostllbcs begin, and where prison administrations fwl to control tho environment they have created.'
A slaggoring percentage of prisoners walk w«h an exaggerated swagger to projoct a tough guy image, comparable to a schoolyard bully. They talk toudy at inappropriate times, dam to have had material possessions mat wr.ro obvlcusty bayord th*r means, profess to have kixiwtedgn or expor-oncc with sub<octs tlwy are Inoapabta c4 comprehending, nrd aro boisterous, overbearing, inconsiderate, and live wkh a near total disregard for tho rights and feelings of others, though less often delberately than unccnsocusy. They are unable to dsccm what is and what Is not appeopnate behavior, and are unccncomed whether (X not their conduct Is dsturbng tho people to the immediate vicinity.
Chapters todude:« Pcr*er Structures • Tho Prison Experience: Day Ono to Day Ninety • Isoia’.on and Sogrcgabon Units • Programs and Recreation • The Internal Legation Process ♦ Interpersonal Aspects of Prison Lite • Our Present. Our FtAire ♦ And FAora.
Surviving In Prison is mixh mere than tho story of how priions work and where tFwy fan It is tho truo account of one man’s stnjpglo to preserve some shred of dignify that ho can us© to build a new Ife... II only he can sunwo.
1990, SYi x 11, 123pp, sort cover.
SURVIVING IN PRISON: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40070)
ESPIONAGE: DOWN AND DIRTY
by Tony Lesee
In the murky world of
the spy. harcPy anything is
as it soems. There are
secrets. false ktentittos,
cover storfes. Iles,
evasions, denials, and a
nerve-racking atmosphere
of conspiracy. For some
people, this world is
attractive. it’s also
dangerous.
Espionage: Down and
Dirty is a dizzying ride
through decates ol lies so
wild you! wonder if eren
the people st the top know
what's going on. It shows
how spies are recruited,
trained and deployed. It
shows how they got pad:
sometimes wXh money,
sometimes with sex.
sometimes with their own fives. And it shows what happens when they
are discovered.
Throughout this book, youll read about the experts of the most
notcctaus spies in recent history. • The Walker Spy Ring • British
teubie-agent KJm Phitry • The ’Falcon’ ard the ’Snowman’ • Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg • The Pollard Case • Retard Miter, the spy to tha
FBI • And dozens of others.
Chapters include:« Esponage Goals • Tho Spy n Fiction • Motives
♦ Recruiting Spies • Infiltration — Spying on Alfos • Evacuation • The
Lettat Pit • Security • Ccunter-Esponage • The Spy Who Gets Caught
• And more.
Spying b not the gtanwws. g^et-and-tfri-fiited profwfon
portrayed in James Bond movies. But there is plenty of mystery, danger
and intrigue In the wurtd of the spy. If you want io know what it's rnrJy
like, then go undercover with us. You’J bo fosonatod by what you find.
1991, 5M x 8*4, 174 pp, piossary, toft cover.
ESPIONAGE: DOWN AND DIRTY: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55083)
YOU CAN’T WIN
The Autobiography of Jack Black
A professional criminal operating in ths years arourd the turn of the century. Jack Black's life spans a forgotten era of American history lodged semewhoro between tho Wi'd West and the Birth of Ite lAnlropolc. From Iha main stem of tho Barbary Coast lo the hoosegows ci Salt Lake City into opon boxcars on tho Montana plains, this spirited mamair takes the reader cn an unftxgollabta journey into the hobo underworld.
Jack Black says. ’Boicco my twentieth birthday. I was in the dock Of a crimnal court, on trial for burglary... Al twenty-five I was an expert house burglar, a nighttime prowtar. carefully choosing only the best tomes — homes of the weattiy, careless. Insured peepte... At thirty I was a respnetod member of the 'yegg' brotherhood, a thief... silent, secretive. wary: always a night 'worker? ..At forty I found myseff a solitary, capable pumayrr-in highwayman; an escaped convict, a fugitive, with a background cf twenty fivo years in tho underworid.-
Black's world of yeOQ9. (W ca’¿. and bndle-stiff ccnvnntbns is a grand vistan of our mythta heritage. You Can't Win Is a tost classic of American rood literature.
T926, 5x8, 404pp, softcover.
YOU CANT WIN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40073)
DEFEATING INDUSTRIAL SPIES
by Duncan Long
It’s good business to know what the
competition is up lo. Some poopta take Site
jeb a littlo too seriously, though. They'd do
just abcut anythng to destroy their
competitors. And thn/d pay gocd mancy to
find facts Ike these: • Logai and fmanbal
problems you're lao’ng • Who your
customers are end how rruch they buy •
Any variations of government rogU.i*Jons or
cedes • The ccntcnts ol your secret
(ormujs • What new products ycu hove in
the works
If this Infcrmattan is valuable lo
competitors. Investors, omptoyoos or
ochers, chances ere tha/re tryng lo gather
it. It ced'd be as simple as wading through
the trash, as hlgh-toch as using a ’laser
Ustonor* to eavesdrop on critical conversations. Defeating Industrial Spies shows haw to protect tho confidentiality of your operations. It COVQn en’ery aspect of information security, physical plant, employees, guards, ccmpiZors, bugs and wiretaps, and much more.
Chapters include: • Who Spies, and Why? • Low-Tech Spyng • Computer Security • Ctosed Circufi TV • Night Vision Oovicos • Buggng ard Wiretopping • Cameras, Toto scopes and Satotitcs • And More.
II it soems your competitors are reading you Ike an open book, maybe ycu ought to do a Ittta rearing yourself...
1991, SHx3H, 13Spp, aiust/atcd, soft cover DEFEATING INDUSTRIAL SPIES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55086)
I CRIED, YOU DIDNT LISTEN
A Survivor’s Expose of
the California Youth Authority
by Dwight Edgar Abbott with Jack Carter
Dwght Edgar Abbott e ano of tho Irrodoamab'o. 14o has robbed, raped and kiltod. Twin lightning tons lattoood on his neck confirm h’s cno-lirno merrbershp in Iha Aryan Brotherhood, the natoricus while supremacist prison gang. / Cried, You Didn't Listen a Abbctfs unlccgotlabta chronkta of his dark trip through juvcnic penal Institutions. Abbott reveals how children aro forcod Io maim and sometimes kil in order to avoid sexual dagradaticn, bow certain cpportunislk: counselors practice absoluto power an their wards, and the constant rccndc'ay of sexual and physical violence that is overlooked or encouraged by staff. With sensithty and emotional po^r. Abbott demonstrates how those appallng abuses corrupt contused and bvtfess chidrcn. creating a cycle of criminal bohavicc that usually ends in prison or death.
Dw^EoborAtoM'l was sent to Los Ango'es County Ju.enile Hall after my parents wore seriously injured in an accident. I was placed in a dormitory with other young children, rangng In age frem 7 Io 17. Many of those chldren wore there bo-cause ot broken tamiles, others because they were criminals... Durng the tour months I was al jurenito hal. I expehsneed my first physical beating, my first sexual rrotostaben. my first placement in solitary conlleerrent. and I watched. tor tho first time, an act of brutal rape. Curing mis same period. I also corrmlttod my first vfttent act. My victim nearly dOd. Now. rearty 50. with most of my (latest! sentence for assault behind me. I write my sicry with the hope that young people In troutre or headed that way might be saved from what awreis them behnd the doors of America's jurenllo panal system. This abuse comes not only from the children’s poors but from lie peep’e whom society has entrusted with mo chldron’s welfare. These chFdren win oventuady respond to their pan by stealing, raping and muttering.’
/ Cried, You Didn't Listen wen a Project Cer^ored award in Its first scrialiralhn. an award given to significant but underreported stories in Iha mass media.
1991, S>i xSíi, 190pp, tCustrsted, softcover.
I CRIED. YOU DIDN’T LISTEN: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40074)
THE 211 BOOK
Armed Robbery Investigation
by Burt Rapp
This book Is for potice officers and civilians air<o. It to an investigatory gads and practical manual for the poles officer working a rebbery tovos ligation and its follow-up. For the civilian, it provides a corrprohcnsn'o working knowledge c/ how police officers conduct robbery investigations. Very importantly. it provides a basis for apprising tho chances of survrring tho armed robbery, ate recovering too stolon property. Topics covered indude:
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Planning and Executing Robberies: How Armed Robbers Choose
Thor Targets
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How an officer should approach a “211' In progress
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How to ’contain* live scene and prevent a suspects escape
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How to color a baking when armed robbers are inside
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When an oti-duty officer should intervene tn an armed robbery — and when bo shouldn't
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A complete checklist for a robbery report
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Working tho crimo see no: vshen x> go by the beck — and when not to
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Gathering fingerprints and otter pfysk^ eteerce
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Why armed robbers will slay away from a victim they know has a gun
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Preventing and coping with robbery — tho most effective countermeasures you can take
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Pro-Active measures: going beyend normal erme provonion ate aggressively seeking oiZ perpetrators
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Tho man advantage of in-house security over armed guard scrvlcos
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Usa of docoys ate stake-cut teams: important points to consider
bolero thor emptoymeiU
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And much, much more.
The 211 Bookte tte finest text on armed robbery Investigation aver printed — police officers ate ctviians alko w'U prof?, from it.
1SW.5H x5Ht 175pp, Nvstratod. softcover.
THE 211 BOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40059)
SHOPLIFTING
AND
EMPLOYEE THEFT
investigation
SHOPLIFTING AND EMPLOYEE
THEFT INVESTIGATION
by Burt Rapp
Shcplfcng has existed for centuries — for as long as ttere have been steps. This took is for tte reCarer who go cutely wants to cut hto losses from shcplfttog ate errptoyee theft. It to also for tte socuncy manager whose task to to reduce Ns employers lesser,. Ate It to a practical gukte for the security guard, the lowest person down the security line, who le at the ctrtog edge- This book will teto him to tho performance d his duties.
Topes covered in depth tocAxfe:
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Relal Profits and losses.
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Why Peopte Steal.
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Steplifter Types: Amateurs and Pros.
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Steplitters: Tools ate Techniques.
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Eye-oponng excerpts from a training manual for shepiftars which originated wth a Calfomia gang.
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Employee theft. Employees steal mere titan shoplifters. How they do it — more than 12 different methods.
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How to make an arrest of a shoplifter.
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lArrors. ’cccps.’ ate dosed-circut TV — which are best for you?
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The law and 1ho Security Officer. What private security personnel can do that the poilco can’t.
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Hrtng ate screening practices to avoid omptoyoo IhofL
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How to train pri vato security officers.
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The Shoplifter Pro&o: Nno things to watch out for.
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Design ng a modern security system — whst you note to knew.
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Ate much, much more.
Shoplifting find Employee Theft investigation is must reading for anyone Interested In thto very common area of modem crime.
1949, M xW, 1T2pp, Utertreted, softcover.
SHOPLIFTING AND EMPLOYEE
THEFT INVESTIGATION: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40C61 )
THE RIP-OFF BOOK
Tho Complete Guide to Frauds,
Con Games, Swindles, and Rackets
by Victor Santoro
commcn Io all con games •
This is Ito single finest bcok ever
written (Xi Ibu subject cl frauds and
con games. It gees into vast data I cn
what frauds arc. haw they work, and
why we arc vulnerable to Item. Ard
unIke Otter becks, it even tells ycu
tow to strike back it ycu have been
victimized by a rip-olf.
Contents of this amazing book
toCkMfc: • Why crime pays for the
fraud artist • How con men stay one
step ahead of the law • Why police
and prosecutors often will no! bring
ctiarpas against fraud artists • Where
fraud overlaps legitimate business
practices — wham do you draw Jie
line? • Six reasons why criminals
choose frauds over other crimes •
Anatomy oi a fraud — sU efoments
Cfassc Swinctes — new wrinkles on
•elder, but gcodics’ — some ere over one hundred years dd. but are still claiming victims todayl • Frauds against small buaicossos — wtol lo watch out lor • Cons that can be worked co your relatives while you’re out of town • •Ronumerectorr.es’ ard other lieafci frauds • I few con men can find cut your unlisted telephone number • FAall fraud —
more popular naw than ever • Frauds involving sex — tow they operate and tow thoy pct away with it • Real estate frauds and land swindles — Still around 1cd3y • How your Stock broker can rip yvu off — legally • Frauds invoking die tekspheno • And much, much more, nobdng haw to strke heck if you have been victinwed. a glossary of terms, and much more ’
The Rip-Off Book 4 a virtual encyclopedia cf frauds, con games, ard swindles! Both law enforcement odtoers and private citizens will benefit from the rp-otts exposed by Santoro. Highly recommended.
IMS, 5H x 8H. 200pp, soft cover.
THE RIP-OFF BOOK: $12.95
CORDER NUMBER 40033)
INTERROGATION
A Complete Manual
by Burt Rapp
k complete manual co interrogation — includng haw Io survive Mviyinlerrogaled? .
Contents inctode: • Tto history of interrogation • Moda myths about interrogation • The basics of effective Interrogaton • Peyctobgical factors • Tho nine qualties a successful Interviewer should have • Lies, white fas. haV- InZhs and omissions • Verbal indicators Itoi a perron is lying • Body language as an anddMor of guilt • Choosing the bust tocale for an rilerrogalicn • Row to establish rapped with a subject • How to get around tho requirement of the Mranda Warning • Confessions, what realy toppens • Examination and cross-examination • Using deception to gel a confession • Tlyj truth about Lie Detectors • Truth Scrum and other drugs • Torture and the Thrd Degree • The Gestapo and other secret pofice • Soviet interrogation and Brainwashing • Why interrogations fail • What to do if you are being interrogated • And much, much more.
interrogation: A Complete Manual is an exccltont gukfe to evorythng you ever wanted to knaw about the subject tut ddnl know ha* to ask.
19S7, SH x8X. 230pp, tPustnted, soft cover.
INTERROGATION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58047)
NIGHTMARE ABROAD
Stories of Americans Imprisoned in Foreign Lands
by Peter Laufer
You are a law-abiding citizen, so you won’t bo arrested cn your overseas vacation. You are a US ccizen. so oven if you are arrested, your government wil como lo your aid Rigfrit? Wrong* Peter Lauter explodes these ccrnmcn misconceptions in Ns eye-opening study of how Americans eixl up imprisoned abroad, why out government tops so little, ard how lo avoid disaster n foreign travel.
Thousands of Americans arc currently mpnsonrxl overseas To research Nightmare Abroad. Laufer Iravetod around tho world, stepping in 21 countries to vis* imprisoned Americans, who aro often hold without trial. Desp4to resistance from most foreign piters and even seme US Consular officials, he managed to tour jails and tak with American prisoners, interview US and foreign government officials, ard meet Americans now released from custody. Condilicns ranged from hccnbta filth in a Pakistani prison lo ths comfort of a modem Canadian jai to a Mexican prison community where money ccuM buy Just about anything. Prisoners included middle class vacallçnçrç, Intefn^on# Vt^nessmen, and young Americans touring tho world.
Laufer explores the cUBural msuncferstandlngs that land Americans in jaf. A woman accepts a curto In Turkey to gal rid of a street SOîer and is arrested 1er smuggling antiqutes. A Ixislnoss-wornan in Nigeria finds her dcalngs have been made iDegal retroocthtely, and she faces a death sentence. Two young men m PakeUan aro convicted of bank robber)' and sentenced lo have their hand; and feel cut oft.
Despite the often hcrnbte situations In which Americans are confined. Lairier finds many inspirational tales of perseverance h the tacs of adversity. The took is a compendium of real-life drama from around tho world.
1993. 6x9,207pp, iHustratod, hardcover.
NIGHTMARE ABROAD: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99090)
FRAUDS, RIP-OFFS AND CON GAMES
by Victor Santoro
Victor Santoro Is back with another
fine book on Frauds;, Rip-Offs And Con
Games Cedents Include: • The Dirty
White Cofiar • Securtfiss Swindles and
Theft
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Tho ’Tcrhble WJIInmsons' • The
Gypsies: Criminal Lric^ies •
Restaurant Scams • Cmdrt Cards: Cons
□rd Catches • ’Financial Ptennars’ •
Intoloctual Fads: Soling Counterfeit
Ideas ♦ Coat-Tailing • Fraud Salad: An
Assortment o4 Con Games • And
much, much more.
The woods am full of wo.\res — don’t
be a sheep! Learn all about Frauds,
Rip-Offs And Con Games from tNs exciting tock.
1SSS. 5H xBh. fSSpp, softcover.
FRAUDS. RIP-OFFS AND CON GAMES: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 49021)
AMERICA’S LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS
True talcs of would-be outlaws who have
botched, and otherwise haplessly but
hilariously fumbled their crimes
by Chuck Shepherd
Crime (Mrittoty deeyrt to pay for such lunkheaded lawbreakers as: • The bursar caught red-hanefed by a returning homeowner because he hod booomn entranced playing with the owner*? vtooo gam© in midcrimo • The suspect to a sono? of vending-machine robberies who posted ha $400 boi usng a sackful ol quarters • The two criminals who Sod on tool from tho palico and hopped a barbed wire fence — right into a yard of San Quentin priacn • The rran who reported to security guards al a resect that someone had stolen S1.CO3 north of cocaine from his room • Ard much, much more.
With over 200 true stories. America's Least Competent Criminals scoffs al woufd-bti scofflaws and mcrcitassly mocks America's most moronic criminals. From burglars who forget their disguises to robbers who shoot themselves to crimnafs who get stuck al the scene of tbs crime and thfevee ho graduated from the TIyw Sieves School 01 Burglary whatever Iha crime may be. Chude Shepherd relates tales that wil licklo your funny fcono er leave you sfack-jawod -and wondering. What was that person thanking?
1993, 5 xB, 149pp. Nostra fed. softcover.
AMERICA'S LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 4O3B1)
COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME
US Army Military Police School
This manual wse prepared for toe exdusto use of the US Army Central inteiigctoce DMston. it provides exploit details cn haw computer crime to perpetrated, how to (toiect it. and hew to prevent n. AU me modem lechniQjes of criminal computer activity are doftcribed in this tx>ck:
♦ Cota Dklding (Altering xMccmabon before or during input) ♦ Trojan horse (secretly embedding instructions in a computer program) • Salami techniques (stealing small amounts from a largo number ci accounts) • Superzappng (ushg a 'master-key* uliity program to override normal access restrictions) • Trap doors (gaining unautitorized eocess through a ’hole' in the program) • Logo borhbs (destructive programs that lie waiting to be triggered) • Asynchronous attacks (taking advantage of tho ways computers organize their tasks) • Scavenging (gathering up valuable crumbs left Oy careless computer user?) • Date Iwkage (stealing data in various forms) • Pigg’/backlng & impersonation (unauthorized use of someone eise's compuicr or passwords) • Wretapping (Mealrvj date as 4 is sent over the phone inns or no airwaves) • Srm/atton (using computers to plan other cr.mcs) ♦ And more.
CompufcrdJelated Crime is wntten n common language, with p'onty ol examples, charts and ttustralbns Io clarify tho text For each type of crime, you team who too aktfy culprit? are. methods tor catching thorn, and what evidence you need to prer.-a your case.
1990, SH X11, 79pp. Nostra ted. glossary. softcover.
COMPUTER-RELATED CRIME: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40064)
DIRTY TRICKS COPS USE
(And Why They Use Them)
by Bart Rommel
They make DWy Hwy took Oke Mr.
Ctoan.
M you think Rodney King had it
rough, you am't $eon nothin’ yell Getta
load ol these Dirty Tricks Cops Use
to boat ton 'bad guys":
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A cop plants drugs on a private
pfianc. then seizes the piano for
polkx? department use. -
A cop mace on a suspect's
car seat. After a few minutes of
driving, the suspects crotch and
rear burn Ike lire. -
Pole© leave blank tape at live
beginning of an illegal interroga-
tion. mon go bock and record
themselves reading tho suspocl
his rights. -
How cops use stunguns Io torture
suspects w.thcul leaving marks. -
I low vigilante cops conduct an 'execution.*
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How cops act/ drugs to confiscated evidence to increase toe charge
frem a misdemeanor to a felony. -
How ccps atari gang wars to thin out street loughs.
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And mush more, including iiegai wiretapa, using snitches, pelting
search warran to without prebabto cause, and keeping confiscated
drugs, txms. a rd cash to pay for drty business'
These cops say the taw is stacked in favor of toe 'bed guys.’ and
thci/re Just out to oven the score. ¡1 you want to know how the 'juries*
system rooky wo rks. ycu must read tils shocking book.
1993. 54 x 84, 158 pp, indexed, sort cover.
DIRTY TRICKS COPS USE: $14.96
(ORDER NUMBER M084)
Price
S = legitinatc supply
of an iten
S’ ■ stolen supply of
the iten
BLACK MARKET OPERATIONS
Marketing Theory
and the Fencing of Stolen Goods
This book takes you behnd tho scones tor a fascinating tock at an actual ¿legal market in operation: toe traffic In stolen goods. Principles covered Irckxfo
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How are stolen goods traded?
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How are prices sot to the black market?
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What factors must be oonsldared In arriving a1 a black market product mix?
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How doer, the fence mafch tho demand and supply of stolen goods?
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How is demand tor stolen merchandise st mid Aled?
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What ara the mofzes and hab to of Sidon gacds consumers?
AS those questions and many more are answered in tie pages of Black Market Operations: Marketing Theory and The Fencing of Stolen Goods. The authors do not engage in moral denurtóátbns. Instead, they lake an economic approach in dealing with tie practical prebtoms of prkirvg. marketing, dstritutkm, storage, and cCbcr business aspects of dealing in stolen property.
1971, 5~Jix8Ji. 102 pp, charts end graphs, softcover.
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Online with the Super Hacker
© 1993 by Michael E. Marotta
(mercury @well.sf.ca.us)
He calls himself ’The Knightmare." He is one of a new breed of computer security crackers. He hasn’t read / lackers by Steven Levy or Tracy Kidder's The Souf of a Neu? Machine. He doesn’t particularly like Chinese food and doesn’t know too much about old technology. He hasn’t read any books by William Gibson and he liasn’t seen Sneakers or Lawnmower Man. But he can break into a computer system and find out anything he wants to know.
He calls himself "The Knightmarc."
He is one of the new breed of com-
puter security crackers. He can break
into a computer system and find out
anything he wants to know.
We never met. Fve never seen him. We exchanged e- mall. Our conversation took six days. My 1000-byte questions were answered with 10K responses. 1 used a local commercial site on the Internet while he came to me from an Ivy League school. Proves nothing. There’s even an Internet node in Antarctica now. He could be anyone, anywhere.
He first used a computer in the fifth grade. ‘That’s when 1 became a computer hacker," he wrote. "I’ve been a hacker all my fife, of course.’ Today, he programs in C, C++ and Basic on an IBM PS/1 and a laptop.
I asked him about changes in computer technology.
Pie GUI (Graphical User Interface) has had te main effects: It has made it easier for anyone to use a computer and it has made it harder for hackers to get around. With a GUI, you use a mouse to point and click at something. If a command isn’t allowed, there is no way to call It. You can’t hack them.
I could almost hear The Knighlmare’s key’s clacking. "Did somebody say ’can’t? ’You can't do that? That’s what the hacker thrives on! If there’s no immediate access to a command system, perhaps there’s an account that allows such access. If not that, there will be hackers who will get in touch with the people who work at the company, or get a Job there themselves.’
mercury: *1 collect old computer stuff. I have a Scientific American from 1949, conference proceedings from 1962...’
The Knightmare: ’I collect useful stuff that I’ve found in the trash (and through other sources). 1 have a huge collection of security manuals, including a very nice set from AT&T. 1 also have various electronic components, printouts, disks, tapes, microfiche, books, and In-house journals and directories. Most of this stuff has been useful In one way or another, sometimes offering means to a hack; other times, in other ways.’
One of the ways it was useful was that it lead him to write Secrets of a Super Hacker for Lcompanics. It took him a year to gather his thoughts and a summer to 1
put them out via WordPerfect for Windows. The book is written in colloquial American, just the way a smart person would talk. Bill Landreth's Out of the Inner Circle and the movie IVarGames typified the 1980$. This book will Join the movie Sneakers In defining the 1990s.
I Ie says that his handle doesn't mean anything to him, that he made it up to play a computer game ard that he can't understand why people confuse him with Craig Neldorf who Is known as Knight Lightning.
If everyone in the world were hackers in the broadest sense, we'd be more independent, more curious, and more concerned with the world — because we would realize what control we individuals cara have over it.
mercury: “What would the world be like if everyone were like you?'
The Knightmare: *1 don't think I'm doing anything bad; 1 really don't. And I have a high sense of moral values. I’m not an 'anarchist techno-guerrilla,’ and I'm not recommending nor suggesting nor teaching that behavior. If everyone in the world were hackers in the broadest sense, we'd be more Independent, more curious, and more concerned with the world — because we would realize what control we individuals can have over it. But I'm talking about people who hack responsibly. If people start World War III or insert your favorite hacker horror story... then obviously we've got problems.
mercury: 'Loompanics hired two different data processing professionals to review the manuscript for technical accuracy. What was the result of that?’
The Knightmare: "A good number of comments, questions, and concerns came up. UsuaDy things were added to the text, to make it easier to understand. 1 think it was very helpful to hear outside comments, because it made the book a better book.”
He denies being an anarchist techno-guerrilla but he calls Vice President AJ Gore's proposed NREN data superhighway a ’sham... just one more instance of government trying to control every facet of our lives.... People all over the world are exchanging information, and the government Is pissed because they don't have tire ability to regulate it. infiltrate it. intercept it, and promulgate their own fabrications. ...There are plenty of CIA and NS A thugs sitting around In leather chairs somewhere, mastur
bating to tire thought of complete and total access to every electronic transmission nationwide."
Yet, that description applies to hackers, as well. It seems that what we have is an open competition for access to information. Call it ’Spy vs Spy" or 'Pudknocker vs Pudknocker.*
mercury: "What do you see as a Good Hack in the year 2001? When the Net carries video and voice along with data, what opportunities open up for hackers?'
The Knightmare: '1 think satellite-based technologies will take over those sorts of roles long before corporations and government can agree on NREN and video transmission protocols and how many secret police they'll need to govern the highway. 1 don't think the technology changes the way hackers work, but it changes what they will work on."
Joseph Weizenbaum is one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, a pursuit he all but renounced. The Knightmare has never read Computer Power and Human Rea- son and so he falls right Into the pits marked by Welzen- baum. According to The Knightmare, The hacker believes he has the right to be God over other people's worlds. Your passions supply your life algorithms. The photographer mentally clicks some snapshots. I look at a lot of life events AS IF THEY WERE PROGRAMS to be tweaked, poked at. the bugs removed. But 1 also see It from other perspectives as well."
Those other perspectives include playing piano and guitar. When he writes about music, it sounds like when he writes about hacking.
There are plenty of CIA and NSA thugs sitting around in leather chairs masturbating to the thought of complete and total access to every electronic transmission nationwide.
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The Knightmare: "I compose in my head. Sometimes I’ll just be driving or in the shower or something, and a ’song phrase' will pop into my head. 1 don't know if that’s a real concept, but I define a song phrase as a bit of lyrics and music that works together perfectly. 1 sing the phrase so I don't forget It. and I add on a second phrase or two. Usually 1 get a couple lines and then I'm stuck. 1 repeat (hose constantly so I don't forget... (man, I reaDy should practice notation)... then one day I do for gel what I've written. But the next morning I wake up and the song is just pouncing through my brain. And it just flows cut. I write down the lyrics, sing the song, and
its mine. As I keep singing it and thinking about the finished song, I begin to learn things like how the bass fine should play, and different ways to add newness to the song."
On the matter of right and wrong, he concedes that ocher hackers "will give you any sort of argument to ted you that what they're doing is okay. Perhaps we're doing it hecouse it's wrong." Arxl yet he backpedals, claiming to be introspective and moral. For The Knightmare, nWralily is not damaging the system you have just broken into. This is. in fact, in line with the ’classical tradition' of hacking.
According to The Knightmare, ’Design Is rules. Design is thinking. I don't want to be bothered with pre-planning and pre-design. I want action and 1 want it now.” (I !e also hasn't read Atlas Shrugged.) This underscores live preference that hackers have for absurdly powerful handles like Doktor Deth and The Grim Reaper. Hackers are in fact nerds. It’s just that they« are seldom constrained by any pretense of morality. Cyberspace is a new world and in it the hacker is a datalord, a baudrate barbarian who takes what he wants.
The Knightmare: T always stumble across little leads and ideas to get into systems, Eke maybe 1 wake up one day and realize I've never broken into the New York Stock Exchange computer system. So my goal for the day becomes. break into NYSE.' In short, I hack a particular system because I seek an experience I’ve never had before.”
mercury: Ts there some way that finding the New York Stock Exchange computer network is like writing a fortune cookie program in 20 bytes?*
The Knightmare: ’A person who writes tight code has much in common with a person who breaks into computers, but there is a big difference too, sure. We can call both people 'hackers.* and they’ll be happy you called them that. All hacking, no matter if it's good or bad. hacking or cracking, ad hacking is connected in that regard."
The Knightmare wants people to leam from him how to break into systems. Then they can understand how to protect their own. He Intended his work to start from the wrong side of the law. He knows that his Secrets of a Super Hacker is "a really great book’ because it includes anecdotes that reveal what's beneath the surface, the unseen. and because it provides "the resources to continue on your own after the book is over."
The Knightmare's first hack involved guessing a password by looking around a grown-up’s office, seeing a calendar with boats on It and trying BOAT. He prides himself on his empathic ability to put himself in your shoes and
feel what was going through your mind at the time. Silly as this sounds at first, it Is indeed the intuition that deftly turns a genius onto the correct track of an Investigation.
He flatly denies relying on the grinding trial-and-error described in The Cuckoo's Egg and Cyberpunk. At one point he intenupts himself In Heu of interrupting me — a quirk of working via email, where immediacy is lost. He emphatically denies once more ever relying on repetitious trial and error. Then he denies the denial.
mercury: 'You deny relying on the grinding repetition of trial and error so Stereotypical of hackers.’
The Knightmare: ’No I don't! I don't deny that at all! Sometimes it is necessary to repeatedly try things until something finally works. ... And some of them might have to be repetitions themselves. We try not to do that. You're right, traditionally we think of hackers grinding away at the computer. But look, part of being a hacker is that you want to use the computer in the fastest, mast efficient way possible; like you said, generating a small program was your favorite hack. Efficiency in action is as stereotypical as its opposite that you mention."
mercury: *Would you call hacking an art?’
The Knightmare: "No. I wouldn't call it an art unless the hacker wants to call some growth of hb hacking ’art/”
mercury: "Do you see a future for hacking?"
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You don't know if you can break into the system until you try! That means there will always be systems to hack, and there will always be hackers to try their hands at hacking those systems."
\_______________________________________________
The Knightmare: ’Sure. Maybe it won't be computers. Edison hacked the l^ht bulb, and aren't you glad he did? There's always something to hack. Sometimes there's something new."
mercury: "Your book is going to wake up a lot of people. Would you say that after 1995, any system you can break into isn't worth breaking into?"
The Knightmare: "But you don't know if you can break into the system until you try! That means there will always be systems to hack, and there will always be hackers to try their hands at hacking those systems." ♦
Secrets Of A SUPER HACKER
by The Knightmare
The Knight-
mare is the sort
of Super Hacker
who keeps se-
curity guards from
sleeping at night.
He's not mo-
tivated by money
or malice. He's in
it for the hack. If
your computer
has any link what-
soever to the out-
side world, there
is no question
The Knightmare
can break in; the
only question is
whether he wants
to.
Secrets Of A Super Hacker is an extraordinary manual on the methods of hacking. Here are some of the techniques covered in this data-devouring dossier:
Brute Force Attacks: Hurling passwords at a system until It cracks.
Social Engineering and Reverse Social Engineering: Seducing legitimate users into revealing their passwords.
Spoofing: Designing dummy screens; delivering fake e-mail.
Superuser Abuser: How to get system managers to do your dirty work for you!
Screen Stealing: How to secretly record every image that appears on a computer screen.
Data Delivery: How to hide the information you've collected; How to e-mail it to your computer.
Stair Stepping: How to use a low-level account to gain ever-higher levels of access.
And Much Morel Including a brief history of hacking, lists of likely passwords, and a summary of computer crime laws and a glossary.
In precise step-by-step detail, The Knightmare guides you through what you should know before the hack, and how to research your target. Then he guides you through the hack, including public access computers and terminals, on-site hacking (the trespasserhacker) and hacking at home, as well as computer bulletin boards, and what to do once you are inside.
Perhaps the most important chapter of all is Hacker Security: How to Keep from Getting Caught. Here, The Knightmare reveals how to keep from getting caught in researching, how to keep from getting caught in social engineering, dialing in, laptop hints, your on-the-road kit, system tiptoeing, BBS protection, other on-line security tips, security logs, and much, much more.
The Knightmare also goes into The Hacker's Ethic. Some Thoughts to the Concerned Administrator, Some Thoughts to the Concerned Hacker, and more.
The Super Hacker reveals all his secrets: Trojan Horses, Viruses, Worms, Trap Doors and Dummy Accounts. Thes how-to text is highlighted with bare-knuckles tales of some of The Knightmare’s own actual hacks, including on-site hacking, remote-access hacking and bulletin board busting.
From trio Introduction by Gareth Branwym '‘The Knightmare" presents his complex view of hacking in Secrets Of A Superhacker. In this classic hacker cookbook, the author has gone to great pains to explain the massive width and breadth of hacking, cracking, and computer security. With Sherlock Holmes-like compulsion and attention to detail, he presents the history of hacking, the how-to of hacking, the legal and ethical issues surrounding hacking, and his own personal reasons for hacking. Numerous examples and 'amazing hacker tales' take the reader inside each level of the hack. Reading Secrets will change the way you look at computers and computer security. It has already been very valuable to me. I am a smarter computer/net user now and much more attuned to computer security. ...In the true spirit of freedom of information, Secrets Of A Super Hacker is being made available to anyone who cares to read it. It is my hope that it will keep the debate alive and that those who make use of its privileged information will do so responsibly and without malice."
No system can withstand the ingenious, unrelenting assaults of The Knightmare. And no person concerned with computers and computer security should miss this amazing manual of electronic mayhem.
Loompanics Unlimited Is very proud to offer our readers The Knightmare's Secrets Of A Super Hacker.
1994, SUx 11, 211 pp, Illustrated, softcover.
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SEDUCTIONS OF CRIME
Moral and Sensual Attractions In Doing Evil
by Jack Katz
in Seductions Of Crime,
Jack Katz asks a (feceptively
simple question: What are
people trying to do when tr»ey
commit crimes? His answers,
covering a range from
juzenile deinqusncy to the
most cokJ-tliXKfed murder,
prove the inadequacy of all
conventional explanations of
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brillaci took wB rovclutionrxo
ths ways wo think about
crime.
Como on. admit t: you
have felt the attractions of
•deviane* acts ard behavior.
Uany would argue that
impassioned murder, often
striong at doso Monds and
loved ones, must bo an act of
temporary Insanity. Not so.
argues Katz. who uncovers
noi only *s emotional logic, tut the special moral appeal or ’Righteous Slaughter.’
Shopiftng. burglary, and vandalism offer valuable rewards to the young, but the rewards. Katz demonstrates. are not the obvious material ones. Rather. "Sneaky Thrits* offer the adolescent a magical way of concealing and testing censored desires.
Persistent armed robbers know that their profits are often puny ard expect Io spend long periods in prison. The ’professional’ robber, however, is rot a cost-benefit accointant. but □ ’Hardman,’ caught up in the atùro cf Action. Chaos, ard Control. And finaiy. Katz mantans, ’eoH-bloodod. wnsoloss kilters’ Ika Gary Gilmore, far from beirvg insenscrfc to the sulfa rings of others, are procccupod with moral questions and seduced by the attractions of Primordial Evil.
Chapters includo: Righteous Slaughter • Sneaky Thrills ♦ Ways of the Badass ♦ Street Elites ♦ Ddng Stickup • Acton. Chaos, and Control: Persisting wdi Stickup • Of Hardmcn and 'Bad Niggers’: Gender and Ethnicity in the Background of Stckup • Primordial Evil: Sense and Dynamo in Cold-Blooded. Senseless' Murder • ard Seductions and Repulsions of Crime.
Seductions Of Crime explores the psycho and enters the soul of the criminal. This bonk is unfergattabte.
1988, 8x9, 377pp, indexed, hardcover.
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ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER SYSTEMS FRAUD
It can happen to you — your entire bank account draned by the blest nooviotent criminal to M the streets. That faceless person bahnd you al the Automatic Teller Machrie could actually be seeking clues to gan access to your money. Of that pleasant bank employee couXi be hatching a computerized plot to transfer thousands of your dollars to his account for a quick withdrawal and a quicker escape out of town.
This manual is the first in-dopeh look at this growing crime wave. The nature and extent of electronic banking fraud is examined, including scores of actual Indcfenls Involving lost or stolen ATM cards and wire transfer fraud Initialed by sharp financial swindlers.
Learn the facts before checks start bouncing!
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COMPUTER VIRUSES,
WORMS, DATA DIDDLERS,
KILLER PROGRAMS,
AND OTHER THREATS
TO YOUR SYSTEM
COMPUTER VIRUSES, WORMS,
DATA DIDDLERS, KILLER PROGRAMS,
AND OTHER THREATS TO YOUR SYSTEM
What They Are, How They Work, and How to
Defend Your PC, Mac or Mainframe
by John McAfee And Colin Hayes
Your computer system could bo contaminated right now, without your knowing it, by a rogue program that's reproducing and waiting Io spread to other victims via pheno inn or disk. Unless you've practiced the safe computing techniques, described In this amazing new book, you riak losing al your data at any time.
B you use shareware or a modem, share date with others or borrow dsks. you cotr-d become another victim of this electronic ptegue that is sweeping the nation — and the world.
CRAMMED WiTH PRACTICAL EXPLANATIONS AND ADVICE ♦ Actual descriptions of viruses
♦ The afferent kinds of viruses and herw the/ work — including authors source code samples of such Infamous strains as the Pakistani Brain ard the Alameda College viruses
♦ Worms. Trojan Horses. Logic Bombs. Trapdoors, and other threats to your system
♦ Who is a hkety target for attack?
♦ how viruses can Infect your system, even if you don’t exchange material with others
♦ How to defend against a virus attack
♦ How to detect and remove a virus
♦ Antidote software: what it ¿sard how «works
♦ Brand name reviews of the most effective antiviral programs
♦ Appendices on virus attack statistics and on testing ard implementing defensive software
♦ Glossary of viral terms
♦ And much, much morel
Whether you run a million-dollar mainframe, word process at homo, or don't even cjso a computer, ycuYc at risk from tho milions of virus Infections around tho word.
1989, SM x 8t4, 254pp, Hfuslrated, indexed, softcover.
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THE NEW HACKER'S DICTIONARY
Second Edition
Compiled by Eric S. Raymond
THE N¿E W
M3
>iC3«4 cálen
nSty I. 5Wc Jr.
If
ERIC S. RAYMOND
This is a humor-
cus anc handy gudo
to ths language of
computer hackers.
Hackers are pocplo
who spend their time
studying how Com-
puter systems work,
sometimes by trying
to break into them.
They have mapped
cut territories fix the
rest of us who foils**
them into the col ne
wodd. The New
Hacker's Dictionary
is an indispensable
ijjkJe to their lan-
guage. which ts no*
tho current vocabu-
lary c4 china com-
munlcatons.
Along with hun-
dreds of delirtoons.
The New Hecker's
Dictionary provdcs
the comptete etymol-
ogy of the words,
which themsohos
contain the history of hackers in cyborspocw. You’D loam about hacker grammar, usage and style, so you can commurrcalo cficcbvoly onlno. Some sample definitions:
ASCilftrt: The lino ad ot drawing diagrams using ASCH characters. Learn how to draw Baa Simpson, a cal or a 'Satanic co*.'
barfmsil: MUt'ple bourra messages aocumt/aling to the level of serious annoyance.
name To post an e-mail message intended to insult or pro- vqm. See a*»; ^me w.'
IMHO: AbbroZellon for 'In My Humb’e Opinion •
nastygram: An Item of e-mail that takes advantage ot m<sfea- lures or security hetes on the target system to do untoward things. See also 'shitogram/ 'letterbomb' and ’maibomt).'
phreaking: The art and science of cracking the phone network.
The New Hacker's Dictionary is an illustrated collection of slang terms used by various subetftures of computer hackers. While some technical material is included ter background flaw, it Is no« a technical dictionary; wfiai Is dbsenbed is tho language hackers use among themselves for fun. socal ccmmuncation and technical debate.
This new edition includes rrore than 200 new entries and revisions to more than 175 words from the previous edition. It is historically richer and more etymologcal.y correct than its predecessor. The murky origins of several important jargon terms have been clarified, overturning a few longstanding folk etymologies.
You will find The New Hacker's Dictionary to be a helpful guide and an enjoyable reference that you will use time and time again.
1093, 6x9, S29pp, iHustralcd, soft cover.
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by John Russell 3
H6<6 it £ — Everything yOu evef wanted Io know about how Io steal cars! Written try a private detective lor auto reposscssors. the standard methods cf entering and starting locked, keyless automDbies are gben. Closely guarded professional secrets cn>y known to a few — now revealed for >tx/lo use!
Includes! is information on: ■ basic tockzmilhing ■ pin tumbler system ■ side bar system ■ mpressioaing nto lock picking ■ vchicto entry ■ recovery methods for Ford and Chrysler ■ door lock removal ■ cutting keys by roaring tumblers ■ Feed locked ignition by-pass methods ■ Chrysler locked ignition by-pass methods ■ recovery methods lor GM. AM and Chrysler bit wheel ■ cutting keys by removing tumblers ■ reading ti>e tumbtars on tie GM door leek ■ reading tumblers cn American Motors door tocks ■ t/y- passing the locked Igniiton on GM. AM. and Chrysler tilt wheels ■ codes tor GM iry-out key sets ■ key cede Information ■ vehicle starting tips ■ seiing recovery services ■ tons ■ professional assoceltons ■ reference books and ottor roaring materials ■ and much more1
This tock has everything you need to be a PRO’
1070, SHxtH, Mpp, Muxtrxtrd, xof! cover.
INVOLUNTARY REPOSSESSION: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40031)
HOW TO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING
by Desert Publications
This Is the mark of a master locksmith. This manual will teach you al the skills necer>sary to tit keys to locks, without picking or removing the mechanism. SutyDcts covered include: Fitting bit keys; Filling Hat steel keys; Filling lover tumbler keys; Fining disc tumbler keys; Necessary tcote; Technques of obtaining impressions; and more. Very wei Unrated.
1975, 5HX SH, 28 pp, Rtostrxtcd, softCCVtr.
HOW TO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 5201$)
EXPEDIENT B & E
Tactics and Techniques for
Bypassing Alarms and Defeating Locks
by Carl Hammer
Well-executed breaking and entering operations arc of vital
Importance to the success of imefllgorce-galhoring missions and ether
secret warfare assignments. On the other hand, those that are lotted or.
worse yet. detected and exposed, can result in public humiliation and
will almost always have serious consequences.
The outcome of an entry operation depends on two iTportant factors:
tactics and techniques. The tactics used (what kind of rooonnatssanoo
wi« be done? will the entry be covert or overt?) doicrmino how the
operative conduct", tho oporaticn and avoids getting caught Thu
tochnques arc tho actuaJ methods used to bypass or defeat locks and
circumvent or counteract alarm systems.
Ths book Is the professional intruder's guide to avcidng faiuro. It
epens with a discussion of target roconnaissnncn ard planning for bc<h
covert and evert entry operations. What follows Is a thorough
examination of the various types of locks and alarms. instructions tor
improvising lock-picking fools, plus techniques for breaking nto cars,
opening file cabinets and desk drawers. cracking safes and
circumventing various types of alarms end sensors. Cari Hammer
covers the tricks of the irade in exhaustive detail, revealing tho most
eflectrro and up-to-date methods for eliminating a variety of obstacles in
the most expedient manner.
1992. 5H Jr 8H, 216pp, fffustnrfccf. soft cover.
EX PEDIENT BAE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52057)
SECURITY SYSTEMS SIMPLIFIED
Protecting Your Homo, Business,
and Car with State-of-the-Art Burglar Alarms
by Steve Hampton
Learn professional socrots of protecting
your valuables and loved ones with tliis
entcal analysis of modem intruder alarms.
Master locksmith and security specialist
Stave Hampton reveals:
• the drliororjce between amateur and
experienced burglars and tho best ways
io thwart both
-
Utie-known tricks Io improve tho security
cf the leeks cn your dnors and windows -
how to create a car r.rxxinty system that
wJI foil any pilot -
tho pros and cons o1 infrarod detectors.
ponmetor systems, microwave alarms, ultrasonic devices, proximity Electors and much mom.
Avoid becoming a vtoilm by discovering what security system is best for your needs.
1992, 6H Jr 8H, 123 pp, Wustrsfect, <cVT «w.
SECURITY SYSTEMS SIMPLIFIED: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52055)
COMBINATION LOCK PRINCIPLES
by Desert Publications
An excellent student manual that wMI serve as a foundation for all your studies cn combination locks. Ths manual is written ar curd tlrc peptfar Master 1500 combination padlock. Both tho Oder model and tho new improved version of this lock are covered.
These subjects are covered: The construction and names of parts; How to determine the combination by u^ng codo bcoks; Reading an open tock; Drilling; Openng using a special fully oxplamcd method of manipulation; and more.
The txx>k is well ifuslrated, wAh exploded views that fully explain how tho mechanism works.
1974, SH Jf 8H, 25 pp. Ntustratcd, soft cover.
COMBINATION LOCK PRINCIPLES: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52019)
THE GET OUT OF JAIL FREE BOOK
by Maxwell Hutchklnson
The Get Our or Jail
Free Book starts off with
an eyo-ope ring history of
recent escape attempts,
both successful and
unsuccessful You wJI bo
amazed by the cons m
West Virgins who used
their pbs in the prison
greenhouse to dig their way
to freedom. Ar»d ycull burst
out laughing at toss-
than-brilliant con who
escaped from a maximum
security prison, only to bo
recaptured for a parking
violation.
Maxwell Hutoldenscn
analyzes each escape to
see what wont right and
what want wrong. Youll
watch oons try anything to
get over the well, under the
wat or through the war You! bo stunned at how simple some escapes are, and even more stunned at how simple-minded some of the attempts are.
Beyond the entertariing case histories. The Get Out Of Jail Free Bookwro&L all the tricks for escaping ard staying free. In iluslrated detai. the author explains how inmates get contraband such as kn?/es, guns, explosives and money. Ho shows how they create dr/ersions and make their escapes. And ho shows what tho successful few must do to Stay free. Chapters induda: • A Test of Wil • Ccnfodoratos • Some Recent Escapo Attempts • Obtaining Contraband • Physical Fitness • Breaking Loase • Cuttirg the Trail • Disguise • Sabotego • V/oapons • Putting It All Togetter • And more.
If you enjoy reading about breathtaking escapes, or if you wonder how you might get out of a light spot, then try The Got Out Of JeU Free Book. But bo warned: Once you start rearing, it will bo impossible to break looso from this book!
1992, 5H Jt 3ti, 92pp, Utuatrsted, soft cover.
THE GET OUT OF JAIL FREE BOOK: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40076)
LOCK OUT
Techniques of Forced Entry
by Desert Publications
This manual to on forced entry,
which to used when conventional
locksmith techniques are ©»mor
Impossible or impractical, it was
written with tho locks m.thi ng
student, proto^onal loeksmeh. and
law enforcement agent In mind
Some of ire subjects covered
arc: Houses and buldings; Auto-
mobiles; Offco equipment Sur-
reptitious entry and espionage; arid
moro!
Many professional tools and
methods of entry are mMM. It is
written in an easy-to-understand
manner with iarge. clear drawings
that not cn>/ show you the methods
of entry, but also show you how to
makfl some of your own tools.
197S, SH jc 8Ji, SSpp, iSiostratotf. soft cover.
LOCKOUT: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52027)
■techniques ot forced entn
Tur
Locksmith*
und
Law EnforcritWml
LOCK OUT
TECHNIQUES OF
BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING
by Wayne B. Yeager
Any alarm system can be beaten.
Criminals have gotten past everything
from junkyard dogs to hcatsensng
museum alarms. That doesn't mean
alarms are worthless. It means anyone
concerned with security needs to know
how vulnerable these systems real"/
are.
Techniques Of Burglar Alarm
Bypassing gives you that knowledge.
Ths book ccnlahs datafod
descriptions of dozens of alarm
systems: how they work and how they
can be defeated. Alarms covered
include: • Magnetic Switches • Wh&w
Fol • Sound and Heat Detectors •
Photodeclrfc Devices • Guard Doos •
Central Staton Systems • Closed-Circuit Television • And much, much
morel
Residential, commercial and high-securcy systems are described in
plain EngFsh. with plenty of helpful illustrations.
Find out what you're missing — before you're missing everythng.
Gel Techniques Of Bur,gfar Alarm Bypassing today!
1990. SU x SYi. 110pp. fffustrated softcover.
TECHNIQUES OF
BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52050)
THE B & E BOOK
Burglary Techniques and Investigation
by Burt Rapp
The BSE Book is an
Investigatory guide and practical
manual designed for the police
otticer In charge of a burglary
Investigation and its follow-up.
Tepes covered include:
■ Types of burglars: the difference
between professionals and ama-
teurs.
■ What burglars look for in
selecting a target.
■ Breaking and onlenng techniques
— illustrated.
■ How burglars plan the ir gateway.
■ What a 'crash car* la and how it
is used in a burglary.
■ Fencing operations — the buying
and selSng of Sloten property.
■ How to respond to a burglary in progress.
■ How to search a butting when there are burglars Inside.
■ How to effectively sea rch a crime sc<mn — and whom Iha exports go wrong.
■ Gathering evidence at the crime scene — what to loc* for and how to preserve rt.
■ Preventing burglaries — how police and cfcitens can cooperate to reduce and even etminalc breaking ard entenng.
■ The best tods and equipment Io investigate burglaries with, and where to obtain them.
■ And much, much more.
There wore more than 3 rnilion burglaries reported in the United States in 1867 — The B £ E Book tells everything you need to know to investigate thorn otfoctivrSy.
19*9, *H x Sfi, 149 pp. Mt/sftated softcover.
THE B & E BOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 520*17)
Techniques of
SAFECRACKING
Wayne B. Yaeger
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING
by Wayne B. Yeager
7 could not count the number of
times I've sew a $2cO fire-safe holding
thousands of dottars in cash, or an
tSSO's safo expected to withstand
1990's attacks. *
—Wayne B. Yeager
Techniques of Safecracking
reveals every known method for
breaking into safes, vaults and safety
deposit boxes. It begins with simple
ways Id guess -combinations ex steal
them in illustrated detail, it snows how
to drii. punch ard peel a safe. And «
shows how high-tech hoods use
torches and explosives to get al ycur
goods
Chapters inoUde:
■ Safa Mechanics and Operations
• Gucssng the Combination
• Manipulation Tcchnqixis
• Safa On ling Methods
• Punching and Pooling
• Torches. Etc
• Explosives
■ Miscellaneous Methods d Sate Entry
♦ Safe Deposit Boxes
■ Deterrence and Prevention
■ And much more, including a listing of manufacturers’ try-out
combinations (combinations sot by the manufacturers at the fnctD.-y
— they are supposed to be changed by the new owners, but many
people do not do this, so these combinations will open a surprising
number of safes in operation today), and a listing of supplcrs of lock
and safe opening equipment.
For tix? Iccksmfch or police officer, for the private investigator or store
owner, for die security professional or the jus! plain curious,
Techniques of Safecracking c an cyc-opcnng book written by a
working security professional. It is the single finest bcok of its kind ever
written, ard we highly recommend it.
1999, Sfi x*H, 92 pp. Utustratod. soft cover.
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52054)
HIGH SPEED ENTRY
(VHS Video)
Instant Opening Techniques
After watching High-Speed Entry, you will have no problem going right through high-security locks, hard-plate protection, rim-and mortise cylinder dead belts, brick wals. and steel bars.
If you are a locksmith, SWAT team member, prr/ata detective, cop. lircman. or serous hobbyist, this video will open ycur eyes and shew you how tlw r<jw breed of instant-entiy tcchhdans get into, out of. around or through anything in the bink o( an by applying the talcs! princplcs of high technology to the fields of kxksmithing ard emergency entry.
Lol the experts show you how to use trio new fools of the Irada to perform new tricks: Iha Rabbet Tod and Hydra force dcor openers, the Omni Force jam spreader, tho test exdhemtic lance in Iha world, two •miracle' loals that epen almost any auto in Arrenca. electronic lockpicks, rippers and pullers, shove knrves and rdockers, and many mere 'lechie' tools. This information is all new and it all works. A ccmp’eto source guide is included. So>d for informations!purposes only.
1990, 60 minutes, color, VHS video!epe.
HIGH SPEED ENTRY: $39.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52052)
Videos are nonreturnabfe.
ADVANCED LOCK PICKING
by Steven M. Hampton
What are the qualities ot the
master lock picker? You must h.Tvo
con&foncn that >kxj have tho skits
and knowledge to open that lack, the
a&My to improvise with or without
proper toots, and caution whan It
comes to breaching the security ot
unknown sIluaHons. Advance Io the
master tovoi with this illustrated
guide, and gain insight into modern
lock picking methods.
Master locksmith Steven Hamp-
ton describes the inner workings of
the new high-security locks and
includes templates for making cus-
tom tods not available an the com-
mercial market. Schemai to diagrams
for portable electronic ptoks to open
magnetic key and card tocks bring
tocksmkhing Into the Gtectrcnfe age Tps cn on ha no ng finger sensitivity. increasing concentration power, constructing practice lock boxes and more wfl help you to develop the practical experience that wit enable you to enter chat locked room, car or sate.
1999. SHriH, SO pp, Musfra/ed, /rofico^.
ADVANCED LOCK PICKING: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52048)
CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT
KEY CASTING MANUAL
How docs a CIA agent get bchnd
tocked doors? Ono way is by casing
a dupltoata key from an original. This
manual, a revised reprint ol the
classic CtA Key Casting lo&fsuction
Manual. will teach you how to make a
duplicate key when you can keep too
ordinal only a short time. Ths step-
by-step. sen-checking guide takes
you through the process of preparing
the casting mold, making the key
impression, and casting the key
model, using a standard-issue or
improvised clay-fined castng moto.
tow-melting-point casting metal and
other readily available materia*».
The straightforward text and clear
Jlustraltons of ths updated manual gve you the tools you ncod to create accurate keys to gain access to ori-limts areas without special equipment.
19SS, 5H rSfi' 4Spp, iik/siratod. soft corer.
CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT
KEY CASTING MANUAL: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52045)
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FIELD EXPEDIENT
KEY CASTING ------- MANUAL--------
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
by Eddie the Wire
The very Lest book ever writ-
ten cn how to- pick tocks! This
complete illustrated manual cov-
ers lock picking techniques
thoroughly, in an easy-lo-under-
stand manner. It is the most
comprehensive beck ever writ-
ten on Ilie sutièCl. Ortti Tv#
years of research *enf into as
preparation'
Topics covered an depth ri-
elude:
BASIC PRINCIPLES AND
GENERAL RULES. Lock by-
pass techniques Tho unMir-
sal key to any tock. Four mlns
ot lock bypassing.
HOW TO MOiUNT PRACTICE
LOCKS. Ust of needed ma-
terials and v»here to get thorn
with no questions asked. Tho
best place to mount your
practice locks. How often end how long to practice.
WARDED LOCKS. How they woric. Where they am usod. Typtoal key profies. Bypass techniques for warded locks. Warded padlocks. Picking the warded lock.
DISC TUMBLER LOCKS. How dsc tumWer tocks work Common locations where disc tumbler locks are found. How to pick them. How to make keys. Raking the <%sc tumbfer lock.
LEVER TUMBLER LOCKS. How they work Toe's needed tor bypass. Applications- ol the fever tumWer tock. Keyways of lever tocks. Picking the lever tumbler lock. Making keys.
PIN TUMBLER LOCKS. Basic principles of pin tumbler locks. How to recognize a pin tuttbfef kXk. HfrW 10 pick pih lUflW ÎOCkS. Using tho American tension wrench to pick pin tumbler locks. Using the European tension wrench to pick pin tumbler tocks. Using the iftr.r pick. Raking the pin tixnbtor lock.
WAFER TUMBLER LOCKS. How they w<irk. Mathods of by passing.
How to Identify water tumbler tocks How to pick them. Making kays.
LOCK MODIFICATIONS TO THWART TAMPERING AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM. The mushroom cr spool tumbter. How to open mushrocxn tumblers without keys. Anti-pick devices for disc tocks. How Io byjxiss thorn. Vibration picking. Beating tho sidebar system. Bypassing modern locks.
VARIOUS OTHER WAYS OF BYPASSING LOCKS AND LOCKING
MECHANISMS. For ci tic entry methods. The detector lever lock. Bypassing marliso tocks. Forcible turning or pulling. On:.ng a lock.
And more! Fhe Complete Guide To Lock Picking is exact*/ that — the complete guide to picking all kinds of tocks! This is the very best book over writcan co lock picking, and wo aro proud to offer it Io cur customers. ILqHy recommended!
19S1. SU xSh, SOpp. SO iüU5irationsf sort cover.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52032)
KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING TUBULAR LOCKS
by Desert Publications
For the first time — a manual on the 3 popiXar tubular Bocks that are used on vendng machines. laurdrcmate, coin changers, alarms, etc. The locks covered are the regular 7 ph. live new Van Lock, and the Nix Pix.
Subjects covered include: Internal construction; How to dsasscmbta and rekey; How to open by driling. How to open by picking; How to open by impresstoring; How to make some ol the necessary tools; and more.
1974, SH x OH, -42 pp. profusely Ntostrated, sort corer.
KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING TUBULAR LOCKS: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52020)
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
Four Volume Set
by Eddie the Wire
This four volume set gives complete, illustrated instructions for making your own professional lock tools — lock tools that are of better-than-manufacturod quality, and much cheaper! All tools and procedures described in these books are available from your local hardware or hobby shop, with no questions asked. Eddie the Wire (author of The Compfete Guide to Lock Picking is a /y&who reveals the little-known tricks of his trade for you to use!
Volume One
Lifter picks • Diamond picks • Snake picks • Piug spinners • Tools far spring tetches* C&r-cpeninp foots • And much more.
tSW, 5H x SH, 3! pp, 23 tUustntlons, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
Volume Ono: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52010)
Volume Three
Pick guns • Simulators • Toots for tubular locks • Tension wrenches for Jevef tocks • Weighted tension wrenches • And more!
f$wr, 5HxSH, 44pp, 29 fNustratfons, softcover.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
Volume Three: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52034)
Volume Two
Tension wrenches • Carrying cases • Msssproduction techniques • impressfomng foots • ‘'Stoning'picks • And more!
1231, SU X-3H, 50 pp, 24MuxfrxXiorfx, xoftcovor.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
Volume Two: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52033)
Volume Four
Using a microcomputer to generate pick profiles • Making 'soft' break^s—that can't be detected* Howto 'case*a subdivision • A one-handed tension wrench • Magnetizing picks for advanced concealment techniques • And more.
1SSS, SUxSU, 55 pp, Sto'uWfftont, softcover.
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS.
Volume Four $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52041)
With this fantastic 4-voIume set, you will be on your way to becoming a lock pro! No other book or set of books covers this material — order your set today. You will be very pleased, we know.
SPECIAL OFFER!!! The entire 4-Volume set for just $20.00 (ORDER NUMBER 52040)
SPECIAL OFFER!!!
HOW I STEAL CARS
(A Repo Man's. Guide to Car Thieves’ Secrets)
(VHS Video)
Pierre Smith has legaly ‘stojen’ over
1.000 cars in the past ±xiven years. In
the exciting new video, ho shows yea
how to open and enter practically any
madam automobile and how to start
them without Ihe key.
Seehetn to:
-
Enter and start aknos I any vehicle in
seconds — w\th©ut the key -
Defeat factory car lodes and security
systems -
Gel into Fords. Chryslers, GM.
Japanese and man)’ other cars -
How to keep the car t hlevos away
from >txxrvehicle -
And more.
Discover the secrets of the Repo Man? HgNy recommended for auto repossesses, police orttoers. paramedics. SWAT teams, fireman, emergency rescue workers. the mfltary. and any private citizen interested to how the pros steal cars!
Videos are nonretumabto.
19SS, 45 minute VHS
HOW I STEAL CARS: $49.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52043)
HOW TO OPEN HANDCUFFS WITHOUT KEYS
by Desert Publications
TNs tx>ok covers a setoctlon of handcuffs in popular use today and dscusses some of the filatures with whch yea should become familiar.
Chapters Induto:* Background on HandeuHs ♦ identification of Handcuffs • Lockpicks A Shims • Matonats, Tools A Equipment • Construction cl Handcuff Picks & Shims • Lockpicking Techniques • Handcuff Keys • Ard more.
Wrth the knowledge in the bock you wil be able to manufacture your own ‘personalized* sot of lockpicks and be ab'e to open a wide variety of handcuffs with them.
1979, 5Hx6h. 43 pp. frustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO OPEN HANDCUFFS WITHOUT KEYS: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52056)
Surreptitious
Entry
WJiis Gw
mw
SURREPTITIOUS ENTRY
by Willis George
This fascinating nsidoFs story of
counWr-ospborogn. written by ona of tho
pioneers of dando^ttoe tradocraft. coufd
be used as an Intalhgonca-gathanng
training manual. It is also a timely
expose of how tho U.S. pavomment will
circumvent tho law in the name of
nolicnal security.
Wills George was the top
investigative agent foe U.S. Naval
Intelligence during World War I,
breaking into th© offices, desks and
safes of suspected Nazi spies at night
and gathering incriminating evidence for
prosecution. Ho later bucaine the chief
instructor cf surreplittous-entry
tcchnqucs for the famed OSS. leading
his own tock picking and safecracking team in wartime Europe.
Loam how tho governments pres carried out breaking-and-entering
operations.
1990, Sb x Sb, 232pp, frustrated, softcover.
SURREPTITIOUS ENTRY: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52053)
PICK GUNS
Cups,
and Uxksntilln
PERSONAL PICKS
(VHS Video)
Starring Eddie the Wire
Fine Quality lock tods are hard to come by — potting pood picks
from commercial supplies can bo difficult. and many pros prefer mo
quatty ar/1 custom designs of hartomadn tools Persons! Picks shows
how to make a complete too! sat. including picks, tension wrench, and
protective case.
This delated video demonstrates the stop by-slcp process of making
lock tools in die homa workshop. Discussions of tools and equipment,
materials, grindng. fifng and finishing, combined with Eddie the Wire's
practical knowledge of Icck&nMiing, make this a valuable visual
textbook dial will have the viewer turning out top-o!-lho-lhe lock tools in
no time. See Eddie the Wire's Persona!Picks.
Videos are nonretumable.
19SS. cofof, 72 minutes, VHS videotape.
PERSONAL PICKS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52044)
PICK GUNS
Lock Picking for Spies, Cops and Locksmiths
by John Mlnnery
Iha ability to epan tocks without
keys Is one o* the few awe-inspiring
skills left in a world where electronic
wonders are boringly commonplace,
yet it is a skill that is no longer
mcnopolzed by locKsmfths who
jealously guard tHeir secrets. The
pick gun has taken Ui© art of lock
picking away from a select few and
democratized the abiity to open
locks by mechanical means.
This book gives an overview of
the mechanical principles ol pxCk
guns, how tfiey work and Itow to use
them, and traces the development <M
trie pick gun from »te Inception to
todays revolutionary devices,
included ere me original patents by
Epstein. Segal. Moore. Cooko and others, as well as info on pick guns
used by the FBI and intollgenco agencies. Photos depict improrised
pick guns designed by the author out ct coat hangers and ctothespns.
The pick g*jn has been a boon to professional tocksmithing, law
enforcement ard national security. Due to the potential for atxisc.
however, this book is offered for in!onns!iana!purposes only.
1909, SH x 9b, 179pp. Sfustrated, soft cover.
PICK GUNS: $14.00
___________________ (ORDER NUMBER 52046)____________________
EXPERT LOCK PICKING
(VHS Video)
State-of-the-Art Lock Picking Secrets
This in-dep<h. cn-camera course ccn*ors the fastest and best ways to
ptok locks, front the simplest waters to comptex pin tumblers. Instructor
Ron Reed is one of the best In the business, having won the prestlgous
CaWornia Locksmiths Association tock-pckhg championship.
Through the specially daslgned cuteway. see-through tocks, ycu wi
view the Inside mechanisms of working locks as they respond to
cutting-edge picking techniques. Watch as Rcod shoAS how hand
ptoks. rakes, snap guns and electron© picks export the tetoranccs and
inherent weaknesses cf common tocks try Best. Chcago. Kw.kscl.
Schlage. end many others. Loam which picks work best on which tocks,
how to modty p©ks to Improve thor performance, short cuts to develop
your personal feel* and Inside tricks found nowhere dse. Sdd for
irtlofmotkxyalpurposes only.
Videos are nonreturnable.
1990, SO minutes, color, VHS videotape.
EXPERT LOCK PICKING: $59.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52051)
SELF DEFENSE
Introduction
The right to scif-dcfcnso is the right to life itself. But what good is the "right’* to defend yourself if you lack the knowledge and training to actually do it? Obviously, the government police cannot protect you. You must therefore take care of yourself.
This is our Sclf-Defenso Section. In it you will find the world's finest books on such subjects as techniques of unarmed combat, vital striking points, etc. Many of these books are unusual or even shocking — that is because they pull no punches (and neither should you I).
PRINCIPLES OF
PERSONAL DEFENSE
by Jeff Cooper
In separate chapters, one of tte wodds tearing exparts in combat pistol shoot ng and general self-rietenso explains how Deci
siveness. Coofness. Precision, and Surprise can save your Ido whnn you are faced with a violent confrontation. These basic principles apply in a»?/self-defense encounter. Wo recommend this valuable ntse bock very highly I
1962. 5H xSH. 54 pp, sort co ver.
PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DEFENSE: $3.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19011)
STREET LETHAL
Unarmed Urban Combat
by Sammy Franco
To survive a real street-
light. torryrt about those Lincy
leaping kicks and preptannad
responses that you teamed In
the dejo they simply wcnT
wort: in a real-lite encounter.
Street Lethe! confronts this
problem by bote outlining the
principles for a reaksSc self-
defense system and taking a
controversial Icok al the cur-
rent stale ot manual arts in
America.
Sammy Franco argues that
iraritonal martial arts aro
locked mío anctent sr,tes and
forms and have lost their of-
focirvonoss as combat sys-
tems. In responso to this, he
has founded Contemporary
Fighting Arts, a hard-hitling
system that goes to tho heart of a streetFighling situation and ends it quickly. Street Letha! is a provocative took cm unarmed combat that every serious maruil artist shoUd read.
/ÍW 5H mW 197 pp. tituxtrated sort cover.
STREET LETHAL: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19150)
THE MIND IN THE MARTIAL ARTS
A Key to Winning
by Thomas J. Nardi, Ph.D.
THE MIND
IN THE
MARTIAL
ARTS
A M.V
Tliooun J
Here at Losmpanics Unlim-
ited. wo keep telling you how
important your mind is. In
street fighting, your mental set
is oven more important than
ycur physical training. All the
techniques In the world aren’t
going to help you ri you tty into
a panic, or a rockloss rage, or
otherwise toso centre* of
yourself monthly. The Mind in
The Martie! Arts belongs with
Jett Ccopcr'r. Principles of
Persona! Defense as a bcok
that should bo read atong with
books on sc4f-defense tech-
niques. From the introducticn:
’The total martial artist is
one who has successfully
devetoped and integrated tha
physka! and the psychological
aspects of combat. Tho physical aspects are perhaps more casiy
understood and teamed. Those invoke tho bask stances, too specific
techniques. tho body condr.onng, etc. In short, those are tho behaviors
ol combat: the Tww-to* aspects of martial arts.
•The psychological aspects of combat nvoh-e one's thoughts and
emotions. In many ways these are more rnpedant and more difficiXI to
devefop than the physical. The psychological also invdves ways ol
integrating the mird and the body.
’Man rs a thinking, feeing and behaving creature. Moreover, it is
man's thinkrigi which to a large extent determries hs feelrigs (that is.
hr. emotions) and his behaviors. Thinking involves trie conscous mind
and the subconscious mind. The martial artist can greatly enhance his
martial arts ability and ateo become an emotionally healthier person by
condoling and directing hfe thinking. This book will leach you how to
reprogram your thinking co a conscious and sulxonscous love*.*
Contents include • Hypnosis • Self Hypnosis • Ki4l-Klrl • Visualiza-
tion • Overcoming Fear • Destructive Emotions • Psychok^y of an
Attack • And more!
1560. 5h x SH, 67 pp. illustrated, sort cover.
THE MIND IN THE MARTIAL ARTS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19059)
ANYTHING GOES
Practical Karate for the Streets
by Loren Christensen
As a miUary policeman in one
of the roughest cities in the world
— Sasgcn. Vietnam — Loren Chris-
tenson teamed the hard way that
real fights are far more explosive
a rd tfotent tian karate sparring
matches. Anything Goes reveals
the physical and mental
adjustments a marunl artist must
make In h-s thinking and training <n
order to surovo the real thing.
Christensen exposes the weak-
nesses of popular hand techniques
and kicks used In sparring matches
and shows what work to stop a
determined opponent. He covers
areas o* se^-de'enso that go
beyond unrealistic tournament
guidelines. Including grapplng.
vulnerable targets and using your
environment as a weapon. Also offered are training tips and sparring drrils that will sharpen tie skills necessary Id come out cn top of any physical confrontation. After all. traditional karate tournaments are governed by many rules. In a streetlight. there’s only one riie: ao/tov# goes!
1990, Sri x Sri, 176 pp, Hiustrated, aoft cover.
ANYTHING GOES: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19171)
THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR
The Violent Side
by Loren Christensen
The warrior sprit is within every-
one. ready to bo called upon when
you can rely cn no one and nothing
but your own inner strength. Loren
Christenson — sold or. policeman,
martial artist — has calod upon his
warrkz sprit in a wide range of
violent encounters, from grueling
karate sparring matchers to brutal
barroom txaw’s as a miilary po-
liceman in Sa:gon.
In The Of The Wsrrfor.
CMstensen taXs about bow hs has
recognized and Sved with he own
intense warrior sprit hte recounts
some of the many fights,
showdowns, and contests that htj
has been involrod in. and how his
warrior spirit helped him to not only
prevail, but learn vateable lessens about violence, lite, and himself.
Thia is not a book of New Age Mysticism or esoteric oriental phros- ophy. It is a practical, honest, revealing, and extreme*/ readable account of one man’s experiences in a viotent world, and bow they have led Nm down the path ol the warrior.
W/, Sri x Sri. 127pp. soft cover.
THE WA Y OF THE WARRIOR: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19185)
Dealing with the
Sucker Puncher,
Streetfighter, and
Ambushcr
(Vilna Qnif^
A BOUNCER'S GUIDE TO BARROOM BRAWLING
Dealing with the Sucker Puncher,
Streetfighter, and Ambushcr
by Peyton Quinn
In a barroom brawl, where
your assailant doesn't care bow
pretty be looks when he Mndsldes
you end then stampa you Into a
bloody mess, tho formal and
flashy moves ycu practiced in tbc
dojo will be usotess. Peytcn Quinn
knows.
As a bouncer in a biker bar.
having been attacked by fists,
boots, pool cues and knives.
Quinn has tearnod a thing or two
about what goes down in a real
fight. As a black belt, ho has also
learned that martial arts training is
useful, but it is no substitute for
experience. Qu'nn has separated
fighting fact from fantasy, and the
result is a unique gudo that can
save your ass in places where the
brewing is que*, drty and very vident.
Oulnn reveals the psychology, strengths and weaknesses oi a
sucker puncher, the characteristics of a real tgh: (you mght be sur-
prised): and tips for dealing with aggressive people and ambushes. Ho
then p’osents two basic moves that can be applied to most every at-
tack. affective counterstrikes that he has used dozens of trees Id defeat
larger cppor.ar.ts, and secrets of grappling and escapes. Accounts of
his own b.ndlss illustrate key points about techniques and concepts.
Finally, ho takes a critical and practical look al tho most
popular martial arts in the U.S.
T99Q, Sri x S'ri, 264pp. Piust/st^d, soft cover.
A B6UNGEAS GUIDE TO BARROOM DRAWLING: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19173)
STREET SMART SURVIVAL
A Nineties Guide to
Staying Alive and Living Well
by Victor Santoro
With the self-destruction of tbo
communist empire and the reduced
Italihood cf nue'ear annihilation, the old
surnval strategy of ’grab your gun and
head for the hits’ seems pretty
outdated. But ttvat doesn't mean wo l'vo
In a safer worid — wo face as many cc
mr.ee threats •.□ ou' lives ard livelihoods
as wo over have: Street Crime. Medteal
Threats such as AIDS. Toxic Spills.
Interruptions to Focd Supplies. Power
Shortages, Strikes. Computer Viruses,
and a growing list of new menaces.
Street Smart Survival is a rnni-course
for dealing with these very realistic
dangers.
This hands-on workbook injuries
checklists, exercises and calculators designed ter street-smart survival. Contents include: • Threat Scenarios • Planning for Survival • rood & Water • Shelter • Apartment Survival • Fuel • Transportation • Metical Needs • Privacy Protection • Surveillance Smarts • Physical Safety • Weapons • And Much More?
Today, Ite blggosl dangers d<xrt oomo from global oonftcu — they com© from olt legal, social, electronic and occncrr.ic environment Thal's why today wo need Street Smart Survival.
199!, Sri xSri, 161 pp, softcover
STREET SMART SURVIVAL: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19182)
Violence,
Blunders.
ANO
Fractured
S
AdcjiKVd Auurctie.« Tcvhniqucsaiid SlTA’l Enqueue
VIOLENCE, BLUNDERS, AND FRACTURED JAWS
Advanced Awareness Techniques
a nd Street Etiquette
by Marc '‘Animal * MacYoung
This self-dufenso tock is
unlko anything you*va ever
road. It won't tell you how Io
rack, crunch, slice. dice or
bash anyone. It wil. however,
leach you how not to be the
featured Quest a: an
aggravated assault by teaming
how Io avoid viobnea —
without becoming a victim or
statistic.
When you walk Into a place
you have to be able io Instantly
identify the fighters, hustlers,
workers, spectators and. of
course, the troublemakers. The
key lo surviving on the streets
or nnywhore tfso ir.
awareness. and your first
lesson Is learning tho nno
rUtes of the street. Find out what Animal and other protess^nels who
deal with violence on a ctelty basis have teamed frem years of
experience as bouncers, corrections tacilty directors. therapists,
mental-ward wockors. dnjg dealers, bikers and street poopfe.
199?. SH x th, 344 pp. cow.
VIOLENCE. BLUNDERS. AND FRACTURED JAWS: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19186)
Marc "Animal” Mac Young
101
SUCKER
PUNCHES
KURT CRAVEN
101 SUCKER PUNCHES
by Kurt Craven
P.T. Barnum said. ’ There’s a sucker been ovary minute* — and author and professional sneak Kurt Craven will show you hew lo take advantage ol that fact, with this gukfe to live Way cf the Sucker Punch.* Ho takes you through 101 dilferent techniques that are sometimes amusing but always devastating, drawing Ircm tlto martial arts, classic soH dofcnsc moves and even the Three Stooges.
Tho groat thng about thwo move* is that ytxi only need one! Set your Sucker up with tho simple strategies cutined here, and pu him out before anyone even knows n-nythng was happening — especial1/ Ite Sucker! Hi him with the Krss-My-Ass Kick. lbw Thunder-Road The* or the Grab-Haif/Smash-Face-Against-Table Attack. And dent lot ths funny names fool you — these are triodand true, senousiy effective moves used by the FBI. bouncers and security guards for Elvis Presley.
Stay eno step ahead ol the otter guy with this entertaning. practical guidd.
1939. 5H *SH, 104 pp. itiustnM, soft cow.
101 SUCKER PUNCHES: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19150)
MASTER Hfl LONG
GOUZAO
GONGJI
Seven neurological
ATTACKS FOK INFLICTING
Serious Damage
GOUZAO GONGJI
Seven Neurological Attacks
for Inflicting Serious Damage
by Master He! Long
In this groundbreaking study.
Master Hol Long unveils the
secrets of Gouzao Gongy. a no-
nonsense system of self-defense
consisting of seven highly
effective anatomical targets.
Artacks to those arras, whan
applied strategically. will
eHcct/rtity cripple an assailant's
nervous systom.
Tho Master pinpoints those
primary targets and reveal how a
property delivered blow can bring
□bout tho desired cffocl, bo it
disrupted balance, acute pain,
unconsciousness (or a semi-
conscious. gasping state), or a
temporarily paralyzed limb. Then
he provides a detaited account of
which angles of force are most
effective for achieving the precise results you are after, as wel as indepth lessons in the application ol Ite movements described.
The target» presented hero are not lethal or oven enbeal — but net every confrontation calls for such severe action. Instead, these seven targets offer a comfortable mdde-ground option, arming you with the toofe needed to Infect neurological damage serteus enough to stop an assailant of comperab’e size, strength, and weight In his tracks.
1992, SHxtM, 162 pp, tBustrated, sotlcow.
GONGJI: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34066)
________ 1
SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR
The Modern Chinese Interpretation
by General Tao Hanzhang,
Translated by Yuan Shlblng
For 2,400 years. Sun Tzu's
Art of War has inspired some
of history's greatest victories.
Asian warlords for onnturtas
have formulated their battte
plans following Sun Tzu's pre-
cepts. Mao Zedong and Gen-
eral Eisenhower are two of Iha
many well-known miilary load-
ers to adopt Sun Tzu's
pdndptes. Haw for the first
time, this great classic on war
strategy and tacbcs is ntor-
pretad by a Chinese military
expert. General Tao Hanz-
hang, who marched witii Mao
on the Long March and id now
a professor at the Beijing V/ar
College and a worldwide
lecturer on military tactics. This
work o( timeless genus is
much more than a military manual — its tactics of winning arc appied
by tough Fortune 500 executives, corporate raiders and labor union negotiators. Evan computer strategy-game players and wargamers are pelting an on the act. Thu age-eld truism. ’Know your enemy and know ycurseH, and you can Fight a hundred battles without detest.’ never had a more effective champ on.
1990, Ox 10H. 120pp, ftiifstnted. soft cow.
SUN TZU S ART OF WAR: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19165)
KAMIKAZE FIGHTING
The Self Defense of Last Resort
by Mike Vassofo
When it comes dcnwi to an all or-
roth’ng Streetlight, you need tho
fighting spirit of the kamkaze
warrior. Komik/u» Fighting wfl
show you how Io davo'op
inbeataWe fighting moves, unshak-
able confidence and the mastery that
wli enable you to come out on top.
You will team how to Ins-tancy
react io common attacks with
precise, effective strikes, kicks and
defenses. EquaJy important, you win
develop a combat mindset that
gives you the confidence to face a
threatening encounter and over-
power the assailant.
Author Miko Vassolo bdla/cs that
Simpler is batter, and a strong. lo-
cused defense is more cffoclive than
complex technique. Hs hard htling program offers insightful comments
on the realties of street-fightirg. cteariy presented power-building drits
and realistic self-defense lessons designed to gva you tnc upper band
in any violent encounter that you may taco.
1909, OH x OH, Idopp, UfirtfrMd soft cow.
KAMIKAZE FIGHTING: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19162)
Tl»< ScV Ori^M-
iif Im
THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
OF PERSONAL COMBAT
(With and Without Weapons)
by Bradley J. Steiner
This book addresses important aspects of ndvidoaJ dose-quarters
batiks and self-defense. It covers crucial points of training and informa-
ton that have, for all practical purposes, been corrplctafy ignored in
mart al arts and weaponry schools world wide.
Iba text focuses upen the essential dements of personal combat
and is applicable to ovary martial arts student and teacher, regardless of
his style, so long as his oiontotian is self defense ard dose camba?.
This is a gudebcok for anyone socking functional, realistic, real-world
fghtng proficiency. The unarmed fighter, as well as the indtedual who
employs a fighting knife, slick, polco flashlight. or handgun, ok:.. will
fand tho contents of this book valuable ard important.
Iho fifteen elements define and dscuss the warrior’s way for CfZI-
ians, polco, rnlilary ellos. bodyguards, and security personnel. By
mastering tho application of the fifteen elements presented in thie book,
the reader will go far toward attaining that state of total readness and
confidence that ba seeks, for meeting any vfotent situation anywhere,
undec any conditions.
NW, OH x OH. 90 pp. soft cow.
THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
OF PERSONAL COMBAT: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19161)
WAR WITH EMPTY HANDS
Self-Defense Against Aggression
by Lenox Cramer
Thl$ bock is written by a
lead ng export in ’Empty
Hand’ serf defense. Lenox
Cramer has put into words,
photographs. ¿nd llkistrabons
the science o4 his expertse,
explaining In easy-to under-
stand terms how you can
quickly team ard comprehend
these proven methods!
When one of Lenox
Cramer's CBM officers In
Vietnam, who also knows War
With Empty Hands. was on a
covert operation in Beirut,
Lebanon, several Druse militia
men tned to capture him
nsdo Hr. hotel room. The/
were armed with various weapons, including one firearm. This former US nloJigencc officer kited three of his attackers with his bare hands using tho same self-defense fighting techniques that are taught in this book’
Whether tho fjght is cn the streets d /CUckervilL». USA. Ite brutal /ungtas of Southeast Asia, or the equal*/ brutal junges of Scull) America. these self-defense methods have been irrod and tasted order real battlefield conditions successful'/, ti is the true desire of the author. hia warrior comrades. and tho publisher that if you or your lovod ones are ever oorZronlod by a violent attacker. War With Empty Hands will give you Iha assurance that you are capable of protecting yourself and your saved ones in bfe-thrc^icnng situations.
19OS. OH x OH, 209 pp, Muxtmtsd. so fl cow.
WAR WITH EMPTY HANDS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19150)
HI •in\N iXMinil
DRAGONS
OUCH
DRAGONS TOUCH
Weaknesses of the Human Anatomy
by Master He! L ong
Dreg your opponent in en Instant
wfth the (toady moves of ihn Drag-
ons Touch!
team how you can Immoblizo
or destroy ycur tee with N9h4rrp.nct
blows to h£ nvost vi/nnrnbta areas.
MM9f Hal Leng explains which
pressure points are the mast sus-
ceptible Io Dragon strkes and
whk:h angles should use in
applying force. The bod/s forty-
three majer target areas are ex-
ploHy illustrated. and 165 pho-
tographs show you how to attack
each pressure point with the sell-
defense moves of Lian Shi Kung
Fu.
The body’s weaknesses a rd
psycho-bgcal reactions can work
in your favor in a combat situation. Suftlctonl tare© to specie target
areas can cause pain, shock, paralysis, unconsciousness — even
death. Each dead>/ set of movements can ensure that you are in con-
trol.
Ek, the survivor — not the victor The techniques Of the Dragons
Touch can keep you afore and achieve knockout results .
19B3, 5HxSH. 134 pp. frustrated. photos. soft corer.
DRAGONS TOUCH: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34027)
MAS‘II K HEI lÜ\ß
THE 100 DEADLIEST KARATE MOVES
by Dr. Ted GambordeHa
Discover the 100 most lethal
kicks, shutos. ard Mows perfected
by the world’s greatest karate mas-
tors. No ftowory katas. Only hard-
hitting. practical karate tech-kjues
that ccu'd save ycur He. In The 100
Deadliest Karate Moves, Dr. Ted
Gamborddla. a 5th degree b'ack
belt, teaches you how to fight 1c the
death, if need be. O.-er 1CO dra-
matic photos show exactly which
vital points to attack to cripple or Ml
your opponent
Ths took is nd foe dcjo balleri-
nas; it is foe men who take their
fghting arts seriously. Just a sam-
ple of live deady moves covered
are: • snap kicks • heel kicks • vital
points of Ute head and chest •
shuice • palm heels • ridge hands • end many mere
A special chapter on street f ghtng w«h karate makes ths a super seiecton for any self-defense enthusiast
1932. SHxSM, M pp. over 1OO photon. noft cow.
THE 100 DEADLIEST KARATE MOVES: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19067)
CHEAP SHOTS. AMBUSHES.
AND OTHER LESSONS
A Down and Dirty Book on
Strccttlghtlng and Survival
by Marc “Animal" MacYoung
Cheafi Shcts,
Amburhas, and
Other Lessons
A nad
ted
Scrapes, jams, combat, b’oed.
mud. grease, bullets and beef.
Streetfrjhthg e a down-and-drty
subject, and this is a down-and-drty
look al ail c4 the above topics and
much, much more.
Marc "Animal* * MacYoimg is a
survivor of ccunCess stracdgbZs.
barroom brawls, punchouts, face-
downs and other close er<ountors of
the physical kind, in a hard-bitten but
hilarious stylo. ’Animal* gudcs you
through the many aspects c4 fight-
ing. attitude and awareness that will
keep you alive in this mean world.
Can you recognize when wmo-
one’s about to nail you with a sucker
punch? When you’re being set up for
a mugging? when a pseudo-tough
guy is giving you hard looks? it's all here (and how to handle those sit-
uations). as well as advice on tulles, weapons, punches and kicks,
friends, martial arts vs. strcctfic^iling and a host of other tricks, tips and
war stories.
Loam the facts about slrcctfightirg from someone who has been
there and back, net from some theory-spouting poguo who hasn't been
In a real fight snsc tho schooiyard bully bashed his head against live
Jungle gym. Ths bcok is the real thing.
1030, Sto xBH, 264pp. Htosfrotod. softcover
CHEAP SHOTS. AMBUSHES,
AND OTHERS LESSONS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19154)
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
KNOCKOUT PUNCHING
by Leo Fong
Knockout punching U more than
well developed muscles. Knockout
punching invokes many compo-
nents. In order to dovotop the ablity
10 punch with KO power, yea must
develop all these components.
Contents Include:
-
Tho Home Run of Fighting
-
Th© Knockout
-
Accuracy
-
Tho Center Lino
-
Timing
-
Penetration
-
The Pcwer Line
-
The Gliding Stop
-
Speed and Velccty
-
Relaxed Focus
-
Training Programs
-
And much more!
Knockout punchers are made, not bcm. Their abiliy is acquired through the refinement of tinvng. technqires. speed, and mo physics of power. The prlnoples of power punchng are dzxusscd and ilustratod m detail in this book. It is information that wfl aid any martial arts practitioner. regardGSS of stylo and system. Tho pnnciplcs m The Theory and Practice of Knockout Punching will hrxp you to improve your punching ability!
1064, SM*OH, 79pp, Mustrated, softcover.
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
KNOCKOUT PUNCHING: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19046)
BLACK MEDICINE
Volume One:
The Dark Art of Death
by N. Ma shtro
This book presents Cie most thorough and intriguing dscusson of tr>e human tody's vital points ever to appear in a single volume. Through strikingly realistic photographs and detailed lino drawings. Msshiro ilustrates over 150 parts of the human body where a minimum amount of force will produce a maximum impact on a pcrsccfs abiily lo Tighl. The Study of thesxj final points is integral to all brandies of the martial arts, to the rniitary combat specialist, and to everyone concerned with self-defense n a Ife-or-death encounter.
Highly recommended buy now. so you wil fave the knowledge when yrxi need HI
1978, SM Jt 814, 97pp, iHudnrted, soft cover.
BLACK MEDICINE, Vol. 1: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19019)
BLACK MEDICINE II:
Weapons At Hand
by N. Mashlro, Ph.D.
Self-defense specialists take note: Here e a sequel Io N. Hashim's infamous Black Modkkrte. Ya( 1: The Dark Art of Death. That bock revealed the 150 parts of the human body most vulnerable ¡n Ivand to- hand combat. Black Medicine ft: Weapons At Handthe opposite approach. It presents 112 parts of the body that are natural weapons, largely because Itey are» very ir<ury-resislant.
Following this is a seclicxi that lists lor ycu more titan 160 dead?/ makeshift weapons that can save your life in a crisis. The weapons ere all improvised from such common everyday items as pherograph roccrcfc. combs, hubcaps, and even ycur housecatf Over 50 »cion photos show the reader exactly how io use the ’bV»ck medicinn’ techniques dscussod In Black Medicine if: Weapons At Hand. Especially sUlol to the neodS of bodyguards, socunty pcrscnnei. and martial art^ts. this book Is also highly recommended lor ihe average citizen.
1979, SH X8H, 88pp, UiustrMed, xolt cowr.
BLACK MEDICINE, Vol. 2: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19026)
BLACK MEDICINE III:
Low Blows
by N. Mashlro, Ph.D.
long awaited by self-OMcnso specialists eround the globe. Low Blows is tte thrd volume In N. Mashlro's infamous Stack Medicine Serios In Volume 3. Mashlro presents Ns favorite techniques tor bringing the body's natural weapons into violent end panful contact w.th an opponent's vulnerable areas.
Low Blows reveals devastating responses to whst holds, punches, chokes, rear attacks, tear hugs, and special defenses agansl knife and cUb attackers. Especially noteworthy ts a chapter on fghting a stand ng opponent from the greund (this trick alone ©arid save your life!). Mashiro goes on to critique many commonly laugh! self defense methods that he fools am suicide.
Over 93 dramatic pastes illustrate the holds and moves in Low Blows, n\a»:ng rt substanta !>/ longer than the other two volumes in this sen^s. An excelcnt self-study guide for beginners, and an eye epering reference work tor advanced sludenls ard instructors Be warned Low Blows is not for readers with weak stomachs. Buy it now. before you need to use these secrete in lbs streets...
1982, SMxSH, 14) pp, likJStrotcd. softcover.
BLACK MEDICINE. Vol. 3: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19054)
FISTS, WITS, AND A WICKED RIGHT
Surviving on the
Wild Side of the Street
by Marc nima! * Mac Young
In his first tock. Cheap Shots,
Ambushes. and Other Lessons, Marc
Animal’ MacYoung stressed one
major pool: there ain't no
guarantees in a fight! In this com«
pariiOri lb Ch&p S/.'dfS. he adds
another critical piece of info: H's
awareness, or wHs, and fists that wifi
keep you sate out there, not some
fancy OriernaJ fighting form.
•Heechi eboefcoo tNngamajig*
may sound fancy, but when you gel
past the lyrical lingo, tt ail bale dawn
to a swih kick sn the nuts. Thars the
same m any language. Sum. there
arc martial arts jccks who can throw
a devastatingly fast punch, erven six
or seven of them, but f they don't
lard in key spots, one wet-placed sucker punch frem a knowledgeable street fighter is going to do mom damage.
"Rie physics of a good strike are irrpoetan!. but the other haH of knowing how lo N’t is knowing where lo hit. That's what ‘Animal* focuses on in ttiis book: the fine points and brutal technicalities of blows and targeting. Hie fact is. the way to win a fight is net to be able to he faster. or even harder, but to do serious damage to tte other guy before ho can do it to you. On Ite Hip skfe. cnoo you know what hurts. yctfll know how to protect ccrt»n areas with a into morn gir>to Thia book ccntaire the critical info no coo else talks about — tio stuff that will keep you nivo uind intact, not rinad meat. on the wid skfo of the sire«.
1991, sn x 8%, Wpp, iHvdrxfxd, soft cover.
FISTS. WITS. AND A WICKED RIGHT: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19178)
GUGE GONGJI
Seven Primary Targets
to Take Anyone Out of a Fight
by Master Hei Long
Structural/ dsabling an
oppenent is like removing the
bdlds frem his gun. It is unlfcaty
that he can throw a punch at ycu
with a broken wrist or eba*. ard
his abilcy lo .advance s sub-
stantially inhibited by a busted
knee or ankle. That is the
principle cf gon^i: stopping
an attacker by breaking his
instrument danger. In unarmed
combat, that means hs abilty to
move and strike.
Guge Gongfi is an alternative
to lulling, a stscorid-lo-las! reiorf
that shcukf be used cn>y when
conventional self-defense tac-t»cs
arc likely lo be ineffective. Master
Hei Long's precise instructions
Uri l»nr.
^GUGE
GONGjI
SnrnPraanTifjcb. toTikrArniccOvt of □ fiihl
and illuslrabons show you how to use your opponent's bedy as your
weapon learn the seven pnmary targets guaranteed to take anyone out
of a right.
*991.5’6 xBH, isspp, Muatnded, softcover.
GUGE GOMGJI: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19180)
MANUALS ON MAYHEM
A Complete Guide to the Literature
of Combat Martial Arts
and Serious Self-Defense
by Bradley J Steiner
Loom panes Unlim'ied presents a unique seif-deiBnso book — the Ai/sf comprehensive guide to the literature of corrbat martal arts and serious sdf-deforee.
In Manuals On Mayhem, Bradtay J. Steiner, author of BeKw the Bait The Tactical SMfc- of Haod-to-Hand Combat, dose Shaves, and other well-known self-defense books, describes In detail and evaluates 150 o! the very finest self-defense books ever printed! Tte emphasis in Manuals On Mayhem is strictly on combat — no ’sport' Locks are included.
Manuals On Mayhem Is dvided into four sections lor maximum reader convenience:
■ Tradtorvil martial arts books with a combat enentabon
■ Miliary combat lexis
■ Polcc texts
■ Cwiian defense instruction publications
Each book is described In detail and evaluated as to what level of expertise it is best soiled. Also Included Is a hand/ index by Mo. suggestions on hew to select ths books you need, how to order the books you want, and more!
A book o! this type h6A been needed ter some time
rars, shx-sh, sepp. iSOtMnge, softcover.
MANUALS ON MAYHEM: $6.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19010)
FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
The Secrets of Streetfighting
by Ted Gsmbordella
THE SECRETS OFSTREKl' FIGHTING
FIGHT
FOR YOUR
What makes the
common thug a better
fighter thsn you? He is
no b'QUQr or stronger
And you can be just ar>
mean as tie e
especially if ycur life is
on the line.
The dfference is that
he knows the secrets of
slreelfii/iting. In Fight
For Your L/fo, Dr. Tod
Gambordella shows you
these socrcts and
nstructs ycu on hew to
use them with lethal
cftccb’/crKjss. These are
nononsense. practical
strategies that are
designed to beat street-
wsc punks al their own
deady game. No flowery
katas are included. Only
hard-hitting kicks, tricks.
blows, nnd throws designed to incapacitate an opponent before te even
has a chance to react. Ctiaplor lilies include:
■ Fighting Techniques
■ Escapes and Counters
■ Close Fighting
■ Knife and Oub Defenses
■ Defenses for Women
■ and Multiple Attacks.
If you have aver bean in a real slrcclfight. you will appreciate the value ot this exdtng boak.
WZ dfi x 8H, 120pp.profusciy titustrsted. soft cover.
FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19083)
SUBWAY SURVIVAL!
The Art of Self-Defense
on American Public Transit Facilities
by Bradley J. Steiner, 5th Dan
iSUEWAY
? SURVIVAL!
n«( a»f or vi rtorv/
f* AwrarAMrtftikC t«ahui rvnunu
Bradley J. Steiner, founder ot
the iconoclastic and effective
Combato System of martial arts,
and author of Manuals On
Mayhem, Mow rho BOtf, and
other well-known sdf-dnfonso
books now focuses his training
ard knowledge on the problem of
self-defense in the subway. where
rape, robbery, and murder
abound. If you must use mass
transit facilities. Subway Sur-
vival.' is a took you cannot afford
io be without.
Contents include: • The Sub-
way Savage • Fundamentals of
Physical Defense • Vital Points
ard Natural Weapons • Base
Attacks for You to Practise • The
Rules of Subway Survival • Station Security • Improvised Weapons
and Other Survival Ads • Base Defenses and Their Application in the
SUbway • Ladles* Defenses vs. Polenta! Rape Situations • Pnnciples of
Defense Aganst Weapons • And mere!
This bosk has teen needed for some time. Brad Steiner writes with
your safety and interests in mind. Subway Survival! is a book that
ccud literally save your life. Atef reading for al city dwelors and
subway riders. Is ycur lie worth $7.95?
1550, 5M x8H, 141pp, profusely ffrustrated, softcover.
SUBWAY SURVIVAL!: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19050)
DEAL THE FIRST DEADLY BLOW!
An Encyclopedia of Unarmed
and Hand-to-Hand Combat!
DEAL
THE FIRST
DEADLY
BLOW!
Adapted from US Anny
FM 21-15 (Combative#,
this is as thorough a
coverage of hand-lo-hard
combat techniques as can
be found In a srigfe
volume.
An 'encycioped^' of
unarmed and terd-te-
hand combat — not just a
comptefe handbook, but a
local training onurse tor
Ite deadly arena where
second place fc lasii
This volume opens
with thorough ard re-
vealing attention to the
introduetdn ard furda-
mcnlafs. then on
with de la ied training in
the following areas:« VuF
ncrabte points ■ Fate ■
Basic throws and take-
downs ■ Kicks. ■ Blows ■ Holds ■ Escape from hofds ■ Knife attacks ■
Knife, rifle ard pistol disarming ■ Silencing sentries ■ Prisoner
searching ■ Securing and gagging ■ Bayonet fighting ■ References«
And much more!
Largest x 11, 157pp, nSustrated, soft cover.
DEAL THE FIRST DEADLY BLOW!: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19015)
Revenge
INTRODUCTION
Ever been wronged by somebody you can't
strike back at? Being hassled by an obnoxious
bureaucrat who has the law on his side, for
example? The books in this section will tell you a multitude of ways that you can get even with
anybody and remain anonymous. The revenge
and harassment techniques detailed in those
amazing books range from harmless pranks to
heavy-duty harassment methods designed to
reduce your enemy to a mental basket case. We
must warn our readers that all these books are
sold for entertainment purposes only.
POISON PEN LETTERS
Using the Malls for Revenge
by Keith Wade
Pcbau
Pew. IM&iò
SoW tor informations! purposes
ooiyf
A unique treat«* cn the foe art at
revenge. The, took contains ready
100 different exampies of tettorr. you
can use to gol oven vdlh someone
you hate. Some of the letters arc sent
50 the mark, soma ara sent to third
parties and soma arc ’from* the mark.
Everything you nond 5o know to get
revenge from the safety of a mailsox!
Who has pissed you off lately? A
discourteous wartrass? Your mail-
man? A taxi or bus drtv cr toon rude0
How stool a cop who has hassled
you? YOU *111 find Poison Pen
Letters to take care d! .ill of them.
Tetopboro operator grvo you some
crap? Car dealcrshp sell you a lemon? Pissed off al a manufacturing company? Or a department store? Insurance company didn’t pay off a claim? This amazing book has Poison Pen Letters to handle all ot them, too.
And that’s just the beginning. Let’s don't forget lawyers and doctors. Ard the fire department. Soo a lousy flick at a theatre and they v.oUdn’t give ycu ycur money back? Amcycd with a credit card company? Woll, there nro Poison Pen Letters for all of these. loo. and plenty more. Also included arc bps cn usng mail d-cps and obtaining necessary letterheads.
We must caution our readers that Poison Pen Letters is sod for informational purposes Cnfy.
19&L SHxSH. Wpp,x<rfcor*r.
POISON PEN LETTERS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19106)
KICKASS!
More Mayhem from
the Master of Malice
by George Hay duke
Just when you thought «1
was safe to turn the other
check, Hayduke ard h’s pals
return with their own twisted
version of the Golden Rufe:
Co unk> others ¿ofrpney cto
unto you?
If you have not already
stomped the bullies in your fife
with the information from
Hayduke's previous volumes,
then this latest revenge-Mod
opus will surely sat^ty yow
thirst tor revenge.
In Kictess'. HaydiAe and
his malicious bard of
proteges share the wonder-
fuly wicked ways In which
they liande the punks ard
jerks we ail encounter every
day. Whether M's tutting
heads with a pushy puNiC
rclatons executive, trashing
senders of junk mail, or devising novel usas tor black oivos. the nasty payback techniques and dcvlousfy ctavor ptats in this took are sure to leave your mark rolling in agony — ard you rolicklng with laughter!
Kicksss! is soto f^erti&rta^ment purposes on>y. so enjoy the blest from the master Trickster ard he never-ending fight against buttes everywhere.
193S. SU xSH. 196 pp. hardcover.
KICKASS!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19179)
George Hayduko’s
KICKASS’
More Mayhem from
—
■■■ Th*« ut VHHHHHI
POSITIVE
RIGHTEOUS REVENGE
Getting Down to Getting Even
by George Hay duke
Vengeance can ho yours whan
you follow George HaydUce’a rules
lor revenge. Rule number one:
you have been wronged in some
way — by a cheating tover,
overbearing boss, nosy neighbor,
odicious bureaucrat. or rude derk.
Soccod. ail your attempts at
gating along or solving five
problem have been rebuffed.
Third, your anger and frustration
have forced you to went to sink©
back. Fourth, and this is the best
rule of all. you’re read/ for
revenge!
Now is the time to call cn
Goccgci Hayduke. master bully-
txistor and aulhcc of the trend-
sotting Get Bvnn scries, whose
newest revenge classic will loach you bow to stop getting taken ard
start getting even.
Within the pages of Righteous Revenge, you will discover how to
wage psychological wartaro against ycur mark with a personalized
nasty touch. You will find unique ways to make the punishment lit live
crime, so your mark wU suffer extrema mental angush and you will feel
righteous relief. You will loam hnw to strike anonymously with minimal
risk and cost ard then M back and wa4 for the fun to txign. Settling the
score with con men. ¡orks. bullies. and other pcepte who have no
respect for you. your rights, or common decency win make you feel a lot
better. Righteous Revenge is tor entertainment purposes only.
1991. SH x SH. 239pp. hardcover
RIGHTEOUS REVENGE: SI 9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19175)
THE POWER OF POSITIVE REVENGE
A Winner's Guide to Exacting Vengeance
by Michael Connor
The Power of Positive
Revenge Is more than fusl another
revenge book. It represents a
breakthrough in revenge. This
revolutionary new approach har-
nesses the negative energy of
negative thinking and transforms it
into the power of positive revenge.
Mike Connor's now lltoixy of
vengeance elevates into a science
what has heretofore bean an art.
Discover bow the princple of
’every action has an ©qua! and
opposite reaction’ can change
your life! Just th'mk cf the erdtess
possibilities... negative energy you
direct agahsl bad guys returned 10
you in the form of positive results,
confirming youf new found status as a winner.
This compendium of winning revenge techniques provides you wah
diabolical tactics, ideas, scams, ard philosophies to slop peopto from
sneaking up behind you and slabbing you in the back. Because life can
be a bastard — and Ironically, it is often the bastards who wind up with
11«? juiciest morsels — this book shows ytxi how to don the guise of a
bastard when circumstances ard justice demand it.
A new age of revenge has arrived, and the rewards are out cf this
wortd. Isn't it time you became a believer in the power of positive
reven g:s?
1991. 5H xSH. 232pp, hardcover.
THE POWER OF POSITIVE REVENGE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19177)
REVERE
’t. >
. • •
. ** . • A Wlnnnr «
Ou>do to
t ■ tiding
Vnn(]<i.ircn
SCREW THE BITCH!
Divorce Tactics For Men
byDickHart
You said 'for better or
worse.’ but you never
imagined ri could get ths bad.
Hew bad'’
□ You come home from
work to find your wife
has toft — and she’s
taken eveiy sikzk ot
furniture with her.
O Before teaving town,
your wife drained your
bank account, maxed-
out your credit cards,
and wrote a fistful of
bad chocks.
□ Your wife wins custody
of the kids — and chid
support - by falsely
accusing you ot molest-
ing the children
Separation and divorce are
always emotdnally devastat-
ing They wn also bo a financial disaster. The law is stacked in favor of wives, ard you can bet The Brtch wMI bo looking out for Number One. YcuVo got to have a pMn If you want to keep from doing something stupid, something that's gang to cost you for a long, long time.
Marrying the wrong person is a serious mistake. Don’t make another even worse mistake by lotting things get cut cf hand Screw the Bitch! wJI show you how to protect yourself — bow to lake charge and slay in control — how to get through a dvorce without losing your assets, or your pride.
Contents include:
■ THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A "NICE* DIVORCE (it you don’t want to gert taken, you have Io get the upper hand.)
■ YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE (Nobody told you thcre’d be days Ike these (well, we rid).)
■ MANAGE YOUR MARRIAGE (How to take charge, from ’I do’ to 'It's bean swol.*)
■ EARLY WARNING SIGNALS (A funny thing happened at the bark today...)
■ DIRTY TRICKS WIVES USE (Take a took inside Pandora’s box) ■ BATTLE PLAN BASICS (When marital arts turn to martial arts.) ■ GET SNEAKY (Kcopng your affairs (financial and otherwise) private.)
■ JUDICIAL JUJITSU (Usvig the legal system as weapon) ■ TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN (Cover your assets.)
■ CUSTODY AND CHILD SUPPORT (Pay for only time tods ycu got to keep.)
■ YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME (When tlx? gwg gels tou^h. the tough miyvs out.)
■ THE PRICE OF LIBERTY (Breaking up is hard to du — its also expensr/e.)
■ GETTING HELP (From Oliver men who’ve been there.)
Screw the Bitch! is a Look, tfiat has been needed for quite some lime. It can save you toads of money and heartaches.
1991. SfixSH. 190pp. softcover.
SCREW THE BITCH!: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19174)
TAKE NO PRISONERS
Destroying Enemies With Dirty
and Malicious Tricks
by Mack Nasty
This is a no----------------------------------------------------------------------
hokfs-barrcd guide to drty treks, far more powcrfii and destructive than found in 'Harassment’ and 'Revengo' books. Milder techniques vtfll do for certain annoying people, but sometimes ll*?y dent go tar enough.
Let's say someone has caused you to lose your cO. and that tl*? consequences have been serious for you. Losing ycuf job ateo had the effect of breaking up year family, or cau&ng you to lo-xi your home because you coiidnt keep up mortgage payment. This calls ---------------------------------
ter mom than just a few dirty tricks for revenge, but there's no other way K> gel back at him. Assarjll. wen if you beat the living dayig’its out of him. will only land you in deeper trouble. You need ways of hurting Nm back, ways that went land you in jail or put you in a mere diffcult situation.
Anomer case, but maybe one that hits doser io home, is live person you thought was your Dost fnond. but whom you di-oover has been making it with year spouse Again, you want to do more lo him than just divert his mail, or cut ort his phone and utilities.
Those situations call ter strong tactics. You don't just want to cause your target scene worry: yea want to hurt his business or ruin his personal life. Ths goes txjy*ard sending hm semo magarlne subscriptions or placing his home for sate n the real estate cla^horis. You dart just want to play games wxh his mind. You’d ike to see him In ja»l. It possl- We. even if it's not for the crime ho committed against you. You derrt rnnd if he suffers physical pain and In/jry.
The techniques ctoscnbcd in this book are heavy-duty. Some are designed to harm cr maim your target. Of frame him fee a serious crime. Others will causo expertize property damage. SUI ethers will cost him Largo amounts of money. drecCy or indrecVy.
Sok! for ¡Mormationai purposes cvx-y.
1990, 5Hx8H. 123 pp. softcover.
TAKE NO PRISONERS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19169)
PAYBACK!
Advanced Backstabbing
and Mudslinging Techniques
by George Hayduke
Tho ‘Dirty Harry of
Literati,’ a ka George
Hayduko. strikes again with
another deadly shot of
revenge. Payback! is the
tales! addition to the
HaydUko arsenal of dcn'Wts
ideas for getting back at life’s
bUlies. bad guys and
bureaucracies.
If youVe been bady
burned by a bully. Payback!
offers vast opportunities for
humor, excitement and
□izonturo — not to mention
the eatislactjon of adhering
to Haydjke'8 version of the
Gokfen Ruto: 'Do Unto
CXhe'3 As TTie*/ Haw Dane
Unto You.'
Payback! features new
twists on old tr icXs as well as
plenty of now schemes, pranks and stunts. oompOmcnta of Ha>*duke
and hte band of fallhfU folowers Ifce Dick Smegma. Storm Trooper.
Reverend Nasty and Iha Bronx Bomber. Join them as they conlinua to
wage war against wrongdoers everywhere. (All in fun. of ccurso — this
book, like all car revengo titfos, te add for eatedainmen!purposes on!y.}
1939. S>i x3%. 193pp. hardcover.
PAYBACK!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19164)
। ■.! Be =
lour
B10wn.T"~
fcqualner
™ How to Fight the
System and Win
mu
Vida Santoro
BE YOUR OWN EQUALIZER
How to Fight the System and Win
by Victor Santoro
Are the people who
prosper In America any
smarter than you? No.
they lust know more about
working ttw» argtea end
crea’.ng their own op-
portune««;. Be Your Own
Equalizer will show you
how to make too system
more oqueabte.
By folcrwinp Santoro’s
no-ronsense. step-by-
step instructions, you'J be
abe to stand up for your
rights without being swat-
ted do*n by rich ard
powerful interests who
want to slay on lop by
keeping you on the
bottom.
-
Make yourself more
ecrpioyabie by know-
ing what to pul in a resume and wliat to leave out.
-
Pass polygraphs with flying colors regardless of what you have to hide.
-
Hold on to what’s rightfully yours in die face of IRS audts. dvorcc and lawsuit».
These and oUier guerrilla tactics revealed in Be Your Own Equalizer will hep you lake swift, silent aim at tho vulnerable spots In the system and make your I fa more rewarring.
1990. ShxPi, 104 pp. softcover.
BE YOUR OWN EQUALIZER: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19168)
GET
EVEN:
GET EVEN
The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks
by George Hay duke
George Hayduke. a veteran
trickster who tong ago decried ho
was ’mart as hot and not gong to
take It anymore.- now brings ycu
the latest word in do-K-yoursea
justice.
Gee Even 6 a compilation of
some ot ibn most Ingenious tncfcs
ever cooked up by Hayduto and
his merry band ot tricksters.
Remedos tor such varied
situations as computer
misbiiings. msplaced tog-gage,
exorbitant legal fees, and day-to-
day dealings with incompetent
bureaucrats are all hero. Bui
HaydUto also goes after the small
irritants of life: the neighbor's
chronically barking dog. the
mcroicss landlord. the tyrannical
boss, the rc/.-ng lover, and more!
The methods ranga from simple pranks Io sophisticated techniques of devastation.
George Hayduke is a master of revenge whose wisdom will he*p put you on lop ol any situaton where you formerly left helpless. This Lock is brimming wrth anecdotes describing ingenious tactics tlttl have Loen successfully employed by veteran tricksters. When you've been Cheated or wronged, and you Vo thrown up your hands in frustration, turn to Get Even. Thera e bound to be a cure for what ails ycu. George Hayduke doesn't pull any punches, and when armed with tliis book, neither will you! Sod for emeutairyvon! purposes only.
1979 sh x an, 122 pp. hardcover.
GET EVEN; $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19044)
Grove
SWEET
REVENGE
A Sena/; Qjde to ftetifctfxn
SWEET REVENGE
A Serious Guide to Retribution
by George Hayduke
George Hayduke. America's
Master of Revenge. is back
with updated material from one
of Ns favorite colections.
These revenge tactics and
tricks of the trade from A to Z
will keep ycu laughing and
schcmtng Read what avid
Haydukc foltawers such as the
Tennessean and the Stainless
Steel Rat are dcing to screw
the scum in their lives.
Target a specific topic of
revenge cc relish al Hayduke's
advice. Have fun putthg your-
self in the empowering shoos
of Hayduke and friends wxh
material on topes such as con-
doms. fluorescein. and super-
glue tombs. Titis collection
includes the creative and the
practical. the subde and the outrageous, all designed to put tho dirtbags
whnro thny Mong.
Ihas volume is presented for cn’.crtanrnent purposes only, tn the
words ol Hoydtfco, ’Hcavon. or Hei if ycu prefer, forbid that you should
actually do any of this sluff. It's all meant for fun and yucks, not for real,
of course.- This book was originally published as i Hate Youl
Sokffor entertainment pwposes onfy<
1989, SHxBH, 184 pp, hardcover.
SWEET REVENGE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19094)
GET EVEN 2
More Dirty Tricks from
the Master of Revenge
by George Hay duke
In the gxd old days, if some-
body dd you wrong, you asked
him to step oute'de and &e«e the
score with fists or guns. Today, it
is not that simple. Our complex.
Isw-ridtfen society has effectively
stifled the spirit ol revenge by
towering the legal boom on any-
one using those old t mo-honored
methods. Sul there are ways to
strike out anonymously at those
vexing individuals who make He
miserable for you. Get even with-
out resorting to violence, risking a
prison stey, or even lotting your
target know you arc tho one
chipping away at his sanity.
Now George Hayduke, master
dirty trickster, has produced a
sequel to his best-selling Get
Even. Get Even 2 presents a
wide range of all-new dirty tricks you can put to get even with big business, lousy landlords, bureaucrats, and ripolf artists of al types. The little guy’s don't have to lake A anymore!
A few of tee topics covered are: utility companies; sweethearts; lawyers: drugs; the military, mass transit; and iAazewmore? This is the real thing! Sold for eMerfalnn&rtpurposes onfy.
1981. 170pp. hardcover.
GET EVEN 2: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19058)
UP YOURS!
by George Hay duke
George Hayduke, author of
the outrageous underground
bestsellers Got Even and Gm
Even 2. tes sunk to new lows
with this collection ot dirty trtoks
and rotten stunts. With this
book, getting even is a wheto
new baB game. In Up Yoursf
you wil find the meanest,
nastiest tricks for al those
people you Imo to hate —
snakxjlkz; salesznon. crooked
landlords, sicko neighbors,
bungling bureaucrats and more.
Hayduke has dreamed up
appropriate methods for striking
back at sn>one who is buggirr)
you Some of the trtoks Are
harmless pranks that woukl
make your mother laugh. Others
are soph&ttontod techniques of
devastation, guaranteed to reduce your enemy to a queering fear-fmk.
Up Yours!also ccnlans ncvel scams and harassment techniques from
hundreds of Hayduke readers around the globe. The result is an
outrapccus compendum ol wonderfully wicked ways to get even wKh
the human vermin of this world.
Up Yours! Is crgar*zod alphabetically into aver 150 topics - - Addi-
tives. Air Pdlur.ers. Arson. Automobiles. Bureaucrate. Chemicals. Col-
togs Life, and Fast Feeds Stores, to name just a few. There te a gag
bore tor every person, business, or organization you have ever hated.
SM for entertainment purposes on!y.
1902, SU xan, 200pp. hardcover.
UP YOURS!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19077)
DIVORCE DIRTY TRICKS
by Robert H Morrison
At tasti Iha book -everyone
knew was needed but had never
been written — until now. Author
Beò Morrison has suffered
through three drrarccs or his own.
□rd in the precess tosarne an
•MO* — Master ot Divorce. Beò
changed from a trusting. tones!
divorce ’partner to a cunning,
hard-bargaining. ro-nonsense.
down-snd-dirty fighter.
Divorce Dirty Tricks can he'p
others become just as successful.
This down-to-oarth guido is not
eno of those 'creative divorce'
books thought up by some soft-
headed psychologist. Nor is « a
product of some 'men's rights’ cr
•women's movement' ergantza-
lion.
Divorcs Dirty Tricks Is tor both man and women — anyone who
wants expert, practical advice on divorce. Here is a virtual 'fighters
manual* of successi# techniques. Al phases of divorce receive Bob's
unique analysis and advice.
Divorce Dirty Tricks contains: Taeles and the law • Thinking about
divorce • Grounds, jurisdictions, defenses • The property settlement •
Alimony • Custody and child support • Custody tactics: togal and cth-
erw$e • Special situations arri facies • Money matters after the taci •
And more.
Divorce Dirty Tricks is a completo education in divorco. Every step
of the way Is outflnod. from plannng In secret, to a successful tnish.
This authoritative guide can give you Ito Inspiration and knowledge to
win!
19M, MxM, TMpp. softener.
DIVORCE DIRTY TRICKS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76039)
TECHNIQUES OF REVENGE
by Victor Santoro
The ’Gocfathcr of Harass-
ment' returns with this collcc-
tbn of techniques for inflicting
deliciously devious malicious
mayhem on Ito moral cretins
who make life miserable for Ito
average guy. In addition new
harassment techniques, chap-
ters on determining the victim's
vulnorabiily, timing arxf Ito
harassment inventory are
covered. The teehrtques de-
scribed offer a wide variety of
approaches to the problem of
gaining justice, whether from
an indivdual, a corporation, or
a government bureaucracy.
Chapter Utas Irtfude: •
Vidor's Theory of Vulne-raMlity
• Ito Hsrsssmeni Inr^noccy •
The Bases • Timing — The
Criticai Factor • Straniare on a Train • Rnconnocenng the Mode • Classified Ad Salos • Ito Lab# I itols • Lost and Found • Outcast Organizations • Banks • Supermarkets • This is a Stk:k-up • Instrument of Evil • The Poison Pheno Call • On tho Job • Blind Dale • The Government • Y»'idening the Field.
Everything you over wanted to know about Techniques of Revenge! Sok! for informeikono! purposes onty.
19SS, SH x 8%, 96 pp, iHi/slrated, soft cover.
TECHNIQUES OF REVENGE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19111)
YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL
by Keith Wade
The Person Pon strikes —
ready to do battta with all die
jerks out there wto have
screwed you ©ver, yet seem to
escape justice. Give 'em toll
from the safety of your mail box?
Let's face it. there are people
wto just flat out nwd their ass
kicked who. because of who
they are. wool ever have that
happen. Enter the perwer of the
Poison Pen. Your revenge is in
the mad Tto bggcr tho enemy.
Iha harder to Is to attack through
other methods. but tow are
oxomp: from tto power of tho
pen. With Ihu ad/ent of our
modern society and the power of
Ito pen. the walls that once
protected jerks tovo crumbled,
and ttore's pmeious kite ptace left to hdo.
Attar somo introductory ramarks rxi how to choose the right letter for your mark. Your Revenge is tn The Mali presents morn than 5 dozen dfleront examples of letters you can use to get won with semoono you hale. Some of tho tatters arc sent to tho mark, serro are sent to third parties, and scene arc 'from' tho mark.
Ind-vidual marks frem insurance adjusters, bank tellers, interior doc- orators, funeral directors. beS bops, insurance salesmen, butchers, and many more arc covered thoroughly. Then comes tie really fun part: petting ©von with g&remnfent aVdaisii!From lax ccllecters to the health departmont. from the OMV to vehicle Ir^poclors. and much moro — never again will you have to suffer in ¿lerrco because some ferrol-facod bureaucrat has given you some shit. From now on. Your Revenge fs in TheMaii!
sow for informstionsipurposes onyr SH x CH, ISOpp, more Ihrrn SO ietfere, xott cover. YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19146)
TECHNIQUES OF HARASSMENT
How the Underdog Gets Justice
by Victor Santoro
Tired of being stepped on?
Take tieart! This book is a
virtual encyclcpedia of dirty,
rotten stents and scarns >ou
can use to ctaiim ycur own
justice! Now. at fast. iTB
easier than ever to wage re-
venge warfare on the people
wto have done you drly.
wreaking havoc and devasta-
tion among your etomtas.
Become a one-man army ot
revengo with Techniques of
Harassment
Here is the methtotfogy
and strategy of harassment,
how to got information on
your targels. Impomsnnton
tochnques, contamnanls.
manipulating others to un-
knowingly do your drty work for you, and much moro.
No legal or moral judgments are made by the aultor and readers aro warned mat this book is for e'ytertainrjyentpurposes onfy! suiter in
sitance: let Olivers suffer along wXh you.
fSS4, xSH, 16Spp, ifluxtrated, hardcover.
TECHNIQUES OF HARASSMENT: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19110)
Guns
Introduction
Guns are as American as Mom and Apple Pie!
This section has books on everything there is to know about guns, including how to shoot them, and even how to make them.
All right America: SHOW US YOUR GUNS!
GUNRUNNING FOR FUN AND PROFIT
by Ragnar Benson
GUNRUNNING
■ = h.Mll = = ■ » • z-4-a-
= ■ • ZEDEl
= ».ES_rZS = H
Coating danger. surrounded by
polb'cal intrigue — and ataays in the
thick of 11« action — the gunrunner
can shape thn course ot history. Gul.
how can th« aspiring gunrunner keep
from gott.ng shot with his own
merchandise or wnrtng up in jail,
whio plying hi» tmdo?
A 30-ycar veteran of tho
qunrur.nng trade. Ragnar Hensen
tolls ycu what Io look out for. How to
make camccbcns, whore to buy ard
sei weapons, what is scllng ard
who is buying, haw Io get the goods
fnxn Point A (where thn/re not wrxth
much) to Point B (whore they're
worth a tot), political and economic factors to consider, and bow to
make gurrunring a business are all covered in this book — tho only one
of iU kind’
Just as Ifhportani. Benson tells you how to get cut of a hot spot in an
emergency, how to get pad. the pitfate you are likely to encounter. and
what tho latest U.S. gK)vemmen< regulatons are relating to arms
trafficking. An extensive checklist of do’s end dents is given to help tie
novice gunrunner enhance his business — and stay alr/e.
1988, 8X xll, lT2pp, tOvstratcd, appendices, softcover.
GUNRUNNING FOR FUN & PROFIT: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25PS3)
FULL AUTO
Modification Manual
by J. Flores
This is a complete. iltostratod manuai cn seteebvo-ftfe conversions for tha (blowing weapons: Minl-14, AR-15. HK 91-93. MAC 10-11, ard the M1 CartJino. This nentfy updated million new inctodfca two fulkauro modfications for tho Mnl-14, competed machinist's drawings ard tuidng Instructions for all auto-sears needed. plus three different methods to modify your MAC 1011 to either fui-auto or seledfre-fire capability. With this new edtfon. you can convert all Five weapons into the* * fulty-automattc configurations with esse, as al procedures are thoroughly explained in an easily understood. fully ilustraled, step-by- step manner. Without a doubt this is the finest conversion manual cn the market.
198!, SH 71pp. Hteatratod, softcover.
FULL AUTO: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25050)
IN THE GRAVEST EXTREME
The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection
by Massad R Ayoob
IN THE CfAVEST EXHOMi
II» ferie •! tU
lira ars li r«r*ts*l
Ths excellent book e nr.t
full Of bUtshi*. as so many ’gun
fighting' books arc ths so
days; it is written by a man
wlto lias used guns in
defense. In The Gravest
Extreme was written by a
polfce officer tor civiians who
may need lo own or carry a
gjn to defend themselves. Il is
packed full o1 sourd ajdvfce on
when, where and how to use a
gun to defend you'seif. R is
one of the finest gun-fighting
bocks we have seen.
Contents include:
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Setf-defeDM and lethal
force -
What you shodd know
about citizen’s arrests -
Women and guns
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How and when to use
firearms in your store
-
Howard when to use a gun in your home
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How ard when to use a gun in the street
-
How ard whon to use a gun in your car
-
The deterrent effect of defense»« handguns
-
Common sense about cariybg guns
-
The high price of 'Handgun Machismo*
-
Choosing a gun for defense
-
Basic gunfighting technique
-
Gun safety
-
What lo do after a gunfight
-
And more.
The sing'e best book we have seen on handguns for sclf-dcicnsc, Ihfe excellent book is recommended highly to anyone who currently owns a gun. and to anyone who Ivas ever considered buying a gun 'just in case.' In The Gravest Extreme is a fine piece of work and deserves the widest possible distribution.
'Guns ace the only weapons that put a ptysjeatiy sma# or weak person at parity wrth a powerful very posskxy armed, crirrina!.'
— Massed F. Ayoob. tn The Gravest Extreme
1960. 5Hx8H, 130pp, frustrated, softcover.
IN THE GRAVEST EXTREME: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25034)
ARMED DEFENSE
Gunfight Survival
For the Householder and Businessman
by Burt Rapp
There have been tola of too*
and articles written defiling with
detense against crime. Most give
advice about locks and alarms.
Some oven ad.iso the reader not
io bty □ gun bocauso it could be
more dangerous to himself than to
the cnminal. The defeatist view-
point is typical of the person who
knows nothing about guns.
The bcok is for live person who
has doodad to use a gun for
protection. If you prefer to hand
over your wallet to the thug, stop
re.tolrg nghl here. If you feel that
oxira tocks and alarms are all you
need, don't read any more. If you
tniy feel that you could not use
deadly force against a person
threatanng your life. this took is
not for you. Make out your will and
bo sure your Insurance is paid up.
This book will show you haw to teach yourseN to shod well enough 10 save your life in a variety of situations. You win loam techniques and tactics thai work, not just rejections of somebody's tbconcs. You will find cut haw to protect yourself by dcodng what tactics you need. This book also covers what ycu need Io know about the legal and emoltonal aspects of surviving a gunfight.
Chaptor* include: • Tie Odds Against You • The Threats • Passive and Active Defense • Weapons • Ammunition • loaming to Shoot • Gunfighttrg: Myth and Reality • Target Shooting and Combat Matches • Guns and Tactics • Practical Gunfighting Tactics • Yoir Home Is Your Castle — Maybe • Armed Defense to tho Workplace • Personal Security Outdocxs • Gunpoint • Le^al Probtoms • Thn Emotional Component • Whal to Do II You Get Shot • And more.
Armed Defense \z, a book that should be read by ovary householder and busness owner - it could save -your life and tho lives of year toved ones.
1969. 5H x OH, 214 pp iifusfrefed. soft cover.
ARMED DEFENSE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25065)
GUNSHOT INJURIES
(2nd Revised Edition)
by Louis A. LaGarde, M.D.
This cbssic work is naw available for the first time in 75 years LaGardc's Gunshot tnfuftes was the standard textbook cri Uto subject at tho time of WV/I. Its success was duo to LaGardo's encyclopedic knowledge of firearm*, pro.nciil.is. rrzxttcinc and the human body, combined with a grt kx ctoar wnbng and expression. Bullets and ihn injuries caused by them have changed little over the past century.
Chapters include:
■ Characteristic Leskxis Caused by Projectiles
■ Symptoms of Gunshot Wounds
■ Gunshot Wounds of the Head. Face and Neck ■ Gunshot Wounds of tho Spno ■ Gunshot Wounds of the Che*i
■ Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomon
■ Injury to Peripheral Nerve* — Injury to Blood Vessel
■ Gunshot Wounds of Joints
■ Gunshot Injuries of it to DlapViysos of the I org Bones ■ Casualties of Battle
■ and more.
1916, 6x9, 460pp. more than 100 Mustrst/ons,
indexed, hard cover.
GUNSHOT INJURIES: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25069)
Itow To Make
A (ampkte Cslde
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
A Complete Guide
S&tnccrs for /css than 63. (XV 8u6t
without toots* Sounds incredible?
Naw you can silence any firearm
usng r.cms found in any
neighborhood supermarket!
Th* detailed manual irciudos over
65 ctosoup photographs a-xl
drawings to help anyone build dis-
poeaWe sMoncor* that arc just as
effective a* "professional* models,
but which can casiy bo constructed in
minutes, withcut tools, using only
inexpensive, roadty-available items.
team bow to make silencers from:
Soft drink botdes; Window screen;
Pep bottto caps: PVC pipe; and much
more.
1964, Sh x6H, 85 pp. Mustrsted. soft
cover.
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 20026)
DISPOSABLE
SILENCERS
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
VOLUME II
A Complete Illustrated Guide
The mosl ctxnpkito. upio-datc-
manual on homemade sfcncers! An
al-row collection of scarcer plans for
the man short of time or money!
Th* fascinating sequel to the
bestselling How To Mdco Daposab/c
S&wtfs $<$&&& more sophisticated
designs, al of which can bo
constructed wxh a minimum amount
of time ard money, without tic rwed
tor expensive machinery or loots.
Now everyone will to able to
silence weapons of any caliber (from
22 rimfire* to .30-06 rtftos) wmg such
inexpensive Items as automebfc
freeze p<uas. hoses, washers, and
many oil tor easy-to-<>it parts
Stop-by-slep d reel tons, nustratons, well a/or ICO ebse-up photographs a rd parts lists era inciudod to make tho job easy.
IMS, SH x 6H, 115 pp, profuxeiy iihntreted. soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS.
VOL II: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 28027)
How To Make
DISPOSABLE
SILENCERS
PRINCIPLES
OF QUICK KILL
Lucky McDaniel devciopod a mc-hod of amazingly fast and accurate unamed marksmanship, which was so affective that tho U.S. Army wanted to learn it. The bock on McDankl's methods, instinct SbooHtyg, has long been out of print, but wo have the next best thing. A/mry Training Text 23-71-1, *hicn covers tho wmc technique (the Army Galls it *Otick Kil’).
This publcslion provides gudanco In 1ho trainng procedures and lochniquo of inslrixrtton of basto rifle marksmanshp and liw fast unalmod mclNod of fire catted Quck Kil
Loam it wth a B8 gun’ How to detormne your master erfo, how to hit trry discs thrown in the air 8 Ornes out of 10. and haw to simpty and e.-iaty hit any target with ’Instinct shoeing • A must toe hunters, as well as self defense!
6 x 10. 72pp. 40 iftustrstions, soft cover.
PRINCIPLES OF QUICK KILL: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25054)
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
by Ronald B. Brown
Hew many 'homcmado gun*
bonks have you rend, only 1o
discover that to make the thing work
you needed a metal lathe er a maing
machne? Well, not ths tmel
•Practical* 1$ the key word tor
Homemade Guns And Homemade
Ammo! Three years In preparation!
This Is the erty book that shows you
how to make guns and gunpowder
and primers — al under ono cover.
This book covers it all: tegaities.
concepts of batistes. a basic 12
gauge dvotgun design from pipe,
simple gunpowder recipes, primer
material. reloading and much more
— ifxiu'Jiixi designs ftx a homemade
doube barrel, a muzzictaadcr, pipe
szes for ether calibers, and even more?
Prxnary explosives (v^hizh arc required in small quantities to make
carl rd go pernors) are the Achilles' heel of firearms. The author gives
two supor-simp'o recipes for making primer material. Simpldty and
easy avallabttty of the materials are the overriding ccnsdoratons. and
the recipes presented balance safety with usefulness.
Throe ways Io reclaim potassium chlorate tram commnn materials.
Sources of chcmlctfs. with addresses. Step-by-step directions with
plenty of ctaar Illustrations and photographs. This Is one book that ratfly
deivers what it promisee!
The last chapter shows you herw to retoad ammo with the most crude
and primitive of loola. After all. having all the '«gradients is of ro vatoe if
you canT put them together. Everyone shoo'd know the contents of this
book. Even if you have ro intentions of ever Voiding a firearm. lbs in-
formation in this bock is an insurance poScy. No matter where you may
kro in the world cr under what regime, live knowledge represented in
this book offers you a chance to cope. It otters hope, not in nice wishes
and goodwill. but in tangible fad and step-by-step illustrated instruc-
tions. That's why it was researched and that's why it was written.
Loompanics Unlimited is very preud to offer its readers the singte
finest book of Ils typo over written — Ronald 8. Brown’s Homemade
Guns And Homemade Ammo!
19S6, 5X 3C 8%, 190pp, more Hut» SO detailed
drawings sad photograph*, aoftcovor.
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25052)
THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK
Quick and Dirty Homemade Silencers
by George Hay duke
As a sidetine to his revenge classics.
Gecrge Hayduke. the Master of Maue.
explores the shady borderlands of
Haydukery — the construction and use of
homemade silencers! These simple,
effective silencer designs are your
passport nto the world of muffled may-
hem. And test of at. they can to made
right at your kitchen tabto with common
Items lound around the house!
Be warned: George does no: adrocate
the illegal construction or use of ¿fenced
weapons. In fact, he cutfoes explicit
instructions on how to be sure you are
legally registered before building, buying
<x otherwise aoqUdng a silencer. After all. hs knows that a legally
silenced firearm has curtain legrtirr^ite appficattons that you cou'dn'l
otherwise got away with in this increasingly restrictive and uptight work!.
1989, $H x8H, 89pp, Illustrated, softcover.
HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 28029)
—'rhe
llauhike Silencei
Hook
~ (Jiiirk nnit Dirty
Ilonirnk’Kl'*
LEAD POISONING
25 True Stories from tho Wrong End of a Gun
by Chris Pfouts
a 25 TRUE stones of people who
teve been Shot andsurvrredM
There ate two ways this book can
save your Ho. First, if you’ve never
been shot, there are vital lessens to be
foamed from the stones of those who
have. How did tec presence cf a
nickel-plaled handgun save one man's
life? Howr can ono person get dropped
by a bullet in the arm. while another
gets shot full in the face yet manages
to throw his adversary out a second
story wndow? The answers to these
quosticcs — all found In real-tite
accounts — will glvo you valuable
insight into tee violent world of
gunplay. This is tee gritty reality
behind the gunshot statistics and wound taltstfcs ¿tudies.
If you ¿wupbean shot, this extraordinary booK will help you sort out the experience better than any unknowing pain therapist or psychiatrist ooUd ever hope to. These are tee stories of 25 others Ike yourself, who were pul through the most traumatic experience of llveir lives, yet lived to talk abcut it. heal, and go on.
1991, mixBH, 184pp, hardcover.
LEAD POtSONING: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25087)
DEADLY WEAPONS
Firearms & Firepower
VHS Video Tape
This video tape presents me most valustxe information on firearms yw will ever have a tfiance to see. Alec Jason's Deadly Weapons is a hlgb-qualty. professional video — over 1D3 minutes of blazing oction. demonstratona and teats! Ortginslty produced for law enforcement personnel, stale and federal agencies have used this video tape to familiarize new and special unit recruits with weapons elfects. Deadly Weapons has now found Sts way into tee chrlian market, where it has become the best-selling gun video ever made.
Deadly Weapons entertains as it educates. It cttcctr.-ety do bunks 'knockdown power- myths by showing armor-clad men bo-Ing shoe wllh 44 Magnum bullntr. and .308 NATO rounds. Jascn and a partner shoot thcmso>-os and cnch other at close range... with llttfa effect.
Here are same of the questions answered by this amazing and informative vkfeotape:
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Which bullets will penetrate a car doer? A wfrxJsh'eto?
-
Just how quiet is a real silencer?
-
Will tlw impact of a rifle btf let knock a man down?
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Will a bullet ¡gn?.e a car's gas tank?
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What will a .50 calber machine gun do to a car?
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How cttectr.'O is full auto fire? ♦ Haw cttcctr.te is bedy armor?
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Will a .357 Magnum KTW armor piercing bullet penetrate a car's engine block?
-
And much, much more!
See the results of those amazing tests on ths amazing video tape! minute VH5 vfdao (spa.
DEADLY WEAPONS: $49.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19130)
VIDEOS ARE NOT RETURNABLE.
Damaged tapes will be replaced.
__________________________________
THAT EVERY MAN BE ARMED
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
by Stephen P. Holbrook
In recent years, pub'ic debate on toe tesue ot ’gun oontrol' has sharpty escalated. One group, too prohibitionists, opposes tho consliluCOnal right of private possession of firearms (especially handguns) and proposes that possession of firearms shodd bo confined to live military and to« ptftoe. Othor groups bcJlr/.« that tho Second Amendment means what It says: the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be Infringed.' The battler, between these prohibitionists and constitutionalists are being waged in local, state, and national legislatures, and In the courts all around the country.
If a court hod that ‘the people' mentonod tn the First Amendment are a select group of craters, or that small printing presses and cheap handbills ccud be outlawed as long as expensive newspapers are published, outraged civil libertarians would quickly dspravo these restrictive views by reference Io history. But firearms prohibtionisis are currency making arguments comparable to tho above far-fclchud hypothettoal cases. Ihey claim that select military farces. net the poop'«.' have a right Io keep and bear arms. Yet if tlzj BJI of nights has any moaning at all. it nvjst bo based on tho linguistic usage of those who wrote it. The vatdrty ci We prohbil/jcret argument must be tested by the historical ovdulkm cf Ui© constitutional right in question.
That Every Man Be Armed is the most comprehensive work ever written on tho right to koep ard bear arms, which is guaranteed by the Second Amendment Io the U.S. Constitution. Stephen P. Habrook traces tho phloscphicaJ. historical, and legal roots of the right c< the citizen to havo arms, beginning in ancient G roc co and carrying the analysis feeward to toga I and policy controversies of tho 1960s.
1S84,5x9, 206pp, indexed, sett cover.
THAT EVERY MAN BE ARMED: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25064)
MODERN
WEAPONS
CACHING
4 Pown-M- EurfA Apprwxh la naatirtg lf»0 Gu»<einmcj«l Gun Grab
MODERN WEAPONS CACHING
A Down-to-Earth Approach to Beating
the Government Gun Grab
by Ragnar Benson
II can^ happen hare?
Think again. In New
Jersey, f. has already
happened. Like something
right out cf Rod Square, a
law has passed requiring
most owners of semi-
automatic weapons to give
them up. Tho forces mat
would snatch away our
Second Amendment free-
doms are gaining rromcn-
turn, and the time to
prepare is now. Firearms
owners must Ir.cralty lake
thor weapons under-
ground — bury them — or
be prepared to have tltern
coruscated.
Ragnar Benson has
spent yearn refining
W’oapons-cftchlng stmtogy
down to a science. Mow,
with too need for such drastic measures homing ever larger on too
horizon, ho tolls you how to construct a foo'proof cache guaranteed to
weather tho elements for years, and where to place it in order to outwit
the authorities and boat thair high-lech metal detectors.
In the race against the firearms roundup in th© U.S., gun owners
must follow Ragnar's example and look to the future belli with mistrust
and a will to prevail.
1990, 599x899, 104 pp. Frustrated. softcover.
MODERN WEAPONS CACHING: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10055)
FftACNAft
GUN PEOPLE
by Patrick Carr and George KZ Gardner
Who are the gjrowners of America? They are mon and women,
young and old, from every regton of the country. JoumaAst Patrick Carr
and photographer George W. Gardner have put together In words ord
images a unique album of these gun people. Provocative erri
sometimes (istortring. It is an eye-opening took at coe aspect of
American society today.
Who are the Gun Pcopfo? Como on. America: slx>w us your guns.
Rich people, poor pcopto. old people, grandparents, and pocd old
boys. B’^K-k people. white people, bcautful women, littfo okl ladies an
tennis shoes. Tell poopto. fat people. short pccplc. sfcriny people, ard
tho guy next dcor. Gun Peoples al around us — Corr« on. America:
snow us your guns!
You may not cmn guns. Ycu may rot even like guns. Out if ycu arc
cunaus to sco ard hear Americans who do. Gun People is a book you
should read.
1335, 899 x 11, 143 pp, dozens of photographs
of Gun People and their guns, soft co ver.
GUN PEOPLE: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25066)
MODERN BALLISTIC ARMOR
Clothing, Bomb Blankets, Shields,
Vehicle Protection Everything You Need To Know
by Duncan Long
YOU are morCxSy vulnerable to
attack, even with a VAC-10 tucked
under your arm. an ©ver-vigilant
bodyguard, ar twenty years* experience
in martial arts, for wo livo in a world in
which rrwrdcr has became an
accepted form of ccmmuntoabon
between the deviant minority of society
ard the fcrw-abidirg citizens.
Though too 'bultat-proor vest is a
mythical boast. modern balfcrtic armor
stronger and lighter than ever before
ance too ad«*cnt c4 the Kevlar fiber.
Modern DoUisfic Armor detei's toe
myriad uses I© which Kevlar clcch may
bo put. from btflet-resittanl suits,
vosts, goggfes. gtovee and Oliver clothing, to armor for land vehicle# and aircraft, shfolds for riot police and S.W A.T. teams, ard even rings and bomb suppressien blankets as utilized by bomb squads. Complete with lists of manufacturers, dea'ers ard distributors, this tock is toe only source ycu need Io pul ballsbc armor to work for
1386,599 x 899. 104pp, frustrated, soft cover.
MODERN BALLISTIC ARMOR: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19133)
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF
GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK
by Don McLean
Do you want to know how
to make your own gunpowder
from such easity accessible
items as dead cats, whiskey,
your Ih'lng room ceisng.
manure. 'Foors gold.’ and
map to syrup? And do you
want to know bow to do Ü with
simple band tods and tech-
niques that have been used
for centuries? Well, now you
can with The Do-!(-Yourself
Gunpowder Cookbook, a
practfcsl and safe approach
to making the oktest
propeiianb'exptoslve known to
man.
Gunpowder Ivas many
uses arrf Is al but essential
for tong-term survival. This
book covers everything ffom
cld govern ment recipes tor
use by its espicnage operatb.es to the authors own Med-arxf-true
methods using common wols and equipment.
Don^ be a slave to available) technology, because it « breaks down
or olhnrwKto becomes unavaftabto. only your stockpile of knowledge will
get you through tough times. Sold for ¿nformxdonalpurposes only!
1992, SJi JC8Ji. 88 pp. fHustrxtcd. softcover.
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF
GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25071)
IMPROVISED MODIFIED FIREARMS
Deadly Homemade Weapons
by J. DevJd Truby end John Minnery
With antigen activ-
ists continuing to chip
away al tee Second
Amendment, the reed
to revive this tongoul-
oi-print classic can ro
longer be dented.
Through vivid descrip-
tors and extra-ordnsry
rare photos, Iha book
documents Ute ex-
tremes to which peopto
will go when normal
supplies of firearms are
denied.
Ycu wifi pet the low-
down cn improvised
firearms straight from
tho pros: The Vtelcong,
the Maha. CtA. street
gangs, Special Forces,
prisoners. Fiipno guer-
rillas. and a handful of
Others whose Dvw dafxmdcd on lhc<r own mganuity in devising homemacfe pistols and shotguns.
The message Is clear If ycu take away a freo peoples' firearms, they will make others. As the«se pages demonstrate, Ito moihods. means, and toctmology are simple, convenient and in place. Poice-stete dictators provide the moti ve.
1992, SJi x 8Ji. 296pp. iki/s!roted. softcover.
IMPROVISED MODIFIED RREARMS: $21.95
(ORDER HUMBER 25070)
DUELLING IN AMERICA
by Major Ben C. Truman
In lbs first reprint of Ben
Truman's classic work cn
dueling (first published in
18B4). )<hj will meet tee famous
and tee infamous on the field
and hear the words ci men
competed b/ tmcition to defend
their tarw with their fives.
Careers are runnd. femllos
shattered, and reputations aro
written in blood from tho frontier
to tho hals of Congress.
Famous dueling talcs
abound with the likos of Jim
Bowie. Sam Houston. Hamiton
& Burr. Stephan Decatur. An-
drew Jackson, and Abraham
Lincoln. Subject matter lakes in
fighting legislators ('Un pa ria-
mcnlary Procedures^, fighting
editors (The Perils of Ute
Press’), and fightng for love
(’Affairs of ihe Heart*). With accounts bote cruel and humorous. Truman explores the inotives that compelled men to settle their differences in mortal combaL He corxfemns destructive pnde while celebrating courage and seeks the high moral ground whie smiling at the macabre aracics d dangerous men. Duelling tn America n a urtqu© timn cepsuto ol attitudes and mores, a giimpsa ot our colorful past nat Is rnoro than a snore footnote in American history.
1884, Sfi X 8Ji, 265pp. PhiStreted, indvxied. soft cover.
DUELLING IN AMERICA: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25073)
INSTINCT
«i
Defensive
Handgunning
for Police and
Personal
Protection
INSTINCT COMBAT SHOOTING
Defensive Handgunning for Police
and Personal Protection
by Chuck Klein
In a gunfight. m'ssed
shots and loel lime can
result in lost life: your own.
That’s why checking your
sight picture is one of Ute
worst things you can do.
During close-quarters com-
bat. when fractions o! sec-
cods can mean the differ-
ence between Irving and
dying. you dcnl want to be
doing anything but pulling
Iba tagger.
It’s just plain ccmmcn
sense to keep >our eyes
focused cn Ibu danger in an
armed confrontation — a
natural. Instinctive reaction.
This updated and expanded
version of Chuck Klein's
original txx>k will help you
hone those Instincts ard
holster them with learned
and accurate pistol control.
You'll loam the key techniques of instinct shooting. including how to
identity the smallest centralized target, focus your cyns at the correct
distance and concentrate fuity cn your target Pius, you'r perform
realistic drils and receive target instruction that exchanges luck for
skill... and wh»c2i would you rather bank on when your life is on the line?
1992, 5Jix 8 Ji, 88 pp. fffifstrated, pJossjtry, softcover.
INSTINCT COMBAT SHOOTING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25072)
WEAPONS
Introduction
This fascinating section contains books on Just about every type of weapon there is: Bullwhips, slings, knives, Ninja weapons, crossbows, brass knuckles, as well as how to improvise deadly weapons from everyday objects like beer bottles and pool cues. Look Out!
BREATH OF THE DRAGON
Homebuilt Flamethrowers
by Ragnar Benson
DiChT mamma tell you
not to p'ay with tiro? Ycu
probabty ddn*t Istcn. or ycu
wouldn't bo reading this
now. You Ike fire. We al do.
H's powerfiA useful, and
Inghtenirg. That’s why a
flamethrower fe such a
perfect detenive weapon:
coo whitt of the dragon's
napJrh-ieehted breath will
put attackers at your mercy.
Breath Of The Dragon
shows ycu bow io bold your
own flamethrower using
essy-to-lohow. nontechnical
instructions ard common,
legal corrponenls. many of
which you can pick up al
little or no cost. This hoavty-
itustrated gu'rfe will show
ycu how to bulb n portabio. backpack dragon or a veh’Ce-mounted
nrebreathing monster. Ragnar also ir-dudcs a simple formula that taka»
ths guesswork cut of making napakn.
Flamethrowers aro legal, easy to txjikl and ma'mtan. simpte to cp-
orate. Fud ts cheap and ptentful. So if you think ycu need something a
little more Intmidating than most conventional weapons, invest a small
amount cf money end trno and loam to make ycur own flamethrower.
1990, SUrxHt, 65 pp. iffustretod. softcover.
BREATH OF THE DRAGON: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19183)
TRADITIONAL NINJA WEAPONS
by Charles Daniel
Which weapon is bosl? How shoo’d I train? What makes the fighting arts of the niffa so effective? Those aro just a fow of the questions answered in Traditional Rin/a Weapons. It's all here, from lighting knife skills to wielding the sMdo and chan. This is the official guide to tte combat tools and fortJldden secrets of Japan's nhja dans!
The author. Charles Oantel, Is a yondan in bujinkan rfnpo tai-jutsu. Ho roccvod his training Cirectiy from Or. Masaaki Matsumi, the 34th grandmaster of togakure-ryu ninjutsu. Mr. Dane! te well-known for his artcic-s and books on European and Asian weapons and fighting arts.
193$, 6x9. 157 pp, Ulustntod. softcover.
TRADITIONAL NINJA WEAPONS: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19147)
ART OF THE BULLWHIP
(VHS Video)
Produced by Mark Allen
This is a Ax; video! Il contains
everything you always wanted to know
about whjps and wh'p cracking, but weren’t
sure who te ask. Numerous exports take
time Io cover the history of the whip from
the rhinoceros hide whips of ancient A’rtca
Vo the Australian kangaroo whips of today.
• Why a whip cracks — told by the Dean
of Physics nt FaMgh Dickinson Uni-
versity
-
How whipa- are matte — explained by
the man who made them for ’Indtena
Jonos* -
Holywood stuntmen reveal the? secrets
Walch never before seen footage of
America's most talented whpcrackers from Preus, nightclub and nxfeo arenas doing their dangerous and amazing routines and even see tho lost art of the tong whip. You will be amazed al the stunt®, style and techniques of today's whlpcrackors — and you wil loam bow to crack a whip yoursoHI
Video« aro nonroturnobto.
1959, 65 minutes, fuH color VHS video tspe.
THE ART OF THE BULLWHIP: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19170)
CLOSE SHAVES
The Complete Book of Razor Fighting
by Bradley J. Steiner
Here it is — the ¿¥*>book over wnr.on cn
the bloody art of razor fighting! Contents of
ths amazing and gruesome Lock include: •
Carry and concealment cl the razor •
Prcpcr lighting grip» lor the razor • Sten»
and body movement • Vital target areas •
Base attacks • Strategies and tactics • Use
of tho dosed razor as a weapon • Self-
delense techniques with ths razor • How to
ttelend yoursett against a razor ♦ How to
choose end care for your razor • And much,
much morel
More than 60 photographs illustrate in
datad tho easy-to-understend text. Close
Shaves will make you an expert on this
little-known bloody combat art!
1930, Sfi x 3H, 66 pp. moro tnon 60 photcgrsphs, soft cover.
CLOSE SHAVES: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22038)
ROLLING THUNDER
Turning Junk Into Automobile Weaponry
by Ryan K Kephart
In terms o1 personal
security, you are most vut-
nerable to danger white
traveling in your car. Now
Ryan Kephart. author of
Hwy Fwmwk riming
Junk Into Arsenal Weapon-
ry, shows you bow to arm
your car down lo its axles
with a bevy of wicked
surprises good for any self-
defense ©merger-?/ on the
road.
The clear, concise plans
In Rolling 77) under range
from. d version ary and ha-
rassing — binding lights,
smeko screens and tire
busters — to more serious
soHdcfcnse: mines de-
ployed from your moving
car. oil sicks laid out to send a pursuer carcoring off the rood and
firearms fired remotely from an internal control panel. Ycu can also
team how to rig a sea: belt to electrically shock a hostile passenger,
modify a trunk tock so It can bo opened from the inside and tuikf eight
crore destfVCttvo dovfcas guaranteed lo take the drive Cut Of any ve-
hicular assatant. AI of Eho pbns require eny common tools and tho
slrrptost of materials found h any workshop scrap pie.
Due to the extreme danger cf these weapons, as well as laws for-
bidding their ccostnjcbon. this took sokf for informational purposes
only!
1M2,5H ran, 72 pp, HfurtrstM, xrfwm
ROLLING THUNDER: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19187)
ZIPS, PIPES, AND PENS
Arsenal of Improvised Weapons
by J. David Truby
Through rare photos of
togarlous and very deadly
improvised weapons cci-
tectod from prisons. poFce
departments and Ttiird World
countries. J. Davd Truby
demonstrates that from a
tochnotagcal and psytho-
legtaal standpoint gun cen-
tre! doesn't work. Truby
categorizes a wide variety of
imp revised/-modified fire-
arms. describes their anat-
omy a-to toclmotagy. then
documents their distribution
and use. Finely. he presents
soma remarkable sophisti-
cated exarrples created by
guerrillas, secret agents,
criminals, prisoners, freedom
fighters and hobbyists around
the world. TTn undahiiblc
oondusion? A free people is an armed people, end tf ycu tako away the firearms of froo poopta. they wil make echoes. Bc<h ancient and mortem titres are reptete with frightening examples of this. So is this book. Sold for purposes
1222, SH x SU, 180 pp, Illustrated, sort cover.
ZIPS. PIPES, AND PENS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19190)
Personal
Defense
Weapons
PERSONAL DEFENSE WEAPONS
by J. Randall
'A good defensive weapon
should protect ycu I rem criminals
without making you a criminal for
carrying rt.* says J. Randall, a
private dctcctve and weapons
expert Randall has tried just
about every woapca imaginab'e,
from bullwhips to to staffs. yei
ha's a surprisingly low-tech guy.
One of his favorite defensive
weapons is the cigarette lighter.
'Five inches of tiame In ihe face
is incredibly frightening.*
TWs just a sample c< the
refreshing, practical advice found
In ths bock. Randsll evaluates al
kinds cf weapons — guns,
knves, slicks, gas canisters,
martial arts weapons, and many
others by asking some vary in-
teresting questions: • Is it too
deadly to use7 • to It irogal to carry it or brandsh it? • Can it be ccn- coaled, yet reached when needed? • It is comfortably to carry at al times? • How much skin and training does it take? • VAll it gross you out to use <? • I s It reUblc? Wil it break or w*aar out?
Randall covers such topics as: What is a weapon?: The lustory. evtfutkm and bockgrcund of persona) defense weapons: Characteristics of eped weapons: and Choosing a weapon for personal defense. Ha gr/as prolites. descripttans, and applicattans of the following specify weapons: • Blackjacks • Knives • Tear Gas • BulUhlps • Ftrcarms • Stool Capped Shces • Martial Arts V/eapons • Garottes • WaXng Sticks, Nightsticks and Canes • Ard more, includng your rrtnd and body as a weapon.
Randalls eemnon senes apfxoach to personal (fcfonso Is a plea» sure lo read. Because each of the weapons has afferent capabiilies ard needs, there is no ’parfeef woapen. Whatever your situation. Per- sonaf Defon&o WoaponsvAW hep you £nd protection you can live with.
1P92f Sii xS^, 1C2pp, iftuslrxicd, soft cover.
PERSONAL DEFENSE WEAPONS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19188)
IMPROVISED WEAPONS
IN AMERICAN PRISONS
by Jack Lugar
most ¡rdomsfing weapons book fo <xvw out in yasrsr
The story of pnson weapons is foscirtetirg, because Of the difficult conditions undar which prison inmates must acquire them. In some o? the mast repressive, most controlled environments on Earth, prisoners still make «and use weapons.
It woi/d bo unrealistic to romanltaizo this. The story C4 prisoners erri their weapons « not oridonco cf the unquencltelrility of the human spirit against adversity, c< anything lite iL In reality, weapons made by prisoners are usually crude and made for sordid ends. The photographs n this tock will make that point convincingly.
Improvised Weapons In American Prisons covcxs In vast detail Iha kinds of weapons used in prisons, how they are usod. whom ncy ara used against, axrd ho* ttiey are made. Cofrptete sections, with many rare photographs, co'/er knives, garottes, firebombs, blunt mslramcnfs. and even guns. The author also covers the hkflrg paces n prison, prison smugging, and escapes
Highlighting the easy-to-read Infrxmatva text are more than four dozen photographs of actual weapons, made and used by prisoners throughout the United States Improvised Weapons In American Prisons is tie most fascinating weapons bock to bn published in years! Be sure to order y^HX copy no**.
I9SS, 5H x SH. SO pp, pholoonrpkx, xo ft cover.
IMPROVISED V/EAPONS
IN AMERICAN PRISONS: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22023)
KNIVES. KNIFE FIGHTING,
AND RELATED HASSLES
How To Survive a Real Knife Fight
by Marc “Animar MacYoung
Fining yourself In the middle
of a knife fight is no lime to
discover that you don’t know what
you’re doing. You can forget the
useless crap yotfvo seen in tire
nxn’ics or loomed in the dojo: if
you don’t. y'ou’l probably ord up
in the morgue.
Lei Marc ’Animal’ MacYcung
show you the down erd dirty
reality of knife fighting. How do
yxw avokf a knife fififit? How do
you deal with someone who’s
pdled a knife puling ycur
own knife? How do you handle
witnesses? When doos a kni*e
fight escalate into full combat?
Animal covers these lopes In
detai. as well as clxx&ng a geed
fighting knife; tlx» best (and worst)
grips, draws and stances; dealing w?.h the police; devious street tricks that people will use to slap a knife into year kdnay; and much more.
In a knife fight, you have to rely ixi your wits, mobility, speed and knowledge in order to survive. This book shows ¡uM how serious and complcated knife fighting can be and wn provide you with the necessary skills to come out on top.
1990, 5Hx3H. 12Spp, (ffustmted, softcover.
KNIVES. KNIFE FIGHTING
AND RELATED HASSLES: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22041)
SWITCHBLADE
The Ace of Blades
by Ragnar Benson
Snap. For most poepto.
the cfick of a switchblade
knife is an omnous sound.
Once considered the symbol
of tho ttack-Jackctcd street
hoodlum, switchbUdes hove
boon feared by no public,
scorned by mainstream kntte
dea’ers and outlawed by
misguided federal ard local
laws. Yd the switchblade
do«» havo legitimate uses,
¡xnd these knr.*es arc experi-
encing rono'A'od interest from
sportsmen, adventurers and
others who know the value of
a good cno-handod knfa.
Because of thoir unfor-
tunate reputation, solid In-
formation on swttchbtodi» Is
hard V? C«XPO by, Thto votoma
tens you everything you need
to know: types of switch-
blades srd their operating mechanisms: how to use swxchttodo. butterfly, and gravity knives: unusual cofiaclors’ models; assombing a knife from a kit; federal and stale laws; ard troubleshooting, caro and maintenance.
Discover what author Ragnar Benson already knows: Once you have ccme io rely upon a switchblade, you wffl wonder how you ever managed to gel by without one.
19S9, 5» x 3H, 104pp, ftiustratod, soft cover.
SWITCHBLADE: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22039)
EXOTIC WEAPONS
An Access Book -
by Michael Hoy and Duncan Long
The long-awaited update of the classic gu’do to weird and wonderful weaponry is finally available. Ten years in the making. Exotic Weapons is beck and better than evert Completely revised and updated, thto is tlx) most unusual and thorough weapons source bock ever printed.
Here’s just a taste ol Ilie many strange and useful weapons described ard iluslratod in Uis book:
-
Aikucl-i • Air guns • Arns • Adali • Baliscng knife • Battle axes • BB machine gun • Belt buckle knives • Bily dubs • Black powder puna • Blackjacks • Btowpjns • Bolas • Boomerangs • Brass knucMes • Chemicat weapons • Chinese tong weapons • Cutlass • Crossbows • Exploding arrows • Fighting krJvos • Rare • Flame throwers • Garrotes • Gravity knives • Halbard • Hand Grenades • icepicks • ton ray gun • June • Ju-)o • Kainga
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Kama • Lasers • Longbows • Maces • Machetes • ManriWgusari • Meteor hammer • Naginata • Nets • KUnchaku • Paintball guns • Panga • Phaser • Fike • Power staff • Push daggers • Razors • Robots • Sabers ♦ Sat ♦ Sap gtovos • Shriek alarms • Shuriken • Slingshots • Shockers ♦ Sone weapons • Spa,its • Spearguns • Spnnars • Spring knives • Steel whip • Straight razors • Stun guns • Swuchbtotos ♦ Sword canes • Swcrd umbrellas • Tenlo • Tear gas • Tetesccpng nightstick • Throwing knives • Tiger cfcws • Tomahawks • Tcota • Tranqunzer guns • Trench knives • Whips • Yari • Yawara stick • And much, much moreffl
Yot/H lird photos. Iltoslratfons and detailed descriptions of dozens of knives, strange guns, polce weapons, medieval weapons, enn-handed knives. Oriental weapons, swords, urd«xwatar weapons, prirrcv.-c weapons, and sill moral
Here are some of the amazing features of tho Now Edtico: • Mora than 100 different weapons «^sorbed and ilustratcrf. with deal«» ir,tings for all! • More then 130 photographs and illustrations of :ho worlds most unusual, most fascinating, most diflicdt to find weapons — with information cn hew YOU can acqure them» • Sources of books, plans, periodicals, vkfeoe, organizations, and addtionai information for an types of weaponry listed» • Mere than 240 dealers are listed, with their complete, up-to-date names and addressee, so YOU can purchase any or all of the wild and wonderful things sho<n in this bookl
Thore’s never been another book like this. It ¡3 an absofote must fo< weapons hobbyists, collectors, mercenaries, survivalists, hunters, police, nililacy personnel, and anyone interested in Vie strange, the unusual, iho unique, tho dwtolcal...
Order your oop/ of the amaz-ng Exotic Weapons: An Access Book today! You wit be wry pleased, w* know!
19S2, x 11, 142PP, more than 100 weapons, more than W
Must rations and photos, more than 240deafer names
and addresses, indexed, softcover.
EXOTIC WEAPONS: $14.95
> (ORDER NUMBER 19101)
BLADE MASTER
Advanced Survival Skills for the Knife Fighter
by John Sanchez
Enter tha Blado Masted Hcxo is a knfa training manual that can transform tho average knife pckr.y into a knfa master to to reckoned with.
For the txrt limo aro roveatod fighting socrals of knifo masters tho world error. Learn Vie Samurai art ci faiutsu — quick-draw assassination trchnlqu«» ter the knfa spcxmls!; tho two-handed doubq kn -e combat «yfc of th© anctont Chnaso; how 1o defend against ti c deviant strategist you may moot on the streets; plus technics for the soto trainer.
Topics also inotodo sclccton ard construction of targets; ilustrated IrataJCtfon in arciXar ard ladder patterns; advanced infexmaton on the snap-cut, powvir slash, and reverse grip; knife-shifting techriqucs for gaining tho tigh^ng edgo; and more.
1M% SHxSH, OSpp, Mt/straled, softcover.
BLADE MASTER: $12X10
(ORDER NUMBER 22020)
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND
by Kurt Saxon
Tn© thought ci vldonco
Is unp’oasanl to decent
poepfo. Yet. if you want to
survive the worst, you
must at least imagine Si©
worst The worst wcu'd bo
starving marauders pillag-
ing aw way across mo
land with insane abandon.
People you consider
average and friendly today
may become desperate
and vicious later. You
cant expect the foolish
ones wlio have bat 11»sir
all on General Motors to
switch to you* way of
thinking in lime to survive
with dignity. Nor can you
expect them to starve
quietly or be content with
whatever amal surplus
you might bo able to spare.
If ycu prepare Io survive, you deserve to survive. As gentle as you may bo. yea cannot bo in favor of the improvident looters surviving at the expense of yxrj and year friends ard family. Besides, their survival would only be temporary. anyway. They woukJnt utilize your methane converters, organic gardens, tools or books. After destroying you they wotfd vandalize your operation. grab up whatever Icod was handy and move on.
Your lack of rosistanoa would contribute cnly to th© toss of year knoMedge io tha next generatico. But with the right amount of tha right kind of resistance, you could pass on your Ideas to future generalons. 77m Poor Mao's James 5d/?dccud to responabto for the country being named after you later on - at /eastyou wtif be aSve.
Beedes, It Is a tun book right now. It Is the undisputed loader in tec field of books on improvised weaponry. It a a rdgost of th© test tricks of mutants and guerrillas the worid over. Economical, safe, craft)’. You can roiz enemies even without hurting them. Ard if you're short of cash, there Is even a section on counterfeiting.
Get 77^ Poor Man's James Bond and >oj wii be as secure as anyone can be in the event of ctviizatton's colapse.
Here is a partial listing of the contents of The Poor Man's James Bond:
♦ Pipe or’Zip* guns ♦ Time bombs
♦ Match head bombs
♦ Making tear gas
♦ Pipebombs
♦ Gas tank bomb*
♦ Suiurtc add and potassium chtorate
♦ Impact ignition tre bombs
♦ How to make grenades ♦ And much, much more’
Also Included Is information on testing poteens. knockout drops, bomb handling and protoebon, a lengthy section cn arson by etoclrorics. and morn. more. more...
All In all. the most complete coloctton of mischid and mayhem knowhow ever ool'ected between two covers. Considering tn© state c-f the couNiy. not to menlkm the worid. it would behoove w to know this stuff. You might find 4 being used against you to the near future.
f972, 477pp. itfuftnrrsd, »on cow.
THE POOR MAN'S JAMES BOND: $21.9«
(ORDER NUMBER 19035)
THE SLING
For Sport & Survival
by CUff Savage
The weapon David used to kill
Goliath Is sill; useful today, and ccUd
be partictfarfy valuable In survival
situations. The sing may be an ancient
weapon, but there are seme powerful
reasons (or including it in any modem
arsenal. It is sitenit and has multiple
uses. It is powerful and Ms better
rang© than a bow. It is accurate and
easy to loom to use. It is easily im-
provised and highly portabio. It can bo
madly oorcoalcd. Ammunition is
available anywhere for free, ard f. ts
inaxponsr.-o, and takes up little room.
Sounds like a pretty gocd weapon,
doesn't it?
The sing can be used lor hunting.
agricuture, sport and survival. Il is the ultimate light-weight weapon for
widomoss survival. And in urban settings, where more powerful
weapons are banned, knowing how to use a sling is a valuable and
important skit The Sling is the complete manual on this Side-known
weapon. It Ids how to make cos. haw Io us© one. and when and where
to us© one. Six different slhgng techniques are described and
rtustrated in ctolail. Aso ncludod is advice on how and whore Id
pcactco, descriptions of ammunition from stones to Molotov cocklals. ard practical apptcallcns of thn sling— Irciudlrg a section cn medom guerrilla warfare! The Sting is highly recommended for all survivalists ard weapons enthusiasts.
SX * Sti, 72pp, profusely Mustnrted, »on cow.
THE SLING: $735
(ORDER NUMBER 19103)
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND
Volume 2
by Kurt Saxon
Kurt Saxon strixns again!
Five great works In one
velum*! This book Includes
the complete Poor Stan's
Armorer, a unique work with a
whole arsenal of Improvised
weaponry not In any other
books. Homemade bazookas,
¿fencers, boeb)’ traps, bolas,
oonooatod weaponry, rr.nns,
fUI auto plans, caltrops, dart
catapults, krrfe throw-ng,
water pipa shotgun, smoke’-
gas grenades, zip guns, take-
down rocket launchers, horre-
mada missiles, and much
more’ Poor Man's Armor-
er Is atone worth the price of
Poor Man's James Bond,
Votume2t
Afeo Included in this mammoth volume are American Ju-J^su
(1942), a comprehensive course that has every move illustrated and described; /:np.’U^>ed Murtifons Haa-nOooir. TXO1-210. written by xne US Army for tie Special Forces; in War (1937). a
comprehensive collectton which Includes formulas for every poison gas in use at the trine; and The Chemistry of Powder and £tp»tawws(l943). the bble of all those who want lo assurn themsetvas a supply of e>ptostves.
Kurt Saxon has done an excellent Job of assembing hard to-fnd information cn mischief and mayhem — So/d fortn/orn^tx>naipurposes onfy!
1991, Sfi x 11, 4SOpp. fffustrated, son cover.
THE POOR MANS JAMES BOND. Volume 2: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19189)
HIDDEN THREAT
A Guide to Covert Weapons
by Mark Smith
HIDDEN
THREAT
«Mix SMrm
A Mt bixkfo that hdds a functional black pew da r revolver, a kicked lltlie knife concealed In a comb case, a wine bo-ttto w\th a hdden cargo of woA^cns and ammo, a shogun ddgused as a common highway tore, a simple tarnethrowor made from a cigarrillo Ightor and a can of hairspray — these ¡terra are net the stuff of spy thrJIcrs. They are disguised weepens in uw today on the streets cf America that can poso a serbia. H not desdy, throat to anyone who encounters them.
This guide, intended (or use by law enforcement personnel to enhance their knowledge and security when searching subtle,
vehicles or pfemtóes. provides a fasetoatng gtmpse Inte th? darker sido of police work, a world in which things are no? always what they seem lo ba. Based on reports circulated to ptf ice agicctes around tic country. Hidden Threat ilústralas Objects offered for salo by commercial manufacturers. Impressed weapons and items that have been modified c< booby-trapped to create a nasty surprise This bock will ad security protesalcrate in the detection of covert and improvised weapons, and hep informed cozens recognize Innocent-foctong Items that can be used lo lethal advantage.
tSSS, S'i x8H, ICBpp. iffustrated, sort cover.
HIDDEN THREAT: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19157)
UNARMED AGAINST THE KNIFE
by Oscar Diaz-Cobo
The ony book a va table on how to deterd yourself against a knte tighter Devastating self-detense techniques for the unarmed target cl a knife attacker. Simple. Ife-savlng moves taught by Oscar Diaz-Cobo, martial arts instructor, author of Sconcing Sentries, ard chef instructor of United States Meta Combat.
This book is rot a rehash of general knife fighting techniques — the material presented here la for those individuals who come face lo face w*h a krrfe- wtatoing opponent and expect lo come cut on top!
Contents indude: * The psychdcgy
of the knife fighter * Physical and mental conditionng * Attack ard destroy * Combat tactics * Hard-to-Krife combat ★ Knife tock ard hold defenses * Specialized knie attacks * Makeshift weapons ard attacks * What to do rf you gel cut * And more.
Many manual and Instructors teach anti-knife combat, tut mosl of their techniques are sucdal. This text is afferent. Here the ai/hcc combines hard-earned street smarts with dose-combat martial arts to give ycu practical, proven techniques. Over one hixdred photographs show ycu each move in detal.
19S2, 5H x Sfi, aspp, frustrated, soft cover.
UNARMED AGAINST THE KNIFE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22028)
PRISON'S BLOODY IRON
Deadly Knife Fighting Tactics Revealed
by Harold J. Jenks and Michael H. Brown
Prison's Bloody Iron is a revolutionary book on knife fighting. written by men who have ’been ard done.’ Many never- before-ldd secrets of knife fighting are revea’ed, Induding Fie saving tecrnkiuas and moves and tricks, all iterated with dozens of large, dear photographs.
Prison's Bloody iron is a radical departure from ai me previous»/ teught techniques! You don't have tfas fuV story on knife fighting untilyou have this book!
Prison’s Bloody iron covers it alt on krife righting — from what oct to do (pubs lo rest a lot of the commonly taught techniques) lo
proper, effective moves; from history to physical cordfctoning. There is
even a sectton cn how a woman can use a knife effectively (of sei
defense.
AS Iha mcn'cs. tochnqucs ard secrete revealed in this book arc not
just untested Sheer/, but arc real and have either been used by the
authors or by s&cmeone they observed in action! The authors of Prison's
Bloody Iron draw from their own expertise, learned both in the street
ard in federal prisons, where they witnessed more knife fighting to a
week than oilers have seen in a lifetime. The/ share secrete with ycu
that ycu ccukl not learn efssmhere!
This book in an absolute must for anyone who has an interest to khfe
fighting, self defense, ard survival in a world where ycu must deferd
yourself or de!
fsrs, S‘A xSH, 121pp. iih^tra!cde sort cover.
' PRISON’S BLOODY IRON: $10.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 22025)___________________
SLASH AND THRUST
by John Sanchez
Knlte lighting and bocks »bout this
deafly art have enjoyed a great
resurgence lately. However, until
Slash and Thrust, no book ever
presented a complete, telaiy practical
knife fighter's training program That
is exact»/ whac this bock does talis
the novice knife fighter how to train
himself to become an expert.
The author also presents many
Hita known, more sophisticated
techniques, making this the deal
selection for novice and expert alike.
Covers:
-
Choosing U>e Fighting knife
• Carrying methods
• Ccmptale training program
• Guard ard grip positions
• Slashing and thrusting
• Hunan target areas
• Quick toll strikes
• Footwork -
Dcccpisxj movements
• And much moeo.
This book also gives plans for making your own krrfe sltoulder rigs,
and lets how to iso and throw oxebe edged weapons, such as !f»e
sbufiken. shaken. Irish dart, chakram. Chinese dcch dart, ard hand
quarrels.
19SO, SHxSH, 72PP, Mustrated, sort cover.
SLASH AND THRUST: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22022)
MANTRAPPING
by Ragnar Benson
Mxntrapping is the first book ever published to explain how to cape-uro Iha! rrosl dangerous game: men. Ragnar Benson, well known as the author of Survival Poaching has based INs gut-wroncNng took on his own personal mantrapping experiences white on special assignments in Asia. Africa. North and South America, ard Cuba. You have to see this book to beiwo itW
Mantrapping reveals over a dozen dHoroni traps specifically designed to catch ard UI humans. Ths how-to-dolt manual is illustrated with delated Une drawings covering such mantraps as !hc Malaysia^ Hawk, the Andes Mountain Trail Trap, me Sheapcator's Rock FaS. the CiAtor? Wafer Trap.
Survivalists can usa these systems to help protect their retreats. As Benson says: ’To know bow to trap ycur enemy is to know how to mold tong trapped yoursotf .• Each trap can bo constructed with primitive materials end Icols. Inducted g a special chapter on Iba phlceophy of manfrappng.
1M1, 7 x SH, topp, iHuxtrafad, sort cover.
MANTRAPPING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19063)
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Advanced Mantrapping Techniques
by Ragnar Benson
Man — IM most dangerous and daady game Of all — is without e
doubt chadenging prey. In response to requests for rroro on trapping
ths elusive game. Benson, author of the Infamous Mantrapping. tote
how to easily rig more ingenious traps without exptoswos and accou-
terments of war.
Benson ourirxjs tha do's and dente for a surefire mantrap In a
chocklst. ard urban trap-; designed Io make your victim's fife undeni-
ably mftserabio rxn Included. Bridge and snake traps, urban ard wflcter-
0599 traps. hellxptor and haavy mifary*oqupment traps, trap Chi-
canery. and more nro dotniInd.
1*6$, SttxtH. 120 pp. RtoatfaM, sort cover.
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME: $12.00
CORDER NUMBER 19122)
PUT EM DOWN, TAKE ’EM OUT!
Knife Fighting Techniques
From Folsom Prison
By Don Pentecost
You may think ycu know knifo
fighting theory through books, meg-
aznes and martial arts training. but
unless ycu've actual!)’ been assaulted
with a knrio. it's ¿rftheocy!
The knife fighting techniques to Put
'Em Down, Tako 'Em Out! were do-
vetoped to one of the most \w»tont
environments on Earth inside Fol-
som Prison. They are techniques mat
go far beyond what you will encounter
on the streets.
Loam the difference between knife
tghsng fantasy ard knife fighting real-
ity. The author exposes the ludcrous
techniques perpetuated on TV and in
me movies, as well 88 the absurd (and
oven dangerous) methods taught by martial art instructors. He then OUilnes /w.Ssflcaspects d knife defense and attack unknown to those whose never been In a krtfe fight.
Anyone, indudhg you. can be the subject of a knife attack. Maximize your chances of survival ard success in one ot the deadtest encounters you will over face.
1233,5H x Sfi, 64 pp. 50photos. soft cover.
PUT EM DOWN, TAKE 'EM OUP: $8.00
CORDER NUMBER 22037)
RAGNAR’S TEN BEST TRAPS
And a Few Others
That Arc Damn Good, Too
by Ragnar Benson
Catch even me craftiest
critters with the trap lore
perfected over generafiorts.
Ragnar has cut tod me best cf
mo best, hs all-time favorite
traps; traps mat are easy to
build, easy Io mantain. ard
guaranteed to week! With
these little-known imps, ycuil
consistently nab every
imaginable fish, fowl ard
beast. includ ng bobcat, fox.
coyote. doer, mink. coon,
quai. duck and the craftiest
of al — man.
Debited ¡lustrations sbow
you how fo bold a floating
duck snare, den trap, "board-
aga'ns!•a-chtoken-ttou8e•
sol, Ivo-mouse set. campfire
sot and fish trap, to name
lust a few. And with Ragnar*»
expertise at hand, you can
avoid me bate and sets mat
deni work and never have.
Whcmer yo u wan! to make money seling poMs. like lo eat cheap and
well, want lo get rid of a nasty pest, or sirrpfy love a challenge, ycu
went bo disappointed.
1055, 5^ x SX, ISSpp. MosfrxiMf, soft cover.
RAGNARS TEN BEST TRAPS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11092)
NO SECOND CHANCE!
Disarming the Armed Assailant
by Bradley J Ste/ner
You'fe staring do^n
the barrel of a gun and
you're unormed. Your
number is up. unless
you net instantly, to
wrest conlrcl and koop il
— because you wont
has-e a second charce.
Bradtoy J. Steiner. Com-
to Id export and ai/hcr
c4 Qbse Shaves ard
Kvfor Ektc, pro'/irics you
wflh lb« psychctogtoal
ar>j phy&CAl skills you
need to save ycur own
lite ard possitxy lb«
lives of ochers.
Detailed de-criptions
and pbolce graphically
den-onstrato the types
of assailants and
weapons — Uto hand-
gun, knife, bludgeon,
shoulder weapons and
improvised street weapons — ytxi cctfd lacn and Iha instanl. ruthless
action that will disarm and overwhelm yctr attacker. Whether your
occupation demands these skIFs or you smp>/ want to protect yourself,
this is the key lo your survival.
1SSS. SHxSH, 176pp, profuselyNvstnrted, softcover.
NO SECOND CHANCE!: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19120)
BRADLEY J. STEINER
wn< CAN
DEATH ON YOUR DOORSTEP
101 Weapons in the Home
by Ralf Dean Omar
There is growing mstoncss nn.-l chaos in the streets rapists, bur- g&ars and other nghftstaJkcrt prowl al will. What will you (to when human wolves come scratching al your ctocr? In every room of your house or r-partmccil are hundreds of weapons you can use to detond yourself and your loved cnes from a home invader. This book shows you how to uso such common objects as broom handles, magazines. or a simple pencil lo boat back a burglar, rap^l. or even an armed attacker!
Topics covered include: Strategy; Environmental Weapons; The 101 Weapons; and more. Can you afford to be without the survival knowf- edga contained in ths book? Don't bet your life on it!
1993, $H x3H, 73 pp, Musfrtfod, son cover.
DEATH ON YOUR DOORSTEP; $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19192)
BUILD YOUR OWN LASER, PHASER,
ION RAY GUN, & OTHER WORKING
SPACE-AGE PROJECTS
by Robert E. lannlnl
Want Io build a hard held ultra-
sonic pain field generator? Or lets of
other neat spnce-agn weapons and
other high-tech projects?
Here la your chanco to got in-
volved In the tochnologos of tho
future — to build several cifferent
kinds of workable lasers. ultrasonic
devices. (including setf-defense,
pest and Insect control units). Tosía
cote. ultra high frequency power
suppted. on producing dcsxcs. and
some hghty practical security units
such as an infrared viewer and a
voce-operated wireless phone
transmitted
The took óóñUite We WgNy skied do-lt-yoursrf guWanco ths! makes ri possible for you 10 buito these amazing projects? And you can be sure those pro/ictr. wil rcaty function cacti orto has been de- sgned. bull, and thoroughly tested by the author, an export In the field! (Robert bnnni is an experienced electronics inventor. He holds patents or. sixh products as electronic insect control devices, ultrascnc p«st controls, fogtoss mirrors, stay awake devices fee drivers, and more.)
1933, TH x 9%, 400pp, fffustretod, indexed, son cover.
BUILD YOUR OWN LASER. PHASER.
ION RAY GUN, & OTHER WORKING
SPACE-AGE PROJECTS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19163)
FLEXIBLE WEAPONS
by John Sanchez
From the author of
Slash and Thrust comes
the dafiritivo study of
IIOMbto weapons, com-
pleia with construction do-
tala and training method».
Revealing a ungue dmon-
8ton lo self-dofonse.
Sanchoz examines tho ad-
vantages of fighting with
flexibto weapons.
Chan maoos, manriki-
kusari. stool wtxps, meteor
bate and rope knives — all
are treated Ind .virtually and
intensively. The? lethal
potential is for real! And
realsm — physical and
mental — is no bottom
line in this bcok.
Tho auUior offers
programs for seto and
partner training; tho section on sparring techniques includes designs for mock weapons and protective gear. Line drawings illustrate assorted weapons, strikes. carries, engagement attitudes arid anatomical targets. Blockng. gripping. locking, roping, and thrusting aro also discussed in specific detail. Sanchez’s new manual is a fine companion to the popular Stash and Thrust and al tlx» same time stands alcne as a ver/ special sc f-de fcr.se bock.
1931, 5Hx3Si, SOpp. iffustroted, sort cover.
FLEXIBLE WEAPONS: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19107)
WEAPONS OF OKINAWA
A Devastating Kobudo Arsenal
by Sfd Campbell
The samurai warrior raises
his katana (or the fatal blow,
sunlght gltofing along the
razor-sharp blade. Your hum-
bta fishing gaff is all that is
between you and the deady
wrath of the solder (A Ute
Japanese feudal ford. Crack!
You btock his powerful btow
with your tool, fieri unseal your
opponent from his mount in a
series of deft maneuvers. Now
you are above han, end have
hrn in your power.
Tlie threat of the samurai
was very real to the OWnawan
people, simple fishermen and
farmers. Whan the invading
Japanese outlawed weapons,
the Okinawans learned how to
turn tholr ordinary farm and
tshlng tods into defensive weapons. Faced with an aggressive enemy and disarmed. they developed a secret, lethal mattel art with whch to defend Ihemsah'es. the? loved ones and their homes.
Tito toots, nunchaku. sal. and to — all orlglnaly simple, wooden Oknawan tods — are orly a few of the weapons of Okinawa that comprise Ute deva staling arsenal of this andent Ki^budo art. Weapons Of Okinawa reveals (hem all. irustratng why these classic arms are still Icthaly effective today.
X937, SrixSH, 163pp. 103photos, softcover.
WEAPONS OF OKINAWA: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19144)
POOL CUES, BEER BOTTLES & BASEBALL BATS
Animal's Guide to Improvised Weapons
for Self-Defense
by Marc "Animal" MacYoung
Would you adrr.it Io getting
your ass fcckod with a hair-
brush? Anrnat would, because
Ito knows It can happen. In fad.
any ted that ads ard abets
knocking someone into next
week can be ccns’dered a
weapon — no: just the lethal
¡stuff Ike guns and knives. Ths
book wil broaden your definition
of what constitutes □ weapon to
Incfucfc ropo. beer bstt’es. pens,
pool cues. cats, tables ana
chairs, keys, gn anrl tonics and
mom.
Yoix martial arts training is
not Ikely to protect you from a
guy coming al you with a Ure
iron or baseball bat. so you’d
better know how to wing it wflh
whatever^ close nt hand. Hero. Aramal gives you tlto know-how to do Just that. You’ll get advanced details that are usually left out of formal training, but which youll need to defend yourself in a real streetlight. Youll team how the basic categoncr. of weapons look, feel and act so you can keep from getting creamed when somebody tries to use an object. in any manner, to wa.-Jo you.
Equipped with a new undorslandng of weapons and bow they work, youll be able to pick up damn near anything .xnd use rt to survive.
/«V. 5Hx 9%. 192 pp. iUustreM, softcover.
POOL CUES. BEER BOTTLES & BASEBALL BATS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19166)
CIA CATALOG OF CLANDESTINE WEAPONS,
TOOLS AND GADGETS
by John Mlnnery
Base to tfr»e CIA agent's
mission is the ever present threat
of dscovcry ard apprehension. In
such an emergency, he must
have a tod. weapon or gadget
with whch to evado arrest or
effect an escape Over the mere
than 30 years the CIA has bean
operating abroad, it has develop-
ed an intriguing colloclten d
specialized devices designed to
go undsiccted by airport scanners
88 well as pass the careful
scrutiny d enemy searches
Now. John Minnery. author of
the infamous How to KUf series,
provides an exclusive msdn look
al a sampling of too actual
Escape and Evasion devces the
CIA lias offered in its official E6E
cai?!03 </•*?<■ the The information contained herein is considered so classified that toe CIA adamantly dentes the very existence of some of these clandestine grjrto. saws, knives, daggers and chemical weapons. Ye: the documented facts say otherwise.
The contents of this Lock will mystify, stun and ultimately amaze you. Most importantly, the davtees described will give you insight Into the Ilves of those brave souls who live constantly on the edge in an effort to uncover "the truth that makes us free.’
1990, SH x SM, 129 pp, Mustested. softcover.
CIA CATALOG OF CLANDESTINE WEAPONS,
TOOLS ANO GADGETS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19172)
FINGERTIP
P IREFOffl
PEN Gra, KNIVES,
FINGERTIP FIREPOWER
Pen Guns, Knives, and Bombs
by John Mlnnery
Criminals, saboteurs and
secret agents Itove tong known
that the best disguised weapons
are devised from the most famBar
objects. That is why the common
pen has been used fee decodes
as a housing for concealed guns,
kravos and barbs. Compltad by
the author of the Infamous How to
KiH series, thr. ts too most
compteto book ever written on
these devious shock weapons
Fingertip Firepower is loaded
wih information. anecdotes,
photos and iltoslrations that wfl
give you the inside story co these
most esoteric of weapons. Bai-
feong pen knives, hypodermic
neede pens and booby-trapped
exploding pens are covercxJ. as are Uto many types of pen guns that have been davetopod over toe years. A special section features rare assassination and E & E devices. created and used by the Gestapo. OSS. SOE. CIA, Vletocng and other espionago. mfltary and torrerist organizations.
T99O, 9fix9H, 120PP, P1u9trxf^ softcover.
HNGERTIP FIREPOWER: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19167)
BLOWGUNS
The Breath of Death
by Michael D. Jan ¡ch
In toe realm of exo6c
weapons, the blowgun holds
a special status as an
anctom and mysterious loci
of si«en4 death. Blowguns:
The Breath Of Death is toe
first bzok to strip away toe
myslkjuQ of tois immensely
practical, remarkably effec-
tive. ard easily accessible
The btowgun may be toe
perfect weapon, provldng
the capability for accurate
and silent dcSvory of a
variety of projectiles n a vnry
toexpcnelve package. Author
Mchael Jentoh te a long-time
fancier, coitector ard user of
blcmguns. and horn he
shame with you the many
secrete of toc»r capabilities
□ Acquire modern blowguns and projectiles, moludng names and addresses o f mal order dealers
O Mnka your own btowguns arri darts (ineMhg ’special’ projoetites) □ Shoot your blowgun powerful/ and accurately □ Devise custom targets □ Customize, maintain and skxe your weapons □ Ard mere.
After reading this informative and entertaining book, you tco will become a beliover in the blowgun as a fascinating and serious weapon. Soto for toformatto^!purposes only.
1992, 5H x 319, SSpp. iiiustratCKi. softcover.
BLOWGUNS: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19191)
Bombs & explosives
Bombs, explosives, and things that go BOOM in the night...
Whether you want to blow some stumps off your back forty, or plans a time bomb in the UN. this section contains the information you need to do the job right, and still keep all your fingers and toes (and your head) in the right place.
These books are sold for informational purposes only...
CIA IMPROVISED SABOTAGE DEVICES
This book Is n oomprchcns'n'o study
of rr,provided sabotage devices made
fnxn. n most cases, common house-
hold Items. It shows bow to take tho
crudest oqupment and make the most
OttCCtve devices available. It contains
over 76 papas with 65 largo delated
itliaralions h a largo fiW x 11 format
Some o4 tho subjects covered are:
Improvised firing systems; Improvised
doicnators; Steel cutting techniques;
Improvised cratering explosive«; Impro-
vised incendiaries; and much, much
mere.
8fi x //. 82pp, frustrated, soft cover.
CIA IMPROVISED SABOTAGE DEVICES: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31020)
COUNTERBOMB
Protecting Yourself against Car, Mail,
and Area-Emplaced Bombs
by Lawrence IZ Myers
COINTERBOJIB
▼
lOL'RftLr
Hfln23Kn3BI wjjiiniwaM M.i&mMgGEQ]
From 1983 to 1983. too use of explosives
as murder weapons in too U.S. increased
more than 430 percent Regardless ci your
profession or position m Ifo. you could
become the target of a bomb placed by a
criminal or terrors.
Lawrence V/. Myers tea assembled a
hlgtiy effective approach to addressing the
throe most common methods c4 assassination
by expto&ves. Draufoo on hs 6«wUnco5 w
a counterterrorism specialist and the case files
of ti»e FBI Bomb Data Center. U.S. Secret
Service ard U.S. Deierrse Department. Myers
proposes a mercJess. controversial tactic: *0
use c4 special/ r^gad (but easy-lo-cbtam) soc-jr.ty devices that
detonate the torrb In the hands of the bomber, lolling him.
Myers stresses other deterrents that, whte not as extreme, are a'so highly effective. For informations! purposes oofy.
1991. SU xSH. 99 pp, frustrated, soft cov^r.
COUNTERBOMB: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32050)
CIA FIELD EXPEDIENT INCENDIARY MANUAL
The large, album-sized pages of this manual are loaded wilh large
dear »lustrations and text, whk:h cover all areas cf improvised
Ircondary dm-1ces. Ccmplcd from documents originating wilh the
Special Forces, tho overall subject is divided into 3 main headings:
ard Delays.
Each section has tables giving the names, characteristics. and
sources of all materials described. Those tables also give common, oh-
the-shett sources of otherwise bartHo-oWain materials An excellent
manual fee fire departments and law enforcement.
8to x 11, 85 pp. iftustratod, softcover.
CIA FIELD EXPEDIENT INCENDIARY MANUAL: $12.00
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 31019)___________________
RAGNAR'S HOMEMADE DETONATORS
How to Make ’Em, How to Salvage ’Em,
How to Detonate ’Em
by Ragnar Benson
CAUTION: 7?xr procedures and end
product described herein are extretYtefy
dangerous!
This is a complete primer cn making
improvised Wasting cape in one’s home
workshop. The basic recipe is a simple
threo-stop method requiring only three
drugstore chemicals, a handful of scrap
hardware and no tods more complicated
than a hacksaw and common mortar ard
postto. Tho author also covers 13
improvised devices that wil reliably trigger
the detorelcrs In ctovor ways. Ard leave it
10 RaQnar Bsrson to discover and share
wft resdefs yef siwtlwf revoluConaiy scrounging project — sjAopnj bfssting caps from aufomobSo air bag modules! Chapters include; Mechanical Ccnstruclicn ♦ They Dorit Want You to Know About TWs Primer Mixture • Final Assembly • An AXernatrve Primer Mixture • Improvised Trigger Devices • Air Bag Detonators • Ard Mere.
Be warned: construction of homemade detonators is one of frie rrost dangerous and UI-acMsod procedures in the field of improvised explo- srves. The resUthg end products arc extremely unstable and unpredictable. T^SDOO/c is soid for purposes orSy.
S^x8>i, Hpp, ntuxt/xicd softcover.
RAGNAR'S HOMEMADE DETONATORS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31045)
Ragnar’s Guide
co Home and
Recreational Use
of
High Explosives
Ragnar Benson
RAGNAR’S GUIDE TO HOME
AND RECREATIONAL USE
OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES
by Ragnar Benson
toe hshng with dynamite,
blowing stumps, mixing up
sugar chorale powder — you
will never be the same after
you decover the fun to be had
with high explosives.
irs not all fun and games,
though Benson details tech-
r»gues. material. hazards
and safeguards, drawing cn
h's man)- years c4 experterce
on the farm and as a consul-
tant an over the world. How to
obtain commercial high ex-
ptosMss. safely stoning and
transporting them, detonation
ischriQ.ies. improvised ex-
plosives arri more are woven
in with tales of Ragnar's out-
rageous ad.entures.
These techniques are
incredb>/ useful today. Wdh
them, a single IndMdual can easily dig a dry well, redirect creeks. blow
up bad guys and perform a host of otherwise Irrpossble chores of
Immense benefit to marJcnd. Sold for intormotfonAlptrrposos only.
1988, SHxtSU. 120pp. iiiuitrtted, softcover.
RAGNAR'S GUIDE TO HOME
AND RECREATIONAL USE
OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31042)
IMPROVISED RADIO DETONATION
TECHNIQUES
by Lawrence Myers
LAWRENCE W MYERS
IMPROVISED RADIO
DETONATION
TECHNIQUES
Radio-conirclied deton-
ation of strategically placed
exptostoa is a great way
to strike anonymously in an
unconventional warfare sit-
uaton. But UCW epera-
U.'ea often on>/ have the
most common, everyday
items to work with in their
area of operations. How to
$UI be (tovastafingcy ef-
fective win the simplest of
torts? in inis manual.
Lawrence W. Myers out-
lines how the following
common consumer elec-
tronic devices can be
modified to work as radio-
contrdled detonation de-
vices: 4T Cordless elec-
tronic touch-tone phones
4° Citizens band ratfo
transceivers 4* Children's
toy wfb’toe-talkies 4* Radio paging systems 4* Cellular mobllo
telephones.
Construction a rd deployment of redo-controtod detonation equip-
ment without the use of special torts or sophisticated electronics skds is
possible. Here's how it is (tone. Sold for informational purposes only.
196S, 5M xBfr, 80pp, frustrated. indexed, softcover.
IMPROVISED RADIO DETONATION
TECHNIQUES: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31041)
HOME WORKSHOP EXPLOSIVES
by Unete Fester
Home Workshop Explosives is a guide to making derroteon- strength explosives. It contains detailed, ilustrated instructions for fairly simple procedures using readiy available materials and supples.
The explosivos n ths book aro no: tha weak kind mod in rock quarries. Rather, they aro powerful mixtures with dramatc explosivo properties. Explosives covered include:
4* Nltroglycortn
4a Nltrogtyiool
S* Nltrcmannitol
4’PETN
4" RDX (cydcnho).
Written by the amazing underground chemist Unelo Foster (author of Secrets of Meti>ampheta<nine Manufacture and Stent Death). Home Workshop Explosives also covers the main ingredients for most of those explosives: nitric acid and suiphuric acid. I: incudes a chapter cn dclonaton systems. and detailed safety instructions.
Powerful explosives cannot be purchased without a well-documented need. But they can be made at home. Wo must warn you that Home Workshop Explosives is sold for informational purposes only.
2990, SH x8^f 128pp, iHmtrxtcd. soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP EXPLOSIVES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31 M3)
Don’t Be Misled By
So-Called "Black Books”
Because of a few unscrupulous publishers and dealers, there exists some confusion concerning authentic Black Books.
Some of the preliminary material for ihe Black Books program was published in 1969 by Iho military. This material was soon to be reproduced commercially and was known as TM 31-210, Imprwlsad Munitions Handbook. It sold for $3.00 to $10.00 per copy.
In 1976, Desert Publications obtained (with great difficulty and expense) a set (two volumes) of the original loose leaf Black Books and made reproductions available to book buyers. These were entitled Improvised Munitions Black Book, Volume 1 and 2.
By 1978. one parasite publisher choso to split TM 31-210 into two volumes and printed each as a cheap, saddic-stilched booklet. To add to the confusion, these had black covers, and many unsuspecting buyers thought they were getting the genuine Black Books.
A year or so later, yet another parasite entered the picture. Obtaining Desert Publications’ Black Books, he proceeded to reproduce them into a cut-rate, one volume version. (Typically, stolen goods sell for less!)
Our main complaint with such rip-offs is the confusion caused to book buyers.
Only Desert Publications has researched the Black Book program and maintains contact with the ordnance experts involved. This has resulted in Volume 3, which contains all now, never before pubfished material. Volume Jis available in this catalog and will be available o^y f«xn Lcompanics Unlimited and other ¿authorized Desert Publications dealers.
So — Don't be misled by rip-offs!
BLACK BOOK COMPANION
State-of-the-Art
Improvised Munitions
The B(eck S&rts manuals of
mayhem ard <ato!8ge lor use by
CIA and Special Forces pemenno!
arc among die most controversial
publications ever sanctioned try the
U.S. government.
Black Book Companion is a
further study Into the dark art of
Improvised expfiosb'es ard muni-
tions first explored In the original
volumes. Lists of materials and
sources, slepby-stop instructions
and clear Illustrations instruct the
gueirita warfare specialist in mak-
ing dynamite, RDX. PETN. Scmtcx.
canister and smoko gronadee.
sholsbslfe. anti-pcrucnnol mines
and many morn weapons and
malorix's for unconventional warfare situabens. Also Included aro a glossary of chomcal terms, a list ol optimal primary end seoordary explosives and amendments io selected formtfas in the original Black Borts designed to maximize output and porfermsree.
Warning. The procedures In this manual, the inherent toxkrty of the materials and the resuing end product arc oxfremrty dangerous Therefore. this volume Is for ink)fmM&>purposes orSy
1SSO, 5H xBH. 125 pp, Nfuttrsted, aoft corer.
BLAC K BOOK COMPANION: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31044)
BLACK BOOKS, Volumes 1 & 2
CIA and Special Forces
improvised Munitions Handbook0
These books were criglnaty developed by iho Frankford Arsenal tec the CIA and Special Forces. They are the mast detailed and comprehensive works ever done on the subject of improvised weapons. For years they have been the most sought Mr nrd secretive backs ever published by the American military. Those hard to find books are now available 1o you Anyone who can foresee the troubled times ahead ShoUd not he wXhoul the knowledge oor-tolnod in theso backs.
The originals were smal and looso to.if bound because of the limited quantify printed For this reprinting, the tocks have been camera enlarged to 5V? x 8» for case of roading and perfect bcund in a soft black cover.
GUARANTEED COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC!!!
BLACK BOOK. Vol 1 — W pp, profusely ikustralcd: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31014)
BLACK BOOK, Vol2— 130 pp, profusely tkustreied:$12.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 31015)___________________
IMPROVISED MUNITIONS
BLACK BOOK
Volume 3
At \&x. the long awaited improvised Munitions Block Book, Volume J is a reality! The 40 articles contained in this volume wore a part of the research and development program whch Frankford Arsenal carried out for the Cl A. and Special Forces during the 1 SCO's and early 1970'5. However, the program was phased out before these articles ooUd to prepared h flashed form, printed and issued to the ciandsshno agents.
Although Volumes 1 & 2 were comparatively wel known prior to their first commercial printng. and wore eagerly sought after, the existence of the material in Volume 3 was, untl rooenOy. known to only a handful of people In Ihe InAelUgenoe community. Now. this material has been rescued from tho dusty files of oblivion, professionally completed, and printed In an 8!6 X 11 tonmal.
This largo volume is a virtual cncyciopcdb of improvised explosives, weapons, inccnoiarios. detonators and much, much more. Even drect ard indmet methods of auto dsatlc.ment are covered! A sampling of the articles In this oxaeng new bock includes:
KUornctfyan&SjHdust Explosives; Explosive Paper, Minh Compocjnd Dotonjtor; dgaroee Lighter Band Grenada; Shotgun impact Grenada; SC1MP Charge; Cherry Bomb Gun; SOant
Grenade Launcher; Sawdust-Wax Incendiary incend&ry Brick; Glomes Pin Delay; Baftcry Bun Down Prday Delay; and much, much more.
Remember., no other source can offer you ths outslantfng research on improvised weaponry!
198?. 8H x If, 162 pp, profusely fffu*U*U>4 soft corer.
BLACK BOOK, Vol 3: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31027)
KITCHEN IMPROVISED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES
by Tim Lewis
Plastc explosives. explosive material which can be maided Ike clay into an)’ shape er iorm desred. have Peon used by US armed Screes since World War II. Anyone who served in Vietnam wil bn fanriliar wch C-4 plastic explo- state, whch can bo burned io heat C-rabons wxh perfect safety, as wol as used as an explosive.
This tock deals with the home irrprovisabon of plastic expiosMBS, Including Compo- scon C. C-2. C-3. 83 well 88 04. Step-by-step Instructions lee makng all of th© above are covered in detail. Ateo covered arc: R-DX manufacture <* Foreign pastiqua explosives
Making pbslique explosives from breach 4P P1.ir.tquo explosives from Swimming pool chlorinating compound 4' Plasf.quo explosives from table salt <• Ptastiquo axplosrAis from asprin <* Gelatin explosives from anti-freeze < Nitroglycerin and nilrogpycc* maniAaclur© 4* And more.
The most comptato took ever written on making plastic explosives
iSSJ, 6xi, 2*ppf Mugfrafed, softcover.
KITCHEN IMPROVISED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31030)
KITCHEN IMPROVISED FERTILIZER EXPLOSIVES
From the author of the best- sellng Kitchen improvised Fiastic Explosives comes ths exobng new- do-tfyoursalf manual, covering explosives ycu can make in your kitchen from ferti- izor.
Cómprele 8tGp-0y-8lep instructions are gven tor making gelabn explosives. powdered explosives, liquid explosivos, slurry explosives, prilled expto- srves. and cast explosives.
Among the everyday materials used in Iha mamZaclure am such thngs as: fertilizer, fuel ol. desoí fuel, gasoline, wax. aluminum powder, water, charcoal, ertll-
KITCHEN IMPROVISED BLASTING CAPS
by Tim Lewis
Anolhar laid/ k^xhen im-
provefi^d explosive book from
Tim Lewis, aurux of Küchen
Fustic Expbstves
and X'.W.'W
Explosives. This cos is on
kitchen-improvised blasting cap«
that will work 99% ci the lime and
which wil dolcnato most of tee
hgh explosives mat Ihnir
commercial counterparts will.
Tepes covered in illustrated
detail include: How Biasing Cape
Wark; Fuse Cap Manufactura;
Acetone Peroxide; Double Salts;
TACC; Mercury Fulminate; Lead
Picrate; Kitregen Sdfido; Silver
Fulminate; Nitremannito; RDX;
PETN; Picric Acid; MMAK; Tetryl; TeNN; and Nitroguanidno.
No home explosives libnuy is complete without this exciting now
volume. Like the ether backs m this series, we must warn mat ths book
ts sad for tebrrndxx^purposes oniy.
19SS, 9x9, 44 pp, fitugtrated, soft cover.
KITCHEN IMPROVISED BLASTING CAPS: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31035)
KITCHEN IMPROVISED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES II
by Tim Lewis
The best-selling success of Tim
Lewis' Kitchen improvised PListsc
KITCHEN IMPROY1SCD
PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES II
Blasting Cap
HMTD; DONP;
Explosives nccessitetcd preparation ci Vdume IL
In ths new book. Trn
Lcaís
uncovers perhaps th© easiest way
ever to manufacture C-4. The cost of
Ihis product could be around $3.50
per pound! We are sure that you will
be amazed by the ease of
manufacture! The is taken (rem
research work done by the Germans
prior to World War I.
Also covered are nitric acid
manufacture, nitric acid pListiqucs,
composite p’.istiquos, acetic an-
hydride manufacture. PEIN
manufacturer, poiysilcono hgh ex-
plonvo plasUquos. .iquacus prjymnr
ccmposrtc plasliquos, methyl nitrate p^stiqixis (Myrai), plus much moral Detenatong rates range from 4000-8603 KVscc. with powers of up to 195% as ccmparod to 100% for T.N.T. The rryrtf plastiques are seme of the most powerful explosives known to man. Also given is a list of suppliers and manufacturers.
This book is a must to add to your ccllncticn. Absolutely must reading foe students of demolition, chemstry, Improvised weaponry, explosives and terrorism. Sod for x\tcrms^^ipapers ony
1999, 6x 9, 46 pp, iiti/strated, soft cover.
KITCHEN IMPROVISED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES II: $8.50
(ORDER NUMBER 31036)
Guerrilla Warfare
Introduction
Guerrilla Warfare.., Is this what the future holds for
America? We hope not. but you never know...
From how to fight off an invading army to how to
overthrow a banana republic, and more — here is a
carefully selected group of books on guerrilla warfare.
DEATHTRAP!
Improvised Booby-Trap Devices
by Jo Jo Gonzales
Creating effective booby-
traps is part art part science,
requlmg a devious imagin-
ation. a doftcatc touch and a
sold knoWodga of explosive
devices in the complete
guide lo Iha tricks cA fie
booby-trapper's trade. Jo Jo
Gonzales presents an arsenal
Of devices that can be created
from commonly avatabto
materials, each medrfind to
contain a nasty surprise.
learn how to rig a booby-
trapped alarm dock,
ftashlght. docc fetch, eink.
telephone, tape deck and
more. A concsc treatment of
principles and apptcalions,
clear descriptors of more
than strty devocs, and
detailed llkistrabons and
schematic diagrams make this an tavaluatye cclfechcn for Spcoal
Forces personnel or sccunty professionals.
From high-tech to quick-and dirty, this booby-trapper's bag of fncks
has it al. For tMormston purposes only.
19S9, 5Mx9H, 176pp, Wui1r*te4 softcover.
DEATHTRAP!: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32048)
150 QUESTIONS FOR A GUERRILLA
by General Alberto Bayo
Back In pnnt at tost. a classic on the tactiOS of the guerrilla fighter, written by the mentor of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. A concise ■primer tor revcli/bon,* aocordng to ?ie Maria# C#rps GazcHo. ’A blueprint for mayhem by a professional,- writes Gons magazine
In questforVanswer format. General Bayo addressee how guarrJla units should be organized, how to defend a conquered city, the skills of the perfect guerrilla, Ik/a to attack a town — plus 146 more issues. Also included are practical Instructions ard drawings for mlnng; booby trapping; making lAolotov cocktails, hand grenades and incendaty bombs: destroyng pilfers, posts, iron beams: end much morel
150 QUESTIONS FOR A GUERRILLA: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32028)
TERRORISM:
THE SOLUTIONS
by Michael Connor
What makes the terrorist tick?
Why docs be pick the targets he
(toes? Where dees he get the
wltorewiiha! — be It hnancl.il or
techrtolCQcal — io carry out his
mission? V/hcn is he considered a
•freedom fighter?’
The terrorist of today may be
politically motivated, but. then again,
ho may not be. Ho may tx» driven by
a desire to avenge some hstorical
iniustico, or ho may to a ralgkxja
•fanatic.- Ho mny bo a crminal seek-
ing Io Icgrtimixc his crimes in Uto
name of idoclcxqy. ar he may be wil-
ing to die for what be is sure is a jusl
cause. And of course. Zv may be a
sho
A terrorist's tarpot need no! be a member of the armed forces, a government official or a civilan. It need not be a person at all. As society becomes increasingly technobgicaly advanced. it becomes more vulnerable to attack. The quantum leap forward in sophsbentod hand-hekl weaponry and communication systems — satellites, fiber optics and computers — presents the terrorist with an Increasing array of targets. Sabotaging these systems, contaminating water supplies and tha food chan with chemical and biological agents, or dsrupting transportation and energy networks can wreak more havoc than bombings or assass’natons. tontlratfon of the hgh-tcch industry cr Uto Irtrcductjoci of counterfeit currency into the money supply can aho cause wide-spread darrtape to tho social order.
Due to the rnUtipidty of possible targets and the cost of protecting them, only a very few targets are beyond offcd/ve attack, by even poorly oquppt-J and il-trained terronsu.
What can governments do to minrnize toe damage the terrorist can cause? Author Michael Connor explores preventive measures and state-of-1he Art lochnotogy - sixh as explosive-detection devices, ID er opbc cameras, concealed microphones (Including laser bugs), and high- power ultrasonic transmitters Io disodenl terrorists. He aiso examines tactics, strategy, and psychological countermeasures in this first truy comprnhnnsivo cried to formulate answers to the terrorist threat.
Pr.rsr.nal protection measures you cen take to minimize your risk of booomng a target are detaled here. Should all fail .md you are at a terrorists mercy. Connor tefa ycu what to do if yxx/re on a hijacked aircraft or rccc-v-c a mail bomb, and actions you should — and should not — take in a hostage situation.
1937. SHxSH, todfxrd, b*/d covtf.
TERRORISM: THE SOLUTIONS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32036)
DISRUPTIVE TERRORISM by Victor Santoro
Thte chillng bonk explores Iha
possiblilics for cripplng a modem
techrtolcgtoal society by striking al
centralized services. Santoro (fcdnguishos
between mere ’dostruetvo’ terrorism and
the much more effective ‘disruptive*
terrorism.
Ccntcnls include: • How one person with
a .22 rifla can easily aisrupl the etectrcal
power for an entire dty • How a small
hsrdftf of terrorists can easily disrupt the
Operations of a major corporation, causing
milions of doTars in damage, and shutting
down Iha company for months • Why ri is
just about impossible to prevent disruptive terrorism • Chemical .^nd biological terrorism • Nuclear terrorism • Computer terrorism ♦ Why conventional responses to terrorism tall short ot the mark • Why dsajplive terrorism b much mere effective than dest-ix.-tr.-e terrorism • Disrupting ccmmurfcafore systems • Oisrupang tiansportatico systems — how highways« buses, trains, subways, and even ships can be stopped cc4d • Terrorism at mass events • How oil and gas p'pelines can be easily crippted. tempting power suppries fee entire regens • Disrupting food supples • How to cause mftss panic • And much, much more.
Disruptive Terrorism te coo of tha most significant books over published on the subject of terrorism — it is a beck sure to be talked About and referred to for years to come.
DISRUPTIVE TERRORISM: $ 1235
(ORDER NUMBER 32026)
MERCENARY OPERATIONS MANUAL
by Franklin J. Camper
Mercenary
Operations
Thceo who have tried to got
mere jabs havo discovered the
average mercenary position is
only a little harder Io f nd than □
small noodo in a large hay-
stack. What makes it rough is
sometimos they cheat and
don’t put the needle in there at
al. Hot ads turn out to be
gimmicks to get year money.
Sure tips lead to dsad ends or
ctfd trate. Promises of recruit-
ment fat to pieces under
examnalicn. But, even with the
lies and disappointments, there
are these who keep searching,
lured by cotor photographs in
the paramittary magazines of
marcs paying their trade in
OXOliC locates... and semetmr»
It seams ovan those two-dimensional figures with their foreign weapons and suntan, turn no rror« real than ghosts who live bntweon Iha pages ol cc.rta.n magazines.
Out. mercenary work wiS always be there— somewhere, somehow, for those who are ¿named and traned to do it. Thn Mercenary Operations Manual by Frank Camper Is mutf information for mo newcomer, but even the ‘okl timer can learn something ho didn't know or realza before.
Córtente include: The Mercenary Sotuton • The Technical Mercenary • Mercenary Tralnng • International Travel • The Neutrally Act • Mercenary Recruiting • Security • The international Arms Market • False Documents • Forgery and Smuggling • Feed • Time Off • Getting Paid • Ard moro Order your copy today!
1996, SHxtH, 97 pp, iihrstrstsd, scftcovts.
MERCENARY OPERATIONS MANUAL: $935
(ORDER NUMBER 32035)
HOW TO KILL TANKS
FC 7-2
Hew to stop a tank te a skit you think you may never need but that's what the Polsh cossacks thought before German Panzer ¿visions rippod through their homeland to start VAVll’ Advances In modem lark weaponry and armor made tank destrveton an increasingly dtijcutt and dangerous tusness. With How To Kill Tanks, you can learn the secrets of preparing the batllcfold fcr :ho tight Io Increase the kil probability otf anti tank weapons by as much as 8 times.’
This US Anrry field manual gr.'cs step-by-step nstructicns to help you construct effective obstacles cut erf craters. togs and reinforced posts, and how to best utilize explosives and llame field expedients Io lirn an advancing lank into an armored death trap. Also irtfuded is a list ci more esoteric tank-kill methods, including how to rig a daymoro mine Io take cut exposed crew members. Loam these and more tricks <rf the trade that will stop even today's most formidable tanks.
1999, 9H x 11, 92 pp, Ntustrxtsd, soft co vsr.
HOW TO KILL TANKS: $8.00
(ORDER NUMER 32042)
THE PARTISAN FIGHTER'S MANUAL
by James C Krohn, Ph.D.
Your country has collapsed,
and enemy troeps arc crossng
the border. Arc you just going to
sit back and let it happen?
Ho! This is your chance to
fight back. As a partisan fighter,
one who engages in guernlla
warfare agansl an rrvadng
army. Id your ’new"
g^/emmert know how littlo you
support iL Here's a crash course
on defencirg your way of Wo
□nd resisting domination.
Whether striking out al a
miliary foe. etotfng strangers on
your own home turf,
interrogating prisoners. or
enforcing security in your
partisan camp, author James C.
Krohn details lie factors you
need to consider before implementing your strategies.
Doni let a military regime spoil ycur cetf. but newle< on that ytx/re an amateur gue rritia. Get the >3b dene right!
1999, 5H x 9H, 72PP, soft cover.
PARTISAN FIGHTER'S MANUAL: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32040)
NIGHT MOVEMENTS
(Translated From The Japanese)
Truly a cclkscloris item, this rare translation ck the original (1913) wtapanese military text is generally regarded as the finest study of night fighting inter written. The following topics are exhaustively covered:
• Achieving siience in nipht movenyenfs • How to dress and develop yoor nlghf vision • Traininp in hearing a! night • Training in lechngues for npht firing • Night demolition • Secret techniques for night patrols • Silent movements • Use of weapons af night • Ng^f fighting and baffles • And much, muchmovG.
The original Japanese manual was used to train snlpors. sooute. nrto saboteurs in World V/ar II. After the war, it became <xw of iho classic manuate used by Insurgents In many parts of the wortd. to Iha 1960’s and 1970^5. to is became the basic night training manual for Iha Httodosan and Australian SAS Night Movements is essential for tho study of counter-lrisurgency arto clanJestne actMties.
1S13, x 9H. 192pp, fflusfntfed, soft cover.
NIGHT MOVEMENTS: $935
(ORDER NUMBER 32039)
HERE/T/S— HOW TO OVERTHROW A GOVERNMENT!//
COUP d'ETAT
A Practical Handbook
by Edward Luttwak
This bock has become a dassfc In twenty-hvo years. It is a step-by-
step manual on how to overthrow a government.
Ha mere wishbook. thia; for over ha« the nations on earth coup cfétat
is tho norms! means cA transferring power. For tho rosi, only a minority
(USA, Canada. etc.) have never ©¿podancod a successful coup and
nrr/ nation has had to deal with an attempted coup at some time or
another.
Coup d'état ¡8 the rroctem alternative to revclutton Coup d*état
requires no kteotogy. except the tocology of power. Coup d’état takes no
nolfco of who sits to what bureau office, as long as tho bureaucrat is
wiling to work for whomever controls tho state. Coup d’état a\vs/s
appeals Io the mlitary, ©nd cnoo they are in co h. it usually succeeds.
There are exceptions, and Luttwak tocks al al the things that can and do
go wrong with coups. Ho carefully examines the secret pole©, tho
Interior rrtrtstrios. tho armed farces, and the Chief Executive: each e
Inspected for strengths and weaknesses. (Consider that the drive for
tochnâcaty-mrtoed peop’e means that most nattons — especially tt»e
USSR — must Inevitably recruit their own enemies into sensitive
positions. You can screen ou: ccmmunbîs from tho FBI. tut you cant
stop FBI agents from fuming against tho Prosadont.)
The chapter on planning a ccup subsumes al arguments under one
Idea: ‘Evon tho barricades am mom important than mocaSty‘ (Trotsky).
Luttwak oxamnes tho Gadlist coup of 1958. which succeeded, and the
Rightwing coup in Algeria, which tailed to Cust him In 1961 and
contrasts tho two soomingly identical (but slgnlcantty dffarent)
situations.
Al through tho work, the author uses a first-parson narrative,
assuming that yxxu and ho are going to kick over the old ragmo. 1rs an
exhilarating read! From tho first Bush of conspiracy to tho day you arc
inaugurated. you enjoy and learn from every pego.
Ths book contains special appendcos on tho Economics of
Répression and tables on the frequency and etlfciency of various coups
d’état
Anyone who travels overseas shoo'd understand Ilia book — it coud
save your lifol (Unless you fancy being held prisoner in no US
Embassy In some god-forsaken savage country by a mob of •students*
old enough to have tenure.)
Corp rfdtsfis more common and more suœ&sfuf than
tree ejections.
1966, 6'ri x 6H, 215 pp. cherts. diagrams, indexed. softcover.
COUP d'ETAT: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32010)
FIGHTING IN THE STREETS
A Manual of Urban Guerrilla Warfare
by Urbano
Fighting In The Streets to a no-
nonsense how-to manual for armed
resistance in toda/s urbanized cemont
junglns. It explains proven methods Of street
ccmbat tested over the years to cojnzess
armed struggle« worldwide.
Chapters Include: • Prinoptes of urban
guerrila warfare • The urban base cf epora-
tiens • Improvised explosives and chemi-
ca»s • Improvised weapons and munitions •
Amlxjshes • CourW-lnrujrgoncy oporations
• Security and commun cations • And much
more!
Fighting in The Streets Is th© most
complote book on urb^i guerrtTa warfare avaitebto.
1991. SHxM, 136 pp, Hfwrtratod. soft cover.
FIGHTING IN THE STREETS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32052)
WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE STREETS"
by Capt. S.J. Cuthbert, Scots Guard
Turn a city into a deato trap for the enemy with this how-to guise on street fighting. Actual combat scenarios show what weapons and forms of attack are needed, and such topics as anti-tank tactics, exptosrves and demolOon, ambushes, and a Soviet view of combat in the cities are incktoed In this classic book.
J 965, SHxSH, 60 pp, titrated, sort cover.
*WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE STREETS": $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32029)
IMPROVISED RADIO JAMMING TECHNIQUES
Electronic Guerrilla Warfare
by Lawrence W. Myers
Radio pmrnng Is ono of tho great equaUers in unoenvertonal
warfare. By defatting th© enemy's commorto and control capabilities a!
the moment a gucmla mission is being carried out the resourceful
guerrilla team can prevent effective response and rela'iaCbn and ensure
tho operation's success.
This book covers the three phases of electronic guerrilla wartaro:
target Interception, target acquisition and target jamming. Tho basic
principles of ratio ccmmun’calion are covered; Iha book then gives a
detailed breakdown of tho nuts and bats of a Jamming operahen.
Chapters Include: The Covert Listening Post. Intercept Operations and
Jamming Equipment Selection.
This is not a prgon-fllod technical manual. It to a practical Held gutoo
for uroor.Toniicnal warfare operatives that C'earty outlines Imprer^od
and fiold-expecSenl methods to identify. totorcopL anayzo and defeat
onomy rado traffic.
IMPROVISED RADIO JAMMING TECHNIQUES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70029)
SPYCOMM
Covert Communications Techniques
of the Underground
by Lawrence W. Myers
There are onxips of pcop'o
who need to communicate
sccrcty arr/jrg themselves,
who rood to rrvovo infcrrralicn
without leaving a trace, who
opemto in a shadowy ’under-
ground' where tr»e conven«-
onccs and courtesies of normal
communisations don't apply.
Who aro these people? Mer-
cenaries, ronogado sp’ee. drug
smugglers, guerrilla fighters.
fugbvQs. torrorists. How do they
communicate socrally with each
other? Spycomm.
Spycomm to the art and
technotogy of secretly exchang-
ing nformaton in a hostile
environment.
Centcats indudc:» Modem
Examples cf Unconventional Commur»cattorr; • Elements of Covert Communications • Establishing Communlcauons Networks • Veual Communications • Bulk Text Message Proco^ng • Guerrilla Cryptography • Voice Communicationa • Disseminating Informaton • Tefophono Service Theft & Fraud • And FAuch Moral
Ths hands-on guide will provide >ou with dozens of real wxxkl solutions to any covort corrmunicatone pcoblom. Tht; Is ’cporational hardball:* no rules, no expens'eve equpment. ev^ryihlng simple and off the sho’?.
t991, Sh xSH, 246pp. iffustrsted, softcover.
SPYCOMM: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32053)
TO BREAK A TYRANT'S CHAINS
Nco-Gucrrilla Techniques for Combat
by Duncan Long
The tock b somcrAhat of
an insurance policy: < has been
created to help put tyrants —
and wcuto-be tyrants — on
rxtece Chat a rag-teg band of
neo-guerriia fighters can bring
the strengest of armies or
police state to fteir knees.
With this in rrird. Ojnean
Leng reveals the secrets of hew
to snetro and croate weapons
and the tactics to use them
when righting almost anything
imaginable — from attack
helicopters Io tanks.
You wil loam how to thwart
enemies oqupped with night
vision equipment and how to
avoid tong injured by deadly
chemical agente — even if yea
dont have a gas mask or other protective equipment. Long ako gives
yea the straight n>ho ds barred assessment of the shortcomings of
guerrifa conflicts, updates gucrrila stratèges to fit today’s level of
tochretogy and interdependence. .vto takes a look at the historical
mistakes of many rebel groups who tried to adopt conventional
strategies to the? movement —- often with the Ices of many men and
without winning their war.
Long also shows how to deaf with ruthless governments that retaliate
against innocent citizens for actons that guerrilas take and how to koep
from getting caught when making a sighficant ’blow against tfie
rnnplre* — even rf your rebel band consists ci only a handful of iteler-
mined people. Indudcd in the book is a tough assessment of Ibo effec-
tiveness of various types of weapons, how to create fortrxd hiding
plxtes. how to wago a roo-gucrnlla campaign beta n urban as well as
rural areas, and much more. Whether you are Interested In the strata-
gns and tactics of modem guerrilla movements or concurred about a
Bg Brother takeover. this book betongs on your shelf.
1991, 5H-XSH, 192pp, fifustrated, softcover.
TO BREAK A TYRANTS CHAINS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32051)
MERCENARY’S TACTICAL HANDBOOK
by S/d Campbell
Mercenary’s.
Tactical
Handbook
These days it takes more than
guts to win barites. Tcda/s sophisti-
cated battlegrounds demand a great
deal of knoMedge and training from
Ute professional sotoier. The mere
must irUy be an expert if he is to
gain the edge over his adversaries
and stay alive.
The Mercenary's Tactical Hand-
book provdes all the Information
you need to becorre a confident
effective m?itary free’ancer. Regard-
to$S ci the type cf ¡»ton invuYod,
this manual provides the knowledge
necessary to ooms out on top
Some cf the tcqtos covered in-
dude: • improvised ard conven-
tional weapons • Bcobytraps •
Camouflage ♦ Breaking and entering • Sabotage ♦ Weapon kits • Use
ci intel igancc ♦ And much mtxol This bock is not a Boy Scout manual,
tut a true ’how-to* corrbat warrior's handbook.
1990 SH a 8H, 114pp, illustrated. softcover
MERCENARY'S TACTICAL HANDBOOK: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32049)
MANUAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER
A Guide to Mercenary War,
Money and Adventure
ByPaulBator
’Iha Whores Of War.* That's the
term used to describe the modem
mercenary soldier. No longer merely
a hired gun. Icday's mercenary must
walk an ovar-oxcitng but always
dangerous tqhtrope amongst ruth-
tow wartyds. paranoid
rros, wealthy businessmen. rebel
toaders, greedy informants ard
felow freelancers. Ifs the utmate
tfvilfng career.
Whether you're a retired soldier, a
seeker of «¿venture. cr slrrpty ere
who wants to gain Insist into today's
soldier of torture. Manual Of the
Mercenary Soldier cO'/Ars every-
thing yea nend to krew. Clints and
account, assumng the 'cheurefeco
nxxte.* rr»3r<r>- and survival, psywar ops, shock warfare ard classic solder of torture cities are ¡usl some of the areas covered.
Paul Bator is the non do ffuerrod a notonous seasoned professional who has been errptoyed In soma of the most volatte hot spots around the glebe, tn this authoritelh*e insder's i>Jde. Bator <e- veals tha experiences, tricks of the trade and hard-learned lessons that have kept him elhe and well for over tour decades’
1990, 914 a 229pp. hard coier.
MAN UAL OF THE MERCENARY SOLDIER: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32043)
TOTAL RESISTANCE
by Major H von Dach Bcm
Written by a Swiss Army
Officer, this book has become a
classic on modem guerrilla
warfare, resistance, and under-
ground operations.
Organized in two parts
(Organizalicn and Ccoduct of
Guerrilla Warfare: and Organiza-
tion ard Operatlco (M the CMIlan
Resistance Movement), (xxriehte
include: • Formation of guerilla
unts • Supply of weapons •
Supply of ammunition ard ex-
plosives • Food suppSy and
modicaJ scr. cc ♦ Read bocks •
Miring a road ♦ Sabotage vehi-
cles • Ambush vehicles • Rading
onomy columns • Surprise attack
on a fuel depot • Destroying a bridge ♦ How an enemy with medem equipment will operate against your guerrila detachment ♦ Missions ot the clvlian resistance movement • Intormatlcn • Propaganda • Escape • Finance • Counterfeiting Secret printing press • Basto rules of terror • Struggle lor the y'uuh • Fightirq the Church • Propagation of dissension among the population • Liquidation of certain classes of the population • Concealment of weapons ard ammunition • Concealment of radcs • Selection and use oi h de -cuts • Behavior during Interrogation • Behavior in ccreen’xation carr^s • Passive resistance • And much, much morel
A testament to the undying spirit of human freedom ard resistance to tyranny as well as the best fact crammed guemla warfare manual on the market, this is a tock that belongs In everyone's library. Unless, of course, you think It can't happen here....
196& Sx9, 173pp, over 10Oitfustrations, hardcover
TOTAL RESISTANCE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32011)
Murder, Death & Torture
Introduction
This is our blood-and-guts section. Those books are on little-discussed areas of the political arts. They are the most gruesome and terrifying of any in our entire catalog. We carry them because information on these subjects is fiard to find, and all ’governments" (whether "public" like the US Federal Government, or ’private" like the Mafia) resort to murder and torture as extensions of their foreign and domestic policies. The stuff in this section is what government is really all about. (We thought you ought to know...)
DIVINE HUNGER
Cannibalism as a Cultural System
by Peggy Reeves Sanday
The practice of camibalsm is in
certain cultures rojoctod as evil,
while In ethers it plays a central part
In the ritual order. In ths book Peggy
Sanday presente a new approach to
understanding the phenomenon.
Through a detailed examination of
ritual cannibalism in selected tribal
sodotias. and a comparison of those
cams with clhcrs in which the
practise Is absent, she that
cannbalism is cfosely inked to
people's orientation lo the world,
and that it serves as a concrete
device for dsb’ngutehng 11« ’cullural
seif from the ’natural ctfier.’
Combining perspectives drawn
from the work c4 Rcocur. Fraud.
Hegel, and Jung and from symbolic
anthropology. Sanday aq>J6S that nuual cannibaism is intimately connected both with the constructs by which the orign and ccxitinuty c4 life are understood and assured from one generation to the next and with the way in which trial understating is used to control tie vital forces ccrrsdcred nee ess-ary for the reproduction cl society. She reveals that the presence or absence of cannibafem In a cuture derives from basic human attitudes toward fife ard death, combined w.’.h the realties of the material world.
As wed as making an original contribution to 11« understanding Of a significant human practice. Sanday also develops a theoretical argument of wider relevance to anthrcpclcghal analysis in general. This book will appeal io ant hrepdogists, psychologists. sociologies, and other readers interested in the function and meaning c4 camibaism.
19SS, 6*9,2S2pp, indexed, soft cover.
DIVINE HUNGER: $16.95
'KILL WITHOUT JOY!"
The Complete HowTo Kill Book
by John Mlnnery
Now under cne cover, here are all six volumes of the notorious How To KiSwtei. the comp’ete how-to history of murder, assassination and death by design.
The Hatchet Jeb. The Body Snatchers. The Quiet Alley Cleaner, Smothering. Drilled to Death... these and oiier provocative chapters provide gruesome testimony *> why these books have been banned by certan countries around the gbbe. More then 503 pages chrcnde the many terrible ways In whkh man has dispatched hts felon' man wen icy dispassion over the centuries.
Fnd cut for yourself Ah)« the volumes in the How To /GO’serios have been called ’ll« most controversial bocks ever published.’ For information and academic purposes ortyf
1092, 5b xSb, 512 pp, Musfreted. softcover.
’KILL WITHOUT JOY!’: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34062)
NINJA DEATH TOUCH
by Ashida Kim
A further exploration info the black and terrifying world of tha Nnja. history's most diabolical assassins. Certain Nqjutsu Ryu specialized in the Death Touch, which was it« ultimate perversion cl the beneficial Chinese art of acupuncture.
Kfnja Death Touch reveals the principles of this unhooy science, which can Induco death with th© wave cl a hardi
This ItSc dscusscd realm of martial knowledge is divided into three basic areas:
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Dim Ghtng(Nerve Peint System)
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DimHsuoh (Bfood Gate System)
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and the tegendary Dim M?* (Chi no* System)
Through Interruption ard manipulation of the txxt/s nervous system, circulatory system. ard Chi Row. respectmely, these three Death Touch stylos are capable of terminating àr:y humâri Ite. SlutiùJ âlCôg with I ha sc techniques arc th© Laws of the Death Touch. These intiude arcane socrols linking human psychology with the Five Elements. Yin and Yang. Chi Flow, organ sympathies, the Meridians, vital pointe, and much marc.
A special chapter on Dim Mak applicalicn ard the specific targeting of the vital organs is also provided. Learn tho Hsin Chuan (Heart Punch). Shan Chuan (Kdney Punch). Kan Chvan (Liver Punch), and dozens of Oliver bloodless assassination ploys.
1955,5b x Sb, 104pp, tttustreted, soft cover.
NINJA DEATH TOUCH: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34030)
LAWFUL EXIT
The Limits of Freedom for Helping In Dying
by Derek Humphry
Derek Humphry. atXhor of Final Exit,
seeks a fair and democratic solution to
the convoverslal legal ard ethfcal prob-
terns ci euthanasia. A majority of Ameri-
can people today txriove that It their
dying happened to bo painfully
prolonged they shoo’d be abte to ask a
physician to bring their lives to a
dignified dose. At least haff ol all
physicians agree with this. B«x rt
remains a crime for anybody to acWy
assist another person to do whatever
the circumstances.
Lawful Exit analyzes why tho
attempts so tar to reform tho taw
(chiefly in Washington state ard
California} have faltod. Th® book pointe
to a new direction for voluntary euthanasia by emphasizing olhcal and
practical gudellnes to prevent abuse, drawing on the Dutch experience.
The unique legal guicfalncs set up in 1993 by Parliament in the
Ncteoriands are roprintod in fut.
Derek Humphry* Is considered the word's foremost spokesperson cn
voluntary etzhanssia lor the terminally ill. He tectums on tho subject in
many countries and h’s books are pubishod in al major languages.
Lawful Exit includes a uniform, model Death Wfb Dignity Act which
completes the vital Information whch ovary person interested in a hu-
mane death neods to knew
199$, SM>x SH, 1$$pp, cover.
LAWFUL EXIT: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34071)
DIM-MAK
Death Point Striking
by Erie Monta!gue
Those who doubt that Fai ch ctruan is the deadest system of self- defense over invented don’t know about dim-mak. What many serious martial artfcls now dortata for ts delicate. danedike movements or dismiss as nothng but a path to good heath is moroly a smokescreen created by the ancient Chinese masters to ccnccal an art comprised of deadly strikes to vital acupuncture points. That art was known as dm- mak. or death-pant striking — Uto original name for Fai cN ard the key to how the art earned ts title of ’supreme i/tmaio boxing/
Today cn>/ a handful of Instructors know th© points ard their bidden appfcations. Ede Morrtaigue. who can trace his lineage bock to Yang Lu-ch'an. founder of the real Yang style. is one of them.
In this book. FAontalgue. an Intomabonnty aedaimod leader in the instruction of t’al CN ch*uan. tells the full story of dm-mak far the first time. Against the advice of some of hs ssntors. ho reveals tho most dangerous points and describes both the? martial and healing npplca- tons, then takes it a stop further by presenting set-vp points, mullipta point strikes, and neuro logical shuMown points. He (toes so because ho believes row is tha time to educate peopto thoroughly cn the clangors of this powerful martial art He has seen instructors use bits and poccs of toe art in dontonstratbn and recognizes that too ittte knoAlodga can sometimes be a dangerous thing Indeed
Dim-mak is a dsadl/ serious system of sclf-dofenso to bo used only in life-or-dsath situations. It must not be treated ighdy. The book is meant to drive that point across - and to educate people as to why tai chi truly is Dio ’supreme ultimate’ in terms of «toady arfcctvoncss. This book is for intonnadon purposes onty.
1S93, 5H x SH. 24$ pp, iitortrxtad, *°ff cover.
DIM-MAK: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34059)
’/Zfctaa' Newton's Bad GMs Do hl is a fitting fai&w-up to hti Hunting Humans. A A’te coSocfton of tomato ftonds — tot's give diese toibaJ tides a big hand!
— Robert Bloch. Author of Psycho
BAD GIRLS DO IT!
An Encyclopedia of Female Murderers
by Michael Newton
From the author of Hunting Humans: An Encyciopedbt of Modem Sene! Kiitors r.cmcs Iha best bock an female mullip'a murderers ever assemUod- How ’bad’ are tneso girts? Every eno of the 182 women profiled here dfanT just kill — they kiled again and again! Every one of them a mtXtpie murdemssl
W you thought Alteen Woumos was tho first femato serial kBor. think again. It's trua ate popped six mon In a yoor-tong shooting spree, tut ehe'l have to take a number behind these doath-doalng dobs: Charlene developed a taste for murder gnawing on the bodies
of her sex-slave victims. She confessed to ton brutal slayings.
Judith Neetoy, at ago 18, became the youngest resident of Alabama’s death row. Sho’s stir there today, waning to bo executed for kidnapping*. sexual violence and murder.
Martha Beck started her caresr washing corpses for a funeral p.vfor in Florida and ended It making corpses In Uchignn.
Elizabeth Bathory used pin®, noedcs. branding irons, whips, pokers, scissors even an iron maiden — to torture young grts to daato. Charged with 80 murders, sho is suspected of more than 303.
Those are just a few of toe Necromatic Kursus. Baby Butchers. E4^ck V/idoA-s. and Angels of Doato chilingty csta’ogued in this grisly CcUcction. Based on ten years of research. Bad Girls Do Hi proves that the urge to kd is an equal opportunity affJcb'on.
1993, x 11, 20$pp, soft cover.
BAD GIRLS DO IT!: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34070)
'"Hunting Humans is a book uftich sk'ioU be tearcd cto»n Vy anyone s-d everyone w)k» » aware of the menace of murder in <xr midst.’
. — Rot>:n Bloch. Bother ci PxyrAo
"Hunting Hu.rtan? ’n a must read for anyone inlwrsied in crime, sociology or torn behxvioc. It is □ welcome iddioon to my shelf, and I intend to borrow from it liberally.’
— Jack Olsen, author of Prcdaer
”1 highly recommend it."
— Maury Terry. author of Vic Ultimate Evil
1
HUNTING
HUMANS
HUNTING HUMANS
An Encyclopedia Of Modern Serial Killers
Michael Newton
, America & caught up in the md&t
ot what ono expert cals ’an epi-
demic of homicidal mania.- We are
beset with transtan! monsters. lately
dubbed serial kilters, who stale thor
human prey at random, sometimes
claiming dozens — even scores of
ivos across a ponod of months cr
years. According to tho FBJs host
estimate, those ’recreational kilters’
daim 5.0C0 vtotms yearly, for a
starring average of fourteen mur-
ders oach and evory day. year-
round.
Hunting Humans tolls the sto-
ries of those dangerous talers. The
narrative profiles are haunting and
unsorting in their slmpidty — the
author adds no varnish <x puffery; the chiling details speak for thorn-
selves. Ths took documents more titan 750 killers who have taken an
estimated 6,000 lives. Yert £&%>of tho serialktiers described here have
wnffbtwj montioendin a pubksbod book
Midwel Newton, a veteran crime writer, and the author of more than
85 books, spent ten years researching Hunting Humans. This d£1urt>-
ng book to no more fisting — aU entries are detated. yet tire author
doesn’t pud the took try gong over stuff we have all hoard about bo-
lero: Manscn, Gacy. Bundy, etc. Hunting Humans to by tar the most
comp to to book over written on the most frightentog criminals of these
frightening times: serial klters. We carnet guarantee tital you will
•enjoy- thto material, but we (to know that you will never forgot il.
Locmparics UrtlmSed proudly presents. lAchse’ Newton’s Hunting
Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modem Serial Killers.
1990, x 11, 353 pp. photographs, hardcover.
HUNTING HUMANS: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34050)
HUMAN SACRIFICE
In History & Today
by Nigel Davis
Human sacrifico is □ subject of great if sometimes grusseme fascination. To many peepto it conjuras up visions ot gory Aztec massacres, Polynesian hoactourrtcrs, or Airean cannibals stirring up a bubbling pot of human stow. But sacrifice Is part of the common heriage of mankind, present in practically al societies in every ora — among higher civilizations just as much as arrorg primv.’e peeptoe — and with surprisingly unrfvon^l slmtaffioe. AfitonieWngly. human sacrifico continues today in primitivo ragtons of the wortd. end variations of it are w>wn in such instances as tho Immolation of Buddhist monks during the Vietnam War and the ritual sukfrio of Japanese novelet Yukio Mishima.
Ritual human sacrifice has always bean carried cut with notte Intentions ard has been based co rolgious ideas. Iha victims* * daathe were the most drect means. A was beloved, of achovtog the desired purpose. whether this was the restoration of tho cosmic order, th« reunion of the gods with man, the fortify of crops, tho protection of buildings, the honoring of the dead. C< the parrying cl divino displeasure. and these deaths wore accompanied by datxxato rituals. In most cases both the victims and those who sacrific«! them beloved that tho former were being sent to a heavenly reward. To ©arty European missionaries, the human offerings they often encountered in remoce arcas of the worto appeared bizarre and Inspired by wild btoedtast. but this was because they Cid not understand tiw religious basis of sacrifice.
In Human Sacrifice, Nigel Davis traces tho course of ritual killng from prehistory right up to the present day. He examines tho theories of historians and anthropologists about this intriguing subject, and corrects many popular mtocoroeptions, particularly about headhunters and cambals. In fact, cannibaltom played on>/ a limited part in lire concept of human sacrifico and, accordng 1o Davis, was never systematicaly carried out to oompensata for a chconto shortage of protein. 88 cob currently popular theory contends.
1931, 6x9, 390pp kfuxUated, indexed, hardcover.
HUMAN SACRIFICE: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94127)
EXECUTION
Tools & Techniques
by Bart Homme!
EXECUTIOn
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
Dart nofrm«l
Execution to ceremonial
Mlfing by a state or
government-like group. Thb
book is a chiling examination
of capital punishment, show-
ing bow the motives and
methods ha-.-o changod
through the centuries.
Execution contains detail-
ed dascnplions of all thn
techniques used to off^iaffy
extmgush human life:
• Hanging
• Electrocution
• Beheading
• Shooting
• Gassing
• Lsthalinjectlcn
• And bizarre lechnteuOB
such as tumhg. dron-
ing. entombment, drawing
& quartertog. and <toath by torture
-
There’s also a chapter on future lechno’ogy.
Execution is not tc< tiros© with weak stomachs. Kiting people is not pretty or clean. Yet p^vernmenl-sancttorod murder is performed cn a regular basis throughout tho wcri± For those who want the facts on capital punishment, there is no othor book Iko Execution.
1090, SK XSH, 123 pp indexed, soil cover.
EXECUTION: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34056)
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS
An Inside Look
by Burt Rapp
•Most hits are simpte attars. It«
purpose is to cause certain death as
quickly aa possible...*
You've seen them an IV ard In tha
moves: professional "hit mon* taking
out victims with a slant shot. Is that
uhal its realty like? No, It tail. as >ou
<ll find out when you road this bock.
• Her do=® someone» hlro a profcc-
sonal teller?
-
How much do they pot paid?
-
How do they keep from loavng a a
trail the ponce can kHfow?
These questions and many mere
are answered In this nominating book.
In Professional Kilters, Burt Rapp
takes you along as the hi poos down. You wil learn hew hred guns got their assignmerts. fndl their targets, and push the button. You wil road about supec-kilers from too Soviet Unton, Israel, end the United States. You will loam why silanoors are only lor the movies, and how Nt men can make the’r handwork Icok Ike sufckfe.
Chapters Include: • Tho Professional Kite' In Action • Ki ling is Easy
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history • Today's HI rod Ki tors • Government Kilocs ♦ Tools ard Techniques • Acquiring Weapons • Staking the Targe' • Tho Approach and Escape • Defeating Hred Killers • And much more, includrvg an Append« on the ¡dent/cat bn of corpses.
Professions! Kilters Is an Inslcfo lock at □ da’k precession.
1990, 5HxSM, 162 pp, Ntestrated, indexed, softcover.
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS: $14.&5
(ORDER NUMBER 34057)
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
A Practical Handbook
by Burt Rapp
Homicide has been increasing during tho last several decree. Tho pmctcal and effective Investigation of this increasing, and most drastic, of crimes is the subject of this fine bock by veteran police writer Burt Rapp.
This book is for police officers and wJians alke. It is an hvestga- lory guide and practical manual tor tho pdke officer in charge of a bcmcido Investigation and its folow-up. For tho cMfan, bcVdlng tho pdlce departments clvltan superiors, it provides a comprohonsrvo working knowledge of hew polco investigators ccodixt homicide Investigations. ard provides a basis for appraising the chances of apprehending the perpetrator and lays cut stops to enhance the odds of doing so.
Topics covered inctode: • Homicide: the legal definitions and the typos of homicides • Vlglanle Mllhgs: why polco often Ignore them • The wren goals of a homicide Investlgaton • Estimating the time of death: Ono base rule to folow • The first tNng an officer should do when arrh'tog at a hambdo scono • The investigative leg — ho* to bogln and maintain nt • When a search warrant is necessary tor a homicide scene — and when n warrant isn’t needed • How to hnndo a homicide suspect — important precautions • Controversial homicide investigation tac.cs — using psychics, polygraphs, and hypnosis — Important pltfaia to avoid • How to relate to the press — an overlooked but very Important part of any homkdde Invostgation • The "Wild Card1 motive — what an investigation must watch out for • The right way to sketch a murder scone • What reefy happens at an autopsy • How the press can help a murder Investigation — and things you shcukl novor ten them • And much, much more.
Homicide Investigation is a book that belongs In tho Ibrary of every homicide investigator, and anyone interested in murder and its Investigator).
ZSW, SH x OH, 150 pp. Utes ¿rated. soft cover.
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34047)
1
Serial Slaute I
nMHljmkJi
Mcha# Newtorrt Serie! Siaughter ¿s &e most comfte'e analysis of the serial
Ictior phenomenon avateCte.’
— John DcudIm. VCAP UNI ChiU
FBI Academy, Ojamco. Virginia
’exports-erd ’analysts'* forget the hypo, tho hcodr.es
and the sound CHost Here h the truth about serial kiders. •
— Robert Bkxh, author cf Psycho
SERIAL SLAUGHTER
What's Behind America's Murder Epidemic?
by Michael Newton
In a follow-up to his mammoth
compendium, Hunting Humans:
An Encyclopedia of Modem Sam
al KAters, Michael Nowton goes
beyond the case histories to look
for the methc-ds In ths mad-
ness...
Serial Slaughter Is a ’behind
tho screams’ look at America's
murder ep'demfo. Michael New-
ten has spent over a cfocscfo
sifting through poico reports,
news clippings, psychiatric testi-
mony and court records. In Serial
Slaughter, he uses tho case
histories of more nan BOO serial
kilers In a search for patterns
and answers: • What turns inno-
cent chidron Into grownup
bomrcidal maniacs? • Does
vfclont pornography create sex slayers? • What trails do aerial kllers
look fee In their victims? • U there any way to identify and treat these
human predators before they start to hunt?
Michael Newton follows serial tellers from birth to executon. explor-
ing their chfctioods, the? morbid fantasos. their hunting and telling
iKhnlquDS. Ha examnes the way our tew onforcomont deals these
creatures, and bow they often fal to stop a blood both due to stupid
mistakes.
As you follow serial Miers through tho system, you will be Introduced
to some of the most toxic human beings ovor to pollute the p'anet: •
George Fitzsimmons murdered Ns parents, then was released to tho
custody of his aunt and uncle, who ho claimod to love like his own
mother ard fa'iter.’ He kited thorn. • Ono serial kllec was paid a reward
ot $10,000 foe each decomposing Yctim ho led authorities to. • WMe
RRaxhng a rzrtorfous kilters apartment the polco missed Uo cap««
fyng in tho te-drocm.
Serio!Slaughter includes the word-for-word statements of convicted
serial tellers talking about life ard death, murdor ard sex. It Includes tho
actual forms used by the FBI to ’profto’ serial tellers. And It Includes
dozens cf disturbing photo®.
If you want to get behind the head I no® and >nlo the hands of serial
kilters, get Soria! Slaughter. R is simply the most dctaled study ol
multiple murder ovor made.
1992, 9H X11165pp, photos, bfbiiogrsphy, index, soft cover.
SERIAL SLAUGHTER: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34061)
21 TECHNIQUES OF SILENT KILLING
by Master Het Long
21 Techniques of Silent Killing outlines matbeds used by trained assassins to execute their victims with cold efficiency. The spike, knife and nunchaku are used to irnpata or strangle victims in a minimum amount of time with a maximum chance for lethal rosdls. These are ruthless methods used in the rfiad- owy worlds of criminal activity and International espionage — ard this book hoWa nothing back! in fact, the ¡HosfMions in this book are so ¡yapte that the pubSsber's regular printer refused to handle fhejobf
The techniques In mis Wood-cur-
21 TECHNIQUES OF SILENT KILLING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34045)
THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK
by Maxwell Hutchkinson
A complete handbook of pc<-
sens and how to use them!!! Top-
hi covered include:
A Plant Polsons: • Making ricin
from castor beans • Making
abrin from precatory beans •
The nut of the tung-oil tree •
Doadiy afcatoite from tobacco,
yew. and wo/fbano • Potato
sprouts • Hemlock — gettng
posor« from both tho wood
and water varieties • Poi-
sonous rrur.hrooms
Z Animal Toxins: • Poisonous
snakes • Spdcrs and scorpi-
ons • Tctrc-doxin from f^h •
Polson frogs- • Botulism
Z Chemical Polsons: • Arsenic,
antmony. and cyanide • White
phosphemur. • Mercury, iodine, barium, cadmium, and fiuorkte •
How to ki! using commonly availably anti-freeze
Z Terrible Polsons: • The two most terrible poisons known - the horrfcle and painful deaths they cause
Z Poisonous ■Gases: • Prussic add • Hydrccjcn suMde • Phosgene and phosphine ♦ Arsine • Carbon monoxide
Z Lethal Drags
X Poisonous Explosive Compounds
Z Weaponry and Sabotage: • Methods of dolvcring poisons to votings
Z Antidotes
X And much» much more, Including sources, and notes on
chemistry.
One of the most gruesome books ever printed. The Poisoner's Handbook belongs on everybod/s bloody murder bocksiielf. Order your copy today.
29SS, SHxSHr 64ppr itlustfeted. soft cover.
THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 3403$)
SILENT DEATH By Unde Fester
Uncle Fester, underground chemist par excellance, (author of Secrets of Meth&mphetSfnine Manufacture and Horne Workshop Ex- ( ptosiveS) turns his attention to poi- sens — and the result is Silent Death. the most advanced book on househcld manufacture of poisons we have ever seen.
Contents Include:
Z What makes a good poison?
X Tho five general rukis ci good poisoning
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Inorganic poisons fiuoddes. heavy metals. oxalates. arsenic, cyanides, carbon monox de. and carton dicxicto
X War gases — phosgere. arsine, and phosphne
Z Nerve gas: the poor man’s atom bomb — how io make it at home and uso ri in gucmlla war
Z Tme delay fcre— untraoeable arson
i Poisons from nature—digitate. rapeseed oil. and the jequiriy teen Z CIA shellfish toxin — making sanitoxin
Z Trembles how to extract trcmctol out of common woods
Z Time delay pciscns — time tombs with long fuses that the mark carries around inside him
Z Delivery to the target — tic best poison in the world is useless if you canl fifiuie out how to feod * to the vidta
Z Boliilsm — an easily rrndd poison that can to used lor o ther small <x large scale attacks
Z Autopsy! - what the med co I examiner will look for in case of suspicious death
Z And morel
Uncle Fester’s Silent Death is tire s'ntfe finest book on poisons and poksenng methods wa have over soon—highly rneern mended I
1939, 5H x Bfi. 123pp. frustrated, sort cover.
SILENT DEATH: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34044)
DA ZHIMINGDE
Striking Deadly Blows to Vital Organs
by Master He! L ong
•Sfrking dootfy blows." the literal translate n of Da Zhlmlng- do. lyplhos the mechamcs of this system of scM defcnse. which Is built around seven errieal ana temical targets-. The results of property executed attacks to these vital sensory ard life- support organs are brutal and devastating. Moro often than not. they are final. Here, Master Hei Lcog datals the anatomical locations of die physiclcgical ftjnetiora and vulwrabhlios of these targets, as wel as tba most effective strike« ard anqles of force to be used on each and
their practical application, it & by design, rot colro'dence, that the targets o? Da Zhlmlngde can be deafly. These are the areas you alm for when someone is seriously threatening your Ho. Knowing them well may allow you to spare a Ue if you have reason... and take one if you must. Sddforirdorrnationalpurposes on>y.
1993, 51ix3H, 200pp. P/ustrated, softcover.
DA ZHIMINGDE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 3406$)
PHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
by Richard W Krousher
"Ono of the most terrifying
end gruesome books ever printed!*
This book tolls ycu what no other tock wit: bow to torture in- fbrmst^n Cb^ of an uowftng subject. Most peop'o wii not have the stomach Io read it. tot those who do wil learn more abcol torture and torment than they dreamed possible.
In step-by-step chili ng detail. Physics! Interrogation Techniques lets ycu how lo evaluate a subject to determine what kinds of torture wil be most effective, arid then goes into grisly do tai on actual methods of torture. Tto author covers humiliation, confinement and restraint, sensory dapcfcatio<Vov«rtoad. Intrusion into body ortncos. abrasion, beating, burning, etectrktfy. and much more, including a heavy-duty chapter on mutilation.
Krcusher te'ls you the best ways lo tie and bnd a subject for physical interrogation, where to obtain the tods ard de'-^ces needed, end even tow lo get the guy to torture himself. white youYe out for cortee. The condtion of Ito subject after interrogation Is dscussed. so you won! be leaving any tel rale marks on the subject
This book fe so violent and degusting that several printers refused to to tto job! It is just simp?/ tto best book ever writton on torture ard interrogation techniques. You many not ’enjoy* this material, but you wi1 never forget ill
Sc^ 5or infcrmatiortalpurposes only!
1555, 5H x SU, 93 pp, soft cover
PHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34032)
DEATH SCENES 2
(VHS Video)
Produced and Directed by Nick Dougas
Death Scenes 2 explores Ito dark recesses of violence end rage mat ended in such heinous crimes as tto Manson Famt/s assault co sockrty. Sharon Toto and sa others lost thor l?/es during nights oi mindless savagery and slaughter. Unoensored and graphic scenes of :hls erme am shown. You will to taken through tto crime scene as only coroners and to nue de detectives have been allowed. Rut fiat Is only a small part of the graty footage in Death Scenes 2.
Pomsykania State Treasurer R. Bud Dwyer's on camera sucido is shown. The tragc death of actor Vic Morrow on tto so! of the movie Twiight Zonc\z> captured in chiling footage of tto disaster. You win see the gruosoTo aftermath cf mob rcprsals, pubic executions and in ter- national terrorism. Exptorc the bizarro phenomenon of Mexican 'Death Magazines.*
See unspeakable war atrocities from Europe. Korea and Vietnam. Even a nostalgic peek at the ’safe driving* films shown lo high stficoi students in tto ’SOs and ‘©Os ia presented.
Death Scenes 2 uniqixrt/ ushers tto brave and curious into a spell- binding trip through the violent realty that Is our workl today.
VIDEOS ARE NOKRETURNABLE.
1992„ S2 minutes. color ¿tod black A white, VHS video.
DEATH SCENES 2: $49.95 (ORDER NUMBER 34064)
CRIMES INVOLVING POISONS
US Army TB PMG 21
This manual ia lor military police criminal investigators in the investigation of crimes invoking posons, it covers:
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Types of posonings
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Effects of posons
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Offenses associated with poisoning
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Symptoms c4 poisoning
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Evidence 1o bo obtained and tow lo obtain rt
Crime Seen Investigations
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The criminal investigation laboratory
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Complete guide for investigating a poisoning
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How lo interview witnesses
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And much more
A handy arktltion to our series of books on murder and poisons!
1967, SH x 11, 16 pp. /frustrated, soft cover.
CRIMES INVOLVING POISONS: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34052)
SELECTIVE ASSASSINATION
As An Instrument of National Policy
This exact reprint of a IKto-knoAn gcr.-ornmenl paper Advocates assassination as an Inr.tnjmont ol tto policy of the United States Government’ Topes covered Incaxte:
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Tergal sei ecton
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Operational panning
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Plausbte banal
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Operational deception
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Weapons and cases
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Personnel selection and training
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Ard much mace.
Tto conduskxt: A program of sdoclrvo assassination adopted by tto United Stales could permit greater flexibility and initiative in tne prosecutor» of unconventional warfare.
A shock ng and Ittle-kncr^n study?
1990, 6x9, 57pp, softcover.
SELECTIVE ASSASSINATION: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34051)
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS
OF BYGONE DAYS
by Alice Morse Earle
Here’s a curious little number tor you—an ¡rustrated book on torture and formant infected by the Church and iho State, first published in 1896. Chapters include: ♦ ThoBfbocs
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Iba Ducking Stool
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Tho Slocks
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ThePikxy
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Punishments of Authrxs and Books
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Iba WhippcngPo^t
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The Scartel Letter
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Pranks and Gags
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Public Penance
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Miitaiy Punishments
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Brandng and Maimng
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And more.
Each chapter ts iLustratcd with a drawing of the punishment m action. Written by a well known colonial historian of her day. Curious Punishments Of Bygone Days will be of interest to anyone interested to torture and torment, in crime and punishment, in guilt and justice, and to the never-ending saga of man's Inhumanity to man.
1S96, 4H x TH. 149pp. Illustrated. son cover.
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34085)
WAR CRIMES
, AKEPOITON
1 iiNinosuns
; WAS CRIMES
’ AGAINST IRAQ
WAR CRIMES
A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq
by Ramsey Clark and Others
During the Persian Gull ’War."
Cororess and the American
media (with yellow ribbons
mpped lightly afeund their
brains) often raised lbs threat of
war crimes trials for Saddam
Hussein and some of his
generate.
In War Crimes, Ramsoy Clark
pants out that the U.S., in
notation of Intematlcnai law,
systematically attacked the
civilian economic infra&tnucture ot
Iraq. With up to 3.003 sorties a
day. U.S. and coalition p'anas
bombed not just mlitary targets,
but waler systems, tdephona
exchanges, ecctrir.nl generation
plants, sewer treatment systems,
irrigation works, animal vaccine
labs, fertilizer warehouses, hospitals, bridges, food warehouses,
lactones, cd refineries, homes, shopping centers, buses, ycuth centers,
post offices. and many more facilities necessary for crvilan life.
The first duty of ovary nation ts to bo accountable for its own
conduct. Moda accounts of the GuH "War" have not dene this and
therefore cannot bo of much hep tn understanding the ccofiicl and
educating Americans about the "war." This book presents eyewitness
testimony, export analyses ot the "war." setecficns from international
law. and important docimnnts on the "war." Ihte book pfacos the hsfory
of U.S.«¿req ro’Aliciis. the refusal of the Bush adminttration to negotiate,
and the conduct of the war' ttsotf. both oxcos-vre force used against
mlicary personnel and attacks on chilans. In the igM of international
law.
1992. 4x9. 292 pp, iftuKtr»ttfd, todxxfid, soft cover.
WAR CRIMES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34063)
HIT MAN
A Technical Manual
for Independent Contractors
by Rex Feral
Rex Feral kiEs for him. Daring
Unafraid. Professional Now ho dares
to tell his proto sslcaai secrets.
Feral te a hit man. Some consider
him a criminal. Others Wink him a
Mre. In buth. ho to a tettai weapon
a med at those ho hunts. Ho Is a last
recourse to these times, when Laws
are so twisted that justice goes
uneervod. He is a man wbo.ccnlrds
his destiny through his private code
of ethics, wtto fuels no twinge of guilt
at doing his jab. ito is a professional
titer.
Learn how a pro makes a bring at
this craft without landing behind bars.
Read how he geta asVgnments.
creates a false working identity,
makes a disposable sitencer, reaves the scene without a trace, watches his mark unobserved. and more. Feral reveals how to get in. do the job and got out — without gottirg caught. Sold for informatpnal pi^rposes only.
1942, SHxSX, 144 pp. Nustroted, ptertos, son cover.
HIT MAN: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34026)
THE DEATH DEALER’S MANUAL
by Bradley J. Steiner
Killers-for-h-ro wak the streets
around us every day. They may be
mob hitmen, refugees from ‘The
Farm," KGB executioners, or ether
government specialists. These
human killing machines do their
jobs w*h dead y efficiency, without
an ounce ol remorse.
The Death Dealer's Manual
tells the true story of how these
professional kilters go about doing
their ugly business. Author
Bradey Steiner is known as one
of America's bop martial combat
writers. Ho was able to penetrate
the inner sanctums of the world's
birwcsl asMsiiinalkx! bureaus in
compiling ths terrifying guide to
death for-sale. Secret skits in foe black art of assassination are d'rvulged to the civilian reader— no hokfe barred. Numerous ¿lustrations detail these terminafico techniques.
Contents include: vital points, edged weapons, hardens, unarmed killing techniques, improvised weapon His. use of the garrote and crossbow, synthetic and natural poisons, and more.
WARNING: Sold for informationalpurposes onlyl
1932. SU x3%, 112pp, musteated, softcover
THE DEATH DEALER'S MANUAL: $12X10
(ORDER NUMBER 34024)
SILENCING SENTRIES
by Oscar Diax-Cobo
The material in this book is
designed io familiarize the reader with
tKo maneuvers Lint can bn used to
ctoso in on and remove any enemy
sentry. Sentry removal can be a skill
useful in unoonventonai and guerrtl'a
warfare as wei as under escape and
survival ccodiitons. in unconventional
operations. It may be necessary to
sdcnily dispose cA a sentry In order to
carry exit a mission. In An escape and
survival situation, it may to necessary
and advantageous to sifentfy kin a
sentry so his weapons, food. etc., can
be oonttscaled and the operator thus*/
armed and better prepared to undergo
his jeumoy. When the operator Is in a
dangerous or dsadvnntagoous
position, knowledge and proficiency In stent killing can bo a powerful factor in maintaining a pos/tvo attitude and high motvaticn.
Chapters inctode:
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Introdixton
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Physical. Tactical and Psychological Conditioning
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Ctostog In on The Sentry
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Anatomy: The Sentry’s Vital Targets
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Sentry Removal Tochniquas
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Sentry Snatching
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The Sentry’s Defenses
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Specialized Weapons • Conclusion.
The author hods the rank of 8th Degree Black Bolt, and has completed courses with respect to: Roccnnatssanco Marine. Spooal Forces. Rocondo, Jump and Scuba. He has Instructed members of the Elite Military Forces and Security Agents In the arts ri Close combat. In Silencing Sentries, Oscar Claz-Cobo reveals what ha has learned In yours of training. Clear writing and numerous photographs make this the Lest possible bcok c<i the subject.
1933. 5H X SH, 92 pp, many photos, xofteorer.
SILENCING SENTRIES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34040)
POISON!
The World*s Greatest True Murder Stories
Edited by Richard Glyn Jonas
This, the first modem collection of authentic stories abuct poeon and poisoners. preiorXs a fascinating gallery of some of tho wcrid's greatest and most sinister criminals. The mlroducticn seis tho scene with a survey of tho poisoner's doady art in former bmes. with a look at history’s most famous practitioners from Ancient Greece to tho Borgias, and sketches of sixh notorious figures as Madame do Brtnvillers. Thomas Waincwright and the first of tho groat modem poisoners. William Palmer.
The stones that form the man body of the tock ranga from the detectable Madeleine Smith, who had a secret ’marriage* with a disreputable foreigner, and who may c< may not have put arSGnlc Oto the cocoa that sho so generously passed him through tho window (posterity thnks on tho whole that sho did), to tho sheer ev* ri Graham Young, who as a schoolboy poisoned hs fronds and family and was sentenced to ite detention in Broadnxxx. enty to be refeased ’cured’ lo prison al over agate.
Then there are the ludicrous casee. The attempted prisoning of Mike Malloy in a New York speakeasy reads ike Ute blackest of black comedies, whie The Case of the Poisoned Bun* is a true story worthy ol O. Henry at his bast—with a remarkable tw-st In the tail.
In Poison! wo obtain fasdnabng and horrific insights into human nature at its calculating worst, and taam almost everything there Is Io knew nbcut this most sutzta and teskficus ri weapons.
1997, SK x 9H, 254 pp. herdcorer.
POISON!: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34049)
BE YOUR OWN UNDERTAKER
How to Dispose of a Dead Body
by A. R. Bowman
Being forced to kill somebody
in justifiable sett-defense is a sad
reality of todays violent society.
Unfortunately, ifs also a sad
reality that )ou oodd be
prosecuted for yocr actions by a
corrupt, Incompetent, mtsgudod
•justice system. So ycu decide
not to call the police. Now you're
stuck with a dead body!
How do you gat yourself out cf
this mess? A.R. Bowman has tho
answers in this outrageous study
of the dark art cf freelance corpse
disposal. He expkxes ail of the
doltoate cptkxis — w’oll as the
grucsomo 'how-to' dataJa — of
making sure that it's the thug’s
bod/ rcung away in an obscure
pit or at the bottom of Lake
Namefess rather than your
if&edom rotting away ur(ustty in
some prison cell.
You may co reader this book disgusting, sacrifegious. and abccnlnabla
(and if is), but ycu also may wish >*0« hito read it should >ou ever bo
faced with a most unpleasant situation someday.
1992, 5fi xSfit 56 pp, so ff corer.
DE YOUR OWN UNDERTAKER: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34065)
FINAL EXIT
The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance
and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry
Fins! Exit is intended to bo road
by a mature adult who is suffering
from a terminal ilnass and is
considonng tin optton cf rational
subdo if and wfton suffering
bocomoa unbearable, tt also Oves
guidance to those who m’ghi be
supporthfe of this option.
For the lir$»t time In published
literature, the ways in whfch doctors
end rvjrses rr<^’ n«d to hancle a
patient's request for euthanasia are
oullned.
This is just simply the finest
how-to-off-your self book that has
ever been pubisbed. Irebded are:
• Several cti^ptera tfiat detail txxw
to commit suicide with sleeping
pills without the direct aid of a
plry-ician, but preferably with tba ad of a toved cne.
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A chart listing lethal doses of 18 drugs with tpr, for incraasng their
toxicity. -
A chapter on cot recommended methods at sucida because they
aro inrifeebvo. painful, messy lor survivors or otherwise
prob'omaticnL
Dorak Humphry assisted hs own WnrinsJIy ill wde to comma
suedo. so ho writes from personal experience, end has been the
naDonaJ executive drector ri the Hemlock Society for 12 years.
Final Exit has bacorrn the most controversial book in America —
highly recommended.
199tr SHxSii. 192pp, indexed, sea corer.
FINAL EXIT: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34059)
Survival
Introduction
Due to decades of short-sighted and self-serving economic and social policies on the part of this country’s and the world’s politicians and leaders, we face a variety of
SURVIVAL WITH THE ATLATL
by BUI Tate
20.000 years apo. in what is now Europe, a Cro Magnon hunter fitted the concave end of a shod spear cr dart into a carved book o! an tier. Holtfng the ander In his hand, steadying the dan with his finders, he look careful aim at a large bison and with a throwing moton. released the dart with tremendous thrust to make his kli.
We wil never Know what genius first desgred this devce. The Inventor of this amazing weapon la hidden. Bost in time, a thousand generations ago. Thousands of years later n other parts of the world, simiar spear throwers cr spear slings were Indeperdentt/ invented Australian aborignes used them, ard called tnem ’woomeras.’ Eskimo hunters used them, earfy Americans seven thousand years ago uwl them, and at the Une ot contact. Iha Spanish found Aztecs waging war with these ’aflatls.* Attatl. pronounced with thn emphasis on the soccnd syllable as In ’Atlantic’ is possibcy the Tohec word for spear thrower. The later Aztecs adopted the weepon and its Toltec name, a name gaining acceptance by archeologists in America
Stmpte as the aUatl is. n was many thousands ot years bdoro a bettor weapon was nvontod: tho tow and arrow. With the bow. more accuracy ooiid bo achieved and the darts of four to eight feet in length were replaced with much more raadfy avaiablo short arrow shafts. The stone or bono tips coUd to much smaller, too. with the lighter weight arrows. Nevertheless, atiatis contnuod tn use along with the bow and arrow, and in some parts of the worid. continue in use today.
Survival With Tire Attati gives you Husfrated. sfcp-by-slnp directions for making your own ^expensive atlatl. and shews you how lo use M with accuracy. Learn al about this ice Age tuning weapon — team hw to make and use tho attatl.
1987, 8A m 11, 28 pp, Mustnted, soft cover.
SURVIVAL WITH THE ATLATL: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19142)
FUR, FOOD & SURVIVAL
An Expert’s Guide to Trapping
by EmIIR. Johnson
Ono of the most complete books ever written on the subject of trapping! Whether you trap for sport, fur or focd, or if you just war4 to be prepared for a survival situaton. this text is orc o( the most complete and detailed cunmlty nvailabto. It combines al modern trapping methods, as well as snaring and deadfall methods use IJ in survival conditions.
1998, SHxlH, 178pp, Ufustrrted. softcover.
FUR, FOOD ft SURVIVAL: $14.95 (ORDER NUMBER 11098)
potential disasters in the next few years — a wortd-widc depression, runaway inflation, terrorism, environmental catastrophes, nuclear war, and even an invasion by a foreign army are but a few of the horrifying possibles.
Our survival becks cover a wide range of survival topics and techniques to prepare you for a wide range of possible disasters — even including how to survive a nuclear war — and Die get-<Jown nitty gritty business of making tools and weapons out of sticks and stones. Our Survival Section includes the finest survival books ever written!
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DUNCAN
LONG
SURVIVAL BARTERING
by Duncan Long
If cur shaky money system
collapses, you may need to
barter to keep your family and
business operating. Duncan
Long has written a fine bock co
bartering. w:n emphasis co
survival situations, how you can
get started now. and how to
profit from bartering, even if
there is never a monetary crisis.
Tcpfcs covered include:
■ How bartering can give you
the odgn you need to surwo
■ Bartering and serif-reliance
■ Th© three forms of bartering
— when and how they are
used
■ How Io got good deals by
bartering
Living in a. bartering wm-
murity
■ Stockpling items tor future bartering — what to store and how where
to stere it
■ Protecting yourself against criminals and rip-off artists
■ And mutti more, including sources for more information cn bartering
and survival
Survival Bartering tells you what you need to know to survive if the
banking system competes, and more than trial. how you can bonafil
from bartering now. Highly recommended for anyone ritorosled in
survival and the underground economy.
1989, SH x 8H, SCpp, soft cover.
SURVIVAL BARTERING: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13063)
OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS
by Larry Dean Olsen
The author has tor several years
conducted dasses in outdoor survival at
Brigham Yeung Unrversily. His book
Outdoor Survival Stutts is widely
recognized as the finest book of its kind.
This is not a book on ’camping out’ —
It Is a book kx when you are lost or
grandad in th» wlkfemess with nothing
bt4 the shirt cn your back. Contents
Incbtte: philosophy of a caveman;
shelter, fire: water plants; animate;
making fools arxi weapons from stone:
making wote and weapons from anrnal
skins and bones; construction of bows
and arrows; a cokx section on edible
plants; and much more.
1973, 8x9, 188pp, wellftfustrated, softcover.
OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11034)
SURVIVALIST'S MEDICINE CHEST
KAGNAR BENSON
by Ragnar Benson
Now. a truy practical guide about using spedavzed medicines in a
world without doctors. whiten ospecxtSy for ¿wvrvaf&ts. Pneumonia. VO.
ptoguc and darrhoa tilers without modern drugs — can bo Icked
wiih a little preparation a nd know-how.
From his years helping Third Word natives with vol medcines.
survtvalr.t author Ragnar Ucnscn brings you this handbook for doctoring
humans with readiy obtainable, cheaply priced vet modcinos. In many
cases, vet medicines are identical to those M.D.8 recommend — at a
traction of the cost
And they can bo bought wrtboof proscrplions and stored until an
emergency demands their use.
Tetanus, typhoid and gun-wound ntr<wns wii never again strike fear
in the heart of survival late who read this hoc*. Pack this illustrated
handbook Sn with your antibiotics, syringes. sUfo drugs, sowing neerfes
and sutures, and you'll save ycur group from the ilnesscs that would
prove fatal wWtout modem meddne
/5WZ 4x6. 4V pp, Mutfrsted.
SURVIVALIST'S MEDICINE CHEST: $10.00
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 11082)____________________
INTO THE PRIMITIVE
Advanced Trapping Techniques
by Dale MatUn
You rnay be stranded in the
wilderness by a disabled car or
downed airplane. Ycu may ea.oy trips
into lite open country. Or you may be
on tlic run. forced to live by your wild.
Whether you arc out in the wilds by
design or accident. Into The
Primitive can gvo ycu Ute edge you
need to survive.
Dato Martin details techniques that
will help you meet basic survival
ncods (food, water, fire, shelter), and
presents impressed amenities
designed to make y."<x wilderness
experience mere enjoynbto. This
innovative boak describes ingenious
COhtraphcns made bom scrounged
materials. survival ctovxes to make at
home before your foray into the
woods, and primith'e weapons, trap» and alarms dasigned to stow down
an aggressor. In addition, the author presents a way of thinking about
obstoctos that will show you haw to find solutions using whatever
material may bo at hand
w?, 5H x Mi, 176 pp, iPostrsted. son cover.
INTO THE PRIMITIVE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14112)
Into The
Primitive
Advanced Trapping
Techniques
DALE MARTIN
U.S. ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL (FM 21-76)
An oxccltont addition to ycur survival library! This exact reproduction Ot U.S. Army Field Manual 21-76 teaches development nt survival stalls •n any terrain. 1rom Arctic or desert to jungle and ocean environments. Map roading and navigation, camcullago. woexforatt. first aid. outdorx improvisation lechhques. and much more aro covered in depth Ths book is designed to bring men back abro. Complete with many charts, diagrams, and illustrations.
1970!, SH xPi, 265pp. iflustrtrted, indexed, son cover.
U.S. ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11072)
TRACKING:
A BLUEPRINT FOR LEARNING HOW
by Jack Kearney
Author Jack Kearney is a
Border Patrol Agent who has
spcdalzed in tracking people for
more than 17 years. He has found
thousands o! people wfch his
tracking skill. Including
smugglers, criminals, and many
persons tost in the wilderness.
Now he reveals tps and secrets
from his years of tracking that can
make you an expert in this
book, ho teaches jwto ’track ike
an Indian’’
Contents «nc’ude:
• Man the tracker
• Why Decking?
• Awareness training (Phase I
Exercise 1)
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Ulilzing sun angto (Phase I
Exercim continued) -
Signs — what to look for
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Slope and ground cover (Phase ll Exercse)
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Agng (Phase in Exercises)
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Skjncurtng
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Track toenlilication ard description
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Following a n on-vtsb to trM
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Ard mere’
A handy nddlicn to ycur hunting, survival, and outdoor library!
1976, 5H x SU, 160 pp, Iffustfried, soft cover.
TRACKING: A BLUEPRINT FOR LEARNING HOW; $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14040)
THE ART OF FLINT KNAPPING
byD.C. Waldorf
Here it ft — survival's bottom ¿tool With flint and fre, you’re Sim human.
Here. In one lavishty llUslrated book, ft what you never nocdr.d to know until now. The tost an of making flint arrowheads. spoarpolnts. and hammers Is yourr.l
Waldorf shows bow to find and select tint. what lands of simp’o tools ycu will need, and tolls how to strike, scrape, spall and knap fiir.t into knives, scraper», arrowheads, spear-points — and dem forget the fXashpan striker on your Wack powder rifle!
Ths book details both Indan and European metttods. The bibliography covers all of the prehistoric techniques as well. The Art Of Flint Knapping Is graphical/ endowed with page after page of fine line drawings and careful photographs. Tbs is one book which bo'ongs m every survive list's home- Ibrary and don't forget a copy for your camper!
192?, 5H x 11, $2 pp. profuseiyHtustntcd. soft cover.
THE ART OF FONT KNAPPING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11040)
THE ART OF MAKING
PRIMITIVE BOWS AND ARROWS
by D.C. Waldorf
This excellent book, by the author of The Art Of Flint Knapping, w3 bo of interest to weapons historians and affkionadcs as well as survivalists. This book covers practical techniques with step-by-step illustrations for making primitive bows and arrows.
Contents include:
• Toots and woods for bow making
• Making tho simple sod bow
• Bow design
• Sotcm backing
• Making a bow string
• Quivers
• Andmore!
if you would lice to make yourself a beautiful Plains bow that has its back covered with sinew and rattlesnake skin, or a number of fine primilh'o bows and arrows and accessories, no other tock tels you bow better.
1995. 5H x 11, 52pp, profusely Muffrrted, soft cover.
THE ART OF MAKINO
PRIMITIVE BOWS AND ARROWS: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11086)
SURVIVAL POACHING
by Ragnar Benson
Survival Poaching ft sura
to be the most controversy!
hunting book over printedll!
It ft a poacher’s handbook,
written by a veteran of 40 years
Of poaching. In Survival
Poaching, ho shares with YOU
quick and easy methods of
ocllwilng dear. boar, game
birds. turtxrarors. fish and rap-
tries! Contents include:
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Why Pooch? • Establishing
A Territory • Entrance. Exit and
Evason • Equpmcnt • Two
Way Rados • Poftons and
Explosives • Dynnrr.re •
Snarer. • Universal Stream
Trap • Don Trap • Cuvart Trap
• Deadfalls • Box Traps •
Dens • Doer • Butchering Deer • Nail Can Bear Trap • Beavers and Muskrats • Fiah • Game Birds • Frogs. Turves, Crayfish and Snakes • Urban Survival • The Poacher’s Family • Seling Outdoor Products • Ard more!
Survival Poaching is not about destroying cur country's natural resources. Ralber, It is about techniques that alow ycu to keep the edible things ail around you. for yourself. There ft a chapter on the author’s phioscphy of poaching, as well as one on the conservation o< resources. But. the most important of aH is the chapter on entrance, evasion, and exit It tels how to enter a posted area, evade any authorities there, and safely exit with your catch.
In the final analysis, this book wi® give YOU the tools needed lo bypass Uie jerk anti-hunter, environmentalist, preservationist. land- poster. and cologo-educated game warden — all of whom make the book so necessary.
Survival Poaching ft a book for the meat hunter — highly recommended!
1990, 5H xOH, 255 pp, illustrated, hardcover.
SURVIVAL POACHING: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11025)
HARD-CORE POACHING
by Ragnar Benson
Make a caichi Boar. Door.
Coyote. Ffth by thn score.
Thousands oi animaft await
your appetite, your net. and your
gun; only the law stands In your
way.
Now Hard-Core Poaching
shows you how to get an that
meat with nobody the wiser.
Ragnar Benson, veteran
poacher, and author o1 Survive!
Poaching, recounts hft numer-
ous poaching experiences and
describes the latest poaching
technology, as well as some od
techniques revived for the new
age. Discover the use o< such
innovations a» two-way short-
wavo radios, subcaliber con-
versions. laser sights and night-
vision devices, ferrets, radio-
tracking devices and the Thai lislxrig spear, to name a few. Now that
you have the state-of-the-art equipment. get out there! Make a catch —
without getting caught!
J 952, 5H x 152PP, Musfrxtcd, cotí cov^r.
HARD-CORE POACHING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11096)
Ragnar Benson
SURVIVING MAJOR CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS
And Chemical/Biological Warfare
by Duncan Long
In today's world. hardly a week
goes Oy without reports of some
major chom’cal spin er accident —
major enough that peopte have to
be evacuated from the affected
area! We live in dangerous limes,
and there is no Idling wfvsn you
will bo affected by a major
chemical accident, if you were,
wtaf woitid you (to? How would
you survive? How wotfd your
family survive? Where wcuto you
go? What equipment should you
have stored ahead ol lime? The
answers to these important
questions and such more are
revealed in Surviving Msjof
Chemical Accidents, by noted
survival author Duncan Long.
Top'cs covered in this vital
book include: • Industrial accidents and chemicals — what chemicals you are likely to be exposed Io in the event of a major chemical accident — their properties and effects on human beings • Deafng with chemical weapons — wbat agents you are likely to bo exposed to ri the event of chemical or bWoglcaf warfare — properties and effects • First Aid procedures for chemical agent exposure • Chemical agent decontamination • Biological agents — germ warfare and what io expect if It comes • First Axl for botagcal agent victims • Defense from and decontamnabon of biotogical weapons • Equipment — with complete names and addresses cf manufacturers and suppiers — how much it costs ♦ Devo taping shelter*; for chemical accidents and chcrricaVbtotogcal warfare • And more!
Duncan Lcoj is a noted expert in his field, and in Surviving Major Chemical Accidents, he shares Ns knowfedga with you. Ilustrelcd with photos, charts, drawngs and diagrams. Surviving Major Chemical Accidents is a vital addition to any survival library — it could happen to you.
1985. Sri x SH, 172 pp, iHustmfed, softcover.
SURVIVING MAJOR CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11089)
NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL
by Duncan Long
Duncan Leng. an
established nuclear war
survival writer, has mada his
name as a common man’s
author. Leng's ideas are
senstota. affordable. and
enafcta yxxj to keep seme
semblance of civilization in
your family’s life after a
nuefear war. Here he shatters
the many widespread myths
that the mass media
perpetuate end which leave
you unprepared io concnuo
Irie after a ructear war.
Contents include:« False-
hoods. myths, and fiction •
Living with the bomb ♦
Rad alien and EMP • Targets
• Sheffer • Spacial Equip-
ment • Food • Waste dis-
posal« Tunneling« Stocking up« And more.
1990. 5H x 8H, 224pp, ittotfrxted, soft cover
NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL; $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11099)
HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
by Duncan Long
HOW TO SURVIVE
A
NUCLEAR accident
Currently. 15% Of the
worlds power is being
generated by nixtear
power plants. Because ol
this, most of us Irro. work
nnd'or vacation down-
wind from nuclear
reactors much of Iha
Wire. Whlo nuctaar
accidents am unlikely,
they do happen. And
when they happen, they
can be catastrophic.
In theory, nuclear
materials aro always
handed very carefully. In
reality, this isn’t always
the case. It is easy for
workers to become
casual about the rrxjviog
and guarding of
materials which don't
always harm people
instantly and which harm
through rays undOlact-
abto by the senses. Thus. workers often shut down warning alarms,
circumvent redundant systems, ard ignore warnings. This Is what
happened in the cases of our modern ape's latest two close squeaks
with major disaster in the Three Mile Island ’event* and the Soviet
Chernobyl accident.
Even with ultra-safe. automated. .-nd expensive reactors, there are
still disasters which coUd breach the safeguards. Earthquakes (several
US reactors are built on major faults), airplane crashes, shoddy
workmanship, use of drugs by workers, etc.. could all conceivably lead
to a rMor nuclear reactor aedetont
Th’S book covers what jwcan do now and in Iho event of a nuclear
accident in ycur vidftty. Topics covered Include:
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The dangers: herw nuclear wastes can get into th« environment
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Four types of ionizing radattan and the dangers of each
♦ How to decde whether to free or rot
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Duteccton equipment — whore to got r. and how much ri costs — how to use it to protect yourself and ycur family
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Protective equipment—suits, masks. fllte<s. and more
« Decontamination procedures — for yourself, your borne, and your hod and water
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An assessment of what the future la likely to bold
-
What actually happens when a nudoar ’moi-down* occurs - it's not what you think
-
Sources of useful cqupman! and puWicabons
-
Ard much, much more.
The author, a tearing survival expert, shows you how a few simple precautions and seme ralahvoty inexpensive equipment can vastly improve your chances of surviving a nudear accident In your vicinity — whether tfs a major or mnee nccklcnt.
The txXtom ins Is this: preparing to avoid roce.ving dangerous exposures to radaton or oven being kded is, for the most part, up to you. You must prepare to protect yourself. Depending cn the nuctaar industry or pdilicians end bureaucrats may cost you your health or life. How To Survfve A Nuclear Accident is an excellent book highly recommended.
19SS, 5Ji x SJi, 154pp, photographs
andiitos¡rations, soft cover.
HOW TO SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11095)
SELF SUFFICIENCY
Introduction
Taking care of your own business is a good thing to do — in tact it is the only thing to do.
Not only will you live better and save money, but actually doing things will help you to develop the sense of efficacy and self-confidence you will need in the “interesting*' times to come.
TAN YOUR HIDE!
Home Tanning Leathers & Furs
by Phy ¡Us Hobson
A fully ilustratod step by-
stop guide to borne tar^ning
Uy fine different methods —
irctudcd are methods of
producing washable furs
(sheepskins), butter tanning,
short-cut tanning, dehajring
for leathers, making sote
leather, buckskins. using
snakeskins. d/ng furs and
Iwthors. practical kwlhor
making how-to. and mora.
The author tells ycu
exactly:
-
what lode and chemicals
you will need -
how to select the hide
• the steps for tanning
leather and furs -
hew to test for tanning
-
ofd time Indian tanning
methods -
how to make ycur own
dyes -
what qualities of leather to look for
-
which tools you need for leather-working
-
basic lealherworking techniques
-
where to get tools and supplies
• and much more.
AJI tools and handwortung methods are dearly iiustrated in the un-
usually complete how-to-do-il book. With Yen Your Hide/can now
create and enfry beautiful tur and leather products ot ycur very own io
sail. wear, or trade
19Y7, 6x9. 133 pp. Mastreted, irrdexed, softcover.
TAN YOUR HIDE!: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14110)
EATING CHEAP
by Ragnar Ranson
Cut your food bil to $5 per
week? Yes. you actually can, and
actualy eat good, wholesome
food. The author combines
personal experience with old-time
methods in a unusual nuts-
and-bolts gudo. Ho points to other
cultures where pcop'e manage to
cat cheaply, ynt nutritiously, with-
out the need lor «tore-bought food.
Chapters include:
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Cheap Eate< Philosophy
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How Much Food Is Enough
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The Fine Art of Gleaning
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Cheap Moat Sources
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Scrounging
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Easy Pickin's
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Raising a Garden
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V/rfd and Sc mi-Wild Game
-
Do-lt-Yoursctf Butchering
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The Frve-Dollar-A-Weck Diet
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Cheap Eating Recipes
-
And More!
Stop paying fifty bucks for a bag of groceries, instead, learn to make the most of available food sources. Buy ths book now and start Eating Cheap today*
1982, Sfi x8X, 128 pp, softcover.
EATING CHEAP: $12.50
(ORDER NUMBER 14147)
WE OWN IT
Starting & Managing Co-ops,
Collectives & Employee-Owned Ventures
by Peter J. Hon/gsberg, Bernard Karmoroff,
and Jim Beatty
We Own ft explain® the pros arrJ aww d. thu numerous legal and lax options available to co-ops and emptoyeo-owned ventures. The bock fells how to sol up your venture — permits and Iccnscs. employees, togal UabiUy, government forms, xisurance, bookkeeping ar-d how and where to obtain financing. We Own A’lnckxtos Interviews, sample articles and bylaws and a state-by-state fisting ot co-op requirements for all 50 states. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Ttve book also includes an extensive listing of resources tor further information. A fine bock!
1982, 9 x 12, 165 pp. fffustreied, indexed. softcover.
WE OWN IT: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 54051)
WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE
How to Set Up and Maintain
A Worm Composting System
by Mary Appclhof
Rccys'c kitehen fond waste!
Save energy! Produce fcrtilzcr lor
house plants and garden! Grow
fishing worms! Rcduoo waste
disposal costs! For tho post twenty
years. Mary Appdhof has been
researching. developing, and mar-
kotmg products end services re-
iatod to tho conversion of organic
maionels via earthworms. This
book tails you exactly how to go
about It.
Chapters include. Where
should I put a worm bn? • What
fond and size container should I
use? • What are worm beddings,
and where do I gal them? • What
kind of worms should I izm? •
What is the sex life of a worm? •
How many worms do I need? • How du I set up my worm bn? • What foods of garbage, and what do I do with it? • How do I take care of my worms? • V.hat Am the most commonly asked questions about worms? • What are th» othor editors In my worm bin? • How do plants benefit from a worm bin? • And more.
Worms Eat My Garbage b a must for anyone interested in organic gardening and recycltop.
1962. 5H x S&, 110 pp. tHust/ated, indexed, soft co w.
WORMS EAT MY GARBAGE: $8.95 (ORDER NUMBER 14144)
THE $1.98 COOKBOOK
How to Eat Like a Gourmet
and Savo $6,000 a Year
by Cari Japikse
Coufdyou use an extra SS.COOayojr?'\Va\,s> how much a fami»/ can save by following 11» ideas and recipes in The $f.9S Cookbook $1.56 is not the price of the tock, rt is the Ictal amount of money >x>u rood to Spend per day to fix the -gourmet recipes in this tock lor one person
If you are trancing over hundreds of dotare every tmo you shep al the grocery store, this is the bcok for you. h will show you how total food cost for a family of four can be toss than SSG a w’cek. Each wook. Every week. And you will eat ben er than you ever have before. Whether ths ts your first cookbook or your two hundredth. it is bound to become your favorite. Because it gives you the key to eat'ng Ike □ gourmet co a soup kitchen budget its the perfect cookbook for college students, newty- weefe. terhlies. and retirees. It can help you make ycur feed dotar travel further than it ever has before — whether you use cash. credit cards. or I cod stamps.
And yeti won’t be eating fol dogs or canned tuna, either. Author Cart Japkso bciovos in eating well. You may not think you can afford eggs benedici, lobster scutlie. chocolate mousse, and other dishes usuaty associated with great expense, but you can. The $1.96 Cookbook shows you how.
1993. SH x8!i. 160 pp. indexed, soft cover.
THE $1.98 COOKBOOK: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14145)
THE ART & SCIENCE OF
DUMPSTER DIVING
by John Hoffman
Wan an fnirodretton bydrn Sroadsfreet and Original Ccmix by Ace Backwords
The Art & Science of
Dumpster Diving is an
amazing manual that
tells you exactly how to
dumpsters for fun
and prof«. Ths fe no< a
tock for pathetic ’home-
less’ pccpin who belong
to an instftution — it's a
book for YOU: an able-
bodied. clcarha.idcd
person who can prof4
from the stupendous
amount of waste
generated by consumer-
ist American society. This
book wil show ycu how-
to get ¡usl about anyttring
ycu want or need —
focd. clothing, furniture,
building malerials, enter-
tainment. luxury goods,
toots, toys — you name
it ABSOLUTELY FREE!
John Hohman has been t'ntfng treasures in tfxi trash al hs lifo. Hs entire family was raised out of dumpsters — And they're proud of it! Icday. John has a oolfogo degree and a good job. Ho doesn’t havo to d.ve dumpsters — he loves it. Divo into ths bock and youll understand why
The Art 6 Science of Dumpster Diving takes ycu on a gutted tour Of AfltertCA’S t AOk Al»?)1.; Where wealth is carelessly dscnrdad.
Hoffman will show you where to find the good sluff, how to rescue it ard how Id uso it. induding:
-
Step-by-step. iTusIrated durrpster diving lochniquee
-
How to work your neighborhood dumpsters
-
Tips for dumpster diving a restaurant • Recipos for food salvaged from dumpsters • The ’Big Tbree’ dumpster hot spots
-
’Lucky Seven-dice spots
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How io use "bog blades’ and ’rive sticks’ ♦ How to convert trash to cash
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How to dress foe dumpster dNing success • How to hanefe runins wxh cops
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Why government ’recycling’ programs wil never work • And much, much morel
As you learn Iha secrets of an extraerdnary master dh*er, you will lx?ar outrageous anecdotes cdlccted from a IteVme of garbage picking. You will see the authcc cat from bloated cans You will see Weird WSard's pickup haded ike Sanin’s slagh You wn see a relentless information drnsr shut down an atxxtion cfmc. And there's crore!
The Art 6 Science of Dumpster Diving Indudas An introduction by master scrounger Jim Broadsheet, author of Eu6dng Y/.fh Junk, n Includes 14 ortg^naJ stripe and a glorious ful-cotor cover by siraohv^ta cartoorVst Ace Backwords. creator of Tested image. Ai in all. it’s a counterculture extravaganza, a practical course in urban survival, and a rolicwpg gxd read. Get your cgpy Mayl
1993. 6H x If, 152 pp. UtustrAted, soft cover.
THE ART & SCIENCE OF
DUMPSTER DIVING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14099)
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THE HAGGLER’S HANDBOOK
Ono Hour to Negotiating Power
by Leonard Koren & Peter Goodman
The Haggler's Handbook is
tto indispensable tool for the
nnctics. when everything has
become negotiable aod the art of
toggling has become Ito latest
trend. It teactos you the real art of
Ito toid in eny one hour, with
more than 100 proven negotiating
lips, tactics and strategies that
week equalby well in a rug bazaar,
a car showroom, a lawyer's office,
or a corporate boardroom From
soft sell to hardball, from sweet
persuasion to total war. here are
more than 125 powerful bar-
lining tactics to put jtx/ on the
winning side every lime.
*Bo cautious at aS times. You
can bo certain that your opponent
is not going io teti you anything to hs dsadrantape (The car’s frame was bent in an accident). and you should assume that he is probably stretching the truth (Yuns tike new'). The basic negotiating rule is. if you can't venfy it, don't believe if. Ask for documentation. Become an expert yourself, and check your answers against your opponent's. '(Paga 115)
This book is designed lor last reference and maximum utJity. with tactics toyed by graphics that indicate friendly, neutral, end hardball it moves from overal negotiating psychology to manoiAors suted tor short, protracted, stalled, and professional negotiations. to countering an opponent's drty tricks. The Haggler's Handbooks a book that. once used, will make you wonder how you ever got along without u.
fWt, tMx7H, 145 pp, f off cow.
THE HAGGLER'S HANDBOOK: $7.95
(ORDERNUMBER 54141)
WIND POWER FOR
HOME & BUSINESS
by Pau! Glpe
Wind Power for Home and
Business Is tto most complete
reference on all aspects of modem
(post- 1970s) wind energy machines
tor homes nrd busnesses. Wind
energy technology has changod a lot
In ito last 20 years. No longer
characterized by a do it-yoursciter
contraption In tho backyard that coufd
barely power ¿a water pump, the now
wind machnr.fi .arc efficient, powerful,
and inexpensive in the long run. Tto
new turbnes can now generate all tto
power ycu need for tome use if ycu
Ir.'c in a good wind regime area.
Wind Power for Home and
Business is the most comprehensive guito to modern wind machines available. These rugged, cost-effective designs are suitable fee tomoowners. farmers, and smart business owners already served by etoctricty. as wall as for those who want to IN© 0« tto gnd. beyond tto reach of utility Inos. Whether powering all cc only a portion of a user's needs. modem wind turbines make economic and environmental sense
today.
Wind Pownr for Homo and Business C-. for those who want to know how wind energy works, and how they, too. can tap this abundant renewable resource, it explains how to measure the wind, how to cstmate tto output from typical wind turbnes. tow Io evaluate the tost technology tar each application, and how to install and operate a small wind power system safely.
1PS3. 6 x S, 431 pp, iiiustrated, indoxod, sort corer.
WIND POWER FOR
HOME & BUSINESS: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14149)
IVAN fM.fCH
THE HYDROPONIC HOT HOUSE
LOW -Cost) High-Yield Greenhouse Gardening
by James B. DeKorne
The Hydroponic Hoi House is an iltestrated guide to altemative- onorgy greenhouse gardening. It includes directions for buldng several different greenhouses, practical advice on harnessing soter power, and many hand oamod suggestions for improving plant yield This bock combines mc-de.m technology with environmental sensitivity In the first easy-to-use guide to hydroponic gardening. With The Hydroponic Hot House you can: • Dramatically cut your food bills! • Insure the safety of your food supply! • Enjoy home-grown foods throughout most of the yoari • Triple tbo production of your cunent greenhouse! • SUbstanOaly reduce your wirier heating bils!
James B. DeKome has been experimenting with alternat/va energy gardering for 20 years. In The Hydroponic Hot House, ho provides a refreshingly real-worid lock at what greenhouses can and can't do. The author of The Survival Greenhouse, DeKome’s writings have also appeared in The Mother Earth News, CoEvolution Owufcriy Organic Gardening ¿ndFarming and in two Rodate Press books. Producing Your Own Power ord The Sofer Greenhouse.
DeKume Is a compulsive tinkerer and rocord-kcoper. Youll foam in minutes what has taken years of tnal and error to develop. Seme of ha tps are nothing short of ingenious: An economical method foe delivering Cait>cn Dioxide 1o each odvktoal plant! Tho uso of biological predators to control insect problems! Low-malntenanco hydroponics systems that can be built from junkyard parts! Contents Incfudo: • Greenhouse Basks • ITe Attached Scfar Gwrbcuso • Alternative Sources of Energy • Greenhouse Temperature Centre! • Photopcriod • Carton Dioxide • Hydroponics * Gmnrhcusc Management • Insect Control • Aquaculture • And much morn!
The Hydroponic Hot House is fully ilustratcd with diagrams. charts a rd photos taken from tho real world. Ths isnl a gardener's caifoe table book Of colorful frUte and vegetaNns: It's a hard ccro working manual for the greenhouse gartfenor who’s serious about getting results. We highly recommend this bock.
1992, SH x BH, 161 pp, ¡¡¡ustnrted, indexed, sort cover.
THE HYDROPONIC HOT HOUSE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14133)
TWO BOOKS BY Ivan Illich
Ivan Rich la one of tile most astute commentators cn toct-ndogy and production writing today. Of hia work, Ittch says, *. J ¡mend to work on an epilogue to the industrial age. ! want to trace the changes tn language, myth, ritual and law which took place in the current epoch of packaging and" of schooling. / want to describe the fading monopoly of the industrial /node of production and the vanishing of the industrially generated professions this rrvde of productton serves. Above off t want to show that fworthirds of mankind SfiH can avoid passing through the indusfnsf age, by chooshg right now a postindusfriaf batsneo in their mode of production which the hypormdusfrial nations will bo forced to adopt as an atiemotwe to chaos.9
Ladies and gentlemen. Loemponcs Unlirritod is very proud to share with our readers two books by Ivan lllich.
TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY
by Ivan HHch
In Toots For Conviviality, Ivan
llich examines the institutions that
domnato modam Iio. cspccaty the
educational, medical, and trans-
portation systems. Do advances h
those areas actually liberate’ tixs
human spirit? Does massive com-
puteory ectocation free us from
igroranoe? Do doctors and hospitals
retease us from sickness and pain?
Do automobiles give us the mefopon-
dence to come and go at wii? As
technological innovators Occoto
mstitutlcxiallxcd and gw baycod □
ccrtan scato. argues lllich, they da
not liberate but rather enslave,
reducing people Io enforced con-
sumers of what the institutions
produce — to more ’accessories of
bureaucracies and machines.’
Tools For ConvMalfty'rxte at institutions that have acquired a ’radcal mcncpcly’ over our lives, lllich points to the immense damage that such insteutions are doing and suggests ways by which they might txi oomroltod. so that technological innovations. instead cf becoming tools of enslavement and dulhess, might become loots of creativity, joy. and oonv.viaity.
1973, 5H xBH, 116 pp, sort cover.
TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY: $3415
(ORDER NUMBER 14124)
TOWARD A HISTORY OF NEEDS
by /van lllich
^Beyond a certain threshold, the muft^Hcattoo of commodHios induces impotence, the incapacity to grow food, to sing or to buSdd
In five pro-.’ocatrve essays. Ivan lllich examines how Industrial growth creates rwt only worsening poverty In the Third Wodd. IxjI the spiritual poverty we experience in It« mld>1 of cur atlloeroo. As consumption becomes our way of lfer professional e«es extend thalr perwar. substituting created desires for real human needs.
Fresh, ©ounagoous, and critical thinking illuminates every topic — transportation, ecfocaton, energy employment, health, and dcvelopmenL inch's insights will interest anyone ocnoemed with the eroding quality of life in our society. Toward A History Of Needs, however, is not just a diagnosis without a remedy. In ths collection ol semo of his most importanf writings, niich goes on to suggest specific ways to bend techno'ogy to what peepte need
197S, SHxSH, 137pp, sortcorvr.
TOWARD A HISTORY OF NEEDS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14123)
MORE POWER TO YOU!
A Proven Path to Electric Energy Independence
by H Skip Thomsen
H. Stop Thomson says. 'In 1979 wo moved so a bcaut/ul 1C6 acres of forest in north contra! Crcgcn. Tho nearest power Une was n lttk> more than half a milo down tho road. Evon before tho utility company quoted us $10,000 Io run in power, we had pretty much decided to generate cur own electricity. In the year before we moved, we paid a lot or attention to how the foks who would soon bo our ne'ghbcm wore dealing with their lack of ’store-bought* powor. They rolled on smelly, dangorcus koroseno lamps for most of their lighting. They usod small, gasoline-powered gnnnrntors to run what
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tow otoctricol gadgets they foh wore necessary.
IVo have lived with our ful-faatured. automate. 24-hour-a-day
system, running both our household and shop, long enough to work tho bugs out Our equipment deludes a fine stereo system. TV A VCR. microeave, small and large appliances and a complete office with two computers, printers and a copier. The shop has an air compressor and both largo and small power tools. We have had no black-outs» brownouts. nor rale hikes in ben years. And operation of the entire system costs us about $25.00 per month.’
In aasy-to-understand conversational language. Moro Power To You/ to Intentionally as non-techrica: as possible, addressing tho need for clear, concise, and complete Instructions to n speafe end result: an owner-bUlt. ownor-operntod power system which will deliver all it promlees, without tho ncod for tho owner to bo an etoclrioal engineer. This system has boon proven with years of Ircubfo-free service for far toss money than public power would have cost. More Power To You!\* required rood ng for anyone interested in freeing hlrnsel from the power monopoly.
1990, SH x 11, S9pp, IHuslntod. Indexed, softcover.
MORE POWER TO YOU!: $9.95
(ORDER HUMBER 14119)
FUEL FROM WATER
Energy Independence With Hydrogen
by Michael A. Peavey
End cor cfeitefxfency on imported oV sod dean w the air with the most ptenfite etemsnt in die LwVws^/Hydrogen fuel may be the uxmate solution to both air pollution ard our prreanous deperdency open imported energy. Hydrogen Is tho most plentiful otomont in the universe. It can be used as fuel for your car. heating and e’eclrtoal power for your house. When hydrogen bums, only water vapor ¿s produced.
Fuel From Water shows you how 1o: • Build a hydrogen generator with simple step-by-step Instructions and ilustratons. including a parts let of readily available materials • Store
hydrogen safely in a hydride, liquid or pressurized gas storage •
Convert a gasoline-powered engine to run on hydrogen, or a
combination of hydrogen and gasoline.
Researchers from universities, private firms, and government
agencies have shown hydrogen to be a safe and efficient fuel. In Fuel
From Water, you will read how: • Several prominent uriverMes have
shewn that engine wear is less w«h hydrogen, air pollution Is almost
nonexistent and combustion efttotoncy Is greater. than w.th gasoline •
The US Postal Service converted Jeeps to run on hydrogen in daiy use
I An entire homestead uses hydrogen fuel for autos, town tractors, and a
gas rang© • And much more.
Affordable, clean end safe energy is not some 'pe in the sky'
fantasy. Tho technology b available today to clean up the air and
oimlnato tho need for miitary intervention to protect our energy
supples overseas.
f9SS, SHx 11, Hfustreted, indexed, softcover.
FUEL FROM WATER: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14132)
HENLEY’S FORMULAS
For Homo and Workshop
Edited by Gardner D. H/scox, M.E.
Henley's Formulas is the world’s greatest treasury of practical Information, and has served hundreds of thousands of men end women In every profession for more than a quarter cecturyl Here to a wealth of practical, accurate information and instruction that can save you thousands. or make you a fortune! in this gold mhe of a book, you will (nd the secrets and discoveries accumulated In every comer of the worfd by respected leaders of science and industry.
Hgyijewtves, manufacturers, farmers, handyman, home experimenters, etoctrtdans, chem&ts.
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tredo secrete c f thousands cf commercial products — us© the errazing
reference bock to invent nr.w products and processes!
1979edifice, 6x 9, over SOOpp. iduxtretod, hardcover.
HENLEY S FORMULAS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14028)
THE SENIOR CITIZENS' SURVIVAL MANUAL
Get Bold, Not Old!
by Bill Kay sing
When some poop'o raliro. they den t have anything to (to. end just sit around waiting to de. But the senior oxpenence toes not have to be somelh'ng you just enduro, it can to an experience you taXy enjoy. Never toltxc has thcr© toon a book so chock-full of unique and vital information, that can forever enrich your He Thia book is about radical transformation. Yeo will discover everything ycu need to knew about how to make year senlrz year* your most powerful. productive and Mfiling years.
Learn how to: ■ Have great health a: any age without drugs! »Turn rotirarnant into a mcnnyrr.ikng bonanza ■ Discover where unbefovabto bargains and income Opportunities are hidden! ■ Eat wall cn just $1 a day ■ Live Ike royfe’ty on toss than $10 a day in cither the city or country ■ How to escape from tno nursing home prison ■ Gain absolute control ci your life ■ Hew to live on a boat you acquire for toss than $1CO ■ Hew to gat acres of land dirt cheap ■ Cure arthritis and slop all pari lower ■ Command respect from everyone ■ Enoy total poaco and privacy ■ Take fabubus free vacations ■ Grow your own food to a minigarden that ytotos fresh feed galcco ■ Lounge In Iron hot springs you can use indefinite*/ » Have great sex pas! ICO ■ How to defend yourself against punks and muggers for good ■ And much. much mere.
You don't have to bit a senbr citizen to benefit from the groat Ideas n this exciting new book — The Senior CNIrena' Survival Manual id 1cr anyone who wants 10 learn tow to ive well, bo free, and save money!
19#7, 9Hx 11, 2&pp, Hiuslrated, Indexed, soft cover
SENIOR CITIZENS' SURVIVAL MANUAL: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14098)
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCEBOOK
7th Edition</strong>
Edited by John Schaeffer
Mem than 500 pages of the most
up-io-daio and thorough Information
on alternative energy and energy-
saving appliances ever assemb'ed!
Ths amazing and comprehensive
sourcebook ccnlains:
O 38 chapters on aH aspects of
alternative energy
O More than 2,000 products — al
IresNy updated
O Major sections cn Shelter, Power,
Off-the-Grid Living. Tods,
Electric Vehicles, and moral
The Alternative Energy Source-
book walks you through all the stops
tc'.va-d cutting ycur powartrc. from
fantasy to hcmc-grawn ctottncity. It
oor/abs tons of useful charts ard graphics. and hcipful hints from veteran users of solar and oltor alternative energy sources. Ths is an ndlspensabto tock for petting started witi alternative energy. Bypass the energy monopoles!
!222t tf.hr x 11t S24pp, UtMntied, indexed, wrTaiw,
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCEBOOK: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14140)
SIMPLE LIVING INVESTMENTS
For Old Age
by Michao! Phillips
This short book explicitly dscussos sriipto ttving, a concept Itoi frightens many people *bo beticvo making a lol of money Is the only way to live arxj that lew income is synonymous with poverty, sadnsss. tilth and depression. Do no! rood mis if you are mental/ ¡11. lezy, considered stupd by your friends cc cctXd tn any way be tempted to qut a good paying, stable job by reading this booklet.
Summary: A reafstic analysis of old age toads to an uncommon investment strategy fix peepo with sample lying values. The priority of investment Choices are health. friends, skills, an austerity tost, and for salaried people a rental bouse to be so d at age 55.
An oW person is Ito same as a yourg parson, tot the body is diffgrent. Young tacos become eld tan», neat young people are neat when they grow old. ard od lechers were once young lechers. O'd age ma)’ mean less camrig power and toss money to lh,e on The tost way to prepare for that srtuaton. Michael Philps says. Is to toam. while young. how to live fully but stmpCy. using the toast possible resources to maintain a satisfying Ifo. A person who knows tho moan ng of elegant frugally is bette-r prepared for agng than eno who has spent decades hosting money to stuff nlo bank accounts and property.
Very thought provoking, and well worth reading The best investment book wo know cl. rrexl to fne Alpha Strategy!
19X4, SUxXH, 49 pp, ion cover.
SIMPLE LIVING INVESTMENTS: $6.00
(ORDER NUMBER 82058)
COOKING WITH THE SUN
How to Build and Use Solar Cookers
by Beth Hafacy and Dan Halacy
Cooking With the Sun
clearly explains how to buW
solar cookers, how 10 use
them and what to cook in
tocxn — ofloring 1C0
recipes. Before you start
chuckling at what Appears to
bo a OOs fringe group trying
to brow tea In n bottfo in tho
back yarrl. consdar this:
lasagna, sort and supple,
with no burned edges; Thai
chicken curry with aromatic
rice; Chccolate chip cookies,
crisp on live bottom. 'Solar
cooking is not a passing fad
but is a welcome switch to a
superior method.' soys Dr.
Redact Molrjilf. Professor of
Biotogcal Sciences. Sacra-
mento Stalo University.
Cooking With Th# Sun
is tho only book available on how to harness the sun’s energy In preparing food. It presents delated plans, liberally Ifustrated wxn 3? Ino drawings and 26 black and white photos, for building solar ovens that can cock a 12-pound turkey in three hours, and a solar reflector ’bet p’alo' that perks cotton a nd cooks steak, bacon and oggs. hotoakos and other stove-top meate. And as a bonus. It gives directions on bow to build a simple solar box cooker out of conteoard
Cooking With Tho Sun is a must for campers who wan! to cock safely in wooded areas without the need for a firn — no smoko, no Ashes. Just ctoan. hot boat!
1M2, Jo 10. 12Spp, UtostaMf, softcover.
COOKING WITH THE SUN: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14139)
CELEBRATION OF AWARENESS
A Call for Institutional Revolution
by Ivan NHeh
Cotebffitlon Of Awareness is a
coiectton of a dozen essays by the briliant
Ivan inch that address seemingly specific
Issues: foreign aid. social welfare,
education. tho Cathobc church, the Puerto
Rican migration to New York. tho loaning
of language, and tho -attCudos of Latin
Americans toward birth control and
abortion. Underlying tho apparent diversity
and specificity of those topics. however. is
on exdting. illuminating, and utterly
refreshing way of thinking. Klich CNeeibns
every idea and every Institution from mo
standpont of whether It helps or hndors
our capacity for greater .aliveness and joy.
By looking crrtically at our most sacred
ftWvmpl'Of*? and perv^iva Institutions, he offers us 'ibecatton from Idolatrous thinking’ and in tho process gives us 'a widening of awareness, of Imagination, and a creative vision of cur possibilities and options.'
Nan HHch 'Each chapter In this volume records an effort of mlno to question tho nature of some certainty. Each therefore deals with deception — tho deception embodied in one of our Institutions. Instrti^ors create certainties, and takan seriously, certainties deaden (ht* heart and Shackle the Imagination."
107V, SU xSH. 190 pp. softcover.
CELEBRATION OF AWARENESS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94191)
LIVING CHEAPLY WITH STYLE
Live Better & Spend Loss
by Ernest Callen bach
Saving money and spending lass
are obvious trends, but economizing
doesnt moan living without stylo.
Living Cheaply With Stylo c filed
with practical ideas cn improving the
quality of ene’s life, while spending
foss cn iL Its advice is both occnom-
bally and ecological*/ sensible aid
covers a wide range of topics. In-
cluding food, housing, clothing, furni-
ture. raising children, health, and
transportation.
Written In an engaging, upbeat
Style, the Information Is given In an
easly acocssifcta format with brief,
fccuscd bow-1 o sections organized
by topic. H takes a realistic look al
what is needed in the economic hard
times and uncertain employment that
has evolved from the over consumption of too pasL
Living Cheaply With Style shows poopta lx>w to analyze their real needs i^nd wants and teat rising costs, write al llw same time expanding thoir pleasures in Irie. It is a much needed volume for students and young people», the unemployed or retired, those starting a family or their own business, and anyone also who wants to Irvo better and spend less.
1M3. 5Hx8H, 310pp, indexed, softcover.
LIVING CHEAPLY WITH STYLE: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14143)
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Living Cwiï
With Shle
LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING
by Edward H Romney
TN8 book k tor poapla who
nood to Ivo cn □ loss money.
If you have been fired, demoted,
retired, drvocced, widowed.
banknjpUxl or swindled — ex
just want to quit your job and
remain financially self retard •
this book is for you. In It you wst
find hundreds cf bps. secrete and
necessary skills for Kv-ng wall on
kite money.
Edward H. Romney lett 'the
system' In 1969 and has w.'xkort
for himself over since. In this
timaty book, bn shows how you.
too. can live happily, comfort-
ably, with complete financial
security. Chapters ineftudo: A
Day of Cheap Living How to
Savo Up to $30,003 a year
How to Live <xi SI 0.090 a year
Some Ways to Lh-e on No
Morey Al All Whether. Where and How Io Ratocato ,r How to Save lAar/jy cn Food How to Sava cn Ctothng Saving on Utilities and Doing VAthtxit Saving cn Transportaton **■ Health and Medical Care
Firing Things Up and M.ikng Thom Last
And tone’s much more, inzludng advtoo on investing your savings and protecting your Invastmonte in hard limes.
From cover to cover, this book is stocked with proven methods for saving money on all the bills that eat up your budget. It also includes many cnsp photographs, all of them taken with old cameras costing less than $75.
If you're tirad of talking about it arto want to really simplify your He. then try Living Well on Practically Nothing
1002, SU x 11, 180pp. iHustratod. soft cover.
LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING: SI9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14142)
WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR
A Vil lage Health Care Book
' by David Warner
This id more than a book on fiat aid. It covers a wide range of things that ariocf the health of tho vIBager — from (Jarrhea to tubercuosls. from helpful and harmful home remedies to tho cautions of certain modern rnedcries. Special importance is placed on cleanlnnss, a healthy diet, and vaccinations. The tock also covers h detail both chilcbirth and family pfenning. Not only docs ft help the reader real» what ho can do for himself. but It helps him recognize *htoh problems rood tho fittonlton of an experienced health worker.
THIS BOOK IS FOR: Tho ViHagor who lives far from modcal centers. It explains ri simple words and drawings what ho can do to proven!. recognize and tree I many common sicknesses.
Th# UKspe? Stof&te&p&r or Pharmacist who sells modcine and health-care supples. The book explains which medicines are most useful for specific sicknesses and warns against ones that are useless Of dangerous. Risks and precautions aro carofuly explained.
The Vi&age Health Worker, or anyone who is concerned about tho heath and woFbeing of those in his community. This English edition has a new introductory section for the vilapo health worker, diseasing ways to determine needs, share knowledge, and invoke tho community in activities that can better people's hcahh.
Mothers and MUMvos will find useful tho clear, oasy-toundarstand information for horrxa birth. care of tho mother, and child health.
Although written especially tor villages In tho Third World and developing notices. Whore Thore Is No Doctor Is extremey useful end relevant for anyone Interested in survival and self-sufficency.
1977, 7 x 10. <Mpp. irtustretad, Indexed, softcover.
WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR: $13.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11087)
WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST
by Murray Dickson
Where There is No Dentist is a companion volume Io the vitago health care handbook. Where Thore is No Doctor. Together, the books encourage people to take the load in caring for thdr awn hoaMi. This approach to health caro Implies respect for tire dgnity of al persons, as well as ccnlidonco in their resourcefulness. Village heath workers can use this book to help pcop’o caro for their teeth and gums. Health workers begin with the 1eH needs of the people — treating the denial prob'emis they have naw. Then they work to prevent the same problems from recurring. Thus. Where There is No Dentist shows haw to diagnose and treat dental problems, and also suggests raw ways to work kx better demal hee^h In the community.
1963, 6x9, 205 pp, Hiustrsted, Indexed, sort cover.
WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11088)
THE "HAVE-MORE" PLAN
A Little Land — A Lot of Living
by Ed & Caro! Robinson
Tho original 1940s classic on homosloaOing and country life and work. This book illuminates to millions of pocglo tho allure and attractiveness of Wo in tho country. It was tho Robinsons’ contontkn that tho high human and material cost of city Irrrig could bo lowered ns pcop'o moved to live In smaller communities. Tho Robinsons advocated home ownership. working with tno land and community for tho benefit of both democracy and citizenship.
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Buying a place ¡n the country • laying out a homestead • Part-time farm pays for luelf • A good garden with less work
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Building a smai bam • Earning money in the country • Dwarf fruit trees srvd berries • Fish pond in your backyard • Starting right with poultry, rabbits, bees. etc., etc.
It's no wonder The Have-More Ptenhw been In constant demand since it was first publshadl
1973 edition, 9x 12. 70 pp. rtfuetretsd, sort cover.
THE "HAVE-MORE* PLAN: $7.95
(O-RDER NUMBER 14111)
PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING
by Enoch Tompkins and Roger M. Griffith
PRACTICAL
BEEKEEPING
Bcokoopng Is a fascinating
hobby wun a delightful product
— honey. This book will help
beginners, giving them easy-to-
urdersland guidance. It will
also provide a wealth of Infor-
mation for tl>e more advanced
beekeeper. Words and plto-
tag'aphs aro combined io load
the beginner through such
steps as putting bees in a hive
for the first time, opening the
h.vo to inspect «. and preparing
It $or winter.
Other help for the beginner
Includes: What equipment x>
toy; Hew to avoid petting
slung: Where to place the htve
io avoid trouble; and much
more.
There Is a lot. too. for the
seasoned beekeeper. • Haw to Increase honey yields • A fcofcreof way to combine colonies • Avddng the prob’ems of swarming and deease • And much more.
With interest ¡n beekeep’ng soaring among gardeners and honey- lovers, Practical Beekeeping is sure to fill the need for precise, clear, wel-ltUstrated know-how.
19F7, 6x9,224pp, rthrrtrated, Indexed, sort cover.
PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14083)
HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES
Than You Ever Thought Possible
On Less Land Than You Can Imagine
by John Jeavons
W you have been too’<ing
for the way lo grow the
most food wXh the least
land, water and fertilizer —
this Is IL Mother Earth
Nans calls this book ’Iha
boat phin-languago expla-
nation of Bfodynamic/-
French Intondvo pardoning
tcchnquos wo'vo yot soon.’
And another ro-vlawor
says, 'perhaps the best
kept secret c< the 20th
century. In working with the
land, peop'e are more
producih'e man machin-
ery... we may see food
gardens appearing... In
window boxes, on roottops,
in vacant tots, m parks. In
now blighted urban waste-
lands... a greening of the cities."
With ths method a backyard gardener could grow a year's supply of soft fruits ard vegetables in under two hundred square foot of aoi per person, with about ten minutes a day required for upkeep. Hore in cne place is a complete guide to planning your garden, instructions on the unique BodynamkvFrench intensive techniques. Information cn sources for seeds, and cornpost recipes. By workrig 'in harmony with tho sun. air. rain. sol. moon, insects, plants and animals rather than attempting lo dominate tham' you can enjoy the most bounlifU harvest of the year.
3962, SHX 11, 173pp, Mostrsfed, sort cover.
HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14081)
Your Friend — The Food Co-op
Illustration by Barbara Williams © 1994 Steve Schumacher
Do you know anything about food co-ops? I love food co-ops! Holdovers from the 60s and 70s, these hippie- bom hangouts have grown up a bit over the years but still retain much of their savor. When I visit a new city I always try to check out the local co-ops.
Food co-ops are practical, loo. They started from the practical reality that the pure, simple bulk foods the hippies wanted weren't for sale anywhere on the market. So the hippies became grocers, and eventually business people, of sorts. Not because they wanted to be, but because they had to be, or go hungry for basic foods.
I love food co-ops! Holdovers from the 60s and. 70s, these hippie-born hangouts have grown up a bit over the years but still retain much of their savor.
But because they were hippies and wore idealistic, they didn't set up run-of-the-mill capitalist businesses. They had ideals about cooperation and consensus and egalitarianism and lack of hierarchy and workplace democracy and not being focused on profits. Heads stuffed with ideals, they also valued hands-on work and invited as many people as possible to share the work of running the store.
Did I say work? More like productive play, when it comes down to you as a co-op member taking a break from the work-a-day world to bag raisins or run the register for a few hours a week as your friends and neighbors stream through. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came ...more like checking in at Cheers than punching in at the assembly line?
It's also a bit like joining a fraternal society, because co-ops do their best to cooperate with other co-ops around the world. Though separate legally, most food coops welcome visiting members from other co-ops and let them shop at reduced member prices. Your home-away- from-home In your community extends to connect you to homebases throughout North America and Ihe world.
THE BIG NEWS
So that's the big news: the 60s aren't dead, for coops are still alive and they’re even growing. Their doors are open and you can come in and get great food and save money and have fun and maybe even get involved in something radical!
I'm going to go into some more detail about the points I've breezed through above. I’ve been ardently involved with co-ops heavily for the past decade, and I'm still trying to figure out what it is about them that so attracts me. The word ■‘cooperative“ is awfully vague — at their core, what exactly are food co-ops?
IT'S THE FOOD!
First of all, there's what food co-ops sell, which is food. Not just any kind of food, but high-quality, lightly- processed. low-pesticide, nutritious food. "Natural* food. Most of this food isn't exotic — it's just the kind of basic food your grandparents enjoyed. Back In those days, before DDT, preservatives, bovine growth hormones, chlorination, fluoridation, irradiation, etc., etc., nobody made a big deal about natural, whole, unadulterated food, because that's all there was.
Did I say work? More like productive play, when it comes down to you as a co-op member taking a break from the work-a-day world to bag raisins or run the register for a few hours a week as your friends and neighbors stream through.
There was also a lot less chronic disease; for instance, heart attacks and clogged arteries were rare until the tum of the century. Cancer rates remain much tower in countries with less meat and more fiber in their diets. The low-fat, low-salt, low-sugar, low-processing, tow-poison food for sate in food co-ops is the model of good nutrition.
CO-OPS ARE SELECTIVE
It's true, you can't find everything in a co-op. Coca Cola pretends to “add life* and be "the real thing." but since these claims are hogwash, co-ops don't carry Coke. Co-ops have product selection guidelines, supplying goods that are whole, organic, fresh, local, low-cost, earth-friendly, politically-correct. andtor hard to find. Glop like Coke doesn't make the grade.
But that doesn't mean co-ops sell only brown rice and tofu! It's amazing the variety of natural foods available nowadays, many of them healthier alternatives for standard American favorites. Natural sodas, turkey dogs, veggie burgers, wheat-meat sausages, soy-cheese pizzas. etc. make upgrading one's diet pretty painless.
You can also got cookies, chips, frozen dinners, bagels, ice cream, com flakes, and most other popular foods at co-ops. The difference is in the ingredients: whole-wheat flour, low or no salt, or maybe fruit-juice sweetening instead of refined sugar. They're more nutritious than the famous name brands and usually taste at least as good.
Of course, no matter how many times the word 'natural' appears on the label, I doubt the nutritional value of most of the sweets and frozen treats co-ops carry. Members (and their kids) want these sweets, and they're better than the standard 'unnatural“ versions, so co-ops provide them. Sometimes I hear members say things like, "If the co-op carries it, it must be OK,* as they stock up on natural Junk food!
BE SMART — BULK UP
Quaker Oats sells for about two and a half bucks for 18 ounces of rolted oats. I'm used to paying $.49?pound for organically-grown oats at my co-op, which also sells non-organic oats as good as Quaker's for $.2S'pound. It’s amazing how much money consumers waste paying tor packaging, advertising, shelf-space kickbacks, and corporate profits.
You can save a lot of money buying cereal, flour, rice, nuts, beans, chips, oil, mustard, maple syrup, pasta, herbs, salsa, honey, raisins, olives, dog food, soap, etc., etc. out of bulk bins at food co-ops. All that's missing is mountains of landfill-bound packaging, the brand name, and most of the price.
Bulk is the smart way to shop. You can buy as much or as little as you want, so you can sample without committing to a boxful. You're getting whole foods without the frills. And you can save oven more money at coops by placing bulk orders in advance — just bo sure you like wild rice before you order 25 pounds of it!
ONLY AT CO-OPS
There's an entire world of products you can't find in supermarkets, only in food co-ops and other natural foods stores: organically grown produce, exotic cheeses, therapeutic herbs, sea vegetables, macrobiotic foods, special diet supplements, natural body care products, and the list goes on.
Organic produce is grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides using sustainable agriculture which builds up rather than depletes the soil. Farm workers aren't being poisoned in the growing, and you won't bo poisoned in the eating. Richer soil can also mean more minerals in your produce, as well as bettor taste.
Cancer rates remain much lower in countries with less meat and more fiber in their diets. The low-fat, low-salt, low-sugar, low- processing, low-poison food for sale in food co-ops is the model of good nutrition.
Many co-ops cultivate relations with local farmers so they can offer produce that's extra fresh. Vegetables like broccoli are sometimes trucked from coast to coast before they appear on supermarket shelves, wasting both fuel and nutrition. It's better to have a strong sustainable agriculture base in one's community.
BE YOUR OWN DOCTOR
A real showpiece of my co-op is our great herb section. We have hundreds of hard-to-find botanicals alphabetically arranged in air-light bottles. Prices like $17.O6/pound may seem forbidding, until you get to the counter and find your pouch of fluffy powder costs only 23 cents!
Many knowledgeable people prefer to treat themselves with time-tested herbs, which are usually gentler and less expensive than the latest patent drugs from the chemical/vivisectiorv'mcdical fraternity. Few have ever been harmed by misusing herbs, while untold thousands
die each year from the side effects of FDA-approved drugs (even aspirin kills hundreds a year).
Nevertheless, the FDA is continually trying to get the power to classify traditional herbs as drugs or ’untested food additives,' in order to get them off the market or into the exclusive control of “approved* multinational corporations. Who benefits? Certainly not the consumer. The extensive herb sections in food co-ops are treasure troves of self-care options.
THE SAME OLD STORY
It's hilarious and sobering checking out an old book like Omar Garrison's Tho Dictocrats from 1970 to see how off-base the FDA has been through the years. During the ‘60s the FDA seized yeast and honey off the shelves of health food stores — the agency preferred sugar and cyclamates.
Quaker Oats sells for about two and a half bucks for 18 ounces of rolled oats. I'm used to paying 49 cents a pound for organically-grown oats at my co-op. It's amazing how much money consumers waste paying for packaging, advertising, shelf-space kick-backs, and corporate profits.
They derided as false advertising and prosecuted discussions of the connection between dietary fat and heart disease, or between Vitamin C and healing. The FDA banned books on alternative medicine (literally burned Wilhelm Reich's) under the pretext of being 'an extension of the label" of unidentified food supplements.
With the perspective of years we can see that the FDA was on the wrong side of almost every one of its disputes with the health food industry. What was persecuted as 'food faddlsm* Is now reported as fact by Time magazine. The lighter, fresher diet advanced by old-time "health nuts' is now tho common wisdom, while the heavy, fatty, sugary stop the FDA promoted is only defended anymore by vested interests like the beef industry.
MORE MONOPOLY MEDICINE
Unchastened, the FDA is at it again with another assault. Calcium's rote in preventing osteoporosis is the only supplement health claim the FDA presently accepts, and It's trying to ban everything else, the first amendment be damned. The FDA is threatening to keep stores from selling therapeutic herbs, amino acids, bee products, and
an vitamins and minerals more nutritious than tho Recommended Daily Allowances!
The health food Industry and its customers are not rolling over and playing dead — instead, Congress received more letters In 1992 demanding health freedom than about any other issue besides the economy. The result was a one-year moratorium on the FDA's oppressive new regulations.
A year later, on Friday, August 1?, 1993, my co-op draped itself black as part of a nationwide Blackout Day, a wake-up call to political action. Threatened products were marked with black dots lor the duration to warn customers these products may disappear if the FDA isn't stopped. Action booths were set up with full information and pre-addressed postcards to encourage grass-roots support for passing protective Dietary Supplement Health and Education Acts (S. 784 in the Senate and H.R. 1709 in the House).
As of this writing, the outcome is still in doubt. This is a crucial fight, for the FDA's new rules are a prescription for disaster. The health care crisis in this country is caused by monopoly medicine and won't be soh/ed by more of it!
THE CO-OP DIFFERENCE
Most everything said above applies equally to privately-owned natural food stores and to co-ops. They carry the same great products and are equally protective of your right to make your own health choices. Some natural food stores took almost indistinguishable from coops.
But there are differences, mainly of culture and orientation. Food co-ops came out of the hippie culture, so their staples are back-to-basics natural foods like fresh fruits and vegetables along with bulk grains, beans, nuts, and herbs. Private stores tend to emphasize ’nutritious' over "natural,” with shelves full of megavitamins, pump- you-up bodybuilding supplements, and alternative health books.
Co-ops have a special kind of internal structure, neither socialist nor capitalist, that was pioneered in 1844 by a 28-member weavers' co-op In Rochdale, England. 'Capital is necessary for any enterprise, but while capitalists rent labor and earn profits, cooperatives rent capital and the members earn profits through their participation' (Kaswan, Whole Earth Review, Spring 1989). Important co-op decisions are made by members actively involved in and affected by co-op operations, not by investors or speculators.
Each co-op is organized to fulfill a specific need of its voluntary members, so it has a mission in life beyond the standard corporate imperatives to maximize growth, profits, and executive pay. Because a food co-op is a consumer cooperative, its owner/members are food consumers. Providing them with the best deal on the best whole foods is a food co-op's bottom line.
THE INTERNATIONAL CO-OP
CONSPIRACY
100,000,000 Americans are members of over 45,000 cooperatives, including credit union, group health care, agriculture, rural electric, housing, insurance, and worker co-ops. When the state capitalist economy leaves some people out in the cold, when consumerism built on Invented demand doesn't supply everyone's desires, mutual-aid co-ops can be a satisfying solution.
Co-ops have a special kind of internal structure, neither socialist nor capitalist, that was pioneered in 1844 by a 28- mcmbcr weavers' co-op in Rochdale, England.
In Central America. India, Indonesia, Eastern Europe. and around the world, co-ops are one of the few means available for people to help themselves out of oppressive circumstances. The outstanding example is the Mondragon system of cooperatives tucked away in the Basque region of northwestern Spain probably the most successful social experiment in the history of the planet!
THE MONDRAGON MIRACLE
Can you believe it? Founded in 1956 by the passionate Padre Arizmendi after 15 years of solitary spadework, his 5 member stove co-op has grown into a multi-billion-dollar network of 173 cooperatives employing 20.000 people. Mondragon co-ops include Spain's fastest growing bank, hundreds of K-Mart style consumer stores, health care, insurance companies, pension management, entrepreneur development, robotics research, heavy equipment manufacture, and just about everything else under the sun.
And all this wa:S accomplished through a sophisticated, self-adjusting system emphasizing workplace democracy, ownership gained by participation, self-financing from the local co-op bank, continuous cultivation of new co-ops. and a cultural commitment to solidarity: 's//acts must, at the same time, benefit and respect the needs and concerns of everyone affected — individuals, their cooperative, other cooperatives in the system, and the larger community’ (Jaques and Ruth Kaswan, ’The Mondragon Cooperatives." Whole Earth Review, Spring 1989, pp. 8-17).
A central co-op principle is cooperation among coops; Mondragon doos it in spades! No other co-ops have ever come close to its interlocking, diversified system, but all cooperatives aspire to this ideal and have a conscious commitment to mutual support. Taken together
the world's co-ops are a global conspiracy — an open conspiracy with 700 million members at largo.
THE GREAT GOOD PLACE
Getting back to home, I've got to admit that such world-girdling considerations are only a very small part of why I love co-ops. Mostly its the day-to-day joy I experience walking into my own local co-op and immersing myself into its soul-soothing ambiance.
Today my lingers played over the keys of a musical cash register while I enjoyed the vista o’ chatting member-workers bustling backstock to the retail shelves amidst chatting member-shoppers carelessly selecting groceries. The business at hand seemed to be conversation first, food second. Ono shopper confided to me, 'I have to come here to get some social interaction. I work at home and don't even get to talk to people. I come to the Co-op to catch up.’
Ray Oldenburg's book The Great Good P/ace rhapsodizes about 'third places [that] exist on neutral ground and serve to level their guests to a condition of social equality (that's) remarkably similar to a good home in the psychological comfort and support that it extends. ...a source of news along with the opportunity to question, protest, sound out. supplement, and form opinion locally and collectively...
’The activity that goes on in third places is largely unplanned, unscheduled, unorganized, and unstructured. Here, however, is the charm. It is just these deviations from the middle-class penchant for organization that give the third place much of its character and allure and that allow it to offer a radical departure from the routines of home and work."
Co-ops are great good places. They are Temporary Autonomous Zones. They are community crossroads, counterculture cynosures, neighborhood new services. They are R & R for overworked psychos, refuges from dog-eat-dog reality, and perhaps the seeds of deeper and more sustaining realities.
THE ABOLITION OF WORK
Food co-ops have this feel of the ’third place,’ while trying to integrate it with the business of providing good food and service. At their best, they seem like real-world exercises of the vision that Bob Black broadcasts in his essay. The Abolition of Work’:
’A 'job' that might engage the energies of some p&cple, for a reasonably limited time, for the fun of II, Is just a burden on those who have to do it for forty hours a week with no say in how it should be dono, for the profit of owners who contribute nothing to the project, and with no opportunity for sharing tasks or spreading the work among those who actually have to do it....
"Such is ’work'. Play is just the opposite. Play is aF ways voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. ...The player gets something out of playing;
that's why he plays. But the core reward is the experience of the activity itself ...some things that are unsatisfying if done by yourself or in unpleasant surroundings or at the orders of an overlord are enjoyable, at least for a while, if these circumstances are changed."
Co-ops are great good places.
They are Temporary Autonomous Zones. They are community crossroads, counterculture cynosures, neighborhood news services. They are R & R for overworked psyches, refuges from dog;eat-dog reality, and perhaps the seeds of deeper and more sustaining realities.
Much of the work at many co-ops is done by members part-time in exchange (or food discounts or other benefits — not as a requirement of membership but as a welcome option that satisfies Black's standards for play. In a convivial, ego-free environment, professionals and working stiffs and assorted unemployables can break up their lives with some hands-on cheese cutting or clerking or cleaning — as one CP/Vdiscount worker remarked. ’I can do anything lor 4 hours a week!'
The “boss* aspect is kept to a minimum; ’managers* are dubbed ’coordinators’ at my co-op and are supposed to be facilitating effort on the floor, not ordering it around. Helping to run the store, you get used to having the run of the store, knowing where things are, feeling a full share of ownership in this commons. ’We Own If is a co-op slogan — these are not felt to be empty words.
WHITHER FOOD CO-OPS?
I have been describing the ideal situation; co-ops often find themselves stretched between apparently opposite commitments to cooperative purism and efficient operations. The Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, at one time America's largest food co-op with 12 stores and 100,000 members and $83.6 million in annual sales, failed in 1988 partly due to this conflict. The board fac- tionalizcd into progressive versus economic camps, the staff collected inflated paychecks while co-op assets were sold off, and the membership defected in dismay over infighting and the disappearance of politlcally-taboo products from the shelves.
Berkeley is an extreme case, and remember that for 50 years it was a pioneering and successful co-op. Did cooperalivism fail at Berkeley, or is this an example of what can happen when co-ops neglect their underlying principles? Many employees hadn't been educated about co-ops, didn't bother to become members, and felt alienated from their co-op bosses. A weak board literally gave away the store in contract negotiations, putting re
flexive sympathy for union causes ahead of the membership's interests (source: What Happened to the Berkeley Co-op?, excerpted in Cooperative Grocer, January, 1992).
As food co-ops grow and find themselves directly competing with huge corporate supermarket chains, they start discovering every Incentive to become more like supermarkets and less like co-ops. Member involvement in store operations gets phased out, replacing the energy of enthusiastic part-timers with the professionalism of stressed-out staff. Whether at McDonald's or Mondragon, full-time service work within a power structure can be a stupefying experience that makes cooperative ideals seem pretty hollow. When a co-op looks like Safeway and works like Safeway, why should its shoppers and workers care that it isn't Safeway?
One answer is that supermarket co-ops remain excellent natural food stores with top-quality products and a benign corporate outlook which plows profits back into the co-op and its community. But those who prefer smallfry co-ops do feel that something intangible gets lost as co-ops grow into increased hierarchy and organization. As a co-op gets less fun to work in, it gets less fun to shop in and less like a great good place to hang out in. Play time is over — it's back to work. Where's the co-op difference?
I hope that food co-ops will someday crack the nut of how to grow without losing what makes them great. I wonder whether co-ops will prove to be just the wave of the past, or whether the Mondragon model will eventually take over the earth. What I do know is that right now many magic co-ops survive and thrive for you to enjoy — there may be one in your home town. Check it out!
For further information about food co-ops, contact:
Cooperative Grocer, Box 597, Athens, OH 45701, (614) 592-1912
Co-op News Network/Alliance, Box 583, Spencer. WV 25276. (304) 927-3173
National Cooperative Business Association. 1401 New York Avenue NW. Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 638-6222
Provender Alliance, Box 10305, Eugene, OR 97440, (503) 345-3843 .
Steve Schumacher was for 2!6 years the Chairman and is currently the Secretary on the board of directors for the Food Co-op in Port Townsend, Washington. He is also the representative for Washington State retailers on the board of directors of the Northwest Region of the National Nutritional Foods Association, which is the trade organization for the health food industry.
Head for the Hills
Introduction
If things gel bad enough, you might want to give some thought to “retreating* from organized society and pursuing a lifestyle independent of looming disasters. In this special section, you will find books on retreatable places within the USA, foreign countries, the open sea, and more — including even a book on starting your own country.
THE LAST FRONTIERS ON EARTH
Strange Places Where You Can Live Free
by Jon Fisher
it you ttxnic there axe no more frontiers an Earth — if you ttMc governments ten» pot aV the territory sewed up— if you thi-yk there is nowhere you can go to bo free of taxes, reputations and restrictions — then The Last Frontiers On Earth is trie bock for you!
Jon Fisher (author cf Uninhabited Ooesn Islands arri editor or Vondy is one or the world’s most orlgnai thinkers when It comes to unusual ways of Ihvng. and he takes you to many strange places where tie •frontier* is still as w’de open as you want to make it! Contents of this amazing book include: • Antarctica
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The Arctic Icecap
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Floating Icebergs
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SubAntarcfc Islands
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Floating Ocean Platforms
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Living aboard a boat
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Living ns n nomnd
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Dcsortod Islands
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Underwater Habzats
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Submarines
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Airships
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Secret CclaT.
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GItosI Towns — Ard much, much more!
Each ot those fascinating ideas fas discussed h detail as io what it wotfd cost, the avaltabilty of food and sheter. climate and other pertinent factors. Freedom oi choice always exists for those who seek it — The Last Frontiers On Earth is a book for freedom sockors.
1993, SHrBH, 144 pp, ntustroted, soft cover.
THE LAST FRONTIERS ON EARTH: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17032)
SURVIVAL
RETREAT
[RAGNAR BENSON)
THE SURVIVAL RETREAT
A Total Plan for Retreat Defense
by Ragnar Ban son
Now. a fresh approach to retreat
defense — the concealed, low* profile
survival retreat aimed st winning
batties by avoiding them.
Survivals! author Ragnar Benson Is
notad for h’s practical perspective;
here he tells how to harden the city or
country refuge against the perils of
nuclear attack or econom’c collapse by
locating it wei and disguising it. This is
not Another grab-a-gizi-ard-shoot*
back book! It is a book descrying tha
ultimate in courage — pisnn&d,
prepared resistance.
•A rotroat is a placo you go Io live,
not dio,* Benson writes. 'The best
defense (lor 1ho family retreat) is obscurity, unoitnjs.ver.oss and sicnco.-
Chapters includo: Why Retreat?, Pxjtrcat Localicn, Who Is the Enemy?, The Psychology of Dótense. Beyond Firepower. What If k Comes to a Eight?. Making I! Difficult The Defensible Retreat Chock List, and much mere.
1993, 5Hx3M, 139 pp, photos, softcover.
THE SURVIVAL RETREAT: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11078)
WHERE TO RETIRE
by John Howells
Are you looking for the perfect place
to spend your golden yeans? Let John
Howells help. Ho won’t show you ’the
best* places to retire, because each
coo of us has dtfcmnt likes and
dslikes. Rather, hell take you on a lour
of tho Unnod States, examining
selected ertias and states from tho
re b red person’s point of view. Here’s
what he's looking for: • Personal safety
• Low cost of Irving • Affordable,
quality health care • Low taxes • Near
friends srd family • Culture arvJ
recreaifen opportunities.
Howels focuses on the warm
weather stales, from Fonda to
California ard up tha West Coast. This book is jam-packed with helpful charts. graphs and maps, but what really sets it apart is tiiat Howells lias actuary been to these places, vis ted with the people, had coffee in tlx» restaurants.
If you're locking for the perfect place to live graciously cn a low income, then kit Join Howells stow you Where to Retire.
1991, 6X9,372pp. maps, index, bibliography, softcover.
WHERE TO RETIRE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17060)
GREAT HIDEOUTS OF THE WEST
An Idea Book for Living Free
by Bill Kay sing
You never know when you might need a good hkfeoul. Things can change in a hjny — industrial <x natural catastrophes. war. collapse of social structures, flight from unjust prosecution. to experiment wrth a counter-culture community, or to just plain get away from it al to some peace and quiet.
The took tote you all ycu need to know to find and use a hideout in too West (Now Mexico. Colorado. Wyoming. Montana. Idaho. Utah. Arizona. California, Nevada. Oregon. Washington, and British Columbia}.
Contents include:
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Why you might need a hideout, with some true experiences of the aizhor
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Parameters of a hidecut — meeting the baste needs — food, shelter, water, sanction tacilrties, lights, cocking, privacy, security, commurkatons equipment, and how to provide for them
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Different types of hideouts, such as caves, abandoned warehouses and other buddings, tree houses, bams, old mines, and more
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Scxne hideout scenarios — poopta who are doing it
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Kdeout locations — «fosert. mountains, islands, forests, etc.
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A photo portfolio of hideout faciittes — tNs realty shows you what can Dodon©
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Het springs hideouts — using geothormal energy In your hdcout
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And much, much more. including self defense for >otr hideout, Ndocut chow, and an annotated bibliography.
As tNs bcok tells (and shows you. with nearly 200 photos, maps and drawings) fluxo uro hideouts gatore in the Great American West right now. and many people enjoy flu's free lifestyle. This book presents ideas about too hideout concept so that you can use year own creative imagination to dove-top a hideout that will bo at that you desire.
And the book shows; that, above all. hldoouts aro fun • an exciting escape from the humdrum existence that the Corporate Stale programs as an Imperabvo. Hdcouis can to inexpensive and healthful — a forky kg cabin in the woods amidst fresh air and pure water codd restore almost anyone's budget and wefl-beng.
The bottom Ino ts this:
1. With increasing encroachment by government nrd business on individuals’ private IMee, having a hlrfocul makes good sense; and
2. Considering how much open land and water there is available, you have an extensrre inventory of chokes.
Try a great rideout In the West — you will enjoy the experience and broaden year borizoasl
1M7, SU x SH. 170pp, profusely f/Mtnrfed soft cover.
GREAT HIDEOUTS OF THE WEST: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17037)
PARADISE FOUND
How to Live in North America’s Best Climate
for Under $500 a Month
by R. Emil Neuman
Rotiro in Mexico on $10 a Day!!!
This bsok rcvaals how over 25,030
Americans Ivo the good life on a
beautiful. GO-mfe tong lake nestled
in too mountains of Mexico, just a
few hours by air from anywhere in
the US. Tlx, climate to near perfect
year round. Prices are ridtoulousty
tow. Yoj can get a nice hotel room
for $7 a right; fun course meals for
toss than $2.
You will breathe fresh, clean,
unpoiuted air. You will seo
slunring colors — b’ue water,
green mountains, rod and yolow
flowers. The local people fave
Americans and you wil bo treated
with warmth and kindness. Ycu
can have a maid, gardener, or
cook for about 52« an hou'. There Ie an American library, modlcal care. American stytei shopping facilities, ctobs end many social activities.
Paradise Found explains everythtog you need to knew. How to get there, where to stay, where to eat. what to do. You will discover how to buy a heme at ridiculously tow prices. How to cam extra money. Most important, you will (Jscover how to turn away frem stress and tension and start enjoying life to tte fuiest. Ycu wJI bo living in coo of the worlds best donates lex a fraction of your present iving costs.
WA SH XtH, 160pp. aiustrefed softcover.
PARADISE FOUND: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17039)
FREEDOM ROAD
by Harold Hough
Got on Freedom Road!!
Harold Hcugh had a hcuse. two
cars, and a high-paying, hgb-status
OD On the surface, ho was Spring
toe Amanean Dream. Underneath.
Harold Hough was in trouble.
Harold Hough was so far in debt
that oven two Incomes couldnl
cover the tills. Ho had no time to
spend wrth his family. He was
ovorwoght. His life was falling
apart, fast, and it tocked ske thorn
was rx> way cut.
Then Harcfd Hough found
Freedom Rond. He made a plan,
pad off h's debts, bought an RV
and hit the road. Harold Hough took
control of his Uto away from his
employer, his bank. his
goverrvnent. end his community. With ttiis bcok. >ou can learn to do toe same.
Freedom Road^ show you bow io get cut of the rat race and into an RV. YouM learn how to plan ycur escapo, olminato ycur debts and buy er\ RV. You’J team how to mako mcncy wrth your hobbes. YcuT team how to IN*« comfoxtabty on a couple of dollars a day.
The payoff is big: An abundance of time to enjoy your family and friends; A healthy IHostyto that costs little to mainlab; The freedom to do what you want, when you want, whore ycu want. Why wait for retirement when ycu can arjoy a low-work, high-travel Ifestyfe right cow? Gel on Freedom Rood!
1S9tf SH x anr 176 pp. ifiusrralod. son cover.
FREEDOM ROAD: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17058)
HOW TO BUY LAND CHEAP
Fourth Edition — Revised and Updated
by Edward Preston
Loom panes Unlim-
ited Is proud to offer the
new. revised and ex-
panded Fourth Ed£on
of How To Buy Land
Cheap. Edward Pro-
sten's Look is consid-
ered Ite oibte of bar-
gain-basement lard
buying. Hero are some
cd the <foals readers
two found:
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Eight lo& n Montana
for q total of $25
♦ Residential lakefront
property in the
beautiful Ozark
Mountains for $55.
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Commercial prop-
erty along a highway
in Washington State
for $10.
The truth te, you can
find amazing deals on
land anywhere — New
York. Honda. California. Canada — if you know where to look. How To
Buy Land Cheap wil show you how to buy property seized from d-ug
dealers, how to get a free house in meet big cities, how to pel in on the
bggost bonanza of barg&n buying ever - lard sold by bankrupt SALs
at fire sale prices!
Topics covered in th' s comprehensive bock inctotte:
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Deciding what you want and need.
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Start?»# youf search.
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Buying tend ctreap from county governments, mostly for back taxes.
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Buying land choap "from federal agencies: BLM. GSA. IRS. FHA.
HUO. FmHA. BIA. do. -
Buying land cheap from State and City governments.
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Bu/og and basing land in Canada.
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Ard many other ways orf buying Land cheap: dr.trr.ssod property,
forcctosures, lost land, and morn.
How To Buy Land Cheap takes you step-by-step through tie pro-
cess of buying lard from each scarce: haw Io find cut about the lard,
inspoct ft. bri on it. close the deal. The bock includes hundreds of accu-
rate. up-to-date addresses where you can write for lists of cheap lard.
Youll ato find carefully worded form letters that get results and a glos-
sary to got you through the lingo of land.
There are many more expensive bocks that contain less Information
than cna chapter in How To Buy Land Cheap. This is simply tlva best
manual ever written cn the subject. Highly recommended fcr retreaters,
homesteaders, survivalists, speculators. land dreamers and anyc<xj
else interested in buying land for ridiculously tow prices.
1291. SJixSX.. 146 pp, iihrttfated, pfossary, softcover.
HOW TO BUY LAND CHEAP: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17054)
THE HUMAN COUGAR
by Ltoyd L. Mora In
Tbo Human Cougar & a fiercely ¡riKtopendent person wtx> might be encountered cn waterfronts and highways. In rail yards, hebo jungtas. orchards, cattle ranches, m’nes. togging carrps. bars a rd coffee sbeps. The Human Cougar is an endangered species. Roamng about, free from roglmorxatlcn. overtook«! by bureaucrats. and largely outskfe oi social welfare systems, he often escapes notice. Yet this outsider Is very much a part c4 American lie. and the West as we know it was largely created by tbs brand erf woriong drifter.
Chapters include:
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Sghtng the Cougar
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TheyVa Long Been Around
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What Ctxigare Arent
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Five Couga ra Speak tor Themselves
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Earty Life and Escape
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Work Habits and Experiences
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Cougar Habitats: Jungtos. Missions. Flophouses and Parks
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Fnmily bfc and Marriage
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Ccugarish Personal Attitudes
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Authority. The Enemy
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Roaming and Goofing Off
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And more.
Our heavily institutionalized modem society is inhoepilabte to the Human Cougar, but there are millions c< fttfviOjafe among us who have a latent Cougar strain. They are independent, hard working, and law-abiding, though they resist authority tor authority's sake. They often rind it cfiflficult to put heart and soul into any highly structured work or social program. The Protestant ethto and traditional attitudes toward tamty Irin may present obstacles to this tend ct existence. Those with a Cougar strain -can better understand their c/ati Inner slirnng by g.-.nng knowledge erf the independent hard-living breed now ebbing into ext noli on.
1976. SJixSJi, 175 pp. hsrd cover.
THE HUMAN COUGAR: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17053)
LIFE AFTER THE CITY
A Harrowsmith Guide to Rural Living
by Charles Long
This is □ beck about deckling where to ivc. About choices. It is, in part, about the chdco between city and country living. But more than that, it is abcul the very lac*, that the choice exists. Il is a look ahca± A look al the pocsiblilios jusl opened to many, and soon Io be opened to many more. Possibiilies Io rearrange some of the elements of life into a mere satisfying order.
Author Chsrics Long made hs escape from the erty in 1975 and never looked back. From he rural vantage point, he has watohed he friends &truggto with huge mortgages and Hie stress of rrorfom urban life. Long is rot impressed. ’Nice place to visit," he smites. "Wouldm want to live there."
The smart money, says Long, is moving to the country. Life After The City brings Iha back-k>-lhe-tand mcx/cmcnt up Io data wilh seme lata-2C<h century fiscal savvy. Long's enterlairing approach and sensible strategies offer something to everyone. frc<n retred couples with homes in the ofy. to young families with a simple dream of owning a bouse without 3 cripping debt.
Chapters ¡nctode:
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Free Will
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Gty Umits
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Papor Riches — Pauper Llvr»
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Earring a Lhring
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Transition Strategtea
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Keeping the Links
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Family Ute
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Cultural Ifusons
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Social A^usiments
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And more.
1969, 5Ji x B'vi, 207pp. fffustrated, soft cover.
LIFE AFTER THE CITY: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17052)
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
by Erwin S. Strauss
Revised Second Edition!
Who among us has. not
dreamed of a 'nw' country,
free of all the taxes,
bureaucrats. regulations,
and kfocy Itai often make
life all but unbearable in
today's established nations?
PoHtfcal reform Is Im-
possiUe — so why rot start
your own country?
This daring approach to
freettom has actually been
triad many times in recent
years, with varying degrees
of success. This fascinating
bock covers the histories Cf
these new country projects,
and discusses what vient
wrong (or right) and why.
with suggestions and
aïematrves available to
you.
Contents include:
-
Case Histories of dozens
HOW TO START
YOUR OWN
COUNTRY
EranS.Snts
of ’new country" projects. most cf tt-om since 19G<H
-
The fh'0 approaches to starting a new country that have the best chances of working today.
-
Obtaining sovereignty — tho single greatest obstacle to new
countries — three altomath’os.
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Diplomacy and national defense for naw countries.
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Ships under fags cf convenience — as good as a 'naw* country?
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Internal organization of the new country—what is best ter you?
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How to recruit settlers — and pitfalls to avoid.
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How lo rate« funds for a now country project.
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How lo deal with the Superposes. such as Russia and the U.S A.
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Advantages and Dts.vdvanLjgos of venous approaches to establishing a new country.
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The inside story on Sealand. Operation Atlantis. Minerva. and other recent new countries.
-
And much, much more, inducing a lengthy Access chapter with names and addresses of current “new“ countries’
Illustrated with dozens of rare photographs. How to Start Your Own Country \3 a book sure to create ¡merest and controversy. A book that will be invaluable to anyone considafng unusual approaches to personal freedom. Highty recommended!
19S4, Sft xSH. 174 pp, illustrated, indexed, softcover.
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY: $9.05
(ORDER NUMBER 17028)
VONU
Th© Search for Personal Freedom
by Rayo
Edited by Jon Fisher
Vonu moans Hnvulnorabfity to
coercion.* Tho legendary Rayo was a
Vonu plonaor. His writings are well
worth roaring for every libertarian and
frocdcm seeker. Mostly, his works
appeared in obscure undergreurd
periodicals. such as Libertarian
Connection, VonuiOe, and Innovator.
Now Jon Fsher has corecled together
the best of Rayo's artWes in one easily
accesvble volume.
Thia le hard-core material.
Differentiating between liberty* (rights and loopholes granted by government) and 'freedom* (venu. or invulnerability lo coercion). Rayo discusses such things as how to develop liberty al a profit, libertarian strategy, movementism vs self-5 be rat km. the possibitty of fivirig as a nomad. and much more. Far from being an armchair theorist, Rayo actually lived his Ideas, and many of the articles tell of his 5fe in a van and as a squatter in National Forests — “out of sight and out of mind cf those unwilling to tel five.*
Vonu is an excelent example of the type of thinking necessary to break free and live your own life. It is for tlvose wiling to go to lengths to be rid cf Big Brother and other oppressors. Highly recommended.
1999, Sftxdft, 112pp, illustrated, softcover.
VONU: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17025)
THE EDEN SEEKER'S GUIDE
Edited by William L. Scavcy
Where can you # io Ina The Good Lite?
William L. Seavey is the
owner of Relocation Research, a
service which acMses peopte on
where lo lock for ‘personal
Edons* — by unearthing inside
information about livable locales,
as well as developing data to
help people make decisions
about how. where, when and if
to move. Factors considered
inctede community size and
scale, personal safety and
security, affordable housing,
maximum personal mob«ty.
environmental purity, open
space and recreation access,
taxation. climate, economic eell-
sufficiency. and more.
Chapters Include: o in Search of the Good LA>: Ten krpcctant Considerations o A Small Town m the American Ccurzr/side: te n for You? o How to Identify the 'Best* States in the U.S. o Counties that Count: A Look at Some of the West's Bost o Hawairs Bg Island: Last Outpost of the Aloha Spirit O Costa Rica: The Worlds Best-Kept Secret O Back to Oi© Land: Ozarks Stye O You Cant Eat Scenery: Making a LMng m tho Countryside O Buying Rural Land: Pleasures and Pitfalls O On the Oregon Trai: A Personal View O Islands in Iho Sun: Not Just for the Wealthy.
If you*ra unhappy where you are. your options for change have been confusing. What's better? Big city, small town? Stateside, or overseas? Mountains, do sorts. plains? Tho Eden Seeker's Guide is a compilafcn of some of ths leading edge thought on place clwice — it can get you started on the road to ycur own personal Edon.
19&S, x 9ft, 199pp, soft cover.
EDEN SEEKER'S GUIDE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17049)
THE LAST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN
The True Story of an Idaho Solitary
by Harold Peterson
Ths Is tha true sricry of
Syh/an Hart, who carved cut
his own prr.-alb Idaho cn 4
acres at Five Mile Bar on Th*
Rive<of No Return.
As a young man. dismayed
Dy the destfucron ot the tlrwl
frontiers. Syh'an Hart recanted
cMllzatton and marched art
nlo tha Idaho wilderness
arrrxto with a tew stap'os, an
ax. a rifle. and a master's
degree in engineering.
There in the last wilderness,
where one winter's snows
might rail into another's before
a visitor camo, ho became the
hat of tno Mountain lAcn. He
fashoned his dothos af deer-
skn. Ha constructed adebe-
covercd buildings wMi hand-
hewn tirrt>e<8. He mined copper, smelted it. refined ft. and made utensils. He even made his own ttntlcck rYJos. boring litem on an Ingenious handmade machine, to ’save th© bollwr of store-bought' ammunition. To pay for infrequent trips to the nearest town (pep. 6. to w-ntcr 0). where ho purchased en'y powder. books and Darjeeling Iga. he ponnod grid. Ths is the true story of ths amazing and unique Indvidual. he ifo and his thoughts.
•My reaction to the Depression was to find a place with the'natural resources io defeat it. I could have found no better place than SnYnco Rrrer. I spent soma S50 a year then tor what lire I needed to buy. I always had a garden. Il was easy to get fruit and I rrvtoe moccasins and claihng ou: cf animal sKns.’
1269. 6x 9. 160 pp, many photos, softcover.
LAST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11D94)
Uninhabited
Ocean
islands
Jon Fisher
UNINHABITED OCEAN ISLANDS
by Jon Fisher
At last! A completely
revised and updated nd non
of Jen RsheFs classic
Uninhabited And Do-
sorted Islands! For tha
Robnson Crusoes among
us comes an extraordinary
book exploring the unin-
habited islands in the
oceans c< the world. In
Uninhabited Ocean Is-
lands, Jon Fisher takas
you on a fascinating jour-
ney to soma ot tha most
isolated real estate on
earth.
This engrossing four
slope at more than 130
exotic Islands. The author
Is year tour gudc and pro-
vides a history and political
status of each stop alcog
the way.
Each island Ie described In datM. Including: • Size • Climate • Vegetation • Animal Life • Water Supples ♦ Structures • And more.
The exact locations ot the unnhabited islands arc shown in B4 precise maps.
Whether you need a resting place, a temporary ludecut. a permanent home, or just a mental vacation from the stress of urban life, you win fnd this brx>k to ba an excellent companion. Informational and entertaining. Uninhabited Ocean Islands is a travel guide you will enjoy again and again.
•For the cruising sailor who's really serious about gettng away from ¡tall!-—Cruis&gWorid
1991. 5H xSH, 160 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
UNINHABITED OCEAN ISLANDS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17059)
THE WORLD’S TOP RETIREMENT HAVENS
Edited by Marian K Cooper
Whether you seek sunshine and tranquility; a low cost of IMng. or thn excitement of a foreign culture, this beck reveals the affordable paradises of the world and what you need to know about them.
Cccnpicte informatian on immigration restrictions, crime, cost of living, real estate. household help, travel, and much more. TTite book covers the 12 host overseas retirement Edens in detail; oven behnd the Iron Curtain’ An American pension still goes a long way in many parts of the world — and this book shows how.
THE
WORLD'S TOP
REHREMENT
HAVENS
m 5» 422pp. san caw.
THE WORLD'S TOP RETIREMENT HAVENS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17045)
HOW TO BUY AN RV
WITHOUT GETTING RIPPED-OFF!
byJDGallant
JO Gallant canddy
shows you how to save
thousands of dollars with 10
smp’n nies and hundreds af
secrete. This book is
guaranteed to put you in
control of the buying process.
Find cut:
♦ How to avoid gettnp
trapped ri Io the wrong RV
♦ How to work a trade into a
deal
♦ How to figure a fair retar
price
♦ How to work a discount to
wlthn 2%
♦ How to Know when ycu'rc
gening the best deal pos-
sible
♦ And much more.
How To Buy An RV
Without Gcfting Ripped
Off! is must reading for any-
one who wants Io go: cn Frocdsm Road.
1990, SU XSU, 123pp, iffustraled, softcover.
HOW TO BUY AN RV
WITHOUT GETTING RIPPED-OFF!: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17066)
How to Buy
an RV
Without
Getting
Ripped-off!
JD Gallant
HOME IS WHERE YOU PARK IT
A Guide to Mobile Living as a Life-Style
by Kay Peterson
Home
•Is ’Where
<’You6I*arkGlt
Tho time to hit the open road is
now! Why wait? This oKcdkml bock
covers avo*y practical aspect of
Iravolng and living in 3 recreational
vehicle: Haw to fnd temporary jobs:
How to manage schcolng for the
chldrcfii Haw Id arrange budgets
and mail doLvory; How to handle
modcal emergences; Choosng
cqupmcril; And where to park when
there are 'no vacancies.’
Tho author also covers the
psychological aspects of nomadc
Irving, including: Pulirtg up roots;
Paring with treasures; Living in
con fined quarters; Leaving eld
friends; Establishing naw values;
And making naw frtends.
Trailer Irvng... it's a whole new way of We — a unique and rawarclog lifest><e. Home Is Whore You Park It g crammed w4h hcfpfiJ lips designed to make trarer living easier, more satsfyng. and more fun. Mere than a dozen years ago. the author and her husband quit their ¡cbs. sod their home, and took the’r three school ago chidrcn with them to live the We Of twentieth century nomad; In an fl' x 26' travel trailer. If you have ever dreamed o1 hilling the rood. ycu won't find a better book than ths.
fM2, ttoxtH, 196 pp, Wustrstsd softcover.
HOME IS WHERE YOU PARK IT: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17026)
BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE
How to Live on a Tropic Island
by Ross Norgrove
Hoss Norgrave found land,
built a house, and lives quite
contentedly on a tropic bland,
and he tells you how you can
do it. too. In Blueprint for
Paradise he answers in detail
such tough questions as: •
How can you. trem thousands
of miles away, select tho
island that matches your
needs and your hoped-tof-
fcfostylc? • What barriers will
the island government place
in your path? • What shcukl
you lock fcr when you buy
properly? • What should you
ccnsder when you build 8
house? • What are the up-
front costs? • What are tho
hidden costs? • What about
food? Water? Medical Care?
Norgrove gudee you
through the initial chocs of an eland, the queries to the island government the balding and equipping cf a new home, and the process 0! setting Into- a now and v«y dflcrcni life. He tells about gardenng in the tropics. bufidlng a dock, owning a boat, commuricaling with the outside world. chitting. modcal cars, oduoaben cf children, hurricanes, owning your own Island, taxes. costs, and custom fees. He provides addresses to write tor spooflc informaticn from all tho major tropic fe?and groups.
There are hundreds ot thousands cf isbnds n the world's tropic belt, and one of them ccukf bn your next herr.o!
1fW ¿x 7W, SSMustrstfons,
Including 12 color photos, ¡nd*x*d, softcover.
BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE: $14.85
(ORDER NUMBER 17044)
THE BEST INVESTMENT
Land in a Loving Community
by David W, Felder
• People bring comfort^hiy andhappH/on Afss then $6,000 A yertr
• ifs ocltA'tSy happeningf
David Felder show's how people can rearrange the'r assets so they end up owning homes with no mortgages. Actual examples are taken from the expefloncos of people who live In an siltamatnxi community. Th’s Is more than jus! another how-to book. H examines Iba community dynamics and Implications of tho community route to sctsufficlcncy. If you are stuck xi the city rent-rut and want a glimpse of higher possibdtios. The Best investment is a peed starting place. Chapters inc’udo:
♦ Your Choice: Make More or Consume Less
♦ Going !! Alone or With Others
♦ Living Defter on Loss
♦ Saving on Home Cwsfru&ion
♦ Producing Your Own Food
♦ Rartonng tn tho Community
♦ investing for People Who Wan! to Retire Young
♦ S fading a Community
♦ Commuryty Decisioi) Ataking
♦ Building a Sense of Community
♦ Buying Your Land
♦ Preparing for Construction
♦ Community Projects
♦ Living Your Dreams
♦ Il's Mors 7hao sn invnstmsnf
♦ And much more!
The Best investment: Land in A Loving Comnnmiry is one of iho best alternative Sfeatyle bcoka we have seen
1Wt SxSt 1T0pp, Hiuxtfxted, softcover.
THE BEST INVESTMENT: $8.50
(ORDER NUMBER 17029)
SAIUNG THE FARM
by Ken Neumeyer
At Iasi, here is a survival
homesleadar's handbook that
gives lots of practical how-to
infom^tion for living aboard
small boats. Your retreat reednl
be on land!
Contents Inclide: ♦ Living
cn the sea ♦ The perfect
survival rotrnal ♦ indcpcrrtonce
cn thrty toot ♦ Choosing a
vessel ♦ Real money ♦
Harding caslh ♦ Goods for
barter anywhere ♦ Making
monay with tho scastead ♦ On-
board profitable crafts ♦ Solar
powered food dryers, waler
stills a ovens ♦ Farming
equipment ♦ Galley ads ♦
Security systems ♦ How to
grow Sprouls, mln'alura vegetables, and herbs cn board ♦ Seed. nut. and dairy milks ♦ Sood and dairy yogurt ♦ Cottage cheese ♦ Hard cheese ♦ Yogurt cheese ♦ Tofu ♦ Ro/jvd.-x: ♦ Tho value, uses and preparation o! ediUe seaweeds ♦ Forager's field guide for idcntifyjng fish ♦ Egg storage techniques ♦ How to determine food storage requirements 4 Best tong-term storage foods ♦ Reducing freshwater use 4 Nutrient vakros ot stored foods ♦ Storage systems ♦ Seafarer's redpes ♦ Access to tools ♦ And moral
Anyone interested in boat Ir.ing and freedom cn the high seas should look Into Sailing The Farm.
19S0. 6x9,259pp. iituttrat^d. softcover.
SAILING THE FARM: $9.96
(ORDER NUMBER 11044)
THE MOLE PEOPLE
Life In the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by Jennifer Toth
Thousands of people live in the subway. railroad, and sewage tun- neiS that form Vie bowels of How York City. This book a about tticm. the so-calkrd "moto pcrcpta" Irving atone and in communities, in the frescoed waiting rocms of tong-forgotten subway tunnels and in pickaxed compartments below subway platforms. It is abotx hew and why people move underground, who tliey are. and what they have to say about their lives and the treacherous "topsde" world they’ve left behind. There arc even the voices of young children taken dawn to the tunnels by desperate parents determined to keep their families together.
Investigative reporter Jemtfor Toth takes the reader to this subterranean New Ycck with her straght-tolkng guides, from outreach workers and transit authority police to veteran tunnel dAoltars. graffiti artists, and even the "mayor" of a largo community several levels down. In addition to the many chilfng and poignant frslhand accounts of life in the tunnels are a fascinating description of the fabyrinthrie physical world beneath the dtp and a compelling discussion of Uto literary alktskms and historical points of view that prejudfce our cuXure against those who 'go underground."
Toil has ganed unpreced&nted access to this strange arri frightening worid. but The Mofe People is rot just a darocfcvl journalistic account of a foreign p&acc. Il is a thoughtful exploration of our times, when rising levels of urban poverty, drug addebon, and mental ilnoss ccin- dde weh shortages in tow-income housing, dminishng weifare scr- vicos. and crimo and brutality cn the stroots. With canty and compassion this book exposes people tco long hidden from view, indviduals helping one another and even hoping for a belter life as they struggle to survive their crud portico of America.
1993, 6x9, 244pp, photo*, indexed, hx/dearer.
THE MOLE PEOPLE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17065)
COUNTRY BOUND!
Trade Your Business Suit Blues
for Blue Jean Dreams
by Marilyn and Tom Ross
Marilyn Ross says. "The once
protective corporate umbrella is in
tatters. Jobs are unstable and
mediocre. Downsizing is a curse
that cuts across all tries. Each
MOrtth ¿'most 40,000 jobs are lost
to cutbacks, mergers. and
ftOQutsrons. Sad>y. most of those
corporate rejects ere capable,
intelbgent peepte in the prime of
their careers," Tom Ross observes.
•Many sr© turning adversity into
opportunity by moving their families
where they can live tetter on less
and munch exciting new careers."
Foe poepto who want to gat cut
c/ the rat raco. Country Bound!
servos a Idnsh/o guide as well
as a fcusnesr. resource. No other
took addresses as wet the specific
topic of earning a iving In the
counlry or small towns. Ils 433 pages are chock full of advice on how to I berate yours^f from the cruahrig metropolian madness. The Rossos should know. They made their pilgrimage from southern California to □ qutet Rocky Mountain town In 196$. They write of llveir mistakes arri tizrir triumphs, providing readers with a rare insight into what works — and what cfoesnt.
Country Bound! offers hundreds of tips for earning a living in rural America. This breakthrough book helps you achieve your vision of escaping the b g city, earning a good living W the country, and having a better quairy o< trie. Loaded with practical, thought-provokbg Ideas you can use immwfeW to prosper io paradise. Country Boundi is a comtlnalicn of a friendly chat and a unique reference book. It shows you how to regain control of your to launch new adventures easily, quekfy. and profcalXy
In Country Bound! you wit discover these s&utfon$
■ Stratagos for becoming successfully self-employrxl
■ 23 gutsy tactics for finding Iha rightrural job
■ Tips for tapprig into the informaficn age
■ Guidolrves for buyrig a moneymaking smart town business
■ Start-up dr ecto ns and profitable marketing advice
■ Ideas to turn »vocational interests into regular paychecks
In Country Bound! you wdl find this usotU persona! guidxnco:
■ Ways to locate your special Eden quiddy »rd cheapy
■ Practical advice on how to "Urplug from the system" ■ Counsel about iho safest. toast-congasled places to live ■ Checklists, quzzes. charts and maps to guide your selection ■ Creatw Ideas to Improve ycur quality ol life
■ Help n understanding smei town needs and attitudes
As stress of urban living continues to escalate, more and more Amoncans are opting for the serenity. safety, and qualty cf Irte in Smai Town, USA. Cashing out to the country is one of the ma.or trends of the Nineties. Whle not practical a dozen years ago. today's technology cuts the financial tics that tradtonaty lathered poepkt to t>g cities.
1992, 6x9, 433pp, xofTCMr.
COUNTRY BOUND!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17063)
HITCHHIKING IN AMERICA
Using the Golden Thumb
by Dale Carpenter
Jamas Mkborxjr did it H. Ross
Porot did it. Hitchhiking in America
looks at hitchhiking in American his-
tory. rroda. advertising, sorgs. and
cartoons. Hitchhiking has boon ac-
cepted. oncourugad. rejected, and
tfscouraged at various times in our
country.
Hitchhiking in America covers
the loilaMng topics In a practical,
straight-forward how-to-<fo-lt manner
Why Htchhko & Planning Your
Trip & Atone or With a Friend
What to Tako Along <> Women Hflch-
hikers <* How to Thumb Choosing
the Spot Tactics for Hrtchhfcng
You and the Driver & Rood Hassles
Stooping on the Road Sex on
Hitchhiking
in America
Hi*3 thC Golden Thumb
Dale Carpenter
the Road * Keeping a Journal O and Trie AJl-lrrportant Attitude.
Also covered aro Iha hstory ct hitchhiking. hfchhMng as portrayed
in tho media, conclusions and recommendations, a bibliography, and
more. Anyone who has hrtchhkod. knows someone who Ixas hhchhked.
wants to hitchhike. is curious about hitchhiking, or has seen a represen-
tation c4 a hitchhiker and wondered how truthful it was. wit find this
took interesting and informal?.’©.
fWWxW. 139 pp, Hfustrsted, Indexed, softcover.
HITCHHIKING IN AMERICA: $6.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17062)
HIGH SEAS SECURITY
by Frank Camper
HKHSEAS
SECURITY
FRANK CAMPER
'At sea. might makes right.
There are no police stations. no
places for an attacked craft to run.
The hard truth is. rhe best detonso
against pirates is common sense
caution. knowtedgoahio deterrent
tactics, and the preparation and wOi
to use force tr necessary.'
— Frank Camper
Just as carjackeo roam the
highways In search of e-asy victims,
so pirates roam tho seas, toiling
passengers end crew before mak-
ing oft wtth the foot or the boat It-
self. While most people go to great
lengths to protect their homes ard
cars, for some reason they fall to
secure their boats usualy be-
cause they don’t know ¡how. That's
why Frank Camper wrote High Seas Security Protecting a boat e
nothing ike protecting your home. This book tests the tods you win
need, such as alarms and weapons. It lets you how to train for
seabcme defense. And it includes an exiraordnary chapter on no uso
of flares and other ccmmcnty carried «oms such as weapons of so*-
High Soas Security will shpw ypu how to protect year passenger», crew and vessel from a variety erf VCfY n»l throats.
Frank Camper Is an American tegerd. His tong earner In counter- terror operations for the U.S. and other governments tnctodod rccognl- Iton for saving the Irie of Indian Prime Minister Raj.v Ghand. Ho is tho author o1 a dozen books and has appeared on 60 Minutes. Tho Today Show, and Larry King tuve. White researching High Seas Security, ho worked with U.S.. Mexican and Saudi Arabian forces In the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and the Red Sea.
1993, SMxSfr, 72pp, t/tustrsted, indexed, softcover.
HIGH SEAS SECURITY: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17061)
THE ETHNOSTATE
by Wilmot Robertson
From the Foreword:
9 The Ethnostato calls
for a new form of govern-
ment that would transform
socially destructive into
socially construct?.'« forces.
Race, now active?/ tearing
countries apart, might be
helpful in putting them back
together but this Mme In the
form of autonomous, rela-
tively self-sufftotont coilec-
tMttes that the aurixx has
chosen to designate as eth-
nostales. Since nothing
eise seems to be working,
since every new day brings
with it new demographic
horrors, a little rethinking of
the fundamental themes
end axioms erf mortem
statecraft might bo tn or-
dor.*
From the introduction:
•Tho antkfoco to tho present crisis, to tho over ochcirg. sironlc call of Ono World, is rot counterrevolution. It is something oven maro extreme. It is devolution, which is not a reversal of revolution. Devolulicn proceeds from tbs big to the small, from tho roof to tho foundation, from erratic electrons to the stable nucleus. World revolution is an expbston. World devoCUlicn is an imptoston, a contraction, a recoiling from a unitary to a dvorsifed world. from top-heavy, ungainly empires and artificial!)’ contrived states to more manageable 'core' states, where society rests cn the hard rock of genes and culture Instead of tho quicksands of proletarian myths, egalitarian fantasies and retouched history. To put il in crass political terms, ttovdutton is the surrender or delegation of powers formerly heM by a central government to regional and provincial authorities.
The Etvth abounds with popualicn groups whose distinct characteristics set them apart. Some fit the description of races, ethers are toller described as subraees or ethnic groups. Although it ia the inle*- lectual fashion these days to deny cc dowrplay serious and significant human variations in intellgence and character, population groups do possess a matrix of visible and invisible differences — different physical and mental traits, different art styles, as well as different gods.
The ethneatate is designed to acoommodalo and profit from group differences by giving Mother Nature her head and enlisting Darwinism in the service of political science. Who can say the evolutionary theory is not as qualified as other non-ptfitical theories to intrude Into wrtd politics.*
From fn Sum:
This racial angre has been complete?/ mssed or delberately ignored by Ibo btoregtonalisls, devtfulionaries and Greens, who focus cn saving nature and the non-human environment, but are not at all concerned about the quality and type of people who wcukl inhabit what the>' have tx>en so ardently trying to save. The ethnoetatisl thinks first about poopta. then about the environment. nc< vice versa. Ths strange reversal of priorities by the environmentalists has teen one reason for this book.’
1992. S'rixSH, 243pp. softcover.
THE ETHNOSTATE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94223)
Gimme Shelter
Low-cost, energy-efficient houses you can build yourself!
Homes for the homeless — gel a roof over your head now!
BUILDING WITH JUNK
And Other Good Stuff
A Guide to Home Building
and Remodeling Using Recycled Materials
by Jim Broad street
Building With Junk is a bcok for those of sd-entorous Spirit who
wan! a home that is rot only oomtortabte, but unique. A home that
reflects your personalty. A home that is fun to build and easy to Ivo in.
Do you went to build an affordable bouse from scratch? Or do you
dream about an addition, a garage, a workshop, a groarheusa? Maybe
you ust went better Cto&ete and kitchen cabinets? Building With Junk
will give you creative Weae and money-saving tips on using rccydcd
materials to make your home your own.
Building With Junkww, everylttng you need. Ircm tho inside
out: framing, walls, roofs, floors. plumbing, wiring, utilities. window* —
even appliances end furniture. You will also loam haw to deal wZh
bankers and bUldng Inspectors who arcnl familiar w£h recycted
matertale.
Jim Broadstreet Ie a rebel contractor nnc veteran scrounger. Mo's
been buldng homes and bucling thn system for 40 years. Jim wil tel
you which industries routinely throw away materials you can use. He!
teach you about the tor.lr. you will need, how to stere materials and how
lo work them into your buiidng plans.
Building With Junk es check-full of anecdotes and photographs Of
actual uses of recycled materials: bam beams and printing plates, old
water pipe* and packing foam, aluminum pie pans. broken mrrers —
even the ivory from piano keys.
If you’re a bom-and-bred scrounger. saver, improviser or
yoursdfor. this bock is for you. You will love the Ideas it give* you. and
you will fave the tome you make as a result
1990. 6M x-11, 1S9pp, ttiustroted, hardcover
BUILDING WITH JUNK: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14116)
ALTERNATIVE HOUSEBUILDING
by Mike McClintock
Alternative
« ■ a « •
A giant, oversized, ono-
volume working cncydo-
pedal Why are so many
craftsmen turning to alter-
native housing instead of con-
ventional home designs?
Mike McCtfntcck thinks it is
because you gat to ’build
something personal and
something special. and enjoy
the trip as much a* the
destination.’
Building your own hcuse ¡3
•something special* when
you can fcuid for far less than
conventional methods, and
lock forward to lower healing
and coding bils. Ifa ’some-
thing personar when you can
build with the soil underfoot,
or the trees nearby, or the
stones from a fence row.
Ths tock is your guide through the worfd of abemattve house construafan. It shows how to bold with traditional systems now enjoying big revivals: tog OUtdngs. umber trama houses, structures made from adobe, atone or cord* cod. And you also see how to bmld with the newer systems: pole foundations. rammed -earth walls, earth sheltering.
But this Is much more than a faokand draam tock You gat corrpleto Information on the? construction techniques. with hundreds of atep-by-Gtep photos and drawngs. Contents Include:
Log Buildings: Tho whole range from hunting cabns to targa estates.
How to fall yr.ur own trees. Haw to assemble mill logs frem fats. Use of madam tocCs to get Iha same faok the pbnoers perfected.
Timber Frame: How to saw 20 to 25 percent oi the wood mass over a convonlicnal slick-framc bouse. How to perfect your joinery techniques to rival thosa found in fro furniture. How Io buld a sbowpoco that wil last for centuries.
Polo: Making largo interior clear spans. Imaginative architectural designs to capture year fancy. Amazing versatitty from cantiovorcd construction- Guiding on sleep sites unsuitable for any other type of constnxton.
Cordwood. Stone. Earth Masonry: Laying firewood-length corcMood Into wats with hgh insulating value. Freehand and sfp-focm Stone wall constructor!. Building your own blocks with a hand press, binder, or Un.
Earth Shelter: How to live underground, and save the most of any method co construction costs, maintenance requirements, and energy demands.
If you are looking for alternatives to mass-proditoed housing, ths is the most complete and authorxMtva guide in print.
/5W>, W X 11, 3X9 pp, MutdrxM, Indtxid, tofTcwr.
ALTERNATIVE HOUSEBUILDING: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14120)
HOW TO BUILD
A LOW-COST HOUSE OF STONE
by Lewis and Sharon Watson
BuSd a fuS-sue Sbedroorn
homo for $2000? Dy yourself?
With no experience? In one
summer? Iha authors c/ this
book did. and in rt they shew you
hew you can buld your own tow-
cost bouse of stone.
Natural Mfrte IS pGrhap* tta
frost overlooked home-buitoing
material In the counlryl Stror<j.
durable. plentiful. and free forth#
gathering amost evoryAhoro.
stone can bo combined in
countless ways to create
beauttful homes, ftrap'accs.
walls, cottages, walkways, and
many other ’sohd-as-stone’
structures.
Until recentty. stone masonry skits have been tee guarded province of a handful of professional masons. With the simple forming technique exptoned in this book. however. an amateur builder can now ’poor* his own stono house — fn one summer. with no previous masonry experience, and al a cost that will have mortgage bankers shaking their heads in disbefcf.
How To Build A Low-Cost Hou$e Of Stone clearly explains:» Where to find free stones • Which stones io us« and why • H.ow to site a stone house • How io pour stone wall footings • How to Lut'd simple wall forms • Building nrrow slralght walls with forms • How to set windows and doers in stone • Working with stone mortar ata concrete • Watorprootag stone walls ♦ insulating stone walls ♦ And much, much more!
1ST* $4 x 11, Sri pp, profuxsty tPustretcd, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD
A LOWCOST HOUSE OF STONE: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14103)
THE $50 & UP UNDERGROUND HOUSE BOOK
Fifth Edition
by Miko Ooh Jar
ft's back! This extremely
popt/ar book shows you taw
to design ata buld an
underground house. Now in
its Fifth Edition. this book is
the bible of subterranean
shexer. Now you can learn
how io:
• Design an Underground
Home
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Get Plenty of light. Al rand
Views -
Cut Material Costs i.p to
90% -
Bold a Greenhouse into
Your Homo -
Buld a Hrxno from $S0 to
$15,000 -
t;so Solar Energy
-
Quid into Hifckfcs
-
Soto Drainage Problems
-
Deal With Building Codes
• And Much More.
Lavishly ilustratod, with dozens of drawings, plans, photographs —
even color photos — this book s a clear, concise guide to bulding a
tow-cost house underground. Reccrnmended.
1992. an x 11. 115pp. hexvNy Hlustrxted, softcover.
THE $50 & UP UNDERGROUND HOUSE BOOK: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14141)
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES
by D. C. Beard
D.C. Beard
This fascinating book (’written
for Loys of al ages') tells in step-
by-s*.ep ilustrsled detail how to
build any kind of shack, shelter or
shanty you might ever need or
want, including:
The haMcave; Falcn tree
shelters; ’niAan shacks and
abeltora: Birch bark or tar paper
shacks; Sawcd-lumber stances;
Sod houses: Elevated shnoks,
stantws and shelters; Oven waler
shelters; Trca houses; Caches;
Railroad tie shacks ata barrel
shacks; The Navajo hogan and
Hornaday dugout; Pole houses;
Tta Adirondack open log camp
and ona-roccn cabn; Thn
Northland bit and Indian log tent;
Tta American log cabin; How to make a Wyoming deta. a Hoko River deto. a shake cabin, a Canadian mossback, and a two-pen or Southern saddle-bag house: And much more!
How to make any kind of shack, shaker, or shanty you might ever want or need! 7ho emphasis te cn dp-lt-ycur-sell with slrrplo tools like hatchet? and axes Everything from one-night camp stalfnrs to tog cabins designed to Last for years. Every kind of terrain and conditions!
Also inctoded Is information on • How to split logs, make shakes, spits or clapboards • How to chop a log in half; taw to flatten a leg • Cabin doors and door latches. thumb latches and toot latches and how to make them • Secret tocks • How to make a fireplace and chirrney for a sirrple tog cabin • How to toy tar paper. birch bark, and patent rootog • How to make a conoeatod tog cabin inskfo of a modem house • How to buld appropriate gateways for ground? enclosing tog houses, game preserves, ranches, big country estates. and camp grounds ♦ And much, nruch marel
D.C. Board's Shelters. Shocks And Shanties ts one of the most useful (and fun!) Locks ever printed! Every camper. survivalist, hunter, and cuktoorsman will want a copy — order yours today!
1914, S^r x $n, 259 pp, mors thjf/i 300 lHuxtrsUons, soft cover.
SHELTERS, SHACKS ANO SHANTIES: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17040)
LOW-COST, ENERGY-EFFICIENT SHELTER
For the Owner and Builder
Edited by Eugene Ecclf
Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Shafter he^ps you discover housing atemallves and choose ita solution there right for you. Topics ccvarod Indudo:
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Understand ing cedes and dealing whh inspectors
-
Working with contractors
-
Financing
-
How to tower tta first costs of a home
-
Planning the site to take advantage of natural resources
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Making the most economic use of space through better design and smaier structures
-
Renovating older buildings and recyctng materials
-
Interior and exterior skns
t And more.
Haw to lower ycur operating expenses • Insulating far winter and summer comfort • Selection and use of applances, lights, and other tame equipment • Waler heating oonsarvatton • How to work wXh nature • Designing tta solar tempered house • A greenhouse as a source of tooi and winter heat • Solar water heaters • Samp'e site pfans ♦ Materials lists • Plans and specifications • And more. Low- Cost. Energy-Efficient Shatter can bn yours!
197S, 7*4x9, 416pp. fffuxtrxtsd. softcover.
LOW-COST, ENERGY-EFFICIENT SHELTER: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14109)
THE INDIAN TIPI
Its History, Construction and Us©
by Reginald end Gladys Laubln
As The Indian Tipi makes
obvious. Plains Indians are both
practical people and natural artists.
Their inventions are commonly
both serviceable ard beautiful The
conical tipi of the Plains, tribes can
be pitched by just one person it is
roomy. well-ventifeted at an Unes,
cod In summer, well llghtod. proof
against high winds and heavy
downpours. ard with rts cheerful
tiro inside, snug in tho severest
winter weather.
Contorts include: ▲ History of
tnc Tipi ▲ Utility and beauty ▲ The
Soux tipi (poles, materials, cover)
▲ Pitching the tipi ▲ Lr.Sng in the tpi (linings, furnishings, making buckskin. making moccasins. dedicating the lodge, tipi etiquette, child care and the famly. Sioux cradle pattern, fire and fuel, food and cocking, household hints, year-round camping) ▲ The sweat Icdpe ▲ Other types of tipis (Iide lips, tribal types, the Shoshoni tipi, the Cheyerne tpi. the Crow tipi, the Blackfoot tpi. the Yakima tipi, the Cree tpi. old photographs, children’s tipis, chiefs tipi, warrior soefety tipis, the counoi ledge. burial todge. memorial tipis, medicine tipis, painting the t»pl> a Transportation ▲ Camp circles ▲ And much, much more.
Tho Indian Tip! is a bock for every camper and orstAhile Indan who wishes to p.toh a fine tent
1977, 6x9, 361 pp, Mustrsted, Indexed. softcover.
THE INDIAN TIPI: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14113)
THE OWNER-BUILDER AND THE CODE
The Politics of Building Your Own Home
by Ken Kern, Ted Kogon, and Rob That Ion
This book is abcut tho absurdities cf
buldhg codes, and how to pet around
them. Thirteen case histories of owner-
bulders and the? hassles with buildng
codes — ard how they got around
them — are presented.
The atxhors say. ’Bulling
professionals, teachers, agribusiness-
men and doctors have all contributed
the? part in reducing modem man to a
sub-human condition of dependence
and neptiiude. Otx thesis merely
suggests that, insofar as humen shelter
is concerned, what is needed is a
restoration of confidence in the concept
of individual liberty and initiative
employed in the creation of a tilting dAelibg place. The relaxation of building regulations for ownec-buiders will go far tOA'ard reviving ths Inalienable right to seif-determ'nation. To this end. we have attempted to question and to re-think the role of the bureaucrats structure which enforces buidhg restrictions.’
1976. 6x9, 163 pp. iifustreted, softcover.
THE OWNER-BUILDER AND THE CODE: $10.60
(ORDER NUMBER 14104)
BUILDING THE CORDWOOD HOME
by Jack Hcnstridge
Jack Henstridge is considered by many to be one of the leading
authorities regarding an ancient wall buidhg technique commonly
referred to as 'CerdAoed Construction.’ He built hs own cord-wood
home, ard then wrote this book for readers who are searching for a
comfortable, low-cosi shelter that could be put together with a minimum
of buFding experience.
Chapters Include: • The CcxdAOOd Wai • Ihe Tall Timber Operation
• Preparing the Silo • Not Out of the Weeds Yet • The Total Cordwood
Corcept • Floor Plan and Elevations • Constructing the Wall •
Windows, Doers and Dividing Walls • Roofing • Pyramid Power •
Cutting Glass • Plumbing. Electric*)' and Heating • Patching and
Chinking • ft Wo Had to Do It All Again • Designs • and much more.
Tho author says. 'My objective in putting this tock together is to provide
anyone who ¡s contemp’atir.g usng ths type ol construction with an idea
cf what is involved I have trod to put down cn paper what we have
teamed by trial and error, and thus make it the sort of book I wish rd had
befrxe I started.. My book Is simply the story of how we handled the
task of bidding cur castle, and to assure you that if wo could do it —
then so can you’ I sincerely hope that you enjoy my book and that It
he\os you to discover. as we did. that consvuclirg your own shelter is
one of yoix basic ¡fwUncu.’
1977, 6H x 11, 131 pp, profusely Hlustreted, softcover.
BUILDING THE CORDWOOD HOME: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14122)
THE SOLAR ELECTRIC
INDEPENDENT HOME BOOK
by Fowler Solar Electric Inc.
This brx»k is a must investment
for a PV (phatovoltoic) heme-
owner or potential PV homeowner.
The book discusses how to ’site’
and ’size’ a PV system for maxi-
mum efficaoncy and Io met-1 a
user's needs, weather condtons
ard geographic location. Current
photovoiaic preduot information is
included, and comments are offer-
ed regarding comparative prices,
warranties, and performance.
Emphaas Is pfaoed on making
efficient use of power. The Sofer
Electric independent Home Book
explains why solar electricity is a
logical choice ¡n remote areas and
slates the ecological and financial benefits of making this choice.
Chapters Include: An Introduction to Solar Electric^ o Tho Independent Homo as a Whole o Buying a PV System O Siting tho PV System O Sizing trig PV System O PV Homo Wiring and Ugh’.hg O System Efidancy and Appli.nnco Efficiency O Maintenance of a PV System O And much, much more. Tho Soler Electric Independent Home Bookie must roadng for anyone Interested in freeing himself from tho cnorgy rrenopotics.
199T, 6>i x 11, 300pp, iHustrsted, indexed, softcover.
THE SOLAR ELECTRIC INDEPENDENT HOME BOOK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14131)
THE INDEPENDENT HOME
Living Well with Power from the
Sun, Wind and Water
by Michael Potts
Across America modem hemesteaders are harvesting their uati power from Che sun, wind and water. Without giving up twentfefih- cfitMury conveniences, these Americans use a whole new generation o! homo-scalo ronowaWo energy tools to create a fuhiiing, eeW-relteni Idostyto.
Aiznor Michael Potts travelled from Hawaii 10 Vermont to Interview the pioneers ot this new, sclar ftestyte -- families who have learned tow to live batter by us«ng less energy, many ot them corrptetely Ctsccrwcctod from the utility gnd. 'Pccpta visiting an energy- independent home often expect they'll step backwards in bme and lose modem conveniences,' Potts reports. 'Instead they find themselves steppng to Da twenty-first cenliry — a world where new technotoges and know how ahow us to give up our wastefufnesr. and restore Iradtionat values.'
Well illustrated, with photographs of homos and homesteaders as well as drawings of the ideas and tochnologes, this book takes yc«j with •n-depth interviews inside the dweings and fives of the new homesteaders architects, designers, teachers, technicians, ranchers. mfdMves. entrepreneurs, community organizers, doctore, wind surfers, parents end children. Potts says, 'independent homeowners give up nothing while they gain savings and independence. They also ecim the dcopor sAUs/acilon of knowing they aro dreefly and creatively Invoked n tho goal ot living Ighdy on the planet.*
The Independent Home is an indispensable compendium ol Ideas and inspiratwn for any coa who dreams ot Irving a sctfrcliant. sustainable Ifestyfe.
1993, 8 x 10, 320pp, iitustraiod. indexed, softcover.
THE INDEPENDENT HOME: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14160)
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SHELTER
by Shelter Publications
Shelter has been out of print since 1979. It originally sold 1B5.COO copies. We are very happy to welcome this classic back telo print and offer it to cur customers. With over a tlousand photos and drawings. Shelter is about simple and beautiful dwollngs. natural materials, and human resourcefulness-.
In times post, peopte bull tf*eir own homes, grew ihsir own food, made their own dothes. Knowledge of the buikting crafts and ocher skills of provkting lite’s basic needs were generary passed along from father io son. mother to daughter, master to apprentice.
Then with Industrializa! on and ne population shift from country to cities, this knowledge was put aside and much of it has now been lost. We have seen an era of unprecedented prosperity in America based upen huge amounts of foreign and domestic resources ard fueled by finie reserves of stored energy. Now we are running out Materials ere scarce, fuel is te $bc*t supply, and prices are escalating Massive amounts ot coercion are required K> keep fossil fuel prtoes below what their cost wou*d be in a free market. The choices am not dear cut. tor these am complex hmos But It Is obvious that the more we can do far ourselves, tho greater will aur Individual freedom and Indapardcrxte be.
This bock is not about going oft to Ivo tn a cave and growing all cno's own food. It is not based on the idea that everyone can find an acre in tho country, or upon a sentimental attachment to tho past It is rather about finding a new and necessary balance in cur fives.
This huge profusely ilustratnd book ccvers all kinds of Shelter, frem caves, huts, and tents, to apis. bams, and the best materials. It covers nomad living a rd demes, energy, water, food and waste. It is abcu! simple homes, natural materials. and human resoureddnoss. it is about dlsco-ery. hard work, th© X»ys of soi-suttlclency. and freedom, it is abou shelter, which is more than a roof overhead.
1973, 11 x 14, 176 pp, more than 1,000photos
and idustnSons, softcover.
SHELTER: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14127)
HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE
by Malcolm Wells
Malcofrn Wens Is an
'underground" architect
who has been burrowing
and bufdng tor 25 years.
The author of throe other
bocks on underground
arcliteclixe. tie's finally told
us exactly how to bold an
underground houw.
How To Build An
Underground House
takes you step-by-step
through tto design and
construction of a passive
solar. 1200 sq. tt house, it
includes suggestions for
expanding the house tor
those who want more
room. This house can to
butt on a fiat or sloping
site. V/hateve< the unique
characierisi’«» of your site,
the aullior liefcs you urxterstand how to build to take advantage cf your surroundings.
You’ll find this book thcughtfu’. friendly, easy to use. Indudes several ctever. casual drawings interfaced with technical illuatrafona and designs. As you plan ycur underground house, you’ll find >«ourdC4f rearing this hcphJ guide again and again.
1991, dSi x 11, 98pp. iNtxviiy iihntnrtod, index, sohcover.
HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14134)
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PLASTERED STRAW BALE CONSTRUCTION
Super Energy Efficient and Economical
by Da vid Bainbridge with Athena and BUI Steen
Yos. you can actually build yourself a house out ot straw, and ©von Iho Big Bad Wolf won’t ta able to blow It dawn rf ycu follow tho tech- nques and .vfvieo ilu&tratcd in this woB-rasoarehod l«o twok. Chapters inctodo: ♦ Strength and durability ♦ Beauty and comfort ♦ Energy efficiency ♦ Fire safety ♦ Environmental benefits ♦ Sustanabfity ♦ Straw bate building ♦ More about straw and straw bates ♦ Addoonal technquas ♦ What about the building codes? ♦ What about posts? ♦ Basics cA solar desgn ♦ Other uses ♦ A research agenda ♦ And more, including an extensive Bbltography. Plastered Straw Bato Construction is an excoient addition to our alternative buikUng books
1992, 8H x 11, 44PP, Mustrsted, soft cover.
PLASTERED STRAW BALE CONSTRUCTION: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14146)
EARTHSHIP: Volume I
How to Build Your Own
by MlchaeJ Reynolds
Can you build your cwn home cut o4 discarded automobtto tires? Heil, yesl says architect Mchaoi Reynolds. who shews n Earthship how to produce on economically built, self-healing, self-ccolng mit that performs even h the weather extremes of the Rocky Mountains. The author says. “Wo are in wed of life support^ systems tMt win Hoat' inrtepnnWnrty without access to various archaic seT-destructhvi systems upon which wo have grown dependent. Those systems Include cenuaized energy systems wh'ch give us acM rain, radoactlvo waste and power lines lacing the earth ike spder webs. We have heating and cooling systems for cur lr.-ng spoons that totally depend upon those ccntratood energy systems.
“Most housing today wcukl be totally nco- functkmal m terms of comfort, water, toitets. electricity. etc., without massive inputs of energy from centralized sources. There is also food, another basic living need, which also comes mostly frem centralized production systems. The Quality of this fcod is. at test, quoslkmatle. and it requires energy* corrsumng transportation systems for distribution. All of this is avaiable cn>/ through money. which itself e another system between us and cur sustenance. Duc to the fact that these systems have evofrod wilhn a codan narrowness of vrUon, they have begun to reach points where they do more harm than good.
’We need to evolve self-sufficient living units that aro thcr own systems. These units must energize themselves, heat and coal themselves, grow focd and deal with their own waste. The current coroap-t of hcusng. In general supported by massive centralized systems. is no longer appropriate. sate or reliable."
1220, 11 x 3 Ji. 237pp, HiaxlraM, tort cover.
EARTHSHIP. Volume I: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14128)
EARTHSHIP: Volume II
System and Components
by Michael Reynolds
In Earthship, Volume / Mchad Reynolds showed you how Io build your own hcusn out of dscardod automebte tires. in Volume l. he covers tto systems (solar eteclrto, domestic water, waste water, hot water, and ligtUhg) and components (adobe fireplaces, stairways, gravity sights, doors and cabinets, bathtubs, ShOwfirS fir’d vartilieS. W\ dOrtiw fihd vault*) of the Eanhshp home. Ho also discusses landscaping and ccxfes. permits, and financing.
The author says, 'If our lifestyle can conform more to the patterns of the planet than to our socioeconomic system. wo can reduce Ute stress cn both ourselves and the planet. This is easier said than dene due to the 'realty and iho ’gravity cf mortgage payments, util ty bills and the generaly hgh cost o< eatng and IMng. Most of us have ro choice. We have to be places at certain times tocking certain ways in order to make the money needed to- make those payments. However. many people have built Earthshps themselves and ended up with little or no mortgage payments. They also have little or no utlity bits and their abilty to grow focd year-round inside the Earthshp bar. greatly affected what they have to spend on packaged, precessed foods.
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ZA«.s approaching ¡he freedom this coun try was founded cm. I do rot thick wo are a hosilte. aggressive virus on this planet. We have smpiy bult a trap and row we are caught in ¡L Our efforts to survive in this trap make us appear ruthless, beetle and agpres- srve. The Earthshp and the Earthshp concepts can begin Id free us from ths trap. Thon wo will have tire mental space to make cho toes.’
We highly recommend Michael Reynolds' Earthship series Id anyone interested in alter- natr.’o housing, energy. and lifestyles.
1291. 11 x Mi, 22Spp,
ASV.vxt<XmC soft cover.
EARTHSHIP, Volume It: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14138)
EARTHSHIP: Volume III
Evolution Beyond Economics
by Michael Reynolds
Earth ship: Volume ZY cent nix« the visionary and practical designs and Irteas Michael Reynolds oixinod to the first two volumes. The Earthship is an independent heme that provides the necessities lor human existence: flheller. energy, food, water and air. Volume IU covers structural evolutions such as concrete half b’oeks and rammad earth hat tied«, leaning tire retatotog watts and wing wate. round end arch windows, and more. Also covered are mechanical evolutions such as We water organizer module, power organizer module, and the indoor ccnlained grey water absorbing tank.
Voiumo III also goes into new components and concepts such as the thermal mass refhg- eretor. the solar tdlel the straw bate temporary structure, and more.
Michael Reynolds says. ’Poitics. economics. and religion all present shalow solutions to a confused, d sen charted global populace. Politicians promue jobs. Economists analyze markets and play games. Mcanwhiki people are jobless, hemdess. starving and dying, or if they are lucky. usl unhappy and apathetic.
•Why maire jebs? Why sheUd our lives depend so much cn a thing caltxl the economy? Even religons which were founded cn a spark of inspiration have now become (tog- maio institutions that funcr.on with money. TTte all-encompaaslng eccnomfc dnosaur is too large to be changed or significantly influenced by anybody or anything and doosnl r.von no- tco iho people rt is supposed to serve. It eats everythng in its path and than leaves excrement so physically and cmottonaty vite to both people and ptaret mat Ite itself is begnnlr^ to look questionable. What if we slowly abandoned this dinosaur?*
1223, 11 x$1it273pp,
iifuxtrxted, xtrttcovxr.
EARTHSHIP, Volume IB: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14148)
Health and Life Extension
Introduction
This section contains several excellent books on the newly emerging technology of life extension. Scientists are close to unlocking the secrets of the aging process and its reversal. It Is possible that no one reading this will ever die of "old age.' If you love your life, you will want it to be as long and productive as you can possibly make it — and these books can help you make it longer by far!
Death and taxes, hmmm...
LIFE EXTENSION: A PRACTICAL SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
Adding Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years
by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw
Ik-rk tauwn and Saadv Shaw
PRACTICAL SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
Hare a is — the Cipgesi and
tost book cn life extension ye*.
wnr.cn! This is an extraordinary
tock written for lay persons,
scientists. and physicians by two
research scientists who have
teen deeply involved in aging
studies for over a dozen years. In
this volume tho authors Idl you
about tho many aspects of apng:
wfty you age — tew frying works
— txjw scientists have boon aWe
to slow and evon partially re-
verse some aging mechanisms
ate even dcuUe It« life spurns of
expenmontat anmaU — haw you
can slow youf own aging while
improving ycur current health,
mental abiWes. sexual lunctton
ate pleasure. The authors,
moreover. provide ecieiMc
evidence to support the? ideas about agng, ¡hckxing hundreds of references to the original scientific papers that are the teste of this book.
Among the topics discussed in-depth in this exciting book are:
• Hew to control your weight without (feting
• improving yew memory and
• How to rodoce ask- /wrt disease 4 stroke
• Prolonging and ¿rrfeosffyteg sexual pleasure
• How to remain AwMy even it you smoke WdWrtr
• improving your physical appearance
• Howto increaseyour strength andstamina
• And much, much more!
This is the biggest, best and most comprehensive book on life extension yet written, and we recommend it very highly. Now. what was that about death and taxes?...
1982. 5H x 8 Ji, S58pp. Wustrafed. indexed,
case histories, ¿iossary, soft cover.
LIFE EXTENSION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82041)
LIFE EXTENSION COMPANION by Durk Pesrson and Sandy Shaw
Tho ai/hcrs cf tho test selling Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach chcrrt you how to appOy their revolutionary concepts to lengthen your own Ue ate improve it — physically, mentally and sexu- aly.
Mere than a mition copies of them previous bock .ire In print. Itow Dirk Pca-scri and Sandy Shaw offer a supplementary volume that stews everyone tho ease cf following tho principles sot forth In Life Extension. Cocnpfclcty updated. Tho Life Extension Companion includes chapters cn:
• how to after your moods and improve your mental functions with specific nutrients
• how to counteract stress without necessarily changing your tifestyfe
• preventing cancer
• the truth aboutpofy-unsaturated fats
• improving skin and hair
• fetitk^ the edeefs of pollution
• and much more, including an a.tfinew thoroughly comptehenseve index io both books ¿¡nd a section on how to gain access to cwm puterited health information in the Hattena! Library of Merticmc.
Highly recommended.
1984. 5H x 8Ji. 448pp. ittestrsted. soft cover.
LIFE EXTENSION COMPANION: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82050)
GROWING OLD IS NOT FOR SISSIES
Portraits of Senior Athletes
by Etta Clark
Etta Clark's
wonderful photo-
graphs of senior
athletes, ranging in
age from 56 to 96.
show them excel-
ing in swimming,
marathon running,
weight Hting. wind-
surfing, hang
gliding, skiing and
more. Clark dees
no! condescend to
stereotypical sweet
dd folks’ portraits.
Instead, she presents a tribute to Ute vitality of Ute etoerfy. documenting
the benefits of staying or becoming active in the ’golden years.’
Gaze al these od men and women with their sparse grey hair, their
wrinkles, and dewlaps, and all al once Uto anatomized signs of advanc-
ing years grow less and fess apparent until at last what you see in each
is the gtow'ng core of Ute youth d tong ago...
It is impossible not 10 feel admiration tof these athletes and not a
littte envy at the durability of their energy. Ore after the ocher, they are
slwwn as dignified men and women in whom the spirit of sport has not
ded out There is nothing chidsh about them. Rather, there is a sense
of immense maturity. They have simply rejected the erosion d
longevity.
dark's photographs are accompanied by her own stories relating her
meetings with these athletes. The awesome feats ol the athletes be-
come unforgettable when the reader learns about the personal, indrnd-
ua! challenges they have met in devoting tlvsmselves to physical well-
bong.
Etta Clark, using a blend of ns line! and calculation, has Shown us a
collection of beautiful people who have an almost pagan appetite for the
physical. They are Ike rare antiques, polshed and restored for our now
ervoyment...
19W, 11 x 9. 125 pp. 96 photos. softcover.
GROWING OLD IS NOT FOR SISSIES: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82062)
STOP THE FDA
Save Your Health Freedom
Edited by John Morgen thaler
A Steven Wm. Fowkes
It just makes sense that you should be able to choose for yourself what foods, vitamins, and hearth products to use. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), however, feels d«erectly. They don’t think you are competent to make sixh decisions.
Tito FDA is working overtime to wipe out the nutritional supplement industry. Scon you may not be able to buy vitamins without a doctor's prescription (paying several times the current prtoe). Ito scary part is that the FDA is very close to realizing their goal.
Ths collection of rrore than two dozen artclns by such natural health luminaries as Linus Pacing. Abram Hoffer. Sherry Regers, Ward Dean, Senator Orin Hatch. Dark Pearson & Sandy Shaw. among others, wil rmeak
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Tito FDA’s h’dden poib'eal agenda • How to improve your ItoaJth with supplements • The real reasons the FDA banned tryptophan • How the FDA suppresses medcal breakthroughs • The true value of nutmtonal mndcinc ♦ What you can do to save your health freedom.
This book is highly recommended lo anyone concerned with pfottorvng our access to vitamins, nutrients and natural health cam before it e too late.
199Z 5M Jr 8X. 168 pp. iifustnM, soft cover.
STOP THE FDA: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82086)
DISEASE-MONGERS
How Doctors, Drug Companies and
Insurers are Making You Feel Sick
by Lynn Payer
Dra-
ws
Ha*» Debtors,
Dmc Conpirfct,
*n d ln»tr*rw Arn
Makfig You
r**4S**
LYNN PAYER=
Haw doos the modcal ccmmunty
make mcnoy? By making you f on I sick’
That’s the startling conduston of this
Investigative tock at the people who
profit from human misery.
Payer ktenlllle® the key players and
thnlr rationales, and outlines their tactics
in vn*kl detail. She reveals tow Uto most
common symptoms and conditions —
from aches and pains, altorgios. and
fatigue to heart disorders, high Wood
pressure. and menupause — have been
aistorted Ute a funhouse mirror by a
variety ot special* interests.
Some of tho most insidious forms of
disease-mongering revealed in this bock
Delude: • The Chotosterol Scam ♦ Un-
necessary Surgery • Excessive Testing • Drug Corrpany Profiteering •
Breast Cancer Myths • Tire Lyme Disease Scare • And Much More
Lynn Payor explains how tfseasus are ’created’ and exploited, and
examines case histories of the most common and alrocbus forms of
dseaso-mongaring. TIUs tock w-ll arm you with Ihe Information you
need to avoid fating victim to the disease-mongers and lo make ift-
fo.-med decisions about your own toaJth.
1992. 6x9, 292pp. Index, hardcover.
DISEASE-MONGERS: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82085)
ONE HUNDRED OVER 100
Moments with One Hundred
North American Centenarians
by Jim Heyncn with
Photographs by Pau! Boyer
M\t< interviewing me one
hundred centenarians who
cnlvon this vote me. Jim
Hoyron observed, ’Pau', ard
I didn’t meet anyone who
was afraid to die. but we
didn't moot nnycno wto war.
afmid to live cither." This
book will diminish your fear
of f*gir»g. These stories will
Invito your mnd to roam ri
naw directions, for much of
what those poeph say ard
who they arc contradicts our
negative attitudes towerd
tongevv-y — and a change n
abtudo is long overdue). As
Hoynen ponls out. ’Uto fact
ttot so many of today's
centenarians live full and
meaningful liras should make us wotocr. If we must bo terrified by od ape. *hy not be terrifi&d by its sptondor. by tno poxsitditics it allow? the mind and sp’ril and even, acmounes. tho body?’
This Is a took for all ages. In introducing his sutjocts, Hoyncn states that ’it will not bo hard to find yourself In these pages, to find someone whose past resembles your present and possblo future. Everybody seams to to torn. Tho variety of people should convince all of you that no one is exempt from th© possibiity of longevity. Once and for al. ycu should be assured there is no or© formula, no single secret.’ Indeed, as you will see. there must be at feast one hundred.
1990, SH x 11,213PP, lOOphotofffsphs.
ONE HUNDRED OVER 100: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82078)
LIGHT
«
MEDICINE
OF THE
FUTURE
JaCOB LiBEKMaN. oo.rvn
LIGHT: MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE
by Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D.
Light: Medicine Of Tho
Future choncxigos 1h-a rrzxtem
myth that tho sun is dangerous to
our wall bong and asserts that
tochnotogcal ad.-anoonncris. such
as most fluorescent lighting. sun-
glasses. tanning iotkxvs. and our
indoor Itiesl/es. may bn more
harmful man halpful. Dr. Jacob
Lhr.rman. a pioncor in tho thera-
peutic use of tight and cotor. has
treated more than 15.000 individ-
uals. from tho learning deaWed
and physlcafiyi'ornotionaiy trau-
mabzod to busmess executrices
and Olympic athtotos. The book
decussos the use of ight in the
treatment of various, cancers,
depression, stress, visual prob-
lems. PMS. sexual dysfunction,
teaming dsabiites, and Ite human immune system.
Light: Medicine Of The Future presents a new healing paradigm
that can dramatical^ change our lives. I! ushers in a now era in
medicine, characterized by a marriage between the ’intuitive’ ard tte
’ratonaF sciences, bonded by light. Bus revolutionary took presents a
conscious scientific foundation that sots the stage for us to reconnect
with light — 1te source cA lite, health, energy, respiration, and enight-
ermenL
Tte human body cam no tonger be looked upon as a pieco ot equip-
ment with replaceabte parts, but must now be recogrwod ar. a tiving
pholocel, stimulated and regulated by light entering Uto eyes — ’the
windows cl the soul.’ Having lire abitty to touch the mind, tody. and
spin* simultaneously. light plays an instrumental rote in transforming old
cmcticoal traumas into a new experience of health and emotional free-
dom.
Dr. Literman's fascinating, vital, and eye-opeflng discovoncs lead
us to the understanding that light is in tact the modiclno of the foturo that
will propel humankind into an age ot enlightenment.
Dr. Jaccb LOerman has been researching l>ght and color therapy for
the pest seventeen years Ho runs the Aspen Center for Energy
Medicine In Aspen, Colorado. and lectures cxlcnsri-eby through the
United States and Europe.
1991, 6x9, ¿12 pp, Htaetnted, indexed. softcover.
LIGHT: MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82089)
THE NEUROENDOCRINE THEORY OF
AGING AND DEGENERATIVE DISEASE
by Vladimir M. DUman, M.D., Ph.D.t D.M.Sc.
and Ward Dean, M.D.
Tho Neuroendocrine Theory Of Aging And Degenerative Disease proposes a unitary theory of aging which explains not Orty a primary cause cf the agng process itself. tut also tte etiolcgfcal basis for tho dsoasos of aging. Tlx* theory was Originally proposed by Protes-sor Diman in 1956. and has been progressive?/ dereloped and expanded since then. Modern scientific advances continue to confirm Ite validly of the concept, tn addition to comprehensively exp'atoing the neuroendocrine theory, tte bosk also describes delated clhfcal protocols for both therapeutic Intervention n tho agng process, and Ite prevention and treatment of tte diseases of agng.
The authors state: ’Two significant oocdusons from this theory should be stressed: (1 > It Is Impossfclo to retard too development of the main (fepenerattre ClSGases without retarding too rate of normal agng; and (2) the main phenomena of Ite ontogcnctc mechanism of aging and degenerative diseases are /¿K^sCteptenornena.’
1992. 6H x IT, 149pp, Muf (rated, indexed, soft corer.
THE NEUROENDROCRINE THEORY OF AGING
AND DEGENERATIVE DISEASE: $50.00
(ORDER NUMBER 82084)
DEPRENYL
The Antl-Aglng Drug
by Alastair Dow
Foreword by Saul Kent
From the Foreword by Saul Kent:
'...research Indicates that deprenyl is
probably even mere eriecthe to
preventing Pa/klnson's disease than to
treating at. and suggests several
mechanisms ot action by when deprenyl
can rescue dying neurons (brain cells).
New studies also confirm that deprenyl Is
definitely an ctfochvo treatment for
Azhnlrneris dsoaso. and suggest that if
may be able to prevent too disease as
well.
'In 1990» tho primary evidence that
deprenyl can slaw aging camo from Dr.
Joseph Kndfs oxtraondnary finding that
deprenyl can extend racically the maximum fifospan of laboratory rats.
Sr>cc tocn. there have been several new studies showing that deprenyl
can prolong tho lifespan of different strains of rats, although Ite degree
of lifcspan extunsten in ttese studies has been more rrodest than in Dr.
KnoU's study.
•Furthermore, ttere is now evidence ttet deprenyl may be an
offeclrve treatmont for ofier neurological conditions induding mur.’pte
sdcross. Lou Gehrig's disease, and ischemia (brain injury» resutng
from reduced Wood flow), which has led University of Toronto
researcher Dr. Ted Kruck to suggest that deprenyl may be a sale, all-
purpose therapy for al types o< neurotonic damape. ¡u>i as aspirin is an
all-purpose therspy for pain and totlammation.’
1992, SH x Sri, 209 pp. Muff rated, »off cover.
DEPRENYL: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82087)
FREEDOM OF INFORMED CHOICE:
FDA Versus Nutrient Supplements
by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw
Ths now bock by famous life extension
researchers Dork Pearson ard Sandy Shaw
adrocatas an FDA that provides — rather
than restricts tealth information. Bx?
current FDA policies, with their emphasis
on enforcement, paternalism, and coercion,
are not consistent with toe American
tradition ol freedom of individual choice and
violate basic Amartoan civil rights
guaranteed under toe Ccnsliluton, inctoctog freedom ot speech and ci the press. Durk and Sardy propose corrections to brng the FDA into ctoser alignment with toese important American tradtons and civil rights. B»ls book stews you:
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HOW Inexpensive nutriert supplements can save over $100 billon in tealth care costs m-or/ year.
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HOW tho FDA blocks communication of truthful health information about nutrients and foods that results in over 100,000 premature deaths every year.
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HOW tte FDA Is violating our ConstlliZtonal rights under too First and Firth Amendments and why they may bo vulnoratlo io a multi- billon dollar class action suit lor damages.
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What you can do to teip lake away tho FDA's power io arixlrariy remove nmriect supplements from tte market.
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HOV/ to convert our current FDA system, to which tho FDA restricts trothful, non-misleading, even lifesaving information. Into a system in which it provides iniormation.
1993, 5H x BH. 126 pp. Hiosirated, soft cover.
FREEDOM OF INFORMED CHOICE: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82088)
J Racketeering L
I Medicine I
i j The Suppression •
: of.Uteman’.s i:
RACKETEERING IN MEDICINE
The Suppression of Alternatives
by James P. Carter, M.D., Dr. P.H.
Can we assume that our health
Is always the prime concern oi
organized medicine? Or are Ameri-
cans being deprived of effective,
eocnomioai treatments because
ttxxte treatments are not highly
profitatte lor surgeons and phar-
maceutcal companies? Dr. James
Carter exposes disturbing and
thought-provoking avidanca that •
Bonahda therapies arc being dis-
paraged as quackery • Health-care
gh'nrs who cder alternative treat-
ments are being persecuted • Gov-
emmant agendas arc participating
in the harassment of alle’native
practitioners • Drug companies ate
unduly iniuencing medical profes-
sional’ action • Kangaroo courts
are convicting honorable men of trumped-up charges • The financial
bottom Fne all too ohen determines what medclnc or treatment is
fesearebsd. tested and approved.
Dr. Carter does not speak In generalities or put forth vague accusations. He present names, eventa, and facta. which arc of interest to all concerned Americans. and leads the reader to the ncscapatlc realization that we must become morn aware of hcaXh-carc practices ard speak up for our right to the bast available modica’ treatment Racketeering tn Medicine is an extremely important book — ooq that shcud tx> mad by anyone ccoc cmed w.th hcaXh care in America.
1993, SU x an, 391 pp. indexed, soft cow.
RACKETEERING IN MEDICINE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82090)
THE HEALING BRAIN
Breakthrough Discoveries
About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy
by Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
A celebrated neurcbiolcgtet and a physician specializing in preventive medicine lake us on an intriguing, fact-niled exploration of the myriad heeling powers of the brain. Ornstein and Sobel show us how the txain constantly interacts with it» bod/, changing its responses to experience. They reveal nvr.ry lite-shaping dmcnsbn of the train’s mar- veloue chemistry.
The bran mirds the body. The; ktea seems so ample and central to ths understanding ol human heath, and yet it has escaped the attention Ot mainstream medical practice and psychological thought. Modcino has largely regarded tho bedy as a mindless machine. Psychology hss slmlarty boon restricted by a view that the main purpose of the human bran was Io produce rational thought Never mind that the brain is llw largest organ ot secretion in the tody, and the neuron, far from being like a chip In a computer, is a ttesh-and-blood little gland, coo that produces hundreds of chnmcals. Those chcmcals do not for tho most part, serve thought or reason They serve keeping the bedy out of trouble. from commonplace- problems Bko not fallng over or walking into a wall to the myriad ot tasks invoked in maintaining tho stability and health of the organism.
The Heating Drain protfdas raw materials for a new view of the brain: Who twenty years ago could have imagined eno complex internal pain-regulation system when underlies tho placebo offoct? Who would have thought that the death ot a loved one would cause immunity Io disease to plummet? Who wculd have thought that a sudden cardiac arrest after a shocking irauma could bo duo io Agnate deep within the brain's frontal lobe? Combiring the cuttftg edge ot neurological research with holistic health concerns. The Healing Brain is smart. and alxy.e al. wurderfi/ly healthy rearing
1987, SU- xSH, 301 pp, indexed, softcover
THE HEALING BRAIN: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82076)
HOW TO BUY ALMOST ANY DRUG
LEGALLY WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION
by Janws H Johnson, Ph.D.
From the author's Introduction:
'Before even thinking about importing drugs from other countries you have to undorstard our medical-pharmaceutical system and be aware ot how rt camo about.
'While I havo many quarrels with our current system. I am also well aware that much of it evolved for reasons that arc entirety scnsbln. Taking poorly tested drugs can have tornbki consequences for people. SO there needs to bo a proper amount of testing before any new d-ug rs released for use in tho general population.
'I believe that in most cases, people should only buy and use tested. FDA-approved medications. As can be seen in the following pages, tragedy has often resulted when proper testing has not taken place.
'But I also teieve that people shcukl keep in mind that other countries Irave drug-approval processes of their own. They usually have teetbg agencies that are both skilled and informed. Ard in most cases these foreign drug-approval egences take much less time than the FDA,
The problem In America Is that approval, non-npproval, or even an cutright ban by the FDA *s nc< necessarily synonymous wvsh careful testing.'
In How To Buy Almost Any Drug Legally Without A Prescription, Dr. Johnson covers t!>e following subjects: • Buying pharmaceuticals rirectfy from Mexico and the Caribbean. • What H I am less concerned about costs and more concerned about getting treatment for a rare dlsonter? ♦ What about tho drugs that I cannot order by mail? • Soma things you should understand about taking any m&cScatton. • Gude to drugs avaiabte by mal order import. • New drug* under investigation by toe FDA and not yet approved in the United Stales. • AIDS and AIDS drugs. • Gude Io International pharmaceutical suppliers Including sample pnoe ists. ♦ Abridged copies of an recent FDA import alerts that an> related to the mail order importation of drugs. • And more.
As ycu rrtght expect, toe FDA is strong^ against this tosk. warning In January 199*1 that it 'ootid cause havoc.'
1990, aux7, 340pp. softcover.
HOW TO BUY ANY DRUG LEGALLY
WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION: $5.99
(ORDER NUMBER 82083)
THE HEALING POWER OF HUMOR
Techniques for Getting through Loss, Setbacks,
Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials,
Tribulations, and All That Not-So-Funny Stuff
by Alien Klein
Everyone needs a ds9y dose of Vitamin Hi 'In laughs, we transcend our preK^cpmonts. Wo ¿¡ro i>ftcd above our fcckngs of foar, dis- coumgomcnf, and despair. People who can laugh st tbed setbacks no ¡anger fed sorry for themsdves. They fed upfeed, encouraged, and erpoweted.' — Allen Klein. The Healing Power Of Humor
Sckmco has proved, although we knew it all atorg, that humor is our best medtono It roduoes stress, promotes physical healing, is essential tor mental health and can aria years to one’s Irie.
But how do wo learn to lighten up and take the first step toward Ending the humcrous sde to our treaties when what we realy feel like dong Is cry-ng? Allen Klein, who has succcssfuly taught thousands to fnd the humor and consoLabons in life's tribulations, shows us how.
Brimming with pointed, humorous anecdotes and ksam-to-taugh techniques. TTw Heating Power of Humor zottArtyc tho wisdom of liw world's greatest spirtua! teachers w.th the insights of famed humorists, comedians, and others to help you turn life's negatvos irto positives. It k tho ideal bock for anyone going through troubled times—whether re the loss of a w-aiet. the loss of a }ob. n spat with one’s spocso. or a stay in the hoepttal.
1909, SU x 9H, 237pp, soft cover.
THE HEALING POWER OF HUMOR: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82080)
BIOLOGICAL AGING MEASUREMENT
Clinical Applications
by Ward Dean, M.D.
This book ¡8 unique and unparalleled in many ways. It is the first compendium of biological ag'ng measurement systems ever published, it describes systems used by scientists around the wcrid to accurately assess physbicgcal changes in humans with age. Sufficient (totals are provided enabling cflncians and researchers to use these tests in taboratoncs and physicians' cf^es.
Poopto have boon writing about aging retardaron and rejuvenation since the beginnng</ recorded history. Recent advances in medcal imeiigence and technotogy gradually improve the feasibiHy o< controlling the agng process. AJI of the popt/ar life extension books advise their readers to constrt ther physicians betore embarking on any axpcrimamal Ido extension program. However. few physicians have any faring in elnieal garanSslsgy and gwwto tharapoutes (’thorspeuti: management designed to retard aging and increase their healthy Ifo- span’). Therefore, most physicians tend to be reluctant to encourage thcHr patients io pursue such programs. Even the relatively few sympathetic physiaans wiling to cooperate may rot know what adv.co to grvo. nor have any idea at an affective moans to relably evaluate an experimental age-retarding program.
The purpose of this book is to: (1) Propose methods of evaluating Age-retardog or health improvement programs by measuring btologcal Ages and rates of aging. (2) Refine the aging measurement system and thereby reduce the costs of diagnosis and treatment. The testing program Itself costs time and money. Therefore. ¡I Is important to determine which are tr»e most accurate srd cost-etfecdve systems, as wr.il as tta optimum frequency f«x testing. Obviously, it is foolish fo continuo investing timo and money In an toorinctive or harmful program.
BMogfcai Aging Measurement presents a number of aging measurement systems developed by gcrorrtolcgcis around the worid. and explains for the first time anywhere how those systems may be used by ethical gerontotogiste to evaluate ago-retarding programs.
9 J his is a greatiy needed book wtuch wtit be of particular vafeo to researchers studying human aging and to indviduals wishing to make pmcticat use of avaSabfe life extension technology. 9
Dark Pearson and Sandy Shaw, authors of Life Extension:
A Fracticat Sowtific Approach
'A comprehensivo and unique gathering together of information about mwsunng txofogic or functional age' in humans. Highty rocommon-tied for anyone inwdvodin stnti aghg therapy or expeomentation. 9
— Roy L. Walford, autlwx of Maximum Lifespan
9..an absoluto must for any physician currontiy proscribing tifo- extension programs... Cho most pertinent tifo extension book a vaitabto.9
—John A. Mann, a udxx of Secrets of Life Extension
1033. 8 x 11, 440pp. iitodrttxd. softcover
BIOLOGICAL AGING MEASUREMENT: $39.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82077)
BIOMARIÍERS
10
DHttMLMMS Of ACISG
CAMDNTROL
CRYONICS
Reaching for Tomorrow
by Brian Wo wk and Michael Darwin
Whon you’re cold, you're hot
but when you're desto. you're not...
This bock is the beat
Introduction Vo the controversa!
science of cryonics storing
human todies cr brains at super-
low tempera lures for possitle
rerival in the future when they find
a cure Pur whatever it was that put
you under. Brought to you by the
AJcor Ufo Extension Foundation —
an organzation that actually
provides cryonlc storage and
support — CryonJcs covers
setantrte. practcal and othcal
aspects of cryonic suspension.
It's 811 here to trie book:
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Tha fundamental preirisas of crycnics
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A short hist ory of the ccyonics ktoa
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A possible rcsusctalicn see nano
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A look hto She future with nanotechnology
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A description of Accor's apabiities to cryonics
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A compilation of the most common questions and answers about
cryonfcs -
The costs d clones
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A ceWVasuo repair scenario
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A cryottotogist's enbeism of cryonlcs
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Ard much moro, including an extensive reference 1st for further
study.
Are these people crazy, or what? fZaybe after you read this tix*y
wont seem as crazy as you think.
109f, 8H x 11, 108pp, tftustnted, gtossary, soft cover.
CRYONICS: $8S5
(ORDER NUMBER 91060)
BIOMARKERS
The 10 Determinants of Aging You Can Control
by William Evans, Ph D.,
and Irwin H Rosenberg, M.D.
How research proves that agng is
net an irrcvorsibta process but eno mat
raspeevds dynamicaly to exorcise and
diet Tbo revolutionary pogram pre-
sented in this bode enables you to
con (rd 10 key ’biomarkers* associated
with aging, no matte* what your age or
present physical condition. The
biomarkers ere:
• loan body ( museto) nvas
♦ strength
• basal mctatoSc rate
• body fat percuntego
• aerobic capacity
• ttood pressure
• Insuln sensitivity
• cholesIcfctiTIDL ratio
♦ tono dens ty
• tocy torrperaturo rcgjlalicn
Biomsrkera begins with eolf-tests for e/ahattog your bod/s
physiological age. You are then directed to a pfan talored to your level
of fitness. These slep-by-8tep programs incorporate diet, exercise ard
strength training. As your fitness level peaks, you are given
maintenance guides aimed at preserving your good health.
Biomsrkera will help you double your energy ard feel terrife. not tor
a day. <x a week, but for a ifeilme.
1991, 8x9,297pp ffhntnted, indexed, soft cover.
BIOMARKERS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 82081)
Paralegal Skills
Introduction
Lawyers, in their various incarnations as attorneys, judges and legislators, have got our legal system all screwed up, but in spile of that, there is an amazing amount of legal work that the average citizen can do himself. Not only will he save money, but often he will do a bettor job than a ’professional" lawyer. These areas are covered in this section. Contracts, law suits, bankruptcies. Small Claims Court, and more — how- to-do-it guides for everyone! Even if you don't do your own legal work, you can use these books to check up on your lawyer!
EVERYBODY'S GUIDE TO
SMALL CLAIMS COURT
by Ralph Warner
N difficult legal problem is a dsaster for most people. Lawyers are expensive and untrustworthy. Court procedures and language are difficult to understand and often frightening. The person with the legal problem (the client) is commonly donod the right to participate in his Of her own depute, except to pay and pay and pay.
In the midst of this unhappy picture there are several rays of ight. One is Small Claims Court — a pface where decisdrs are made chcapty. quiddy and with the participalicn of the disputing parties. In this book Ralph Warner shows you how to use Smal Claims Ccurt 10 your best advantage. With the infermation given hero and year own creativity and determination, there is much that you can do to iterate yourself from the oppression of lawyers, judges, ard cur established CCUil system.
Subjects covered include:
U legal jargon L3 breach of contract cases □ property damage cases (J personal mjt/ry cases U stating your claim on your court papers U cutting down a datm that's over the iimit to fit into smaa claims UspMing small claims court cases □ how to compute the exact amount of your claim □ statute of limitations □ how to settie your rSspya □ partiepaten by attorneys CJ suns by minors U suing one person U suing two or more people U suing an indinduatty owned business □ Siting partnerships □ suing a corporation □ suing on a motor vehicio accident □ special procedures for suits sgxinsf mmers □ plaintiffs and defendants titing fees □ court papers and court dates □ serving your papers □ □
presenting your case to the judge □ getting a judgment by defeat motor vehicle repair basest landlord-tenant cases □ dog bite cases CJ poSce bnrtasty and fatso armst cases □ judgment and appeal (J coifocting your money U and much, much more.
This is the most ccxr.piete guide to small clams court ever written. Hghly recommended.
1967. 6x9.204pp. sample forms
and documents, sort cover.
EVERYBODY^ GUIDE TO
SMALL CLAIMS COURT: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76014)
SAVE YOUR LICENSE!
A Driver’s Survival Guide
by Gone Mason
How many times Ivsve you been
cnising down the highway when a red
HasNhg light appears in youf rear-view
mirror? You are tien tapped with a
ticket, a fine, extra ’points.’ and
eventually higher insurance premiums.
And yc<i have no option but to accept
humbly wfwt live officer dishes out.
right?
WRONG. Alter reading Gene
Mason’s book Save Your License!
will not or.y be aware of other options,
but >ou will know how k> make them
work tor you.
From Chapter Ona - - Tbc Case
For Speed — through Chapter 14 —
’Speed Without Fear.’ Mason dispels
trie myths cfefe-nding me 55 mph speed
limit the ir/alltote cop. and your day in court
Save Your License! is a must lor every driver who has lost
enjoyment n driving because of the 55 mph speed limit. Order your
copy of Iha unique book right now. before Smokey hammers down
again.
1976, 5H x3X, 144 pp. hard cover.
SAVE YOUR LICENSE!: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 16025)
BUSTED BY THE FEDS
A Manual tor Defendants
Facing Federal Prosecution
by Larry Fasster
Hava you jus! been arrested by tr>e feds? Has somocno else dose id you just been arrested by the feds? Are you facing criminal charges m a federal court? If ycu answered ’yes’ to any of these questions, then you ncod Busted By The Feds, the bible of no-nonsense Information to guide you in fightnp your case and. most importantly. obtainng the shortest possiWc sentence it you are convicted.
Whether you have a public defender, or a high-pfacd private defense attorney. Busted By The Feds wJI fa$ you to get the mt»*, good out of yoir lawyer. It will tell you how fto understand and protect yourself against many of the tricks that less ethical attorneys sometimes practice on their cleats. And it will tel you what to expact from a gocd lawyer, and show ycu how to help him so that ycu got the most benefct possbta from your counsel.
Don't have a lawyer yet? Busted By The Feds provides practical advice co how to choose a good one. end it tells you what to kick cut for in ccdcr to avoid a bad one. How much shoUd a reputable deforce attorney charge? Busted Dy The Feds tela you. and explains haw to toil the difference between getting a bargain and getting rpped off by a lawyer whose fees are too tow — and whoso services are even lower than his fees.
If you arc represented by a public defender, then ycu favo special problems that Busted Sy The Feds explains in detail. It ¿s hill of examples Of the maneuvers that some public defenfars use to trick their clonto into pleading guilty to bad ptea-txsrgans. Busted By The Feds explains why your bast interest mgM nd be the same as your pubic defender's, and haw he may manipulate you in order to make his own }cb easy as possible.
How about bait? Busted By The Feds will toi you what your rights to bai are — and most important of al how to get them! What sentence are you going to gel? Dusted Dy The Feds gives you the specific Information and inalruGtnrc that you ne*d lo figure It cu’ for yourself. bedoro you talk to a probation Officer or enter Into a ptaa- bargain. If you ara fighting a drug esse. A? the information you need is provided. tf ycu faco ocher, nan-drug rotated charges, then Busted By The Feds tells you cx^jtfy how your senteros will be computed, and Wife you where to get toe speerfe gufcMne information that you need.
The single most mpertant thing for you to know right now Is what sentence ycu are facing. If you don't know that, then you are at tfa total mercy cf the prosecutor, and maybe your own Lawyer, when it comes to plea-bargaining
Your right to release co ball, the depodatien consequences of a gully verdict, good time credits, fines and assessments, special considerations when women arc charged in your case. and the intricacies of imelligentty pteading gucy. are just some of the marry subjects dscussed In Busted By The Feds. These are things tfat you need to know right now. wtxle the information can do you a world d good.
Almost every federal prisoner who sees a ccpy of Busted By The Feds fas tfa same raac&on: t wish I had that when I was first arrested^ If they had. marry of tfam wcuW bn serving shorter sentences today. Busted By The Feds Is Indsponsable for tfa newty arrested federal defendant.
If you or a toved ono is facing investigation — arrest — intSctmont — trial — or a prison scnlarcc - - ycu must protect yourself. Doni fa led Ike a lamb to the slaughter. Busted By The Feds can ba tfa shepherd that brings you safely through the dangers that Io In store for ycu. Order your copy today*
1992, 8K x tf. S2pp, soft cow.
BUSTED BY THE FEDS: $32.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76047)
REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT
How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case
by Pau! Bergman & Sara J. Berman-Barrett
Represent Yourself in Court expfans how to handle a contested court case from start to finish witfaul a lawyer. Slep-by-8te$>. K Shaw; howto:
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gather and analyze evidence
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detonmlno whether there b a vafd case
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choc« aw
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question wxn esses
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Introduce documentary cvidtnxz.*
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cress examine tfa opparvjnt
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and much, much mere.
Represent Yourself in Court is the most thorough guda to cohtestfa court cases ever published for the non-tawyer. Good h all 50 states.
1993, 3H x 11, 3S0pp, fHustreted, indexed. sort cover.
REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76040)
THE INDEPENDENT PARALEGAL’S HANDBOOK
How to Provide Legal Services
Without Going to Jail
by Ralph Warner
Fueled by tl»e growing tfs-sai-
isfoction or m il Ions of Americans
with our over-priced. under-
responsive legal system, a quiet
revolution is taking ptace: people
who need to prepare rcutlno legal
paperwork are turning to inda-
pendent paralegals in stood of
lawyers. They do it to s^'o money
(Independent pnratogals usually
charge oro quarter of what lawyers
do), and to avod the adversary,
shoot-from-lhe-Np approach of
many lawyers. Indcod tba trend to-
wards solving many personal legal
problems without lawyers is
gaming so much momentum Uta!
author Ralph Warner believes that
in areas such as uncoctosled
div oxo. name change. adoption,
bankruptcy, small busJnrss Incorporation, child support collection end lardkJfd-lsnant form preparation, independent paralegal* wil replace the majority of lawyers in tho next generation.
Tho Independent Paraiegsi's Handbooks a practical guide for all those who aro considering a career as an independent paralegal. It contains Interviews with six important figures In the Independent par- etogat movement and ciscusses: • legal areas open to para’ogals • whore to go! nocossary training • the steps necessary to open a legal form typing business • what to name your business • bow much to charge ♦ how to market ycur services • strategies designed to avoid unauthonzod practice of law charges • computers and tho independent paralegal • and much more.
Ralph Warner is ore of the poneam of too modem Amancan selfhelp law movement. Educated as a lawyer. Warner quit the practice. In disgust, in the eariy 1970s. Ha Is tho author ci a number ci self-help law books.
6 jc9, 213 pp. fflugtrated, golf cover.
THE INDEPENDENT PARALEGAL’S HANDBOOK: $24.95 _________________ (ORDER NUMBER 76038)____________________
LEGAL RESEARCH
How to Find and Understand the Law
by Stephen Ettas
The central premise of this book
is that every citizen sboUd have
easy access to the legal rules and
procedures that are Important to our
lives. This simple idea Is made
cc<np»c*led by the fact that most
legal materials am organized m
what amounts to a secret cede that
cdy lawyers can understand. Legal
RasMrch shows you exactly hew to
decipher tho codo ci tho law ibrary.
It explains bow to: • Quickly find Ilie
laws that relate to a specific case <x
legal question • Road and interpret
statutes and regulations • Find and
research a case • Uso law reviews,
encyclcpedas. and digests • Make
Freedom of Information Act requests
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And much more.
Rooommandcd for investigators, paralegals. Ibertartan activists, legal socratanos. tax protestors, etudetts. ard evaryona who wants to understand and use the taw.
M2, SU x 11,224pp. iiiustratod, softcover.
LEGAL RESEARCH: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 78026)
THE OUTLAW’S BIBLE
How To Evade The System
Using Constitutional Strategy
byE.X. Boozhte
This extraordinary book
brings together toe merits of
experience for sound legal
scholarship. for an approach
Io the law tixal nebody else
has to rod to present — tha
perspective of the ciizen-
lawbreaker.
While them to rx> such
thing as complete security for
someone who chooses to
cfebey toe govemmant. there
Is a zone of protection In
when one can expect both
privacy and a lower burden of
punishment if one is caught.
Tho Establish-ment ctoesnT
want us to know precisely
where this zone is. or how to
take advantage of it, because
that would greatly dminish its
level of control. Thais why this important information never appears In too media, toe- standard literature, or toe leachings of Establshment institutions.
The Outlaw's Bibtotetfm by introducing and explaining the various elements of toe criminal justice system — not from the hackneyed, idcaizcd dvka-class perspective, but from the practical standpoint of what an ordinary person can expect Io encounter in real Uto. It then pscs on to analyze cur constitutional rights with regard to police detontba interrogation, search, ard seizure. It explores mo techniques cops use to oxterd the reach of their investigations, and bow toe courts have dc6ned limits k> their activities. Lastly, it bolt all ths information down into ton easy gukfeines that a parson can routinely apply to his/her daily 5fe in order to reduce the nsk of a txisL v
Chapter tr.tos Include:
• The Cops
• TbeCeifds
• The Keepers
• The Consr^Po
• The Fbedh Avendmeat
• Excer^’yys to the Werrenf Rcgutroi7>cn£s
• Search ahdSetrore of tho Person
• Places of Pirivscy
• Bfeschetng the Casde Gato
• Befonginps
• Ttfe Privacy of Words
• Miranda and the Seizure of Words
• TheSoaeeze
• Dirty Tricks
• The Ten Convnand7^fs
• ArxfMoref
The Outlaw's Bible Is not just a book tor lawbreakers. It is for al people wlx> undertake to seriously team about tho fegal rights rjppos- edty available under toe U.S. Conslrtuton. Tho average person never thinks about rights and legalities. It is strango that there are sbeokriety no basic studies of law in any public school, yet tiw Law Ubraiy of Gon$y653 (»mains an amazing 7 million books cn law atone! You skn- p1/ cant get fhrotrgh a day without breaking some taw or other.
As you read this excellent book, remember that someday, somehow, you may need to Nde from the police or avoid prosecution. This book contains the only ncci-vtolenl wwipon you can arm yourself wito. Use it take it very seriously.
H you break laws for pleasure, preht. or pnncipio, ycu need The Outlaw's BibTe: How To Evade The System Using Constitutions/ Strategy.
less, 5H x Sh, 335 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE OUTLAW'S BIBLE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76041)
VIGILANTE HANDBOOK
by Victor Santoro
Foe the first time ever, a
how-to book or vigilante
operations, written within a
framework of rational
analogtos. All tho myths of
the popular media (both
pro and con} are stripped
away in this handbook of
modem day vigilante ac-
tion. Tbzj author reveals
what vigiantos actualy uro
□nd are not, why vigilantes
(especially the po'xo offi-
cer,Vigilante) exist and
dozens of other subjects.
Contents includo:
• Solving the crime
problem — traditional
approaches • Why cops
cent cope • Vigilantism
today • How vighsnte
groups start • Finding
the targets • Gunfighting
for vigilantas • Do-ib
yourself Justice • Working with the police • Delivering warnings • Vigilante "Ho-Hos ’ • A nd much more, Including even a chapter on Disposal of Bodies!
The at/hcr also describes two vigilante actions in which he personalty participated. and tells what ho and his group did r.ghl — and wrong. What wil ytxj do when law and ex dor breaks down? If you are con- ccmed with the increasing amount of violent crime tn America, and tba inability of the Authorities to deal offactMy with H. the Vigilante Handbook te worthwhile madingt
1961, 5% X8H, 216 pp, fHuctnrtod, softcover.
VIGILANTE HANDBOOK: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 37016)
PRESERVING FAMILY LANDS
Essential Tax Strategies for the Landowner
by Stephen J. Small
You need this book:
♦ If you think you will ba leaving land to your children
♦ If you think you will be Inheriting tend from your parents
♦ If you have land you cam about and don’t want to toso n
♦ If you w*aN to avoid crippling estate taxes
♦ Because it's the only book of Ite kind available to landowners and theiratMsors
Stepban J. Small is a tax attorney in Boston who works with landowners to protect family land around the country. He is recognized as tho nation's foremost authority on toe legal and financial aspects of land conservation options.
Chapters mckKto:
♦ Tho Estate Tax: An Eye-Opener
♦ Gift of a Conservation Easement
♦ Gift of a Remainder Interest
♦ Gilt by Will
♦ Giving to Other Family Members Now
♦ Cash Sato Coirpamd io Limited Dovcfopmont
♦ Sources of Help
♦ The Landowners Quiz
♦ Estate Tax Tables
♦ Tax Flaming tor Char.xabto G*ts — A Special Ruto
♦ Ard mc<o.
Milions of acres of family land all across the country may bo tost teoause most landowners don't know atou the tax problems thay face. Do you?
1992, 514x814, 111 pp, softcover.
PRESERVING FAMILY LANDS: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17064)
BEATING THE RADAR RAP
Tested Techniques for Fighting
Electronic Speed Entrapment — and Winning
by Dale Smith and John Tomerdn
Face it Sooner or later
you wil hear rhe siren whis-
tle. see the flashing tghts.
and pockc< a speeding ticket
with ycur name on it If you
gat caught in a radar trap,
thr.ro to a gcod chan« you
don't deserve it. This book
helps you prepare to fight
that ticket before your day
comes. It teis you what to do
and what not to (to. white
describing a clear, easy-to-
foitow format tor preparing
and presenting your case.
Here is wtnat you should
know about: • The arsenal of
radar devices in use today •
Sources of radar interference
and inaccuracies • Bearn
width, panning error, shadow-
ng error and batching errer •
Source of Operator error ♦ Radar case taw • The courts, judges, prosecutors and witnesses • Evidence, testimony and cross- examination • Your chances of winning.
Tested tactics for beating a radar speeding ticket are presented in ths controversial how-to bosk. How polco radar works, common operator errors. when to tight a radar ticket, what to do at the scone of tho arrest, which incs of defense to setoct end how to win In the courtroom.
1966, 5H x 814, 165pp, (Hustrated, softcover.
BEATING THE RADAR RAP: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10047)
THE UNDERGROUND LAWYER
by Michael Louis Minns
Michael Louis Minns, a trial Sawyer, has written foundations in practical law. for non4awyers. First, he gives us some logal history as background; then he introduces us to the ’underground lawyer.’ a man or woman, sometimes a layman, sometimes a lawyer, who wades through the legal sowars, cnccurzcring a few sewer rate along too way. Tho underground lawyer could be Clarence Darrow battling tor the First Amendment or Aunt Gertrude helping you wkh your traffic ticket.
Thte book fcs en encyxiopecSa of American jurispntoence. revealing trade secrets of the IRS (which he refers to as the American Gestapo), simplifying legal research, depicting divorce (which he labels disorganized crime), offering tips on dealing wXh coltoction agents, and slowing us .*1 glirrpso into courtrooms, judges' chambers and jail cols.
Some of th© chapter titins Ire'udo: Tho American Jury; Hora Comos the Judce; Ltoensed Lawyera; Criminal cr Civil: What's tre Dfleranca?; Lawsuit Blues; The Criminal Law Game; Habeas Corpus; Civil Rights; Freedom of information Aa'Privacy Ack Research; The Internal Revenue Service; Real Estate; Ccxpcrations; Trademarks. Copyrights, Patents; American Divorce; Personal Injury; Credit and Debt: Is There Ute Arter Debt?; Bankn^ilcy: Rolief to Aist a F/ing Away. Wills and Probate; and More.
The pricetess information in this book will awaken toe underground tawyer in al of us.
1990, 6x9, 639pp, ii/ustratod, hardcover.
THE UNDERGROUND LAWYER: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 76043)
FIGHT YOUR TICKET
California Fifth Edition
by David Hi Brown
Have you teen issued a
ticket you think Is unfair? You
could be facing a huge fine,
higher insurance rates,
pass i Uy even a suspended
license. What can yeu do
abcul it? You can f>ght back!
Ths book provides all the
legal ammunition you need
to hanrfo:
/ Speedng
/ Radar
/ Defective Equipment
/ Reckless Driving
/ Drunk Driving
/ License Suspension
/ Appeals
✓ And More.
Fight Your Ticket will
show ycu how to assess
you' case, how to determine
what you ¿tend to lose, ho*/ to gel youf case dismissed, how to prepare for court, how Io appeal. Loam how Io lake your case to court — and win!
This is tlx» Fifth Editbn of Fight Your Ticket for the slate of CaMoc- ha. However, the procedures discussed here — and marry of die laws app.*y to other states as well.
1992, SHxtf, 350pxgcs, iitastrafaf. forms, index.
FIGHT YOUR TICKET: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 75046)
YOU CAN GO BANKRUPT
WITHOUT GOING BROKE
An Essential Guide to Personal Bankruptcy
by Lawrence R. Reich, Esq. and James P. Duffy
YOU m GO
8HKGIIPI
WITtiOOT
GOINGOROKf
AN IltfIMYIAL OUIOK TO Flit SO MAL BANKRUPTCY
lAWRfNCEB. BHGH. f SO.
■ IMO JftRfS P 08FIY ■
This book offers expert
advioa on how to erteci a
personal bankruptcy that
you can recover from, both
financially and emotionally.
Each year, dose to one
milban Americans seek the
protection cf the Federal
Bankruptcy Low. Most do
so with footings cf guilt arri
inadequacy. They simply
don't roa-'izo haw bank-
ruptcy can help them out of
□ seemingly Hopeless
situation. Now. You Can
Go Bankrupt Without
Going Broke presents
bankruptcy as an option for
those J. ycu who are
looking fcr reaistc alter-
natives to ycur personal
financial problems. Written
by a respected bankruptcy
attorney. it e a straightforward, step-by-step guide to the ins and Outs of personal bankruptcy.
Contents include:
<• Tito Purpose of Bankruptcy Laws
O What Bankruptcy Can and Cannot Do for You < Your Rights as a Debtor ❖ Deaing with Debt Corectors
•> vtfth the internal Revenue Service ❖ When Bankruptcy Wil Not Work
<• When and Haw io Settle Out ot Court < How to Get Ycur Creditors to Scttte for Loss ❖ When Bankruptcy is the Only Way Out ❖ Dischargeable Debts
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Nondischargeabte Debts
❖ What You Shotfd Know About Chapter 7. Chapter 11. Chapter 12 arri Chapter 13 Bankrvpicy
❖ A State-By-Steto GUda to Exemptions
❖ k State-By-State Gude to Hemo and Ro,it Estate Exemptions ❖ How You Can Protect Your Assets
❖ How to Convert Nonexerrpt Property to Pay Off NondschargeaWc Debts
❖ What You Should Not Do ❖ Your Ute After Bankruptcy ❖ Sample Bankruptcy Forms ❖ And much, much mare!
You Can Go Bankrupt Without Going Broke a tho comptato guide to everything you need Io know about personal bankruptcy. Remember. bankruptcy is no longer the sorry socret it once was; fl can be tho solution.
199?. SU x Sfi, 255pp. Indexed, kk/xtrsted,
ssmp&! forms, son cover.
YOU ¿4JVG0 BANKRUPT
WITHOUT GOW* BROKE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64126)
Sex
Introduction
Sex. Ah, yes. what can I say about sox? Woll, I guess I'll start by saying, Sex Is great. Sex is good. Yea, sexlll In these repressive times, bluenoses of all stripes are trying to inhibit open honest discussion of sex with various 'obscenity* and 'pornography' laws, witch hunts, and trials. The books in this section are carefully chosen to cover just •about all aspects of sex and sexuality. Enjoy...
SEX WORK
Writings by Women In the Sex Industry
Edited by Fredertque De/scoste
and Priscilla Alexander
Street prostitutes, exotic dancers, nude models, escorts. pc<n actrossos and workers in massage parlors speak out cn sex work, Ibolr work.Tho cborus at their voices rises atove the controversies surrounding pcostitutfan, pornography. AIDS and sex in America.
From the introduction:
•I have camo to see that prostitixon ¡8 many things, and cannot bo viewed from only cne point of view. In that way, It is much ike marriage. At one time, both were eccncmlc Institutions: tho only difference between a wife and a prostitute was that me prostitute was paid by many mon and tho wife by one. However, as 'love' has come to dominate at least the decision to many, and as serial monogamy has become the rorm. money has become tho main factor that distingUshes prostitution from marriage. In any case, prostitution, by definition, Is the exchange of sexual services for money. Some prostitution Is forced, and farced prostitution Is cäearty rape combined with kidnapping and perhaps brainwashing. At tho other end of the spectrum. there are women who make a dear decision to work as prostitutes, a few because thoy enjoy sox and have no qualms about enjoying sex as work. Most women who work as prostitutes. I think, co so cut d! economic motives — the hearty pay Is better than trat pakT for most cl tho work women aro allowed to do. Seme get to like the work ns they become skilled at it. Other women hate It from tho beginning to the end. And stil others like some aspects of the job white hating parts of if
I he authors of this book aro tho exports — they testify to the realties of sox work. The words are out. Who will listen?
/ÄF7, SHx8H, M&>SCftCOVOT.
SEX WORK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85073)
SEX AND DRUGS
A Journey Beyond Limits
by Robert Anton Wilson
Orignaly published in 1973.
this togondary tock W’ent
Immediately out of print, and was
almost Impossibta to find for
nearly 15 years. It has teen
reprinted, with a new Preface by
the author, ard wo arc very proud
to offer £ to our roadors. From tho
new Preface:
'This book is basically an
informal history of how certain
Long-ridden practical secrets of
Tantric Buddhism crept into the
Western world in the middle ages,
wore crushed and'or driven
underground by the Hoiy
inquisition, bare graduasy been
rediscovered since around 1900,
suddenly emerged as a ms, dr
sociaf-revotufionaty force in tho
Rftbvrt Anton
Wibon
SEX &
DRUGS
A Journey
Hcyond
Limits
1960's, and were once again crushed and driven underground.'
'Perhaps there era resources of courage. creativity and higher
inference latent in each of us. Perhaps a sodotogtcai chain reaction can stH be set tn action if enough pcopte lo.im how to transcend fashionable setf-pify and make an effort to become happier and more efficient Perhaps we are not deed yet, but only hypnotized by morbid and moribund philosophies. Perhaps tho potters of the human brain hare never fatty been released in tho PntccMhic, Afaokthtc, capitalist or sodsSsf games. Perhaps the Omits that scorn to restrict us aro on>y bad habits and we can transcend eft of thorn. '
1987,5H x 8H, 209pp, llfaftrxled, soft cover.
SEX AND DRUGS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85074)
IMPORTANCE
WEARING
THE IMPORTANCE OF WEARING CLOTHES
by Lawrence Langner
Hero id the classic history
of doming that hefced
inspire a bold. young
generator) of fashion
designers to create the
controversial and often
outrageous styles of Ito
1960s and 70s — thus
opening tto doers for Ito
coming of tho mini skirt, tho
lopfess balhing sut. and Ito
uni sex look.
N7a- Law re neo Langner’s
influential work is back in
print, updated and revised by
fashion designer Julian
Robnsco to preserve the
integrity of tto original
cdiion and to provldo new.
thought provoking insights
about tto past three
lumutuour. docades of the
Fashton Revotuhcn and its
impact on modem society.
Lavish^ llteslrated with hundreds of rare, exotic and provocative photos, many cl them In full coter. Tho Importance of Wearing Ciothos trawls Ito world and tho centuries. shcrMng venous stalos of dress and undress. Tho Importance of Wearing Clothes is as much a statement about the evolution of the human ccndtion as ¡(is a suney of tto crigns. functons and moaning of clothing and fashion, h fe competing and essential reading for social scientists, students, historians, librarians. and all these who atom. cover, and uncover ttolr bodes.
1991, 6x9, 363 pp, heavily Utustrated. index, hardcover.
THE IMPORÏÀNÛÉ ÔF WÉARlHÔ CLÔYMËS: $¿4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85136)
COURTSHIP IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
by Mark Jerome Watters
While tho true relevance of the behavior of animals will remain a hotly dabatod tcpic, the book treats animal sexual behavior as but a narrow window through which wo can gain insight into tto possible evolution of human behavior, not as a concise oxpfanation of it. White serno observers attempt to use animal behavior to justify what humans scmotlmes do — argung, for example, that because tto mates of soma species lord over Ito females, this must set a precedent for similar tohavter among humans - such discussions neglect to point cut Itoi for every example one might find 10 support views of convenience, a counter-example could as easily be found. This tock, whre highlighting some facets of human Dehavtor that seem to parallel those of ottor animate. doesn’t hold animal behavior to be the key to unlocking tto mysteries of human activity and enterprise. Far from it. marry secrets ot human behavior are sure to reman lust that: secrets
•Mark Walters’ stortee about mate sp’de/s serenadng temates by strumming their webs and male crccodies creathg waterfalls with ultrasonic waves to impress the female are enough to convince us that these creatures might feel love... Walters is an exceient popuiadzer. writing in ctear. engaging prose that stresses ths social Implicatons of science. *
— Los Angeles Timo-s
•Mr. Wallers uses each cotorfiX case history to IHumlnsrto universal patterns In the dance ot life and io raise serious questions... Why arc most birds monogamous., but most mammals polygamous? Why docs the moon loom so large In tto dance of life? Why dons spdrg...? A wonderful subject. *
— New York Times Book Review
1933, 5x3, 207 pp, indexed, softcover.
COURTSHIP IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85116)
HowTo Cheat On Your Wife...
HOW TO CHEAT ON YOUR WIFE
AND NOT GET CAUGHT
by Joo McCullough
This took la a guide to
meeting, cheating and sateiy
retreating for Ito man wto
has everything and not
enough ptaces to put iL
Detective Sergeant Joe
McCullough takes you
through each step of your
affair — stawfy, carefully —
showing you tto pittails to
avokl, leeching you the
warning &gnals gvon oft by
wifa and mistress. Subjects
covered include:
-
LÍOS to Toll. Uos to Avoid
• Financing your Affairs -
Getting Out of Ito House
• Places to Meet Women -
Getting Invoked with a
Married Woman • Finding a
Love Shack • How to Keep Your Mtetresa • How to Break Off an Affair • Dodging Your W-ie's Suspicions • And Much More!
How to Cheat On Your Wife and Not Get Caught g?/es you all trie ina and cuta of ctandestino relationships. Even if you already have a htile seton on the sito. yo</ll appreciate Joe McCulteugh’e advice for getting out of tight spots. There's oven a quiz so you can see how wel ycuM score?
1990, 7x9, 126 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO CHEAT ON YOUR WIFE: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85139)
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TO MEET YOUR LOVER
by Richard and Janet Rccd
v Looking for your very first
lover?
v Ready to pct marnod and
soltie down?
v Divorced and eager to
enjoy lite?
▼ Feeling tonchy and
socking tto oomfort ot a
lover or a friend?
No matter how frustrating
your kfc has been up to
now, no matter tow
dsappointing your past
relationships have been, this
took will help yea find new
tope and row love. Learn
low to attract Ilie lovo of
your life. Find out where Uto
really elgibfe women and
men are. By using the easy-
to-read and easy-lo-foltow
directions in 52 Unique &
Exciting Ways To Meet
Your Lover, you can enjoy the fantastic opportunities for greater
happiness ard true love which await you.
You tonl have to be handsome or rich. Your age doesn't matter,
either. Whether you’re young, middte-aged. or tong past retirement,
there is an loterestng. exbtng. fuccing ato. yes. an erotic life waJBng
for you. Thte te tto one tock that tells you how. when and where you win
meet that lover ot your dreams!
1939, 5H x 3H. 264 pp, soft cover.
52 UNIQUE 8 EXCITING WAYS
TO MEET YOUR LOVER: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85123)
SEX,
PLEASURE
&
POWER
SEX, PLEASURE & POWER
How To Emerge Spiritually Without Going Nuts
by Jan Kennedy
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Is spiritual emergence driving you
ruts?
★ What do sex. pleasure and power
have to do with spiritualty or going
note?
-
Do you reel overwhelmed by your
sexual urges? -
Are you addcted to someone?
-
Is someone addcted Io you?
★ Do your values match your irwrair.?
A humorous look at ano serious side
effects that occur wtncn splntuaty
emerging peop’e awaken their vital
energy and then deny feelings of
sexuality, pleasure and power.
Some people suffer pain and
ccofuson because they have no
language to support a heattiy relationship between the nature of their spirituality and live nature of what they feel.
This Loo'«, reveals numerous methods to faclUate a heaZhy spiritual emergence. The confusing alternatives from the sexual revolution (A the sixties can be reassessed without resorting to a Moral Majority backlash. Very worthwhile?
BODY/SELF APPRECIATION
100 Unique Unrelouched Photographs,
From All Over The World.
Illustrating the Wide Range of Normal Bodies
and Organs of all Ages and Both Sexes
by Sen sate Media Service
How Is cur seif-imago affected
by cur atuude toward nudcy and our
bodes? Does it metier what
emotions we feel when we con-
template our own nakedness? Sex
researchers and therapists Ivave
learned that the answers to bath of
the above questions are positive.
Our self-image is vttaty affected by
our attitude toward our own naked-
ness. Il we feel ashamed of cur
bodes <x feel we do not look good,
those emotions will inhbit cur
sexual expression and reduce our
sen-esteem.
To understand our own reactions,
we must recognize the origins of tho
atllludo toward nudity that ts
prevalent in our own society. From
wrty chktiood. many of us are taught to cover cur txxtes. Vie am to« that nakedness is 'shameful* and even 'lewd.* Seme people accept those ideas without question. But today, marry are challenging such conclusions and are searching lor a more realistic approach Io the bodes which wo all must accept before we can love oursO/es. Body/Setf Appreciation serves as a guide in that search. Viewing pictures of the many ’normal* human shapes, the reader is ted to see that bodies are not shameful things, but natural and beautiful, even as they change over tbo years.
19S7, 5MxSM, 312 pp. profusely Muatratcd, softcover
BODY/SELF APPRECIATION: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85131)
SEXUAL SECRETS
Tho Alchemy of Ecstasy
by Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger
Sexual Secrets is the detinXive and
all-encompassing guide to sex and
mysticism. No book of tivs magnitude
has ever appeared on tr-e subject. The
distillation of more than two thousand
years of practical techniques for
enhancing sexual awareness and
achieving the transcendental experience
of unity. Sexual Secrets explores the
path of teve and mysticism, making
acccssib'o for the first lirne the sexual
mysteries cf live East.
In India. Nepal. Tibet. China and
Japan, sexuality has long been regarded
ar. both an art ard a science worthy ci
detailed study and practice. Virtually
unknown to the Western worfd. a vast
and potent body of anctent sacred
writings co sexuality exists. Tho secrets
for consciously Inducing and maximizing
1he experience ot ecstasy have
remained, unCi row. seated in the
ancaont texts and art of the East. Sexual
Secrets makes available the essential
core of tho vast literature cn sexual
wisdom in a vital and practicable form. It
e meant to be experienced as well as read, for it id the sharing of ecstatic love that unlocks live sexual secrets.
More than 600 illustrations have teen created to enhance the experience of the text and to he^ >n the transmission of the secrets. Based on images in private collections and museums and on works originally commissioned by kings and emperors, the illustrations h Sexual Secrefs are the most comprehensive and tfverse colloction of mages expressing the erotic sentiment e*/er assembled. Tlwso ^lustrations aro unique works in thtsTrsekes and represar* a gathering together ct many streams, ta.-xling to tho samo source — the celebration o( creative sexuality. Sexual Secrets reveals tho wisdom of tho sages whose teachings on sexually tiave stood the test of twonty centuries and. even today, show how physical tore can become tho pathway to liberation.
1 $39 edition, 6\i x 11, 39 f pp, more than 600 ftiustrations,
in dej cd. soft cover.
SEXUAL SECRETS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85108)
THE X-RATED BIBLE
An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures
by Ben Edward Akeriey
Rere it is — all the dirty parts of Uto Bble, ccllected into one book, with appropriaba commentary.
Bibte-thurping ’Christians* have been leaefng the tight against freedom ol :ho press for a tong tima now. demanding the ccnsorshp of everything from books and movies to song lyrics, but you never see tlrem demandng that the Bble be suppressed for ’obsccncyl’ And yot the Bblo Is at toast as tiled with lewd and lascivious behavior and. yas. doA-nright obscenity, as any issue of Piayboy or Pentiiouse. Check it cut: Incest, masturbation, fornication, homosexuaity. rape, adultery, exhibitionism, iiudity end striptease, prostitution, aphrocksfecs, abortion, .sox drugs, mato swapping, scatology, bestiality, castration, and much more.
1939, Sh x SH, 446pp, tndoxed, soft cover.
THE X-RATED BIBLE: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85077)
GROWING UP WITHOUT SHAME
The Naked Child
by Dennis Crstg Smith with Dr. William Sparks
Doos famrty naked-
ness automabcaly on-
courage:
• Incest
• Prcmlscucy
• Penis envy
• Obsessive guilt
• Sexual aberrations
• Arodoty
• Parental seduetton
• Bisexuality
• Teenage rebellion
• Homosexuality
• Castration fear
• Sox traumas
• Adolescent deviancy
• Ard otter •perver-
sions*?
Some ’experts’ say it
does, but Dennis Craig
Smith wasn't willing to
accept that opinion. He
began a search that led
him to nudist camps and
teaches where he met
adults who had expori-enrod sepal nudity in an ethical, humanistic environment as children and had come Io accept thnlr sexually without shame. Hs findings contradict Freud's concept that children are harmed by the sight of their parents' nakedness. This tock addresses tho need for further research on the effect off family nudity where parents also show respect and compassion for other people.
If your chlWren seo you nude...
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Wil they become obse ssod with sex?
-
Will they become preoccupied with their bodies and the bodies of otters?
-
Wil they bo harmed omebonaty?
In more than f.vo years of roscxarch. Dennb Craig Sm>.h has learned that although Ignorant busybody prudes wcukf answer "yes’ to ell those questions, adults who grew up in nudsm have different, more positive reactions to their naked cbfdhood.
Illustrated with dozens, of photographs off naked chidren (ard their naked parents), Growing Up Without Shame is an inteligent. eye- opening book, badly noodod in these days of Big Brother, the media, and ’concerned parents* thumping the tub to create ’child abuse’ hysteria.
1S3S,6x9, 221 pp, doxene of photographs. indexed, soft co rer.
GROWING UP WITHOUT SHAME: $18.95
BEYOND NAKEDNESS
by Paul Ableman
Of al the thngs we
possess. tne only one we
can reefy claim as our
own is our tody. Yet
netting else gives rise »0
such complex attitudes.
Wo hide it. reve*al it. ftaixit
il are ashamed off a. even
scorn it. in an ever
changng array of feelings
about If.
Beyond Nakedness Ir.
a provoking and enter-
taining **udy of why this Is
so. Paul Ableman traces
our attitudes to our
dearest possession in
societies as diverse as
tie naked Indians In the
freezing rcgicns of Tierra
del Fuogo and Cho clothed
cty cultures of the West.
In contrasting iconso to
the baths of tho later
Roman Empire and the
strip-clubs cf Soho,
behind the ebsed shutters of Coventry during Lady Godiva’s ride and on tho nudet beaches of the Mediterranean. He probes the conflicting Christian views of the body as a symbol of corruption and of innocence, show’s bow Western an distorts the naked body while seeming to glorify it. and casts a eft’eal eye on how people view the bodies of others while concealing, deforming, or dfcpla/ng their own. The pornography, phalic symbols and ambiguous ideals of the Western world are shown to bo the direct res-'jll of me banishment 01 the bod/ from tne socai scene.
Illustrated wl th many photographs of people dressed and undressed. Beyond Nakedness Is a refreshing book that gh’cs us a now understanding of the one person w*o can never escape.
19&2. fx ft 144 pp, mtay photographs, softcover.
BEYOND NAKEDNESS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94165)
BODY PACKAGING
A Guide to
Human Sexual Display
by Julian Robinson
Body Packaging reveals what our cfothing reveals — about us.
Wo are at aware that the way in which wo dross has tho power to arouso us. to re assure us. to shock us. What few off us realize is that we oursclvos are exercising that power and that every time we pul on clothes wo are giving signals to others about our sexuality and our own understand ng off our place In society.
Body Packaging to us those messages that we are often
unconsciously transmitting.
Scmo reactors may wen be shocked by what they discover aboiX thcmsoNos; others will be delighted; all will be much more aware of Ihomsoh'os and their impact on others.
Body Packaging is a copiously and stunningly ¡lustrated book about bedy adcmmoM h aB its fascinating forms. It covers a la off ground from codpieces and perde sheaths to higb-heeted shoes and French krJckcrs: ffrem uniforms and bondage gear to wcdcing dresses, tai coals and jeans.
Body Packaging is controversial, visualy exciting, and packed with sturning Kuslrabons. many In full cokx. It demonstrates ho*x and why even the most careful porson broadcasts — by the clothing he or she wears—a dea r signal about h's or her sexuality.
19SS, ax 12,20Spp, profusely fHuatratod.
moat tn lull color, Indexed, hardcover.
BODY PACKAGING: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94166)
THE SHAMELESS NUDE
A Selection of Article? and Stories
from Nude Living
The Shameless Nude contains a selection of articles and svortes from Nude Living, a puWicalton that began its existence *n 1961. A few of Iba articles have been updated to include reterenoes to today's society and the status or social nudty in its eyes. Others have bean left intact te ¡rústrate the situation faced by nudists during the ported In history when tie general public fist became aware of the importance of sotf-and-body-acceptence. The Shameless Nude is offered to illuminate toe conviction that the human body is clean and wholesome. Tito editors hope that litóse papes will carry this belief to some of those individuals who now consider nudism as an unknown concept, and In so doing increase their unctorslanáoQ, expand the? concepts, and enrich their lives.
Contents include:
o Obscenity, Law and Nudism
o The Joy of Nudism
o Nudism. Freud & Preventive Psychiatry
o Would You Pose mhout Ctoibas?
o American and European Nudism o Nudsm's Fellowship With Nature O Will-im Btoko — Madman or Genius?
o Naked at Home
o sex Education: The Orphan-Annto of the Schools
o The Kiss that Couldnt be Stopped
O Why are Nudists Defensivo?
O When Is a Pkzluro Obsceno?
O Sex and Women in Advertising
c Nudism in Classical Utopias
o And much more.
The Shameless Nuda contains dozens nod dozens of photographs, man)* in ftfl cotor. of nAked humans of all sizes, shapes, ages, ard gender.
1921,8x11, 136 pp, profusely iUus trotad, hardcover.
THE SHAMELESS NUDE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85140)
THE MAGIC OF FEMALE EJACULATION
VHS Video With Booklet
Produced by House O'Chlcks
Female ejaculation! What is it? Where does it coma from? This e a how-to video for women and ttie'r lovers. Popular 20th century etudes, including Uto Kinsey Report ard Masters & Johnson deny Utot women ejaculate, despite the fact that a number of their own subjects dd. in fact, ejaculate during orgasm. Doctors Ernest Grafcnlurg (of G-SpiX fame) and Robert L. Dickinson both reported that their female subjects ejaculated.
The rnedcal term tor female ejaculation is Prostalic fluid. It does not look ex smell Ifco urine in any way. Most studies conclude that Uto fluid is produced by the paraurethral gland, which is surrounded by the urethral sponge. (An interesting note is that during fetal development th© urethral spixiga in women becomes the prostate in men.)
This short video covers references to female ejaculation in literature and history, where exactly Uto fluid comes from, and what it is. Thon, an attractive and comely young lady of the female sex masturbates on camera, climaxing with ejaculation. Fascinalingl
1992. 15 mtnufe cetor VHS video with hooAlet
THE MAGIC OF FEMALE EJACULATION: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85149)
VIDEOS ARE NON-RETURNABLE.
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DICTIONARY OF SEXUAL SLANG
Words, Phrases & Idioms
from AC/DC to Zlg-zig
by Alan Richter, Ph.D.
Tbs rich repertoire or sexual $ <ang in this compontSum offers fnscl- nating dues to Ihe sexual humor and taboos. perceptions and cultural biases. mores and sexual rotos o? English-speaking pccplo in times past and present. It otters abundant evidence that language givos a voice K>the ma[or ocncoms and preoccupations of the people wte speak It. Sexuality has always bean a vital concern. In fact, of the 615.COO words doftnnd In the most rocon! Oxford English detionary. more than cne-third havo had a sexual moaning or cornototicn at one time cc another in the thousand-year history cf the English language.
Extensively researched by renowned British lexbogre^har A'en Richter, Dictionary Of Sexual Star# features:
□ More than 4.0CO words, phrases, and qups that have cr have had a sexual cannototion
□ Hundreds of quotations domcnslrabng how terms have been used by sources ranging from Chaucer. Shakespeare, and Blake to pop icons such as Lenny B<uoe. Bette Midler, and Madonna
□ Terms in current use as well as a'chalc terms and how and when they were first used
□ 5CO years of sexual slang from the United States. Canada. Britain. Australa. and South Africa
O Full etymologies, explanations. and variations In usage from county to country and era io era
As entertaining as It Is Informative, Dictionary Of ScxuaJ Stang ¡ncktdes term« dating as tar back as tho aarty Middle Agas, such as sard. neddy, and jape, and as recent as macfSno. catcher's
mW. exchange DM*. Historians, writers, students, and word lovers alike will find th« cottec-.ton packed with surprising facts, meanings, and insights.
7bo author says In his In'.rodudfan. 'Language and scxcaSfy are contra/ foaturos of our irves. This book is concerned with thoir point of erforxetion. tn j broad sense the ¿¿tnguage ofsexuatty includes tedy language, gestures, and ait other forms of communication, in sddtion fo words and expressions. But this book focuses exc/usiveiy on the words and phrases that have come to have sexual meanings in English over the past SO) years or so. Thnyuyhout, / have striven to provide their origins and meanings, and/he metaphors expressed through them. This book, then, is a catalogue of the wonderfully varied English tangusge as A has evolved and been appHedto sexuaHty. “
1993. 6x9, 272pp, hardcover.
DICTIONARY OF SEXUAL SLANG: $29.95
(ORDER HUMBER 85169)
THE
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THE BLACK BOOK 1993-1994
Complied by Bill Brent
The Stack Book is a source
book for people interested in un-
usual aspects of sexuaty. The
author stares In the Introduction: ’ll
seems that In cur culture there is
much deceit and little truth available
regarding sexuaWy. rve tried to
rake tris tae moat irWifui resource
possible by listing aocurata. updo-
data information. Every listing in
this tfrectory has been verified by
questionnaire or pltone within live
s« months preceding pubicaticn.
•What is the phrase, 'alternative
sexuality?' In its broadest sense. I define it as any sexual or erotic act
not committed for the express purpose of procreation; in ether words,
erotic pleasure tor own sake I beteve that the comprises ths vast
majority of sexual behavior n most cultures. Inctodng curs; ycri In curs,
it Is consistently the least validated portion ct it.
’Everyone is sexual. (Evan choosing co I fancy involves acknowledg-
ing one's saxunity.) However, wo re living through an cm when semo
very powerful forces are trying to control oix behavior by suppressing
sex and ipstanng ignemneo. My reaction was to create a resource tint
fights this dehumanizing trend. I hope it provides ycu with a tool for
pursuing year sexual p’oasura in an informed, responsible manner.
Ta$4. but rot least It's FUN to browse through this book — where
else can cne find information on tailcoing next to transvestism?’
rasa, 5HX8H, 199pp, tausevtod, softcover.
THE BLACK BOOK 1995-1W: $12X10
(ORDER NUMBER 85170)
THE JANUS REPORT ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
The First Broad-Scale Scientific National Survey
Since KiriSdy
by Samuel S. Janus, Ph. D. and Cynthia L. Janus, M.D.
Based on a nationwide sur-
vey ol aCU« Americans of every
political ard resgous persua-
sion. from a>33 eighteen to
eighty and beyond, and from
e*rery income bracket and ever/
reg’on of the United States. The
Janus Report surpaesoe al
previous etudes cf American
sexuality in both Its scope and
brearth. Frank, penetrating, and
at times surprising In Its
findings. The Janus Report
cuts through platitudes and
made hypo to dclvo deeply into
the American sexual psycho.
Prcsenbng its copious statis-
tical findings in more than 270
tables, along with tho ebserva-
tions of a panel cf ccnsdbng
exports, and numerous candid
aoccunts by partiepants re-counting their personal experiences. The Janus Report delais foe tho first time the enormous changes in sexual attitudes and practices that l-avc occurred in the 1980s and 1993s.
Tho Janus Report also tiieds now ighl on a number cf today's most irrpc<tart social and political issues incljdng tove. marriage, divorce. parenthood, and atxxlicc — ottering revelations that arc bound to make a lasting impression on me general put*»c and influenco the tfiinWog cf national pofeymakere and soda« scientists for years to come.
19S3, 6x9, 446pp, charts, indexed, hardcover.
THE JANUS REPORT ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85168)
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
UNUSUAL SEX PRACTICES
by Brenda Love
Il's stocking sometimes to think about whet otter poopte do lex itoir
own amusement and pleasure — stocking. but somehow fascinating.
That’s why this new book to so intriguing. Even those who would new
in a million years th’nk of piercing their 1tosh. or having sox in an open,
public aw. or taking pan In an orgy, find themselves interested to team
that other peopki do.
The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices is at cnce
aiXtorttallvo and cnlortalnng. Brenda Love assembled an advisory
board of 15 rtomatonalty known sexologists (many of them physicians)
to review the bock’s contents and hrSp ensure its accuracy. The took
also bonolils from a non/udgmcntal approach which allows the author to
detoo and dosenbo practices In detail (often with scholarly citations)
without pandering or becoming lurid.
Among the more than 700 topics covered hero arc:
• itomtory
• birth control
• computer sex
• lo.o potions
• pubic hair sculpturing
• transvestism
• yoni worship
• and much, much more.
Tho norms of sexual a ctivity arc covered and so are the extremes,
both in our own society and ochers where defilement, fetishism,
fe06lUtfOA hot wax. won suturing end btoodtettlng arc accepted
practices. Readers will find the words In the copious glossary of sexual
terms uniquely intriguing.
Moro than 150 illustrations by Ptoebe Gloeckner, Paul Mavrides and
Jute Nowdol big this fascinating text to life. The Encyclopedia of
Unusual Sex Practices '^ a handsome, hard bound compendium of the
world's most strange and txzarre sexual activities. Order your cop/
toCtoy.
1992, 7x9, $52 pp, 150 illustrations, hardcover.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
UNUSUAL SEX PRACTICES: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER $5156)
R. Dod Steele
HowTo
DATE
YOUNG
WOMEN
For Men Over 35
HOW TO DATE YOUNG WOMEN
For Men Over 35
by R. Don Steele
For the roan who refuses to buy Of bu&M a young wwm
This book offers realistic rnethods and sound advice from a 46-yea<-
otd man who has dated young women for the past ten years. Steeto tells
you bkjnety who sto Is. where she fe. then tow to meet, talk with and
date tor. The principles are based entirety on understandng a young
woman and her ras/motivation to date a man ycur age. Learn why she
wants ard nacds to be your lover, then for 4 happen, rot make t
happen
• Understanding 18-24 year o'ds
• Why she's afraid of you and how to overcome hor fears
• Identifying which ones are interested in older men
• I low to act dross and talk Id interest and attract her
• Where and hew to meet her so you can talk with her naturally
• What to always say — and wtot to never say
• Courting when she knows there's no wedding In your future
• Getting that tough first date
• How to behave cn dates with tor
• Seducing her
• Sustaining your artair with her
• How to pass her tests of ycur determination or sincerity
• How to spot a cockteaser, then use her to moot her grifriends. who may bo interested in you
• How to anticipate tor manipulative moves and counter them
• Don't wear any of the forbidden 54 accessories
• Her 18 Inevitable questions — how to answer thorn without tying,
foisting. or bullsfoflinq
• How to indorstand your competition — and tow to compete so she chooses you
• And much, much more.
How To Dato Young Women is the single finest "moot women' took wo have over seen. Playboy Magazine calls it *Sol>d, realistic, practical, entertaining" Steele dons not bullshit you — In a world full of mcatymouths. Steele's honesty. straight talk, and real-world language are refreshing.
1967, 5H xSX, 216 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO DATE YOUNG WOMEN: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85126)
BEST CAT HOUSES IN NEVADA
Everything You Want To Know
About Legal Prostitution In Nevada
by JR. Schwartz
Houses
in Nevada
Today, prostitution is a
thriving, spirited, legal business
in Nevada. with 33 icensod
cathouses operating throughout
the stale They stretch from tho
outskirts of Bono ard Carson
City, cast to Fatten on I highway
50. to Weds on Interstate 33.
south to Vie outskirts of Las
Vegas, and north on Highway
95. through live deserts and into
the mountains.
Tho cathousos have sixto
exotic names as Thn Chicken
Ranch. 7 ho Coionlail, The
Cherry Patch. Kitty's Guest
Ranch, Mustang, and the New
Sagebrush Guest Ranch. Some
houses are as small as two
room shacks, others as big as
hotels. The women ihai work in
them run the spectrum oi age, race, coter, and religious proferanco.
Many are extremely religious; others decounoxi mo Blbte a long time
ago. The names of the working ladles mght bo Jan. Coco. Kcisha. Kim.
Cissy. Angel. Kathy, Ashley, or Jcnntor. You don’t really know, because
calhouses are theaters and the women that work in them actresses.
Many girts havo stogo names, and that’s al you will over know about them. When not performing, they have other lives to lead and appreciate the anonymity. The acts they perform? Anything you want
Ths unusual bcok discusses all the legal house« of precaution in Nevada today, giving Vie exact location, description of facilties. prices, and special services alterad. Fasoheting, clever, and well written — a unique and onterisinng. well a« useful book.
J9M, 4H X 7, ISSpp, mjtpti xnd photos. no ft cow.
BEST CAT HOUSES IN NEVADA: $7.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85C91)
TANTRIC SEX
by E. J. Gold and Cybele Gold
Tantric Sex pay/dss. explict. skillful ristnxtons toe too practice of sexual Tantra based on ttoo secret teachings of ancient wisdom schools. The authors have tested. rotlnod and adapted these methods into a powerful system ct Tantric practice specifically designed for modem Western practitioners. instructions for beginning, ntermedialo and advanced levels of pracbco are provided.
Many ancient esoteric techniques cf cosmc sex yega are made pubic in this breakthrough guide. Tantric Sex reveals step-by-step how to:
• Use sexual union to attain mystics/ fusion with /he Cosmic Sod and celebrate the eternal Cosmic Couple
• Achieve the Tantric Orpssm and other ecstatic sprtual states
• Explore higher dimensions and meet sptntiMt Guidos
• Experience the ps/cnic dmensfonot sex
• Er\<oy tftebtiss of uncondtia’Vtf total iovo
• Enhance reistfonshp faMtimenf andsexuaf satisfaction
• Andmofa
Tantrfc Sex $ very easy to understand ard use. White certain esoteric techniques must noccssarty be transmitted via personal inbation. Tantric Sex systcmaticaly and in great detail reveals al you need to know to attain ecstatic fusion wXh live beloved. Tantric Scx\z a unique, direct, corrprehtinsive and very practical guida to the essential practices of authentic sex yoga .
'This ts absolutely tho best book on Tantra that /have ever seen. “ — Robert Anton Wilson
12SS. S'iJTSh, 1S4pp. Htestrated, soft cow.
TANTRIC SEX: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85082)
He: Is the world ready
for GENITOLOGY?
She: I know I am, and
thanks to LOOMPANICS
UNLIMITED for bring-
ing it (o us!
GENITOLOGY
Roading the Genitals
by Dr. Seymore KUtz and Dr. Ima Peeper
ME N: Do you have tire cock that aS *vmen tore?
WOM EN: WUt your pussyplease the men in your Ufe?
Join the elite corps ot
Geniiotogists who can
answer those questions
and moro. Find out how
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your genital type arxl the
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complete analysis, there
Is nothing tert Io the
imagination.
In roccnt years a
tremendous resurgence
of interest has arisen in
tie genitals. With this
arousal has come a
reformation ol ancett
principals into the
modem science of
Gcnitolcgy. It is based
on ageless wisdom,
nevertheless it has taken tho thrust of modem research Id truly bring
together these anctent principas in a form that can be embraced by
modem man.
In tact, research has grown at such a voracious rate that voluminous piles of unevaXwtod material began to clog the offices at toe School of Genridcgteal Anthrcpctogy and overflow into tho hall. A solution had to be Icurxl. and found it was. Drs. KkU and Peeper have dono a marvelous job of condonsng and collating the information into one volume understandable to the average person — Gonitology: Roading tho Genitals.
Do not bo fooled. This is the cream c4 research. What we have in Genitoiogy \s a compact manual of intensely useful material that wit, in a few short hours, start you on the road to successful-/ roading anyone’s geritals. Bo prepared 10 amaze your friends and oorfcund your enemies with the information in this book.
In th'« amazing volume am rweatod too History of Gonitotogy. How to (to a correct reading for malos. How to do a correct reading for females, and How to inlorprat tho roadngs. All known varieties of tolh male erxl ternate gerOalUi aro covered... cr. uncovered. Find out things you never thought you'd know with Gcnftologyl Wo reccmmcnd this book very hlgtYy ter anyone considering getting into the area of the genitals.
loss. S/ixSh. 12S ppe profusofy iihiitraM. son cow.
GENÍTOLOGY: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85103)
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s
Collectors' Edition:
Book Ono
Romombor back
when if >ou wanted Io
Icok at pictures of to-
tab/ nakod human
beings, your best bet
was the nudist maga-
zines? Well, now you
can rotiva those re-
pressed limes with
Nudist Magazines Of
The so* a 60s!a ths
book contains the tost
of the osrty classic
publcahons such as
Nude Living. Sun Era,
Sunshine A Health,
Nude Look, and many
others.
Nudist Magazines
Of The 503 A 60s ¡8 a
masterpece of both
nostalgia and modern
technology, liberally if-
lusrated with authentic photo* and articles appearing In the very 1lrst unretouched nudist magazines. Its a collectors' item» It's taken from negatives of ttie original magazines dating from the earliest issues In the 19408 to me late 19€K)S.
factual unretouched photos cf nekkkJ men. women, and chiWrcnl Sev Nudist Magazines Of The 50s A 60s!
19SJ. SH x ft, fOOpg, iffusfrated, softcover.
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 508 ft 60s: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85160)
nona
.1* JtTuAfniiVtf .luiAuL^r of
I 5ca>*a Art MU'i /^A.T>irurv
EROTICA
An Illustrated Anthology of
Sexual Art and Literature
by Charlotte Hill and William Wallace
-
A bcautifU collection ct 'for-
bkfcfan" Itoraturc and art -
A joyous celnbmticn of human
sexualcy -
Offers entertainment, infor-
mation and excitement
This profusely and beauti-fUty
illustrated anticfogy is a thought-
fully arranged and care-fUly
presented coFeclion of the very
best examples of sexual art and
literature, it spans 2,000 years
from classical Rome and the
ancient East to the novels of D.H.
Lawrence and Henry Miler. The
emphasis is cn the Wo-
enhancing qualities of good
erotica and the rosiil is a se-
lection that will appeal as much
to women as it does to man.
There is a wide variety of cultures, tastes and attitudes here txit the memos are always entertaining, exciting and eryoyable. Famous names inctodo Frank Harns. John Cle'ard. Anais Nin. Boccaccio and Casanova. This anthology one of the best of its kind: informative, wide-ranging. and above all. fun. (For sale toaduifs only.)
1992, 9x 11, 160pp, iihntrated. softcover.
EROTICA: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85161)
CAUGHT LOOKING
Feminism, Pornography & Censorship
Complied by the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force
Caught Looking applauds sexual pleasure and diversity. In this collection, feminist writings on issues of pornography, censorship and sexuality are paralleled by sexually explicit imagery dating from the 1690's to the present. The women who created Caught Looking chose these images to surprise, excite and defght. Together. these ¡mages and texts respond directly to conservative efforts at censorship. Caught Looking invites women to further exptore their own sexuaity.
Caught Looking combines serious essays by feminists, explicit visuals, and an attitude both probing and pfayfut. It will bewilder some with its provocative nature txjt will excite far more with its boldness. Caught Looking began as a co’lection of essays. written between 1978 and 1936. that were complex! by the Feminist Anti-Censorshp Task Force to servo act-vfst ends. As the project devetoped. so dd tte ambition of the artists. They began to see a larger goal for Caught Looking V«hy not a book that tooked at a range of pornoyaphto material? Why not a pornography colection that would itself have to run the gauntlet of potential censors? (For safe to adutts only)
'Caught Looking moves us toward the day when woman, too, wW make and seer their own erofc ¿mages — pteyfu!, eager, impassioned, unashamed.'
— The Village Voice
1992, 3» x 11, profuxeiy iifux/rxted, softcover.
CAUGHT LOOKING: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85162)
LOVEMAPS
Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic Health and
Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition
in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity
by John Money
If you have a native language, you also have a native lovemap. John Money, bestseting author of many bocks on human sexuality, has coined the term ‘tovomap’ io describe the mental template expressed to every indMduafs sexuerotic fantasies and practice.
According to Dr. Money. lovcmap potholy/ has its genesis early to We. but mahtasts itself in full after puberty. Iha author gwes us a close examination <yf paraphna, a lovemap ihat In response to the nogiccl. suppression, or traumatization of Its norms phi tic formatton has devd- eped with distortions, and is legally referred to as perversion.
Lovemaps features: New principles regarding the development of human sexuafcy • Extensfce end comprehensive clinical case studos • A detionary of paraphilas • How and when paraphilias are gener- atod: their cnlogeneHc and pfrytogerntic origins
Lovemsps delneales new principles regard ng ihe development of human sexuaTity and eroticism in health and In pathology, from total life tlrough chidhocd to adolescence and arkilthocd. Technical and uncommon terms used in ths book are defined to a glossary, making Lovemaps an. interesting and useful resource to the professional as w^ll as the non-epeclalisl.
19S6. Sri xS^i, 55f ppf indexed, softcover.
LOVEMAPS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85178)
SEXUAL ENERGY ECSTASY
A Guide to The Ultimate,
Intimate Sexual Experience
by David Ramsdale and Ellen Dorfman
SEXUAL ENERGY ECSTASY
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Sexual Energy Ecstasy
reveals the complete secret
of how «o have your ultimate,
intimate sexual experience.
After reading Sexual
Energy Ecstasy, you will
understand how to: • Pro-
long. intensify ard deepen
orgasm • Achieve or do'ay
orgasm, casiy • Experience
tho ecstasy of Total Relax-
ation Orgasm (TRO) — the
total fusion climax meat toned
in The Joy of Sax • Mako
lovo In tho secret soft st/cs •
Locate and stimulate your
Love spot and Love gland
Trigger the
(thymus)
prostate point that enaWos a
man to last and las: • Climax
without genital orgasm •
Develop Non-EaaZatc<y Mate Orgasm (NEMO) • Multiply mutual
pleasure with pompior (vaginal musete power) • Stimulate .nciioving
points for more energy and pleasure. Radtjoo stress wr.h special
peaceful positions • Enpy ponce and lovo together with pair bonding
and tuning exercises • Tako charge of your lovo life with powerful
sexerclses • Use sexual energy for hoaing and rejuvenation •
Recognize the signs of sexual and emotional compatibility • Andmuch,
much more.
199$, x 6^ 284pp. liiustrtrled, indexed, soft cover.
SEXUAL ENERGY ECSTASY: $15.95
(QRPER NUMBER 85059)
SEXUAL SOLUTIONS
by Michael Castleman
‘if this Aart www required reading in high schools. this column would ba out ofbusiness.*
— THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
Sexual Solutions is tho most sensible. supportive and practical gu'de enter written tor mon about makng tovo. Al a tmo when roughly half of at Amarxan mon experience some problems In their tovemaking, Sexual Solutions provides s:mp’o. ctoar, usetol answers for virtually every SexdfiJ SitU-MiOA. It h6w Sigh! Shifts in fit!tUdO. technique, and approach can often eliminate recurrent problems and create successful ard exciting sex. Men wtx> make the relatively minor adjustments outlined in this candid book will be well on their way to becoming the ccnBdenL accompished and appreciated lovers they haw always wanted to be.
Written in straightforward language, the bock ia sefitfy grounded in current research from scientific sources. Comprehensive in scope, the book combines simple do-it-yoursell sex therapy suggestions with the blest information on women's tovemaklng preferences, Wrih control, arxf genial self-health for men. The author explains the major cbstactas lo satisfying lovemaking, and leXs hnw to o,»si reemo them: how to last tenger, how to deal with crocthn probtoms and nofrcjxulation. what lums women on — and off. Unlike books whkh force a slngte approach to every sttonben, ScxuaJ Solutions presents optisns. Unike the sex theorists who would attribute virtually all oroclicn problems to psychological causes, Castleman reveals that an increasing number of such problems have physfcalQxgsric causes, par tic daily from job exposure to hazardous chemicate and drug 8'de elfecle.
Itare at last fe a book that realy helps, a book aimed not at cinfcai Iherapsts or ’macho* men out to provo something but at anybody who wants to increase hie skills in natural. pteasuraWe lovemaking. KgWy recommended!
tSSS. 6x9, 301 pp, Ptustnted, Indexed, softcover.
SEXUAL SOLUTIONS: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85100)
ISHTAR RISING
by Robert Anton WHson
SEX BY PRESCRIPTION
The Startling Truth
About Today’s Sex Therapy
by Thomas Szasz
Wo are very happy to offer our readers the observations of renngndc pcychatmt Thomas Szasz:
•Sex is a bcdy-contact sport It te safe to watch but more tun io play. Although sex is a risky ©ame. one is supposed to pretend that n ts not. Yet il is tho dangerousness. rather than the mystertousness, of the gamo that provides sox 'experts’ their marry followers. Premising to teach peepto how Io pSay tho sex game well, saxdogisls seduce them into believing that they can teach them how to ptey It safely — whtoh, of course, no one enn do. Why? Because tho dangefousness of human sauAifcylics n tho fact that sexual acts are ao very personal. Behaving sexually toward another person is risky because doing so Is profoundly sdf-rcvoaling and because the needs of the partdpams ere constantly changing and are rarely fully complimentary. There is singly no way to avoid this.
•Next to the need for sleep, wafer, and tood, th« sexual urge is our most powerful b'otegical drive. Nevertheless. norther releasing this drive nor inhbi'ng 11 constitutes or causes disease. This remarkable fact alone ought to make us skeptical about contemporary medical claims concerning the pathology and therapy of sexual dysfunctions. YcL Ux> very accepterxe of suh terms ae ‘sexual dysfunctions.' 'sexual dsorder.' and 'sexual pathJcg/ makes us belteve that such ccntf Hens CDCSt.'
—Thomas Szasz. Sex by Prescription
5« x8H. 22$ pp, Indexed. soft cover.
SEX BY PRESCRIPTION: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85132)
This book, franwy, got wttien
originaiy because an editor at Playboy
Preee asked me If I coUd write a whoto
book cn lh#3 female breast. Sure.' I s^d
at once. I wcukf have sad tho same if to
had asked me If I couW wreo a book cn
the buH-etephanfs toenails. I was treko
that month and would have Inod to write
anything, ri semobedy would pay mo for
C. Whan I got tho contract and the first
hat of the advance monoy. I sat dc<.\n
and asked myself what tho hall I w*oUd
put in the damned book. I deeded to
write a treatise cn the retetlcnship of tho
breast to the rise and fan c< Goddess
rolgions. and — to keep myscM amused,
and thereby speed the wrillrg so I coUd gel the second halt of tho advance quickly combine this with a basis introduction to Taoist philosophy, so disguised mat nebody but tho poopto who write commentaries cn Finnegans Wake would ever fguro cut how many hidden meanings there warn in every paragraph. It was a lol of fun. I Competed thg job in throo weeks. To my surpnso tho finished work, published ar. 7he Book Of Tho Breast, sdd better than either of Ue Otter two books I had dene for Playboy Press, rece'r.ed good reviews On tho places where it was rcvicwod at all) ard seems to have been enjoyed by a tot cf readers, who wrote mo some rice fan letters. Nobody al a'l ever wrote to tel me that they hod decoded my more cbscure jokes or deephered Iha mystical dcc.rinns hidden between the jokes.*
— Robert Anton V/ilson. Ishtar Rising
1989,5H x an. 203 pp, Ktusirafed. soft color.
ISHTAR RISING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85115)
Drugs
Introduction
It should be apparent by now that tho so-called ‘War On Drugs" Is little more than a flimsy excuse for the Government to violate what remains of our civil liberties. We humans have been getting high on many different substances ever since we first set foot on this planet. There is more absurd, malicious, and downright wrong- headed crap written about drugs than any other subject. The books in this section have been carefully chosen to give you the zes/dope on dope.
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE
Revised and Expanded Third Edition
by Unde Foster
A. tcndnnw, revised and
qxpondad cdrtjon of cog oí
our best-setting ’cookbooks.’
inducing a reepo for the Itoi
new drug, methcathinone, or
•cat* Here's what Uncle
Fester has to say About the
new Third Edil ton:
Iba world of am-
pbotarrrno manufacture is an
increasingly ccmpicated and
profitable dace. An unendng
ide of rules and regulations
continue to swcop the land,
making materials useful for
tho homo manufacture oí
drugs ever more drfficuit to
obtain. The infftralicn of the
pcpUace with ever greats*
numbers of police informants
continues unabated. It is into
this environment that I bring
forth the Third Edition of Secrete of Methamphetamine Manufacture.
'In such an envlronnnent. the aspiring manufacturer must bo prepared to start cocking using over the counter materials which wiB never be denied the public dun to thalr valúa to mcn»d and powerful interests. I. for one. seo httfo tkolbood that products such as off-the-shelf diet prts and cold remedies will be successfully rcuted from tito store Shelves just to fight another futile round of the Drug War.
*As my contribution to this Drug War. I launch f<x you the THrd Editen of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture Greet emphasis has been placed upon the use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and hardware stere chemicals as starling materials. Simple and tested procedures are presented wrtVcb effectively convert OIC gartogc into high- octane. very pure human rocket fuel.
’My very special treat for }ou In this odfton Is the most casiy home manufactured drug of al tme. the very enjoyable methamphetamine anatog. lActbcathnone (CAT) — Kitchen Improvised Crank. You wit bo very pleased, Im sure. — Uncle Fester
Speed. crank, wire, cat. crystal meth, ice. ecstasy... This is the most amazing. stf$p-by-stop, how to-do-a book on the manufacture ©4 methamphetamine over pnnted. The rosut of over a Casado of research and experimentation, this book is not meant lo encourage anyone to break the law; rathe*, it points out die ultimate futfity of government prohibition of ’ccntrclled substances’ by showing just how easPy these substances can be manufactured.
Every step meihafTphetamne manufacture $ wvered, hom procuring the (necessary chemicals ard lab equipment to keeping out of trouble wnh thn taw. Tho author has gone to pains to determine which chemical purchases are being monitored by Uto bureaucrats. The un- availabiity o< certain chemicals means manufacturing processes have been revised I rem previous ©Silicas to take advantage of those chemicals sbil available.
Chapters inckide
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Chemicals a rd Equpmont
-
7ho LouckardtWatoch Reaction: An Overview
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Preparation ©4 Phcrr/acctorz?
-
Preparation of N-Methyfiormamide
-
Making Methamphetamine
-
Industrial-Scale Production
-
Phenyfacetone from B-Keto Esters
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Phenylacelcne va the Tube Furnace
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Other Methods of Making Phenyiacetone
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A Naw Brea kthrough: Phenytacetone from Allybenzene
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The Way o< the Bomb
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Reductive Alkylation Without the Bcmb
-
Methylamine
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Th© Rider Reaction: Arrpltotamnee DVectty from ATybenzene
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MethampbetaminefromEphedrine
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Metltoaihncne: Kitchen Impressed Crank
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MOA. XTC. and other Psychedelic Amphetamines
-
Ice
-
Galfcraong Che Vacuum
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KcopngOutoi Trouble
-
Legitimate Uses of Some Chemicals
•Controlled substances’ laws are being used to violate the civil rights of American citizens. Ths book demonstrates the absurdly of ml such Laws by showing just how easily these substances can ba manufactured. Soki for kyfomyalionatpurposes only.
1994, 5H X SU, 202pp, Wu*fr»tod. toft COW.
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE
MANUFACTURE (Third Edition): $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85177)
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Hemp Video
THE 90’s HEMP VIDEO
by Instructional Telecommunications Foundation
D»d you knew
-
Tho Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution were originally written on
paper made of hemp -
Betsy Ross made the first American flag
out of hemp -
Before 1937. Levi jeans were made of
hemp -
Ono aero of hemp equate lour acres of
trees hemp can to used to produce
paper, fabric, fuel, and more...
Its all hero in The 9O's Hemp Video as
seen cn Tr»e 90's caWe channel nod public
TV nationwide With Johnny Marijuana-seed.
US Dtetrict Court Judge Robert Sweet. Don
Fiedter. Executive Direcloc of NORML. and many more.
Learn all about hemp, the most beneficial ptent that mankind has ever domesticated. and how the Insane War On Drugs is depriving us of the benefits of this marvetous wed.
1990. Ml color. Wmlnutec VHS Fa*k>.
THE 90 s HEMP VIDEO: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85133)
Videos arc nonreturnabta.
BETTER BEER & HOW TO BREW IT
by M.R. Reeso
Thnk of it — beer ©1 12-20 cents a bottio. and the best bcor you’ve ever tasted, labored Io the exact quirk of your longue. This is the promise oi M.R. Reese in Better Beer & How To Brew It And Ive drivers cn the promise. FoTow his instructions, liven flip the cap Crt a bottte of beer o! your own brewing and taste — yctfll never want to go back to tnosc sloro-bcughl varieties.
It’s easy too. Biree hours at Ihe moot for five gallons of beer. The trardosl part. Reese writes, is waiting for four to sk weeks for the beer to reach perfection.
With the nineteen recipes you can brew vop gradn beer ,-vnd ata: American. Canadian, or European style, frem light summer beers to the heavier Irtsh stout and heern to vary recipes to gal exactly tho ptaasmg taste that you want
M.R. Reese, a member of a brewing famly from before Prohibition (fays, tells the secrets of brewing ho's learned in years of making hs own favorites. 'For anyone who would Ike io try h«s hand at making beer, this book represents ere of the finest nslructicn manuals... It contains al the essential information a person roods and Is wntten In such a style that ri is a pleasure to rood. ’ American Wine Society Jouma!
1978, 8x9, T28pp, Ntuatrated, indexed. sod cover.
BETTER BEER 8 HOW TO BREW IT: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85056)
PILLS-A-GO-GO
Journal of Pills
by Chet Antonín!,
Editor and Publisher
Chet Anioninra PWs-aso-go has long been one of our favorite zines, and we are very pleased to see this collection of the first 15 issues. Ai tho news on pills - - over-the-counter as well as proscription! It includes reports on new pills being tested, legal news, end much mom Sometimes tho cdtor reports on lis own experiments with over-the- counter medications, such as the time he Chugged down 8 ounces Of DM cough syrup and get in tc<xh with his reptilian brain. Not only is the informattan presented np-to-lhc-mnuto, tut the author's lively and sense of humor make it a doigbl to read. Pilla-a-go-goH!
1993. 8fi x ft. 43 pp. softcover.
PILLS-A-GO-GO: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85179)
CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION
OF CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES
Second Edition
Revised & Updated
by Jack B. Nimble
This book da-
scrbcis in slep-by-
step detail how to set
up and run a clan-
dostino ttug bbora-
107 — without gol-
fing caught. Moti-
vated by a heart-fell
desire Io dispel the
abysmal ignorance
c4 11x3 American
peepta regarding
“drugs/ the author
reveals every aspect
of running an ¡regal
drug manufacturing
lab.
Jack B. Nimblo
reveals how to select
a location for a tfan-
dsstino drug labora-
tory. how to cover
ycur tracks, safety
procairtans. and
when and how to
shut down your op-
eration to keep out of tho slammer.
One of tho most important chapters is Prarwomont of Suspicious Homs, brxuuxwi chcmtaal corrpanws often watch ccrtan reagents and report orders to the DEA, and in fact, arc required Io do so cn certain chnmtaals. AJed. Iha DEA cAen runs ’Sling’ opsrattans by setting up take chomica! companies which sell suspeious chemicals 3rd then arrest their customers. So. knowing how to extract suspicious chemicals from everyday products so’d in hardware, grocery, and aiZo suppy stores is absduely vital for the underground chemist! Jack B. Nimble tells yxro how to extract safrole, the major ingredient needed to synthesize many methyenedioxy drugs such as MDA. MDMA, mmoa, “EVE/ etc., from sassafras oil. which is available over-the-counter in gnxory scores and pharmacies; ephedrine and (Xher good precursors to amphetamines from “asthma meticaltans'; hgh quality ether from “starting fluid'; chlcxofocm from 'spot remover'; and the usually drttault k> find tetrahydrofuran from “PVC pipe cleaner/ In this Chapter, the author also discusses Ixow to find a 'tegtimate' use for chemicals you need, and how to order them from regular chemical supply houses.
The author also discusses how to manufacture >our own glassware and other laboratory equipment from everyday items. Also covered are tubtats. capsules, and other packaging methods tor iregat drugs.
The clandestine laboratories described in this book donl have to be used to make l log.-u psychoactive drugs — they could be used to manufacture medicines and useful chem'cals In a war or survival situation. Titis book is sok! tor informatics purposes oniy.
9994. 3Hx8H, 133pp, Mustrxted, softcover.
THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF
CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES (Second Edition): $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85178)
NITROUS OXIDE
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MkhA/l W^IIcchiMck^
5-»lyCr-
LAUGHING GAS
Nitrous Oxide
Edited by Michael ShodUn, David Wallcchlnsky
and Saunle Sa Iyar
Inhaling laughing
gas. or nitrous oxide. has
gained a ne* pepdarity.
Yai recent tfscoverioB
about the dan^rs 01
Inhaling lbs gas are not
wkfety disseminated.
These daveteixnente
make this underground
classic more irnpcxtant
and rotovant than ovor.
Laughing Gas is the
only book about tho
rocrcathnal uso of
nitrous oxide. a?so called
tl»e air of paradise. It
contains writings dating
beck to the eighteenth
century on «very aspect
of laughng gas from thn
history and effects to tho
pharmacology
Laughing Gm In-
ckxfes: Tta tasdna&ng
200 year history of taughng gas • Classic writing on laughing gas by
William James and oOhors ♦ An introduction on pharmacological
developments • Dangers, precautions and recent discoveries •
Wonderful drawings. Sttiographs. and photographs • Existential
accounts ci personal experiences with laughing gas • PMoscphicat
ruminations cn the moan ing of laughing gas • And much more.
Also included are ejections for making and obtaining nitrous oxkfo.
1992. x 8H, 89 pp, Mustmted. soft cover.
LAUGHING GAS'. $12.95
(ORDER HUMBER 85155)
MARIJUANA LAW
by Diehard Glen Bo ire
Over 400, OOO people are arrested
for mar^uana possession each ycad
Marijuana Law will hnlp renders
understand how people roduzo the
probabKty of arrest and defend
themselves from prosecution if ar-
rested.
Readers will learn:
-
When a police officer can legally
stop you -
When you can be searched
★ When you have to be read yotx
rights
★ What io de If the cops come to
your home with a search warrant
-
How to counter many poice
tactics simply by knowing your
rights.
Marijuana Law is the meet thor-
ough book we have seen on how to proleci your rights? Rch.-vd Glen Boi re is a dafense attorney specializing In marijuana cases. This book is based on hia many years of expartoren and research.
1992. 5Hx8M, 171 pp. indexed, softcover.
MARIJUANA LAW: $12.95
(ORDER HUMBER 85167)
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PSYCHEDELICS
ENCYCLOPEDIA
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PEHi SIAFfORO
PSYCHEDELICS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Third Expanded Edition
by Peter Stafford
With a naw forowecd on
recent developments and an
appendix on Ecstasy.
Psychedelics Encyclopedia
is a mind expanding archive
of lire psyrhedcic ape.
chroriding the drugs that
revolutionized a generation
and clanged the world.
Psychedelics Encyclo-
pedia draws from scientific
research, personal accounts
and popular kleraturo to doc-
ument the properties at-
tributed to psychedelic sub-
stances. ther preparation and
use. and llw shilling social
altitudes toward them over
Dio past halt-century. This la
a remark-aWo sourcebook for
anyone Interested to the psy-
chological, btologlcaL physologtoal and cultural aspects ot psychotic drugs. A fascinating hfeioricaJ reference on psychedelia, from the LSD- 25 of the sutes, to the memory and cognitive enhancers cf today.
Topics that are covered Include: botan/ and cultivation; effects and pharmacology; LSO. canmWs. poycto; mushrooms, cacti, moscaino and yago; Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock; Dylan and The Baarics; Gosrpa Washingtcci, Don Juan. Lenny Bruzo, and Albert Hohman.
Chapters ¡naturio: • Tho LSD Famiy • Peyote. Mescaline and San Podro • Maquana and Hash'sh • Psibcybri Mushrooms • Nutmeg and MDA • DMT. DET. DPT and Other Short-Acting Tryptemnes • Ay^huasca. Yage and Harmallne • Iboga and Ibogaine • Flying Agaric. Panther Cape «ind ’Soma* ♦ Contrasting Profiles • And much mora.
Psychcddfcs Encyclopedia erwexs history, botany, pharmacology, physical effects, mental effects, forms, sources, and punty tests ioc each ptsychndnlc subslanoo dscussod. and includes a great deal of information on. Belladonna. Ychimbo, Kava-Kava. Ketamine, and Nitrous Oxide, as wet as the substances listed above.
Peter Stafford's Psychedelics Encyclopedia is the single finest tock e\*er written on psychiedelk: substances and their use — just say know!
19P2, 6x9, 420pp. b'/ustrated Indxxed, soft eemw.
PSYCHEDELICS ENCYCLOPEDIA: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85154)
PSILOCYBIN
Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide
by O. T Oss & O.M Oeric
Psilocybin Is a highly visionary natural compound (psilocybin mushrooms grow wiVd in the Port Tcwnscnd area, and in many other places around tho USA) with a long trad ton of shamanic uso and cfoso simi- fenty to normal brain chemistry. Psilocybin is the revised and expanded eriton of tho unsurpassed classic manual cn home cu’tvation ci psib- cybln mushrooms.
These 81 tact-filed pages arc all the informalion you need to succeed with tha cuhn'abon of Stropharia cubends (aka Psitocybe cuben- Sh^, the undisputed queen of the psibcybin-ccnlaining fungi. All tlx) details of beating, isolaing. propagating and fruiting 'the Gotten Teacher* aro hero in addition to a provocative foreword by Terence McKenna, an expanded chrorvulcgy of mushrooms in history, a technical glossary, ard bibliography.
This is the book mushroom abotonados have been waiting for — the book that created tho post modem era of home cultivation that provides US with tho visionary sacrament of Mazatocan shamanism. Order yours today!
1SSS, 5H xS>i, 81 pp, Musirá ted soft cover.
PSILOCYBIN: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85144)
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FROM CHOCOLATE TO MORPHINE
Everything You Need To Know
About Mind-Altering Drugs
by Andrew Well, M.D, and Winifred Rosen
An essent'al. authori-
tative scurcc book cn
drugs and drug uso.
now rev-sod ard
dated! Ten years ago.
too orignal cd'.on of
From Chocolate To
Morphine was recog-
nized immediately as
the definMK'e guiris to
legal and iregai drugs.
Now best-seiing author
Dr. Andrew Woll and
coauthor Winifred
Rosen have rovsod
thdr popular book. pro-
vlring essential infor-
mation about the new
drugs of the 1IZJDs.
Drugs reman par-
vas.vo. and parents and
children ali«xj need
completo, unbiased
information about how
drugs alfect the mird and the body. Either conctohng nor condemning
drug use. the auhors cover a wide range ot available substances, from
oolfeo to majuana, from antlNstaminns to psychoctaics, from steroids
to the now 'smart drugs.' Besdes dsscdbng the ikny effects cf each
drug, the authors discuss precautions and altemath'es, thus allowing
reactors to make informed and intelligent choces.
Extensively illustrated. supplemented by helpful comments from
diug vaw and nonvaers, From Chocolate To Morphine $ a unique
resource. This clean bonded, authoritative book is now moro valuable
than mar.
1993, 7H x 9, 9154 pp, WustrMed, indexed, ioft cover.
FROM CHOCOLATE TO MORPHINE: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85172)
MARIHUANA, THE FORBIDDEN MEDICINE
by Lester Grinspoon, M.D.,
and James B. Bakalar
For many centuries patents and physicians have found marihuana to be a highly cricctrvc medicine. This drug, outlawed for more than fifty years in tho United States, provides rolcf from nausea, pan and muscle spasms, ard alleviates symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis. AIDS, migraine, and other dedicating ailments. Yet the US government grants on>/ twelve patients in tho entire country ti e right to use marihuana modcaiy. and permits even that with great reluctance, to ths important book. Dr. Lester Grinspocn ard James D. Bakalar draw on twenty years of research to describe the medical benefits of marihuana, explain why it has been forbidden, and argue that iul legalization is necessary to make it available to all patients who need it.
Much of the book consists of accounts written by patients (irxdudng coo from famed scientist Stephen Jay GoUd) that dramattoally illustrate rot only the relief provided by marihuana but also toe unnecessary distress caused by the need to obtain it illegally. Grinspoon and Bakalar recount the tong history of medcal marihuana use. discuss the real (as opposed to fancied) potential health hazards of the drug, and analyze the social causes of the governments ins&ence co making outlaws of Its medical users. They find that marihuana is a romerkaby safe substance and that criminalizing 4s use »3 costly, Ineffective, ard unfair. They conclude that legalizing it for medical purposes a'one would be unworkable ard that 4 must be given Iha same status as alcohol — legal, with appropriate Irritations, for use by addfts for any purpose.
1993. 5H xSii, 19Spp, indexed, hardcover.
MARIHUANA. THE FORBIDDEN MEDICINE: $22.50
(ORDER NUMBER 85173)
DRUG IDENTIFICATION BIBLE
Edited by Rm Marnell
This is one of tho handiest books on drugs we have seen. Tte beautiful fun color photographs uro alone worth the price of the book. Drug Identification Bible documents the current drug scone with the use of color ptootos, ocmb’nnd with informatton on street prices, purities, packaging, metoods ot use. slang, ard other factual information.
Two sectons of the Drug Identification Bible are do voted to tho dentincatton of tablets and capsutos. n>s section on Controlled Proscription Drugs shows fud color actual site photos of 602 of the estimated 620 proscription tablets and capsules wNch are controfed by the DEA. Tho section on non-ccntroltod and over-the-counter drugs flats marking and logo information cn nearly 7.0C0 Homs.
Two sections ate devoted to illicit drugs. All mapr illicit drugs are included, with 39 pages of full color photos of Uicit drugs. Where possible. U>e pictorial path is shown for each drug: how it is grown, produced, distributed, packaged for sale on Iha street, paraphernalia associated wflh Its use. methods of ingesdon. etc.
Also induced are a 28 page section of drug slang, and a weight conversion chart. The word 'drug' often ex^ckes an emotional response from peopte. In the Drug Identification Bible, every effort Ivas been made to present factual information to toe reader to an unbiased and truthful manner.
7993, 6x9, Stopp, ittuxtrated, soft cover.
DRUG IDENTIFICATION BIBLE: $24.85
(ORDER NUMBER 85171)
Lcgxty produced cocaine vd.ote^ies for about $60.00 per gram in the medca! industry. Ttxr titree forms of pharmaceutical cocaine are from top to bottom: Cocairte powder, soiubie tabtef. and liquid solution. (Photos from Drug Identification Bible.)
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
Chemical & Legal Guide to Federal Drug Laws
by Alexander T. Shulgin, Ph.D.
This revised and updated edition of toe definitive source of information about Illegal drugs lets:
♦ All scheduled drugs
♦ Chemical structures by famiy
♦ All Federal Rogster Citations used lo jushty changes In the laws enri ragutahons
♦ Empirical formula ndax
♦ Evolution ot our drug I.ta*s
♦ Exact namar. of al oontroltod substances
♦ AL known synorrjTns
♦ Cn>9 codo numbers
♦ Deliritons of terms
♦ Sentencing gukldinas
Ataxancfer ShUgto is a legend in toe fiekl of drugs — Controlled Substances should bo In tho library of anyone nlorosted in Illegal drugs.
1999, x 11, 699pp, softcover.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: $59.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85165)
FOOD OF THE GODS
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
A Radical History of Plants, Drugs,
and Human Evolution
by Tcrcncc McKenna
Why. as a speces, are humans so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? How have altered states articled our esthebcr. and our spiritual practices? Can altered states reseat something to us about our origins as human beings and our place in nature?
A jounwy to some of too Earth's most ondansorad people in ths remote upper Amazon... n look at tho rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire... a field watch on tho eating habits of "stoned" apes and chimpanzees... and a teamed but startlingly provocalve historical study of man’s use of mind-altering drugs — these adventures are a! a part of cthnobotanlist Terence McKenna’s extraoednary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowkidgo. It is an odyssey of mind. body, and Spirit that makes Food Of The Gods cna of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consctousnass ovor written.
The myth of our culture opens in the Garden of Eden with ll>e eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Out primate ancestors tong ago discovered that certain plants suppress appetite, dmlntsh pain, supply bursts of sudden energy, center immurity against pathogens, and catalyze creativity. From Ute mysterious Sema cult of the Indo- Europeans to tho Dionysian revels and cult of Eleusis of the Greeks, priests and priestesses ritually used magic mushrooms, iqtxxs. and herbs to merge with the living mystery of nature and pod.
Yet the loss of this shamanic gnosis about 10.000 years ago led inexorably lo the deve’opment of highly addctfve compounds iko dcstilod atoobot and whrto sugar - and then co to the first cf Ute "hard drugs.* morphine and heroin. McKenna provides a revlston<sl look at the historical rote of drugs In the East and West, from the ancient spice trade, rum. and slavery, to marijuana. cocaine, and other superrefned modern substances that teed the human "A’gobm of Need," the virus of tolfitf want, including the ultimate placator, tho cfoclronic plug-in drug: television.
McKenna’s breakthrough work riuslratos tho basis of cur human desire for the ’food o1 the gods’ and tho poworfiti potential to replace maladaptive modem atxiso of Nogal drugs with a shamanic understanding and £s mslstonoo cn community, reverence for nature, and an Increased soK awareness.
1992, 6x9, 335 pp. fflustrcted, indexed. hardcover.
FOO D OF THE GODS: $21.50
(ORDER NUMBER 85147)
THE CLOSET CULTIVATOR
by Ed Rosenthal
The latest in mari/jana growing technquos.
specifically de>gr*d for a space as small as a
Closet! The Closet Cultivator covers tho most
advanced gardening techniques in pinin
Engksh — rot technical jargon. It shows how
easy maintenance gardens are built cut of
simple tow cost household items. And it delays
successful ideas for secrecy and privacy. The
Closet Cultivator describes both soil end
hydroponic gardens. TNa la Ute first book to
fully explain tho Dutch "Sea of Green* method
which produces more buds faster In less
space.
1991, 5Hx8H, 126 pp. frustrated, softcover.
THE CLOSET CULTIVATOR: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85145)
HOW TO AVOID A
DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION
by Judge X
How to AVOID a
Drunk Driving
CONVICTION
Judge X
Unlees you\*e been busied tor
drunk driving lately, you prcbably
ctont realize how much the laws
have changed. Here’s a few
sobering statistics: Under the .03
rUe being adopted by many states.
two beers makes you a dmnk
driver. For commercial drivers —
¡vid that means anyone required to
drive as part of their employment
(truckers, cab drivers, delivery
persons, sates reps, etc.) — one
bocr'KAA cost you >our license ard
your job. Ard a drunk driving
convict on routinely means lost
driving privileges, jail tmo, and
thousands of dollars in fines, lees
and costs.
So If you ever drink at aif, ycu
better find out what your rights are and how the system works. Ard nobody knows better than Judge X. A state judge for over 20 years. Judge X has presided ever thousands of drunk driving cases. In this book, he answers al your questions about drinking and driving: ♦ I tow do you handle a traffic stop if youVe been drinking?
♦ Are you ont tied to a lawyer before taking a breath test?
♦ The one way to effective?/ mask your brea’.h ♦ HowlochalteogebreaUteiyzerresiAslnccurt. ♦ Should ycu wah-e the preliminary hearings?
♦ How to “donate* a few ihou^nd lo get out of a Jam.
♦ What to do if you’re involved in an accident — even it ifs not your fault
♦ V«’nat to do H Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants to make you their poster boy.
♦ Hew do you handle a ©op that's out to gat yea?
♦ How much Is n fair amount tzx your lawyer lo charge? ♦ How to expunge a drunk driving conviction.
♦ How to keep year name out of the papers.
♦ How to get a new judge h you- case.
♦ And much more, inducing a state-by-slate (and Canadten) gude to drunk driving laws.
If )'ou ever er^oy a drink after work, al a Irkrnds house, at the ballpark. at a party, then you have a tot to toso. If you are preparing for a DUI trial, then you mus/got this book. Ycu need to know your rights. You need to know the ropes. You need to know Judge X. Don’t you think its time you got acquanted?
1993. ShxSii, 168pp. softcover.
HOW TO AVOID A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION: $14.95
___________________ (ORDER NUMBER 85158)____________________
THE PEYOTE RELIGION AMONG THE NAVAHO
Second Edition
by Da vid F A berte
K comprehensive arxf complete book on Navaho peyotjsm. this now edition includes a discussion of the impact on hlavaho peyoum of the unfavorable 1950 U.S. Supreme Court docteton. tho reduced supplier, of Texas peyote, and the competition from evangelical Christianity.
Chapters include: • The Struggle Over Poyottsm • Tho R.tual ©4 Navafo Peyotism • Variations in Ritual • Botofs and Values • Navaho arrf Peyote Re- ¡gon Contrasted • And mixh. much more.
'Today peyottsm is a political as wdl as a rcSg>ous issue to the Navabo people... A larpe part of this senofady and imprcs&vo confribulion is devoted to this aspect. Aborlo has not ¿xen content to present ritual csvorced from phSosophy and his discusson of the underlying thought ofpeyoffsfs is valuable to Iha student of rcOgons tn general... * — Saonco
19&2, 6x9, 519 pp, Kluttrated, indexed, eoft cover.
THE PEYOTE RELIGION AMONG THE NAVAHO: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85137)
INTOXICATION
Life In Pursuit
of Artificial Paradise
by Ronald K Siegel, Ph.D.
tfs NA 7URAL to got bighffl Tho desro for intoxication e actually a fourth drive, as unstopp.ibto as hunger. thirst, and sox.
RonaW Segers Intoxication takes us cn nn amazing odyssey around the gknbn. In which thn drug-using jungle boasts, savanna game, and household pets reveal tho rules and reasons for this ancient habiL And in tha lab, animals an? trained to ’dtrccrittT Yrftai they while under the influence: it Cie same artificial paradise reported by primitives and modem drug users.
The pursuit of drugs — whether caffeine. ricotino, alcohol. opium, marijuana. of cocaine — fe universal and toescapaWe. It Is to be found across time and spades. nnd In tho private lives of presidents and citizens alike The struggle between this natural drive and societal law has become a deadly war that can never be won. Out there is an answer, tho lessons gleaned from animals show that we can make peace with tho fourth drive. understand that drugs are a kind of medcation nootfed to change how we feel, and use the technology and education that ¡8 cur human distinction to design safe intoxicants.
Intoxication is sure io bo coo of the most controversial dn;g books ever printed!?! Highf/recommended.
1969, 6x9, 400pp, Indexed, herd cover.
INTOXICATION: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85109)
LSD: MY PROBLEM CHILD
Reflections on Sacred Drugs,
Mysticism, and Science
by Albert Hofmann,
Disco ver or of L SD
REf LECTIONS ON SXCRED DRUGS.
MYSTKISK AND SCIENCE
ALBERT HOFMANN
‘Now. Hide bylUtie I couid
begin to enjoy the
dented colors sod p<sy>of
shapes that persisted behind
my dosed eyes. Kaleido-
scopic. fantastic images
surgedin on me, Attematmg,
variegated, opening and
dosing themselves ¿n drdes
and spirals. expfodng in
cdored fountains, reefrang-
ing and bybddfring them-
seNos in consfan/tiux.‘
With those words Swiss
chemist Dr. Abort Hofmann
describes the events of Apr*
19.1943. the dale of the first
consciously induced LSD
trip. Since that time. LSD
has become one of the most
controversial pha'maceuti-
cals ever devetoped. a
substance that changod tho Ifo of its discoverer Dr. Hofmann, as we>
as tho Ivos of tans of milions of otftors.
In LSD: My Problem Child wo follow Dr. Hofmann on hte journey Of
dlscoveiy; thn painstaking research, ita courageous sdl-wporiinenta-
t»n. tho mootings with such notables as Aklcus Huxley. Timothy Leary.
R. Gordon Wasson, and Ernst Jjrger.
This kite-known story of the birth of the psychedelic age wii fasci-
nate anyone who has used LSD and wondered about its origins and tho
mind and circumstancea that created it. In Its Interplay c< setorxo. his-
tory. and mystical speculation. LSD: My Problem Child suggests to tho
reador both the dilemmas and the proepecte of a truly important discov-
ery, tho significance ci which has yet to be fUIy understood.
19S3. Sh x Oh, 224pp, iffuitnrted. soft cover.
LSD: MY PROBLEM CHILD: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85105)
THE PEYOTE CULT
Fifth Edition
by Weston La Barre
For half a century, readers on
peyotism have devoured La
Barre's fascinating ccipnal study,
which began when the author, al
ago twenty four, studied the rites
of fifteen American Indian tnbes
using Lophophora wLHiamsii, the
smalt spineless, cerrot-ehsped
peyote cactus growing in the Rto
Gmnde Valley and southward.
Continuing his research from
the 1930s through the 1930s.
Westen La Barre reviews topics
such as tho Timothy Leary*
Rchard Alport •experiments* with peyote and other psychotropic substances, the Cados Castaneda phenomenon, the progress of tho Native American Church toward acceptance as a religious donorrination, tho presumptions of tho Noo-Amorican Church, tho legal ramifications of ritual drug use. and die spread ol peyotiam from Uxj Southwest to other North American irhes.
This new edtfon of La Barre’s elasse study includes 33* new entries to the latest of his highly valued bbliographlcat essays on works relating to peyote. not just in anthropology bu( in a variety of Gekfe inducing archeology, economics, botany, chemistry, and pharmacology. The bibiography lists Important contributions In popular mctoia such as newspapers, nurtolapos, and films, as well as in scholarly journals. The Peyote Cult is gcncra’ly considered to bo the one outstanding work on peyote.
19S9, 5K x 8, 35f pp. iiiustratod. indexed, soft cover.
THE PEYOTE CULT: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85110)
MARIJUANA GROWER'S GUIDE
by Mel Frank and Ed Roshentha!
Tliis detoxe edition of
M&rijuena Grower's Guide ie
the authoritafr.'e information
source for all marijuana
connoisseurs and cultivators.
Whether your garden is on a
windowsill, to your ctosot. to
your backyard, or on acres of
hillside, this book has
Information you noed to make
txittor. It covers: • Cannabis
History • Botanical and
Chcrncx!(nforma^on{0\n latest
scientific information for
maximizing )’Ocr crop's
potency) • Seed Selection •
Ga.der.wg Ted/niques (more
detailed gardening instructions
than most straight gardening
bocks) • Sistyvtes and coup-
ment (full information on
purchasing cc building your own) • Extensive Sei/ irdorrnaton (testing and anafryris. soil pH. soil preparation, nutrients, fertilizers, hydroponics) • Special Indoor ConsideraSoffS (ighting. atmosphere control, continuous growth systems) • FfentiM • Watering • mnnng • Transplanting • Pruning • Grafting • Sex Deferminatfon • Cofdvattng Stnsc- mUfa • Harvesting • Curing • Pests and Diseases (fhelr diagnosis and treatment) • Guerrtib Farming (choosing an outdoor site) ♦ And more.
Tho text Is profusely Illustrated wilh over 50 dramatic cctor photographs. 150 black and write photographs, drawings, charts, graphs and maps. Also Included «s an Index, oxtonslvo bibliography, and reference list-
1978, 8M x 8, Nustntbrd, Indexed, soft cover.
MARIJUANA GROWER’S GUIDE: $1935
(ORDER NUMBER 85040)
PSYCHEDELIC CHEMISTRY
by Michael Valentine Smith
The biggest. best and most complete took
over written on how to manutectum
psychedelic drugs’!!
Contones include: • Marijuana THC and
Analogs • Magic Mushrooms and Other Inddo
Trips • Mescafne and Friends • Harmalho
and Other Beta-CartxMlrxBS • Muscmolo and
Other Isoxazoles • LSO • Cocaine •
Miscellaneous Psychodolks • Lit era lure and
Chemical Hints • Mtscdlany cn Underground
Laboratories • Role of the DEA Laboratories
In Drug Busts • And moral
1931, 5'4 xSH, 200pp. illustrated. soft co
PSYCHEDELIC CHEMISTRY: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85024)
HAOMA AND HARMALINE
The Botanical Identity of the Indo-lranlan Sacred
Hallucinogen “Soma" and Its Legacy in Religion,
Language, and Middle Eastern Folklore
by Da vid Stophlot Flattery
and Martin Schwartz
In logend and history, there are referred to rituals involving the drinking of an extract of an htoxicatmg planL often referred to as soma and haoma. Ibero has boon much speculation as to the identity of tno P’ant from wh'ch revrjis derived, with the mushroom Amanita muscaria otlen considered to bo the sacred culprit. In this m-dapth scwntilic and scholarly study, tho authors overturn popular Ideas about Cha identity of soma.
They state In the Introduction: 'In this book I Intend te demonstrate that harmel or wid ruo. Pcganum barmaid L. (Zygophytlaceaa), a common wwd of tho Central Asian Steppes, the Iranian Plateau. and adjacent areas, was the original intoxicant plant represented in the Iranian reig'ous tradfton by the term hamoa and in the religious tradition of Ind a by the etymologlcaiy identical term soma.9
This Is a very heavy book, and shotid only be purchased by those vMth a scientific ©rd scholarly Interest in the influence Of hsllucnogons and Intoxicants on culture — 1 Is /wflighf mad ng.
1939, 7 x 10, 2f1 pp, Mustraled. indexed, softcover.
HAOMA ANO HARMAUNE: $49.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85118)
Note: Haonm and Harmaline is out of print and
we have a finy number of copes remaining
E FOR ECSTASY
by Nicholas Saunders
• How does MDMA work? • Ww/ are its benefits? • Can you enhance benefits? • What are its risks?• Can you reduce risks?
ECSTASY. Find cut the facts about tho dangers, myths ard exotic uses of the drug MDMA {Ecstasy). Read bow MDMA is used In rituals, for sowing problems, improving relationships, facilitating meditation and oven overcoming writer's block. Learn about the latest thcmpcixk: use In Switzerland and the techniques used by «censed psychotherapists.
What are the social consequences of half the young poopte in England taking Ecstasy at raves? Studies IncScate that the drug experience can ahcr per^onatty and may bo having a profound effect on people's values — personal accounts are included of people who believe the drug has altered tho course of their Ivos.
Contents Include: Tho Author's Own Experience with Ecstasy • History of Ecstasy • Tho Law • Ecstasy ard the Moda • Psychotherapeutic Use In Switzerland •Other Uses of Ecstasy • Suggestions lex First Time Users • What Ecstasy Is and Where It Comes From • And much more, including a lengthy blbaogmphy conteirrhg summaries of hundreds of sdentlflc reports (prepared by Alexander Shulgin).
1993, SHxSH, Stapp, Indexed. softcover.
E FOR ECSTASY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85175)
RECREATIONAL DRUGS
Tho Complete Guide to
Recreational Drug Manufacture
by Professor Buzz
Pn>fe»tur Rm/x
This is tho single finest
book ever written cn the
manufacture of recreational
drugs. Profusely ifuslrated, <
covers tho equipment,
techniques, end reagents
used in tlx» clandestine
manufacture of ¿legal drugs.
Procedures ter
crystallization. chfomoto-
graphy, dsti ration. ard
redxtions are given ter tho
foTowing types of rocroaton-
al drugs: • Am photiurvnos •
Hallucnogons • THC •
Analgoscs •- Hypnotics,
Sedatives and Tranquilizers.
Detailed instructions are
irciuocd for buying and
making precursors Th©
work area is dscussed In
illustrated detail, and sources of additional information are gven.
No one can be said to be Informed on 4tho subject of ¿legal drug manufacture unless they have road Professor Buzz’s Recreational Drugs. It Is the single finest book avor written on the subject.
Professor Buzz says: 'Laboratories, like any other Investment, require a certain amount of capftal to start and operate. Spend tho necessary cash to buy the proper equipment to do the procedure required. Faulty equpment (not to mention insufficient knowledge) can cause fires, explosions, asphyxiation, and many other hazards. You can have one hen of a nice laboratory ter tho price of a funeral these days. Also, hospital? « excess of $150 a day if )*ou are not In Intensive care or requiring special services. $150 a day can operate aven tho most elaborate of laboratories. Therefore. It you have to bog. borrow, or steal to obtain a functional laboratory, then do so. Is throe to five thousand dollars too much Io spend cn a lab that can easily produce a quarter of a milion dollars worth of THC cr.'cry week? It lakes money to make money, but very few. If any. investments cun pay off as well as an underground laboratory run by competent chemists.'
Ladies and gentlemen. Loompanics Unlimited proudly presents Recreational Drugs, by Professor Buzz.
t9S9^ 5Ji x It, taSpp, iiiustrated, p^otsary, soft cover.
RECREATIONAL DRUGS: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85102)
HALLUCINOGENS
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
by Marlene Dobkin de Rios
This book surveys the uses of mlnd attcring drugs in eleven societies in the Americas, Asia. Africa. AuslraSa and New Guinea. Societies range from huntor gathorers to complex ancient ch’flzatlons such as mo Inca. Those htorostod in primitive ritual, reUpdn. and hoeing wll find a weaKh of information in this concise volume.
A cross-cultural examination of sacred plants. Hallucinogens h illustrated wun drawings of plants that can produce altered states of GCnsCiGV&ness It fll?o ndudes drawn reproductions of ancient Peruvian art.
The author argues convincingly that plant hallucinogens, which have teen used from time Immemorial, influenced human ev'olutlon. Sho discusses rolglous beliefs that may have been influenced by tho mind- altering properties of particular plants. And she focuses on tho ways hallucinogens have Influenced cdiical and moral systems.
Anyone interested in anthropology and tho worldwide uses of mind-altering plants win enjoy Hallucinogens.
1990. SH a 9Ji, 255pp, Index, bfbdogrsphy, sod cover.
HALLUCINOGENS: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85134)
THE DRUG USER
Documents: 1840-1960
Edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise
No tfown-ard-cul apologies of
reformed junkies, no hyperbolic
heroics of crime-busting drug czars,
these neglected records of drug use
are thoughtful and provocate1© ex-
cursions Into Ite matertai and spiri-
tual realms of exfeterro arising from
the use of intoxicating substances.
TNs ono-of-a-klnd collcctfon
brings together a variety of writings
on the subject of intoxication: th©
human desire for and th© means io
access tfcered states of ccnsctous-
noss for the purposes of Intellectual
and scientific, psychic and psycho-
fogcal. exotic and euphoric setf-ther-
apy. Enlightened and detailed ds-
cusslons of tha use and effects of
opium, hashish. peyote. mescaline. LSD. and marijuana are induced as Chemical moans Io discover a hidden self. to access and study dream slates, and simply to heighten artistic perception or experience tho visionary stales of consciousness for their own sake as valid human behavior. Included are writings by figures as diverse as Albert Hofmann and native American mocfcino man Lame Doer, as wel-known as Charins Baudelaire, and as unexpected as Maric Twain — in addition to ibertine and koroclast James Lee. a Itelcng drug user wte beloved that. The He of a drug addict can be one of unsurpassed happiness, if the user lias the knowledge and sdf-conlrd...*
An cxcolont anlkfotu Io tho 'drug war* hysteria swooping the free world!
1931,5x8, 266pp, softcover.
THE DRUG USER: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85142)
INDOOR MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE
by Jorge Cervantes
indoor Marijuana
Horticulture
tañad In this bock has boon
Outdoor growers face many
problems: visibiity Io poicc and
other snoopers; rip-off artists;
foraging animals; ole. An amazing
amount of high quality maquana
can be grown Indocrs, If you know
what ycu are dong. and Indoor
Marijuana Horticulture Is the most
authccl-tativo. complete and up-IO-
date took on dong just IhaL
Ths book gives simple. yet com-
piei©. written and pxtorial do
scnptions of basic gardonng tochre-
q:>cs used to grow the largest
quantity of dynamMo marijuana
indoors, under High Intensity
Discharge Lamps, m the shortest
time possible. AI information con-
and proven successful.
Covorod in dotal aro: • Light and cloclncity ♦ Sol and containers ♦
V/ator and fertilizer • Air • Bugs and fungus • Seed and seedlings •
Cforiing • Transplanting • Flowering • Harvesting • And much rhdro, ih-
ckxfng Case Studies, a simple informative took al throe successful in-
door growers.
The reader e shown step-by-step hew to set up a growing room,
which kinds of lights work bcsl. and what typo of containers to g-ow
your plants In. Transp'orzng tho seedings, tho bcsl time to harvest, and
how to dry it ard prepare i for use. Illustrated wXh many drawings,
photographs, graphs and chans. this exceltonl book is a must for all
serious horticulturists.
1934, SHxSH, 283pp, Utustratcd. softcover.
INDOOR MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85039)
COCAINE FIENDS
AND
REEFER MADNESS
Au in .J. «valuers k>o «»í»r >!••*>
COCAINE FIENDS AND REEFER MADNESS
An Illustrated History of Drugs In the Movies
by Michael Starks
Cocaine Fiends and
Reefer Madness is an
exhaustive exptoration of tho
history of the depiction of
psychoactive drugs in motion
pictures from Thomas
Edson's Opium Smoker
(1894) to Cocaine Cowboys
(1978). Included are over 4C0
scent and 1.000 sound films
aa well as nearly 500 drvg-
abuse trms. 85 experimental
Ulms, and 135 television
programs. More than 150
stas. most never before
publi=he<J and many
extremely rare. Illustrate th©
text To optimize coherence
and reference use. this bock
is arranged chror.ofopcaty as
well as by drug type and often by country. The use of drugs by film people, censorship of drug ttierr.es in films, and tho influence of drugs on toe content and style of f Ims are discussed.
Some of the fi'ms have on!y triffrig reference to drugs fY/hars he bocn smoking?' in Gokf Diggers o\ 1933). while others are concerned with little etee (QxavM Fends, The Trip). Thrs book shows that, far from bong a recent phenomenon, drug films were made in nearly every country and period tost produced a sqrtfcsrrt body of films. In searching toem out. we visit Edson's first film studio, reCeci on the filmic consequences of Cocteaus s opium addiction and Kennett» Anger's esity experience wtti magic mushrooms, see Clwries Laughton smuggling cocaine inside a statue of a Buddha. and watch Doug'as Fairbanks. Sr., consuming vasl quantities of opium and cocaine in a World War I Sherfock Hoknes parody. Heroin makes junkies writhe and scream in 77^ Panic in MeerSe Park (1971) and Ihe Devil's Heedia (1918). and LSD leads to murder in Mantis in Lsce (1968) and Io spiritual rcbxlh in Turn On. Tum tnf Drop Out (1967).
From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled Io. Irco themselves from censorship and manipulation by special interest groups, and this struggle is ctoarty evident in the history of drug films. Orly re- confly has it Loen possible to portray drug users and drug affects candidly, and tho incroasng accuracy and power of such fJmr. n the last Mo dooidns to closoly examined. Th© chronological structure of Cocaine Fiends and Roofer Madness allows us to ffr’low film from its early innocence io cs current maturity.
19S2, SFr jr 11,242pp, profusely frustrated. Indexed, bard cover.
COCAINE FIENDS AND REEFER MADNESS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85141)
DEA CLASSIFIED
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
Inside Secrets of the Smuggling Trade
Nowhere e^se can ycu tod the Information, an authentic behod-the- scenes tock a: the real world of drug smugging and the government's efforts to slop it These reports were obtained by covert means from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admlhetration. An unnamed source was able to socrotty photograph these hkjh.y classrtwd document© which arc made
•T.'allabia to tho public for the first timo.
Scores of photos datai seized contraband and tho often Ingcnfous methods that did not ©scape too vigilance of narcoecs ngonts. Heroin concerted in allcnxf ono-dolar bills and trucks outfitted with hydraulically ixccesscd secret compartments are just two exarrptas of drug smuggling methods reveared in this bock.
In DEA Classified Intelligence Reports you will see how law enforcement officials empfoy both high-tech and surprisingly simple techniques to pursue the most cunning of criminals—drug smugglers.
1383. 3h x 11, 120 pp, manypbotoa, soft co nr.
DEA CLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85092)
DISEASING
Addiction
Treatment <
Out of Control A
OF
AMER1CL
DISEASING OF AMERICA
Addiction Treatment Out of Control
by Stanton Peeta
An excellent expose ol
the fast-growing addiclicn
industry. Stanton Peele's
Diseasing Of America is an
indictment ci the kJioiic Wee
that all deviant behavior is
some sort 0/ disease.
-
Why. if Americans spend
mrxe and mere cn treat-
ments for drug and
a’cohol addiction, do wo
have more and more
addets and drunks? -
Are ‘addictions’ to shop-
ping and sex really
medical conditions? -
Why arc so many people
forced into cuk-like ad-
diction treatments by
government. employers,
and schools?
Tbcso are some of the
profound and dsturtxig questions taken up in this timely and
provocatc-c book. Poelo exposes the irrationality of tho current fashion
of mislabeling al tlxrse problems as medical In origin. Redo insets that
we cannot treat away cur drug, alcohol, and ether addicttons — by
’mcdisalizing’ them, we .actually make them harder to soMj.
Diseasing Of America documents ths sclenhr»c fallacies of the
addiction industry and the addetton-as-diseese movement, and
suggests ways of positive personal and social change.
W4 5« xSH, 333 pp, Indexed. softcover.
DISEASING OF AMERICA: $9.95
Stanton Peele
CONQUERING THE URINE TESTS
A Complete Guide to Conquering
the Urine Drug Tests
by Byrd Laboratories
■•it's a piss-poor country when a man Is judged on the quality of his urine and not on the quality of his work.’
— Undcmt&od American Laborer
Its not only Uncle Sam who wants to inspect your piss — ’private’ corporations are tocreas ingiy sneopng Into things that am nene of their damn business. Urine tosts are unrekaWo. *1ho public is tcld that they are scientific. Cut. in operation, they are notoriously unrefiabto. This booklet shews you Ivow to pass any urine test.
Topics covered include:
THE CONSENT FORM, and how to avoid signing it.
MEDICATION LISTING, including a comprehensh'e list of mcdicAtor-s and substances causing fate pccdve results
DRUGS THAT ESCAPE URINE TESTS. (AfoOhOl. niCOCne. and hallucnogentos such as LSO do not show on urine tests.)
TECHNIQUES FOR BEATING THE TEST. 8 different proven methods. THE DIFFERENT TESTS, and how ttay work.
LEGAL OPTIONS. what to do if you test positive
YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, when dealing with government employers.
'Test yoor government, not your urine.'
1937, 7xBM, 24pp, softcover.
CONQUERING THE URINE TESTS: $5.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85068)
THE NATURAL MIND
An Investigation of Drugs
and the Higher Consciousness
by Andrew Well
k best seder in its original edition. The Natural Mind launched Andrew Weil and his revolutionary thinking before the public to 1971. Now live revised and updated edrtton of Weil's class-: work is available to a new genoralion of readers, answering for them essential quesfcons about drugs and consctousness.
’At the ttove of its first publtoatton The Natural Mind drew much pfft'&O iPT 113 Original and redcal tonights. It also drew harsh ccnrktmnaiton from a low prominent critics withn the medical establshmnnt who saw it as an apology for drug use. They misread my arguments and attacked mo for saying that human beings are bom with a need io uso «drugs. What I wrote was that human bongs are bom with a dri’/o Io expenmont with ways of changing consciousness. Drugs are but one of many possbln tcchnqixis. having their cwn risks and limitations. The Idea that it Is normal to scok changes in consciousness Ivas never been (Sscreditad.
’ The Natural Mind argues that high states ongnatn within tic Ixrmsn nervous system rathe* than In arry external substances. Research on endorphins and other naurochcmkals strongly supports thto theory. The toe* also Insists that such states have great positive potential. a suggoston confirmed by demonstrations ci the power of the mind, when not in its ordinary mode. to modify functors ©4 the body and counteract dsease.
’ The Natural Mind suggests a new model tor solving tho drug problem end other problems like it. an of which will oontnuo to worsen unbl we change oil concept tons. The new model I pre. peso postulates that consciousness is central and pnmary. This reversal of the prevailing sdont-fc vow (which sees consctousnoss as secondary and peripheral to material reality) changes conventional ideas of cause-and- effoct relelionahpe.
’That is Uki essence of The Natural Mind. Ils message Is ns timely now as when it first appeared. since the need to rothnk bask: conceptions about drugs and consciousness is as urgent now as ever.’
—from me Preface to iho Revised Edition.
19SS, StixBU. 243pp. Indexed, softcover.
THE NATURAL MIND: $8.95
(ORDERNUMBER 85112)
THE GREAT AMERICAN HEMP INDUSTRY
by Jack Frazier
The Great American Hemp Industry .s a coltoction of ankles and research papers written during tho 1970s. 80s. and SOs. Some parts of the book are new. ochor parts have been out offprint for several years. In the case of The Treatise of Hemp Husbandry, t. has been out ol print for 226 years, with the exception of a brief period in iho 1970s. Jack Fraser says. ’Now. the entire contents of this book are in tho pubic domain. I have not copyrighted arry part of «. Have fun. reprint it. Do as Washington ard Jefferson advised, sow hemp and Ideas everywhere.* 1991 printing. SJixBh, 11Spp. Mus.'rsfed softcover.
THE GREAT AMERICAN HEMP INDUSTRY: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85180)
GREEN PANTHERS! ACTION MANUAL
Techniques for Creative Interference
Official Handbook of the Green Panthers!
Resistance to tho
p^ony-bafeney ’War On
Drugs!'
'Lock around you.
You live In a country that
has set up ccr>cenirahon
camp style labor camps
for drug users in 17
states, permanent road-
bocks along major
highways in Texas, New
Mexico. Florida and
California, barbed wire
fences around ttousing
projects. police Jump-out
Squads In ovary major
city, the use of the
miliary against private
citizens (as In Humboldt
County. California —
1990). hcjliccpicrs with
right vision devfoos lly
over residential neighborhoods, and the tact that a cop can search your automobile if he merely thinks he smells something illegal. This list could go on and cn. The founders ol lbs country must surety bn spinning in their graves.’
’Bom in the knowledge that at toast 30 million US citizens regularly ingosl marijuana (hemp) to modicato themselves, the Green Panthers! was formed to provide leadership, resources and political focus to this s'eeping giant army of marijuana users — an army many times larger than all the US military and poke combined-’
•We spil back the governments dccforatico of war upon us. We deciare that wo sltsll resist by whatever methods necessary to protect ourschvs. our families. and our beloved planet Earth and to regain the Shorties lost under this fascist agenda disguised as the War On Drugs.'
If you are looking for techniques of practical resistance to the War On Drugs, there ks no better starting place than the Green Panthers! Action Manual.
199!,5x8, 69 pp, iifwrtrvted, xotl cow.
GREEN PANTHERS! ACTION MANUAL: $10.00
(ORDERNUMBER 85143)
PERSEPHONE’S QUEST
Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
by R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch,
Jonathan Oft & Car! A.P. Ruck
This fascinating book descusses the rote played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious ritual of anciont Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gorden Wasson, an internationally known ethrorriy- cdogist who was one of the firs: to investigate I vow these mushrooms were venerated and used by different native peoples, hero joins with three other scholars to discuss his discovenes about these fungi, which ho has cared entheogens. or ’god generated within.’
In this book Wasson describes h’s quest kx the soma plant, which k?d him to tho Middle East and India. lo shamanic rites of Siberia. Mesoamerica. And mo United States, to the folkJwe cf Europeans. Bedouins, and even the Pennsylvania Dutch. Stella Kramrisch details ritual of the pvtica mushroom, a later subsbtuto for soma. Jonathan Ott cerements on tho 'disembodied eyes’ found on carvings in Mexico and cn an anckmt ring from Crete, eyes that he argues are metaphors for the state produced by ingestion of onthcogaric mushrooms. Finaly Carl A P. Ruck rentes a variety of fungi to Greek myth and ritual, focusing in particular cn ergot, a common growth on bailey that he feels may have been Imbibed at the Etousinon Mysteries.
19S6, 6x9, 257pp, ¡Hu3tr9t9j toff cow.
PERSEPHONE'S QUEST: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85152)
PIHKAL
Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved
A Chemical Love Story
by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shugfn
From the Foreword: 'This book wll be afferent things to different pcopta. There has never been a work like it. and since recent legislative acts in this COUrity have dosed off tho avenues of inquiry that made this one possible we may not... see another ct Us kind... No library of psychedelic literature will tercelorth be complete without a copy of Pihka!.
’For nearly Shirty years... Dr. Alexander Shulgin... has been the only pemon in the world to synthesize, then evaluate in himse’1. his wife Ann. and in a dodcated group of close friends nearly 200 nevef-before- known chemical structures, materials expected to have effects in man smilar lo Ihcsn of the mndallcring psychedelic drugs mcscalno. psilocybin and LSD............................. Others regard him variously as courageous, toonant/,
or downright dangerous, depending mostly on the political persuasion of the cntic.’
The fmt halt of the book Is an autobiographical novel. detailing the individual life paths which led the two man characters to their fascination with psyctvedelcs. The second halt of tee bcok is ’an almost oncy- c’opedc compondium of synthetic rrolhods. dosages, durations of action, and ccmmentartos for 179 afferent chemical materials... Someday in tho future, when it may agari to acceptable to use chemical tods to Sludy tho mind, this book wl bo a treasure-house, a sort of sorcerer's bock of spells, to delght and enchant tho psychiatns&haman of tomorrow.’
199t, 6x9, 1,006pp, iHuxlxxffrd. xeft cow.
PIHKAL: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85148)
DRUG SMUGGLING
The Forbidden Book
by K. Hawkeye Gross
» danger, atfrcnw and ttxi
promise of an out-of-lh<s-worid pay-
check offer you an opportunity ycu
cant refuse in spite of the risks in-
voked ri lighting Cie drug war on the
wrong side of !hc law. ths book will
gvo you tha sknny on what to exp cd.
what to do and how to do it righi.
You won't get this kind of realistic
into from a criminal lawyer, fight
instructor ar investigative reporter.
This ts a how to book on drug
smugging by someone who has bacn
cn the inside for 16 years and made
most of the mistakes there axe to
make. K. Hawktryo Gross tails it Ike it
Is: how to got orgarvzod, including
nallng dewn a source: procuring fake
I.D. and shopping fee equipment; how to deal with the money, including
doing it out. storing it. moving it and selling up foreign accounts; ptos
how to prepare for the wccst. including a detailed Appendix outlining
current state and foderai sentencing guxkHines and tha range of
possible penali les for vanous weights and Typ^s of contraband.
The drug smuggler of the 1990s is righting an uphii batte against a
formidable ach«ers3iy: Tbs U.S. government devoted more than $11
txllrin to corrhut the ¿legal drug industry in fecal 1S92, and it has public
opinion and Iha arsenal of the U.S. military on its side to booL This book
lias nothing to <Jo with weapons and shool-ouls; that kind of hypo comes
frem Holt/wocd and Washington. It is about avoiding mistakes, knowing
the opponent, and capitalizing cn live one big advantaga the smuggler
has: surprise.
Until new. nothing like this has been available in an industry where
mistakes can cost not Just dol'ars and market share, bui years of >»our
Irie. This book is sold for international purposes only.
1992, 55i x an, 192pp, xoft cow.
DRUG SMUGGLING: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85153)
GETTING STARTED IN
THE ILLICIT DRUG BUSINESS
by Harold S. Long
Here is a nittygntty'. no-
btrtshx insider's look .it tho
¡legal drag business — the
most Iwd nbout business in
the world. Every facol of
Getting Starred fn Tho Nile it
Drug Business is ccr.*er*d —
from locating a source to
□vordng arrest. Hora is what
Harold S. Long reveals in this
unique book:
Locating A Source. Good
sound ad.-cu on finding a
wholesale illegal drug
deafer from whom you can
buy. ’Supplier relationships
are even more irnpertant
than user relationship*.
Lcsirg a user you sell to *$
not «good. because it will
put a dent in your financial
intake, but to lose your
suppler would put you out of business. Al of your dealings with your suppler ihorofore should ba stmght.'
Investment & Profit Structure. Haw much money you can expect to mako. How fast yea can make iL ’Cosaino. when property handled, will yield an investment return of one dollar back tor every dollar invested. Five Irandrod dollars invested brings back a thousand.-
Growth. The four-phase growth p'an. Improving your source. Improving your product Advancing kilo quantity' sales. Cash movement and investments. 'It Is bettor to make what you want to make cut cf the game in as little time’ as possible and get out of it altogether. The fongar yw are Io the bv^ee. Ihe greater tho chances of a tagal confrontation. If you are smart, ycu will plan this out as a Ht-and-ran endeavor with a visible stopping point. Growth therefore is important, because it will shexton the duraton ci year involvement and thereby decrease your chancas of getting pepped.’
Operating tho Business. Tho nuto-and-bolts of operating an IToga! drag business. Tho best ptoce to make a purchase. Avoiding rip-offs Spotting undercover oops. Rufos for selfrig. Avoiding entrapment.
Cuts, Measures. Cosmetics, and Product Storage. Getting the product ready for sale. Making it look good to toe customer. Putting ’rocks' in cocaine.
Dangers and Pitfalls, 'll & imperative that you have your own attorney, hired by ycu or your family or a friend. Once I had ostabished a good cash flow. I made a deal with an attorney to represent mo and my goon squad if the read ever arose. I ped him a starving retainer of SSCO and a quarter ounce of Cocaine per month. Ho sat with us and told us what to do to set ip ffegal search defenses and gave us Oliver valuable information. I had him cn retainer for almost fear years and never usod his services except to handle the legal workings Of a house I bought, but ho was there tf I needed him and his services were already pad for. I made a comparable arrangement with a txmdsman so wo wore all completely covered. The sooner you can arrange for legal prolcctfen, tha bettor off ycu are going to be.'
Get in It Get Out. If you stay in this business, you are going to get busted: ms oNy a matter of time. From tho day you sold your first gram Of CoWlfWi ^*1 Quaaluda, or your first bag of pot, the deck started running nganst you.’
One Of the most revealing tocks ever written cn drugs. Getting Started In The Illicit Drug Business a written by an ex-dealer, ard his adrico was picked up on tha struct, the hard way. Here is your chance to loam from a pro.
Sold for information purposes only.
/fW SH x SM. 36 pp. illustrated, soft cover.
GETTING STARTED IN
THE ILLICIT DRUG BUSINESS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85078)
‘A •fVaadkl aa*aMry a/AW</strong> “•••»
ftr.
ECSTASY
The MDMA Story
ECSTASY
Tho MDMA Story
by Bruce Eisner
Ecstasy (MDMA) is ihe
first oi a new generation o<
mind changirvj substances
which can transform
personal relationships as
well as boost self ©sworn.
MDMA’s effect has been
tfescrhwf oportng people
up to thnlr Intuition and
toolings, tearing to an
expanded sense of self-
awareness andl empathy for
others. without unpleasant
side effects. After a decade
of use by psycholltorspists.
MDMA surged into pubic
awareness and has been
used by millons, prompeng
Ne^'sweeic magazine to call
it Tie drag ert chcico of...
the New Age mevement '
This bock chronicle* toe
Nstory c4 MDMA, including
the flp-lfcps in rts togal Matus. Tho psychclogical effects, erode implications, methods of use nod possitta future of ths ntrigung substance are presented. The reader will also find here an up-to-dato report on potential heath risks, the chorrislry of MDMA, an annolatod bibkography of the MDMA literature, along w?.fi 27 photos and ¡lustrations. Highly recommended for everyone's drug library I
*B'uce Eisner has created an excsHenr sfi.dy of hew hysterical and Ignorant bureaucrats create drug probtems white trying to sdvo drug problems. Before we ptengo hoadtong into a teteStahon state, i wish avety Amedcan cittien would read this bocit. '
— Robert Anton Wilson
1W9. Cs S. 2S1 pp, Utestratod, indexed, toft cover.
ECSTASY: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85104)
HALLUCINOGENS AND CULTURE
by Peter T. Furst
Tliis bock »*- an introduction to seme of tho hailudnogonc drugs in their cultural and historical context, stressing their important role in religion, ritual, magic, and curing.
Chapters in=>Jdn:
-
’Idolatry,' HafUcinogens. and Cultural Survival • Tobacco: 'Proper Focd of tho Gods' • Cannabcs (spp.) and Nutmeg Derivatives ♦ Ibogaine and toe Vine of Sotis: from Trepical Forest Ritual to Psychotherapy • HatUcinogens and 'Archetypes' • LSD and too Sacred Morning Glories of Indian Mexico • The Sacred Mushrooms: Rediscovery in Mexico • The Fly-Agaric: 'Mushroom of Immortality' • R. Gorden Wasson and tl»e Identification of tlw Divine Soma • Tho ’Diabolic Root’ • To Find Our Life': Peyote Hunt of the Huchols of Mexico • Datura: A Hafucinogen that Can Kil • HaJIudnoponic Snuffs and Animal Symbolism • The Teed as Earth Mother. A Problem In Symbolism and Psycho- pharmacology • Haffecinogens ard the Sacred Doer • And more.
Says Andrew T. Wei. wulher of The Natural Mind- 'Furst's important work on hallucinogens in different cultures w\ll bo of merest io bofanisrts, phanmactfoglsts, physicians, anthropologists, psychologists, and all those concerned with those fasenatmg drags and man’s relationshp to them. It shOA* us something of tha pos.tvc side of haTuoiicgens in a magical and religious context and mghi help i» come to terms w*h these substances In cur own society.'
/STS, 6x9,2CSpp, iftestratod. Indexed soft cover.
HALLUCINOGENS AND CULTURE: $12.95
(ORDERNUMBER 85122)
Rock 'n' Roll
Introduction
We mean "ROCK 'n' ROLL" in the same sense that Ian Sh oales means it: Pop Culture: It's all Rock 'n‘ Roll to us. Comix, Americana, scandals, and weird goings on.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Over 500 Bizarre-But-True Stories That Reveal
Weirdness, Weirdness Everywhere!
by Chuck Shepherd, John J. Kohut
and Roland Sweet
Sn 1997, a 81-year cto rebred Army sergeant shot a woman be
mistook for his estranged wife outside a church in Rochester,
Now York. Tm sorry about the other woman,' he S&d poSce.
'I meant to fdSmy wife, but / forgot my gtesses.*
Ths voflume contaos We most bizarre, the most shocking. the odd-
est. craziest, most outlandish. hysterical, unba'anced. ard weirdest slud
aven to find its way into our nation’s newspapers.
A Pittsburgh man on wbyhe was apparently throwing rocks at
bis wife, who was struggling not to drown ¿n trw Kanawha
River: 7 h-sí trying to drive her back so shore.*
Read about events so pocutar. behavior so ridcu'ous. ccodixri so
quostionabo. that it's beyord even the most creator imaginaton — but
ira ai true.
A erty ambulance crow in St. Louis k) 1980 stopped So pick up
a pizza wbiio on thryir way so the hospital with a patient suffer-
ing from head kyurfos. The ambulance ekefed Ote pizza parlor
parking tot for about five minutes until the crew's pizza was
ready.
■ Most inappropriate uses
for food
■ Nixie Behavior
■ People in the wrong place
at the wrong time
■ Sex is its own punishment
■ Get-pocr-quck schemes
■ Litigious society
■ Weird undertaker stories
■ Jeslojs rages
■ Weird clergy
■ Unusual weapons
■ WeirdOs in training
■ Word peces of legisla-
tion
■ Spectacular suicide at-
tempts
■ Least justiitebte homi-
cides
■ Least competent crimi-
nals
■ Reasons not to dhl 911
■ Most compiling explanations
■ Ard much, much morel
1989, 5x9, 170 pp. tttwftrxhrd. softcover.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99042)
CONFESSIONS OF A RAT FINK
Tho Life and Times of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
Ite's back! Ha's back and he's
beautiful! Big Daddy Roth e Iha maestro
cf hot rod art and undorgroLnd monster
cart co ring who pionocrod the Kuslom
Kar Kraze of tho early safes. Long
before hippies or punks, Roth's low-rent
rodent. Ret Fnk. captured the hearts and
m'nds of America's teenage rebels and
h'psters wch his grungy antlauthonty
aesthetic. Big Daddy was a weirdo
before being one was cool.
Compete with orignel photographs
and Illustrations from Big Dadd/s
POfWftel flection, Confessions of a
Rat Fink features an Inlroductton by
subculture goddess Miriam Linna and
comes with an oye-grabblrg full-color
poster and 10 monster pin-ups. It Is a must tor underground art aficionados, monster cartoon inns, gear hoods, and anyone who is. has ever bean, or will over bn an obnoxious lr.or.ogcr.
199?, 7 x 10, 19? pp, Nuatrated, toft cover.
CONFESSIONS OF A RAT FINK: $12.95 _____________ (ORDER NUMBER 99074)___________________
INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILMS
by Rc/Scarch
If you tike weird, avant garde, exploitation. of otherwise strange fflme. ths book is tho sznyle best guide. Incredibly Strange Films is a functional güda to important territory negTected by the film-criticism estabSshment. spotlighting unhaled directors — Herschel Gordan Lewis. Russ Mr.yor. Larry Cohen. Frank Hcncnlobcr, Tod V. Mikels, and Others — who have been crxicaPy consigned to the ghettos of gore and sexploitation films.
In depth interviews focus cn philosophy. anecdotes entertain as w’ell as illuminato theory. Includes bop-aplies. genre overviews, filmographies. biblkgraphy, an A-to-Z of sir ungo film personalties, articles, quotations, lists of recommended films, and sources.
Genre artktos include: Biker films. J.D. films. Beach party films. LSD film!;. Women in prison films. Sanio. Ed Wood. Jr.. Sexpto(alien filma. Educational films, ard Industrial jeopardy films. Remember those gory and dsgustng driver-training firns they made you watch before ycu coukj get a license — like Rod AspMt nnd Sho Last Dato? They're in here, along with hygiene films, dating do's and denis, splatter movies, nudst camp movies, and jusl plain e/ery kind of Incredibly Strange Films you coUd ever want to team about. Thn single best bock of its kind yet puWisfed’
tsss. 8fix 11,224pp. more than 1 TOpMoe, indexed, eoftcover.
INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILMS: $17.99
(ORDER NUMBER 99020)
THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE,
VOLUME 1 & 2
Selected by The Editors of The Comics Journal
the 198Qa warn on© of th© most oxating ctecndos h the history of ©omlcs. This stellar two-volume cc4lcci«on spotlghts scmo of tho very best artists and wntors Iho '80s had to offer, whh a fud ccmptamcnt of complete stories from a wide dh’orsity of sources. many of them in glorious color.
Some of cur personal favorites ¡nchxfe: Trie’s a Brich arid 7hon You Die!’ by Peter Bagge. The Saga of FranK Shatra. Jr." by Josh Alan 4 Drew FrfeChian. ’I Thnk I Was an Afcoholc Wailing io Happen* try John Callahan, ’American Splendor Assaults the Media" by Harvey Pekar & R. Crumb. ’Chicago 68 by Spain. ’Busted’ by Joyce Farmer. ’By Way of Explanation’ by Gilbert Shelton & Paul Mavrtdes. ’Uncto Bob’s MkMJfe Crisis’ by Robert Crumb, end too many more to ksl here.
■ ycuYe not a regu'ar oombe reader, if you thirfc Wat comic characters are just rnjscteboind oafs having impostibte fistfights with costumed supeniltains oven mor« ridiculous than themseh*es, then you shoUd check out this sat just *x> soo what youVa been missing. And if you are a regular ccmix fan. then you will want to add those excotent volumes to your cdlcKtion.
NW, Sti X 1 1. 122 ppt s&ne in cater, toff cover.
THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE. VOLUME ONE: $1235
(ORDER NUMBER 94162)
1920, SH x 11. 124 pp. btoc*& while. soft cow.
THE BEST COMICS OF THE DECADE. VOLUME TV/O: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94163)
BLAB! #5
Kitchen Sink Press
BW& an outstancing ¿ne devoted to
comix and popular culture. Btebf AS
focuses on crime, with stories by ^nd about
performance art tsi Joo Cotoman (who dri
tM MMw cow), Ray Zorw’s took at
crime comes of the ’40s and '50s. ’Lucky to
be Alve.’ a chilling story about serial killer
Ted Bund/. Joe Coleman's visual biography
of kiler Cad Panzram, stories by Skp
Wiliamson and Dan Ctewes. and more.
Bfabf is cssontal roading for anyone
Interested in American pop cultural
IM, SXxSH, 12$ pp.
profusely Nustreted, soft cover.
BLAB! #5: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99055)
Hw NAMM MMR0Í Mwai ii The RHf4
Anything Goes
’ Sample cult exploitation magazine
cover from Unseen Amortes."
UNSEEN AMERICA
Tho Greatest Cult Exploitation
Magazines 1950-1966
by Alan Botrock
The fuii story of the sexmy undorbaiy of American joumaitsm! The
Amcrfaan fifties arc usually though*. of ns tamo and conservative limos.
They were tto years of Dwight Eisenhower and golf; Davy Crockett;
hub-hcops; television sicoms; Howdy Doody; and so on — but during
this same era. a relatively forgotten wave of scandal. crime, sex. drugs.
goss'p. violence, and vfce swept over the country. Tbs was the worid ot
’unseen America* — the other side of tho rush to middo-dass suburban lifestyles. For over a decade, this torrent of scandal was brought to rive American public via mass circulation magazines — magaznns that today offer us a unique view of another America. and graphically illustrate a chapter of American pop cuturc and journalistic happenings previously toft unchroniclcd.
This was not a minor chapter or smai underground movement, either, for al their peak these magazines accounted for an amnding 35 minon ccptes a month in newsstand sates, and coo pubicalton. CcM&fcrtiai. became the largest soling newsstand magazine in the country, with single-copy sates of over four milion per issue.
Profuseby ifustraled with over 300 covers of the expfotetion maga¿nes cf the fifties, this is a subjective gude to the best of the oxptoctalfon magazine field, covering who put thorn out. who bcugh! them, what « cost io pubish an exploitation magazine, their roots in American culture, and much mere.
19SCF. SHx 11. Ill pp. profusely Hiustrated, son cover.
UNSEEN AMERICA: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99050)
COMICS & SEQUENTIAL ART
by Will Elsner
Al any given Xkrno. the
comic form (comes. strips,
cartoons, etc.) can tec
found to contain some of
Iha most radical (and
funny!) commentary cn
society. Will Eencris
Cbmtesr rf Soguontisl Art
15 Ofti Oi tlW finest blUililtt
ci this art form ever
produced, ft certains an
accumulation of his Ideas,
theories and advice on the
practice cl graphic story-
telling and tho uses to
which tho comic bock art
form can bo applied. It Is
designed to to a useful
guide to tho scricus
student practicing pro-
fessionals and involved
teachers.
Elsner has been working in the fekJ for over 50 years, and in chapters with tlttas like • Imagery.* ’Timing/ ’The Frame.' 'Writing,' and 'Application of Sequential Art,' ho covers all the creative bases. Since its initial pubkzatisn. this book has enjoyed a wide reception here and abroad, k is used in Km. classes as wot as popular culture and Englsh Heralute courses at many universities. For instructions, tips, and just plain good reading, try Will Eisner's Comics & Sequential Art.
1MS, Sfix If, 157 pp. profusely ttiustreted, fndexod. softcover.
COMICS & SEQUENTIAL ART: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99052)
AMERICAN EXTREMES
by Buffalo George Toomer
American Extremes
is a close up Icok at
America's kooks. zeaJ-
Cto. fanatics, trends,
culto, weird deas gone
wid, and much more.
Buffa'o George Toomer
has giveo us insight
into America's strange,
funny, and chon darte
sdo of dally Ue. More
than 300 photographs
illustrate his sensitivo,
humorous, and biting
assays on subjects
such as: ♦ Tho txzarro
world of tattooed
poepte • 'Now Ago' rip-offs • Elvis mania and souvenirs • Survivalists, commandos A Iho manly arts • Big wheel trucks. power tractors, tenders A weird cars • Habits, houses A Goofy art ♦ Cheap thrtls A daredevl sports • Phono sax. strange sexual habits A ’Dressing Funny* • Spectacle d'Art • Punkors. skinheads A hair freaks • Cults o’fun A Dance o'death • Biker Iriestyte & arts-tic culturo • Unusual pastimes A h«yw we play • And much, much moro. Ofastrated with more than 30) phofosW
Heath nuts. totf/bUkJers. punks, and tattoo cofactors; mystics, witchcrahers. uriccm mute, crystal healers, refigteus nuts, eurvrvalisls, bikers, holders of monstrosities, and those peop’e who actually think tho/n get rich off Stallone puppets Mexican Lo Riders, tour bkes. people with three-tech fngemails... all those unusual people who push ife lo the odge In pursuit of their loves, fetishes, and immortaity.
American Extremes is not to be missed by lovers of Americana.
IMS, SH x 6M, 203pp, mero than 300photographs, soft cover.
AMERICAN EXTREMES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94128)
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
by Mark James Estren
fksck in print— at last!" A History Of Underground Comics Is a lavishly illustratod. com- prehansiva and controversial account of tho combe genre from thn 1960s that is having a fehäiSSäACe iri the 1960s. Mark James Esven traces tho roots of underi/cund comics and details how the cartoonists unabASh- cdly portrayed sox. drags and rock h' roil, flouting the censors who kept conventional oamics tamo. This fourth edition of the classic work incorporates historical updates, a new tertex and WMography. Enjoy.
1993. Sfi x 11, 320pp, more than 1.000tftustrations,
indexed, toft cover.
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99081)
PRODUCED AND ABANDONED
The Best Films You’ve Never Seen
Edited by Michael Spragow
Especially te the tel two
decades, many of ffie most
excflteg English-speaking
filmmakers have given birth to
movies that were then
abandoned by Iha studies and
tho mess audience. What made
thnr.o Ulms hard to market and
thus hard for moviegoers to fted
and adapt is proc«ely what
makes them special: twists In
tho storylines. unexpected
shadings in the characters,
iconoclastic attitudes, and a
degree of artistry that can! be
comrrxjnicatod in broad-stroke
advertising carrpaigns.
Produced And Abandoned
contains reviews of 94 such
fams, written at the time the
films were onginaly released.
Thanks lo li>0 mireds of >our
beal vkfoo slcco. now you. too. can enjoy these mo-ries. I noticed several of rrry c-wn favorites included — r.i.ch as:
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Bound F(X Glcry • Hands With Care • Hearts cf the West • Meh-in and Howard • Pay-day • Go Tell the Spartans • Hamburger Hill • Sa-Vodbr • Over the Edge • Ropo Man • Riveris Edge • The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith ♦ Scuthem Comfort • Tho White Dawn • Streetwise • Mike's Murder • Shoo*. Iha Moon ♦ SomcIHng W.ld • Tho Brood • Carnival ot Souls • Henry: Portrait of a Sonal KBer ♦ Near Dark • LorJ in America • The Man with Two Drains • This is Spnal Tap • Tho Ballad of Cable Hpgus • Cattle Annie and Utile Britches • Tho Conversation • The Late Show • Night Moves • Straight Time • And many more.
Produced And Abandoned certain to increase your cqoymcnt cf films.
1990. SH xS>i, 390pp. indexed, toft cover.
PRODUCED AND ABANDONED: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99071)
BRUTARIAN #3-#6
"The Magazine That Dares To Be Lame!"
Edited by Dom Salem!
Ow Of th© most IntnrcxUng and oxetng new magazines wo have seen come out lately Is Dem Salcmi's Brutarian, and wo are proud to Offer our reactors the tins! tour Issues. Crammed with articles, comix. book and movie reviews. Brutarian expires the schlock and sleaze and violence that popper tho Amoncon papular ciituro landscape. Featuring writers like Nick Bougas, Jack Stevenson, Grog Goodsei, Dom §?IWl Graig Ledbetter, startling and revolting graphics, and ads for Stuff you didn’t even know extstad, Brutarian is highly recommended to students of current America popular culture.
1991 a 1999, SH x 11, 4iaaues, nwt than 390 pp.
Mostrated, soft cover
BRUTARIAN #>*4: $$.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99077)
BRUTARIAN 5-6: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99078)
BLAB! #6
Kitchen Sink Press
V/e are very
proud to offer our
reactors the tolest
issue o< Blab!,
the excellent
journal of comlx
and pop culture
from Ktchen Sink
Press. Blab! /B
takes a stewed
look at sfccbciism
in this 1 CO-proof
issue. Featured
are comics from
such cutting edge
cartoonists as
Frank Stack, Dan
Clcrwes. Span
Rodrigues. fAark
Landman, Skp
Williamson, froug
Alton. Uoyd
Dangle. Richard
Seta and Josh
Alan Frtodman,
Thn hva bast
features are
selections from
Kev/ Cant JVfrr
(the atrizbngraphy of Jack Black) illustrated by the amazing, frightening, arrf over-the-
top Joe Cotomnn and ’AJcohofc CartDorists’' by Dan Clowes, profiles of
tamoiÄ cartoansts and Blu&trators who fought the boWe and tost
It's wld! Its weird! It's Blab! 46! It’ll make your bead swim!
M x Oli, 130 pp. profusely seh co w.
BLAB! ¥6: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99062)
BRUTARIAN Magazine «8 & #9
•‘The Magazine That Dares To Be Lame"
Edited by Dom Saiemi
AH right! Two new issues Of Dom Salemi’s Brutarian! Outrageous ccmix, kickass took reviews. movie reviews, video reviews, music and mare. Brutarian explores the schlock and Stoaze a rd victenco that pepper thn Amorcan pep culture landscape. Highly recommarded to sludonfs of currant American popular and fringe culture.
1999, 9H X11, SUsocs. total of 164 pp, illustrated. soft cow*.
BRUTARIAN Magazine #8 & #9: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99087)
THE NEW AMERICAN SPLENDOR ANTHOLOGY
Stories by Harvey Peter
Harvey Petar's comic American Splendors one of the hippest and funniest comics In Amonca. In each issue. Pckar recounts events from his defy tfe, with top artste illustrating each story h comic format. This huge coliechon Includes ncvor-bekxMoen material, and art by such artiste as: R Crumb. Kevin Brown. Paul Mavrides, Spain Rodriguez. Colin Upton. Drew Friedman. Val Mayenk. ALin Mooco. Jim Woodring, and Mark Zrigarelli.
1991, 6>i x 11, 990pp, ithrtrfrxM, softcover.
THE NEW AMERICAN SPLENDOR ANTHOLOGY: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99069)
COSMIC RETRIBUTION
Joe CoIoman has long boon one of Loompanics* favorite artists — chock out his covers for Apocalypse Culture wd You Can't Win. No*// we are now very pleased to offer you a huge book of his infernal art — with 32 pages of Mf-eotorplates!
As well-known for his legendary performance art as for his paintings. Joe Coleman has outraged audiences and authorities for over ten years. This magnificently produced art book may be his greatest outrage ever, and also his most beautiful: a deluxe. 144-page compilation of his graphic work, including illustrations, comic strips, and most of all. the savage and terrifying paintings that have made his reputation. Cosmic Retribution includes 32 pages of full-color plates, a revealing Interview with Coteman. a photo section devoted to Coleman’s collection of grotesque human oddities, plus an introduction by R. Crumb.
The publication ol Cosmic Retribution: The Infernal Art of Joo Coleman. Is a major event, and Loompanics Unlimited is very pleased and proud to offer this astonishing book to our readers.
1992, x 11, 144 pp, profusely Illustrated, softcover.
COSMIC RETRIBUTION: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99075)
Twisted Image
by Ace Backwords
Ace Backwords is one of America's funniest and most
brilliant comic artiste—it is as simple as that. His work has
appeared in more than 100 marginal publications,
Including High Times and the Lcompanlcs Catalog. Now.
ter the first time, the best of Ace’s work has been collected
into book form — Ladies and Gentlemen, Loompanics
Unlimited proudly presents Twisted Image, by Ace
Backwords.
1990, 8K x 11, 128pp, softcover.
TWISTED IMAGE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85120)
THE WHOLE POP CATALOG
Compiled by The Berkeley Pop Culture Project
Pop culture is the true American Culture. It — not highbrow culture — embodies the shared experiences. thoughts. and values of modem Americans. ’Instfrjtions" ike McDonalds. Barbie, ard the Beatles are the bu’ld'ng blocks wfth which we're constructing contemporary society. This huge bock gives you access to the products, people. ebbs, (feelers, books — even ’pilgrimage* sites Io hep you chronicle, understand. and even own pieces ot American Pop Culture. Included are Sections on:
■ Advertising ■ Airplanes ■ Americana ■ Amusement Parks A Carnivals ■ An mated Cartoons ■ Bartle ■ Baseball Cards A Collecbbtas ■ Balhronms and Outhouses ■ Beaches ■ Beatniks ■ Beer ■ Board Games ■ Bowing ■ Bumper stickers ■ Buttons ■ Candy ■ Cars. Trucks and Buses ■ Demo Derbies A Tractor Putt ■ Cereal ■ Chewing Gum ■ Christmas ■ Circusos. Freaks. Clowns A P.T. Barnum ■ Ciceks & Watches ■ Clothes — ’Cool Threads* ■ Cod War ■ Comedy ■ Comes A Comk: Bocks ■ Computers ■ Country Musk: A Stylo ■ OdQChves ■ Diners ■ Dinosaurs ■ Disney ■ Dols ■ Dnve tns ■ Elvis ■ Fast Food ■ Flarrmgos ■ Food ■ Foccbal ■ Frisbees ■ Gags & Novelties ■ Ged ■ Gumby ■ Har ■ Hippos A Psychedelia ■ Hotywocd ■ Jazz ■ Jukeboxes ■ Junk Food ■ Kites ■ Kitchens. Lawn A Garden ■ Lunchboxes ■ Magic ■ Miniatures ■ Monsters ■ Motorcyclists ■ Musk: ■ New Age ■ Office Phones. Faxes A Xeroxes ■ Outer Space ■ Pets ■ Phonographs & Taking Machines ■ Pinball ■ Player Pianos & Music Machines ■ Politics ■ Puzzles ■ Radios & Radk> Shows ■ Records ■ Reigon ■ Rhythm & Blues ■ Roadside ■ Rock 'o' Roll ■ Romance Novels ■ Rubber Stamps ■ Science A Nature ■ Ships in BoWes and Witfout ■ Skateboarding ■ Seda Pep Hrs!cry ■ T-Shrts ■ Toddy Beam ■ Toiephones ■ 3 0 n Toys — Classic Toys — Basic ■ Trains. ■ Vkftx> Games ■ War ■ Tlx» West ■ Wrestling A Roler Derbies ■ and Much. Much Moroi
The Whole Pop Catalogs an oxcclont starting p’.vcn for anyone intorcstod in ccclwrpcrary American culture.
199t, CX x 11, eOOpp, profosety tffuatreted, softcover.
THE WHOLE POP CATALOG: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99061)
SLACKER
by Richard Linklater
You probably ea’oyed the fascinating film SX^ev (if you haven't scon rt. rent it ASAP! — you am in for a trip) and you are sure *0 be fascinated with Stacker. the Lock, by the film's tfrector, Richard Linklater. Stacker includes pholos and profits of the actors and craw, Linklater's Original notes lor Vie film, tens of info cn how the film was cast and shot, a complete transcript of the film, a lengthy interview with Rfck Linklater, some short memoirs of the filming from the cast ©rd crow, stiis from the film, and morn. Be sure to check out the orgin ol the concept of the Madonna Pap Smear scenel M you loved 54^'^>r(lhe film), yea wiD tove Stoctar(tha book).
1992. SX x 11, 162 pp, tttuairated, xoft covvr.
SLACKER: $1435
(ORDER NUMBER 99076)
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY THINGS
by Donald A. Norman
'By looking very careMtyat bow we do everyday things, this brtikant book shows how good designers exploit basic principles of common sense thought— and how disregarding thosepnrydpics can toad to disaster *— Marvin Mnsky, MIT
Evon th© smartest among us can feel inept as we tail to figure cut which light switch or oven burner to turn on. or whether Io push. pull, or side a door. The fault. argues this fascinating, ingenious, and ¿berating book, les rxri in ourselves. but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles cf cognitive psychology.
The problems range frem ambiguous and hdtfen controls to arbitrary rotationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands cn memorization. This bonk presents examples ©plenty, among Chern the VCR. computer. and office tdophnno. an models ol how not to (feslgn tor people.
But gocd. usable design rs possible. The rukis are simple: make things visble. exploit natural re la Worships that couple function and control, and make intoligent use of constraints. The goal: usor contorod design that go des the user ctfortnssly to the right acton cn the right control at the right time The author is a world-famous psychologist and poceer In We application of cognitive science.
7.W, 6X x 9X. 270 pp. ttiustrated, indexed. hardcover.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY THINGS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 68143)
POLITICS AT THE PERIPHERY
Third Parties In Two-Party America
by J. Da vid Gillespie
At a time when voter
frustration wtfi ’pditica ae
usual’ prornfeos to be the
ha&nark of tfie iP9Ce, J.
David Giltospfa reminds us
liiat American receptive-
n$w to cantfdate»
Ite Republican and Demo-
cratic partes a not a
pbenamoron unique to this
dozado. Rattier, alternative
parties arc an American
trad ton aYnost as o'd as
tte nation itscH. Gillespie's
broad. interpretive study
tels the story- of those
Americans who fave
rejected traditional parties
for alternative pdilicaJ
organizations and of the
issues ttet have proponed
them to do so.
Giltaspie examinee the
va’ue of third parties as was
as the cutural and structural constraints that relegate them lo the
periphery of American political lie. From the Anlimssons ot no 1870's
to H. Ross Perot’s grassroots telwork. Gilkispo details more than titty
poilical Memattvea. Ho- offers Wd portraits d their party leaders and
supporters, includng Tom Watson. Robert LaFoTotte, Strom Thurmcte.
George Wallace. Belva Lockwood. and Huey Long. Assessing their con-
stituency ate impact. Gilcsplc concludes that Ihrd parties draw dis-
proportionately from the ranks at agitators and act as .agents far change
w¿h many stances adopted — citen in modi'tod form — by mainstream
pnrt^-
Contents include:
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On tho Outside Look) ng In: Thrd Parties ate the Politics! Mainstream
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Br-ghtiy Blazing Candles: Transient National Thrd Parties in the Mnotoenm Century
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Candles In the Wind: Transient Third Partes in The TwenlieVi Cen-
lury
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htot Whistling Dboe: Women. African-Americans, and tho Third-Party Course
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Sustained by Faith: Doctrinal Parties
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Non National Significant Others: Important Stole and Community Parties
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What Manner ©4 Men ate Women? Beliefs ate Poraorvtitns of Third-Party Leaders
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Locking Back. Looking Ahead: Tte Third-Party Legacy and tho Future
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Returns from Novem'ber 3. 1992. Presiteteal Election
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Addresses of Thrd Parties
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Third-Party ate Independent Candidacies Receding at Least One Percent of Popular Vote for President
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Third-Party Presence (Excluding Independents} n U.S. Congress
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Third-Party ate Independent Gutematotel Popular Efocfkns
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Suggestions for Further Reading
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Ate more.
Poiftfcs At The Periphery e, must reading foe anyone interested in current American pdillcs.
1993, 3x9. 349 pp, Uh/xlrMd. softcover.
POLITICS AT THE PERIPHERY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94231)
DENNIS EICHHORN'S REAL LIFE COMIX
by Dennis Eichhorn
Ln tie rarifed realm of so-caitod •aufoblographtear or ’ccnfossfonal* comics, writer Dennis P. Eichhorn has chomped out a sizable ríete lex hmsc-i, as hrs no-purxhes-puhod. explicit stories etest. Dennis has produced three series: Reei Ufe, which consists of stones from his fascinating life: Reel Slntf, true saxurJ adventures; ate Reel Sdvnucx, stories Of Denrry acting like a schmuck All throe series arc illustrated by some 04 Ite finest oam'c artists currently working in America.
To introduce you to the wonderful wted ©4 Dennis Exhhom, wc have ctesen one volume from each series. These throo titles aro a terrific iteroducton to Eichhorn's work: Rm! Stuff conlans a story which Faniagfaphic9 (Ns pubUhor) foil corrpcílcd to concor. Real Schnwc* *1 contains Eir.htern's unique response to this episode; and Real Smut #3 presents sea and doom in a manner never before attempted In come form, tn fact, wc fad that CMAtomúvn Sweat (from Reef Smut tty to one of tho most competing ate shattering stories in any medum we have ever read.
11 you don't toy any other come books in your lifetime, buy Dennis Eichhorn's RgaJLife Comix!
!997’1999, SU x 1C>1t 9 vofome set, Mslofmefe then
99 pp, pcohtsety iHusi/eiea, soft co ver.
DENNIS EICHHORN S REAL LIFE COMIX: $7.70
(ORDER NUMBER 99082)
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BABOON DOOLEY, ROCK CRITIC!
Baboon Gets Ahead In Life
by John Crawford
Al last! A Baboon Do&?y\xxM One of
our favorite underground comic
characters ol the 80‘s now ccllecled into
tock form. Ard a nice job ci priming it is.
too (even though one panting company
refused to pent the bock). Here are what
some people have sad about Jcfn
Cra.vfortfa wortc
•Crawford Is the R. Crumb ol the
©r/iltes. He’s that Important. And that
good. This b the bcist ongoing
underground comic In the &sl rfecada.
and wll ba. ultimately, the most
influential/ — Mike Ktopnor. Free Beer
Press
•...an astute clever faliaw tuned into oar trues most keenly.’ R.
Crumb
*At good and semo of the best of 'em are in this here tock.’
Byron Cdey, Forced Exposure
’ExqUsIlsty targeted. Crawford has not only originally. but integrity. •
Bob Diack
•Crawford has I We competition . His worthiness as egitator la
proven by his nobllcy as wise guy. . In print. Crawford comes elf as
cantankerous, dssatfeted. critical, end goddamed tunny. Ha doesn't
come off as 'anarchist.’ libertarian,' or Y>un’< because hs poor human
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A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
by John Waters
Bad boy f.'m director John
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When you'no up to your ass in al ¡gators, it's dffcuM to remind yourself Chat your initial objective was Io drain the swamp.
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Transform and Rebel: The Calico Indians and the Anti-Rent War by Th. Metzger
The remains: a costume and mask stored behind glass like a saint's garments in a reliquary. A scarlet linen vest, a gown of printed broadcloth, and a mask made of sheep skin. Fabric flowers ornament the mask, along with faded blue ribbons, leather fringe, mesh over the eye holes, a goatee, sidebums and eye brows made from fur.
In a photograph, sixteen men pose in similar costumes. Most brandish knives, all wear grotesque masks and gowns or jackets of brightly colored calico. Homs of leather, drooping mustaches, long false beards, wolf-like snouts, stag antlers, plumes of horse hair, tassels hanging from pointed ears, and hard fierce animal-like mouths.
They were farmers, many of them teen-aged boys, all of them little better than serfs. And for a few years in the early eighteen forties, while similar anti-authoritarian movements brewed in Europe, these self-styled Calico Indians roved the countryside of eastern New York State, flouting law, order and social norms.
* *
After the American War of Independence, a semi- feudal system remained firmly in place along the Hudson River valley, reaching from New York City
They were farmers, many of them teen-aged boys, all of them little better than serfs. And for a few years in. the early eighteen forties, while similar anti-authoritarian movements brewed in Europe, these self-styled Calico Indians roved the countryside of eastern New York State, flouting law, order and social norms.
to Albany, through the Catskills and to the Massachusetts border. Three hundred thousand farmers, working almost two million acres, lived like serfs with little hope of ever escaping their bondage to the land's owners.
The patroon system had its origins in the Dutch colonial efforts of the 1600s, when huge blocks of land were "purchased" from the indigenous inhabitants and tenants were brought in to secure Holland's hold.
In 1664, the Dutch colony was seized by the British, but the feudal system remained largely unchanged, farmers paying a yearly rent (in food stuffs or its equivalent in cash) yet never having the opportunity to actually own the land. In 1695, the governor granted a patent which transformed the patroonship of Rensselaerwyck into a manor and the patroon into its lord. At the same time, the British further entrenched the system by granting patents to millions of acres of new land. The last colonial governor of New York expressed the thinking of the time when he wrote that giving these huge tracts of land to the aristocracy would "counterpoise in some measure the general leveling spirit that so prevails," making reference to the antinomian and proto-anarchist Ranters, Diggers, and Levellers of Great Britain.
Quickly, the anti-rent associations had thousands of dues-paying members and their influence was felt throughout all the leasehold lands. The governor of New York sent in armed militia to put down the rebellion and the Anti rent Weir began in earnest
After the Revolutionary War, some land was taken from the Tories, but the most valuable tracts were given to Federalists as payment for their war claims, and other sections were sold to speculators. The most powerful landowning families — Van Rennselaer, Livingston, Schuyler, and Hamilton — continued to tighten their hold on the area through intermarriage and further purchases.
In 1839, Stepehn Van Rennselaer, known as the Good Patroon, died. Realizing that the patroon system was fragile and that only so much pressure could be put on it before it collapsed, he often had allowed tenants’ rents to lapse during times of bad harvest or other ill fortune. But at his death, it was found that he'd accumulated large debts. And owing him nearly a half million dollars in back rents, his tenants were seen by the Van Rensselaer heirs as a likely way out of their financial predicament.
In the Helderbergs, on the west side of the Hudson, where farming was particularly difficult, resentment against this demand for total payment rose quickly, developing within the year into what is now known as the Anti-rent War.
The first anti-rent meetings were called in Bemc, the highest place in the Helderbergs. In a Declaration of Independence dated July 4th, which the newly-formed anti-rent association sent to Stephen Van Rensselaer IV, they compare his oppressive rent measures to the Stamp Act of 1765 and themselves to the self-named Sons of Liberty, who fought against British economic oppression by tarring and feathering the King's functionaries, ransacking their homes and hanging them in effigy.
Quickly, the anti-rent associations had thousands of dues-paying members and their influence was felt throughout all the leasehold lands. The governor of New York sent in armed militia to put down the rebellion and the Anti-rent War began in earnest.
Disguising themselves in costumes of brilliant calico, covered with fur, feathers, and tin ornaments, wearing sheepskin masks or with their faces painted red and black, parties of self-proclaimed Indians struck back against the patroons' under
As in most insurgency movements, the rebels remained hidden and highly mobile, striking only when they had sufficient force to overcome their enemy, then evaporating as quickly as they'd gathered.
When sheriffs would approach a farmer's land, intending to sell off some of his livestock in order to pay back rents, the Indians would surround the lawmen — usually on horseback — or ambush, disarm and drive them away. And on the few occasions when the auctions did occur, the Indians deployed snipers to kill all the cattle and sheep that had been sold. The Indians' tactics were a mixture of guerrilla warfare and adolescent playfulness. They kidnapped sheriffs and held them prisoner in taverns until they agreed to jump up and down three times and shout "Down with the rent!" They stole and destroyed legal papers, threatened fanners who paid their rents, and harassed sheriffs whenever they appeared.
Adopting pseudo-savage names (Red Jacket, Black Hawk, Yellow Jacket, Blue Beard, Little Thunder, White Chief) the Indians bound themselves by an oath: "I do of my own free will and accord come forward to join this body of men and will reveal no secrets of the society made known to me necessary to be kept."
Farm-wives and daughters were enlisted to make gowns and masks, the more outlandish the better. At their peak, the Indians numbered over ten thousand, yet no two costumes were alike. The chiefs' garments were the most flamboyant, however. Because the anti-rent associations provided money to buy calico (as well as ornaments and pistols), anyone was able to deck himself as outrageously as he pleased.
When a prominent Rennselaer county Indian died, an escort of his fellows — ninety-six men strong, mounted and in full battle dress — formed the vanguard of his funeral procession. In 1844, when Governor William Bouck held a conference to meet with local residents, over a hundred Indians stood at the edges of the crowd, shouting and jeering. Armed with muskets, pistols, scythes, axes, clubs, hatchets and knives, the Indians were able to mobilize quickly whenever sheriffs approached to serve writs or seize property.
In order to throw off the two hundred year old feudal system, the Catskill and Hudson River Valley farmers needed to transform themselves, physically as well as emotionally.
And as a primitive communication network, the Indians convinced, sometimes by force, farmers to use their tin dinner horns only as a warning signal that the law was near. The message could be quickly relayed over many miles, the blaring of the horns (normally used to call workers in for their meals) reaching across the hills and valleys of the Catskills.
The organization of the Indian bands followed the cell structure which one of the most important anti-rent leaders, Thomas Devyr, had used while a Chartist agitator in Scotland. The Indians divided into ten-to-fifteen man units, the identity of individuals known only to the chief of the cell, who was in tum known only by his mock-indian name.
Devyr, born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1805, published a pamphlet called “Our Natural Rights," in which he states: "I saw that the earth if vigorously tilled would yield plenty of the comforts of life. Willing labor and fertile soil would produce plenty to cat, drink and wear." After publishing the pamphlet, he fled from Ireland, and went to work in London, working for the liberal papers in which he attacked Irish Landlordism. Working class rebels in Newcastle-upon-Tyne asked him to join them. He left London, calling it "that great social wen," and quickly rose to prominence among the Scots fighting for social and political reform. In 1840, he fled Scotland to avoid arrest and landed in New York. Within months, he was at the forefront of the antirent struggles in the I ludson Valley.
Another prominent anti-rent leader was Dr. Smith Boughton, who came to be known by his Indian name, Big Thunder. A brilliant public speaker and organizer, he traveled up and down the Catskills, addressing meetings, exhorting farmers to join or support financially the Indians' efforts. But targeted by the lords of Livingston manor, he was eventually arrested for robbery (after a sheriff was relieved of his warrants and writs by a band of Indians) and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor.
In 1844, the hostilities had increased to such a high pitch that governor Silas Wright issued a proclamation declaring Delaware County (the epicenter of Indian activities) to be in a state of insurrection and ordered in the military to "preserve order." And in early 1845, he requested that the legislature pass a law making it illegal for any individual to appear with "his face painted, discolored, covered or concealed," or to refuse help to a law enforcement officer in the pursuit of "seizing, arresting, con-fining... evciy' person with his face so painted." Though anti-rent forces were building strength in the legislature, the measure passed easily. The Calico Indians, however, continued their guerrilla war. As in most insurgency movements, the rebels remained hidden and highly mobile, striking only when they had sufficient force to overcome their enemy, then evaporating as quickly as they'd gathered.
The zXnli-rent War continued
until August of 1845, when Sheriff Green Moore and Osman Steele (his jailor and undersheriff) rode to the farm of Moses Earle near Andes, to sell off some of Earle's livestock in order to satisfy a warrant for two years' back rent. The Indians gathered in force, blaring their horns, and surrounded the two sheriffs. Steele resisted and shots were fired. Three bullets hit him and he died late that day.
The Indians scattered and as soon as the news got out, public opinion turned against the rebels. The cells disbanded, thousands of masks were burned and buried, and the calico gowns were converted overnight into curtains and quilts. Mass arrests followed the death of Steele and eventually eighty-four men were convicted: two sentenced to the gallows and thirteen to prison terms.
But though the Indians' violence was condemned by the general population, their goals were still popular and the anti-rent forces continued to work their way into state government. In 1846, John Young was elected governor of New York on an anti-rent platform and a few weeks after taking office, had pardoned all the Indian prisoners still in jail. In 1848, the legislature abolished the tenure rent system.
In order to throw off the two hundred year old feudal system, the Catskill and Hudson River Valley farmers needed to transform themselves, physically as well as emotionally.
Like the "indians" who took part in the Boston Tea Party, the Catskill rebels disguised themselves for practical purposes, to prevent being identified and punished. But they also transformed themselves into creatures who could do what no law- abiding citizen would dream of doing. By putting on ridiculous costumes, taking false names, and swearing melodramatic oaths, they escaped centuries of social constraint.
The view of Indians that the farmers exhibited is clearly quite skewed. Boyish enthusiasm, romantic notions of the noble savage, and simple ignorance shaped the Indians’ idea of themselves. The costume itself points to a gross misunderstanding of what "indian" meant. Looking more like animals dressed in women’s clothing titan the original inhabitants of the land they worked, the Calico Indians embraced freedom by embracing otherness. Decked out in gowns, flowers, wigs, ribbons and tassels, they allowed themselves, most likely without knowing it, to play at being women. Wearing masks made from animal parts (sheepskin, horse hair, stag horns, pig ears and feathers) they were more beasts than men. And a few of the most brave even played at being demons: wearing horns, fangs and scarlet talons. I lalf-drunk, converting their farm , implements into weapons, they had strength where before they had only servitude and the prospect of endless toil.
For them the word "indian“ meant something far larger than native American. It was a label that denoted wildness, lack of restraint, the ability to follow one’s desires. Some took names that were overtly Arabic ( The Prophet), or Mexican (Santa Anna). And with their secret oaths, midnight forays, bizarre costumes, their violence mixed with grandiose heroics, they clearly believed that to be an Indian was not merely to be non-white, but also something bigger than life. Crossing racial, gender, even species lines, all expectations were overturned. Anecdotes were told of parents talking for hours with their sons, and girls being overwhelmed by the kisses and caresses of their own brothers, without anyone suspecting their true identity. Drunken farm boys could be for a few hours powerful chieftains, warriors rather than serfs. Armed sheriffs could be mocked, humiliated, treated as buffoons. Even family ties meant nothing. Social, as well as political, law was overthrown.
At the killing of undersheriff Osman Steele, the Indians shouted, ’’Down with the laws, we are here to break them." For a few years, they lived out a childish fantasy. But mixing their playfulness with criminality and righteous defiance, they were able claim back their land and a small but significant measure of dignity.
The core of this is, of course, play. Freedom, disappearing privacy, dignity, may be serious business indeed, but if our response is likewise solemn-ugly, then we have failed completely.
What would a year 2000 Calico Indian look like? Not an Indian, certainly. The concept has become too tainted by commercials and Hollywood, alcohol and romanticism. But perhaps another savage other might stand in their place.
What’s more fearsomely alien than a three year old who must have EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW? Perhaps there'll be Calico babies, adults devolved into childhood berserkers.
It's likely, though, that in an age when all group endeavors are suspect, any mass movement tainted by power and greed and marketing possibilities, that the only act that can echo the Calicos’ rebellion would be individual. Not a group attack on the concrete face of order and reason, but individual transformation. Prankishness, the cruelty of childish play. Just as the farm boys of the 1840s dressed in ludicrous gowns and took pretentious names, so in the waning days of the 20th century must we become foolish to be free. Turn yourself inside out like a glove, left to right, penetralia to skin. Only holy idiots — despised, feared, almost invisible — can be free, acting out their little fiefdom of freedom.
The core of this is of course play. Freedom, disappearing privacy, dignity may be serious business indeed, but if our response is likewise solemn-ugly, then we have failed completely. Systems in conflict become like each other. We must become unlike ourselves to be free. Just as children mimic parents to learn language before they have any idea what individual words mean, so we must mimic wildness and freedom to be wild and free. Laugh in the groaning void, make everything (even Law's great grim gaze brooding over our internal landscape) a toy, a joy. Become the canny idiot, signifying nothing— and everything. Dress up, act out, take a new name, transform yourself, rebel. (NOTE.- A shorter version of this piece appeared in Anarch)*: A Journal of Desire Armed, (Summer 1992) and also appears in the book Gone to Croat an.)
References
Tin Horns and Calico, Henry Christman (Holt: 1945)
Landlords And Partners In lire Hudson-Mohawk Region 179O-I$50, David Ellis (Octagon Books: 1967)
History Of Delaware County, )ay Gould (Kcxrny and Guuld: 1856) The Hudson, Car) Cartner (Farrar and Rinehart: 1939)
Delaware County N.Y., History Of Tire Century 1797-1397), David Murray (1897)
'The Trial of Big Thunder,’ Isabel T. Kelsay, N.Y. History, 33 (7/35)
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by Judith Hooper and Dick Teres!
Judah Hooper and Dick Teresi span! four years visiting the nation's bran laboratories, from Uto schizophrenia wng of NIMH to the hallucination chambers of UCLA, colect'mg ntcnnalicn from tho nation's top brain scientists. Th* resut is The 3-Pound Universe, one o1 the finest bocks on the human brain ever written.
AS Isaac Asimov says in h4 Foreword. *Tba human train, than, is the most compicated orgadzalton of matter that wc know... The human brain Is certainly more complicated in organization than is a mighty star, wh'ch Is why we know so much more about stars than about Ibo brain, todeed. the train Is so complex. and human attempts to understand how it works have, until now. met with sixh apparently insurmountable hurdles, that it seems a fair Question to ask whether wo can c*w understand the brain, whether It is pwfcv? io do so. After art. wo arc trying to understand ttna bran by usng tho brain. Can something understand IlBGir? Can tho brain’s ccmp’cxity comprehend a brain's complexity?... ConsJdamg that tho human train, thanks to its ¡nteirgenco and IngenUty. Is tho greatest hepe of humanity; and that the human brain. thanks to OS abilty to hate. envy, and desire, is also the greatest danger to humanity — what can conceivably be more important then to understand tbo various aspects d Iho train and to learn how. possibly, to encourage these that aro construetvo and to correct those that arc destructive. In this took, then, Judith Hooper ard Dick Tores! tell ot the progress in this research and forecast future potetfaWes. They tel the story ci ths ultimate peak of human seeking, tho attempt of humanity Io understand itself."
1966, 6x9, 432pp, fftustrafed, fndexed, softcover.
THE 3-POUND UNIVERSE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88167)
I AM RIGHT — YOU ARE WRONG
From This to the New Renaissance:
from Rock Logic to Water Logic
by Edward de Bono
‘Sad to think how much harm has
been caused by the brute! arrogance of
rocktogfc.9
Oudtoy Herschbach. Nobel Prize to
Chemistry. 19B6
Edward de Bono e one ol Uto most
brillant thinkers currently writing. In /
Am Right — You Are Wrong, Dr. da
Bono, who is well known world-wide for
hs orignalicn of lateral thinking. puts
forward a direct chaJcngo to what he
cals tee rock logic d Western thinking.
Rock togic »s based on ngd categories,
absolutes, argument and adversarial
point scorng. Edward de Beno
believes that Vils thnking carnal
provide the construct energies that
we are going to need in order to sdve problems and create a bcttc-r
future as we move towards the year 2000
Instead of rock Icg'c, he proposes tho water lege of perception.
Drawing on our understanding ol the Main its a setboryanking in-
formation system. Dr. do Beno shows that perceptien is «ne key to more
construcUvo thinking and the serious crealtvtty ct design.
Edward de Beno expects hs ideas to outrage convenlicnal thinkers,
yet timto tvis been cn Hs side, and tho ideas that he first put forward
twenty years ago in hs book Tho Mechanism ¿Y/Xctfare now accepted
mslns’.resm thlrking. Hero. In this bnlliarciy argued assault on
outmoded enough« patterns. he calls ftx nothing less than a New
Renaissance. Hghy Recommended.
fSW 5x6,313 pp, sod cover.
I AM RIGHT—YOU ARE WRONG: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 86170)
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MIND
by Tony Buran
11 is by now fairly common knowledge that we normaiy use a very
smal part — under I percent — of cur brain’s capacity. Hero is a guiefc
to dcvetoplrg the enormous untapped potential ci the rest. In this book,
you will learn hew to improve:
• Memcry— your basic capacity, as well as year special ablilies for
retaining facts, names, laces
• Lfston&g — through tie sclccton cf key phrases that he'p you to
retain what has been said
• Seeing your eyes' ability to see mare ctasriy. analytically,
exlenshety. quckiy
• topic — the ten basic areas d logcal tNnktog that will improve
analysis and judgment
• Mmcncai Atetty-- with simple techriques tor handling complex
addton. subtraction, multiplication, and division wilhn seconds.
Packed with fascinating Information, this chafangng book details tha
latest discoveries about th« d decent mental finclicns of the toft and
right sides and tho upper and lower porters d the bran; speed rearing
ard note -taking techniques; special memory systems; and it provides
sell-improvement oxcrcrscs, "self-chocks.' and diagrams to licV you
understand tho concepts and apphy them to everyday use.
6x9, 157pp, ¡ffustrstad, indexed, softcover.
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MIND: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88121)
DOUBLESPEAK
From "Revenue Enhancement" to
"Terminal Living-
How Government, Business, Advertisers, and
Others Use Language to Deceive You
by William Lutz
Welcome to the worid of Doubtespoxk.
tho tongu^go of non respambiity. carcfuty
constructed to appear to communicate
when all it doos ts mislead. Designed Id
distort realty and corrupt undarstandng.
doublespeak makes the bad seem good
and the intolerable seem less so. Thanks to
the twists and turns of phrases and
thoughts practcod by government officials,
buanessmen. advertisers, ard myriad
ether pro-fessionals, doublespeak has
become so common Ural you may nc<
nottoo it or bcCier to protest when ycu do.
You may be happy to buy genuine im'tatlon
leather, and then again, ycu may wonder
wfrat you're gefcna for >*our money. Ne\ter fear — hero a book that will alert. amu>0 and appall you as it explores tho insidious prolferalion of deuttespeal: In oix dally Ives.
By identifying tee four kinds of dcubtespeak — euphemtem. jargnn. gobbledegook. hHated langusps — and by g'Mng numerous examptes from ad/ert&ng. meddne, law*, government, cducaton, business, and the military, William Lutz entertains and enlightens, al the while making clear that Uto deliberate misuse ot language not eny deceives but ako destroys communicator and trust, tho vory foundations of our democrat cUture. As Lutz wntos in hs preface: 'I have tried Id show teal doublespeak is not a sip of the league, ar language used cut of igactanoe. OU is insinad a very conacaL? use of language us a weapon or tod by thos-e in power to achcvc the? ends at our expense. Whle some doublespeak Is fumy, much of < is frightening. We laugh and dismiss doubkispcak as empty or meaningless words al our own peril for. as Gonrgo Orwell saw so dearty. Uto great weapon of power, expldtaton. manipulation, and oppression is language. It Is cn>/ by being awaro ot tho pervasiveness of doublespeak and its function as a tod Of social, eccooms. ard pdilic.il contrd that we can begin to fight those who would use language against us.'
19S9, 6x9, 964pp, iodtred, hardcover.
DOUBLESPEAK: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88163)
HOW TO BEAT “HONESTY" TESTS
by Sneaky Pete
In reconi years. an ihskfious employment screening tool has been used with ever-lncreastog abandon, panfctfarty in the area* oi retail, banking. detfvery, and warehouse work. W has taon hardy ary public convient upon this development except tor a scent few artkins in the special zed press. Often job applicants are told that < Is merely an "attitude survey.' just another form to ta completed before getting the job Pz<K*use there is so much paperwork Involved, IN* usuaiy passes by vnqvesççnep, pesp’te whatever yw may ta tow eta<z <• * te a pcnct-ata-poper tost that claims to measure taw hcnest yea aro and it at more ttan just another part of the red tape Involved in landing a pb. This tragedy gons far beyond what one mght think, been uso these tests are taken so senously by so many employer*. Fortunately, ike any oitar psychological tests, •honesty* tests can ta beaten by tta skllfu manlpUaion of one's responses.
This bock examines why those T>nncsty' tests exist, why they da not do what thoir pubistars cam (that is. why they are inaccurate) and why people take thorn as seriously as ttay do. Finafly. it explains taw these tests are intended to work and how >ou can beat them at the’r own game. While someone- who is futaamenlalfy Cishcoest can beat these lests by applying the principles in ths book. This bock «* prirraniy intended for frieze people who are generaiy put off by test taking and are especially afraid at psychological tests because they boltovo tho tests have some almost mystical stgriftcance. Before you hnr,h this book, you wli have forgotten that enduring myth.
TC0C8 covered include:
■ ViTry the ponclf-and-peper ’honesty* vests exist
■ The unreliability of polygraph tests
■ When ’honosty’ tests worn first developed
■ How tho ’bonosty' tests are sccrcd
■ IkmMo keep your answers consistent
■ Why r. is best Id admit seme minor thefts in the past
■ Why a r/^yhonosl person will Arftta "honesty* teste
■ The 16 most commonly used ’hones.*/ tests — with bps on taw to béât eatfï cue
■ And much mere
7SW, SX x SX, 56 pp. WÏ cover.
HOW TO BEAT ’HONESTY* TESTS: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88114)
RADICAL HONESTY
How To Transform Your Life
by Telling The TRUTH
by Brad Blanton, Ph.D.
Tta; ts a profound, rovohrticnary book that takes a frosh tock at taw wo live. love. and attempt to heal cursolros in med cm society. Radical Honesty is not a fender. gentler self-help bcok. Dr. Bbnlcn btows away the myths, superstitions, uta les by which we Ine cur lives. Stacking, entertaining, and completely un’que. H/uficM Honesty a gust — not a bream — of fresh air. Stress, according to Dr. Blanton, comas not from the cm’ironmont. but (rem tho soHbuill jail of tta mind. What keeps us in our soH built jaib is lyhg. ’We al Ito Ike hell.' be says, 'll wears us out., it is the major source zA all human stress. It kills us.* Not teling cur friends, lovers, spouses, or bosses about what we do. feel. c< think koeps us locked in that jal Tta way cut is to gel good at teling the troth. Dr. Banton provides tta tods we can use to escape from the jal of the mind. This bcok is a cake with a Tito In iL
RadJcaf Honesty. says Dr. Blarten, is a took tor 'a world cf human beings on the brink of destruction or rebirth. This b tta way through — the way to have a life of vitality for indrnduals as wel as the way to a world that works without cosing so many of its participants so taart/.' RadJcaJ Honesty powerful.1/ challenges conventional ethics, morals, and standards of behavior. With tho brusqueness of an emergency room physician treating trauma, Blanton says. There is no use wastng lime cn poltertess if the patient to damn r-aar de.nd.' Radical Honesty may ofleta you. but tenng tta truth can save your Ite.
1991, 5» x 8H>368 pp. soft cover.
RADICAL HONESTY: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88178)
SYSTEMANTICS
The Underground Text of Systems Lore
How Systems Really Work and How They Fall
by John Gall
Ilie point of view espoused in ths
brdliant took is radical and pessimistic.
Stated as succinctly as possible: the
fundamental problem docs net Ie in any
particular System tat raltar in Systems
As S«xh. SaMalhn. II it is attainable at all.
even partaly. is to be sought to 8 deeper
understand ng of tta ways o< all Systems,
not simply in a effiefem of the errors of a
parttoulsr System.
No coe. these days, can avod contact
with System*. Systems are everywhere:
big Systems. Httlo Systems. Systems nwcharicai and elccincnfc.
those special Systems that ccrast of organized associations of peopta.
In serf defense. wo must learn to Ih'c wen Systems, to control them lest
they ccntro’ us.
No eno can afford not to understarri tta basic prindptos of How
S'/itorne Work. Ignorance of those basic laws is bouryJ to lead to
unrealtetto expectations of tta type that Iksvo plagued dreamers,
setarrera. and so-called rren of affairs from the eariest times. BuL until
Systetnent/cSr nowtare was ttare to be found a single basic primer
that spots cut the essential pragmatic facts of practical systems in tta
form of stoipie and easy-to-grasp Axioms.
Sysfententfcs tells all. in frank and intimate languaga
undefslendabe to anycne who is wiling to read and reflect. Bdh
profound ata funny. Systemantics tells taw systems really work — ata
why ttay foil.
19SS, 6x9. 3^0pp. iffustfstod, Mxxed. toft cover.
SYSTEMANTICS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88125)
USE YOUR PERFECT MEMORY
A Complete Program of Now Techniques
for Remembering — with Special Programs
for Players of Poker and Bridge,
and for Students Taking Exams
by Tony Buzan
Tcny Buzan Is one of tec worlds Jcadng autherttas on Sic brain and foaming tochriqucis. In Use Your Perfect Memory, ta has dovista an xygennus system for mcmcxy improvement, geared to tandc each speoric memory problem — from facts ata figures Io far»s and dreams. Buzan, who has achlovod world wide suxoss in .mpcovjng tta memories of thousands of people, reveals in this bock his irwontive methods fc< irr^iroving your memory to tta potol of total recall.
Buzan dscusscs the secret principles underlying a super-power memory as well as re-re mo mbering: remembortog what you have forgetten. Included are techniques for everyday memory probtems. such as remembering names, faces, phene numbers, dale«, vocabulary words, and appointment*. Also provided are spec&l program* tor card players (partcularty players of peker and btage) to htfp item remember what ha* been played ata what carda are alii in the deck. Ttare is a useful section tor siucfent*. showing taw to Wy most effeoiv&V ata how to prepare lor exams wXh optimum result.
Here, in one volume, i* the only memory gude youll ever need.
XW SHxSH, 251pp. fffustnted, softcover.
•USE YOUR PERFECT MEMORY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88012)
1 Subliminal Learning AN ECLECTIC APPROACH
SUBLIMINAL LEARNING
An Eclectic Approach
by Eldon Taylor, Ph.D.
Subliminal Learning ¡3 rot Just
a text on auMminaJ communication
and technology. but eiso a troatiso
on self-rosponslbllcy. Al behavior
Is behavior ot chotoe. cvrxi d c is
palr/ul, fq&s&vq. and sublmlnaly
chascn. With his pest-graduate
background in scicnoa, pastoral
psychology, and comparative reli-
gion. and with twe-Yo years experi-
ence in crirnndcgy. Dr. B(bn
Tayfcc is uniquely quaified to lead
us into further exphralicn at sub-
liminal porcopcon and its effect on
the subconscious mind. His contri-
butions to this sconce-technotogy
have been, and continue to be.
Impressive. He has taken a great
step forward in presenting to us a
dearer picture of our evolving consciousness. to Subliminal Learning he provides models for understanding the sUbcepfon process together with overwhelming evidence cl the efficacy cl appropriate subliminal stimuli.
Contents include: The controversy about wWimnaJs • What you perceive that ycu dent • Definitions and technology • How we team • The reject on loop • Sublmlnat technology and the Industry h sublimi- nate • In search ot oorsdousnoss • Some cMcal observations and Insights Into future epptlcabons • A unified consciousness paradigm ♦ And mixh more.
Anyone Interested in mmd control, hcklcn manpulabon, and raalrtios within roalrtkjs in our everyday Irfo must read Eldon Tayler's becks, staring with Subliminal Loaming.
1933. 6x9. 206 pp. illustrated, indexed, soft corer.
SUBLIMINAL LEARNING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88110)
SUBUMINAL COMMUNICATION
Emperor's Clothes or Panacea?
by Eldon Taylor, Ph.D.
n SUBLIMINAL
Communication
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Selen# ¡c find ngs
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Unanswered questions
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The ’homemade' subliminal
If you thought subliminals wore
a hoax or against the law. opon the
papas of Subliminal Com-
munication and it will upon >our
eyes! It is the tolent of this book to
focus speciffcaPy on subliminal
tochnotogy. Doos it work? If so.
what is Iha evidence? How does it
work? Can it create basic changes
in personalty structure? Tlieso and
many other questions, implication,
and ramifications are treated within
the pages that folow.
Tepes covered include:
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History
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Mechanics
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The law and suMminafe
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Tesiinwies
• Ard much more, including a soppier list and bibliography.
Subliminal Communication is real! This book is a straightforward simpKbd account designed to demonstrate how subliminal processing has tocn and is accomplished. It oven includes bow to create your own subi mina! pregram.
1933, 6x9, 13Spp. ¡Hustrttcd, soft cover.
SUBUMINAL COMMUNICATION: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88111)
HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE
by Barry Farber
Barry Farter has been a
tn>s ad.'enturer in languages
(or -18 yoars and can speak in
25 tongues. The technqjes
he presents In mis book wii
have readers speaking, read-
ing. writing and enjoyng any
foreign language they want to
learn — or have to learn — in
a surprisngty short lima.
Without beating their
heads against verb ccqu-
gallons ard noun dcclcnions,
readers wil fellow Farber's
principles and glda toward
language proficiency. His
methods consists cf four
ground-breaking but simple
coooapte. hailed by larguage-
teaching professicnsls who
agree that previous ap-
proaches have failed to teach
Americans foreign tanguapss.
They are:
• The Mufti- Track Attack Accelerate learning end ei'mlnate boredem by uelng all m crxto an arsenal of the latest language tods, toctodng cassettes, flash cards, dkthnonos. grammar bocks. and mem.
• Harnessing Hidden Moments. Turn free time, oven fifteen seconds, into personal 'mini-lessons.' No more standing m Ine or waiting lor elevators with an nactrzo mind!
• The Magic Memory System. Commit dozens of words Id memory, at a snglo silting and with astcundng rolenlfon. by using a fun and ef- feetva vccabufary-memcry techrique.
• Starting at die Top. Plunge in Qust as a chid dees when learning to speak) and jon conversation groups, read publications, and watcti mxn’ies in the language you're leaning.
How To team Any Language is as entertaining as it is etlectve. and slvows llial aptlude is less important than appetite. This essential took explarrs all the fools, methods, and motr/ation necessary to learn any language.
1991, SUxSU. ICOpp, softcover.
HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE: $9.95
(ORDERNUMBER 88156)
Back to School
UNDOING YOURSELF
by Christopher S. Hyatt
With Energized Meditation
'Of ccurso, there is a quite legitimate reason why the word 'work* has such horrible ccndi’.oned associations for most people in tire modern world. Thal reason b that most 'work' in this age is stupid, mcrtotoncus. brain-rotting, irritating, usually pcinress and tasicaiy consists of Hie agonizing process of being slowly bored to death orer a period of abou: 40 io 45 >«are of drudgery; Marx was quite right in calling it \vage slavery.' Most p-eepte know this, but are afraid fo admit it. because to dlsike •work' is regarded as a symptom of Communism or some ccner dreadful montei ilna&s.
T recency heard a politician admit on BBC that the reason Engtsh workers are so rotoriou^y lazy4 is that their pbs are so unspeakably sub-human and dull. 'If I had to do that kind of work, I wouto call In sfok as often as pcssibte and goof off al every chance,' he sakf flatly. Alas. I tvad tuned in tale and never old catch this chap’s name, which is a terri- trio nrisfortuna for me, since I suspect he is Ure crily Honest Politician in the workf.'
— Frony tt>e Preface by Robert Anton WHson
T937, SH xSfi, 170pp. ttiustralcd. softcover.
UNDOING YOURSELF: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88103)
FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES
A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
by James P. Carse
There are al least two kinds cf games.* stales Jarnos Carco as he begins this extraordinary book. ’One could be called finite; the other WMe.”
Finite games am the familiar contests of everyday We; they are pVvj'Od In order to be won, whch is when the/ end. But infoile games aro morn mystanous. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. Tbo rutes may change. Iha boundartw may charge, even the participants may change - as long as the game is never a lowed Io come to 8n end
What are infinite ganras? How (to they affect the ways we play cur folte gvnos? What aro we doing when we ptay — finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite gsmes affect the ways In which we five cur Itos? Carse explores these questions with stornng stance. teasing cut of his dslinctions a universe of observation and Insight, rating whero and why end how wo play. finitely and infinitely. Ho surveys cuf wortd — from the finite games of the playing hold and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion — teavlrg an wo tNrk we know .llumnatod and transformed. Along the way. Carse finds new ways of understanding everything frem buw an actress portrays a rote. to herw wo engage in sox. from the nature of evil, to the nature Of SCien». Finito games, ho shows, may offer wealth and status, power srd gory. Bet rifinito games offer something far more subtle and far grardor.
OODOOOOQOOOOO
•When we as* precisely how a society w/l go about preserving H8 citizens’ property, we can oxpoct the reply that it will (to so by the use cl forco. Thfc reply irtrcdixes a dilemma. White < Is trvn that there are ways c/ forchi/ restraining a th of. it is also true that ra amount of force can load the Artful Dodger truly to acknowledge a gentlemen's trita to the handkerchief in his pocket. Until tha young ruffian is pcrouufcd freely to respect that Wo. ho will reman a thief. By extension, this observation applies to the society ss a whole. There is no effective pattern cf enUtterrant in a society short of the free agreement of (Ml epperants that the titles to property are In the hands of tt"« actual winners.
'tto forco will establish this agree mo nt. Indeed, the opposite is tho caso. R is agreement that establishes torco. Orly those who coreent to a society's constraints see them as constraints — that Is. 85 gukfes Io action and rat as actions to be opposed.
Those who challenge the existing pattern of entitlements in a society do not consider the designated officers of enforcement poweriU. they consider them opponents in a struggi© that wil determine by ita outcome who is powerful. One does not win by power; one wins to be powerful.
•Only by free seif-conceaVnont can porcons botava they obey the law because the law is powwrtU; in fact, the law is powertU lor persons only bocaute they ebey it We do not proceed through a traffic intersection txcouse the signal charges. Out iWWlha signal changes.
'This means that a peculiar burden talk cn property owners. Since the laws protecting their property will be effective only when they aro able to persuade others Io Obey those iaws% they must introduce a thealricaity into their Oivnecjhp sutficicrtt/ engaging that liter opponente will Ive by its script?
□OQOQQQODOOOQ
John P. Carse has written a book rich in insIgM and aphorism. Already an International titenuy event Finite and Infinita Games U certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Readng it is the first step to teaming to ptay Infinto games. HgNy recommended.
199S. Mi x SHr indexed. son cover.
FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88109)
THE NEW INQUISITION
Irrational Rationalism
and the Citadel of Science
by Robert Anton Wilson
In this book. Wilson chaiongas
the fundamentalist models of
religion and scicrae which, if left
unchockod, could accelerate to
become tho on>/ realty we are
□lowed.
The priests who serve tho
citadel — the soenbfic-
tochralegical Elite of our time —
are paid workers, cn salary, ard
most of Ihor eemtogs derive from
tt»e milrtery-irdusteal complex that
owns, and governs, most of the
world, end wishes to own. and
govern, the rest of Iha wodd as
wot.
Tlie people who believe the
sluff that gets into my books seem
as arrusing to me as the poop’e who are temttod or thrown mto fury by tliem. I am not asking errjtxxfy Io arching. I am asking only that >ou play a neurosemantc game with mo. and observe what sort of reports yra cah ©cnador with hi.mor cc dispassion and what sort of reports trxjgor terror or rage. If this be subvarson, then so are the Marx brothers and Monty Py^hcn.
'Nietzsche said once that we are all greater artiste than we realize, but fundamontafsts are too timed to think of therraetod 88 great artists. They take ra credit for what U-ey have invented, they assunte they tvn’o no part to toe creaton and maintenance of the idols they weeshp. Uko the» paranoid — very much ike toe paranoid, in tact — they devise baroque and Ingenous Systems, and drtora tram as ’Given-* Tboy than carefuly edit all impressions to conform to tho System. There is no vdhty. no van?/ at all. In people who are so intensely crcafr.*© and unw.lling to recognzo thoir own cleverness.’
Robert Antcn Wilson is era of the most challenging and tonovatfvo writers of our bones. We highly recommend The Hew Inquisition!
1SSS, SH x 9H, 252 PP, Muxtnrtxd, sett cov^r.
THE NEW INQUISITION: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88097)
HOW TO BE TWICE AS SMART
by Scott Witt
The supcr-perforrrars of ths world got where they are not because they arc any ’smarter* than the rest of us. but because they know hew to multiply their brainpower. Naw >vu can taarn lltoif secrete. This book spells out proven techniques that help yom
• Dcve’op a total reca’I memory
• Recall facts, dales and figures with the Data Linking rraihod
• Do mental caJctrafions at thn rpnod of a calculator
• Becerra a speed-reader - and absorb more of what you read
• Soh-e problems that slump others
• Speed-^sm any subject
• Set higher goals for ycumeff and meet them aa^ty
• Outwit your corcpeCtors
• Use 8 new Improved system ol brainstorming to create unusual solutions to dltficiit prob’ems
Get smarter and achieve rraro in Me. The keys are spelled out for you. step by step, in ths remarkable bock
19SS, 6x 9, 2T6pp, Mxxxd soti cover.
HOW TO BE TWICE AS SMART: $8.95
THE PLEASURE CONNECTION
How Endorphins Affect Our Health and Happiness
by Deva Beck, R.N. and James Beck, R.N.
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Discover tow to ’get high"
cn your own biochomebyf
★ Loam wton and how
exertiso can improve your
Ho
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Ertorco and preserve ycur
rr^rwry—at
★ Fine-tune your weight
control program
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Explore ’.he exc®ng wodd
of Endorphins — your own
natoral bicchem'eals of
pleasure and potent pain-
relet -
Experience How-To Explor-
ations — way» to influence
your own hearth and
happiness — ways to
tnggor tto flow of your own
powerhjf Endorphinsf
Through tto dscovory of
Etoorphns — our ron natural tio-chomicals of pain-relef, py and well- being — wo arc beginning Io understand the way our feelngs. thoughts end behavior are moWGd end how. wxh this knoMtoga. wo can bogin to reshape and retina our axporonca through Ito py and pcozc that cur ertorphn prAnr/.nl bolds. Using easy. flowing language. The Pleasure Connection: How Endorphins Affect Our Health and Happiness describes how we can consciously influence this entorphin process 10 create and maintain a psychological state of ongoing well-being and maximize our potential for phys-ofogcal heath — especially cur immuno strength agahst disease.
1937, Sfj x 3H, 247 pp. indexed, softcover.
THE PLEASURE CONNECTION: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85081)
THE ART OF DECEPTION
by Nicholas Capaldi
(Rcvtowodby Deborah Callahan)
HOW TO: • Win An Argument • Defend A Case • Recognize A Fallacy • Persuade A Skeptic • Turn Defeat Into Victory
Fast-pacod. yet very particular, this book should be considered a survival manual for communication.
Not only can you learn to spn a yam no one else can resist ycull gel hip to Iho oUttf guy's ballyhoo. Liars will present statistics and theoretical constructs wh'le classifying and tolining to suit ttolr own ends. They will try to drive home conclusions using nonverbal devices. OUT YOU CAN BE PROTECTED^
Yes. you can even strike back! While sutoy gauging audcnco reaction, you wiB refute al of tto above ploys with bod strokes of ycur own. Learn how to attack a conclusion, quote cut c4 context, defend a generalization, use red herrings and calls for perfecson. Yew can appeal to ¿¿IW Ml. M well And tai! fc/gat TWO wrongs mako a right.
A delightful book for those who like to argue and win as won as for those wto like to shoot down fancy theories wtth zinging ono-tinors. ‘Do not ¿imply defend your own position but attack the opposition, os woii. You ettack, not onty to show that fho argument of tho opposition is merely persuasive in a sopodwt way, but atso to give yourself more time fo think of a reply tn defending your own case. Hof, at oti times giro the ¿mpresskx) that you are in charge of the argument •
— From The Art Of Decep tion
1937, SHxSH. 200 pp. indexed, soft corer.
THE ART OF DECEPTION: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88021)
C TIMOTHY LEARY
_ What Does
WoMan Want?^
WHAT DOES WoMan WANT?
by Timothy Leary
Television? What Docs
WoMan Want? is designed to
provide a television experi-
ence. There are four ongoing
soap-epara mini-dramas.
These are interwoven with
commercials, special parody
announcements, and mini-
documentetos. The viewer is
encouraged to flip from chan-
nel to channel (chapter to
chapter).
Central Plot? Tie central
plot is tto Quixotic saga of an
evolutionary agent. Dylan, a
confused bu sneere minstreL
He has been assigned to a
primitive planet in tto latter
years of tto Roaring 20th
Century to perform those small
but pcoc^o ;gglcs noctod io
cause chaos In tto old, outmotod gene-pools, thus allowing creative
individuals to start explcdng and settling tto next habitats.
What Does Want? Tto hstoty of tto last 2000 years has made
it very dear wfrat Man wants.
What is Dylan's Mtsston?To rediscover VZh.n1 WoMan Wants.
1933, SU a SU, 230pp, sett eewtr.
WHAT DOES WoMan Y/ANT2: $9.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 88112)___________________
LATERAL THINKING
Creativity Step by Step
by Edward de Bono
Thinking is a skill, and like a skill it can to developed and improved If
one know* how In LatorN Thinking, Dr. to Bono shows us bow. He
sets out 10 teach creatMty In as careful a manner as mathematics or
history. Special slliwflons. techniques, and exorcises aro used to
develop the mind’s creative skill and to promote sbmuiaiing attitudes
and habits, which actuarty encourage creativity.
The utoertying argument of this book Is that there are two kinds of
thinking — vertical and lateral. Most of us ate educated to think
verttoally. to go from one logical step Io the roxt. moving al tho time
towards tho or»n correct solutien of our problem. W’e are rot. usualy,
educated to bo crcaVfo, to generate idea after idea.
Edward to Beno argues that the function of vertical, logical Ih’nWng
is to oxefudo what is wrong. It e a very useful way of thinking, but it is
not tho only useful way. To claim it is. is tie sort of intalectual
arrogance that makes creative thinking unlikely. Dr. de Bono
orrphasizes Ihat there is no antagonism between tto MO kinds of
thinking. Botfi are oocessary. Vertical thinking ¡8 immensely useful, but
one noods to enhance Ils use-fulness by addog creativity end tempering
its rigidty. Contends include:
■ The way the m nd works
■ Oilfereric© between lateral and vertical thinVng
■ Tho use of lateral INnKJng
■ Techniques
■ Ctofleng’^D assumptions
■ Innovation
■ Design
■ Dominant ideas end crvcfei factors
■ FractfonaSOn
■ The reversal method
■ Brainstorming
■ Analogies
■ Choice of entry pant and attention araa
■ Random stimulation
■ and much, much more.
1970, 3H x CH, 300pp. iffustrxted, sett cover.
LATERAL THINKING: $t 1.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88063)
SELF THERAPY
Techniques for Personal Growth
by Muriel Schiff men
Muriel Schffman shows how io confront tho past in order to live more effectively in the present. Her simple self-help techniques, designed tor everyone. nra arranged in a sequence that promotes the growth process. Tho author says: ~.my lecture« are designed lor the so-catod 'normal' person in our cUture: that to, those with mMy neurotic tendencies, people Ike myself who may never rxod professional hdp. Stiadows of the past sometimes contomnato the present and narrow (town the future tor al ot us. The purpose of my self tiierapy techniques is to- confront the pest and put t in its place. Ony t»en are we released to live the present more fiity and grow into a richer future, able to use more of our true potential.
Contents include: Suffering Can Bo Therapeutic • Sef- deteaing Behavior • How to Foal a Hddcn Emotion • Thinking Out Loud • Detective Work In Self Therapy • Writing as a Path to the Hidden Feeing • Sneatong Up on the Hidden Feeing • Comrrxjnicatton In Marriage ♦ Dangerous Games in Marriage • How to Stop Playing Dangerous Games • Hidden Feeingr. m Frondship • The Idealized Self-Image • The Child Within tho Adult • How to Free Your Natural Creativity ♦ Anxiety and Fear • How to Safety Feci a •Dangerous* Emotion • Shamo and Gult • The Hidden Cmvng for Dopocdenoy • Tho Moaring of Self-Acceptance • The Hidden Boiof in Maqc • Marriage: An American Fantasy • Hidden Anger • And more.
Muriel Schiffman's techniques got right to mo core cl inner conflict, ard can te very Instrumental In freeing you of sc-:f-imposed restrictions.
1967, SHxtH, 176 pp. softcover.
SELF THERAPY: $635
(ORDER NUMBER 88161)
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS
Thought Control In Democratic Societies
by Noam Chomsky
What role do the media play in a
captahst democracy?
kiusions argues Ihat. tar from
performing a watchdog role, the
•free press* servos the needs of
those in power. Willi Ihe book.
Chomsky rips away lbw mask of
propaganda that portrays the media
as advocates of free epet<h and
democracy.
•...tho major media are corporations
•soling' privileged audiences to other
busncsscs... Motfa concentration
high, and increasing. Furthermore,
those who occupy managerial
positions n the media... belong to
the same privioged eliles. and
might txi expected to share the
pnronptons. aspirations, and
BU
7har<KtV O.»rrJrrV
in Dcmpcwttte ScicMfci
NOAM CHOMSKY
attitudes of their associates. rofiocting their own class Interests as well.
Journalists entering Umj system are uriikely to make ther way unless
they conform to those ideological pressures, generally by Internalizing
tho yatoos- Those who tail io cwW v.5II be weeded out.^*
— Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions
This tock applies the propaganda mcdcl Chomsky has deve'oped with Edward Herman to media coverage of the diplomatic process in Central America and the Middle East, human rights issues, terrorism, and oilier lopes, revealing the cnxiai furction cf the media ard educated elites in limiting democracy In tho United States. Rigorously documented. Necessary Illusions is an Invaluable too! fcr unctorstandng thought central in the United States.
1949, SH xSK. 430pp, indexed, softcover.
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94192)
DON’T LET THEM PSYCH YOU OUT!
by George Zgouridos, Psy.D.
Georgs Zgcurides' Don't Let
Them Psych Ycu Ortto cos of tho
fnesl psychological sef-dstense
manuals we have seen. Difficult peo-
ple. We an know some The nctey
(Of nosy) neighbor, tho overbearing
boss. tho rolanttass relative, tho
pushy salesperson. Manipulative
poopio. Poopte who insisl on having
everything thek way. People who
are always trying to psych you out!
We all know them, but do we
know bow to deal w?.h them? Don't
Let Them Psych You Out! can
help. It leacties psychological self-
defense for handing arguments,
showdowns. arnbushos. and other
diincuT situations — like those:»
Year boss is insisting that you cto
something that you really dent want i
attend a family function, and you dent know hew to tel them NO! •
You're angry about something your partner is doing, but >ou donl want
io get into a right • You bought seme shoddy merchandise. tut you
dread having to deal with an obnoxious cterk when ycu try to return i.
Don't Let TTwm Psych You Out! won’t mako these conflicts go
away. But ri will gjvo you practical skits for handing dtficult people
without losing year digrrty or year cod.
Chapters include:
Part!: The Basics afPsycixx^ogicalSeff Defense, 1. Can I Realfy Regain
Contrd of My Life?. 2. How Thoughts and Emotions Cause
Prcbtems. 3. Rolhnkhg Away Ycur Problems. 4. Making What You
Say and Do Count, 5. Roady Repios. 6. Powerful Assertiveness
Techniques. 7. Where's the Monkey?, 8. Unconvertonal Strategies.
9. Shenco e Gddon!. 10. Nasty Opponents. 11. Preparing for Batlte
Pad iL- When You Psyth YourS^f Out 12. CdYWfa3 V/Orty riA.f
Anxiety. 13. Keep Ycur Cod’. 14. Learning to Hardie Fnendy
Criticism. 1&. Learning to Handfe Un1riend>y Criticism. 16. Rate«» to
Fed Noeclee^y Guilty or Depressed
Pad AZ- When Ottters Psych You Out V. At Home. 18. Near Homo. 19.
Al Work 8M School. 20. At the Store. 21. On the Pncnc. 22. At tie
Door
And more. Including Finding a Reputable Mental Health Therapist, Ending a Repulsble Sex Therapist and morn.
Don't let them psych you oufffi
1S93,X 9H>197PP, toft cov^r.
DONT LET THEM PSYCH YOU OUTI: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88173)
GESTALT SELF THERAPY
And Further Techniques for Personal Growth
by Muriel Schiff men
If ycu seem to bo spinning your wheels, caught ri traps >ou dcnl quite understand, airt'cr unable lo ’got it together,* Gestalt Set! Therapy can be a big help to ycu. It tolls >ou how to ferret ctf and locate the roots of your self-defeating bohavers, and how to change your ife so Chat you are in comrot.
Comers ¡nctode: Dr. Jockyll & Mr. Hyde • Tho Inner Conflict • Techniques for Gestalt Self Therapy • The Search fur kJerility • Self Dbcblmo • The Judynental Attitude • FtespUASiNity & BlAttO • Problems in Commurication • Tlw hteurocto Need to Contrd • The Courage to Fail • The Meaning of Lore • Depression • How to Use a Ps)rhdherapst • Loneliness • The Psycho’oglcal Tasks of Adolescence • Envy & Jealousy • Self Therapy Workshops • Ten Examples of Gestalt Self Therapy • And more. Designed to help you help yoursdf. GestsU Seif Therapy Is hrighly roccmmordod, and of the utmosl significance lo those seriously interested in personal freedom.
197f, 5Hxan, 733PP, softcore.
GESTALT SELF THERAPY: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88162)
CONFABULATIONS
Creating False Memories • Destroying Families
by Eleanor Goldstein with Kevin Farmer
Are 'docadas delayed discoveries' based on repressed memories accurate? Aro those memories real enough for accusations of sexual abuse, including incost and Satanism, to be accepted wiCiCut Chai- tango? Should parents be labeled 'pcrpc'.ralccs* without having an opportune/ Io dotend themselves?
Many thoraptets scum to think so. Many journalists and talk sltow hosts soern to think so.
Experts on memory and ti e mird don’t atoays thick so. They know that memory is rot intallbta. The elder the memtxy. the more fragmented it becomes. Memory can become contaminated by later events □rd by what a person sees, hears or reads. Childhood memortaa, especially repressed memories, ere often contobUaitons — n mixture of fact and fantasy.
An epidemic is emerging to which adult children are accusing their parents of horrendous Grimes based on repressed memories reeled In tlwxapy. Confabulations recounts Che stories of twenty families. cut of more ttvan 550 dccumented cases, ravaged by ths epidemic. 'I had to write this book.' Eleanor Go'dsleln says. •When I became aware of this issue and the competing stories of parent. I knew it was no mental tieaXh issue of the decade.*
1992, 5M x SK, 313 pp. soft cow.
CONFABULATIONS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88179)
TRUE STORIES OF FALSE MEMORIES
by Eleanor Goldstein and Kevin Farmer
True Stories Of False
Memories exptares Iha issue
of Falw Menwy Syndrome
from two new perspectives
— from therapy survhore
who have recanted their
»caisahcns ard from
siblngs ci patents still m
therapy. Iha stones will
engross you as the all-toa-
famliar scenarios develop.
Strings describe tlto
devastating effects of their
sisters' accusations of sexual
□nd satank: ritual abuse
aga'nst thor parents, based
on memories recalled to
therapy. TIxj siblings are true
victms, as are the adult
children in the therapy.
The authors present stories
of 'retractors* - survn-ers of the abusive therapy that encourages tho
development Cf false memories. Recovered memory therapy is widely
pract'ced by Iconssd psycNatrtsts. psychologists and clinical social
workers. Women Who have experienced this type of therapy describe
how they were led to b<2iavo they wore sexually abused but new realize
the incest never occurred. Ihay tel how they were abused — by the
very people they went to for help.
Hope Is provided by those who have emerged and surrivors of the
outrageous therapy which induced fatea memories. Their stories are
shocking and candidly told.
The poopte In this hook speke about their horrendous experiences
with false memories on such tabtod TV shows as: Oprxh, CorMue,
Prime Time Live, CNN/Hews, McwyPovsch, Tom Snyder, Hord Copy,
Front Page, Ntgtd TM with Jene Whitney and Moro.
Now read their stories to True Stories of False Memories!
1993, 5rtx6&, 525pp. Utustrated, fodrxad, »oft cow.
TRUE STORIES OF FALSE MEMORIES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88180)
PUMPING IONS
Games and Exercises
to Flex Your Mind
by Tom Wu/ec
Does your mird wander
when you think through a
problem al heme or at
work? Do you hsw troubo
remembering vital names,
datos, facts? Instead of
making creative leaps, are
you al too often confronted
with mental blocks? It may
be that your mod is
suffering from lack o<
exeroiso to Pumping Zoos,
aixnrx Tom Wujec shows
you how to strengthen, flex,
leno, and coordinate your
'mental muscles,' con-
dilienng the brain just as
you do the bed/.
Perfect for the student,
business person, or anyone
who foals their mind has
grown 'flabby.' this fuEy-
ilustralad Qudn provides dozens of easy exorcises designed to:
-
Increase attention span
-
Improve memory
-
Enhance crea&vtty
-
Stretch Imagination
-
BUId up powers cd doducton and analysts
-
Hore docteuon-makng skits.
It also explains many invaluable tochriqucs for relaxation, visualization, vertjafizaton, and loaming. Packed with intriguing putfto. pwroGativo ¿teas, and supgrcions, this fascinating book can hefc you develop your very own mental fitness program — and gain tho ultimate ccmpcrifjvo edge to business, school, or recreation.
1933. 6x9. 2S6pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PUMPING IONS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88120)
THINKING ANIMALS
Animals & the Development of
Human Intelligence
by Pau! Shepard
In □ world ¡ncreasingiy domnated by human beings, the survival of tho ocher species becomes more ard more queslicnabte. We have always been dependent on animals in the pasL but as w« learn to substitute man made materials lor animal products, Uto econorric usafiinoss cf animals decreases, and cn>/ moral and ecotopical arguments remain in favor of preserving them. As conservattorists know, tresn arguments are often lost in Iha face of the simple choice: 'them' or 'us/
In this briltant and original beck, naturalist Paul Shepard offers a new and different argument — coo that all readers, animal lovers cc not. will find prm’ocatrro and dfltault to cliartengo. to tracing Uto ovduton of man as a thinking animal, he shorn how Iha development o( our rrrnds has been integrally tovclvcd with animals, how Uto learning process in children today and even cur axfal relations as adults are attl depentenl on the existence of Oliver species.
Animate figure strongly in cur ima^s, cur dreams, cur works of art. CUT speech, erd our play — in tho very core ci human imagnabon. Shepard's cortenbon is that this trait is a deep and lasing ore. a reeflty that compete us to think of animals in order to be human. Without othec living species by which to measure oursckos. we woi/d txs less mature, care less tor and bo more careless of al life, irxriutfng Iba! cf our own kind.
197$. 6 x 9, 256 pp, iffuatrafad, indaxad, hard cove/.
THINKING ANIMALS: $935
(ORDER NUMBER 88118)
ÎONZI SCHEMES
INVADERS
FRÖMARS
EXTRAORDINARY
POPULAR
RELUSfflS
JOSEPH BVEGATZ
PONZI SCHEMES, INVADERS FROM MARS,
& MORE EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
AND TH E MADNESS OF CROWDS
by Joseph Buigatx
In tte page-turning tradition of
Charles Mackay's 1841 stn-in-
print classic. Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the
Madness ot Crowds. Joseph
Eulgatz has eonptod an at now
compendium of society’s never-
endng capacity for delusions and
bizarre behavior.
From Charles Pcnb's
openymous pyramid scheme lo
pnrpotoAl mrzon machines,
factory favors (our present-day
irYaluatfon is far from original},
and Orson Welles’s iniamous
rado broadcast of 7Z\? War of the
Worlds, Joseph BulgaU
deserbes in fascinating detal a
wide spectrum of human greed,
gullbhty. superstition. end just plain sillnsss. Bugatz aven describes
hew Mackay's most famous example — his account of wild fnanrial
spoctfaton in tiXip bubs in 17th-Century Hokrid — oc^rred again ¡uet
one hundred yean; Intar. this time with hyadmnsl
Both an nxtraardinar/ read and an insightful look at popular culture.
Chis book Is guaranteed to amaze, inform and amuse.
1992, 6x9, 437pp, iiiuit/xted. Index. son cover.
PONZI SCHEMES. INVADERS FROM MARS,
& MORE EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88169)
WORD CONTROLLED HUMANS
by John Harland
WORD CONTROLLED HUMANS
Vr
The precesses than cum individual
humans into monstrous group
organisms are Ite significant aspects of
history on which ths. book focuses.
’Civil* and ’rellgicus’ groups, growing
into powers by destrucscn of Individual
souls and control of IndMdual will,
rozarvo the same cxamnalicn — with
no gtorified generators glossing over
the horror that sharp focus reveals.
Concerned primarily with tee word
oondfconing mat now domnetes
America and Europe, this work
NgMghte the need to first remove the
obstaKSonr. from cvxr ohtj eyes
before trying to correct Ite tauts of
otters. The history and current pmctccs
in our own conditioning arn examined tram a naw perspective. No issues are dodged. A surprising view of Christianity is contro/erslaJ ard OWht
Ths is a book for those who want to be individuate. There is none ol the usual summing up that ’wo. as a group* should lake some vague onrrodh’Q acticc. Instead, a clear possibility for indviddals to take etfoettvo ftobon is spcllad out in proctea detail.
Every Intelligent person is rJrn.vty highly concerned with tte problem presented — and there is no intelligent person who will nc< have his irond stretohed. and be stimulated lo a sharper percepcon. by this book's unusual perspcct'rro.
1931r 5h x 8H, 113pp, sof! cover.
WORD CONTROLLED HUMANS: $5.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88180)
NEUROPOLITIQUE
The Sociobiology of Human Metamorphosis
by Timothy Leary
(With Robert Anton Wiison and George A. Koopman)
Neuropolidque fc cne of Leary's
beat books. Le«ary Is pcpulerty consid-
ered to be nuta. but wo have fourd his
ideas and insfohis to be well worth
considering.
EspedAlty Artlghtcnng in Nov-
ropoiltique arc the chapters ’The
Great Judeo-Chrtetian Sin. Oudaw.
Guilt. Crime & Punishment T.V. Show,’
'Haw To Was*i Brains,* The Sexual
Domestication Ol Pie Four-Brained
Bpcd.* and 'In Defense Of "Snake Oil
Salesmen.' ’
Leary's books arc al! based an the
premise that he is a tme traveling
Evolutionary AgenL visiting this primi-
tive planet from the Future. His mission
is to raise tte inleligence of we earth-
lings to prepare us for tte next great
TIMOTHY
LEARY
NEUROPOLITIOUE
leap in tte evolutionary process, which Leary summarizes with tte
acronym 'S.M.I.2 L E.* — Space Migration. Inteligsnce Increase, ard Life Extonsicn.
NouropoJiliquc ts a hilarious and challenging book. It will make >ru think. Leary takes little for granted, and neither stedd you. HigHy recommended.
1977, 7x 10, 160pp, atustroted, son cover.
NEUROPOLfTIQUE: $12.95
(ORDERNUMBER 88105)
INFO-PSYCHOLOGY
by Timothy Leary
Hero * is — the sequel lo
NeuropodHgucr These two
arn Leary's hcs4 bocks If you
haven't road them yet. you
really should. Everybody's
head coukl use a good
clearing cut coze in a while,
and Leary will challenge your
most basic premises. Alter
rearing Into-Psychology
(subtitled a Manual On Th©
Ute of Tte Human Nervous
System According To The in-
structions o' The Manufac-
turers). Loan/ presents Ns
pliloeophy of human evofu-
lion, summarized by the
acronym S.M.I? L.E. —
Space Migration, inteNgance
Increase, and Life Extension.
If you find tbe«o to be worthy
goals, Info-Psychology a good place to start after them.
Leary h.is Invented hs ctati prgon, which often sounds like gobbledygook. but nevertheless. this is a challenging and profound book. It is designed to enable you. the reader, lo learn twyw to use ycur head, lo dclcnnnc your own mutation level, and to direct your own OTOMM. The human race is now moving towards unlimited space, unlimited time — end an unlimited bran to on}oy them. If you arc ready lo move, change, and evolve. you are ready lor Info-Psychotogy.
The popular press pants Leary as a 'drug-soaked* buffoon Ttey should If poopto start thinking about what Leary says, they wil soon see tte ’Press' as tho absurd cowardly toadies they really are. Read >V?uu ropoStiqve and Info-Psychology and soa for yovrsdf what Timothy Leary fe ike.
1977, 7 x W, 134 pp, iftustrxted, sod cover.
INFO-PSYCHOLOGY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 83104)
BUILD YOUR
BRAIN
POWER
Arthur Winter, M.Ä.
and Ruth Winter
BUILD YOUR BRAIN POWER
The Latest Technlques to Preserve, Restore
and Imp-rove Your Brain’s Potential
by Arthur Winter, M.D. and Ruth Winter
Until recently. it was believed that as
the years pass, cur brains Inovhably
decline in (unction, but as Dr. Arthur
Winter and Ruth Winter prove in Build
Your Brain Power, people who
continue to actively use their brain
power can actually improve their
intelligence throughout their lives.
Adapting techniques used in exercising
damaged brains, the authors show us
how to itnptove a variety of brain
functions, from aiding memory and
increasing the abiity to learn Io
protecting tta bran from stress and
attendant depression.
Youf brain can grow 'flabby* just like
a potbeSy! Build Your Brain Power
gives you simple. interesting, and fun
exorcises ilia! train ycu to get your train into tip-lop shape. Vie watch
our weight and exercise cur bedy, and now, finally. we have a way of
making sure that our brain stays as young a» we do — without pain,
sweat, or witpower.
Build Your Brain Power inctodss chapters on: Why soma people grew smarter ss they get older, and how you can too. The importance of bringing more oxygen to the brain, and what exercises will do ths; Setoctive stimulations to improve your senses. Foods that may actually improve memory; and much more, inctodng protecting your brain from stress.
Build Your Brain Power is high?/ recommended for anyone who wants to keep on growing and learning throughout life.
1966. SHx6M,2!0pp. iffustrxted, indexed soft cover.
BUILD YOUR BRAIN POWER: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88090)
THE TEENAGE LIBERATION HANDBOOK
How to Quit School and Get a Real Life
and Education
by Grace Llewellyn
Your Irie. lime, and brain should
tatong to you, not an institution. The
Teenage Liberation Handbook is for
everyone who has ever gore to school,
but it is especially a book for teenagars
and poopfo with teen-agers in their
lives.
You will loam:
-
some good reasons to thnk about
quilting school -
low to reclaim your natural abiity to
learn and leach yotrself -
low to get your parents' support,
keep your friends. ata slay cut of
legal trouble -
bow to design a personalized edu-
cation you can pct excited about -
taw lo go to ooHego wiltaut gong to high Khcol
-
taw to find volunteer positions, appremkeships. and other work opportunccs
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wtat other urrxtao’cd teenagers ta with ther time ♦ and much more.
Grace UowoDyn became a middle school English teacher because she loved the Idea of enabling young people to ranch their fullest potential. After two years, she quit leaching and began achocatng un- schoolng for tta same reason.
199f, 6x9, 413pp, indexed, softcover.
THE TEENAGE LIBERATION HANDBOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94224)
COINCIDANCE
by Robert Anton WUson
This is a new collection of
25 essays by cne ol our
favorite writers. Botart Anton
WJson Ho says in hs Fore-
words:
•Like many other wild and
anarchistic wanderers of our
shattered times, I spend a lot
ol tme asking myself
questions that are otticQlly
classed as 'nonsensical' by the
Cambridge cusVudans cl
linguistic analysis. I ask. for
instance, why arc there 12
eggs in a grocer’s box and 12
citizens in a jury box — or why
Nagasaki is mentored in
conjunction with uranium in a
book published In 1939 — or
why attitudes toward (he
femate breast correlate closely
with attitudes tawa-d war and
conquest. Naluraty, as the
Cambridge group warns, such nonsense questions lead to rocscnse answers.
•Some ol the nonsense answers that have amused and delighted me are cofacted in ihis anthology, if there is a tliesris h’dden in these random exptorations, it might be that nonsense hss its own meanings and that Lev/is Candi, the tantasisL was just as wise as Chartes Dodgson. tr>e logician, who happened to inhabit the same body as Carrol. Or it might be that nonsense and poetry are inescapable parts cf human experience as tong as we have two hemspheres in our brains, ore logical and the other intuitive. Or it rhght be that dialectical Marxism (Groucho variety) can answer questions that sane sober people cant e ven ask in (he first place.
•I have adekd a running commentary. tare and there, which sets itase pieces in trier historical context expands them, add, new thoughts, or just exemplifies the sad fact trial, like most writers. I cannot resist an opportunity to explain my exptonallcns.'
1966. 64 x 34, 264 pp, tNwrfnrted, soft cover.
COINCIDANCE: $12.95’
(ORDER NUMBER 88168)
THE THINKING BODY
A Study of the Balancing Forces
of Dynamic Man
by Mabe! E. Todd
The Thinking Body, originally published in 1937. is a ctessto in tie study of human physiology, and the effect of psyehotogicai and mental processes on human movement, Todd was far ahead ol her time In see'ng the relationship between thought ard movement &noe Ite republication In 1568. The Thinking Body tow been recognized as a profound study of biomechanics, anatomy. Wnestolcgy. and phystotogy. all brought lo bear cn a study cf movement education.
The purpose ol the book to to re-educate us in our movements, 10 bring tta power ol mental and psytohotoqicaJ processes to bear on all cur physical movements. As Tcdd herself said, 'll is as protoundy tree that we are as much affected in cur thinking by our bedfy attitudes as cur bodiy attitudes are affected in the reflection of cur mental and bodily slates.'
The Thinking Body's mindtody approach to the study cf movement hss made it a favorite of dancers, students cf motor de\’elcpment. and al those concerned with questions cl human hness Although used primarily by danse students. The Thinking Body viW be cl mterest to anyone ¡ntercstad m tta retoticn^hip between the mind and Iba tody.
1937, 9'n x 6'4, 344pp. Muitfrrfed, indexed, soft cover.
THE THINKING BODY: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88123)
ISMS
A Compendium of Concepts,
Doctrines, Traits and Beliefs
by Alan and Theresa von Adendorf
You've heard c4 Atheism, So-
daSsm and Capltaism. but have
you ever heard of Hyi-vn.
Gecphagism or Osterism? H you
love Aphorisms. Naobgsms,
Witticisms or the English lan-
guage. you'll en,oy tSMs, the most
complete Qulde to all the world's
•¡sms,' inducting hundreds ot
intriguing defintfons. engaging
quotations and charming illustra-
tons. Hero are some- samples
from this fascha'.ng texkon:
Dctxtem: Any confuskin ar mis-
undorstandng. especially re-
garding a word or phrase.
Hoydorssm: Bostoraus. rude
traits. ospoebty in a young
woman. 'Ona more drink and
rtl to under tho host.' (Dorothy
Parker)
Maz&xstd: Mo. H's not a fetch for
rotary engines. It's a ro’lgon founded by Zoroaster. Reswrocnonism: Tho theft of cadavers; grave-robbing.
ISMsis an entertaining rr.forcnco bock and bbticphile's dcighL
1991. 6x9. 336 pp, hoxvNy NkMtM. soft COW.
ISMS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88158)
THE MYTH OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
by Thomas Szasz
The .Myth
of lisjchotherapy
Thomas Szasz Is oco of tho most
important writers today debunking the
mcdicalization ©f America:
'For me. cna of the most obvious facts
about psychiatry has always been that
psychotherapy (exorrplrticd by psycho-
analysis) consists simply ot talking and
listening. Snca this convorsatlan. regard-
less of haw prclcnttously wc name It.
concerns the question of how people
should Irvo, it Is axiomatic that psy-
chotherapy U A mlhstenal rawer than a
medfcal enterprise
'Of course, this Is rot the way psy-
chotherapy Is slewed. it is now cd'oal
dogma — in science, modcina. law. pdi-
tcs. foumalsm. everyday Irie — that mental diseases are bona fide
medical diseases, and that psychiatric treatments — whether they ccn-
51st Of incarceration. conversation. or giving and taking drugs — are
bona fide medical treatments. In my opinion, this peychWc interpreta-
tion of mental illness and mental treatment is similar 10 the religious
interpretation of transubstantiation.
•According to Calhofc dogma, the consecrated bread and wine are.
lilcra-'ly, the bedy and bbod of Jesus. Asserting that Iransubstantiafon is
a myth docs no< mean that the consecrated bread and wine do not exist.
Of course. they exist: to tho ron-CatholK:. they are simply not tho body
and blood ot Jc-sus, but (only) consecrated bread a rd wine.
'Similarly, according Io psychiatric dogma, psychiatric deoases and
treatments are. Morally, medcal diseases and treatments. Asserting that
such diseases and treatments are myths docs nc< mean that tho behav-
iors of persons ceiled mental patients end psychiatrists do rot exist. Of
course th&y extol: to the person who rejects the m'rac'es of psychairy
they are tfmpty not medical diseases or treatments, but (or*/) ne
dams and conduct o< persons Wenlifled as psychatric patients and
practitioners.'
ten. sm x tu, 2S6pp, Mxxxd, xott cow.
THE MYTH OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88153)
QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY
How Brain Software Programs You and Your World
by Robert Anton Wilson
We are always glad to see a new bock by Robert Anton Wilson, and Quantum Psychology ¿5 a partfcirady line effort Uke most of wuson's work, it is designed to heV you get ¡mo your own head, root around in there, understand what you fnd in there, and take control of 6.
Wilson says. 'Some parts ot this book wii seem •materiaJistkf to many renders, and those who dislike science (and ’understand new things very quckly) mght even deeds tho whota bock has a Scientific Materialist or (they might even say) ’scientistic' bias. Curiously, other parts of tho book wit seem 'mystcaF (or wccse-than-mysticat) to other readers and these pucpki might decide the book lias an cccut — or even stfipsistfc — bias.'
Contents indude:
-
How do we know what we know, «* we know anything?
-
The problem of 'Deep Realty’
-
The flight from reason sod the cult ot Instruments
-
Strange loops and the Infinite regress
-
Speaking about the un&peaksbte
-
Quantum Lotfc
-
The crea-ton of realty-tunne'e
-
The observer-created universe
-
Miitipto selves and information systems
-
Miitipto universes
-
And much, much more.
1990, SHxSH, 192 pp. fl COW.
QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85119)
NUTRITION AND MENTAL ILLNESS
An Orthomolecular Approach to
Balancing Body Chemistry
by Carl C. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D.
A pioneer in the field of
rulrconai research. Dr. Carl
Pfeiffer has found nutritional
therapies successful in abat-
ing and oven c^ercoming
many psycMIsgca! disor-
dars. from anxiety and de-
press on to phobia» and
schizophrenia. In his exten-
sive research into tto con-
nection between nutrition and
mental ifneea. Dr. Pfeiffer
has cleady shown trial a
proper bio-chemical townee
wiINn the body to trio key to
maintaining good mental, as
wail as physical, hcafch. Ba-
Hoving that anti-psychotic
drugs actually pose obstacles
to the long-term hoeing pro-
cess. Dr. PlcSffer ccrrocls the
chemical imbalances mat oontritxitn 10 psychiatric ctsturtoncas by adjusting the dets of hla patterns and pcoscnbng large doses of essential vitamins, minerals, and trace dements.
Dr Pfeiffers unprecedented success in treating a wide ran$>? of psychological troubles w.-.h nutritional strategies has resulted in a growing demand for his services at the Brain Bio Center In Skiiman. Now Jersey. Tho methods of treatment developed by Dr. Pfeiffer and presorted n Nutrition And Ments! Hiness a necessary ac^unct to tradeonal drug ttorapies. bringing the tope of larsthg health Io ttosa searching for a way toward wellness Of body. mind, and spirit.
196T. 5H x6H. 136 pp, Ufwtnrtcd, Ardrr^ srfctnw.
NUTRITION AND MENTAL ILLNESS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88115)
THE TRUE BELIEVER
by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer's The True Believer Is a classic — Iha hghty provocativa. tost-ceding analysis of Uto fanatc. a man compelled to join a cause, any cause — and a panalratng study of mass movements from eariy Christianity to modern nationalism and Communism. Topics cw- ered tockxJe: • The Appeal of Mass Movements • The Interchangeability of Mass Movements • The Potential Converts • Uhtod Action and Self-Sacritlco • And much moco.
ins took deals with soma pcculanbes corrmca to all mass movements. to they religious movements, sedal revolutions or nalbnalst ntovemarcs. It dees not maintain that all movements are Identical. but that they share certain ©ssentfat characteristics. which grvo them a Campy nkcncss. All mass mcv-omcrls generate in their adherents á readiness to dks ard a proclivity lor united acGcn; all of them. irrespoctr.x) cf Ito dódríto (toy preach aM the program they project. fanaticism. enthirUasm. tan/ont hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable cf releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments cf life: all of them demand Wind faith and sngle hearlcd allegiance. All move- mnnts. however different in doctrine and aspiration. draw their early adherents from the same types cf humanity; they all appeal to tto same types cf rrind.’
A classic bock that should to on everyone's shelf.
1951. 5Hx8H, 191pp. sort cover.
THE TRUE BELIEVER: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88099)
SUPERLEARNING
by Shell* Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder
Increase your tnteligencol
‘You con fly, but that cocoon
has to go. * Ever wtvìI to cto
more, learn more, to more?
Of course you have, or you
wouldn't to reading this
catalog. Superìesrning
reveals Innovative techni-
ques gAttorto from many
countries (including tohird
tho Iren Curtain), ard
presents revolutionary ways
of opening up some cf tto
virtualy limitless capacities
of the human mind. Your
mind.
This tock shows how to
combine tody, mod, ard
creetMty to develop e super-
memory and loam two to ten
times faster, to improve
physical performance ard
health, ard to mate intuticn
and togic tor better decisions. The senes of exercises are very easy fcr ths average person to fellow.
Super foam f ng & based on the concept that to th tom sp tores of tto brain must interact with tto tody for true learning to occur. Th» hoistic stala can to achieved through tto use of dozens of mindtody exercses that can turn potential into ultra-performance in many areas of your lifo. The aruttore have de-etoped a do-it-yourself program for use at home. Tt»e exercises ate fun and easily teamed. The authors also offer appfcations for business, sports, and relarionshps.
HigHy recommentfed tor all Interested in Intetlgence Incroasa.
1979. Sri xSH. 397pp, indxx^d, ^oftcov^r.
SUPERLEARNING: $1035
(ORDER NUMBER 88059)
BRAIN BOOSTERS
Foods & Drugs that Make you Smarter
by Beverly Potter
& Sebastian Orf all
‘A ccmprohonsiYo, easy to road cornpefKSum of cogniSve-enhsncfng sutstanccs... a vaiuxbft! addition to tite tibraries of those who went io ¿rprove their brainpower. ‘— Ward Doan. M.D.
Mittons of pocplo take »mart drugs ard nutrients to improve brain iunebon and t-o excel in irrer/ asport of their ives. Tb^y include professionals, business people, senors anxious atoix senility, patents suffering from Alzhemeris or other neurological impairments, as wall as parents, students, alhtelea, ard party-goers. Brain Boosters is a fascinating look at fcods and drugs that are reported to make tho mind work beher.
Brain Boosters covers in depth: Tto evolution of tto ’smart* phenomenon from the raves to the mainstream
♦ How the brain works and the metabolic factors influencing memory
□rd cognition
♦ Pharmaceutics's, vitamins, nutrients, ard herbs mat improve mantel function
♦ The growing mURrbllFon <»har maiXet fef C<«n boosting substoncas ♦ The *War Over VO mins' ard the FDA rules on nutrilicnal supplements
♦ A directory of llto-extensdn doctors wtoro ycu can gel togitimato prescriptions
♦ Addresses of domestic ard foreign sources for ordering smart drugs ♦ And much, much more.
Anycne interested in Improved montal performance will find Brain Boosters a valuable resource for this emerging Held.
1993, 6x9,265pp, itiustrattd, fndaxad, soft covtr.
BRAIN BOOSTERS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88181)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
From th© frontiers of modern physics and beyond, como tho books in this section. You really should be aware of these things, since the Science of Now will determine the shape of the Future.
BETRAYERS OF THE TRUTH
Fraud and Deceit In the Halls of Science
by William Broad and Nicholas Wade
Seton« is art.
-
Iwc Newton, tho first
modem physfcdtt,
fudged do fa in As most
famous treatise. -
Ffias Atsabti, an Tragi
scientist working &
America, plagiarized
per-haps as many as 60
articles in order to
advance his career. -
Cyrif Burt. r&?g
considered one of the
great twontdth century
psychologists, fahhentad
much of the data
supporting hrs theory of
tnharifab^ty of human
¿ntatoganco. -
iUj/£ Spector, a
pmmis.dg young Comcii
biochemist, excited
cancer researchers
everywhere when, in 1$St, !>e performed compiax experiments suggesting an important new mechanism of cancer causation. Unfortunately, at ¡east some of those experiments were faked
In spite of their growing frequency, disclosures of science fraud, both past and present. are typ'cery shrugged off by tte scientific establishment. The individual perpetrators of fraud arc — so the scientific ccmmunlty ctalms — Just 'bad apples;' they neither reflect upon normal scientific practice nor cast doubt upon ttw* time-honored notion of science as an obtectrve, self-correcting search for truth. But. In this eye-openng and fascinating book, authors Wiliam Broad and Nicholas Wade boldly contradict that ciaim and assert that “the roots of (scientific) fraud lie in the barrel, not ¡n the bed apples that occasional?/ rot into publ'c view.'
In its descriptions of examples from astronomy, physics, biology and medicine. Betrayers of the Truth reveals how the supposedly tall-safe mechanism« of scientific Inquiry often do fail to correct both the minor and ma.or frauds that tavo boccmo ondemc to modem soonco. From tho tidying up of tho experimental data and tho fudging of statistics Io tho Invention of whole scientific experiments cut of thin air. the back examines the various means by when fraud Is committed and how it can reman undetected tor months. years or even centuries And it ¡nctsive?/ analyzes ha* the lures of cametism and big money and the huge research factories common In modem science toquondy toad scientists ip Wray ’.her ccmmnrrwm to tho discovery of truth and Id abandon tho lofty ida.*Vs of their pcofossicn.
Betrayers of tho Truth is about haw science real?/ works and why scionlists are ton-pled to cheat. It shows that corruption and deceit are just as common in sconce as in any other human undertaking. Replacing our romantic notions about what science should be. Broad and Wade provide us with a vivid and unforgettable picture of what science actually is: more human, loss idealistic, tut as dramatic and exciting as ever.
7 AV, 6x9, dSSpp, indxxod, »oft cover.
BETRAYERS OF THE TRUTH: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91035)
REGARDING NATURE
Industrialism and Deep Ecology
by Andrew McLaughlin
This book argues that industrialism is
a primary reason for cur current
ecological misfortune, ard it seeks new
options that waUd help both humans and
th© res« of nature flourish. The author
argues that we need to fundamental/
change our urderstandngs of both
nature and humanity.
Chapters Include:
♦ Nature as Privately Owned:
Capitalism
♦ Nature as Owned by Everyone:
Scctabm
♦ Nature as Resource: Industrialism
♦ The tocology of Control
♦ Nature as Matter: Science
♦ Reactive versus Ecclcgical Environ-
mentalism
♦ Tho Critique of Anthrcpoccnlrism
♦ Beyond Ethics to Deep Ecology
♦ For a RitoiGuJ Ecocciilrwn
♦ And more.
From me Preface.•'Presently, we make some fundamental mistakes
in our conceptions of nature. Consider, for example, the ways
economies are usually understood. As I write, the economy in the United
States is bad because there is not enough economic growth. More
growth, it is sad. would load to a recovery, and times would be better —
even good — if growth soared. Economic hard times withn industrial
societies entail serious human suffering, and this suffering is distributed
very unfarfy. The cn>/ solution to this suffering, so it seems, involves
expanding economic production, and poiticians across the political
spectrum agree that economic growth is desirable.’
•Industrial eccnomies seem to require perpetual expansion. If so.
then this requires the assumption that we can transform nature in
whatever dreexons desired Nature, we assume, poses problems, rot
imils. Perhaps this assumption should be reconsidered An attemaP/e
is to understand humans as living wW? nature, not separate from at.
This Imples ttvut any wise human economy must resonate harmoniously
wsth the larger cyctos cA natixn which nnozr.to humans and their
cconcmics. Such an understanding dissolves tf-xi dHcmma by incorpz
rating ecological sur.tanablity into the very criteria lor assessing Iho
goodness of any cr.coomy. Th« wood imply that no ccotogcaly bad
course of action wcukl be understood as economically good. Such a
new undcrstancing ol hixnan economies gives rise to the substantial
task c4 creating nnw social forms embodying a rcvlslanng of humanity
and nature?
1^3. 6x9, Mipp. trrrhxod. xoh cover.
REGARDING NATURE: $18.94
(ORDER NUMBER 9f061)
DARWIN ON TRIAL
by Phillip E. Johnson
Darwin's theory of evolution Is
accepted by most cxiixalcd
Americans ar. single tact This
easy acceptance. however, hKias
from us the many ways In whet)
cvohJlicn — as an Ida a - shapes
cur Ihnk’ng about a great many
thngs WhatKthis idea is wrcog?
That is. if i himsd cut that
the evktonco for Darwin's theory is
in taltm and sdonoo is hanging
cn to it only because no other the-
ory Is n prospect? What rf
•evbutlcn' Is just a word that
covers up setnntrfe ignorance of
how the wcodors of the living
word could have been cmated?
Berkeley law processor Philip
Johnson bofcs at the wderen for
Darwinisllc evolution the way a
iaw/or would with a cbd dsp^ssbnate eye for topic and prooi. His discovery is that soenOsts have put the cart before the horse They prematurely accepted Darwin's theory as fact and have bom scrarrblng to find evidence for it mostly unsuccessful’/. As the evidentiary drtfculttes have piled up. they have clung to the theory out of fear of encouraging religious fundamentalism, and in the process have turned belief in Darwinism into their own reigton
Darwtrtsm. Johnson argons, has bccorro another kind of tundamenlafem — merely dressed up in a laboratory smock ard with a fierce and cordescondng refusal to listen to critics.
Darwin On Trials 3 cogent and stunning d? force that nee only ratites the cages of conventional wisdom, but could provide tho basis for a fundamental change in the way educated Americans regard themsefces, their origins. and their rale
1991, 6x9, Zi7Z pp, indexed, herd cover.
DARWIN ON TRIAL: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91071)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS I
Compiled by William R. Corliss
A .Vrtl fitly >i.’h a nine inch lai. CX4I
The Sourcebook Project of William R. Ccritss
is dedcated to cataloging scientific anomalies:
observations that are not explainable by current
scientific theories Biological Anomalies:
Humans ! is the first of three volumes devoted
»o human anomales, ah of the anomalies am
taken from setentfd iterance.
Phenomena In this volume include: Human
Asymmetry; The Apparent Physical Degen-
eration of Humans; Human Physical Degen-
eration and Genius; Variability of External
Appearance; Discordances in the Appearances
of Ictontcat Twns; Physical Stature; Weight;
Sox: Human Sexual Dimorphism; Pigmentation;
Luninoshy; Ttve Supposed Human Aura; Kiriian
Photography o! the Postulated Human Aura;
Excessively Hairy Humans; Baldness among
MusÙbrs; Voluntary Erection of Body Hair;
Eyes; Ears; Noces; Teeth; Racial Dental
Differences. Historical Shrinkage of Human
Teeth; Human Herns*. Webbed Hands and Feet; The Unusual Location
ci Human Breasts; Human Tails; Anomalous Human Odors; And much.
much more.
It wil bo quckly seen that all the Sourcebook volumes traffic in heresy on coe hand ard sirrpte curosriics and trivia on die other. Seme phenomena recorded here strike at the core hypothesis of biology: evoiulion Others can be shrugged off as merely minor •uncxplainods.* Enjoy!
1992, 7x 10,304pp, MiMfrMcd, indexed, hardcover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91069)
SHATTERING
Food, Politics,and the Loss
of Genetic Diversity
by Cari Fowler and Pat Mooney
White man»' may pondsr the
consequences of global warming,
perhaps the biggest single environ-
mental catastrophe in human
history e unfcldng in the garden. A
ffomiating time bomb b ticking
away In the fields of farmers al
over the world. Loss of genetic
diversity in agriculture sient.
rapid, inexorable — is leading us Io
a rendezvous with extinction — to
the doerstep of hunger cn a scale
we refuse to imagine.
To simpSfy the environment as
we have done with agriculture is Io
destroy tire complex interrelation-
ship* eiat held the natural worid
together. Redusng the ftvereity of
We. we narrow cur epttons for the
future and render cur own survival
more precarious. That is lbs subject of this bock.
Behind the politics ard profits is a history which begins wZh the hunters ard gatherers c4 twelve Itousand years ago and runs to the gene-spkers of today.
But with the discovery of modem gonotes a few decades ago. the food system began to expectance rajxd change. VAth the arrival of the green revolufion. Ito woritfs feed supply has been faced with a new wave of gecofic erosion. Ard with the coming of plant ard gone patenting and the opportunity of monopolization, international oorporatons have attempted to comer tro market for the vanishng genes Th© result rosy be the shattering of agriculture itself, vmal Is af stake Is the Integrity, Mure A Ad wwrol cf th« first ink In mo feed chain.
6x9, 00$ PP, Mi/xfrxf^d, kufcxvd, xoffcovor.
SHATTERING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91056)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS II
A Catalog of Biological Anomalies
Compiled by William R. Corliss
Is the complexity of the human eye anomalous?
Wiliam R. Corliss'
second volume of
human botogent
anomalies focuses
upnn the “internar ma-
chinery of the bedy: (1)
Its major organs; (2) Its
support structure (the
skeleton); (3) Ils vital
subsystems (the cen-
tral nervous system
ard the immune sys-
tem).
Typical subjects
covered incude: En-
ma of tba fetal graft •
Phantom limbs •
Aromalus human com-
txjstton • Booa shreders • •Pertsctton- of the sye • Dearth of memory traces • Health and the woather • Periodoly of épidémies • Extreme hngevity »AIDS anorrafes • Cancer anomales • Human limb regeneration • Voluntary suspended animation • Male menstruation • Ard mu^i, much more
Biological Anomalies: Humans a ft. like »3 d Codifié ccmpla- liens, fascinating ard Irrpossibte fo put down.
1993, 6x9, 297pp, hh/slrxted, Max^d, hardcover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS 0: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91079)
THE STRUCTURE OF
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
by Thomas S. Kuhn
Via arc proud to include* toe charged Second Edition c4 Kuhn’s fa-
mous and influential book cn sctoncn in too Lcompancs Catalog. The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions discusses ha* setontfe
paradigms are created end how they struggle with and eventually sup-
ptant established paradigms.
Contrary to what many Establishment scientists Hee to lol the pubic,
the sclenoo of today is no mere true* than the science of the Mddlo
Agas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is net an easy took to
road, tut it is wed worm too necessary effect. To whatever extent you
Inre differently from an animal, ycu cwo tha difference to science and
technology. The more you understand about what science actually is.
the bettor able you will be to harness madam and future technology for
your own personal tonalil. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is
a challenging and profound tock. which wo highly roccmmend to at; cur
readers interested In science.
1970 edition, 6 x 9,222pp. sofl cover.
THE STRUCTURE OF
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91011)
STEALING INTO PRINT
Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct
In Scientific Publishing
by Ma reef C. La Follette
* fteseaech articles pub&shed by a
psychotopist intiuetKe some states'
potiefes for tresting the menwy
retarded. After retentiess steufhfng by
one suspicious coVeague, the author
attinte in court to having fabricated ati
hfsdata.
* A former drector of the National institute
of Mentet Health, found to nave
pfsgtented spates that »ere published
tong before, res&ns in disgrace from bis
academic positions, onty to be rjitietiy
reinstated some months later on /he
basis of Ate distinguished
record.
Such stones of scientific misconduct
strike at tic head of toe scientific
enterprise. Respected ¡oumais whose publications cany great authority are unwitting acccmplcas to fraud. A soctoty accustomed to thnkng of scientists as selfless seekers of the truths of nature is shaken. Yet dr.sp.te the importance of the subject, cr perhaps because of it. tlx.’ debate over preventing. Investigating, and correcting msconduct has been clouded by un ana lyzed epntons. inconsistent actions, and dr.'isive political grandstanding.
Marcel LaFoUeCto provides a fund and penetrating examination cZ the wodd of edennfto publishing, when has bean urdnnnnod by faked data and stoton words. Because too most influential scton*.6c ¡oumab have been at tha cantor of tho controversies, LaFcUr.r.e focuses on the frag Io 'peer review* process outside experts. She considers the impact Of our cultural glorification of science whfch. combined with a thrst for fame. can seem to make cheating worth the danger, and describes the great risks taken by the accusers — often scholars of less prestige and power than the accused - whom the cals 'nemesis figures' for their implacable deOcatton to uncovering dshonesty.
1992, 6x9, 301 pp, Indexed, hardcover
STEALING INTO PRINT: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91073)
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New World Disorder. Rope toe
inter net worm with tfgial out-
laws... Boost your brain and body
with amino chemistry... Eat the
quantum sandwich of nanotech-
nology... And immerse yourself in
hgb-tech paganism. tetodildon-
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/ USER'S
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NEW
EDGE
pranking. cyberpunk jockeying, and pleasure-pulse mpiante.
With contributions from the experts such as William Gibson, Brian Eno. William Burroughs. Bruce Sterling. Timothy Leary, Demanda Galas, and Frank Zappa — and including more than 3CO illustrations. Mondo 2000 will explain everything you need to know about toe future, and how you can see. hear, end buy much of It today. Fascnetingl
3992, 9H x 11, 317 pp, frustrated, soft cover.
MONDO 2000: $22.50
(ORDER NUMBER 91074)
IF WE CAN KEEP A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE...
Discarporation and U.S. Patent 4,666,425
by Chet Fleming
tf Wo Can Keep A Severed Head Aitve... describes. In clear and straightforward English, one of toe most important yet shocking developments to toe history of meddne. Ai of toe neoessa^ components are now avaiabto. and it is techntealiy feasible to keep a severed head aive and conscious on b'ood-processng equipment The author's U.S. Patent 4.666.-125 tor just such a device.
Today, scientists have the ability to completely sever toe bead of a lab animal or en’en a human from toe body, and keep that head alve and conscious co b’ood-processng equipment (an oxygenator, dialyzer, eto.). The/ve done it before, but not since 1970. FAedcal technology has made huge strides since tlien. and no or» knows bow tong a severed bead wil remain conscious the nexl linxe they try it.
Should scientists do this operation? One answer to that question is. no one can stop them. Sooner or later, scientists and surgeons wil try «. rx>t Just on ahrnar's but on people dyng of terminal ciseases or mortal injury. If America outlaws ¡L i wil be done in secreL or to some ether ratton.
A truly remarkab'e statement an toe interactions between science ard society, this book Is a startling and provocative ©ontntulicn from an original and independent minker. Like Fleming's patent. It cannot bo ignored, and II wil net be forgotten by anyone who reads <.
196S, 6x9, 495pp, itivstrated. Indexed, hardcover.
IF WE CAN KEEP A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE..: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91076)
SYNCHRONICITY
Science, Myth, and the Trickster
by Alan Combs and Mark Holland
synchronicity
£*a*mv. Mvih.iinitiw fr.vXvfiv
What do Bell's Theorem. Juno's
a.n:fotypas, Schrodinger's cat. end
Freudian slips have in common?
Discover tfo fascinating wortd of
Synchronicity!
Carl Amg coined no to rm
’synchronicity* k> doszr.be
meaningful coincidences that
conventional noions of time and
casualty cannot explain. Working
with the great quantum physicist
Wolfgang Patfi. Jung sought to
reveal these conckJenoss Of
phenomena that involve mind and
matter, science and spirit, thus
providng rational explanations for
parapsycbobgcal events like
telepathy. precognition. And intuition.
Synchronicity examines the work of Jung and Paull, as well as r»cted sdentiate Paul Kammerer. Werner Hexsonbnrg. .-^nd David Bohm. The tvjllwrs partake in an engagng discussion of sychronkrty as illustrated in ancient and modem mythologies. particularly the Greek legend 0< Hermes the Trickster. Their unique transdscipiinary approach, Infused with a generous spmkiing of anecdotes from everyday life and literature. presents an accessible and inteligont exploration o4 the intriguing concept, in the process providng a glirrpso into th© hidden pattern of nature.
1990, Sx9, 19Spp, indexed, softcover.
SYNCHRONICITY: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 68147)
THE MATTER MYTH
Dramatic Discoveries that Challenge
Our Understanding of Physical Reality
by Pau! Davies and John Grlbbln
In this sweeping survey, ecctalmod science wnters Paul Davies and John Gribbin provide a complete overview of the latest developments h physios which two revolutionized modern science. From ths weird wedd ol quarks Ard :ho theory of relativity to tfo latest ideas about tfo bdh of the cosmos, tha authors find evidence lor a massive paradigm Shri. Now developments in the stades of Mack foies, cosmic strings, solrttons. and chaos theory now cbalcnge corrmons^nse concepts of space. time and matter, and demand a radically altered and more fUfy unified world view of the universe. From Chapter One: The Death of Mafertetism:
“Thom is no doubt that the Newtonian world view, with its doctrine of matertatism and tho dockwcrk Universe. has contributed immensely to the advance ofsctenco by providing a highly intuitive framework within which to study a wide range of phenomena Eu* there is cquaky no doubt tint it has also contributed in large pad to attending human beings from the Universe they inhabit Donald Mackay, .in export on bow the brain functions as a communications system, writes of the disease of macbine-rrxndedhess.' He points out that Tn our age, when peepte fuck for explanations, tne tendency more and more is to conceive a'any and every situation that wo aro trying to understand by analog/ with a machine ' When extended into rhe dumain of human affairs, Such as potitics or economics, rmchteo-mindodicss leads to demoralization and deperspnskration. Poopte tenia sense of hefptessness; they are merely 'cogs' ¡n a machine that will lumber on regardtess of their footings or actions. Many people have rejected scientific values because they regard metenatism as a rdohte and bteak philosophy, which reduces human beings to automatons and leaves no room for free wiTor creativity These people can take jbnert: motertetism is deed. '
Here is a Irvty fascinating advance glimpse at 21st Century science. ¡992, fix 9, d^Cpp, Utejt/nntd, indexed, softcover.
THE MATTER MYTH: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91077)
SELL YOURSELF TO SCIENCE
The Complete Guide to Selling Your Organs,
Body Fluids, Bodily Functions
and Being a Human Guinea Pig
by Jim Hogshlrc
When an organ donor
dies, more than n million
do!tars worth c4 modc.-il
procedures are set in
molten. Doctors collect
huge fees, hospitals rake
in tfo douah. end lucky
organ recipients get a
now lease on We
Everybody profits from
organ donation except
the donor. But that's
about io change.
In Seii Yoursdf To
Science, Jim Hogshro
blows the Id off the bedy
parts business. Tfo
author reveals exactly
what )*our body is worth
and how to sell it in
whote or in pari. A kidney
fotefos up to $50.000
and It's legal to sol coz
in many countries. A
drug dcvclcped from eny
man's spleen earned him
mlllons. Your bop/ might fold the Wllcn doTar euro Io cancer. A/e ytrj going to givo fl wway?
Sofi Yourself To Science is the first beck that slwws fow k> really fap ycur human potential. You can legal*/ sell your blood, milk, sperm, haif and (Xher renewable resources — this bock tols how. You can also mnko a ivingi as a human guinea pig, renting ycur body io drug ccmparaos. It pays up to $100 a day. and this book lists over 150 test silos threogfout Ifo U.S A.
From the author's fftfroduction.
•Part One ofl the book dorVs wun how you can legally profit by renting out ycur body tec experimentation. Being a professional lest sulked or •human guinea pg.’ is con of the easiest and most rewarding ways k) make a tAng off ycur body. You can earn up to $100 a day. plus benefits, helping pharmaceutical companies lest drugs. Though ret always peasant, the work is safe, requires no ski!, and has the a'de benefit of hoping bring comfort to the HI.
•In this scciton. you'l lesm what it's like be'ng a human guinea pig. Tfo render wil learn how drugs become legal, how they are tested, and what seds of fests are most common. There's also practical Information on fow k> find testing programs, irckxfng a list of over 150 aar/e fest $.tos In tho U.S.A.
•Part Two deals with actually selling your body parts or p<odixts. Some of tills is legal in the United States, some of it's nzt But all of it is legal somewhere in tfo world. Ths section aho gives you Hie current work! market prices tor most of your botfly goods. Of course, prices are subject to change without notice.
•l ets cl tody parts and products can be sold while you’re alive: bore marrow, btocd. sperm, hair. esc. Others, like your heart ard bran, aro best rot sod until you don't need your body anymore.
“This book rests on the dea that your body, including anything it pmduces. belongs k) you and yixi akxw. It was given to you by Ged to do with what you wil. for whatever purpose you cfooso. Them is nothing immocal about renting or soling ycur body. Tho fact that you can do a lc< of good for youfStf and others by renting and selling your tody only reaffirms this truth. One good thng you can do with year tody is make a lying off it. thus providng a nice vehicle kx your soul.-
1992. SHxSH. isspp, ttiustneted, softcover.
SELL YOURSELF TO SCIENCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64129)
MYSTICISM AND THE NEW PHYSICS
Revised and Updated Edition
by Michael Talbot
Nowhere is the 'paradigm
mitt" — the radical change of
ptrspecirve that is sweeping
tie Western wertd adranc-
in so rapidy as In physics
Myerics and *idnalists” tiavo
alwrp propounded the idea
that tho world is an illusion.
Nor quantum physic« is
ptzfng forward theories that
reinfcree this belief.
Ln‘.l recently, tho empiri-
cal approach c4 physicists
such as Ncwlcn has taught
us that tho world exists with
or wthou! human conscious-
ness to observe iL But we
can lever be tetany objective
abcu reality. The human
mind, wrh all Ite procon-
c&vsd notons and proju-
dcos, always Intrudes, aven
in tho meet scientAc of experiments, making true objectivity impossible
to achieve.
Tho new physicists slate that reality is a com bi na lien of the laws ci
Ute physical world, quantifiable and uneQ-ur.ocabte. and the subjective
viewpoint of the observer. Th* ’omrijectiv* view* of too universe chal-
lenges all our most deeply hold beliefs» and could radceily change tho
way we view reality In tbn future. As our constructs are amended to ths
shift In approach, we can anticipate monumental charges in Western
thought
1992, 5x6, 195pp. Ktustnted, Indexed, soft cover.
MYSTICISM AND THE NEW PHYSICS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 01085)
THE COMEDY OF SURVIVAL
In Search of an Environmental Ethic
by Joseph W. Meeker
The Comedy of Survival is a truly orignal study ot how our
Western inheritance of the Greek tragc frsaiicn has tod us to the brink
of eoyogioal disaster. Meeker pointe cut that the trsdtional Western
hero is a conquering hero derived from Greek tragedes. which needy
always wind up wilh somebody's funeral. Meeker thinks * ft high tmo
wo celebrated an opposite kind ol hero, who goes back to a afferent
branch of Greek drama — the comedy — which nearly always ends
with a wedding or similar salute to tee. Seme quotes
Tragic periods by to cto good and save the world; ccmic period» try
to do wen and to enccuretge the oordftbns supportive of life, in tragedy
we learn to bate the evils of He; in comedy wo seek joy from its goods,
scarce though they may b*. The time may be more ripe now than it was
a decade ago to listen to the massages that comody otters."
"Comedy s not a philosophy of despair or pessimism, but cos whch
permes poepio to respond wXh heath and clear vision despite lite
miseries Iha world has to offer. Its mode is immcdacy of altanlton.
adaptation to rapdhy changing circumstances, joy in small things. the
avoidance of pain whereuer possible. the tore of life and kinshp wilh all
ate parts, the sharpening of intelipence. comptexity of thought and
action, and strategic responsiveness to novel siiuatons. It permts
people to accept themselves and lite world as they are. and it harps us
to make the best of the messes around us end within us."
From Hamlet to Dante's Divine Comedy, Meeker's book to a
profound romp through heretofore unexplored wilderness wttere our
stores ard cur ecology meet and darcc and teach.
1960. 6x9, 1TSpp. Mustrafed. indexed. softcover.
THE COMEDY OF SURVIVAL: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91052)
•A*<irtwuy shows u$ the rnythoiogicaf picture cf the barter. fasetoxted *xV>Mv system tv the pent of rtsestrvews. to Mv «wiwv» of efi ehw. 7?.w numbness .svdwert by me iWcA'Kx’c^y reinforces mrs obsesshn for .f ¿Mt cv.'
other Mww. The myth may ¿wm to be on extreme case. es does .'>\W of the barter. ortd we fry to A’.xni of eft ,v.v twwyw we use in cafy pfe rtrxf con&wptete rrterMbve* to eartt of them or the idea of not ¿tfvy any of mam. Our own eddetmn to our ¿rXWXtofcW io MrtiOrtogy r» metre man a pita abxdow of tbit sAw> by wf the reexon far ft io rrtfo yveo try Mcf (9:m He
Ce'scobo^ the ¿^K-'roo'^ fermy of the oxer of feervy^^y become x <*vov- snecbfrrxsm of me fechco^gy. trdsphby to the tecfmrooo trod booxrx'cg fbereby Cfo^od to the wtX Mtto end techooh^y ¿tre symbfotd. to thetseoxe, bec^vxe each feeds oft the other: atvwxít the fechoadcy, de/edps so extehfren of hfmsed trod then trdspfs hrnsed to the de^foe of hrs oon mrhx’^. The serró- me:htrrxí.7) d socH s cyde fheo prevents the vser from reticrrxx^ to od ways beettose the mec^ervsm of the new fechcrjoo hss ewhfded ttre mxrg rf rrptoced. The feedbech loop of me teefmotoffy and rts ose oxa oty be broxeo by ^>tted effort. Scxh o prooed.ee ofso morxfesfs tfsed o the oobor? of the tc^h'foiopd^rvperjb\e: the ideo m¿: fecbnoiopy hxs e He of 9$ ohh, whjfcsr? bo dorxf oxust bo dyte. ff ¿s tho arpitmoof c< a H^rcissoí tTMtHriff bfs own av tm nnclx) jtSAd.'
Michael Shalís» The Síkcti Idor
(from Ooestfoojbxff Techrrodpy
QUESTIONING TECHNOLOGY
A Critical Anthology
Edited by John Zerzan and Alice Carnes
Ttiis book presente only one s»do — the AVWrskto. lis purpose to to persuade you Io think crhisify about tochnotogy.
Forty years ago. no one thought much about smoking; Ronald Reagan wilh Ns Chcslcrholds was just one instance of the glamour arvd sophsbcalon associated with cigaretles. Now none but nonemitfes appear in cigarette ads. and toen oriy on toe back covers of magazine* A tot of thought r*s gena into smoking since a Slotsoncd Reagan tod ite praise*, and cigarettes have been otfeiafly bmnded dangerous. Many peopte hav>e g>/en them up. or are trying hard to do so; almost no one. apart from tobacco company epotogsto. promotes Ogarette smoking as a good thirg.
Computers and automation am now toning add n much fhn same way Chat cigarettes wnro purveyed three or four cfocadas ago. The promso of profit sounds a clarion call to a sozety racing from Iha social ard occnamc dislocations of the pasI twenty ye^S. Techrtobgy to sold 89 a means of ccnboL Get behind the wheel, run your finger* over the user- friendly ke)t>oard. bark numbers into a headset mike, press a txntcn □nd waich spreadsheets lay out Iheif graphs. Gnte in to change, fork ovar soma cash, cc better yol. use plastic mcncy be the emperor of necn green, put yoursoh in the driver's seat Be a temed Chart« Chaplin. 8t pea co wto mortem timos.
CuesMnktf Technofogy to a purgalto. an nntdotc to tho transparent txinkixn trafficked by t«hno wallahs, from the US Arm)* ("technology Is taking over tho werto") to Jarz try Lotus ("You made me love ycu; I didnl wan? to cte ft."). To question technology is to look askance at what our ir.-os are made of. to wonder hew our cultural experience has distorted our vision and deformad car human nature. We nvry be empty ot answers and alternates, but wo are full, suddenly, of the neod to search them out.
In short, the; back Is intended to make you mad. wake you up. and get you thinking and tahong. Heaving II at the wat is an opoctcd responso. Unplugging your computer (or unplugging yourMlf from one) may be an unexpected culccme, one wilh happy resuts 1cr yotx personal Irie, health, and future well-being.
T9S9, 6x6>1,222pp. indexed, son cover.
OUESTION1NG TECHNOLOGY: $13-50
(ORDER NUMBER 91053)
UNBOUNDING THE FUTURE
The Nanotechnology Revolution
by K Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson
with Gayle Pergamlt
Nanotechnology one of the hottest ectentffc concepts around. Fortuno magazine says thE E a Ueki where the fortunes of tomorrow wit to modo. Japarxtse cooglomerales are in a race to devetop the abritles to make nanotechndtogy a reality. When it ccmee. the consequences of this technolog/ wll t>e stogoering.
Nanoiochndogy invokes the abitty to construct molecUea atom by atom. This breakthrough moans tho creation of mochlr-oa so smal they will have to be measured in bilionths of a motor (narwmotors). Whlo this technology promises incredblo breakthroughs in science, it aEo has potential for abuse.
In Unbounding the Future. K. Eris Droxtar. the world's leading expert on nanotechnotogy. provides a guided tour of a future whore the principles of nanotechnology have boon appkod. Creator envisions the ability to cure diseases sixh as cancer and AIDS wth modcal treatments using millions of molecular machines programmed to repair diseased cats. Molecular machines coUd atoo t>3 ui*d to ctaan up tox’c waste and to manufacture products using a fraction of the labor currontty required.
Unbounding the Future Is the only book toat offers a gimpee of the coming nanotechnology revolution — a glimpse &o compelling that it wil change not only the way you think about the future, but also the way you view the present.
1991, 6x9, 204 pp. Niustratod, Indexed, hardcover.
UNBOUNDING THE FUTURE: $23.00
CORDER NUMBER 91064)
BlOlogical
TRANSmutaticns
BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS
by Louts C. Kcrvron
(Transtated by Michoi Abchscra)
(Reviewed by Mtchaot Hoy)
So controversial and unusual are tbs
revelations ¡n toes bock that we must
remind you that Louis C. Kervran was
nominated tor a Nebel Prize for tho work
described.
To sum X up quckly, Korvran presents
ovKtonco that living systems have the
power to transmute various elements
from one to another as pert of their
bolngcal processes. Sounds »ko
crackpot sckrnoo, oh? But romombor. this
work was nominated for a Nebel Prize,
and has boon duplicated in Japan
(Kervran is French).
The took begins with a summarization
Of various 'aberrant observations' Korvran has noted over tho years, such as why certain chickens continue to lay eggs with calcareous shells even though iving in an area absolutely devoid of limeslcne.
Tl-.c’se aberrant observations are in my opinion tho most important parts of the book. The -author goes on to discuss possible mechanisms by which the biological transmutations take place, but those mechanisms will probably to replaced with more sophstcatcd models. More aberrant metabol isms of Irving organisms are discussod. and the author describes how to do year own experiments with biological transmutations. The book ends with dscussons of the irrpl calices of the author's discoveries in tho fields of agricuturo. nulriton. and medicine.
Reading this book raised many fascinating ideas in my mind. E.g., if the Taws of physics and chemistry* are different for living than nonliving systems, ths w*oUd tend to support the Discordian idea that consciousness is toe primary reality. Interesting speculations on ttatocdbaok .T'r.o spring up — can wo someday team to make ourselves invisblo. or turn ourselves into steam shovoE Ike comic bcok characters? Hmmm...?
Must reading fee those interested in tar-cut soared
1979, 6x9, 109 pp, Kfusteated, soft cover.
BIOLOGICAL TRANSMUTATIONS: $18.50
(ORDER NUMBER 91065)
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK
OF COMPUTER VIRUSES
Volume One: The Basic Technology
by Mark A. Ludwig
Ths is the single finest book on computer viruses wo have yet seen.
From t!>e author's introduction:
'This is tho first ri a scries of three becks about computer viruses. In
these volumes I want to challenge you to th'nk In new ways about
viruses, and break down false concepts and wrong ways cl thinking,
and go on from there to discuss tho relevance of computer viruses in
today's world. These books are not a call to a witch hunt, or manuals lor
prelecting youreetf from viruses. On the contrary, they wil teach you
how to design viruses, deploy them, and make them better. All three
volumes are full of source codes for viruses, tocludng both new and
well known varieties.
•it Is Inevft able toat these books will offend some people. In fact. I
hope they do They nood to. I am convinced that computer viruses are
nee ovl and that programmers have a right to create them, possess
thorn and cxpcnme.nt with them. That kind ot a stand is gong to offend
a lot of people, no matter how it s presented. Even a purcty technical
treatment of viruses which simply dscusscd how to wnto them and
provided some examples would bo o^fensrvo. Tho more incught cf a
million well armed hackers out there is enough to drive seme
bureaucrats rnad. These bocks go beyond a tochncal treatment.
Plough!, to de fend toe idea that viruses can bo useful, interesting, and
¡us! plain fun. Tltot is bound Io prove even more offensive. Stil, the truth
is the truth, arxl it needs to be spoken, even if it is offensive. MoraS and
ellucs cannot be determined by a majority vrtc, any mere than they can
be determined by the barrel d a gun or a loud mouth. Might doos not
make right.
•This first of thrr.Q voUmns is a technical introduction to the txaafcs cf
writing computer viruses. H discusses whal a virus Is. and how 11 doos
its job. going into the major functional component of the virus, stop by
step. Severn! different types of vkuscs are drrvelcped from Iha ground
up. giving ths reader practical how*to information for wntlng viruses.
Thal is ako a prerequisite tor decoding and urxtorslandrg any viruses
cod may run azress in his day to day computing. I ho purpose of ths
voiurno is to bring them out of tho closet and look at them matter-of-
factiy. to see them for what they are. techricaly speaking: computer
p<ograms.'
1990, SH xSH, 17Spp, fffuetrated, indexed, son cover.
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK
OF COMPUTER VIRUSES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91D57)
IMPURE SCIENCE
Fraud, Compromise and Political Influence
in Scientific Research
by Robert Bell
How tt>e twin forces of money ¿tod status compromise and corrupt tise pursuit of scientific truth..
In a controversial bcok that Wts toe veil of secrecy from tlx, adenlific research conducted In this county. Dr. Robert Bell presents a shattering mdetmont of too sdonbfic ccmmunty. Too often, research — from the halb of government to toe pristine research contore at mapr unlvsraittos and corporations — takos a back saat to the pursuit of funding and fame.
impure Science documents case after case cf inTueoce peddling, dxtered research, and outright fraud. Impure Science re'/eals why the temptation to show results is enderric to our system of fundng science. impure Science includes new investigative materiel never tofcre released to toe public. Impure Science mutates America's most sacred cow: soonco.
f99Z 6x9.2SSpp, herd cover.
IMPURE SCIENCE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91068)
UNKNOWN EARTH: A HANDBOOK OF
GEOLOGICAL ENIGMAS
Compiled by William R. Corliss
The Earth is no! lotaly ’unknoAn.’ of course. For centuries, gxtoglsts hare scrutinized our planet's outer crust on Uto surface, withn minos, from driling platforms, and eren from satélites. Despite thwo efforts, much remains puzzling to scientists. The anomalies range from the Mima Mounds to the vast Arctic graveyards ot the mammoth» from musical sards to the many thousand Carolina Bays This Hanjlock collects and categorizes such geotogfea’ ancmahos and cutasities. so that 9Cten*& and laymen afiko am focus cn what is nc< welLexplained try current hypotbasns. To find those phenomena. lt»e ontiR tiles of many sclrxnlitic journals wore searched, rxzkxirq: • The tiutyfih of aw Gcofogcat Society of America • Jouma! of Geofogy • BuSeHn of tho American Association of Petroleum Geologists • Geogrsphtca! Journal • Geographical Roviotv • Nature • Science • And others.
Typical subject areas covered »rtóLdo: • magnetic reversals and cfcmate • discordant radomotrfc dales • cyindcrs in strata • poyábate fossra • coal balls • rock rivers and bau'chr fields • frozrxi walls and ice cares • unusual over-thrusts • abogen’c origin of ©ci ♦ gaps in Ch? fossil record • txoiOQical explosions • buried forests • submerged beaches • contlnrnlal drift ccntrodiclcd • catastrophic fitxxfe • persistence of thin strata • od tokir.es h young sediments • submarine canyons • <xnan floor channels • paleom^gnet-ism questioned • problems of tho gfetíal drive • and more!
Ths huge Handbook Is a weteomn addnon k> our Science Soctton?
1908, 6x8, 339 pp, iituttrtted, hardcover.
UNKNOWN EARTH: $21.95
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 94035)___________________
INCREDIBLE LIFE
A Handbook of Biological Mysteries
Compiled by William R. Corliss
More scientific anomalies compied by William R. Ccrtiss! Monsters, sports, and unrecognized species of life have fascinated humans from lime immemorial. But. this is not just another •monster* or ’unknown animar tock, although a few pages have boon .assigned to such Subj&ClS. Rather, other bktfcgfcal anomalías and cunosrtes receive vh* most attention here. Inducing:
-
Human health and astronomy • Sleepers ord susperded an'mation • Yeti and sasquatch • dogcnnracy of species • Water breathing to mammals • Oomlcal transfer of intallgonco • Inherence of acqUrcd characteristics • Ffymg snakes • Far wandering aligators • Soa and teko serpents • Latent Hu or crypt cbtosls • Unaxptanod senses of ants • Luminous plants • Synchronous towering of bambees ♦ Ru epidemics from space • Problem of excess DMA ♦ DMA: the uhmate parasite • Symmetry ard asymmotr/ In llfo • Recapitulation Theory doubts • supercrganlsms • Life and thermodynamics • Evolution a lautotogy7 • Thenrosynthntic life • Recent survival of mammoths • And much, much moral
This Handbook col cots and categorizes hundreds ol Stxh anomalies and cuiW,«3 so that scientists ard laymen alto can f«us on what $ not well exponed by current hypotheses. To find these phenomena. tho entire files of many scientific journals were searched, ’ncludng the Owiterty A’pwi?h< of Biology, Natural History, Nature Magazine, Sea Frontiers, American Natura&it, Nature, Sconce, New Scientist. and many others.
Nearly 603 artices and orer 103 illustrations make this an unpar^totod colocbon ci reliable information for scientist and layman alike.
1981, 6K x 9%, 1.624 pp. Utustrxtcd, hardcover.
INCREDIBLE UFE: $24.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94M7)
THE MILLENNIAL PROJECT
Colonizing the Galaxy In 8 Easy Steps
by Marshall T Savage
The year 2030 la coming
at us like a freight trah. Tho
future looks mono nná mora
fike a thrift, and Ir.sr, ard
teas Ike a promise. V/o
hear everything abcut the
prabComs and nothing about
tho sdutbns. Ev^ryOrié hSS
grown hoartify aick of bed
news, and **3 all yearn for a
glimmer of hope to alleviate
the glcom. Now comes Tho
MN tennis f Project:
Colonizing the Galaxy ¡o 8
Easy Steps, a book whkh
re-vaals how we c^n
transform the future mio a
shining galdón ago of
mankind. Visonary futurist
Marshall T. Suvago de-
scritos m detai how we
can meet tho demands of
an axpieding population by
cofonizing the Earth’s
oceans, and than gong cn
to fulfill a mytNc destiny among tha stars. Savage calls humans the •hartrirOGr of LHo.’ and argues that it is our dcstny to enliven an Otherwise stodte universe. Step by step ho guides us through lix» tmescapo of the next millennium, shewing hew to escape Earth's gravity, how to ire kn froo space, how to dome over and create oocloges in tho craters of the Moon, hew to terraform Mars, how to hollow cut and inhabi astorcds and comets, ar.d dtimate>/ how to carry the groen spark of Lifo out among the stars.
TNs Is no wtxk oi fiction or irte fancy. The contente ol The Miiien>nla! Project are nuts and boXs. net Uus smoke ard pixte dust Pro- dgiaus research has poro into this book to reveal practical ard etogarrt means Io surmount most ot no cbMactes separating us from tha stars. These are all thngs we c&ldO — the orfy question now Is waVwo?
19S2, 6 X 9, 331 pp, iHuxtrxttKi, irrd^xtKÍ aoh COvar.
THE MILLENNIAL PROJECT: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91075)
MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: A HANDBOOK OF
ASTRONOMICAL ANOMAUES
Compiled by William R. Corliss
Few aslronorrors will deny that their bcarch of science Is undergong a far-roschno revolution Modem radio toloscopes, spacocratf instruments, end computer image-processing techniques hare receded a universe populated with quasars, pulsars, tastar-than light objects, and a host Of OCher celestial spoctas never i mog nod by astronomers confii^d to the tetesoopo.
In addticn. a terge resduo of unexp’aned telescope observations exist: strange lunar lighte. spokn-hko markings on Venus, in Ira- Mercurial planets and similar ongmas.
To form the ccflecticn presented withn these corers, tho complete fiOS Of several astronomical Journals, such as Observatory, Jouma! of the Sntist) Agronomical Association, SAy and Telescope. Monthy Notices dthe Royal Astronomical Society, and PopiJar Astronomy senr.ntzed n dotal. This length)' research has yiekfed over 500 articles and portnnrt nxcarpts describing erratic meteors, zodiacal light anomalos. challenges to tho Theory ol Relativity, and many other controrersrai subjects.
A fascinating book — an unparalleled coilcctico d reSabte information for scientist, layman, and studenL
1979, SU x 9h, 710pp. iffuitrxted, twref cover.
MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: A HANDBOOK OF
ASTRONOMICAL ANOMALIES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94016)
Heresy/Weird Ideas
Introduction
heresy • eny opinion (tophttosophy, /XJxY.vs etc.) opposed to
OfficWOfesMSsbed views or doctrines.
Webster's Now World Dictionary
While some might brand our whofe catalog as Heresy. this Is our ’Hot Potato' section. with something to offend practcaVy everybody. Religion, polftcs, science, and much more - all are kicked around and blasphomod hero. Nothing to sacred, not oven skepticism and self- reliance!
'Everything you know is wrong.*
— The Firealpn Theater
RANTS AND INCENDIARY TRACTS
Voices of Desperate Illumination
1558 To Present
Complied by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey
'Why this took? VJhy a a rant so
important? What makes the tearing
amplitude ci priegm-epitlle exhort-
ation so necessary? And what about
these ideas — from the crackpat to
the dan-p&rous to the spurious to the
Imbalanced — what makes Item valid
c< even worth listening to?
'Because no one dares speak his
nv’rd any more.
•Ai our reading material these
days consists ot rewritten press
releases, gossip about dsom-boded
mannoqUns to hl around thg
a<ttti?4ng.
•To held an opnon ard dam to
express It Is the tins) prerogative ot
the tree man. Announcing en
incerdery truth may be the tost
remaning vestige ot human dignity.
•Truth stings because no one wants to know it Ranters are scapegoats, banished to the realm of the unheard ard the reviled, expiating stopicity. cupidity. routine ard capiulaticn to the evil ot banality.- —Adam Parfray
•Rant.
•Jeremiads and japes, loti. nght and sideways, the profane and the ndcdcus. It's al here. Everyone wtll ttrd at feast a tew of our ranters absurd or offensive. So do wo. Road ’em enyeey. trs good tor ycu. Road on and seo for yeumetf. <xi occasion we even rant egaifcl our cwn ranters. Fee our take on the ranters is internal For every ore of them wo have at least a medtaum ot respect They're rot. tor us. specimens pinned to tt">o board. They care about something. They care so much they don't wen care if nobody else cares. Whet Is a ranter? Scmecno who badly wants an audcncc but doesn't need one...
•it to well, In reading a ranter. to mrinteln sow dtelanw, tor perspeclh'O. Bui R is also meet arri lilting to try. albei provisionally, to enter into his point c4 view • for perspective. Stereoscope hm cut. Ro decent hide his tight under a bushel, he trains ri cn toe shadows. he etiumnefes. Which is net to say ho Invariably reveris. Beware the binding light. Yet there are nene so Wind as those who wW a^seo Seo lor yourself.- Dob Dfeck
This fascinating colecton con tons 56 Pants and Incendiary Tracts — dent miss it!
1949, 3H x 9H. 720pp. ikustrated, soft cover
RANTS AND INCENDIARY TRACTS: $9.05
(ORDER NUMBER 9-1132)
THE ANTICHRIST
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated and with an Introduction by H.L. Mcnckcn
Wc are very proud to offer cur readers a reprnllng of thia classic.
H.L. Mencken, eminent iconoclast of American journalism, translated
ths Qdttlzn of Nietzsche’s final and most controversial work. Prior to ths
reprinting. the Mencken translation couM no longer bo found la even the
largest libraries cc try the most able bookfindors. But row tho spirited
pn»o of tw of Loon-pants' favorite writers can to cncycd or
reenpyed by all.
Thu wil to power was hs answer to Christianity's affectation of
humility and sulf-sacr&co, eternal recurrence was he mocking criticism
of Christian cplimism and millcnnialism. the superman was Ns
candidate for the place of the Christian ideal of fho 'good' man,
prudently afcased before the throne ct God. The things he chiefly argued
for wore arA-Cnnsban Ihngs — the abandonment of the purrXy moral
view of ito. th© retviWltatlcn of feslincL the dethronement of weakness
end timidly as deals, the renunciation of the whota Ivocus-pccus of
dogmatic reig on. the extermination of false arisiocf&ctes (of toe priask
of the politician. of toe plutocrat), the revival of toe healthy. tordiy
Irnoccnixf ih.n was Greek.- — H.L Menken. from he> Introduction to
The Antichrist
1913, Sx7Ji. 132 pp. hardcover.
THE ANTICHRIST: $9.00
(ORDERNUMBER 94137)
THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
by Michael Lesy
VAth an unblriung eye for detail,
Michael Lesy eiplores how workers whose
professors force them to deal with death
on a daiy basts are able to cope with their
difficUt jobs. As Lesy visits an undertaker
and a slaughlerhcuse, an AIDS hospice
and Death Row. ha no< only satisfies cur
fascination with the business of
contemporary death, be also questions our
communal refusal to recognize the limits of
ifo.
From the Preface: There is a forbdden
zone marked on the map of twcnCelh-
centufy American culture, a place every
citizen knows but fears to ente< It is toe
zone of death, toe modern American Hades. Al of us knew we must
dkj. but as much as we fear it. we want to know about it. Most of us
want to know only just enough to experience it maginatr.-ely and then
ive to tel toe tale, tike Lazarus returned to the IghL-
1937, 5x3. 256pp, soft covaf.
THE FORBIDDEN ZONE: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34060)
LOOMPANICS' GREATEST HITS
Articles and Features from
The Best Book Catalog in the World</strong>
In 1975, I got the idea for starling a mail order book business which would stretch the First Amendment to its limits. By 1977, it had become a full-time operation. I always wanted the Loompanics Unlimited Book Catalog to be The Bost Book Catalog In The World, so beginning with the 1980 Main Catalog, I started including articles and features in the Catalog, and issuing periodic Supplements to add new titles. The Supplements, too, included articles and features. I wanted the articles and features, like th© books, to bo 'Controversial and Unusual,* to twist your heads, to incite and provoke and make you think about things in strange new ways.
It has been over ten years now, and it is time to collect the best of the articles and features into a
volume of their own: Loompanics' Greatest Hits. More than 75 articles and features can be found herein, including two articles commissioned especially tor this book: Apocalypso Soortfarvi The Dov//You Say/
Loompanics Unlimited Publishers.
Sellers of Unusual Books.
I said it.
I meant it.
And now this book Is here to represent it.
Ladies and gentlemen of America and all the ships at sea, Loompanics Unlimited proudly presents: Loompanics' Greatest Hits.
— Michael Hoy, Pres.
1990, 8Hx11,308pp, morn than 75 articles and tortures, Illustrated, softcover.
LOOMPANICS' GREATEST HITS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94146)
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The Nuclear Threat Comedy • Darwinist Llbcrtarlanisni • WliSt tt There Was a Millennium... And Na Ono Came? • Anarchists and other Impediments to Anarchy • Politic» as High Stakes Poker • Amazing Interview# • How to Use The Loompanics Catalog 8# a Weapon! • Pirate Radio Broadcasting • An 'Outlaw" View of Land “Ownership* • The REAL Child Molesters • Beyond Radicalism • The Necessity of Deviance • Beware the Secret Sex Police • Gun Control an Class Warfare • Waging War for Fun & Prof» Beneath the Underground • Computer Viruses: A New Uis Form to Servo You • Burning the Book of Lite • The Future Was Now • The Best Uninhabited Islands In the World • Squatting • The Nation State Break Up • Political Trashing • Deadly Sex Thrills • Death & Taxes • Managing Indoor Growing Operations • And much, much, more!
HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL
A Directory of the Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots,
Kooks & True Visionaries
by Rev. /van Stang
Free stuff tor wrxnto&tf Ito key to hslant success, mystic kncwtfedge. mracutous inwnrxons and redact with to© space brothers is within your grasp for oNy a 1 st class stamp!!! Do you co r/y gelling inspeakaNy weird things n tto mall? Thon, hevc wo got o hobby for ja/WIhe Reverend kan Stang oi Iho Church of 11» SubGoniua lakes ycu on a sarcastc. skd© sprittng. mnd-LOQginQ, awe-lnsp*rlng tour oi thngs that go bump in the mails.
High Weirdness By MaB\* the Wbote Earth Os.Wof kcok mail. Slang wrote away to hundreds rA mail order fringe groups — from UFO saucer culls to sleazy tabtoWa lo too Couch Potatoes — and critiqued what camo back lo his mailbox. Slang shoe’s that by simp>/ wrong for Informaton — without sending any money — yea can embark on a nover-ondng lour cf iringe Ifteratixe. W*h trenchant ekapbeism ard rotates sarcasm. Stang subjects each ct hfc targets to scathing capsule analysis. mercilessly mining each ct th© veins of in-aikculrty which most vividly reveal them to be aa tattaeftentfy htaricus as they are frighleningfy serious.
A 29c stamp may be the key to Inslant success. mystic knoAledge, miraculous inventtas, and oorzact with no space brothers. To balance this alarmingly large body of bizarro edbsts and cranes. Slang ateo recommends good things out there by peepta who share tho kooks' Obscurity. High Weirdness By Mrtd shows that there is mor© to junk mail than muttler-shop discount coupons, it couto bo the hobby
of the nineties!
S*=od away for mambershps. propaganda, magazines. cassettes, catalogs, fanzines, da inbcs ard many more demented and cod things. Including:
♦ Weird ScienoQ * UFO Ccnlactocs ★ Jesus Ccntectfios ★
More Weird Religions * Health and Sc If-Improvement Schemes erri Scams * New Ago Saps * Cosme Hippie Stuff ★ Respectable Weird Publications * Great Catalogs * Religion ve. Rolgon * Weird Pcltttos: Loft. Right, ard Off the Map * Groups you Lovo lo Hat© * Tinny* Club® * Weird Ad * Rantzlnes * Comes A Great BadSm and Sleaze * The Cassette Revolution and Edge Musto * And much, mixh more!!!
High Weirdness by Mei/ Is ora of tha most entertaining books we have ever soto!
ZAW 7H x fii Wpp. profusely Ntuirreted, softcover.
HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 9412G)
THE DEVIL'S NOTEBOOK
by Anton Sxandor Ln Vcy
At last, the coiecied wisdom, humor,
end dart: observations by the founder of
the Church of Satan. The Devil's Noto
book is the llrst original coifed Ion of
LaVe/s writings to be published In two
deletes. The High Priest specuteles co
such topics as nonconformity, oxdt
toddsm, orotic poinies, tho ’Gcodguy
Bodg©/ domoraltzatian and th© con-
struction of artrfkxal human companions.
Like P.T. Barnum. Ben Hecht and H.L
Mencken before hm. LaVey zeroes In on
humankind’s lirhfess cepecity (or aet-
cfeoeit and self-den to J. included am
InstrvcSons for the creation cA what LaVey
terms local environments." or places of
magical ©vocation, whero tho onlghtcnad
may escape the deleterious ©fleets of contemporary existence.
The Davit's Notebook is truly a nor primoiro, available just in tme
lor the third ml lionnum Includas an introducton by Adam Parfrcy. '
1M2, 5H xSK, 147 pp, softcover.
THE DEVIL'S NOTEBOOK: $1035
(ORDER NUMBER 94213)
COSMIC TRIGGER, Volume Two
by Robert Anton Wit son
More than 50 essays. japes, ard
rants designed to reverse your mental
polartoes, by one of Loompanics'
favorite authors: Robert Anton Wfconl
Robert Anton Wiscn: 'There arc
throe basic attitudes toward Ite
universe: atheism, polytheism, and
monotheism. Metephcricaiy. you can
apply these views to Malory also.
Atheist history ssys X al happened by
aedderu. polytheism seys it tappanod
as live clash of rival forces, and
mcnotheiam says It happarod bacauw
of one (tomnant Intellgenco. I don't
baltove evc.-ylhng happens by accident,
so atheism Is cut for mo. On tho other
hand, I agree with Hl. Mencken, who said he wasn't a monothoist because the world looked to him Ike n was doslgnod by a commrtlc©. Tl»e world would make some Mnd of senso if there was orc group of Insists’ who realy run everything. Since the world obviously doesn't make any sen as. there is no such group. There are ¡us! rival coalftons lryr»2 to become the group that runs tho wodd. which is probably just as hopeless as trying to become God and 'run' the universe. Th© Apes of Ged all p9l deteated « the ©nd by what I cal tho Snafu Principle.
'In tha power gome, the more sixxessfd yea become. more motive pocpla ha-.*© fee lyhg lo you. They f© to flatter you, lo avo'd contradicting year prejudices, to keep their job®, to tell you what you want to hear, ofc. Have you over tokl the truth, the whole truth, to anybody from the government? It's toe tame in any authoriterten crryinlzabcn, bo it an army, a corporation or a patriarchal family. People &ay what those In power nbevo them want to hear. In t!»e big power filrvgglAS. too mtzt successful conspiracy ci Iho decatfe becomes the stupkfcst ccrispracy of tn© next decode, because il never heard what mght offend its self-image. Corrvt>ijntoatioi>is on/y possbto betweeo oqteiis. The power game creates totai communica'xm pm nnd cv'crytxxly near toe top drifts slowly tat inexorably Into a kind of schizoid fantasy. They pat replaced 0/ younger, hungrier pcodahxs who are not successful enough yet to frighten everybody into tyng to them, and bcnc© have at least a partial knowledge of what the hell la reefy going on/
1991, X SH, 294 pp, sort cover.
COSMIC TRIGGER, Volume Two: $1235
(ORDER NUMBER 94177)
LUCIFER'S LEXICON
by L.A. Rollins
In IM spirit ol Ambrose Blorco's Tho Davit's D'ciion^ty, Lucifer’s Lexicon ctflecte for Ito t«rst trno in book form the bbng definitions wh'ch have graced thn pogos of various libertarian ponodicals over lito part tew years Including those which were previously suppressed by Reason Magazine. and man)’ ncvcrbcfcre-publshed ones.
Libertarian critic Jeff Ripgenbach says in the Introduction: ’Like H. L. Mencken. LA. Rcllins is a purely destructfve Cribe. Ute Mencken. Redins barbers his dcuLts as Io whether improvement of the human oondfion Is possblc. And like Mencken, Rohns beíe.es llxát if it is posrtbto. 4 is possibta only if the unaloyod» unvarnished truth about tito human oorvdr.on Is acknowledged. Like Mencken. Rotins believes Uvat no attempttoimprove the human condition can possbly be built upon a sound foundation if the absundfeos of past 'constructive' thinkers are left unexposod. Moreover. ba believes, again with Mencken, that even 1 rto improvement e possible. even if tho only thing we can believe in fe tito futility of everything, there is valúa h seeng things as the/ are. ard in not confusing things as tHtty are with things as ttsey cughl to be."
Hero are a few samples of definitions from Lucifer’s Lexicon: Agriculture, n. The cultivation of legisfatccs to raise subsides: pil&ge in the name cf triage.
Anti-Semite. n. 1. Ono who hates Jews. 2. One who is haled by Jews. Government of Lews, n. A government of lawyers.
Individualism, n. A doctrine anuhettai to individual ry. though ¡t Is the least unrealistic form of cdlectMsm.
Intellectual Ammunition, n. Vertxsl bullets for OOjectMate who want to sheet their mouths off. B ank-cut cartridges.
Limited Government, n. Limited rebtery. limited slavery, and Irniled mgn^r. Partnitenanisrrt. Aynarchy.
Objective, adj. In accord with the subjective feelings, opinions, or pro judo? s of an Objacltv&i.
Slnglo-Texer, a One wtvi advocates one tax too many.
Total Depravity, n. In Calvinism, tho tendency cf human nature to turn away from Calvinism.
War on Drugs, n. A war to make the word safe tor alcoholism Yahweh, n. Not my way.
An excellent satirical work. highly roccmmcrdcd!
W, 1SSpp, soft caver.
LUCIFER'S LEXICON: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94104)
COVERT CULTURE SOURCEBOOK
A Guide to Fringe Culture
by Richard Kadrey
Nolhng interesting ever
happens al center. Everything
interesting is out at tbs edges.
Sparks kick up when opposing
edges meet Sometimes hot edges
fuse, creating something wid and
now — tho birth of a bcpnful
monster. Thafa covert cOture.
Whet's the Book? Covert
Culture Sourcebook Is a gude lo
IM best end wrototost altemalhre
music, books, videos, zines,
fashions, software, technology ard
•tools for living'; it feaiurcts
commentary, reviews, descriptions
and provides contact names ard
addresses. It’s a starter kit, a sort
c4 treasure map where X dccsnT
mark tho spot, but a thousand X's
mark a thousand spots.
Who Buys It?Computer hackers: artists; college students; cyberpunk
readers; hpslcrs and wanna bes; techno-wizards; culture mavens; fans
cf Ihe curious ard txzarre.
What are the Entries Like? Listings include techno-fomnist manifestos. Algerian pop albums, trailers for teen exportation ficks, loxc waste radiation suits, magazines devoted lo body pisreng, ccuntarsurvollance equipment, smart foods, mail order sex leys, "brain tuners,' cyberpunk novels and hundreds of other strange, intriguing, and just plain cool artifacts and kerns.
1997. 6 x 9, 224pp. iffusfrsted indexed, soft cover.
CO VERT CULTURE SOURCEBOOK: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99095)
THE CHURCH OF SATAN
A History of the World's
Most Notorious Religion
by Blanche Barton
Do you have to scS yew sou! to Satan and $&>a pad tn stood?
'Come on — souls conte very cheap these days. The m>ih fe perpetuated by Christie Satanists who am following tho toad of mcdtovnl wri.-.h hunters. Satan demands a much harder task than signing over your sod in btocd. He demands that you live your Wo as fuly as you can. prosper by your own wits and avoid misery. Ycu wouldn't believe what a tall order that is for most people!'
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Twenty-five years ago. co Apnl 30. Walpurgisnachl. 19C6. Anlcn Szandor LaVey .shaved his head ard declared the beginring cf the Age of Satan. From that moment cn both the famous and the infamous have found Ihoir way» through Uto doors of the church of Salan, with LaVey as ds dabclisal "Black Pepe.'
Blanche Barton. Anion LaVe/s authorized biographer, gives a straight-from-'.hc shou’dcr account of the many strange and sensational ovorZs (some heavily documented by a media blitz, others related for the first time anywhere) that su^oundod LaVey ard his thousands cf fotowers as they ushered in a new era of indulgence and ca*nalty. based on pleasure hslecd cf sctf*deriaL Barton details the evttninps sport with LaVcy's Mage Circle, peopled with artists, writers and filmmakers whose names wiS be familiar, ard points out de-tsclo Satanists tiroughcut history, sixh as Beniamin Franklin, who would. LaVey is sure, have been in favrx of a "United Sateric America!"
In addton. Barton outlines Ihe direction this ever-growing organization is taking today, in her chapter 'Satan's Master Plan." And 5hn lays it on the Ine with what every reader will want to know: 'How To Perform Satanic: Rituals.'
1MO, x 8H, 177pp, Hfi/xt/xtcd, soft cover.
THE CHURCH OF SATAN: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94168)
THE FRINGES OF REASON
(A Whole Earth Catalog)
A Field Guide to New Age Frontiers, Unusual Beliefs
& Eccentric Sciences
Edited by Ted Schultz
The Fringes of Reason is a consumer gukJe io strange hotels. Here is a trustworthy authoftative reference for both stoppers rtkI browsers in toe marketplace of oddoall theories. unusual inventions, and cutting-edge ideas. From ucexplained phenomena to mysteries of the mind. The Fringes offices™ presents all sides ol tho siccy iron tto experts In o.ich field, ranging from true tcicvars Io hard-nosed skeptics. Ard in Zto Wboh Earth Catalog tradition, you will find complete aocoss to trio best bocks. periodicals, products, and sources of further information!
Divided bio sections covering: The Ne**. Improved Aga; Inner Frontiers; Evoryming You Know Is Wrong!; Weird Science; Not Of TNs Earth; end What Is Realty?. Tho Fringes of Reason tells you all about: • Chnnnalng • Psychic Powers ♦ Crystals • Shamanism • UFOs • Perpetual Motion • Cuts • Reincarnation • Spontaneous Human Combustion • Dowsing • Prophecy • Weird Phenomena • Astral Protection • Holo* Earth • AJien Abducticca • And Much Moro.
This book is above -all a celebration of the strange bolds and occcn- trx theories that these people have created. Their unconventional worid- views constitute a Ngh>/ entertain ng. subterranean art form that has for tbs most part tan ignored fry the mainstream med a. Whether or rot these pecUiar notions are literally true, tafes cf tty Ing saucer abductions, spontaneous toman combustion, astral travel, imcr-oarth cr/ilizaticns, end pyramids on Mars possess a haunting surreality and an arcane aesthete that communicate directly to tho unconscious mind. So step right up. dear reader. ¿ird enter the carnr.-dl sideshow U Unortbcdoxy. where pogo after pagu of peculiarity makes dear that despite our cocksure ago of science, rat'onaiam, and homogeneous mass mr.d,-j. mutant ideas conlirue to spawn, fission, and nvjh.ptyl
MW, SH x If, 224pp. profusety illustrated, Indexed, softcover.
FRINGES OF REASON: $14.95
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APOCALYPSE CULTURE
Expanded & Revised Edited by Adam Perfrey
First publebod in 1fi67, Apocalypse Culture rnmedately touched a nerve. Atomatoy excoriated ard lauded as ’epoctial.* ’the most importent book of thn dccadte.’ Apocalypse Culture had begun lo artfcUaie what many inw'anjy sensed — too foar-lnsprod upsurge of irrationalism and faith, the clash of irroccocdable forces, and the ovor-lcomng epecier of fin de race In its present Incarnation. Apocalypse Culture has significantly Increased m size, taking on new perspective« on our current crisis, with pertinent revfeons of many article« from tho original edition.
It's been 2.000 years since the death of Christ and too world is going mad. Bom-agato pornographers, totaftarian occultists and nihiist kids are united In then belerf of an Imminorx global catastrophe. Apocalypse Culture — with 39 expert dispatches from the front lines of the Arnon- con Grand Guignol - foes its microscope on the tumors of mass delirium.
This grand expose of tto current fin do siodo nghtma-o includes interviews with necrophlhacs and lycarthropcs. trans-ccodcnlal masochists and disciples of toe cbsccnoty obese. Tho psychotic nethe< mgons of art. science and polr.es are explored with special attention g von to the Imbrogios. cf cultk: ccnspirotors.
Thought crimes of a now generate! of aesthetic tenwfetoa» the Salable dmcavos of Tho Process cult.. seU-nxililiiticns and cavorting with carcasses by artists of the dark... all tlx? dsla ft to print cn the dec cm pose on cf modem sodety. Institution^ schzoptoenks talk back to television. and erw claims the power to crake Today show's Bryant Gurrblo bink.
Apocalypse Culture is axlensvoly ard uinervirgy ilustfa'.ed with soba! analysis guaranteed to go bayord tho pleasure principle. An in- vaUabte cause-and-effect primer on tho impending end limes.
1990. SH x 9H, d$2ppf Utuxtraied soft cover.
APOCALYPSE CULTURE: $12.96
<ORDER NUMBER S4169)
ANSWER ME! #3
by Jim end Debbie Goad
J«m and Qobbto Goad have just pubishod tho th rd -ssuo of one of the most inoor-dary magaanas in too wxorid: Answer Me!
43tockxtos:
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Interview wih AJ Sharpton
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Interview with the North American MaivBoy love Association
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8 pages of art by kiiars
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The Homeless Can Eat Shlf
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’I hate b^ng a Jew*
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And much rroro, including guns, sueldas, and much, mutfi more.
Answer Me! JUccntinuos tho oxccltan! altUudeaX ils 1 & 2. Answer Mo!\z tho best magazine in America.
1999. S% x 11, 116pp, HiustrMcd softcover.
ANSWER MEI H3: S3.6O
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SEMIOTEXT(E) USA
This is a virtual Saars Roebuck Catalog cf the American Underground — a huge compordium of work in American Ps^cbciopography: areas not feund on tr>e official map to consansui perception. Maps of enerpes. seer et maps of the USA to the torm of words and ¡magas.
We ere smezed. We pre ROT BORED. Wo huvo discarded tho outworn charm of post-modem incom- muncadismo. Passion and ¿Tvofvemont, s&dsbandoned crarinass, funny, sexy, dangerous. unsbasttecFy predous, punk, hud and drect, SF, specdskre Ihthn, weird fantasy — Pornography — Other mutated genres — Sermons, rants, broadsheets crackpot pamphieis, nysntfestusXerox endmlrnec zhes— Pimkznes— Muti art — Kids'poetry— Subverted advertisements— Afnerican samizdat — Astounding rhetoric, ahgaat P'opagar.da — U'-tderg^nd ccmtx — gaegmyheat documentation (maps, monuments, guides to weird p(acssr ^xXogrsphs) — Stolen top secret documents — And a special foa tuco: scores of personal and cfossified ads, each one with a box raxrber or add'uSS, to connect YOU with the edges of the USA — Anarchists, unidentiried ßying leftists, fteo-pega:y$. secessionist$, the lunatic fringe of sunrivaHsm. cuits. foreign agents, mad bcmtxrrs, b¿ehihe-bcxnbers, nu&sts, monarchists, children's Sberathn, tax resistors, zero-wortrofs, mimoo poets, vampires, feuHietonfstos. xorox pVatcs, prisoners, patephysicians, unrepentent fsggots, witches, hardcore youth, poeth terrorists..
This excellent compendium is tor the realzaron of almost« untoard- of desires. Check it out!
196Z, SH x If, 962 pp, frustrated, soft cover.
SEMIOTEXT(E) USA: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94185)
DEFENDING THE UNDEFENDABLE
by Waller Block
WICKED WORDS
A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs,
and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms
from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present
by Hugh Rawson
k witty. anecdote-lilcd gudn to the man)’ 'tod’ words wrth whch Ite English language te btossod. Wicked Words e a sardonic excursion along tte dArtc sxta of language which traces the origin, use. ate abuse of the wools wn love to hale. It ranges widely, including personal nsulls for beetfe bran, buJtinsjSos, weenies. and cockamarde, ¿iy-b'vered, tow- eyed, mealy-mouthed poftitogQcrs (among marry others); ethnic slurs, including some, stxh as hot» or wep, which started off as neutral. or even approving. terms; and polccal attacks on btecdng toads, cp^toads, goo^oos, mugwumps. and th© new notorious tiamtog, A<W- ferk or jtircushe (pick ano) Abends. Al this in addbon to Ilie fyeat feur- Icrtor Anglo-Saxon words, which are actually Standard Enr/lsh. ml slang, and wtese history is covered here in considerable detail.
Wicked Words in full of surprises. It shows how the connotations of words change over time: Nel Gwyn was not embarrassed to refer to herself as a »tore and it fe most unlikely that Shakespeare meant to ireuit Queen Eizabeth when be described her as a mighty yucca Context also counts heavily. of course perfectly accepuble in church, was banned from Holywcod soundtracks for many years). as wed as who is speaking (Nil-folk may describe each other as hicks and A^xVas. but they reach for ax handies when hearing city-folks call them nose same names). Throughout. Mr. Rawson shows how the uv» of loaded words tels as much ateut society as about the English language, revealing class and cultural differences as well as tte contiruhg conflict between taboo and freedom of expression.
Here ire ai ite ciassfc tifepmging terra natwitto («»ny of them cuinary insults, such as chS-eater. frog and A/aufc for women (inducing such eQj'me InsUts as harridan, jado, ate rx^); and tor such dr.'erse individuals as btockheads, cheapskates, milquetoasts. pogey bait. poor white trash, queers, ribbon dorks, sanscufoffes. Undo Toms, wowsers. ate many more.
Wicked Words wll appeal to wordsmehs and word buffs, as wet as Ito vast audience who enfoy browsing through collector« of odd and interesting facts.
f9S9, 6X9. 447pp. terd cover.
WICKED WORDS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94189)
For all too long, ’oppressed’ mncrtlles (racial, ethnic, tte
tendcapped. etc.) have received all the attention from those who
defend victms of unfair att.-xks. There are. however, other groups who
Ivw been donigratod unjustly and denied of correcting ths Imbalance.
Dr. Block's 5st of ’uteefendsWes’ reads like a rogue's gaiety —
from the Wackmater to the drug pusher. ite more/enter to tte
proutole. tte Grnptoyar of cNld labor to the strip miner, the pimp. scab,
slumlord. Ibcler — all the objects of universal revulsion. They are
accused of perpetuatng evils, but are rocky scapegoated by Iha very
poepto who try Vo suppress them.
Many of those extreme case studios of tte rev tod ord sc erred in cur
society have considerable shock value. The author feartossly and wZh
trenchant bgic demonstrates the? considerable economic and social
merit, and forces tte reader to think. These so-called scoundrels never
engage in reprehensible acts of initiatory aggression.
Although writing in a lively and humorous style. Dr. Block proves the
serious politcal-phtoaopbicaJ point that in a just society deviant but
non-aggressive tetevior should be permned.
This « sure to be one of tte most oorzrcvarsal tocks of our limo.
Most so-catod "ICtertanans’ are afraid to deal with extreme cases. but
not Blxk. I found it most heart warming to see him in there defondng
tte pmp, biackmater. libeier, and other ’villair«’ whom most libertarian
theoreticians like to pretote do not exist He pools out that these paepte
fi/till functions >n tte economic environment, just as surety as scorpions,
buzzards and maggots fit into the physical environment if they didnl.
they would not exist. This book is a fast study in economic reality — a
manifesto for wicked people's ftbarahen. High?/ recommended.
1276, S>i x S>i, 232pp, iikrttr»ted, soft cover.
DEFENDING THE UNDEFENDABLE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94196)
RUBBISH!
The Archaeology of Garbage
by William Rathjo 6 Cullen Murphy
Just as nretviootoglstn sift
through the remains of ancionl
cMIzatonr. to team how
peep's ived, so mo authors of
the bcok dvo into cur own
garbage to uncover secrets
about ourselves Soma ct mo
Surprising findogr. unedited
Includa: ♦ Fresh produce is
tte biggest contributor to food
waste ♦ Fast-food packaging
is not a major waste problem •
Most ’bkxfogradabte’ garbage
doesn't deg-a<io • Packing
materials help diminish gar-
bage • Disposable dtapers
don't teg landfill spa«» •
Ifcuzehdds dispose of as
much hazardous waste ss
businesses • Average housetekJ waste has not been acceleratng
VAIliam Rattije to an archaeology, professor of anthropofogy, ate drcctor oi the Ukin-ersity of Arizona’s Garbage Project. For tte past 20 years, me Garbage Pro;«=ot has been sifting, sorting and wtiat we throw away. It is from this ’hates-on’ analysis, coupled with survey data and otter research, that tte authors have drawn lr«ights into poltics, eoonorrics. demographer, history and human behavior.
Rubbish! Is a reality check, tallng us how wo roaSy act. what wo /»tfjyconsumo. and dobinkng mo m>ths that cause us to misdirect our waste treatmorv: resources. It is a well written bcok. full of facts ate figures ate insights that are net orty surprising and cnlortanhg. but very r-nponsnt to tte mUti-Wllfon dollar debate over what to do w/m what we throw away.
fS92. 5Mx4K, 263pp, kfusfrs!edt softcover.
RUBBISH!: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94208)
MODERN PRIMITIVES
Rc/Scarch Publications
Ro/Scarch Publcattocs. master-
minded by V. Vale and Andrea Juno,
has brought ycu tncrcd&y Strange
Films. //rcterfai/ CuXuro Handbook, and
Prsnksf Maw they bring you Modern
Primitives, an investigation oi contem-
porary adornment and ntual. an eye-
opening and frequently shocking expto-
ration of the underground world of bed/
mcdilhations and practices that en-
hance identity, sexual sensations and
philosophic awareness. Contemporary
practitioners ot so-caied ’primitive'
oclrrittos such as piercing, scariiicaton.
and tattooing clarity, in unuaualy can-
dd detail, their rroliva’tons arid experiences, while simultaneously critiquing Western Civilization, whose eotoiers and priests annihilated the colorful ethnic cultures that once covered the planet.
Amazing, exploit photos e’eart/ document the full range ol aesthete pleasure available to open-minded adventurers. Arrorg the subjects interviewed are: Fakir Musefar. 55-year-oto Silicon Valtoy advertising executive who. since age 14. has practiced every bed/ rrodheatton known to man: Genesis & Pauls P-Orridge (Ascribing numerous gerttai piercing, ritual scarification and personal, symbolic tattoos; Ed Hard/, premier tattoo artisVphitosepher. editor of Tattootime. and creator o< over 10.003 tattoos: Cap«. Don LesHe. sword swettowar; Jim Ward, editor ol Piercing Fans tniemaHonai; Sbnrao Rose, dominatra: and ethers who talk about Scdy practices that develop identity, sexual sensation and phtosophk: awareness.
Spanning tho spectrum from S A M to Hew Apo ecstasy, this rational pjkfebook offers enlightenment, pleasure and respiration!
1999, M x 11, 711 pp, profa*efy HfatfrxM. Indexed. soft cover.
MODERN PRIMITIVES: $17.99
(ORDER NUMBER 94139)
CRYING WOLF
Hate Crimes Hoaxes in America
by Laird Wilcox
Racial, sexual end religious
strife has become a moda
obsession. Bena fide inoderrts
of hale crime do occur. But
because ol payoffs to victims
and victims* rights groups In the
form ot premoton ot political
agendas and e*ren taancial
gan. the temptation to fabricate
hate crimes has become irre-
sistible.
In Crying Wolf, author Laird
V/ilcox, founder of the WiCOX
Colkrcticn on Contemporary
Poiticai lAovements at the
University ol Kansas, docu-
ments more than 120 hato
crime hoaxes, from the cele-
brated Charles Stuart end
Tawana Brawley cases, to less
publicized but no less worri-
some incidents. As Ur, v.Tcox
dcmcnslratos, many hale crime ftoaxes have eoccuraged violent reprisals as well as copycat crimes. For ths reason alow. hoaxes shcuW txr exposed and discouraged.
Crying Wb//analyzes hale crime legislation. the problems of bias in collecting statistics and will profile some of the organizations promoting the concept Of hate Crimes. Crying Wotfvi a musí for pumaists. law enforcement eftoers. and anyone interested in the creation of reality.
1994. 5H xSH, 220pp. softcover.
CRYING WOLF: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94239)
PRANKS!
Dazzling deceptions and provocative put-ons
from some of the most outrageous
artists and personalities living today!
byRe/Search
Iha most hfari-
ous. witty ¿oat of all
time I Spcntanocus.
improvised crazi-
ness from the Un-
derground in New
York. San Francisco,
Loa Angatea. Paris,
and poets in be-
tween. TNs bock
opens up a whole
new territory of fun
and pleasure.
Although not
heretofore regarded
as pretio cr artiste
ads. pranks consti-
tute an art form and
genre In themselves.
Pranksters such as
Timothy Leary, Ab-
b>a Haffman. Paul
Krassncr, Mark
Psiitoe. Karen Fin-
ley. Bo,d Rice. Jeito
Biafra. Bruce Con-
nor. John Waters, John Giorno. Jeffrey Vallance, Earth First?. Henry Rollins, and many more tri in Iheir own words anecdotes of prankish subversion. Their stories chalcnge the sovereign authority of words, image?, and behavioral oanrenbon.
A prank con rotes fan, laughter. fes!, satire. lampooning. making a tool &f semaona — a« ight-Martod activities Thus do pranks camou- llago the sting of deeper, more critical denotations, such as their direct chatonga to a I verbal and behavioral routines, and thoir undermining of Iha sovereign aulhorit/ cA words, language, visual images, and social ccrwenttons in general. Regardless of specfic manHeataticn. a prank is always an e*/aston oí rtM&ty. Pranks are the d&adty eneny of realty. And 'realty* — its description and Imitation — has akvays been the supreme control trick used by a society to subdue the lust for freedom latent in its citizens.
From the ver/ onset of social ¡nleracttors. pranks play Cher part, instructing and enlghtening the child towards the realization that tfings are never »frat (bay s&m Calling into question Inherently dubious concepto -ush as "reality,* ’truit.* 'belief.' 'obedience.* and 'the social centrad.' pranks occusicnally succeed in implanting a profound and lasting d^trusl of all sccal ccr.var.tions and institutions.
CbsdencQ to language and imago must ccnlinuaty ba chalongod, if wo aro to stay 'alwa.' Tho best pranks research and probe tie boundaries of tho ozcupcd territory known as 'society* in an attempt to redirect that society toward a vision ci if© pounded nd in dreadful necessity. but rather, conünoaf poetic renewal, {k society whose exchange vofao consisted in poetic images and humor rattier than dolare can barely be imaginedthis stage of world evolution.) Pranks function to evoke Iha parallel Land of Make Believe, that realm of perpetual surprise and delight where endless possfaiUies tor fun and pleasure depend upon circumvention of hábil and ¿¡¿rió. From tfiéir Shádów wtorM. pranks cast their Funhouse Mirror reflection of our workaday world. Ultimate?/, tho terntory sign posted by pranks may represent our single supremely tarwgible freedom.
Ths toanocbstic compendium wdl dazzle and (foGght an lovers of humor, sabre and irony... and ma/ perhaps inspire others to tread similar paths of Humnatod lunacy and rebellón. Indudes essays, interviews, quotations, tlbaography. timography. index, and phatos.
1997. Mx 11,749pp,profiMfyiffustrxfed,
indexed, sell cover.
PRANKSI: $17.99
(ORDER NUMBER 94122)
LOOMPANICS' GOLDEN RECORDS
Articles and Features from
The Bost Book Catalog In the World
Edited by Michael Hoy
Throe years in tte makingl A bra rd-new collection of articlse and features from the Loompancs Unfrnitod Bock Catalog — 77.v Best Book Catalog in tho WorW Loompanics has always strived io make tho articles and features.« publishes every bl as exciting, frightening, oyn-cpenlng, controversial end unusual as the books it sells. This bmrxl-new collection contains more than 40 cf the test and most Imaginative pieces Loompanics has ever puMshed. Wartit you getta load of these...
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The Untold Story c4 U.S. Outlaw GIs in WWII Europe
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Sccntifc Ecology and Deep Ecology: A Clash ol True Bdinvarr.
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Hr/w to Hrio Your Brrccoll from Goorgo Bush
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Did Thomas Jefferson Wear M.rror Shades?
a The Guff •War* and the Spectacle
a The Wonderful Virtues of the Hemp Plant
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No Future frx the Workplace
a The War Against Comic Books
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Tho Tabloids and tho Mainstream Media
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If You Uko Social Socunty. You’re Going to Love National Heart Care
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My Kids Don't Go To School
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Tho War Against Affordable Housing
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Why 12*Stop ’Recovery* Programs are rwaive Slops to Holl
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America's Greatest Female Criminals
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Tho Anti-Sox League
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Close Call: A True Into of Lust, Greed and Murder
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Censorship in Cyborr.poco
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Luc4cr*s Lexicon
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A Day in tho Ufo of a Tabloid Editor
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Twisted Image
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Holocaust Survivor Denounces Anti-Gun Ownership Movement
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Surviving in Prison
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And much, much more!
Loompanics' Golden Records also features some never-beforo- pubisbed pieces. such as 'Early Release.- a kick-ass erme story written by a convicted murderer, ’Circus of the Scars.- en amazing profile of a modern-day freak show, and artwork by some of
Amenca's moet laontod artists, such as Mark Zingaro». Nick
Bougas. Ar. and Ace Backwords. Order your copy today. You vwil to
very pleased, we know...
1993. SH x ft. 200pp, frustrated, softcover.
LOOMPANICS' GOLDEN RECORDS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94207)
Here is what they hare been saying about the artides and features pub&shed in The Bes t Book Catdog in the World
’A gudo to the freedom underground and its many curious tendrils.* — Fact shoot Five
•...biting, grumbling social cntquos...dr.’erse. Imaginative and ucpred'ctable " — Sms ft Press Book Review
"Provocate... essays..." — Hustler
"The word that best describes theso rants. raps. outones and artworks is aatf-authoritarian. ...youVe probably got nolhng else tfco It." — Booklist
"...the hairiest, most anarchistic and amoral, most ciiatonging articles.. Weal reading for open minds, or minds struggling to epen themselves.’ — Trajectories
•...tho best-arrod controversial paces, many cn subjects sliunned or forbidden to mainstream media....more power to 'om.* — Whole Earth Review
’Throw away your newspapers and magazines and execute a well-placed kick to your TV seL" — bOING-bOlNG
"...more reveaing than many a more sertous radcal text.’ — Anarchy
"...Locmpanbs fe precisely the kird of publication that British and academic anarchists might tfiink gives anarchism its bad name. However, what lies in these pages are pointers to certain facets of modem culture, such as tho informal economy. ‘Crime TV, and tho intfvidual lawbreaker as hero." — Bulletin of Anarchist Research
THE RESURRECTION OF ARISTOCRACY
by Rudolph Carlyle Evans
LocmperUcs Unlimited to vary proud to offer its readers one of tho
most stunning and frightening and inspiring books sirco The World
Power Foundation: Rudolph Cartyio Evans' Tho Resurrection of
Aristocracy. From tho Introduction by Robert Hartz:
It Is not Just do-goodors, liberals, and wimps who have utopias. The
basis of any Utopia Is a systematic visten of how Ifo cou'd bo bolter.
Ard "better" Is a function of desire, not morally. Utopias aro fueled by
intelectual lusts and cbaosstens. and not evor/oro drcams of a gontier
and more generous wxjrid.
In Rudolph Evans* Utopia, the warrior eite will have more style and
substance than a motercydc gang, but will rute without a singte apology
or hesitation. Tho very tide page of The Resurrection o( Aristocracy
contains a dedteatkn "to roUe ones of all race«.' and the book's ld*ins
only got more Niotzsctwean and Darwinistic from there. This to not a
reassuring or uplifting book, and if it were popular In the mass market.
Evans would probably be astounded. He to not bringing good nows. but
hard news Io the majority of readers. He stands for "small is beautiful."
all right, but not the way the ecdoglsts im.nglno It. In Evans* vow. tho
main función of Iha common people Is to boat tno lily pads at night to
keep Che frogs quet. That, and go to war when their wbl-rested masters
demand it. Evans wants to soo a two iterad social morality: for the
leaders — pride and booty and a chance to humnate their cnomtes; for
the mass of followers — at best, security, and a chance to take orders
from those they tear and respect.
What Evans wants Is a new feudalism. If the world once moved from castles and serfs Into boirpoos erfios and capiláíérii, l'te &é¿«5 fid reason why it cannot be reversed. Evans wants a world where men aro men (and sheep are nervous. I presume) but a harsh end mnrll.il world for certain. high on loyalty and Internal honor, but lacking In rcgiiatten and social improvement As he states: "The present ago e eno c/ equally, tito new age will be cne of aristocracy; teg present ago is dorrinated by urban Irie: the new age will be dominated by a rural Irfosb/o; the present age is mass production, the new ago wJl bo eno ©Í homemade goods and craftsmanship; the pn«er4 ago has given us tho nuclear family, the new age will return us to tho oxtendod family; the present age idolizes sctonco and tochnotogy; tho now apo will bo tieeiSe or indifferent to these things."
Evans does not believe in incMo down, triddo-up. or any echer form of econom’c redistribution. Ho teds that scarcity is Inovilabte, oititof through ecotogicaJ Bonltattons cc gonoral human wastefulness. Therefore, he wanes • -ftercor scarcity, ono which generates a proud nob’llty that Is unasharrod about living off others. Its solutions for conventional socnl problems such as dvorco. alonalten. eL al.. 3'6 thcrctore extraordinarily simple — the comnxmers should go homo. 8Uy home, and be glad to bo supervised. Instead of teamng thngs. they shouki forget about Intelligence and sophistication. They ehcukl ge< about the busness of living by ther nature — doefn. passive, and brutish. Ulo will bo hand.* ho explains, "and tba corrmoners will have very tew expoclnbons. They will never question permanency cf their sdbordnata position... and tboir pys will bo c/ Uva most basic Knd, such as the birth of a chid, tho marriage of a sen or daughter; and mTitary success of Ihor lord, particularly so when it involves tee members of thRlr own oommuncy. and of course a good harvest... Communal ooeporatien will bo essential for tiw common people if they am to sunwo. No longer wil they be able to beg for a living, or Uve off the chnrcy of some benevolent institution or rely on the government to provide lor their needs — put simply those who do not work realty will not eat."
Lades and gentiemen. Loompancs Unlimited proudy presents: Rudolph Cartyle Evans' Tbo Resurrection of Aristocracy.
5H x SH, 329pp. soft cover.
THE RESURRECTION OF ARISTOCRACY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94117)
COSMIC TRIGGER
by Robert Anton Wilson
Vie are happy to seo this mindbander beck in print. Robert Anton
VAIson's Cosmic Trigger blasts you off on n space-age voyage Into a
unh'orsQ of startling possibiitios. Wo are dazzled by star showers cf
fact, fantasy, satire and prophecy generated by ono of tho most
Itxiratod minds of our day. Fact surpasses fantasy as Wilson explores
spnoo migration, psychodolcs. immortaity. tho Gurd/off work. Crowley
mage, moditatfon. UFO contact ard rruch more in tea mast
cutragoous journey of our time. In a pan-galactic mix of Vome^rt,
Jcyco and Burroughs. Robert Anton Wilson focuses the myths and
fables of cuf age through the lens of expanded consciousness as teo
Cosmic Trigger casts the shadows away with penetrating insight and
scathing humor.
1977, 5H xSU, 224pp, illustrated, indexed, softcover.
COSMIC TRIGGER: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94107)
ARISE
The SubGenius Video
From the Church of the SubGenius
(Reviewed by Mike Hoy)
Arise is the s'ngio funniest video I have ever watched. Years in the
making. K reveals the wonder and □*□<>• of ‘Bob' — a wonder and gory
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If you though« the brillant Rev. Ivan Sung had created something
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THE TURNER DIARIES
by Andrew MacDonald
vídeos a re konreturhable
1937. SO minutes, VHS Video
ARISE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94130)
TURNER
DIARIES
This ryjl-so-pood novel is ccnsdered to be
cne cl ti*e most inflammatory books ever
written It allegedly inspired The Order." a
gang of right wing racists who plotted the
violent overthrow of Vie US Government
putted armed robberies. assassinated a radio
tak show host, and committed various other
crimes, at gleefury reported In the mainstream
press several years ago.
Tito FBI has labe’ed The Turner Diaries
a "manual of hatred." Liberals in the news
media likewise have condemned rt end ealted <
•the bble of right-wing extremists.* The Turner Diaries to one of the most controversial books In America. If the government had the pewor to ban books, 77m Turner Diaries would bo near tho top of tho list.
The ptot goes ike this: Eart Turner and his fellow patriots am forced uxfefyiouod vwtefi me US government bans the private possondon of firearms and s-tages ne mass Gun Raids to rcnxid 14) sur.poctcd gun owners. The tated Equality Polco begin huntng them down, tut 0» patriots begin to fight back with a campaign of sabotage and assassination. An all-out men war occurs as mo struggle escalates. Turner and his comrades suffer terribly, but their ingenuity and boldness in devising and executing new methods of guerrila warfare toad to a victory of cataefysme intensity and worldwide scope. The Turner Diaries s a book unIke any you've ever read!
t9G0' 4M x 7H, 215 pp, paperback.
THE TURNER DIARIES: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94103)
PROMETHEUS RISING
by Robert Anton WUson
lbs book comas Ircm tho
far-out mind of Robert Anton
Wilson. author of tho
AVTxhsftxs.' trilogy. Cosmic
Trigger, and other mhd-
boggling works.
In it, ha continues to break
down the burners of everyday
’consensus’ realty. and
provides instructions on
creating your own reality.
Learn what the future hokfe.
and bow to bo a part of it —
and how to help create «I
Topes covered Indude •
Thinking ard proving •
Hardware and sortware •
Circuts of too human brain ♦
Morally, mind-washing and
brain programming •
Relativity • Quantum
evolution • and much more.
Recommended for all who want to stretch their minds.
/m SX * 6H, 262pp, ktustmtad, soft cover
PROMETHEUS RISING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94076)
'Prometheus Rising Xr one of that rare category of modern works, which intuits tho next .stage of human evolution as a rosXty.. Robert Anton WSson Is one of tho feeding thinkers of tho modern ego H providing an answer to tho ‘vision gap. *‘ — Barbora Marx Hubbard
ANGRY WOMEN
by ReSearch Publications
Sateen ciiting-odgo performance artels discuss universal dicrrmas lacing al of ra — own and woman. Exploring the root causes undarfying why wo are in our currant societal and planetary crises. Angry Woman discuss what wo can do about it bow can we rethink-YedefinwYecalegofize and remake cur universe? Issues of sexuality and tie body, racism and sexism are exptored with humor and irony.
Included aro: • Karen Finley — performance arts! wtx> achieved national noloriaty when her NEA grant was revrAnd ♦ Annie Sprinkle outrageous sexual performer attacked by Jesse Hearns • Kathy Acker — author, described as tho female Wiliam Burroughs’ ♦ Susie Briyfrit — edtor of the pioneering pu bleat ten On Gur Sacks whoso policy is ’entertainmant for tho adronturous tosban’ • Dorrordn Galas — spulbind'mg. intense avant-garde singer • Holy Hughes — performance artist whose NEA grant was revoked because of lesbian content • Lyda Lunch — scathing spoken word performer wish roots tn ©arty NYC punk rock scene • Carole« Schneemann — original performance artist of the Sixties associated vrith ’happenings’ • Wanda Coteman — poet who dosccbos growing up black in Watts and other extreme expertercas • Linda Montano — perforri\ance artist famous for bong tied by a rope icx a year to a mate artist • And many ethers..
Originally inspired by tho Censorship Plague of too *9Os in which Congressman Jesse Helms and Dana Rohrbachor attacked female and gay performance artists for political gain. Angry Women delves below too surfaces of cur society to urcover linguistic and mythological underpinnings of tho urgo to censor, dominate, contrd and exploit (Xhe< peoples’ Ilves,
1991, S'4 X 11, 200pp, iiiust/sted, softcover.
ANGRY WOMEN: $18.99
(ORDER NUMBER 94181)
AMOK FOURTH DISPATCH
"A reading list from Hell...*
Edited by Brien King and Stuart Swozey
T?»e Amok Fourth Dispatch is both a gu'de to the etesmy undergrowthd of tlx* well-manicured fiction garden arid a tlxxcugh dreetoiy of the wtreiw of ftfwmatoA ft print Tbs Amok Fourth Dispatch otiw* vw three thousand book tees In tNs heavily Huaraiod compilation as mil as audio and video cassotto sanctions. The books Offer unflinching looks at mayhem, virus and decay; dissections ct the current global power structure; sexual impulses spinning out of control psychiatric tyranny and schizophrenia; tnbal rituals and ethnographic documents; p^ychodoic reality-maps; tho tactics of individual subversion and autonomy; and other stark visions of our time.
Iraide tots unique document. Amok fingers the pulse of deviance — raw data in toe form of: forensic medical texts and CIA lecture manuals, behavior central techniques, biographies of serial kilters and porno queens, fire and brimstone fundamentalist fukninaticns. Satanist manifestos and Santerfa spelbooks. Nudist Colony guidebooks and psychotronc film directories, human oddties pkturebocks and UFO abduction accounts, riot centre! lecknclcgios and AIDS as botogcaf warfare, tho abortion of work and Siluaticnism. keeping a severed head alive ard creating a false ID. holocaust rovistanrsts as wed as toe African roots of Western crvffzation, necrophlia and gay truckslop sex. and countless o<he< manifestations of the bizarre and provocative.
The Fourth Dispatch also exam’nra the human Imagnation In print — tho desperate, tbo depraved, and decadent: drawing from such previously under-recoonUed realms of notion ra hard-bored pulp writers. Cyberpunk science notion, blaxploitation novefe. Surrealists and Symbolists. Sado-Masochistic erotica, as well as corrpreberaive*/ placing such literary eminences as Pee. H.P. Lovecraft. Rimbaud. Nietzsche. Dostoevsky In a post-industrial context.
’An impressive collection, absolutely definitive in many ways — one can almost say that there’s no need to read anything that isn't In tNs catalogue. TTe who'e thing. In fact, to a wonderful conspectus of that other Ifiarature that exists ight-years away from mainstream puWlsbng and the respoctobto acaderric consensus that underpins all those puffed-up repulattora and assorted nonentities.'— J.Q. Ballard
’A readng I-st from Hdl that Is a must for any serious oddball bblbphite’ — John Waters
1290, SX x 11, 076pp, Mustrsted. softcover.
AMOK FOURTH DISPATCH: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94157)
ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON
by Henry Hazlitt
It you can only read -cne book on eccrorn'cs. it Should be tTiis one. It Is also mo ideal book to give to friends who believe 'the government’ can ’do somothhg* to *heJp' tho economy, in clear, concise language. Hazlrtt refutes all arguments fee government spending and shows con- elustvety mat governments create nothing. Topics covered include the ’trekon window’ fallacy; how taxes dscourage production; the fetish 0< ’hil omptoymont;’ who's protected by tariffs?; the mirage of inflation; and much mote. The best cm verfume InlnxlucCon to Iren nurtcot exo- nompcs we have seen. Highly recommended.
1979edition, 6x9, 216 pp. softcxnvr.
ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON: $7S5
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INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK
Com pl ¡cd by Rc/Search
From tho pref-
ace: *Tho Indus-
trie! Culture
Handbook is Sim-
pfy a reference
guide to the phFos-
ophy and interests
of a flexible al-
liance of me follow-
ing deviant interna-
tional artiste: Thro-
bing Gristfo, Cabo-
rat VoXwo. SPK,
¿‘ov, Hen, Monio
Cazmtp, Mark
PpuSno, Scrddc
Sontmontoi. Jo-
hanno Want, and
RAM. Most of these
artists have been
working creatively
a decade or longer,
in varying degrees
ol obscurity.
•By Industrial'
we mean the grim
skkj of post-indus-
trial Revo'ution
society — Cie repressed mythology, history. sewn». tochnotogy and psychopathology. By 'Cuituro' wo moan the books, films, magazines, records. etc., which have been plucked out of the available information overload ns rotovnnt and Important
’There is no strict unifying aesthetic, except that ai things gross, atrocious, horrific, domontod. and unjust are examined with Nack-hu- mcr eyes. Nothing Is (or over again will be) sacred, except a commitment to me racHraHon of tho individual imagination. These are not gallery or salon artists s truggiing to pot to whore the money is: mese are artiste tn spite of art. There e no standard of value left unchatonged.
Tho values. standards. and content ’Jia! remain are of a perversely anarcNc nature. grounded in □ psst-bofocaust rrorakty. Swept away am false politeness, etiquette, pcooccvpaton with texture and form — all the rtceties associated with several generations of art abotX ether art. Starting 90 a rnalkjnnd foundation of ’back’ history, ’Mack* science and the *black arts,’ those artists have presented the? visions reflecting the worid as ffioyaoQ it. not the official realities. The problems of morally and critical evaluation are left to the eye Of me beholder and Io history — what remains of IL..
•All art has as its source dreams, the unconscious, and the Imagination. Ard in dreams as in me Imagination as m art — nolhng Is to.’bd- den. everything is permitted...’
—Vale. Sen Frartfsco 1983
/AU 8* x 11. 14Opp, profusely tNustrsted,
indexed, soft corer.
INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK: $13.99
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WOUNDED INNOCENTS
The Real Victims
of the War Against Child Abuse
by Richard Wexler
The war against chid abuse
has become a war against
children. Every year, hundreds
ol chiklren die. thousands more
are forced to live with
strangers. and countess
American famiios are tom
apart. This is catod a ’chiki-
prutoction system.’ While the
problem of child abuse is
serious and real, pumaist
Rkhard Wexler charges mat
our solutions to the prob'orn
have actually mado n worse —
in fact, hurting the very children
that they were intended to help.
Wexler reinforces his
arguments with horrifying
descriptions of children sum-
marily removed from thsir
homos, of famiies shattered because of false reports, and cl children whoso parents are guilty of nothing more than poverty being thrust Into tho maelstrom of the chaotic foster-care program. He wntes of several/ abused chidran — mceo needing the most help — wtxjse cases are ignored because tho system diverts scarce resources to trivial or unfounded casos. and wtx> are rolqurod sometimes fatally, afief their pllghl has boon called to tho attention of authorities.
Wounded Innocents illustrates how wol-meaning efforts to help children two gene tomb?/ wrong and how the current chiW-prclecticn system desperately noods to be replaced with eno that offers real help enri real hope to abused and neglected chSdron.
1999. 8x9. 369pp. indexed, herd cover.
WOUNDED INNOCENTS: $23.95
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THE SECRET LIFE OF A SATANIST
The Authorized Biography
of Anton LaVey
by Blanche Barton
There is a beast in men thatshodd
be exercised, not exorcised.'
— Anton Szandor LaVoy
Many people corvJder Anton LaVoy
me most dangerous man cn earth
Others simply t^smiss him as an
entenainng charlatan. Whal sccmis
lurk wilhn the man wfo shaved his
head cn Wafpurgfenacht. 1966. and
declared the formation of the Church of
Satan?
Written with It» coopcmton c4 her
ertgmatic subject. Blanche Borton's
biography reveals what has previously
been hidden from public vio-w:
-
LaVe/s orotic involvements with
lAsriyn Mcr/ce and Jayne Mansfield
• The dark origins ot SatnrJc nlcal
• LaVe/s ea rty career as hoodlum, camy, burlesque house organist. Zkxisl operative, ton tamer, and ghost hunter for the San Francbco polco department
• Rare photographis and documents, including LaVe/s ’bennod essay’ co l)cantorcpic transformation
• And much more.
1992. 5x8i4,286pp, iiiustratcd, softcover.
THE SECRET LIFE OF A SATANIST: $1JL95
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THE BOO HOO BIBLE
The Neo-American Church Catechism
by Art Klops
The Neo-American Church is ono of
the rrAjor relgbus organizations in too
Unfed States to uso psychedelic
sutz&inoas ns sacraments. They do
not employ sot rituals. make conditions
tor membemhp other than agreement
With their principals, or rogubto tho
frequency or intensity of Uto
sacramcnla? experience. The Boo
Hoo Bibfo is the catechism of this
church, written by Uto Chief Boo Hoo.
Art Ktaps. Here are some of tho
strategic concepts of Chief Boo Hoo:
1. Dent bother trying Io curry favor
with the ostablisbmont it's a losing
game. Wo aren't American Indians
who can be patronized and Isolated.
congratJatod on our sobriety, and al that We have the /frttto practice our rolgicn, even if we are a bunch of filthy, drunken bums. Try net to degrade rights into mere claims, based cn evktence of Mriue and kick of vico. Wo da not stand before the government as children bafora □ parent, tho government stands before us as the corrupter of our God- given human rights and until the government gets Ils Woody, rooking paws off our sacred psychedelics and consos io harass and persecute our members, until. Indaed. every poor wroteh now suffering in prison, because he preferred ihn mystical of pot to too slobbering dtaobclisrn of the pottdans, is sot free, cur attitude must be cne of uncompromising hostility.
2. Never tak to the poifco about anything.
3. Take anyone as a member, no matter what >ou suspect his motives to be. ’By than fruits ye shall know them.* There is enou</i empty moral’Zlng In this country already. How many of us can honestly say we had •pure’ motives when wo first pot involved in the psychedelic world?
4. M too choice is batwocn bad publicly end no putfetty. toko tho bad publicity. The active and intelligent people in the US havo long ago coasod believing in what they read: in fad. being ’put dawn’ by a rag. such as 73w Magazine. probably dfoposas more intelligent pocple in one's favor, than the reverse.
Chief Boo Hoo Is alright by me end Tho Boo Hoo Bible is a masterpece of guerrita ontology ateng the Ines of Pnnc&a Discorda. Wo highly recommend this hard-to-find tock.
1971, 6x9. 229 pp. dtwrtnted, softcover.
THE BOO HOO BIBLE: $19.95
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ECCENTRIC UVES & PECULIAR NOTIONS
by John Michell
John Michell's coilcctton of stylish ard witty essays takes us to tho wJdor sberos of conspiracy theory and examines 1he lives and opinions of too eccentric, the obsessive. and the plain demented.
Tnoro are convinced flal-earthere, ard others sum In trior knowledge that tho earth is a holbw sphere we live within. Men who dedktetod thoir Ivos and ccnsidorahlo ingenuity to proving Bacon’s authorship of Shakespeare through hkkfen ciphers. ebses-v.-e blbiomaniacs. ufologists. ard fervent advocates Ur the cause of Atlanta. Even the usually levelheaded Gladstone was persuaded to propose to hs Caboat that they sard a task for« to search tor the lost ccnlinonL
There is Cotonol SibChorp, arguably the most rabd reactionary over to sit in too House of Commons, who oppose everything now or mextom cn principle; and there is Neste Webster, a paranoid ccnsplratologel of quite epic proportions. And then there aro Amarda Folding and Joey Merten, the proprietors of a Chelsea art gallery who drilod holos in Ihor skulls cn the path to spiritual enlightenment.
Eccentric Lives A Peculiar Notions Is essential reeding for anyone who ever wcodorod at 1!» inventiveness and gulibllty of Ute human Imagination, or who thought that they, too, might quietty be going mad...
1934, 5x8, 245pp. iitustretod. indexed, soft cover.
ECCENTRIC UVES & PECULIAR NOTIONS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99073)
THE BEST OF MALEDICTA
A scholarly, scatological
and witty investigation of outrageous
insults, forbidden language, and wicked jokes.
Edited by Reinhold Aman
Every day around tho wcrid. tons of thousands of people aro humiteled. demoted, trod, fined, jailed, inJurod, kilted, or driven to suckle because of moiodeto; insults, slurs, curses, threats, btesphemtes, vulgarities and other odonslvo words and expressions. MAledicta (from Latin. meaning ’bad weeds’) cover a brood spectrum of language, traditionally shunned in pubic by prudish professors, prim word-popes, ard other properings who. rortolheleas. use many such words in private. Maiedicta are the opposite of prayer, praise and Raftery, the black sheep of language that most people use, but tew talk or write about
Nasty or naughty language is heard most often In stressful, angry and otocr omcfconaly charged situabone. It is spoken as fluently in Ivory towers, in puntoouses and in elegant corporate offices during hostite takeover attempts, as « te In the gutter.
The antoefogy, selected from too 2.500 pogos of tho 8 vdumos of Maiedicta: The tmenvttionaJ Joumjsi of Vorbai Aggrc^icn. 1977-85. concentrates on the lighter, funnter. n-oro whimsical aspects of the topics. Yet the studos of what people call each other, too? blasphemies and toor slang for body parts and excretions arc a soncus, Otten sad, matter. The material in the antoology embraces many fie'ds. from antt-ropclogy to zootogy. and sheds much light on human nature, on value systems, and cn psychological, lingustte and sociological aspods of language.
Ths book contains language offensive to Blacks. Catholics. Gays. Jews. Mon. Women, and V/ASPs.
1937, 7x 10, 200pp. Indexed, soil cover.
BEST OF MALEDICTA: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94110)
THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS
by The SubGcnius Foundation
Hore Is an tnhoroniiy bogus
rolgten for pooplo whoso IQs are
botwoon that of an amoeba and
1391*. it is a cortifted religion of scorn
and vongeanco: directed al THEM,
dovisod by precise mathematical
formulae, wi'dor than tho most arcane
UFO/AUanbG cults, inviduablo to all
superior renegades who at any ¡¿me
aro Justifiably on too edge of insanity.
Most important, it sho-AS pecplc how
to find 'Bob.’
Who Is J.R. 'Bob’ Dobbs anyway?
Duns-paying SubGoniusos already
know about 'Bob’ and his fast-
growl ng Church of too SubGonlus. They road Iha official newsletter of the Church, Tho Stodc Fist of Removal. They may own ’Bub' t-shirts and may have heard too media barrage L-ipcs of his preachings on radio stations.
The Book of The SubGonius is too epic self-help Manual of Revelation. It oxplains tho Conspiracy. Readers can team how ’Bob’ became the Snnt of Sales; how he lod L Ren Hubbard llial ’they may be pink but thoir mor.oy is grocnl’
Members of tho SubGorius cult can spook to benevolent aliens, and team frame-stralghtenlng. gripo elaboration, and fronry techniques. The void of toelr tx^n-pnns will ba filled with ccrructed info and subcoctsctoudy Implanted ritual experiences. The paranoia of the mottem world is not only knowable but dosirabSa, according to 'Bob.’
What is ’Bob's' overview? What is his plan? Readers will pay to know what they realty think.
The Bookie boon assembled by tho high priests of Cjo Church of U>e SubGenhia In Dallas, Toxas.
1932,8>ix 11, 178pp. iHuAtresed, softcover.
THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94116)
The Biodiversity of Races
People of different ethnic groups behave differently, in familiar and characteristic ways. Arabs and Polynesians eat differently, dress differently, play different games in their spare lime. Scandinavians and native Australians speak different kinds of languages, practice different kinds of religions, etc. Ethnic groups vary in cultural and artistic activities, in child-rearing practices, in vocational pursuits, in sex conduct and in many other dimensions of behavior. Statistical measures of interethnic behavior differences include comparisons of mean income, mean educational levels, spending patterns, employment patterns, rates of disease incidence, per-capita consumption of various goods and services, and on and on.
At least some behavior differences among ethnic groups are genetically determined.
There's no shortage of evidence that ethnic groups do have differing, characteristic behavior patterns. But why is this so? The standard explanation — the "conventional wisdom" on the subject — is dial it's all a matter of envi
ronmental influences, such as differences in the ways people are brought up and educated. According to this view, persons of different ethnicities all have pretty much the same proclivities, the same innate talents, capacities, predispositions, etc.; genetic factors like these arc not a significant source of behavioral variation among ethnic groups. All the variations we do observe can be attributed to "nurture" rather than ’nature."
This essay is going to propose an alternative hypothesis, namely, that al least some behavior differences among ethnic groups are genetically determined.
What the hypothesis says, basically, is that the phenomenon of race (ethnicity) among humans is like the phenomenon of breeds among animals — e.g., dogs. Dogs of different breeds differ structurally (in characteristic size, shape, etc.) — and bchaviorally as well. A dachshund is slower than a greyhound — but better at digging and rooting out burrowing creatures. A draft horse is slower than a race horse, but stronger in pulling loads.
Breeds of dogs, horses and oilier animal species vary bchaviorally in all sorts of respects: in speed, temperament, special talents, adeptness al particular tasks, etc. Each breed has a typical behavioral "style" just as it has a recognizable "look" in its physical features.
Might the same be true in the human species? People of different ethnic groups behave differently; could the reason for this, or part of the reason, be the same sort of factors that make cocker spaniels and German Shepherds behave differently?
The relationship of DNA to behavior is actually so close that it is somewhat artificial to speak of the genes "affecting" behavior at all. Without the genes, there could be no behavior.
Note that this is not a matter of some ethnic groups being ’’better” than others. The old notion of “superior" and ’’inferior" races is a serious obstacle to understanding here.
Which is the "best" breed of dog? Thus stated, the question makes no sense. Some breeds are better than others in particular respects, and at particular tasks. Each breed has its characteristic strengths and weaknesses. But there's no such thing as overall "superiority” in some absolute sense.
All our hypothesis states is that ethnic groups have differing innate talents and capacities — just as individuals do. If Ms. A is bom with better eyesight than Ms. B. that doesn't make her a better person; it just makes her vision better.
Is visual acuity a dimension of behavior? Well, not exactly — but it obviously has major effects on behavior. If you're bom with 20/200 vision, you're probably not going to become a truck driver or airline pilot. For similar reasons, if one ethnic group had better eyesight than another. on the average, that could affect career choices and other aspects of behavior.
Whether ethnic gjoups do differ in their genetic endowment of visual ability is unknown. But our hypothesis suggests that that's a possibility worth looking at. That factor might explain some of the behavioral variations we observe.
The connection between the genes, eyesight, and behavior illustrates a fundamental point. The relationship of DNA to behavior is actually so close that it’s somewhat artificial to speak of the genes "affecting” behavior at all. Without the genes, there could be no behavior; behavior can take place only through the structures and processes encoded in DNA.
To ask how much effect DNA has on behavior is like asking how much effect a computer’s design has on its operation. Design and operation are really two different aspects of the same phenomenon. That phenomenon.
stated more fully, can be seen as having/owr aspects: design, structure, process and operation (or behavior).
In a computer, the design is embodied in circuit diagrams; in a human, it’s embodied in DNA. In a computer, the structures are the hardware, the physical equipment; in a human, they are the physical body, including the nervous system. In a computer, the processes arc everything the hardware does', in a human, they are everything the body docs, on the neurophysiological level and all other levels. In a computer, an operation (such as adding two numbers) consists of a whole group of interrelated processes (electron flows, switches opening and closing, etc.). Likewise, in a human, a behavior consists of a grouping or constellation of body processes, aimed at producing a result. Talking is a behavior; breathing, vocal cord vibration, lip and tongue movement, and cerebration arc some of the processes that make up this behavior.
Design, structure, process and behavior arc thus inseparably connected. And "design,* in organisms, means DNA. In this sense. DNA controls behavior entirely and in every detail.
Obviously the environment too plays a crucial role in determining behavior — since behavior consists of interacting with the environment. But it’s nonsense to say, as some theorists do, that environmental factors are "more" important than genetic ones or that the genes have relatively "little” effect on behavior. That’s like saying a computer's design doesn't have much effect on its operation.
It is nonsense to say, as some theorists do, that environmental factors are "more" important than genetic ones.
Anyone who doubts the role of the genes in determining behavior should consider die results when particular genes arc missing, or defective. What happens to behavior when, due to a DNA error, one is bom blind? What happens when one is horn without arms, or without the capacity to do arithmetic, or without a cerebral cortex? There arc thousands of recognized pathological conditions caused by defects in DNA. These conditions, while often tragic, furnish valuable "controlled experiments”: each reveals a specific behavioral capacity that normal people have, but which gets deleted from the organism if particular DNA segments are in error.
What we call "normal behavior" requires using many such capacities at once. Even the simplest behaviors arc
controlled in multiple ways by DNA. as can be seen by considering al! the different ways behavior can go wrong when genetic design goes wrong.
This conception of behavior as an essentially genetic phenomenon lends -weight to the hypothesis being proposed here. Since behavior depends on the DNA code so completely and in such detail, there arc a lot of ways the details might vary among ethnic groups. For example, some groups might be more susceptible than others to particular genetic disorders.
Since behavior depends on the DNA code so completely and in such detail, there arc a lot of ways the details might vary among ethnic groups. For example, some groups might be more susceptible than others to particular genetic disorders.
The latter is no mere theoretical possibility. Certain genetic disorders do appear more frequently in some races than in others. And this can have profound effects on behavior, as the following example shows.
It is now accepted doctrine in the alcoholism-treatment field that (a) susceptibility to alcoholism is partly a genetic mailer and (b) certain ethnic groups are particularly susceptible, for genetic reasons. Dr. James Milam explains this theory in his widely used book. Under the Influence1:
Extreme differences in alcoholism rales have been found among various ethnic groups. For example, Jews and Italians have low alcoholism rates, about 1 percent, while at the other extreme. Native Americans have extraordinarily high rates, somewhere around 80-90 percent. Once again, physical factors — not psychological, social, or cultural factors — explain these different ethnic susceptibilities to alcohol.
Dr. Bert Vallee and his colleagues al Harvard Medical School have been studying biochemical and genetic aspects of alcoholism. They have isolated fifteen different forms of the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) liver enzyme and discovered that the number and variety of these enzymes vary widely from person to person. The complex
patterns appear to be genetically controlled, and different racial groups have a typical variation of the number and type of these "isoenzymes" [Emphasis added.] Vallee suspects that each combination of isoenzymes reacts with alcohol differently and determines the person's specific physiological response....
Vallee's findings help to explain the abundance of research showing different physiological reactions to alcohol among various ethnic groups. Fenna, for example, discovered that a group of Native Americans were unable to oxidize and eliminate alcohol as quickly as Caucasians....
These differences in susceptibility arc exactly what we should expect given the fact that alcoholism is a hereditary disease.
Now, consider what is being said here. Il it's true that Native Americans have, and always have had, a fatal weakness for alcohol — an actual metabolic weakness — then obviously this fact must explain a lot of their history. The tragedy of their subjugation is a story that has to be told largely in terms of genetic differences among human races, and the effects of those differences on characteristic behavior.
Note, also, that alcoholism is only one behavior disorder that's now considered al leasl partly hereditary. There are many others. Alcoholism was the first to be discovered, but the list now includes everything from compulsive overeating to schizophrenia. So the question naturally arises:
Diversity and variety among
individuals furnish much of
’’the spice of life.” A good
case can be made that the
same is true of ethnic
groups.
Do any of these disorders have higher incidence rates in some ethnic groups than in others? If so, arc the behavioral consequences anywhere near as dramatic as in the case of alcoholism?
A good source of information on genetically caused behavior disorders is Lawrence Taylor's book, Born to Crime'-. Taylor discusses various genetic malfunctions that seem to predispose people toward violent and criminal behavior — e.g., the so-called ’double Y* or "super male" syndrome, in which a man is born with twice as
many Y chromosomes us he’s supposed to have. Men with this condition lend to be stupid, brutal, and violently aggressive — a fact reflected in their disproportionate numbers in prison populations.
Disorders like the double-Y syndrome arc of obvious relevance to our hypothesis. Does this condition occur more frequently in some ethnic groups than in others? If so, that could explain some of the behavioral variations we observe.
The study of hereditary behavior disorders is now a "growth industry* — as is the whole vast field of modern genetics. New discoveries about the workings of DNA are being made ever)' hour, or every minute. We arc living in the midst of what future historians will probably refer to as "the Genetic Revolution," much as we refer to the Industrial Revolution or the quantum revolution in physics.
If personality traits like extroversion and neuroticism are partly controlled by genetic factors, then the average levels of these traits may vary among ethnic groups, for genetic reasons.
With so much being learned about DNA, it’s not surprising that many of the discoveries are about the effects of DN/\ on behavior. And as these discoveries accumulate. the "conventional wisdom" on the behavior of races is going to look less and less tenable. It’s going to become more and more difficult to deny that nature as well as nurture docs play a role in this phenomenon. The tide of history seems to be running against those who attribute all inter-ethnic behavior differences to environmental factors.
A shorthand way to refer to the hypothesis being proposed here is to call it the hypothesis of "biodiversity” of races. In this term, the "bio" part refers to the fact that race is a biological phenomenon, not just a social or cultural one. The "diversity" part stresses the idea that, while races differ in their innate propensities, it's not a question of some being "better" than others; it’s just a question of different styles. like the different styles of individuals, or of dog breeds.
If all individuals had exactly the same talents, temperaments and inclinations, the world would be a much duller and poorer place. Diversity and variety among individuals furnish much of "the spice of life." A good case can be made that the same is true of ethnic groups.
How might the biodiversity hypothesis be confirmed
or disconfirmed empirically? What sorts of research does it suggest? There arc many possible approaches; a quick way to survey some of them is to mention three books.
First and foremost is John R. Baker’s monumental treatise. Race3. Baker's whole argument in this book, unfortunately. has a deep theoretical flaw: he insists on using the old. meaningless concepts of racial ’superiority" and "inferiority." Nevertheless, he offers a wealth of information on the phenomenon of races — breeds — both in Homo Sapiens and throughout the rest of the animal kingdom. A typical Baker gem is this passage*:
One wants to know whether it is conceivable that members of two taxa i.e., taxonomic groupings, like races or species) may differ in large numbers of groups of genes affecting many parts of the body, but not at all in those that affect the nervous and sensory systems and therefore play a part in determining mental qualities. In addressing oneself to this problem it is helpful to consider any two taxa of mammals, other than man, that differ from one another in morphological characters about as much as a Sanid docs from a Europid, or an Eski mid from a Negritid, or a Bambutid from an Australid. and then note whether two such taxa of animals arc ever identical in their habits, and therefore in their mental qualities. The conclusion will almost necessarily be reached that identity in habits is unusual even in pairs of taxa that are morphologically much more similar to one another than are members of the pairs of human taxa that have just been mentioned. The subspecies of gorilla, for instance, arc not nearly so different from one another morphologically as Sanids arc from Europids. but they differ markedly in their modes of life....
Race, and its 46-page bibliography, constitute an essential starting-place for anyone interested in the empirical study of ethnic biodiversity.
Almost as essential, but of a very different nature, is Genes, Culture and Personality, by HJ. Eysenck and associates.5 Eysenck ct al. don't deal specifically with ethnic questions in this book — but they explain and demonstrate a lot of research techniques that could be useful in line study of ethnicity. They set themselves the task of statistically measuring the relative roles of genetic and environmental factors in the formation of individual personality. They use the method of "twin studies," in which groups of identical twins are compared with control groups of fraternal, non-identical twins. Their conclusion is that the genes have measurable effects on many personality dimensions, including "extroversion." "neuroticism," and "psycholicism." They even find, sur
prisingly, that genetic factors account for a fair amount of the variation in people’s political attitudes — i.c., how "conservative” or ’radical’ one is.
If personality traits like extraversion and neuroticism arc partly controlled by genetic factors, then the average levels of these traits may vary among ethnic groups, for genetic reasons. The magnitude of such effects should be measurable using techniques and concepts like those documented in Genes, Culture and Personality.
The final book in this list was a bestseller in Japan in the late seventies. Its title is Nihon-jin no no (The Japanese Brain)*
The thesis of this book is that Japanese people have brains that arc in some ways neurologically unique. For example, when a Japanese person hears certain kinds of sounds, the associated neural activity seems to take place mainly in the left hemisphere of his or her brain; but when Westerners and others hear the same sounds, the processing seems to take place mainly in die right hemisphere.
The book's author, Dr. Tadanobu Tsunoda (a specialist in hearing disorders at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University), attributed this neurological difference to unique characteristics of Japanese culture and language — not to genetic factors. He performed controlled experiments to test the: latter hypothesis, and the results were negative. Still, the effects he observed are thought-pro- voking.
Could genetics have anything to do with these apparently profound neurological differences? Is it safe to rule out that explanation entirely? Further research on these questions might yield interesting results. At the very least, Tsunoda's experimental techniques might prove to be of value in the study of biodiversity.
The hypothesis of biodiversity of races states that human ethnic groups vary in their strengths and weaknesses, just as human individuals do. and just as breeds of other animals do. Some human breeds arc bigger than others. Some are faster than others (if you doubt that, look at the roster of gold medals in Olympic track events). And some may be better than others at surviving cold, or resisting particular diseases, or making tools, or running social organizations, or doing mathematics. These arc all possibilities to be explored. Each of tl>e capacities named has an obvious effect on behavior.
Modem egalitarians seem to feel it would be an "injustice" if ethnic groups were endowed with differing talents, differing strengths and weaknesses. But there's no more injustice in this than in the fact that some individuals are born with better eyesight than others, or more musical talent, or more sports talent, or belter looks. Agonizing over such facts is best described as neurotic. Each individual just has to do the best she can with what she's got.
Suppose the hypothesis of biodiversity turned out to be correct. Would the consequences of that be disastrous? Would it mean the end of the world or the ruination of society? Would it make civilized relations among ethnic groups impossible?
It might improve such relations, by making them more realistic. There’s no surer route to misery than viewing unalterable facts as "injustices." The conventional wisdom no longer has much to offer. Maybe it's time for a new approach.
NOTES
1. James R. Milam and Katherine Ketcham, Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholism (Bantam Books, 1981), pp. 43-44.
Lawrence Taylor, Born to Crime: The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior. Greenwood Press, 1984.
2. John R. Baker, Race, Oxford University Press, 1974.
3. Race, p. 426.
4. L.J. Eaves, H.J. Eysenck, and N.G. Martin, Genes, Culture and Personality: An Empirical Approach, Academic Press. 1989.
5. Tadanobu Tsunoda, The Japanese Brain: Uniqueness and Universality, Tokyo: Taishukan Publishing Co., 1985. This English edition is hard to find, but summaries of Tsunoda's research have appeared in various books and articles in English, e.g.: A. Sibatani, ’Inscrutable cpigcnctics of the Japanese brain: A book review," Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 1980, 3, 255-266; A. Sibatani, "It may turn out that the language wc learn alters the physical operation of our brains," Science, 80, 24-27; S. Merrill, "The Japanese brain," Science Digest, Nov. 1981. pp. 74-75: P.E. Vernon. The Abilities and Achievements of Orientals in North America (Academic Press. 1982), pp. 135-137; R. Restak. The Brain (Bantam Books, 1984), pp. 266-267. Technical papers published by Tsunoda in English include: "Contralateral shift of cerebral dominance for nonvocal sounds during speech perception," Journal of Auditory Research, 1969, 9, 221-229; "The difference of the cerebral dominance of vowel sounds among different languages," Journal of Auditory Research. 1971. 11, 305-314; "Functional differences between right- and left-cerebral hemispheres detected by the key-tapping method,’ Brain and Language. 1975, 2. 152-170.
OUTLAW HISTORY
Introduction
History... is, indeed, tittle
more than the register of the
crimes, follies, and misfortunes
of mankind. — Gibbon
History that should be a left
hand to us, as of a violinist, we
bind up with prejudice, warping
it to suit our fears as Chinese
William Carlos Williams
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon
Wo must consider how very little history there is: i mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend on as true; but an the oof bring, all the philosophy of history is conjecture. — Johnson
What are most of the histories of the world but lies? Lies immortalized, and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and a flaw upon posterity. — South
RATS, UCE AND HISTORY
The Biography of a Bacillus
A Bacteriologists Classic Study
of a World Scourgo
by Hans Zinsser
This ts a book that probably should to read by everybody.
That form ot parasitism which wo cal Infection is as old as animal and vegetable Ifo. In a later chapter we may have occasion to consider origin; Io mis wo have some clue from the new diseases which appear to bo constantly developing as we begin to conquer the oki ones. But our chief purpose in writing the biography ot one of these diseases Is to Impress the fact that we are dealng with a phase of man's history on earth which has received too littte attcntkxi from pools, artists, and historians. Swords ard lances, arrows, machine guns, and even hgh explosn-os have had far less power over the fates ot the nabom than the typhus louse, the pfcgue Ilea, and ths ycifow favor mosquito. Civilizattons have retreated from the ptasmedium of malaria, and armies ha%,e crumbled Into rabbles under the onstauglrt of Cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilk. Huge areas have boon devastated by the trypanosome that rovols <xi the wings of the tsetse fty. □nd generations have boon harassod by tto syphtis oi a courtier. War and conquest and that herd ewstonoc which is an accompaniment of what we call civilization have merely sot the stage for these more powerful agents of human tragedy.*
1934, 5x3, 313pp, ton covof.
RATS-» UCE AND HISTORY: $8.95
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SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS
100,000 Years of Dragons, Dwarfs,
the Dead, Lost Races & UFOs
From Inside the Earth
by Walter Minke!
From me author's
Introduction: Why /
wrote about a 'crazy
idea:*
Tor a certain
group of todviduaJs.
whose I story I shall
toil here, the hollow-
earth theory has been
Iteralty end omotion-
ally true for ovor two
centuries, and that
makes it one of the
longest-tasting myths
oi Iha soanttfic era.
kcr tnosc unsympa-
thetic to the idea of an
inner world, this be5ef
and its proponents
seem easy Io laugh al.
Bat ike all myths 4 is
grounded in archetypal
image«; of birth. We.
struggle.
□ccomplehmcnL and death which al human bongs share. N grres its betiovers important secrets to contoo I have traced the history of the hollow earth belief beck to <ts beglnnngs In foMoro and embryonic sconce, and here I would Ike to set this history down. It is the history of one not very important, but exlraordinarily strange, bolef.
’The subterranean worlds wn am about to explore are sometimes revealing, sometimes entertaining, and sometimes complete*/ k)d- crous. but if you are like me — a person who Ikes to bo lifted from his chair by his imagination — ttxry can show us how o<x desires to shape tlx? universe and cur own natures into a compact, comprehensibe form can tead us to btftevo strange things, and hint at everything humanity still does not know about nature and about itself. The hd lew-earth theory in al! ns gory describes great powers and conspiracies moving behind a fake picture of a round, sol’d, neutral planet.*
Chapters include:
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Why I Wrote About A 'Crazy Idea' • The Earth Our Mother
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The Inaccessble Center
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Symmes’sHofa
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Inward ttw Course of Empire Takes its Way
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The Man Who Uvod Inside the Earth
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Ths Hidden Masters' Hidng Places • The Shaver Mystery
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The Secret War with the Snake People • Agharti
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The Strango World cf Dr. Bernard • The Nazis ¡xto the Inner World • The Inner World in Fiction
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Why an Inner Wcrid?
Ladles and gentlemen. Locmparics Unllnvted proudly presents one cf the strangest books we Ivave ever published: Walter Mintofs Subterranean Worlds.
1939, 7x 9, 312 pp. INuxtfxted with many
rxnr photographs andtort covw.
SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS: $18.95
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THE EUROPEAN AND THE INDIAN
Essays In the Ethnohistory
of Colonial North America
by James Axtell
Drawing cn a wide vanety of sources. Axlo! explores llxs cultural adjustments that occurred /.•non white Europeans mot urd attempted to "cNnze" the native Americans. He explodes a number of pcpiiar myths and Illustrates bow having the lnd«ans as adversaries helped mold an American ktentty. tearing to the American revolution. Tte most interesting pioc© in tho book is The White Incfena of Colonial America," which is quoted briefly from below:
"... I teamed what a few anthropologists iiad already known but colonial historians had virtual'/ Ignored, namely that tho Indans were not only prefetent In educating their own children without rosertng to physical compulsion or emotional undercutting, but also in converting enemies — Indian and white, young and o’d — lo their way Of life.
The English, like the»r French rivals, began thox colonizing ventures in North America wXh a sincere interest in converting the Indians to Chrfcttariry and cMzatlon. Nearly all the cctenial charters granted by the English monarchs in tte seventeenth century assigned tho wish to extend the Christian Church end to redenm savago souls as a principal, il not the principal, motive lor colonization. Thts desire was greurded in a set of complementary beliefs about ’savugism* and 'civiizatlon.' First, the English had that the Indians, however benighted, wore capable of ccnversicn. 'll to not the ¡nature of men.' they believed, tut tho education cf men. whch make them barbarous and uncrvJ.’ Moreover, the Engish were confident that the Indians wou'd want to bn converted coco they were exposed lo the superior quality of English ife."
..."The second article of the Engish faith fotowed from their fundamental belief in tf»e superiority of civilization, namely, that no ctvfced person in possesion of his faculties or free from unduo restraint would choose lo become an Indian. ’For. easy and unccnslrainod as tho savage fife is.' wrote the Reverend Wiliam Smith of Phladolphia. 'ccrta’nhy it ccud never be pul in compete on w-Zh the blessings of improved li fo and tho light of religion, by any persons who hove had tho happiness of enjoying, and the caparity of discerning, thorn.' *
... ’And yet. by tho do so of the colonial period, very few if any Indians hnd been transformed into civilized EngFshmen. Most of the Indians who were educated by the Eng’ish — some contemporaries thought of/ of them — relumed to Indian society at the first epportunry to resume their Incton identities. On tho other hand, largo numbers of Englishmen had chosen to become Indians.*
"... Benjamin Franklin wondered hew it was that 'when an Indian Child has been brought up among us. taught our language and habituated to cur Customs, yet it ho gons to son his relations and make one Indian Ramble with them, there to no perswading him over to return. (But) when white persons of either sex have boon token prisoners younp by the Indians, and lived a white among thorn, tbo' ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all Imaginable tondomoss to proval with them to slay among the Engish. yet In a Short ttmo they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and peins that are necessary to support it. and take the first good Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there to no reclaiming thorn.' *
•In short. Thousands of Europeans are Indians.’ as Heeler de Cravccoour put H. 'and wo have no examples of even cne of these Aborigines having from chokxj become Europeans!’ "
1931, 3HxS, 416pp. Indexed. softcover
THE EUROPEAN AND THE INDIAN: $10.95
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A PEOPLE’S HISTORY
OF THE UNITED STATES
by Howard Zinn
This Is a decent attempt at
a history of the USA from a
radical, rather than a ruing
class, perspective. Many little
known Inridenta and atrocities
are revealed in an
entertaihhg style.
Manifest Desiny. oet out
of the way! From the openng
pages, an account of 'the
European invasion of the
Indian settlements in tho
Americas." there Is a reversal
of perspective, a reshuftfng
of heroes and villains. The
book bears ma same relation
to traditional histories as a
photographic negative docs
lo a print: the areas of
darkness and light have been reversed.
Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in tho leaden
prose of academic history, and there aro vivid descriptions of events
that are usual ly Ignored, such as the great railroad strike of 1877 and
the brutal suppression of the Philippine mdapendonce movement at tho
turn of this century.
Open-minded readers will prolit from A People's History of the
United States, and hstonans may well view it as a stop toward a
coherent Dew version of American History.
1933, 5H * SU, 614pp. soft cov*r.
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES: $12.00
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BIBLE MYTHS AND THEIR PARALLELS
IN OTHER RELIGIONS
by T. Doane
Doane's BWe Myths to a classic in comparative reigton. First
pubished in 1882. it traces the development of the myths in the
Christian Bible, from the Hood lo tne crurifixton. from the creation lo the
resurrection arxJ shows how these myths had their origins In relglons
which predate Christtonty.
Specific myths covered include: the creation and fa! of man; the trial
of Abraham’s faith; Jonah and tho whale; the birth-day of Jesus; Ute
trinity; tho vvg n mother; and much more.
I hr, hej^o schoterfy work is justiSaNy regarded as a classic in its
hod. In addrjon to the coverage given lo specific Bible myths. Doane
geos cn lo dscuss paganism in Christianity, why Christianity prospered,
and much mom.
Bibie Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions is actually tco
big to sit down and read through all at onco. unless you have an
overriding Interest in tho subject, tut tho excellent 20 page Index makes
Il e^sy to look up any specific myth or topic )*ou aro interested in. A 13
page holography of bocks written before 1892 in tho fields of religious
mythology and comparative rdigon is also included. Doane's Bible
Myths Should be In tho Ibrary of every froc-thinklng person.
6x9, 619 pp, Mujftrafed, tedfxed, sett covsr.
BIBLE MYTHS: $1730
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CIA COMPLICITY IN
THE GLOBAL DRUG TRADE
THE POLITICS OF HEROIN
CIA Complicity In The Global Drug Trade
by Alfred W. McCoy
•To on average American who
witnesses tho dismal spcclacta of
fie narcotics traffic at the struct
level, it must scorn inconcen-abfe
that the government codd bo
implcated in the international drug
trade. Unfortunately, Ameri-can
diplomats and CIA agents have
been Involved in tta narcotics
traffic at three levels: (t)
coincidental comploty By ».lying
with groups actively engaged in
the drug traffic; (2) support of the
traffic by covering up for known
herein traffickers and condoning
their invoh’e-menl; and (3) active
engagement in the trans-port of
opium and heroin. M is ironic, to
say the least, that America’s
herein plague is of its own
making.'
— from Tho Politics Of Heroin
Twenty years of research have lead to this revised and updated edition of Allred W. McCoy's classic. 77w ¿War Of Heroin in South* OSStAste. In M. he concludes that, with global production and ccosurrp- ton of narcotics At record levels and heron use In Amenca on the nso. rt is time to confront tho failure of the U.S. governments drug po’icy and to put an end to the CW$ complicit’/ in the narcotics trade, which since World War II has been an Integral part of the agency's efforts to maintain U.S. power abroad. A remarkable expose of official U.S. hypocrisy in Ils approaches to one of the world's greatest social problems. Tho Politics Of Heroin offers an analysis that is destined to influence the public debate on drugs lor years to come.
Justs&y 'nor to the 'V/arcn Drugs.'
fS9f, 6x9, 624 pp, illustrated, /cdfzri/, softcover.
THE POLITICS OF HEROIN: $19.95
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ITS A CONSPIRACY!
The Shocking Truth About America’s
Favorite Conspiracy Theories!
by The National insecurity Council
Okay conspiracy buffs, time to tost your knowledge of tito leading subterfuges of the century. Did the U.S. encourage Saddam Hussein to attack Kuwait? Dd General Motors sabotage mass transí’, in America? Was William Randolph Hearst a pad agent of Adolph Hiller? Were Malcolm X and Karen Sikwood murdered by the U.S. Government?
Did Richard Nixon undermine Vietnam peace talks in 1968? Was George Bush a CIA agent In the 1960s'7 Why <id the U.S. Government take Nazi war criminals under Ms wing? Was marijuana outlawed to protect private business interests?
Thars just a taste of tte more then 60 jufcy con$Pi'w*?? iw.pvorod in this book. The authors present the history of each conspiracy theory along with conos* summaries of the facts, figures and competing claims. There are also bnof biographies of the key ptayers m each caso and recommend«! roadings tor moro detailed information. Finally, there are dozens of quizzes to tost your ablity to uncover the trutt.
This book Is a rea» treasure-trove of Information about all kinds of conspiracy theories. Its indispensable for writers and researchers, and just plain fun for anyone.
1992. 5H xSH, 2S2pp. softcover.
ITS A CONSPIRACY!: $9.95
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THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES
The Untold History of the Enslavement
of Whites in Early America
by Michael A. Hoffman U
The history of Savery In America as portrayed in the tunnel vision of the corporate medta has focused exclusive?/ cn the enslavement of backs. Tho impression is given that only whites bear responsibility tor enslaving blacks and only blacks were slaves. In fad. blacks in Africa as well as American Indian tribes such as live Choctaw and Cherokee engaijed in onenslvo enslavement of blacks. White slaves wore actually owned by btocks And Indians In Iha South in tho 1600's. Except tor A few extremely brief asidos under tho euphemism ’ndanlLrcd servitude,' ro school textbooks or mass media presentations have studod an depth tho history of the massrie enslavement of white people in North America.
This well-re searched tittle book reveals little known facts of American history, inducing:
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A Holocaust Against ths White Poor • Poor Whites ard the Southern Confederacy • Whiles Were the F.rst Stove« In America • Irish Slaves • Protestant Staves • Legal Basr. and DahnrtKins • Political Prisoners Sdd into Slavery • Stave- Hunting in Britain • Press Gangs • Stolen White Chldron • Indentures: An Organized Racket • While Staves in the American Revolution • White Slave Rcbelions ♦ Torture and Murder ©£ White Staves • Rcdlcgs, Rodnocks and Hillbillies • AnO more.
Hoffman documents well the fact that conditions were no better for write 'servants' (and often worse) than the ccndtions tor black 'slaws.' Black and while alike (and Indans, loo) wore oppressed by Uto powerful end wealthy governments ard businesses of the tmn. The capacity to enslave is not a function of race. K Is a function of power. You can really team a lol from They Were White And They Were Slaves.
1991, 6x9, 137 pp, bftiiiogfAphy, softcover.
THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES: $6.95
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL
by Henry Tufts
The Autobiography of a
Criminal is Vic narrative of Henry
Tufts: herse thief, bigamist,
burglar, adulterer, con man.
scoundrel, ctxjmertotier. do sorter
and com-mon criminal. He roamed
the American cotantos in the tat«
1700s. vSsitng several Alls end
escaping from most of them,
before writing his autobiography.
From the Foreword by Neal
Keating: 'One cfoesnl ganeraity
think of the tale eighteenth cemury
in New England as an epoch that
spawned a tot of criminal
transgression. Tho pious cotomsts.
like their Puntan tortcars, aro
mostly just and eminently reason-
able. Or so the hegemonic theme
goes. Nothing could be further from
realty.
'Henry Tufts was a kind pirate. There were many such land pirates througtxiut ttur thirteen colonies. Many were like Henry, mere or less operating cn ther own. Otters formed gangs. Yet both operated wittln a loose network of ¡lidt exchange that stretched from Maine to Florida.
•Tito land pirate network was a small sca’e operation. Its historical importance is that it demystifies Iha origin of tho U.S.A. The structure cf the U.S.A, was forged in a rrdicu of Ihcft. counterfeit, coercion and p/acy. This book ts an index of that milieu.'
19931 xSU, 312pp, softcover.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL: S12.9S
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SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS
The Free Nc-gro In the Antebellum South
by fra Berlin
First published to groat acclaim in 1974. Slaves Without Masters established Ira Bertin as one of the outstanding historians of African American lie in slavery and freedom. and went on Io win a National Hstencal Society Award Despite the book's continued httuance, it has toon cut of print in recent years. Wo at Lcompanies are very pleased to welcome this classic back into print and otter it to our readers.
Slaves Without MasFers is a vrvkl and moving history of the quarter cf a million free blacks who lived in the South before the War Between The Stales. It traces the lives of free black mon and women, portraying tlieir struggle tor community. liberty, economic indepen dence, and cdocaton within an oppressive society. V/rth great insight. Borin depicts tho interaction between blacks and whites. the free and tho enslaved. and offers a deep understanding of tho complex race rotations that existed in the antcbolum South in a book mat has gene on te become a classic In ria hokl.
1974, 445pp. Indexed. softcover.
SLAVES- WITHOUT MASTERS: $14.95
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HEMP FOR VICTORY
VHS Videotape
This short Um is quckly bo com ng an underground classic. It belongs on tho shelf right next to your copy of Hoefer Madness. Hemp for Victory also belongs in tho VCR of any elected official charged with prosecuting tho war on drugs, that most hysterical of over-reactions to me need of all of us to loosen up a little.
Hemp for Victory was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1942 to encourage U-S farmers to cultivate marijuana for the cause. Iha Department cf Agriculture triad to cover up this film.They denied ever making K. But the Institute for Hemp persisted until they uncovered mis print at the National Archives.
Thfc Him is hrarious and shocking, How could the U.S. on the one hand encourage farmers io grow pot. then spend billions to wipe It cut? Got your copy of this underground classic before some bureaucrat tries to supcoss it again. (Vidc-otapcs arc nonretumabto.)
1947,. VHS videotape, 15 minutes.
HEMP FOR VICTORY: $19.95
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FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
How tho American Indian
Helped Shape Democracy
by Bruce E Johansen
II ycu are Ike most modern-day Americans, you probably Ihnk the United States was founded by men suoh as Thomas Jelferson. Ben Franklin and James Madison. Ard mars true. But these men took aa their model, not the monarchies cf Europe, but the democracies of the American Indians — in particular, llvs Iroquois Nation.
Tho central idea of this book that American Indians wore instrumental in the development of our present form of government — Is ike a slap in the face te al of us who were odicated te believe that Indians were savages with whom there was little communication except through w‘ar. in fact. Americans spent more time at peace with the Indians than at war with them. And many of the features of our constitutional government were borrowed from the Indians. Incbdng.« The need fof a federal union • Mass penepation in go/emmenl • The theory of natural rights • Leaders as servants, not masters • impeachment for wrongdoings • Freedom expression and religion • Freedom from untawM searches.
This book brings te life a lost history of the Urited Stales by uncovering the many connections between European Americans and American Indians. It dexmonstrntes tho many contributions of Name Americans to our government, helping 1o doline what Is uniquely •American’ about the Untied Slates. A tasdnating and wevwntten bock.
1952, 5Kx 9, 157pp, bibliography, indexed, softcover.
FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS: $9.95
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ADVANCE TO BARBARISM
Tho Development of Total Warfare
byF.JP. Veaie
In ths eloquent and provocative work, an Eng&r.h attorney with a
profound understanding of military history traces the evolution of war-
fare frem primitive savagery te ths rise of a ’civilized' code that was
first threatened In cur own Civil War. again in the First World War, and
finally shattered during the Soccnd Work! War — the most destructive
conflict in human history. As the author compelingly argues, the ensu-
ing *War Crim ns Trials’ at Nuremberg and Tokyo, and their numerous
and barbaric Imitations in Communist controlled eastern Europe, es-
tablished tho perilous principle that 'tho most snnouts war crime te to bo
on tho losing side.’
Out <A print fof marry years. this classic work of revisionist hstory -
a moving denunci-ilicn of Ivsle-propapanda and barbarism — is once
agan available in a w*cll referenced new edition with a delated Index.
‘The best genera! book on the Nuremberg Trials. it not only reveals
tho ticga&ty, fundamental immorakty and hypocrisy of those trials, but
also shows how they arc bound to make any future world war (or any
important wars) far mere brutal and destructive to Ute and property. A
very readebte and impressive volume and a major contribution to any
rational peace movement '—Harry Elmer Barnas
1945, 5Hx5H, 559 pp, Indexed, softcover.
ADVANCE TO BARBARISM: $11.00
___________________ (ORDER NUMBER 94234)____________________
SECRET AND SUPPRESSED
Banned Ideas & Hidden History
Edited by Jim Keith
There are two ways of socking at
the world.
You can take the morning paper at
face value and believe the world
oscillates betwoen the dumb-show of
left-wing’ ard ’right-wing.' Or ycu can
begin to quosticn this national
hypnosis.
A guidebook to alterative views of
contemporary events and world
history. Secret and Suppressed
coni rents tho reader wtth dsquotmg
ravolallcns on mnd contrcf. secret
societies, media disinformation, cults,
□nd elite cabals. Tho hard cvidenzo
supplied by many of these articles is
startling. Other entries veer into the
twilght realm cf paranoia, spociiaticc,
and honor.
If you txilinvo that ignorance a Mbs. Secret and Suppressed Is suro to make you very unhappy. The edcor of Secret and Suppressed beievos that historical truth is a commodity written te reinforce thn convictions of those in power. Ar. such, opposing pontr. of view are Otten driven underground to tho disroputabta arena of ’conspiracy theory.’ Though ho does not agroo with the presses or conclusions of some material in his anthobpy. Jim Keith believes that its inckjsicn serves as a pedagogical Icol, te induce the curious to think for themselves and not merely parrot received opinion as fad.
7999, x 515pp. kluxtratvd »oft cov*r.
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By Alpine Enterprises
This titto masterpiece is
tto best exposition of con-
spiracy theory we have
seen. It is THE PRINCE for
20ii Century Ante rka.
Written in the form of tbs
initiation of the Son of a
finance Capitalist into the
X'tiAW SWWZ9 Of Economic
and Poftfcai Power, it gives
detailed instructions ter
achtevlng and maintaining
power over a whole society.
Included are lectures co:
Tto role of fraud In nature:
Occult knowledge as the key
lo power; The economics of
central banking; Tto
function of the central bank
fin the mature fir-arce
capxalist system; Social and
business kjgis’atkxi and
pciicy; The role of public education. Prestigious associations and secret
sociotos; Covert operations and ir.tolFgeoce, Plus an excefent
bibliography, and moro.
We stolid point out here that tho word ’Occult’ as used In the title
moans hddon or secret, and docs not pertain to magic or the supernat-
ural.
Ycu will rover took a- tto news and current events in quite tto same
way. once ycu have read The Occult Technology Of Power An excel-
tent work — highly recorrmendod.
1974, 6x9, 62pp, softcover.
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ANCIENT MAN: A HANDBOOK OF
PUZZLING ARTIFACTS
Compiled by William R. Corliss
Ycu have probably seen the many popular bocks on ancient astronauts and mysterious ancient civilizations. Wall, tho professional archeological literature Is far moro execing and thought-provoking. To select the best and most fascinating accounts of enigmatic artifacts, the complete flies of several archeological journals have boon scrutinized in detail, including American Anthropologist, American Antiquarian. American Antiquity, Antiquity, Current Anthropology. and Man. This lengthy research has yielded nlmost 4C0 artckis and excerpts describing worldwide megalithic structures, examples of precocious ancient technology. inscrptiocs in unexpected ptaces. and such controversial data as human footprints in andont rocks.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: • Ancient Florida canals • Ofmcc compass • Maltose ’cart tracks’ • California rock basins • Stone circles everywhere • Stone alignments • Ancient coms in America • Fossil human footprints • Egyptian 'rroctel airplane’ • Greek computer • Ancient astronorrical observatories ♦ Galileo glass slab • Cogged stones • Inscription and tablots in unexpected places • Indian pictures of tho mammoth • Mysterious dd walls- • Mayan causeways • Ancfont battery ♦ Crystal lenses • Pigmies and giants • Great Wall of Peru • Costa Roa stone spheres • Pacific megaithic remains • Ruins at TUhuanaco • Zimbabwe and Dhtoklhto • And much more.
1976,6ri x 9ri, 766pp, iHostrsted, fndoxod, herd cover.
ANCIENT MAN: A HANDBOOK OF
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NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR IN AMERICA
by Arnold Krammer
By the end of WWH. tto Un tod
States was heading 372.000 German
POWs In 511 hastiy cr.tnttistod
camps located in smal townr, and nxal
areas across the nabon. Vrfualty every
state had at teas! one camp;
Oklahoma. Texas. Arkansas.
Nebraska. Louisiana, and Georgia had
moro than a dozen each. This was tho
United States' first experience in
holding so man)* foreign prisoners. and
plenty ot problems arose. Among the
worst was Nazism in the camps, where
kangaroo courts run by hardcore Nazis
executed many prisoners they
conskSerod disloyal to Ito Reich.
Enlstod POWs were formed into work
gangs that took the place Of absent
American labor. buildng roads, lumbering, and harvesting crops. Some citizens feared that thnsa gangs would torrorizo tho local populace. Instead, prisoners worked reasonably hard for their LO cents a (try aid Stayed out ot trouble (although one roofing crow was dscovered laying roof tiles in swastika shapes).
Illustrated with more than 70 rarely soon photos. this is the dofiritvo lustory of a fascinating and little-known aspect ©4 tto United Stales' participation ImVAVii.
199Ç TH x Sri, 364pp, Mustfited, Indexed, soft cover.
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THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS
or, Christianity Before Christ
by Kersey Graves
Originally publlshod In 1875. ths froe^iought classic wïl be enjoyed by anyone Interested in the origin of belief systems. Il is a stud/ of pcoChr&ian gods, whose similarity to tha Ifo of Jesus is remarkaUe. Tho following characteristics belonged to many of these pods: born of a virgin; bom on Docombor 25lh; performance of miracles; crucifixion for Ito Sirs ot tto world: nsing from tho dead after three days; ard much more. Tto ^milnritios to tto Jesus myth are obvious, aid Graves goes into vast detail to domor^trato tho pagan origins of Christianity. Kersey Graves' The WortcTs Sixteen Crucified Saviors is a classic work, highly roccmmandod'
197$, 6x9, 436pp, soft cover.
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HUMAN HISTORY
Viewed as Sovereign Individuals
versus Manipulated Masses
from The Valorlan Society
Ths strange I nte book describe how word-manptfated hixnans arc tto biggest danger now facing the Earth.
’The two forms of brainwashing — emptying people's minds, or filling them so- ful that there is co room lor ttolr Innate perception to surface — appear equally otfoctivo ar. mntheds for mass manipulation. Both systems result in preventing the ncividjai from relating objects perception to Cto aboriginal croabvo consciousnoss within as a basis for viewing total realty in clear perspective. Direct relationship botwaon the individual and total reality must be destroyed before Ito indvldual can accept ralationshp with tto grcup-entity as having top priority. Which system can give worldwide control by most effectively 'accom- plshng* thia Is tto only concern of tto manipulators who now pit against each oteor tho 0ricnl.nl and Western systems of brainwashing.’
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Marijuana Prohibition
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Prejudice: marihuana and tho Jim Crow laws
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THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK WE HAVE EVER SOLD!!!
CONFESSIONS OF A
HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST, PART I
by Bradley R. Smith
in 1979, ptaywrighL author. puMsher, and bookseto Bradfcy R.
Smith stombed across an incredbty bizarre idea: stories of
Hitter exterminating six ntitiion Jews to gas chambers wore not true?
'Alleged* extermination? The Impicahons of tho qualifier ’aJIogcd*
appear to be beyond belief for the matonty oi pooplo. It is at the point
precisely that Smith begins hs story about how ho dscove-red that
somechlng Is profoundly wrong with tho gas chamber stories, with many
of the alrocib/ accusations aganst Gormans, and frialy with thè Holo-
caust story ilsof.
The primary interest of Cho author, however, is no< in wrist lisppened
in Europe 45 years ago. Smith is interested in how tho distortion of h«s-
tocy, and historic ttos, affect the lives of individuals fiving today. Con-
fesstons Of A Holocaust Revisionist, Part / is the record of a man
attempting k> integrate Into his consciousness »nd hts daily life what for
him was a momentous discovery, one that mwanUy brought about an
almost geologic shining of perspective and bei^f.
Smith reports on his discovery ol Revisionist writings about the
Holocaust. as well as the- r suppression by what ho terms th© Holocaust
Lobby. Hr» reveals the dmonslons of the taboo surrounding the orthodox
history of the Hdocaust. using stories ol his encounters with others: a
Jewish student returning home from Harvard on summer vacation; the
new husband of Ns ox: an elderly survivor on a radio talk show; Irv
Rub’n. national director d the Jewish Defense League - oven hs own
mother. Smith carefully dissects the Dachau gas-chamber hoax, the
testmony ol one of the eyewitness survivors In the 9h-hour documen-
tary film Sftoah:An Oral History of the Holocaust. and reprints a sommai
article on the Auschwitz gas chamber story by French historian Robert
Fauci sson.
Smith reports again and again on how the tear of being labeled anti-
Jewish is tlw greatest hurde he has had to overcome in his efforts io
determino what is Uue and what is latee in the Revisionist critique of
Holocaust orthodoxy. He writes ol his growing awareness of how the
Holocaust Lobby manipulates charges of anti-Jewistiness lor lie spe-
cific purpose of discouraging epen inquiry into ita Holocaust skxy, and
lor compromising the reputations of tliose Who persist in it.
1956^ 5HxSK, 122 pp. softcover.
CONFESSIONS OF A
HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST, PART I: $6.95
___________________ (ORDER NUMBER 94149)_____________________
CONSPIRACIES, COVER-UPS AND CRIMES
The Secret Files of Political Manipulation
and Mind Control in America
by Jonathan Van kin
An investigative reporter delves into too
seamy world of conspiracies and conspirators
and asks the question; “is there something
rotten to America?' Ever since the pacificai
assassinations of me 1960s. Vietnam. Wa-
tergate, and moro recanti*/ no Iran-Contra
Attar and the Persian Gulf War. there has
been a growing footing among many Ameri-
cans that somothng is tcmbly wreng. Out
what is it?
For this oompcehenstvo. objective took al
theories about Amnncan conspiracies,
Jonathan Vankin talked with the very peepto
who have Oo-zotod iholr Ilves to answering
such haunting questions as: Who really kilcd JFK? Were we tokl the truth about the ’mass siJdde* at Jonestown? Dd the CIA have a tend In bombing Pan Am Fight 103? Did the Nazis aver really surrender? Is the pevemment manufactunng human robots to carry cut assassinations? Is there a secret, evil force manptAating our everyday ives? Crazy questions, maybe, but VantorfS answers may surprise you Ho will let you decido for yourself where fact becomes Beton and fiction all too true.
1991, 6x9, 336pp. hard cover.
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THE HOAX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of
The European Jewry
by Arthur R. Butz
There is a conspracy d sience
surrounding this book — ycu will
not see it reviewed to Establish-
ment newspapers. magazines, or
any other madia, nor are you Ikety
to see the author on any TV talk
Shows. Arthur Butz has been Iha
subject of harassment and oven
physical attacks. His lifo has been
threatened r-nd his classes
boycotted. Such of his fcTow
professors who have taken notice
d Ns book have responded either
with ¿fence or else vicious
personal attacks and name caning.
In The Hoax of tho Twentieth
Century, Pnolessor Butz con-
clusively dorrtolishos tho greatest
propaganda logend ot our bmos — tho legend that tho Gormans
attempted to ’exterminate* the Jews during WWII. Combining the
historian's mastery oi documents wfth Uw tectincal knoAfedge of a
scientist. Butz's book is the product oi a truly massive research effort
lasting three years. The Hoax of The Twentieth Century is one of the
most astonishing and controversial books of our lime. A must for
anyuoj interested in history, mass psychology and the creation of
readies. Highly recommerxfed’
1975, 6x9. 359pp. iifustrated, indexed, softcover.
THE HOAX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94013)
THE ILLUMINOIDS
Secret Societies & Political Paranoia
by Neaf Wifgus
Must read ng for conspiracy
buffs. Tho llluminoids has teen
CAInd ’...the best single
reference on the Illuminati, in
fact and tegondry* by Robert
Anton Wilson, who penned the
introduction to- this volume.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
“Nesi Wifgus reaHy does
think tor himself; /.•e accepts
neither the to&imed fysSucto-
ations of tf>e rabid antSHuminati
crusaders nor tho aloof
dismissal of tho iituminati by toe
historians... Wtigus is a true
poHtical scierrtisf... He has no
axe to grind. He is tooktog tor
tho trutt) arKf f.e is neither
girii'be nor tzro cynical to foSow
up on w9d possibit&es.
“...a damned tine piece of
original and fearfess ttistoricaf research... Wfyus is to be commanded for his wit and skepticism in a tiefd too often dominated by humorless fear-mongering. *
Although The Wumlnoids begins with an account of Adam Wcishaupt's revolutionary Order of the Illuminati, founded May 1. 1776. the real purpose of this Look is to trace the influence of secret societies throughout hks-kxy — from their tegendary roots ¡n oariicsi times down to modern-day ccnspiracies behind tho sensational hcadincs.
Recommended tor all students of history, oonspiracos. and boiof systems.
19T6, 5Hx6H. 264pp, gofl covor.
THE ILLUMINOIDS: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94020)
ANARCHISM & EGOISM
Introduction
From the far reaches of the human mind, come
these tales of unrestrained anti-authoritarianism. No
government, no leaders, no authority, no rules, and
complete freedom of action! Egoism, solipsism,
anarchism, and other heresies — now revealed to cor-
rupt yor/rmind!!!
CAMP 38
Current Model of
Northern European Lifestyle
Before Christianity
by JH! von Konon
This strange little book Is well
worth reading — it presents a
blueprint for a •Northam
European Lifestyle* society in tho
form of a novel.
The events of Camp 38 ere
set in tho present work! at the
present time, but radcab/
diKorent varies require the
pcop'o to have no social rela-
tionship with those 'outskJe.*
It is interesting to reed me
author's presentation of why me
•Northern European U.'estyfe
Bekxa Chnstanity“ is belter than
our own, and in what ways. If you
havo enjoyed Human History
Vwcd As Sovereign
versus Manipulated Masses, you
wtil probably enjoy Camp 33 wel
CAMP 38
CURRENT MODEL OF
NORTHERN
EUROPEAN
LIFESTYLE
BEFORE CHRISTIANITY
JILL von KONEN
1934, 5K x8H, 189 pp, roll cover.
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THE RIGHT TO BE GREEDY
Theses On The Practical Necessity
Of Demanding Everything
by For Ourselves
One of the most c A^.CeVhpv^ bo&cs
^9 ever read...
The present forms of greed toso out.
in the end. because they ara not ffreed/
enough. 9
•Intellgence ends whom mocatty
begns. Moratty ends whom intcili-
pence begins. Evoty moral Is a psychic
totem, a mental fetisb-objoct. before
which the moral fetishist subordínalos
himself, bows down, and oKors
sacrifico indeed. offers hims&Y In
sacrifice. Every ideal Is separated
subjectivity. a part of the sett separated
olf. ejected. frozen and he’d owtho
rest of th© seM/
-m the end. egoism is cur only
frtond; in th© last analysis greed is the oefy thing we can trust. Any
revolutionary who <S to ba counted cn can cnly bo in it foe AmswZ—
traenish pocplo can always switch loyalty from one projection to
another."
Contents Include:
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Wealth
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Individualism ftftd CdlttlivlWh
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Tho Dialectic of Egoism
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The Resonance of Egoisms
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Comnvjnist Society
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Radcal Subjectivity
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Pleasure
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Airthonty
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Morality
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and Rovtfulkm.
1974, 5H x 8H, 94 pp, aort cover.
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ECODEFENSE:
A Field Guide to
Motxkcywreoclung
Ti»*J E/iiM)
Uwvl AU<r
ECODEFENSE
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
New Third Edition — Revised & Enlarged
Edited by Da ve Foremen and Bill Haywood
25.OCO copies of Ecodefense
have been sold in previous editions.
Ecodetense has been banned in
Austral a. and was the target of a
S3 million effort by the FBI to
squelch Its distribution. Now the
most controversial conservation
book ever published Is back In an
expanded, extensively updated
Third Edition.
’Monkoywrertohing' is taking
direct semi-violent action to slop
the Industrial development of
wilderness areas. Ecodefense is a
how-to-doit guide for those so
motivated. It Is an ilkistrated. step-
by-step manual for tearing down
biiboarda. stopping logging opera-
tions. trashhg buidozers and other
machinery, ard much more. a
radical and hard-ass book, which makes you think for beyond the ruts
a rd belts or the illegal acts C describes.
■ Monkeywrenching ts nonwoiont. It Is not directed towards harming
human beings or other forms of tifo. It is aimed at inanimate ma-
chines and tools.
■ Monkeywronching is not organized. There can be no central direction
or organlzaten to monkoywronching. Any typo of network would
invite inhltraten, agents provocateurs and repression.
■ Monkey wrenching is fndtviduaf. Monkeywrenching is done by individ-
uate or very small groups of people who have known each other for
years.
■ A? EWfefontfW pick ther targets.
Mindless, erratic varxfaism Is oounterproduclrve.
■ Monkeywronching is tsmety. Thore is a preper time and place for
monkaywrcnching. There are also limes when morkeywrenchng
may be counterproductive. Morkcywrenchors, generally. Should not
act when there is a nonviolent civil disobedience action (a blockade,
etc.) taking place against the opposed project.
■ Monkoywmnching is dispersed. Monkeywrenctiing is a wide-spread
movement across the United Stales.
■ Monkeywrench/ng ts diverse. All tends of people, in al kinds of Situa-
tions can bo mcnko^wranchors. Some cperale in their backyards.
Others llo k)w at homo and plan their ecotage a thousand miles away.
■ Monkeywrenching ts fun. Them Is a nch of excitement, a sense of
accomplishment, and unparalleled camaraderie from creeping about
at night resisting thoso alien forces.
■ Monkeywrenching is not revcAifionary. It ctor» not aim to overthrow
any social, political or economic system. It is merely non violent self
defense ol the wsid.
■ Monkeywrenching is simpie. The simplest possible tool is used. The
safest tactic is employed.
■ Monkeywrenching is dekb&rafe and ethics/. Monkeywmnchng is net
something to do cavalierly. Monkeywrenchers are very ocnscraus of
the gravity of what th^y do They are deliberate about taking such a
serious step.
Pretty heavy stuttl This book covers tree spiking, road spiking,
flattening tires, closing roads, disabling vehicles and heavy equipment
animal defense. rovongn and harassment, propaganda. security, and
much, much more. It loggers know that a timber sale is spiked, they
wont bid on the timber. It a forest supervisor knows that a road will be
continually destroyed, ho won't try lo build. U soismographars know that
they will constancy be harassed in an area, they'll go elsewhere. If
RVcrs knew that they'll get flat tires, miles from nowhere, they won't
drive in such areas.
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AGAINST METHOD
Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
Third Edition
by Pau! Feyerabend
fAodom philosophy of science has pad great Attention to an understendlrg of sdontitto practice. In contrast to the carter concentration cn ’sciontitlc mathod.’ Iha work of Kari Popper. Thomas Ki/in and Imre Lakatos has provided var/ng accounts of what this practice Is. PaU Feyerabcnd gons beyond this poston: ho argues tat the most successful sclentillc nquirtes have never proceodod according to a rational method al al. He examines in detail the argixnente which Galleo used to defond thn Copernican revolution In physics, and shows that his success depended not cn ratonal arguments tut on a mixture of subterfuge. rhetoric and propaganda.
ClaMng that anarchism must now replace rationalism in the lleory of knowledge, Fcycrabcrd argues that intellectual progress can on'y be achieved by stressing the creativity and wishes of the scientist rather than tho mothod and authority of science. In the latter half of the book ho examines Popper's ’critical rationalism.* and the attempt by Lakatos to construct a mothodotogy which a lows the scientist his freedom without threatening scientific Taw and order.’ Rejecting both attempts to shore up rationalism he looks forward to the ’withering away of reason’ and maintains that "tt-o only pnnclpta which does no! inhibit progress is aoythioggoes '
science is nx^h doser fo myth than a phSosophy is prepared io adnif ft is one of ihe many forms of thought that have been dsvefopod by man, and not naooxsarSy tfw host, ft is conspicuous, nofsy and impudenf. but if ts inhcrcnHy supanor onfy for thc>se *ho have afresdy decided in favour of a certatn ideology or who have accepted ft without having ever examined its advantages and its imifs And as the accepting and rs^oefing of ideotogies shou/d be ieft to the indtviduaf a fosows that the separation of state and church mtjsf be sunpfomented by me separation of state andsaenca, too most rcccnf, most aggressive, and most dogmatic mAgious tnsbtufion. Such a separation may be our onfy cbanco to achieve a humanXy wo are capabio of, but have never fuifymniired'
— Paul Feycrabend. Against Method
I am sure we have all met ’anarchists’ who claim to reject the authority of tho state, but who offer up blind unswer/ing devotion to the iefoefogy of raltonatism. PaU Feyorabcnd has the nght idea: anything goes/ Against Method is an rnporfanl bcok for liberating your mind. This revised oditicn induces material originaT/ published in Science tn A Free Society ar>d additional chapters on the trial of Galileo and the problem of iht^ comparative reality of gods and atoms.
cditton, xS\i. 233pp. indexed, soft cover.
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM
With Justine, Eugenie de Fravnel,
and other writings
by the Marquis do Sado
Reviewed by Mike Hoy
Described by some as ’the most absolute writer who ever ived.* Iha Marquis de Sade ¡8 perhaps the most maligned fcgure in art history. Roaring Na works, one can see why. The extreme egtxsm and resistance 10 authority he advocated (and practiced!) are enough to stir up controversy and opposition even today, nearly 200 years after his death.
Sade's beat work by tar is Philosophy in the Bedroom, in it. a shapely toenytopper fcs. Instructed in the sexual arts by several horny amoral aduns ot various sexes. It la hardcore porno, capable of appaaing to your prurient Interests even today. In between tl>a sex scenes, the characters rest up by discussing mcralty and phitasoplry (the «her heir of the dofr/s education). These passages alcne are worth tha price ot me book. Sade not oNy predates, but goes even beyond Nwtzscba and Stimer In Ns advocacy of the absolute supremacy of the indnidunis wll.
No wondor they kepi him locked up. No wonder they midO Ns ver/ name a drty word. He writings are stark and absobto. utterly (roe cf hypocrisy. You wit find yourself both gasping with astonishment and roaring with laughter.
This edVon of Philosophy In the Bedroom is bound with some Other oi Sada's writings (most of whch arc boring — they d^nt hove quto tho ffair of Philosophy fn the Bodroonty Also inclined are several wol done essays cn Sade and his writings. biographical material, and a chronology of the bad dudes life. So. it you want to road a mixture of hardcore porno and hardcore egoism. as wert as toko a iKJe gimpse into tie mind of tho most outrageous figure In human history, give Philosophy in tho Bodroom a try. V/o bet you will bo glad you did!
1705, 1565 trsnslttion, 6x0, 775pp, toff cortr.
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iiibiillll
LAWS OF THE JUNGLE
by Allen Thornton
This well-written littte txx>k Is a welcome edition to thn Bteratura of ratfcal anarchism.
'Sines no one wants X> picture hmsolf as a victim of violence, governments Ito. States ataa ys prevaricate and coin new words Io conceal their use of f<xco. Taxes. taws, ccnscnption. tariffs, regulations: A thousand words Iwo boon in vented to detract your attention from the guns and prisons that uphold the goverrrr«nt. ri the state were honest a rd open about fts use ot viotanon, the victims might revolt or the victimizars rcponC."
•Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the work week steadty decreased until it ht 40 hours ard it stuck there. In the same period of time more and more people have been employed. Add to those two facts the undeniable truth that the worker Ivas increased his productrrity fabulously, and a natural questions arises: Why Isn't every working persen rich?’
The answer to this ridde ¡nvo>/es the redsxribution of wwfth. Contrary to die propaganda c-f the stale, wealth is not redistributed from the rich to the poor. It Is redistributed from th© worker to tha ronworkor. Lets pun back the curtrxn of governmental confusion. H you make $20,000 a year, you receive $12,000 worth of value from it and the stole gives the other $8,000 worth to someone else.*
1937, 4X7, 142 pp, softcover.
LAWS OF THE JUNGLE: $5.95
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THE MYTH OF NATURAL RIGHTS
by LA. Rollins
Nature/
Rights
I. A. Ro//int
No. it wont stop bullets. It
wont keep people from rip-
ping-ott your property. It won't
even stop the government
from putting you In a concen-
tration carrp. or oxocuting
you. About the only thing a
•natural right* will stop ts
onlghtenod Dinking on the
ethics of liberty. Once yatfve
road The Myth of Ratural
Rights, youtl be able k> put
those imaginary protectors of
freedom back in Sic
museums where they camo
from.
Libertarian scholars have
hod a dfficult time bong
taken "seriously in intellectual
circles. There's a good reason
for this. While they have
gained recognition and ac-
claim for their staunch de-
fense of the free market,
compelling advocacy of chi liberties ard devastating condemnation of
Interventtonlsm. thoir stubborn reliance on the ancient myth of natural
nghts loaves thorn in philosophical dsrepute. The doctrine of natural
rights has persisted among libertarians, because there has never been
a systematic and thorough cnbque of at! ri irrplras. Until naw.
In eno compact work. LA. Rohns shatters the myth of natural rights, white exposing the •bloadng heart ibertarans* that premole it. With careful research and ample documentation, he shews that thinkers like Ayn ftand. Murray Rothbard. Tibor Mactan and Samuel Kcnkn not only violate reason and logic in their defense of natural rights, but also violate the standards they sot for themselves.
The Myth of Raturaf Rights is an important book f(X Ibortarares who take thcr ideas seriously. Well-written and humorous, this carefully researched bcok is fang overdue. Every fbertarian owes « to him-cr- hcrscH to read this work, before swallowing the idealistic propaganda of the ’Natural rights mythclogizors.’
1933, SH x SU, SO pp, bfbUography, softcover.
THE MYTH OF NATURAL RIGHTS: $5.95
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NATURAL LAW
Or Don't Put A Rubber On Your Willy
by Robert Anton Wilson
WARNING: The
Attorney General
has determfned
that this book may
be hazardous to
your dogma
More on
'Natural Rghte'l
Robert Anton
Wilson — novelist,
pod. playwright,
lecturer, stand up
come. Futurist and
psychologist —
lets fry at Murray
Rothbard. George
Smith. Sarruef
Edward Konkin UI.
and <Xhr.r pur-
voyors of the
•claim that some
sort of meta-
physical entity can-
ed a "right* resldos
In a human being
like a 'ghost* re-
siding in a haunted
house.*
Chapters
indude: • Political
Myth and Stolt-Hyp-
noste • 'Law" in
IffttU
Robert Xnfgh W//son ..
Sdonco and Theology • Earth and Deep Belief • Metaphysics Without 'God* • Natural Law as Ventriloquism • What b 'Against Nature*? • Why Not ’Violate* Nature? • The Iniividual vs the Abstract • Sleepwalking ard Hypnotism • And much more.
“...Science, ¿ntidenlaHy, not only ignores the Question of indwefSng ‘essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also doos not agree M knowfadge is obtained through Rothbard's medeva! 'investigation by a reason,9 ie, by inventing definitions and then deducing wbal your definitions impUcitty assunied. *
Funny, scientific, well thcxighl-cul, entertaining and informative, Robert Anton Wisoris Raturai Law is a bock that should be re»d by anyone who has ever been attracted to any ideology. Highfy recommended as the best writing yet on live subject
1937, SHxSH, 72pp. softcover.
NATURAL LAW: $5.95
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GANGS AND GOVERNMENTS
Th© Human Predicament
From the Vnlorlan Society
k group of h"gNy percepiNe writers are here representing a oonctee. penetrating ana lysis of the cunant human predicament and speculating on the possfcittes of correcting IL
This paper will represent observations on which we base our opinion that T. Man is not by nature a pomcal animal. 2. The state is not a creation of nature ’3. The ccodtion that we humans began 10 create for ourselves somx» ihrty thousand >eare ago gees counter to the diroclicn Of organic sexual lite that has ccnhnucid for six hundred milion years of natural evoluton. and counter to wtalover crantNe intelligence may bo presumed to bn operating n tho universe. 4. If the direction that wo humans txxpn before rocoofocl history is rot stoppod. ,wdreversed, Iho intefllgent human spccos. as wo porccivo it. will become extinct.
Gangs Anrf Governments presents seme suggested possbitees for slopping and revering the cxtung human condton.
1992, x 9'4, 32 pp, soft covsr.
GANGS AND GOVERNMENTS: $5.00
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Zenarchy
by Kerry W. Thornley
Zcnarchy U a book by Kerry W. Thornley. co-founder (as ’Omar
Khayyam Ravonhursf) of the humorous pseudo-religion Discordurrism.
Fitted with the wrt and wisdom of Ho Chi Zen. a familiar character to
readers of Cosme Trigger and the fffominatus! trilogy. Tlxxrtey delivers
a cdlecton oi or.'.crtaning fates from tha p*ast <fec->Qn«J to leach, amuse
and dtfghL
Zen is meditation.
Archy'ts social order.
Zenarchyb tho scoal order whch springs from mediation.
Zenarchy is a way of Zen applod to social Ife. A non-combath'o,
non-pertcipatory. no-politics approach to anarchy intended to get tr»e
sertoua student thinking. As a doctrine. Zenarchy holds Universal
Enlightenment a prerequisite to aboiton of the Stalo, nftnr which the
Stale will inmitabty vaneh. Or — that (ailing — nobody will give a
damn.
Lcon-pantes Unlimited Is delimited to offer cur readers Kony W.
Tbamlc/s Zonxrchy.
1991, 5» jt 9H, 125 pp, frustrated, soft cover.
ZENARCHY; $9.98
(ORDER NUMBER 94174)
T.A.Z.
The Temporary Autonomous Zone,
Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Hakim Bey
Wo can't think of a belter way to
•desenbe* this ore than to print a
couple of excerpts, so here goes:
Poetic Terrorism: 'Pick
someone at random A convince
them they're the heir to an
enormous. useless 3 amazing
fortune — say MX) square mins
of Antarctica, or an aging circus
elephant, or an orphanage in
<x a cotiectiun of
eJchemfoN mss Later, (hey wtS
come to re^oze that for a few
moments they believed in
something extraordnary, & w®
perhaps be driven as a result to
seek out some more intense mede
of (irisfMC#'
Art Sabotage: 'PubSc book
burnings — why shoufof rodnocks 5 Customs Officiate moncpokzo this weapon? Novels about chSdran possessed by demons; the NY Times bestseHer fist; feminist tracts against pornography; schoolbooks (espedaty Sodef Studies, Civics. Hoa.toj; pics of NY Post. Vflage Voice and other supermarket papers; choice gleanings of Xlian publishers; a few Hadeguin Romances — a festive atmosphere. wine- botttes & joints passed around on a dear autumn afternoon '
1991, 4» x 7, 149pp, xoft cow
TJCLa $6X0
(ORDER NUMBER 94183)
PEOPLE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT
An Anthropology of Anarchism
by Harofd Barclay
fu^acdrti. as the absence of
government, is neither chaos nor
some Impossible Utopian dream.
People Without Government
doccnbos briefly the anarchic
political structures of a number of
these societies. True. they are
mainly small-scale hunting. gather-
mg and horlicUtural groups.
However. the social organization of
certain larr>i popUaltens with
complex rotations Is also some-
times anarchic. Thus, anarchy
appios to a broad spectrum of
afferent kinds of societies.
This book socks to show what
anarchy lias boon like in prae.cn.
Special attention is paid to the
techniques Of leadership. maintain-
ing order and decisfon-making. Tho dynamic interplay between freedom and authority is considered, particutarty the apparent tartocrcy of anarchic policies to degenerate into states with government and for oepanizafons to become olgarchos. and 4 Is concluded that iborty and incividjaJity are at bast very tenuous end fleeting entibos. There can bo no relenting to the struggle fee freedom.
Chapters include: • On the Nature of Anarchy • Some Observations on Procoduro • Anarchy among Huntor-Gatoorors • Anarchist Gardeners • Anarchist Herders • Anarchy in Agricultural Societies • Anarchy in tho Modem World • And more, indudlog an oxlonstve holography. Erst pjtur.hnd in England. People Without Government has been largely out-of pent and very difficult to cd tan In tho US. Locrr.pantes Unimited is very pleased to see a completely revised and updated reprint of this anarchist classic. Ladies arxl gentierron. Harold Ba'da/s People Without Government.
1990, 5h xS%, 152pp, indexed, soft cow.
PEOPLE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT: $14.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94172)
LIBERALISMS
Essays In Political Philosophy
by John Gray
Liberalisms prevdos a coherent and comprehcnsmo aaatyUcal gjidc to litoral thinking ovor tho past century and considers tho dorrt- nance of ibcral thought In Anslo-Arror'csn political philosophy 0M?r the past twenty yaan. John Gray assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers, mcludng John Stuart MiS. Herbert Spencer, Kart Popper. F.A. Hayek. John Rawls and Robert Noztek. explores their mutual connections and dltterencas, and offers starting refutations.
•Anstatolan theory fails as a foundation for a Iboral tocology. It neglects no variety, uncorbhabilby, and ircommcnsurabnty of human goods, and tha fact that only some of them can flourish In a iboraJ society. (It is for ths reason that a genuine pluralist about values cannot be a doclmaJ IbcraJ.) Because R suppresses Cx? mystical and rodgous context of Aristotelian, Thcmlst. and Lockean thought, conterrporary liberal rights theory In this fraction cannot produce a coherent conception of natural law ard, further, cannot resolve tho conflict between prudence and justice or suppiy a motive fee moderation in the tyrant. In its most ptausibla rrtodarn statemente, in the political phfosephios of Spinoza and Hume, natural law theory Octal« conservatism (as Spinoza and Hume explicitly affirm) or. at the very least, it underdo- tannines Iberalism. There are many reasons for supposing that an cthte cf nourishing or natural law founders in problems of incommensurabilty and Indefermnacy. Evon if wo suspend our d<sbe»uf about the ctaime of such theories, wo have no reason to suppose that they mandate a regime of liberty, for in thor best devetoped forms, in Aristotle and Aquinas, they dd amost the opposite.*
1939, 514 x 3H, 233pp Indexed, soft cover.
UBERAUSMS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94219)
NATIVE AMERICAN ANARCHISM
by Eunice Minette Schuster
Anarchism has ex-
ploded beck Into ttv»
forefront of today's pole-
cat movements. While
modem radicals have
Shkjd nwny from broad
social systems to narrow.
?cuio -oriented groups, the
dcctnno of anarchism has
surfaced in all of them.
Ono increasingly hears
about 'anarcbo-fernnists,' non-government alternative communities. and direct-action crrvironmcnLnlsls. Now comes a book to help them find their roots, in tho strong tradition of American anarchism.
It Is not surprising that anarchism is bong reborn n toda/8 progressive movements; many of tltose movements were started by anarchists over a century ago. Anar cho-pacifists protected the War of 1812 and the Civil War. v.hle demanding freedom tor slaves. Women's rights. birth control. sexufW And moral freedom wore championed by Francia Wright, VgHalrine do Clyro. Emma Goldman and other anarcNate. Alternative commontios such as New Harmony. Utopia and Modem Times were formad around anarchist princip’es. Environmental acriWsts end labor organizers can stll team much from the anarchists who preferred ’dtrect action* to kilo words.
Native American Anarchism Is net only an mpcctanl historical book for contemporary radicals -ri's also enjoyable and exciting reading. You*! thril as you read about Thoreau's defense of John Brown's raid cn Harper's Ferry, tho efforts of abolitionists to free the slaves, the new ago communities that struggled for survival. the early battles tof women's rights and sexual freedom, the assassination ci President McKinlay, ard the deportation of America’s loading anarchists.
Native American Anarchism is by far the best book ever published on fho history of anarchism in the United States. Don't miss this timely Classic, finally back in print, explaining tTie roots 04 American radicalism!
1952. 5H x3H, 202 pp. Indexed, bibttograpby, soft cover.
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MIGHT IS RIGHT
by Ragnar Redbeard
Wrrtlon almost a century ago,
Might is Right is a tirokiss, jucy rant
presenting a mercies s case for
Social Darwinism. P.odocard blasts
away at both political and moral
rights, using an endcss stream of
descriptive» Language to lambaste his
1005. Colorful Insults leap off the page
at the reader, and tn© Lnderi.ying
logic, whrfo questionable in places, is
based on a dear vision of tho true
Aoricngs ot sccoty. The fundamental
premise of the book ts that he world
•s governed by force, not by genteel
pedbeal or rotigicus creeds, and that
the nie of Power is just, natural, and
w.ll never bo changed by ideologues.
The beauty cA Might is Right lies in
xs opposition to ¿^authority: poifcal. religious, philosophical and moral.
Might Is RightXxgxva in a tone reminiscent of S’.mer and Netzsche.
• deny all things! I quesbon all things!' proclaims Redbeard, and who
ootfd ask for a better bopnring? Al in all. Might is Right is the work of
an astute intcloct. keen to th© true operation of the universe, end leery
cf aJI ideotogies. II contains startling and refreshng ideas guaranteed to
stimulate your thinking. If not rearrange your whdo world view. AJI but
impossible to find un« Loompartcs reprinted it. this now edition of
Might is Right centals an totrcducton by S.E. Parker.
SH xW. 154pp. »oft cow.
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ANARCHIC HARMONY
The Spirituality of Social Disobedience
by William J Murray
In tho tradition of Phncfpia Dtscor&a, The Right To Be Greedy, and The World Power Foundation, Lozmpancr. Unlimited proudly presents one of tho most interesting and challcngng books you will ever read: William J Murray's Anarchic Harmony.
From fho infroducHan by Robert Anton I'Ataa?;
This wonderful trifle book by William J Murray offers a bniliantiy vririolc analysis of the confusons. superstitions and anxicoos that make us all stavas pad of tho tme and make most of us slaves aft of tho time.’
'If you fear Blasphemy and Heresy — if you think certain ideas ard images can bo dangerous to us. that they can literally bring doAn 'curses from heaven’ — this bock can be extremely hazardous to your health If you Are in tho censorship business, perhaps tho safest course ¡8 not to read this book nt nil. and just issue a general condemnation basnd cn your ideas aboiri what might be found in hero.'
From the Text by WHkam J Murray:
•What I fzund by turning my back on cur soccly-generated myihotogy was so profound that I had to share it — presumptuous or not — because it the ¿^iAi airuchya dtvr^nd^
SOdal disobecSonce. or living according to our inner, heroic nature and not accrxdng to thn intimidation and demands of society’s incffccb/o kfeolcgy.’ *
'Rediscovering your designed purpose by stripping away the fate programming cf society, atandonng the aberrant belief systems, and embarking upon a path o? honest observation and se^ discovery Is what is meant by social disobedience*
A wohome -addition to the iserature <X radical anarchism!
1992, SHxSH, 129pp, softcover.
ANARCHIC HARMONY: $11.95
(ORDERNUMBER 94187)
ANARCHY IN ACTION
by Col In Ward
This classic of anarchist tltecry sbotid lx, read by everyone interested in radical politics. Chapters delude.
♦ Anarchy and the State ♦ The Theory or Spontaneous Order ♦ The Dissolution of Leadership ♦ Harmony Through Corrplarity ♦ Tcp'oss Federations ♦ Who la to Plan? ♦ We House. You are Housed. Troy nro Homeless ♦ Open and Cosed Famries ♦ School No Longer ♦ Piny ns an Anarchist Parable ♦ A Sett- Employed Socxjty ♦ The Breakdown of WoMara ♦ How Deviant Dara You Gel? ♦ Anarchy and a Ptoirabta Future ♦ And more.
Suppose our future in fad ties, no! with a handful of technocrats pusiting buttons to support the res! of us, but with a multitude of small activities, whether by individuals or groups, doing their own thing? Suppose the only plausible economic recovery consists in peopte poking themselves up off the industrial scrapheap. or rejecting their slot in the mcro-fechcoiogy system, and making their own rxfx* in the world of ordinary needs and their satisfaction. Wouldn't that bo something to do wrth anarchism?
— Colin Ward
1973, SHxB, 151 pp, softcover.
ANARCHY IN ACTION: $7.50 (ORDER NUMBER 94141)
THE MARKET FOR LIBERTY
by Morris and Linda Tannehill
TNs ;r. the classic and onginal presentation of the case (or anarcho- captallsm. It describes in vast detail how a society of cur present technological development could function without any government whatsoever. Schools, mail daln-ery, arbitration of disputes, streets and roads, protection of life and property, and oven •national* defense — a 1 ootid bci operated more effdentfy by private enterprise.
197Q, 5MxBH, 176 pp, soft cover.
THE MARKET FOR LIBERTY: $12.95
SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE
by Pierre Oastres
We ere glad to welcome this anarchist cia^o back into pmt.
Pierre Clastics asks; and boldly answers a question which has haunted Western culture from its inccptian: Is a society possible in which per.pln are rot divided into oppressors and oppressed? Can a society llcunsh without the coercive InsWubon of tho state and privileged hierarchies?
He teEs us that societies of ihts kind existed: we need rot take refuge in imaginary utopias. Basing himself on the rich anna's of the 16th and 17th century explorers and missionaries in South America. Clas’.ros reconstructs for us the life of the archaic Indian societies ttxat populated areas of Braz?. Venezuela and Paraguay. He also draws on the abundant history of North American Indians to complete his panoramic view.
In these societies, there are no permanent chiefs or loaders surrounded by the trappings of office and wealth, nor were such omens vested in panfcuiar famnes or groups. No individual attempted »force his poWcal and social will on other mon. Tho members of these ’archaic societies’ lived In free association.
Clashes denies strong?/ the widespread error that ^beso were impoverished societies In whch men fought dMsivoty fee scarce subc-sterce end goods Hobbes* notion ol 'Pnmltivc Man's- state as a •war of all against air is proven fatso. These societies wro as ’affluent' as our own. and of a far greater density of population than previously thought, yet they were more humane.
1974, 6x9, 716pp, toft cover.
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THE WORLD POWER FOUNDATION
Its Goals And Platform
Edited by Harold Thomas
The World Power Foundation
was folded In Chicago in the early
197(73. Its goal has been constant
— to prepare an intelligent wartko
roigkm for the future; a power
philosophy that tots bokl men take
advantage of the opportunities that
history may present them. Tho
Foundation is aimed, pretty frankly,
al the rich and would-be powerful; it
translates their desire for slaves
and control ¡rite a wcrkable.
systematic steal policy.
However, the Foundation has
nothing Io do with the traditional
'white power- and 'male
chauvinist- movements, which are
so common at their ard of me
political spectrum. They choose to
recognize both masters and slaves in al social groups, ard to stand behind tho masters, regardless of their heritage or birth.
Haro are the basic principtos ard assumptions underlying The World Power Foundation:
-
Excilemsr* is mere important than equality
-
Freedom of action is more valuable than freedom ol speech
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Might and dght are not exacry the same, tut after a few years no cne will know tho dfternnco
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That saerfflea and death are Inevitable and ongoing. and you may as well organize them 10 your own Glory
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That most people are actually tookdg to give up their own freedom, provided ttvey can and the right Idol; ard you should be looking for ways they can servo you...
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That thara Is ro morally cr jus^co or heaven other than what erganzed by persons like yourselves; the future is open to your will □nd karma results from your ability to impose it
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Ard that ultimately evorytNng » feud, so that Iha greatest sin is to waste it and the greatest forty is not to recognize H
The World Power Foundation ie simiAaneously a retglous. political, ard eth'cal organization: it is working now in the rea'm of Ideas, hoping •o control tire aciten of tbs future. It owns no property, corecis no does, ard has no grants to distribute. You cannot find it in a telephone book or a directory of associations, but it gees on despite its low profile.
The Hr st five chapters of this chilling Look contain the basic philosophy of the Foundation. This is (plowed by a compilaidn of documents it has published so tar, ard the extensive Power Biography The henest/ ard seriousness of The World Power Foundation is (here tec those who can appreciate «; they ihnk they have some better uses for what remains of Western wealth and power.
Contents Irxiudo: Thn Joy of Pradallcn; Running a Slave Soooty. and miKh more. Tho World Power Foundation goes teyend Nietzsche, bc>ond Machiavelli, beyond own tho Marquis de Sade. You may not 'er^oy' ths matcr»l. but few wii tall to bo moved by II.
1960, 5H xSh, 90pp, soft covsf.
THE WORLD POWER FOUNDATION: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94041)
POWER & MARKET
Government and The Economy
by Murray N. Rothbard
Loompanics Unlimited U proud
to present one of thn most
important books of our timo! A
follow-up to Dr. Rothbards brillant
eccnonvc treatise Man, Economy
sodState, Power and Market a a
searing attack on tho opponents of
the froo market, an explanaron of
how tho marketplace can provide
Hid essential services row
controlled by government. and an
analysis c4 Ute ways government
pdkies and practices destroy
healthy economies.
Never before has there boon
such an irrefutable work ex-
porting a free economy. White
Ato, Economy and State showed
how the market place works.
Power & Market shows how government Intervention tails. Rothbard
deals a sound thrashing to any intellectual attemp'.s to )usbfy the Sta'.o.
whether from right-wing conservatives or left-wing tberals.
Contents Include:
Defense Sorvicos cn Uio Froe Market (How the market can
provide for personal and national defense); Triangular
intervention (Government price controls, product controls,
and grants of monopolslic privilogo): Binary Intorvontkxi
(Taxa’.on and spending); AnbMarkot Ethics (A refutation of
free market opponents); Economics and Public Pdicy (Tlx,
relationship between tbe two).
Power & Markets both witty and clear. Navor again will you wonder
how Ute market does It. nor will you lack tho intellectual ammunition to
Mail mouthy bufeauo^fs Wt 9* tho wator In any discussion over ‘public
policy !*
1970, 6x 9, 304 pp, indexed, soft cover.
POWER & MARKET: $7.95
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THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM
Guide to a Radical Capitalism
by Da vid Friedman
mo Machinery Of Freedom argues the case for n soctety organized by prívalo property, individual rights, and voluntary cooperation, with titilo or no government. The author's viewpoint. known as 'anarcho- capitalism/ has attracted s growing following as a desirable social idea!, ¿neo tito first edition of this book appeared in 1971. TNs now edition is thoroughly revised and has eight adfllionnl chapters exploring new applications of Dr. Friedman's libertarian principios.
Dasprto hfcs pioneering achievements as a loading economic theorist. Dr. Fnodman's exposition Is beautifully ctenr. readable. unpretentious, □nd oisarmingfy fair-minded. He proceeds by picking the strongest arguments dial could be levelled against Ns proposals, then remorselessly pursuing these argument until they collapse, in the process, he painlessly gives his readers some elementary lessons in economic theory and its application to tho real wrxid.
Among Iha topics covered are: how the US would benefit from unrestricted immigration; why prohibiten of drugs is inconsistent with a free society; why the welfare state mainly takes from the poor to give to the rich; how police protection, law courts, and now laws coud all be provided privately; what life was Ifco under tho anarclust legal system of ntedfaval Iceland; why non-lntorvonlicn is tho boat foreign policy; why no slmp'e moral princplo will generate acceptable social policios — and why those must be derived in part from tho now disciplino of economic analysis cl law.
1969. 6x e 997 pp, Indexed. toft cover.
THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94145)
OUR ENEMY, THE STATE
by A Ibert Jay Nock
F
WS3E
Albert Jay Nock's
Ait ?WjùM
0
•Tho Police. Army, Navy and
Highway Patrol... most regulations
help one class of people, white
tearing to higher cosis tor
everyone otec/
Wo are proud to offer our
readers this classic anti-
authoritarian book. The prevailing
kfootogy of the twentieth cen^ry,
especially strong among the
intellectuals, but infecting all othr.r
ranks as we*. te faith in poUteal
panaceas for economic and social
woes. Ideologues quarrel among
themselves Sectarian dirior-
ences d-vde communists from
nazis, socalteis from fascists,
new dealers from welfare staters,
and so on. Statists vary in
plumage and pregram, but on one thing they all agree; one and all they
demand a centralized Stalo with virtual/ unlimited authority to oversea
ovary aspect of life. They do not examine the State asefc to determine
whether it is within the Stale's competence to achieve the tasks they
woukl thrust upon It — which is why Iholr afogodhy good intentions
Invariably tend to contrary, and sometimes disastrous, results. Nock
understands tho nature of tho State, and so will the reader who follows
his analysis.
Cno of tho finest anti-authoritarian works ever written.
1999. x 109 pp. aott cover.
OUR ENEMY, THE STATE: $9.95
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
byH.L Menoken
Loompanics Unlimited Is very proud to offer its readers this a’l-but- inpossibte-to-rirrf work on Nietzsche's philosophy by tho great American iccnoclssl. H L Mencken. Out of print for years, and reprinted at Iasi, tNs is as fine a book on Niatzscho as has over been written. Mancken says. "He is. Indeed, the king of all axiom smashers and the arch (Sssenler of tee ago. To him such words as good arid godly have no meaning whatever. Ho regards thorn as mere scarecrows and bugaboos. Irventod nnd employed by sophists and doctrinaires to ward off that free Inquiry which woiid put thoir fallacies to rout/
Mencken desenbos somo of tho olcmonts of Nietzsche's philosophy as follows:
That tho ov-ar-dominan! and onby inherent impulse in all Ifvirig beings, including man, is the will to remain alivo — Iha will, thal Is, to attain power over those forces whicti make life difficult or Impossible. Thal all schemas of moraity are nothing mere than efforts to put Into permanent codes the expedients found useful by some glvnn race in too ccurso of its successful endeavors to remain alve. That all gods and religions, because they have for their main object tho prelection of moral codes against change, are Iwnlcabao io tho life and weS-being of heallhy and efficient men/
Well writton. thought-provoking, and compelling.
1909, 5H xSh, 335pp, toft cover.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: $11.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94147)
MAD
by Jonathan Bowden
JOhn Bcwdon one of th©
most radical minds wring today,
touching with an aslonlshng
fuston of mndnrtv. and cold
rationally on the mor.1 contra!
aspects oí tifo. Listen -
•A civilization rests on force
and comer, nto cxistoncn when
every scream is part of the
design. Inhumanity is always
sacrosanct: we're not deaing
with morality here: that is a
matter for the irdivdual.
Collectives cfeal not In morals txil
expediency; not in conscience
but judicious expendieres ol
force. A rUer realty has power in
hs hands when he can decide
what's wrong and what's right.
From moment to moment,
enforcing ths. preserving that,
the one an offense. the other a
booeiicence. whilst the Mood cries out to hgh heaven for a roefcon/ng it
won't receive. Here, oach semam has Its piece, every anihromorphlc
prodding of tho system resolves Itself n a patchAork quit of
condemnation and reward. Rulers enforce crimnal jurisdiction when
they decide what's crime asnd who’s committed il. Law was created from
is opposite. Law was created lo forestal its opposite. Law is legalized
crime: sanctimonious mordacity fur these who mulct llxj system.’
Jonathan Belden is a great, horrifying, but also vastly itiuminating
writer. Loorrpanics Unlimited Is very proud to offer its readers Jonathan
Bowden’s Mad.
1969.. 4Hx7, fCSpp. soft cover
MAD: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94150)
Mad
BOWDEN
THE BEST OF ABBIE HOFFMAN
Selections From Revolution for the Hell of it, Woodstock
Nation, Steal This Book, and New Writings
by Abbie Hoffman
Wo ata ns tangor able- to offer otr custonws Abtic Hoffman’s Stea! This Book. but wo arc happy to announce Iho puttication of The Best Of Abbie Hoffman, which contains sotacticcis from Abbie's throe most famous revolutionary boo xs. and new writings.
The Best Of Abbie Hoffman spans Hoffman's entire career from his earliest to his latest writings. Today, they stfl enlighten us with their purity and crassness. their clowning bravado and utter seriousness. They express tho ponlodl disrespect for iho status quo. as well as tho high aspirations for freedom and justice, of nearly an entire generation.
1969, $ X O, 435 pp, Muxtrefed, soft cover.
THE BEST OF ABBIE HOFFMAN: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94153)
NO TREASON
The Constitution of No Authority
by Ly sander Spooner
(Reviewedby Deborah Callahan)
LYSANDER SPOONER
SO Tfcf AW
in terms of poidcal theory. Ho
Treason is the single most radical
and devastating paper ever written.
Have you ever wasted time trying to
t^ure out your ’rights’ under the
Constitution? Can you separate ycur
•right’ to freedom ct rel-glon from
your ’right’ to equal opportunity
under tho law? Well, doa't bottled
The great ¡ndMdualiM anarchist
Lysander Spooner is a Loompanics
hero. He was a lawyer who lived
from 1826 to 1887. Among his deeds
was running his own private postal
service from Boston to Now York,
operating so efficient/ and charging
such low rates (hat Congress passed
a special law against him — and
then lowered their own rates to meet Spooner's (by ihe way. he charged
5c).
In 1857. etter he had attempted to argue against slavery on
Constitutional grounds, ho became convinced that this could not really
bn done, and that in tact, the Southam suit»; dd have Ihe right to
secede. ft was at this limo that Spocncr panned his greatest work: No
Treason: The Constitution of No Authority.
Spooner applies the principles of AngTo-Amcrican common law to
the supposed "contract’ between the ’people’ and tho ’government’
and concludes that no common law court wcukl accept the "contract’ as
vaid. His arguments are detailed and thorough (as wen as etoquent)
and leave no room lor counter-claims. Remember, your "right" to keep
and tear arms is promised in the same document which gives tlw
government the "right’ to tax your income!
Lcompanics Unlimited is very proud to oiler its customers Lysander
Spooners No Treason, and give it cut higlwst possible
recommendation.
taro, Mx 4*4, 76pp. noMicna by J*m*v J. Martin, soft cover.
NO TREASON: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94030)
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Tihe Lesser of Two Evils... Is Evil
by Sy Leon, with Diane Hunter
NONE
OF THE ABOVE
Ic'-Kf 3 fwj oik . rt uil
SY LÍO« ~-
— F— *— •
None Of The Above is a classic book
presenting tho case against voting in
elections. Well worth rcadingl Hero are
some selected quotes:
“Norn voting is now viewed as a political
force which has the potential to after the
entire poftica! system. “Chapter 1
“.you can hardy expect a poMcian to
give up power, any more titan you can
expect a baboon to gve up bananas.“
Chapter 14
“Perhaps the non-voters... donl want any
of tho aitematives offered fo them at the
peds, and that this, rather than apathy... is
tho reason they don't naA?, * Chapter fJ
“Whom tbn difference between can-
ddates is fess than tho diffnmneo betweon Tweedledum and Twocd'odoo, your supposed choice is as .significant as the cboco betweenarsenu:andra!poison... “Chapter2
“Panics is ¿Sf) i-effectual anesthetic, ft can duff the mind, put it to sleep, or even kiS it permanently “Chapter 23
“Tho poHfici.’sn is ether deluded or fy^yg when he claims fo know better than you what is good for you. “ Chapter f4
1976. 5H x 9H, 236pp, soft cover.
NONE OF THE ABOVE: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94094)
POLITICAL TRASHING
by Victor Santoro
Let's (ace it — politics sucks. Nd
manor who you vote for. the government
gets otacted. Now Victor Santoro, The
Godfather c4 Harassment.’ has devised
dozens and dozens of ways that you can
stnko back against the political
estabilshmont— by •trashing* etactions!
Political Trashing outlines tho
(temes and lechNques of political
trashing. With a little forethought,
planning, and dscrolkxi. it Is possible to
destroy any political campaign without
getting charged with any felonies —
Santoro not only tells you wtiat to do. but
more importantly. how to got away with it!
With correct planning, you can trash any
poiGcten'a election campaign with minimal effort and resources (Santoro oven tells how to got th© politician himsetf to pay for hs own trashing*).
Contents include: • Why politicians deserve to bo trashed • How to assess the candktetes' vulnerability so you know exactly whore and how to strike • Conventional dirty tricks which can bo applied to elections • I tow Io organize the trashing effort • How to got tho information you need • Teclniques for discrediting tho candidato • How to completely disrupt a politician's campaign headquarters • How to use sex to discredit a candidate «And much, much moro.
With the material in thr. book, yea should be abta Id plan and carry out a program to disrupt a politician's campaign, if you’re alone, ao be k. Good luck, end make thn most cl your opportunities. One person can do a lot. If you have an organization to back you up. it's avinost a certan victory. If you have n targe tudget. you sbou'd be able to hRf*) any policía n out to dry.
1937, SU, x 3b. 163 pp. ¡KustratGd. soft cover.
POLITICAL TRASHING: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94106)
CALCULATED CHAOS
Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival
by Butter D. Shaffer
Institutions corrupt ttno soda! noods that causo us to form social organizations, replacing cur roed for cooperation with systems of control. Institutions become ends In themsetvos. their oati purposes for being, and in the process ci-ride mankind into competing, conflicting factions. Explaining the foundation of th© Calculated Chaos that governs lujmsn society. Shafter demonstrates how wars, economic <$scord. ractel arto rtrtgtaus unrest. totalitarianism, nationalism, terrorism and other forms of confict ar© largely the products of our assumpcons about how soctabcs arc to bo organized.
'One of the prevailing myths within our culture is that a (Sstnclion e>58ts between psvwzyrMyX and the so called free enterprise system. Though such a dLstncUom can bo mad© conceptually. the emergence of the modem corporate State has al but obUeraled any meaningful dtteroncos be two on th© two systems. ffg tnrsness end big government in Arronza aro so hopelessly intertwined ttvat It is rxjarty impossible to identify economic behavior that Is not dominated - or at least strongly influenced — by political decision-making. To regard the private business system as ono in which the wants of buyers and saltara aro played out In an environment of free chotoe and free competition is about a? meaningful as treating the practice of medieval theocratic States as expressions of mankind's quest for cosmic and spiritual understanding.* (pp. 145*146)
The legal system r-ocds crime and disputes. the State wants enemies end other throats with which to organize its subjects, schools necessitate Ignorance and churches require sin. Far loo much of human history has been Mtte more than a chronicling of various drvlshte factions struggling to dominate and control other factions. An Important and thought-provoking book — highly recommended!
1 fW, 3H x 3H. 343 pp. soft cover.
CALCULATED CHAOS: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94100)
Selections From FREE AMERICA
And Other Works
by Button Haft
“Ono of Ito most curious of
delusions la the belief that
widespread and deep-rooted evils
can be cured by trilling remedies.
Thus, tor tho ilb arising from
political corruption and misgovern-
ment by organizations formed for
the purpose of securing political
offices, wo find it gravely suggested
nr. a remedy tlxat wo should 'elect
good men to office.' Apart from the
absurdity oi chiding men into the
good and the bad. this plan for
abolishing effects without touching
causes fe ridicufous. Political
conupfon is rot. as some moranros
see<n to below, the resUt of men's
sinful nature, nor Is it duo to
unscrupulous 'machnes.' It has ies
ongln in th© condlions which keep large numbers of pecglo In Involuntary idlonoss; which e%*ery year force ten thousand business men Into bankruptcy, ^hich make a struggle for a bare subsistence the lot of the great majority of Uto voters of the country; and which create Urge ctassos ready io ally themselves for gain with adventurers who tmdo as professional politicians. Having its roots thus deep in the rotten soli of ignorance and violation of economic tews, z is easy to soo that tho efforts cA Good Government Clubs.' 'Municipal Reform Leagues.' ard similar organizattons of well-meaning citizens must fail to accompish Ui© ©nds fix which they are working. So long as law-created conditions prevent e»e masses from acquiring inteiigcnco or using their inlo^gence for useful purposes, so tong win it bo impossible to have ctaan politics *
Boton HaB wrote those words in 1904. This book collects more Chan 20 of his essays from 4 ol his bcoks: Free AsrienCO. A Uttla LMd And A Living, kVho Pays Your Taxes?, and Things As They Are. A pioneer ol allomath*a economics. Dolton Hall rubbed elbows with the radicals ol his day. from Benjamin Tucker to Emma Goldman
Unfortunately, today Bollen Hall Is itlte-known. We are proud to offer you Uiis collection of hto writing, with an introduce on by M-ark Sullrvan, •Bolton Hall & The Third Tradition.* ’
SHxSH. 139pp, softcover.
FREE AMERICA: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94105)
MEN AGAINST THE STATE
Th© Expositors of Individualist
Anarchism In America 1827-1908
by James J. Martin
Ths dassic history of anarchism in tho Unilod States is tho staring point for anyone concerned with tho nntocodcnts cA libertarianism in Uto United Stales. This book brought back into view a tradition which almost disappeared between the beginning of tho First World War and the end o< tho Second — the phtosopity and deeds of antlslaWst libertarian voluntarism in the Uniled States during the three generations which ftaurishod between 1825 and 1910. to a stylo which a Lorxfon commentator dsscribed as a “model of readable scholarship."
Among the todMduallst anarchists covered are Josiah Warren. Ezra Heywood. William B. Greene. J.K. Ingals. Stephen Peart Andrews. Lysander Spooner, and Benjamin Tucker.
Must roaring for all interested In Individualism and anarchism. f97D, SHxSH. 331 pp, softcover.
MEN AGAINST THE STATE: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94080)
BENJAMIN R. TUCKER
& THE CHAMPIONS OF LIBERTY
A Centenary Anthology
Edited by Michod E. Coughlin, Charles H Hamilton,
and Mark A. Sullivan
Benjamin R. Tucker began
pubFeiiing Liberty, the first avowedly
anarchist newspaper in America, in
1881. For over 50 years, Tucker was the
n'lfrM ifi'ipOttSr'i! irtdrvkJuiiliSl ariardied in
Arr.nr.ria and liberty the most important
anarchist periodical.
Benjamin R. Tucker & The
Champions Of Liberty ocliccts sateen
essays on Tucker and his
contemporaries by such libertarian
writers as Paul Avrich. Charles H.
Hamillon, Mildred Loomis. Mark
Suiivan. Wendy McElroy. S.E. Parker.
Sharon Presley, Cart Watnor, and many
others. Well researched and well
written, these essays reveal the influ-
ence Of Benjamin R. Tucker on contemporary libertarian and anarchist
thought. Benjamin R. Tucker & The Champions Of Liberty e a book
that belongs in the library of every snarctiist end libertarian.
1981,3x8, 236 pp, fifustrated. softcover.
BENJAMIN R. TUCKER & THE CHAMPIONS OF LIBERTY: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94223)
THE EGO AND ITS OWN
Th© Cas© of the Individual
Against Authority
by Max St ¡mar
The Ego and its Own throws down a chaTenge to Ihousands of years ol relgtous. philosophical and political dopcadatlcn of the individual: A way with every concern that is not ¿.together my concern! You think that al feast the ‘good cause' must ba my concern? What's good, what's bud? Why, i myself am my concern. and / am neither good nor bad neither has meaning for me. The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither lice (Evine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but is— unique, as I am. Hofhng is mom to me than mysck.
Stmar mercilessly crtliclzos al doctrines and beliefs that demand the interests of tha mdvtduat be subordinated to those of State. Humanity. Soooty. or score other fiction. He exposes the bondage of the irdi- vkfual lo fixed ideas. He declares his hostility to every creed that would crush or deny Individuality. Stiener's affirmation of an amoralfetic egoism. his celebration of me unique indMdual. has provoked cries of horror from moralists cA Right and Lett, religious and secUar They have denounced him as a nhnst par excellence. end have held him up as an awful example to those vtfio would irve beyond good and gvfl
Our contemporary political saviors are not restrained for one moment by Uto moralities they profess from dimnatng those IndMdunls who step out ci line and threaten Ure success of their schemes for redeeming Iha world Indeed, those who claim to love humanity are usual- fy sentimental butchers.
This book, described as the most revolutionary ever written, is at coca a historical document and a timeless classic. Highly recommended.
1848. 5H x 8H, 366pp. soft cover.
THE EGO AND ITS OWN: $18.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94227)
UNCONDITIONAL
FRLLbOH
Social Revolution ;; through ^builvirtuai iowerment
Introduction by Ben ß. Price
UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM
Social Revolution through
Individual Empowerment
by William J Murray
in Anarchic Harmony, Wffiam J Murray shattered the myths of the New Age and the old. showing us how to find our Inner Dynamic and use it as our only barometer of right and wrong.
Now. in Unconditional Freedom. Murray teaches us how to manipulate reality* to gain unlimited freedom. Ths mind bonding behemoth of a bock shows how Io 'bring the Angels down,’ bow to harness 'The IDiot Within.’ how to move toward 'Zcnno Society.’ Murray devastates the cruThlinq institutions of government, law. school, nredicire. science. religion, work — even time, space and matter! ’WoYo going to knock down the wafts and rip up the floorboards that keep us Imprisoned in the holish box c/ ’normal life' and consensus realty.’ says the author. That's something worth reading, don't you think?
From the Introduction, W See I! When I Believe U. * by Sen G. Price: •You are in for a wild ride as you read this book! It isn’t realy a book: it’s a package at symbols designed to trick your mind into releasing ’hormones' into your b'oud stream that will force you to grow up. Take it. pegs by page, and feel a change come over you. a second pubcscnnce. But this time you won’t be driven by an involuntary urge to mate with a receptive sexual counterpart. Instead, ycull be driven by a conscious desire to ccuple with existence, to take a now identity that shocks the husk soo'ety wraps you up in. to lend your cars to a afferent rhythm and to dance to Uw music of the spheres. To fxc the music and liko tho lune.’
1993, 5Hx8X, 260pp, softcover.
UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94222)
HERE IS WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT WILLIAM J MURRAY’S PREVIOUS BOOK: ANARCHIC HARMONY:
‘WMiam J Murray joins Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche and A faster Crowfay as one of the true Revolutionaries.*
Robert Anton Wilson
‘Murray is blasphemous, shrewd, and definitely not a candidate for the Hew York Times best setter mishmash... which is all to the good."
— The Book Reader
Mass Media
Introduction
Ah. yes, the world according to blow-dried news actors paid by huge International corporations to paraphrase government press releases and corporate selfpromotion puff pieces... Film at eleven...
UNRELIABLE SOURCES
A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media
by Martin A. Lee & Norman Solomon
Unreliable Sources reveals how and
why — news moda ara distorting current
events, whether close to homo or across
the globe. Il provides a devastating critique
of America's most honored sources ct
nows — from the major TV networks and
77,v New York Tmes to pubc television
and National Pubic Rado. After roading
Unreliable Sources, our perceptions of
what comes over the a/vravas and oft the
presses will never be the same.
As media corporations grew in size and
dlrrtntsh to number, they arc becoming less
accountable to th© pubic. Unreliable
Sources sheds Ight cn the hidden dynanv-
ics and ominous implications Of this trend. A vital handbook for decoding media bias. * dissects news coverage of a wdo range oi domestic □nd international issues — taxes, social security, abortion, drugs and Violence, environmental potuticn, U.S.-Soviet rotations, terrorism, the Third World, etc. — and hlghlghts key stones that have boon censored or covered up by major media.
Working as independent journalists. Martin A. Lee and Norman Sotamon have palnstatongCy Investigated the bggest sacred cow of the Affloncan press — iteelL Pinpointing patterns ol bias toitf Inluso nows reporting every day, this book deflates the purnped-up pretenses of American journalism, while exposing the endless stream of propaganda, ¿conformation, spin centre*, selective reporting and hidden agendas that masquerade as news. Unreliable Sources <s so penetrating and fundamental that rt coiid revolutionize how we lock al the mass media. Unreliable Sources reveals the news behind news.'
1990. 6x9, 433pp, frustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
UNRELIABLE SOURCES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88134)
THE LOOKING GLASS WORLD
OF NONFICTION TV
By Elayne Rapping
The Looking Class World Of Nonfiction TV examines the evdu- ton d television programming and the devetopment of con'tation TV — the often analyzed national news and documentaries, as wen as too usually ignored (and deplored) game shows, talk shows, local news, news magazines, dcojdramas. commercials, eto. The aiXhor urtoovnrs toe common messages earned by these apparent*/ different kinds of programming, and demonstrates their importance as the major source of information and socialization in today’s world. Chapters Irctode: ♦ A lock at toe basics: Social context, technology and institutions • Local news: Reality as soap opera • TV Oocumentados and special reports: What it realy means • Magazines, ta* shows and sort rwwj: Rcatey as small talk • Commercials. Television's ultimate art form I And more.
Tire author states: 'One of toe reasons thorn has been so little organized resistance to the hegemonic domnanco of television is ttval it is unusual to think about television as a social institution. One c4 my motivations for writing this book was to try to counter that very tendency, to bring into the epen the material bases and human dynamics wfreh arc to tact television.*
1937, SHjcSH, 209pp. Indexed, softcover.
THE LOOKING GLASS WORLD
OF NONFICTION TV: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88133)
IN OUR OWN IMAGE
The Coming Revolution in Photography
How Computers Are Changing
The Way Wc View The World
by Fred Rltchln
tn Our Own Image Is the first book to explore comprehensively the impact of computer-imaging techniques on photography and on th© way the world «3 viewed Without It being widely unefcratood. computer •enhancemenr of Imagery is becoming a staple of thn pasture press. Ritchto acknowledges that this tampering with tho assumed objectivity of the photograph Is Inevitable. Wc must, however, come up with accepted strategies to control and profit from the new technology, so toa! we are not controlled by it. Otocrwsc. too moda conglomerates, which can presently manipulate the vorisimiUude oí what is presented in ti» press with relative impunity, may bo taking us back to the future of 1984.
* This is an important and frightening book. The new abitfy of computers to 'create* and 'alter* photographs of rest people and scenes that are, in fact. totally false. make the horrors of 1564 .-wvot) pnmt five. Every voter and every consumer of the mass media should rood this book the way they shoud road the warnings on bottles of poison ' Ben H. Bajylikian
1990, 6'h x 9. 170 pp, iHustratad. Indexed, soft cover.
IN OUR OWN IMAGE: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88152)
SUPERSTITION AND THE PRESS
by Curtis D. MacDougall
What would a person know
if during thn past quarter-
century he relied solely on
A moncan newspapers tor his
information atcu! ESP.
astrology, doomsday pretfc-
tions, spintualfcm. ghosls.
poliergwts. exorcism. Bigtoot,
sea serpents, psychic healing,
clairvoyance. UFOs. and
similar 'paranormaF phenom-
ena? Would person Mvo
the facts? What wotfd bo hts
or tier perception of toe world?
Woll, you wouldn't know
much, according to Curtis
MacDougall. Titis book is an
interesting addition to our
'reality* books. Ike The
Psychic Cdd, The Realty
illusion. c< The Unreaity
Industry (elaewhere in this
Galatag). You cam rely on toe mainstream media for anything, and especialy (according to 1N3 oxhaustv© book) lex sensible information about claims ©t supernatural phenomena. This bock documents virtualy ever/ story about paranormal events to appear in American newspapers for more than a generation. Tlie author's conclusion la that newspapers, wW> raro exceptions, trout claims ol supernatural experiences and paranormal phenomena w/ihout questening their validity.
Th© press perpetuates ignorance a rd superstition
19S3. 6x9, 627pp. indexed, softcover.
SUPERSTITION AND THE PRESS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91056)
INTIMATE STRANGERS
The Culture of Celebrity
by Richard Schickel
In this provocative and witty bcok, Richard Schickel examines the
American obsession with lame and how it has shaped, and is shaping
the pubte consciousness From watching television to choosing presi-
donts. Americans are influenced by a 'cull of personalty* that functions
as a substcute for a sense ot national unity. Our betel that we know
cetebritius such as John Lcnr.cn and Jed» Foster is an duson — an
Imaginary intimacy deliberate*/ created by lbs media. Ths illusion,
taken up by a Mark David Chapman or a John Hinckley, can become
extremely dangerous — the delusion of a psychotic mind.
•...all ...printod mattar amounts to is a kind of surrogalo television,
material that attempts io ©Her what might at bast bo thought of as a
detary supplement to oar main meal, which is served to us electroni-
cally and is as convene ntiy available to us as Chicken McNupgelS. But
even if one resists tho notion of tetavlston as a mweabte junk toed
feast, h is. without question, a movoabto neighborhood. since our TV
friends are ever wrth us. no matter how remote our motel rcorn. ro
matter how deep in the woods we haw built our Thoreaurbn cabin. At
tho nick cf switch wo can summon up our crowd, share a warm, warm-
ing moment or two with xhem.’
The reflections of Intimate Strangers on American culture — film,
theatre, television. literature, the arts. Vie press, pep music arid politics
— and various cc'cbnty careers are a chilling warning and a fascinating
look at America's celebrity mania, and how it 6 distorting reality.
198S,SHx8H, 418pp, soft cover.
INTIMATE STRANGERS: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88126)
IN PURSUIT OF SATAN
The Police and The Occult
by Robert D. Hicks
Mutilated anmab. frcfaccd tombstones. Sexual abuse in daycare centers. Is America threatened by a cnmmal conspiracy of Satanists and Dovil-worshippers? in Pursuit of Satan is the result of Robert Hicks* exhaustive study of the obsessive preoccupation of law-enforcement with Satanism end the occtft as a new model of criminalcy. With- cut dismissing the serteusness of vandatem. child abuse, serial murders. and other crimes. Hcks avows that there to no evidence of a nationwide satenc-crime continuum.
Hicks points out that the satanic-criminal model is expedient largely because of its economy, reducing te simple formulas such complex problems as eng Abuse, tenn sucida. ard sexual molestation His metici/ous research utrizes a unique blend of law-enforcement methodology, anthropology. toWoro. history. sociology, and psychology.
Often poody trained therapists and Impatient ’cut cops* have exploited the teclure drcUt as wei as the more lurid television talk shows lo hold audences spellbound with stories of satan'c crime, when no substantial evidence of a cut connection exists. Hicks attributes tho cult-conspiracy theory to beliefs tuctod by conservative Christian tun- damontal^ and to thp ungovensaWe mechanisms of nimpr-panrcs, subrersr.-e mythology, and urban legend
in Pursuit Of Satan rtocumnnt-, examples of pole? fomor.tng fear in thor communities by attributing crimes to satanists, indulging in sheer speculation, and promulgating misinformation through tho news media. He cjxaminos the construclkm of tho satiric ideology among law-enforcement officials and tho phenomenon cf crcduity among police departments and allied professionals n social work, psychiatry, and psychology.
1881, 8x8, 420 pp, indexed, hardcover.
IN PURSUIT OF SATAN: $25.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94175)
THE CROWD
A Study of the Popular Mind
by Gustave Le Bon
THE CROWD
The Crowd & a book that
continues te bo discovered by
those who wish to better un-
derstand how mass psychology
effects investment and money
management strategics. When
individuals are gathered to-
gether in a crowd for purposes of
action, observation proves that,
from the mere tact c4 being
assembled, there result certain
now psychofog'cal characteris-
tics. Among these characteristics
are irrpiXsiveness. the incapacity
to reason, and the absence ol
judgment. The Crowd Is
recognized as a classic in the
study of mass psychology and
has proven to be of special inter-
est te investors.
Chapters indudo: ♦ General Charactensflcs cf Crowds — Psychological law cl Their Mental Unity ♦ Tlx? Sentrnenls and Morality of Crowds ♦ The Ideas. Reasoning Power, acd Imagination of Crowds ♦ A Religious Shape Assumed by all the Ccnvfctions cf Crowds ♦ Remote Factors of the Oplnons a rd Befiefs of Crowds ♦ Tlx? Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds ♦ The Leaders cf Crowds and Their Moans of Persuasion ♦ Limitations of the VariabiHy of the Beliefs and Opinions ot Crowds ♦ The Classification of Crowds ♦ Crowds Tormod Criminal Crowds ♦ Crimnai Judes ♦ Electoral Crowds ♦ and Parliamentary Assemblies.
1887, SH x 8H, 240pp, soft cover.
THE CROWD: 89.95
___________________ (ORDER NUMBER 88183)____________________
SATANIC PANIC
The Creation of a Contemporary Legend
by Jeffreys. Victor
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Jeffrey S Victor
Again and again we arc told —
by ¡cumafste. po'ice. fun-
damentalists. and TV talk show*
— that thorn exists a secret
network of criminal fanatics,
worshippers of Satan, who ere
responsible? tor kidnapping,
human sacrifice, sexual abuse
and torture ot chlkfren. drug-
doalirg, mutilation of animals,
dosccraban cA churches and
cemeteries, pornography, heavy
metal lyrics, and cannibalism.
This popular late is almost
entirely without foundation, bul the
kipond continues to gatficr
momentum, in the teeth of
evidcrcc and S*>-d sense.
Networks of ’chid advocates.’
credulous or s^lf-serving soc'-al workers, instant-expert police officers, and unscrupulous minsters of reigton help to spread the panic, atong with fabricated survhxxs' memoirs passed oil as true dcccunts. and irresponsive broadcast ’investigations.* A classic witch-hunt, com- paraWe to those ot rnodevai Europe, is under way. Innocent victims are smnarod and railroaded.
Satanic Panic uncovers the truth behind tho satanlc cull hysteria, and exposes tha roots cf this malgnant mythology, shewing n detail how unsubstantiated rumor becomes transformed Into publlcly-ac- copted ’tact.’ t898, 6x8, 477pp. itiusfrxted, indexed, soft cover
SATANIC PANIC: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88182)
MEDIASPEAK
How Television Makes Up Your Mind
by Donna Woolfolk Cross
As insidious as Bg Brother's Newspeak is TV's Medtespesk— every limo yea turn on your set. the language (X tetevlson manipulates you without your knowing a. ads you see. the nows you witness. the entertainment ycu enpry. thu politfcal candidates you watch, the game shews. scap operas, ccmedtes. even the sports pregrams — al are taking control of bow you view the world and the wry way you think about what to buy. what to value, how to live, how to fovo.
ITEM: The average American watches over 6 hours ot TV a dry.
ITEM: The Defense Department censors any documentary to which it fumshns assistance.
ITEM: Piib’ic service anti pd lution ads are designed to concn*! the major polfotom.
Fix Items I fro those together and ycu will begin to get the powerful, frightening total pcturo that emerges with eye-oponlng ctanty in McdiaSpcok: How Television Makes Up Your Mind. The awesome ways in which TV tinkers wilh your Utoufiht waves and influences your psyche is the subject of ths lively, provocative freoourrt c( exactly tow Bg Business tofcvraon controls the makng ol opinion in America.
/W 4H x 7,752 pp. soft cow.
MEDIASPEAK: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88150)
MAKING LOCAL NEWS
by Phyllis Kaniss
Why do crimes and accidents asm
more television rows coverage tton major
government initiatives affecting thousands
of people? Why (font most journalists dg
beneath the surface when covering urban
devotopment and policy issues? Making
Local News is a comprehensive tock at
the print and broadcast metfa Uvat Icuoh
us most directly. Ito autlxx explores how
the occoomc interests of media owners,
the professional motives of journaUte. end
tho st rat egos of media-wise politicians
combine to shape the news you see. hear,
and read — and inhucncc tho outcomes of
urban policy.
Kaniss convincingly shows that the agenda of focal news is set. in part, by the reed lu capture more affluent audences and boost circi/atfon or ratings. Important issues arc inevitably dstorted. Kaniss investigates how the shared values of joumatets iniuenco coverage: "fear ol numbers" toads reporters to credUously accept official figures; the "sexiness quotient" bases coverage toward newer proposals; and tho ’Pultzar Prize mode" encourages Investigate reporters to root out private scandals rather than evaluate the wisdom ol poltoes.
1991, 6x9. 243 pp, iHuslrxled, hard cow.
MAKING LOCAL NEWS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88157)
INVENTING REALITY
The Politics of the Mass Media
by Michael Parenti
For most people an issue does net exist until it appears n inn rxrws mod a. How we view issues. indeed, what we even define as an Issue or event, what we see and hear, and what we do not see and hear are greatly def con nod by those who control the ccmmjrlcatfons world. Be n labor unions, poaco protestors, the Soviet Union. uprisings in Latin America, cfocticns. crime, poverty. or detense spending, lew of us know ci things except a? they are deputed in th? m
However, growing numbers of people are becoming Increasingly aware that the meda are neiher objective nor consUtoncoy accurate in theif portrayal ©I things. There Is a growing urdnrstanding that wx> need to deterd oursehres by monitoring and challenging toe misinformation we are fed In Inventing Reality Vx&cwX Parenti demonstrates /xwlhe news mode distorts important aspects of social and political ife and why.
Tcpfos covered Include: • Capitalism and Culture • Image Poldcs • Monopoly Politics ♦ Beyond OrwelPs 1984 • Conditional Autonomy ard Self-Censorship • The IZy'h of Objectivity • The Consumer kJcobgy • Selling ne System • Creating lAoods Left and Right • The Noroxstonco of Imperialism • Methods of Misrepresentation • Government Manpulabon and Coercion • and much more.
Paronti says. "Some readers will complain of this books •ennsidedness J But if it is true that ‘wxj need to hear all ades and n<x just one.’ then at the more reason why toe criticism and information usualy suppressed or downplayed by the American press deserve» tho attention accorded them to the papas to folbw. Far from seeking a dvonrity of views, they defend themsetres from tho first exposure Io such dvnrsity. preferring to leave their ccnvenltorvil poitical opinions unchallenged."
Inventing Reality to an Important challenge to mass media and consensus realty.
f9es, 3'4 x S4, 737pp, Mcxtd. toft cow.
INVENTING REALITY: $18.96
(ORDER NUMBER 88149)
MMl EVE1
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MAKE-BELIEVE MEDIA
The Politics of Entertainment
by Michael Parent!
Through thoughtful analysis
of Specific entertainment pro-
grams from fiamfy sit ccms to
rrocica’ dramas, cartoons, ard
Wockbuster movies, Michael
Parenti, author oi inventing
Ratify, axptans why enter-
tatoment can a'tor our view of
hstory. poktes. race. sox. and
Class dfferoncos. Although pro-
grams may socm apoibcal in
content. Parenti argues that they
have a powerful influence not
only on how \vc dress, talk, and
spard our money, but also on
how wo dnlino social problems
and which toon log cal images we
oirbracc. Viewers who think
what they are watching is "cn>y
ontortatomonf aro low likely lo
challenge prejudices implicit In
the program — Includng militarism, xenophobia, and Othn'c b'QCby —
and more inclined to accept a prefabricated undor^tardng ct toe world
as it is portrayed on toe screen.
Even viewers who dam to be immune to toe obvfous messages of
film and to'ovision will find Parenti's arguments provccative as he urges
US to become mere critical and discriminating about what we choose to
watch.
1991, 9x9, 2S3pp, UiMt/atad, Moxcd, hardcover.
MAKE-BEUEVE MEDIA: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 83155)
THE PERFECT MACHINE
TV In The Nuclear Age
by Joyce Nelson
Television and the Bomb. These
two mass media dominate our age.
Both camo into tho world around tlxs
same time, both Iwo Leun
dcvofcpud by lite same corporate
and government pow-ers. Both are
intertwined in an deotogcel
embrace. Indeed, Ilie whole history
and logic of the television medium
coincide with the development of a
nuclear industry that seems bent on
planetary destruction.
In The Perfect Machine Joyce
Netoon explores this sinister
relationship and the hdden and
bizarre roots of a medium that has
assumed extraordinary, institu-
tionalized power over our daiy Iver..
Connecting content with tnchnclogy,
sho examines the mnd-sot that croatod the new medium a rd the mindset that TV itself helps to create — from TV coverage of bomb tests In 1946 through / Love Lucy to The PTL CY/Oard the Challenger spnco shuttle exp’oslon.
With subject matter ranging from the rd© of TV genres. nows and ratings to relation haz-ards. TV cctorJalsm. psyche health, and the Riling classes. Jo'/'cn Nation provides an octoclk: and controversial gukto through the tangkid world of TV culture, politics and lochndogy. Tho Perfect Machino makes a fascinating addition to the literature on the social and psychological aspects of television, it should appeal to TV addicts and TV haters alike.
1937, 6x9, 137pp, son cover.
THE PERFECT MACHINE: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88137)
SULTANS OF SLEAZE
Public Relations and the Media
by Joyce Nelson
Throughout this mass media
century the public relatons
Industry has been busiy
developing and retiring Its
techniques, helping to unfold the
desired agenda for its corporate
ard government clients: creating
favorable imagos ard repress-
ing tho shadow side of their
actMbes.
Joyce Nelson investigates
recent tactcs added to tho PR
amenai for the ’manufacture of
consent:* psychographic poling,
adcccscy ads. public affairs
lobbying, and news manage-
ment strategies that protect the
status quo. She looks at specific
PR campaigns — including the
new greening of corporate
America and Barter everts to
dean up the nasty Image of Argene'na during the reign of the Generals — which have rightfully named mainstream PR pmctiticnars tho epitaph ’sultans of sleazo.*
Although tho public relations industry is a powerful force in contemporary society, its prácticos have been only rarely examined. Suttons of SXaaz» helps to redress this imbalance, providing a fast ard furious Journey through a political and corporate 'circus of deception.*
1939, 6x9, 164 pp, »on cover.
SULTANS OF SLEAZE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88138)
ECO-BLUFF YOUR WAY TO GREENISM
Tho Guide to Instant Environmental Credibility
by Pau! Spencer Wachtel
end Jeffrey A. McNeely
Green is the worlds trendest cotor. Everybody wants to bo soon to caro about the environment, thereby making groonlsm a genuine grewth industry. George Bush’s spinners posjtonod him as the 'Em’ironmen to I President* ycu can achieve similar wonders by folowng tho simple advice provided in this gude.
Its a lot of trouble, not to say depressing, to realty dig into environmental issues. But in tho hour or so r. will take you to read this guide, you can learn enough of the facts. figure«. and Jargon to convince your Mends and acquaintances that you are as green as John Muir.
Fer the bluffer, the increasing attention given to environmental Issues to both good and bad. On the positive aldo. 4 means that >ou can find an audience anywhere, in tact, you may well find ycursett ¡h me midst of competitive eco-Wutters. providing great opportunities tot cross fertilization. On the down side, most people aVeady know something about the tope. so the chances of your getting caught in an eco-bluff are greater than if you concentrated on bluffing your way through, say. electrical engineering. Even so. the possible rewards far outweigh the risks, and this gddo win suggest ways to escape oven the wiliest imps lakJ by more scphstcalod oco bluffers.
This book laughs at issues th.it am loo Important to bn taken too seriously.
1991, SH x 3H, 190 pp, MuMnr.'od, son cover.
ECO-BLUFF YOUR WAY TO GREENISM: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91062)
CROWDS, GROUPS AND CULTS
The Role of tho Cluster Instinct in Human Behavior
by Barbara Ann Martell
This tock enters the dark realm
of human instincts by identifying
the Cluster instinct in people — a
strong instinctrvo drive to belong io
a group of poeplo. This instinct is
accompanied by behavioral
directives which force people into
predetermined feoings. emotions,
ard responses.
Those responses cause a wide
vanity of behavioral phenomena
and sccal problems. Many pccple
think they are having a religious
oxporwreo when they fad under
tho control of tho Cluster Instinct.
Teenagers have a hgh suicide rate
because of tho power of this
instinct over their behavior.
Evangelical prc.^chors arouse the
Cluster Instinct In their followers
and then m<k them for money. Even the habrt of 'Keeping Up With the Joneses* is a result of the Cluster Instncf. • Loam what mstincth*e torce<s control members of religious cults • Why people rush (town the aisles In tears of joy at reiglous revivals and how arcusod pecple are aUe io ’spoak In tongues* • Why Arabs sing songs of Joy while murdering hostages • An explanation for the occurrence of war between human beings • A new approach for therapists In diagnosing and treating traumatized pa#<x$ controlled by thto insiintt,
Because this book focuses upon instlnctNe droctfves In people, it is unusual In the Held of human behavior. This book Is a welcome stop in the effort to discover Insllnct^e directives in poople end than to explain a wkfe variety of behavioral and social problems wfth them. Crowds, Groups and Cutts leads to the conckiston that people do not have 100% free will In their behavioral decision making. Much of what people do is a result of the pre-pregramrrod behavioral directives of the Cluster Instinct rather that delberate choice on their part.
19S1. SH xSfi, 103 pp. soft cover.
•CROWDS, GROUPS, AND CULTS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85145)
CENSORSHIP
Introduction
Censorship, schmensorship. It seems like every time you tum around, there is yet another blue-nosed prude or other uptight asshole or organization trying to keep other people from reading what they, the censors, are afraid of. This section features books on censorship, past and present don't let yoe/what to read or watch.
IT DID HAPPEN HERE
Recollections of
Political Repression In America
by Bud Schutts and Ruth Schultz
In this fascina’ing
took. two skilled
historians cdlect the
words ol Arrercans
— famous and net
so **011 known —
who have boon
victims of poftbcal
repression in their
own country. The
Incisive. often
poignant recollec-
tions dnm.onslrata
that government as-
saults on rights and
litcrtcs, although
intense ard
spectacular in times
of great national
hysteria, have boon,
in tact, pervasive
during ochor periods
as well.
n Dfd Happen
Hore uroovors a
s-de of America that
to often ignored ex
corcn.ikd cn television and in newspapers. Vivid, first-hard accounts depict the uso of heresy trials, congressional investigating committees, loyalty programs, deportation proceedings, surveillance by secrot political polfce. and Ihlerrment without duo process — all to stem dissent. Thora aro stories here of central figures in celebrated CW iberties cases, ns wall as accounts of those wtto suffered gross injustice In rolathro obscunty. Some believed in socialism, ad.oceted unons cc tho right of blacks to vole. Some opposed chid labor, others tho Internment of Japanese Americans during World War «. alii others America's Invofcomont in the Vietnam War. Many were harassed, physcaty assaiAod. or unjustly imprisoned for their betels. Their >3bs and careers were lost, fortunes spent, and famites broken. But for all their tragedy, these stones aro neither biller nor disheartening. for running ttxough them to. a deep faith in American deals and a tenacious Insistence that they bn upheld.
tt Did Happen Hero- to a provocative, (faturting. and important book that changes our view of America. It is must reading kx everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which tiis country has Loen txjiX.
TM9, 4xS, 44? pp, pMoprephx. herd cover.
fT DID HAPPEN HERE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 5806S)
AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE
IN BOOKBURNING
by James J. Martin
BockbirnTtg is 'In'
these days — the ’In*
thing Io deplore, U»at is.
Unfortunately, there are
enough instances of cen-
sorship in the contem-
porary wexto to justify real
concern as well as fake.
You would be well ad-
vised. however, not to rely
on me American ’con-
science media.’ with Its
ritual Banned Books
Weeks and sporadic gush
of speech ©«.’readings-
/articles supposed'/
deploring all ccnsorshp,
for the tnxi tale ol past
ard contnuirvg suppres-
sion of books n America.
From them, you might get
the impression that aB
bookbumers are 'right-
wingers’ and/or reigwus
fanatics. Uchlng to gel that copy of Lady Cbattcdoy's Lover off the Bbrary shelf.
But have there been, aro there could there possibly be? — Obere! bookburners in America? Was there Indeed a time whan tho paragens of the open mind’ thorr^ch'es started tellng people just how far. ard no farther, tttey COtfd property open their minds? Ard doer, ccnsorshp •n America, to bo efloct/ve, require outright bans, or just... the Uberaf nod?
In the, took. cnc of America's greatest social historians welcomes you to a dlMurbng and ludicrous chapter h American intellectual and poltcal history. It is tho hrs! treatment ever of the American government's — and, as at developed, the mainstream American moda's — attempt during World War I to prevent the citizenry from reading certain books about the origins of the war ard related issues. From tha start ing point ot iho SncrWiry of War’s Wto krawn circctivc of August 31, 1918, which banned marry btfos as ’Gorman propaganda* from Army camp libraries, Marbn takas us on a grand tour of ths American book publishing Inqiisition of those days and since.
k Special treat Is tho IndUston, as an appendix, of Dr. Martin’s celebrated 1954 assay, A Beginner's Manual for Apprentice Bodcbumers, ropubashed hero in its complete. orignaJ form. Read it. and ycull team abo.it somn nw/’underground books’ arxd some ol U>s real scco-pd itical controversies of our time.
SH xCH, 13?PP, lodoxod, »eft cover.
AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE
IN BOOKBURNING: $8.50
(ORDER NUMBER 58063)
LIBERTY DENIED
The Current Rise of Censorship In America
by Donna A. Demac
50 WAYS TO FIGHT CENSORSHIP
Liberty Dented provides enough
historical formation cn censorsh'p
to put current events ¡nio a larj^er
cortext. but conciliates on the last
decade. surveying the Reagan and
Bush adnirfeuatiortf assault cn
Itaadam of inlwmatiwi and
expression.
Chapters include: • BANNED IN
THE U.S A. (Censership in
America's Scbocte and Libraries) •
PRECARIOUS PROSE (The Threat
of Libel Suhs) • THE GUARDIANS
OF DECENCY (The Pornography
Debate in tto Print. Broadcast and
Music Industries) • BIG BROTHER
AND THE HOLDING COMPANY
(Censorship Insklo the Corporation
and the Mmfla) • STRANGERS IN
THE NIGHT (Government Surveillance and Harassment) • THE
TRUTH STOPS HERE (Government Secrecy and Direct Censorship) •
CENSORS IN THE SHADOWS (Bureaucratic Cortrcfc tn the Press,
Moda and Travrt) ♦ A WALL AROUND THE IVORY TOWER
(Restrictions on Academic and Scaontif.c Research) • THE
PERSISTENCE OF CENSORSHIP IN THE POST-REAGAN ERA (The
White House and Congress Carry It On) • Ard nvore.
Each of those areas ot censorship ts ol concern when coriuctorcd
alcno; taken togovux. they revert a frightanng pattern.
1990, S x 9, 214 pp. indexed, toft cover.
LIBERTY DENIED: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58069)
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THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT
DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK
by Henry Board and Christopher Cerf
Wetoome lo Ilie nineties. But you bettec watch wtrat you say. M ycuYe rol polccaiy correct. rot even your pot — oeps. your — will love you anymore.
Consider this list. If you use any of the words in Ito left hand column, ytx/ra in danger rt being written oh as hopelessly ableist. Ageist. Ethnocentric or Eurocentric. Hegemonic- Hctaroscxist, Iago centric, lockist. patriarchal, or phalooantac. Racist, sexist, sacrist, or specicsist. Or— worse still’ — all ol the above.
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But it may not be too late! Here, in the ccmprchensh’c. exhaustively researched reference work. pu can f.nd cut exact?/ what ycu can say. what you cant say. who says so, and why. Yes. whether you're an oppressor or a victim (or maybe both!}. The OfficialPdHicaliy Correct Dictionary and Handbook is Cho book — sorry, the processed Iron carcass for ycu! BONUS: Special Bureaucratically SuiteWe (BS) section for use n mo workpiece’
WZ S'4 xS, ffiCpp. Motfreted, xoh cover.
THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT
DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94211)
50 Ways to fight censorship
& Important Facts to Know About the Censors
by Dave Marsh
Do you went someone to te’i you
what books ycu can read? What
songs you can Eaten to on the radio?
vmat television stows you can welch,
or what movies you can see? What
magazines ycu can buy at Ito locol 7-
11?
SC Ways To Fight Censorship is
actual*/ a rather lightweight book, but
is tody needed all the seme. M &
meant io be a handbook lor people
ted up with Ito growing excesses of
censorship — poepte who son ro.il
dangers in limiting free expression,
and want to do something about it. tot
don't know where to begin, in this little
book. Dave Marsh outlines some
ampta Ihngr. that everyone can do to
help preser/e First Amendment freedoms.
After reveaii ng annoyhg examples of censorship ¡n mute. literature, and the visual arts. Marsh goes on to identify relgous lan.ibcs. nght- wing zealots, povcnrnenl otficals. a rd the t<q businesses who back them, and explains how these alliances promote ccnsorshp. (The listings rt procensorship groups are some of the most valuable parts ol the book.) With darity. conviction and humor, Marsh cutlhcs some things — broad, specific, ard creative — itot concerned dSzens can do to fight back, and provides an extensive list cf local ard national resources for action.
SO Ways To Fight Censorship is the first how-to manual for people who want lo respond to Ito growing 1st of challenges lo First Amendment freedoms. Ths positive, straightforward action guide ¡nducfcs: • Reports cn the recent censorship battle over music, filcrafurc, film, television, and the fine arts, as well as nows coverage of the Gulf War • Compmbcnsh'e — and. at limes, shoeing — information efcxxrt pro-censorship forces, including indvidtols, organizations, nnd elected ottoiils • Things you can do. on your own cr with oltors, to nght back aganst ccnscxshp. from boycotting products made by companies that fund the censors to staling an anti-censorshd petition campaign • Extensive Ists of organizations and resouxes.
Dudng 1990. Ito American Ltorary Association's Office of totetiectual Freedom reported over a thousand attempts to ban books from Ibratos and schools, ard censors made countless attacks on popu'ar cubure and the arts.
ra9!f SU xSM, 144pp, tHustratcd, softcoier.
50 WAYS TO FIGHT CENSORSHIP: S5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94179)
BOOKBANNING IN AMERICA
Who Bans Books? — And Why
. by William Noble
There am more than one thousand bookbanning Incidents In Amarice each year and thoso are criy tto onas recorded try Ibranos and eduoatore.
Censorship has bedeviled free expression in the U.S. freen Ito time of Ito Pilgrims. This book roverts tow and why it happens, in spr.e of tto Fk?t Amendment. Through dramatualicn, anecdotes, Intarviaws, and actual trial Iranscnpts. BookBannlng in America shows how censorshp affects poetics, reigon. soda’ statue, education, and pubishng Significant cases of bookbannng are dscussod. from thn John Petar Zarvyir seditious-1 tort case of 1734 to the infamous atton-pts on Salman Rushdie.
The urge to ban bcoks surfaces at every Im/ol ol cur society: cdilcxs and publishers, the religious right. mlUanta of every strpe. aM *he legislative and executive branches of government have ell been a threat to any who lake free expresión for granted.
1990, SHxSH, 269 pp, indexed, soft corer.
BOOKBANNING IN AMERICA: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94200)
FREE SPEECH FOR ME — BUT NOT FOR THEE
How the American Left and Right
Relentlessly Censor Each Other
by Nat Hen toff
Ths book is needed more than ever today, at a tmo of appaling assauks on expression not coy 0/ traditional opponents on the poiiticai right — those offended by what they consider obscene or radcal or otherwise taboo — but a'so from the left radical fomriisls ca'liivg for tee SMppre&?lyh Qi pornography, mentors cf minorities banning language they consider psychologically damaging, ard various other proponents of so-calod polbcel correctness. Those more reccnty minted censors are now to be found within such former bastions of free speech as the universities and even th© American Civil Liberties Union.
Ths urgency important tock is rot a mere collection cf legal cases; neither is it a history of free expression or a polemic from either felt or right. It Is rather a wkterangng report on — and analysis of — th© marry kinds of ccnllicls ttvoughout ouf country between the iluston that this ts a land o! unfettered free speech ard the reality when that llkislon is acted upon, it is a book of man)* stones — of the continuing efforts to deprive students of Mark Twain’s masterpiece, HvcMoterry Finn, and of attempts to deprive other students of the right not to read books that olfend them; of tee wetHntenToned lutings that result in speech codes and loyalty oates; of the widespread lack of understanding, over th© years, of such base concepts as the nwketylaoe of xfcas and of th© overriding value of untrammeled speech.
Free Speech For Me —But Not For Thee is a book about tear, duplcity, some courage, a tot of hypocrisy, and a good deal of irony. It is a book of dramatic confronteliens, of people acting, for better cr for worse, on on© of the most important demostx; battlefields. And above all. It presents hopeful. practical suggestions for ways toward saving perhaps the most fragi-© of our cherished freedoms.
1992. 6x9, 413pp. Indexed, hardcover.
FREE SPEECH FOR ME — BUT NOT FOR THEE: $25.00
(ORDERNUMBER 94212)
A CHILLING EFFECT
The Mounting Threat
of Libel and Invasion of Privacy Actions
to the First Amendment
by Lots G. Forer
On one side, a person or organization is bringing a Ifctf suit; cn the other side. a party is being prosecuted for Ibef To both these partte^. ibel laws in ths country have become an unworkable system. providing ittte protection. In ccunBoss cases, verdicts Involving mllicns of dollars have boon relumed. with lawyers and judges Ining up behind confusing and conflicting statements of the Supreme Court. As the sheer number of cases has increased. toe cost of insurance and defense (against often frivolous actions) has skyrocketed. tiwoatenirvg tee freedom of comment that ¿a essential to an open society.
From ffte author's introduction:
’Litigation concerning First Amendment rights te Quaiiiatbety different from other lawsuits. Atncugh defamatton cases are treated Ike any other evil claims txouf/it by a palnbrt against a defendant, they involve the Interests- of aB of us. But the piAlk Is not represented. Even In actions brought by the government against authors and publishers for injunctions and crimrial prosecutions, the government attorney docs not represent the pubic but rather tew? positian of th© administration then in power, in such cases, tho government seeks to ban publcalicn cr purush tho defendants. The pubic interest is in having free and untrammeled access to information and entertarimont. No one speaks fix tee peopto.
This ¿s a book on a vital subject: the chilFng effect on free speech of civil lawsuits. Write techncaiy speafcng. lawsuits are mt ’censorship.* they pose just aa great a threat to our precious First Amendment.
19ST, 6x9, 40f pp, indexed. aoft corer.
A CHILLING EFFECT: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94195)
GAUNTLET #2
Exploring the Limits of Free Expression
Edited by Barry Hoffman
THs la the second lasuo of Gauntlet. Trio first issue was banned in Canada (Uko many books carried by Locmponcs), stopped from reaching Inmates in prisons, tod by a major book chain it was too ’da mg' and to go more ’mainstream* to to considered again, and ignored by a great majority of ’mainstream* anti-censoriZiip organizations. Ctoarty, Gauntlet ruffled seen© feathers by reprinting censored matonal. Mol so odd. as by its very nature censored material has offended somebody — whether fundamentalists or knee-jerk Iterate who ar« not as socuro In thoir bolrafe as they would have us think.
Rather than shy away from presenting controversial censored material. this issue of Gauntlet tenders even more: Englands Hot Box rape comic strip, self-censorshp of Raw and the works of Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz. As an annual, Gauntlet's challenge is to present a unique perspective on issues that have been analyzed to death.
Abo included in this issue of ¿ta/rtfWis a debate on ’Son of Sam* laws (laws that (orb’d a criminal to profit from writing about hte crimes), articles on the MPAA and the new NC-17 movo rating, articles and interviews on 2 Uve Crew and the music scene, censorship in comics, censorship ard the visual arts, an interview with Ray Bradbury (AJI cur magazines today are beginning to took UKe USA Today or People; moronic at the lowest level.), banned book week, censorship In Ch’cago and Canada, and much, mixh more.
Gauntlet ccntans more then 70 arttotos. features, stories, interviews. and corrmon taries — Gauntlet belongs on too booksltolf Of anyone wto loves freedom of expression.
Editor Barry Hoffman says. lf anfreensorshp forces are to combat toe rvjoey and dojt of tlx» censors they will have to take a page from groups ike Donald Wikfmon's American Family Association and form coslitions that can match the censors body tor body and doirv tor dollar. (Which b what those wtv> support a woman’s right to abortion ksamod toe hard way.) They must put thoir own agendas and potty jealousies aside and work together. The real censors am not too Josso Holms’ of toe worto who nvike a pubic spiash and Won go away. but Insidious groups Heo Wldmon*s AFA who burrow from within. With money, fanatical folowors around tho country and sophisticated pubic relations campaigns, tho AFA is pressuring corporate America into passively accepting consorsh'p. Wikfmon dcosn't got tho headlines. but he's a hell of a lot more effective... and dangerous. Gauntlet's first issue was a primer — a sometimes simpSfied overview — on free speech. VAth this issue we've more skilfully opened up the Pandora’s box to expose too breadth and scope of censorship.
1991, 6*9, 399 pp. litueiralod, got! corer.
GAUNTLET #2: $3J>5
(ORDER NUMBER 94176)
GAUNTLET #3
Exploring tho Limits of Free Expression
Politically (In) Correct Issue
Edited by Barry Hoffman
This is tho third issue of Barry Hoffman's Gauntlet, a welcome periodical in those repressive Uros. This issue ncludos: ’Political and Corporate Ccnsorshp in tha Land of tho Froo.* by John Shrtoy; ’Dnsort Storm Confidential.* by Ed Cafasso; ’Top Ton PC Mnd.i Mouths.* try Tori Wingcndeir; ’Disturbing I ma pas: Cartoonist John Cal'ahan.* by Miko Baker, "Your PC Quotient/ by Richard Dominick; Top Ten Censorship Stories of 1991.* by John Rosenman; and dozens mere articles, stories. comb and features. Gauntlet 33. Ike // & /7, is well worth reeding.
1992, 6x9. 339pp, Mugtrated, soft corer.
GAUNTLET 93: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94193)
GAUNTLET #4
Media Manipulation
Edited by Barry Hoffman
This Issue of Gauntlet focuses on Med&McHtyulationMd Includes:
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Ftoyd Brown's drty tricks and hte comccton to thn Bush campaign
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The mode's pandonng Io Black revolutionaries
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Gays and AIDS as portrayed in the mainstream press
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Tho Proliferation of latlod journalism Also inckjdod are:
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An interview with Bobbie London, fired for his Popeye abortion comic strip (with panels from the strip)
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All about the Eclipse Serial Killer trading cards
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Censorship and the community press
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How not to begin a career in ratio
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Candidates with no balls
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And much, much more.
1992, 6x9. 160 pp. Muetreted, soft corer.
GAUNTLET t4: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94198)
GAUNTLET #5
Porn In the U.S.A.
Edited by Barry Hoffman
Wo are very glad to see Ukj publication of Gauntlet 3S— the focus this lime is Porn in the USA. What Is porn, you ask? Pornography, unike cbscency. has no legal definition, ard BUI Paige of Playboy and Roberta Gregory [Haughty &tsj discuss that very question. The debate intensifies with Nina Hartley. Canada RoyaTe. Annie Sprinkle. Dian Hanson and BIB Margoto defending porn and Phy«s Schatty, Jim Brammet (Crusaders for Christ), among ochers, pointing out Its evils, irs a healed debate ycu went ward to miss.
Gauntlet /^is not aB about porn, though. It btows the whistla on Sp&e lee; Whet you see is rot necessariy whal you got with thn director of MOcoim X. David Aaron Clark, mana grig editor of Screw exposes Medonna .xs an SAM fraud in a piece sure to sbr passions.
Gauntlet 65 also has a major invostgatwo report on corporate ox- trxtion of thn arts: Dsncy. DC and Marvel Comics intmidalion of artists who parody Superman, Mickey Mouse. Spidcnnan. and others.
Also fcaturud are an (xignal ChwAy tho Cal Dancer, features cn artiste Robert Crumb and HR. G&ef. as well as fiction by Thomas Tcssiser. Heavily illustrated, this is perhaps tho most controversial Issue oi Gauntlet to date. It s unlkofy that detributors will carry it in England and Canada far fear of seizure, and some bookstore chains may aho become squeamish.
1993. 6 x 9. more then 200pp.
HiuxlrgM, xofl cor or.
H5: $9S5
(ORDER NUMBER 94214)
GAUNTLET #1
Exploring the Limits of Free Expression
Edited by Barry Hoffman
This is the premiere issue of Gauntlet. tie controversial zire exploring the limits of free expression in present-day America. From the introduction by Editor Barry Hoffman:
Today. in this oouilry of ours, where freedom is vaUed above all else, there's no mass-appeal general-ireereal magazine on censorship and the Iim4s of free expression. No magazine that pubUhcr. censored material. No magazine that allows both skies to be heard — that acbvoly oncojr.ignr. those who would lirr.t frocdrxn of expression to hit you with their best shot Ho magazine that encourages dialogue as opposed to preaching to the converted. No magar.no that includes original fiction from manstream to horror dealing with threats to First AmcndTvint rights...
•Be forewarned, though. You may find Gauntlet outrageous. Irritating... even bVisphomous. tt you’re uncomfortable with some of the material In this magazine — if we touch □ nerve its by design. Gauntlets not tor the squeamish. There’s probably scmeWing. In fact, to offend errory'one. Alter reading through this issue, even First Amendment purists may ponder if there should. indeed, be limits to free expression...
'Because these matters are sensitive. thery sbouVte talked about... loud and clear. The worst form of censorship, after ail. is so*« censorship. Too often magazine publishers, writers, artsu. television networks, and atf/ertlsers are overty cautious about oftonaing the political In-crowd. Rather than express our tnxi feeings.. wn adapt a sett -imposed gag rule. Wo avoid controversy by sanrtizng cr avcidng certain topc^ altogether, whether conscious^ or not.
'Sett-censorship ts the most dangerous form of censorship because it snatches from others the opportunity to judge our work and give us needed feedback. Wo thus become set in oir ways, complacent. and bland. Want evidence? Just look at a typical pnmo tmc television show.*
7«V, 6H x 11, 114pp, Uiustsvi+d. softcover.
GAUNTLET fl: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94186)
GAUNTLET #6
Edited by Barry Hoffman
The theme of Gauntlet 96 is 'Black Racism.* but much else ts covered. Included are art'tfes cn the Rodney King Trial, Tho Many Shades of Blackness,* ’The Necessary Racist.* rovorso racism, and black racism. Also included are articles cn the Rdlgour. Right, pornography. ’Breaking the Chans of Selt-Censorshp.* and orotic art. Three articles cn corrie censorshp, 'Our Eroding Privacy.' The Most Personal Public Secret of All.* as wol as book and comic reviews, and much, much more.
1993. 6x9. 176 pp. Uiustnted. softcover.
GAUNTLET *6: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94240)
SEX. SIN, AND BLASPHEMY
A Guide to America's Censorship Wars
by Marjorie Heins
From the author's Introduction:
In 1969 strange things began to happen in these United States. Musioans a rd music stere owners were charged with crimes tor singing songs and selling tapes and records. The U.S. Congress passed a resolution condemning a major museum for permitting a display that 'encourages disrespect tor the flag' Tho federal arts fundng agency was accused of b’asphemy for assisting artists whoso work dealt with religious themes A U.S. senator tore to shreds a reproduction of one of the same artists works cn the Senate floor.
•Sex. sin. ard blasphemy became major political issues — in tho real world tut also, increasingly, in the wedd of art and imagination. Symbols, words, ideas, and images were being blamed for socqI Ills. If orty America could r.d itself of al thnr.o pesky artists, all that crude and irreverent and sometimes Ootani popular entortanment. surely our social problems weak! fade away.
"And so 'comsorship' became a key word h political debate. Was it censorship when the National Endowmont lor the Arts caved in to pot teal pressure and daclincd to fund artists whoso work was controversial? Or was It simply a refusal to sponsor the work — a sensible polbcal choke? Was rt censorship to remove books from school libraries because of dirty words, mention of sexual matters, unpatriotic sentmonts, or descriptions of the supernatural? Or was it Simply an appropriate exercise of discretion by school boards? Was it censocshp to charge musicians, filmmakers, museum directors — or nude dancers — wkh obscenity or other crimes? After all, 'obscene' works aren’t protected by tho First Amendment.'
Chapters include:
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•Obsconty’z Tho First Amendment's Sccond-dass Citizen
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Movies: Censoring the Dream Factory
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Conscrshp by Suggestion: The Problem of Government Threats
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*Tho Devil's Musk:': The Oddly c/ Warning Labels on Art
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Getting Naked Censorship of Nudity to Art. Theater, and Dance • The Taxpayers' Money*: The Question of Government Fundng • Tho DreadtMJ P Word: Pornograplv/
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Blasphemy. Subversiveness, and Other Sihs
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Ard more.
Marjorie Heins' Sox. Sin, And Blasphemy is must reading for anycno «ilorested in censorship and freedom of expression.
1993. SU x6U. 224pp. h\doxed, softcover
SEX. SIN. AND BLASPHEMY: $11.96
(ORDER NUMBER 85174)
WHAT JOHNNY SHOULDN’T READ
Textbook Censorship in America
by Joan DelFattore
WHAT
JOHIY
^¡lOULDVT
mo _
.HU IIIIHIIIIM ’
In this luc-1 disturbing, and
provocative bcok, Joan
DelFattore oilers a behind-tha-
scenes view ot the ways in
which speclal-intaroat groups
influence the content o4
textbooks u&cd n puttie and
private schools through-out tlx?
country.
Efforts lo censor elementary
and high school textbooks have
proMcratad in the past decade.
Most challenges have COW
from uRra-ccnservative acth’<$l8
who oppose evolution. racial
and ethnic equally, non-
tradilicnal gender rotas,
pacifism, and a host of ether
Issues that contradict their
rriigous. poitcal. or social
views. Other protests orignate
wch ritraiberal activists whose goal is lo olminato all negative or
tradtional descriptions of racial, ethnic, relgtous. or gender groups,
without regard for accuracy Of historical context.
DelFattore focuses on recent federal lawsuits nvol/ng attempts to censor or ban textbooks In biology. gcotogy. history, homo economics. Kerature. psychology, rnadng. and social stades. She vrridly recreates the Stary behnd each lawsuit, describing how poHcaiy sophtottoatad national organizations turn local controversies into natonaty puMcizod court cases. Sho also discusses how txith uftralberal and Utraconservative groups in Texas and Caltornia pressure their stalo Boards of Education to demand that sectons of taxlbooks tx> eliminated cr rewritten as a oordilicn of seeing llw books in those stales, itaausc California and Toxas are such important markets, says DcIFattore. jxjbiishnrs almost always make the requxed ch.ingos m the books, which arc then sokl nationwide. As a result. Iha content cl American textbooks is heavily influenced by potecal and economic forces.
DdFatlore's investigation has profound implications not only (or education but also for freedom of thought n the larger society. Her book is must rearing for parents, teachers, students, school administrators, lawyers. Itorarians. and other concerned citizens.
1992, 6x9, 224pp, indaxad, hard cover.
WHAT JOHNNY SHOULDN’T READ: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER »4197)
FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
U.S. Civil Liberties in Times of War
by Michael Un field
Press censor&Np... loyalty oaths... people’s tribunals . jailing ot opposition learfers... concentration camp«... denials of passports... government spying . states of emergency... We asscctato those violattons of basic democratic principtes with toteltarian governments. Yef Itto Unted States itself has resorted to just SiKh dk.gal and unoonstitizorul actxins during every one of ocr wars.
Most people In Iha Untied States view unoonstitubonal restrictions on civil liberties during wartime as the exception. Biey are not. such restrictions are the rule. Dunng each war. and for periods often lastng as fong as tan to fifteen years before and after' OSCh Wftf. tha Oh’d lOorttes of U.S. citizens have been trampled unde ri cot as d lie ConstllUXin dd not exist. Rather titan being an exception, war era violations of civil liberties in iha United States are (he accepted norm of our government.
’Freedom Under Fire e □ ively ard valuable poce ol history, carefuty researched, and fUI of iasdnatng. troubling information about the state of civil Iberties In our country.’
— Howard Zinn, author ol A People's Hisiory Of The Un\'odStales
1990, SH x th, 302pp. Indexed, aoft cover.
FREEDOM UNDER FIRE: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58067)
THE HACKER CRACKDOWN
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
by Bruce Sterling
Bruce Starting has writton and edited many popular books of 'cyberpunk* fiction, including The Difference Engine, which ha co-wrote with William Gibson. Tho Hacker Crackdown, his first week of nonfiction. explores tho very real world of hackers and high-tech G-men battling for.territory on tho electronic frontier.
What do you got when you attach a computer to a phone line? Atttoftfpg 10 Staring, you get something called 'cyberspace': an eoclrcnto r»nlhcrwcdd accessed through corrptXecs where people swep information. This space is used mostly by commercial Interests, whether It's phone companies transmitting calls or banks wiring money. It's also used by a now breed of adventurers.’hdCkers,’ who trawl cyberspace In search of challenges. Moetfy. that challenge Is simply to pick the electronic locks used by the commercial Interests.
The Law came lo cyberspace on May 9. 1990. On that day. tho U.S. Secret Service launched 'Operation SundnvM.' a crackdown cn 'illegal* computer actr.tbes. And ’Operation Sundevtl" launched Bruce Sterling’s investigation into what Law & Order moans n cyberspace. Staring found hmsell drawn Into tho subject, ard wo Ye ver/ grateful he dd. Hs combination ol joumattstic persistence and Iva rd-edged ebQjenco provides us wilh a book ttiafs timely, ¡ntellgent and Impossible to put down.
Them Is a fine lino between protecting someone's property and trampang someone rise's rights. In The Hacker Crackdown Storing chromates tha way law enforcement has prosecuted computer crime with a wide net. confiscating the equipment of anyone suspected of hackng. There is reason lo believe the poltoe crackdown Is bong pushed by phone companies and other business and miliary Interests that are too choap or stupid to secure their oati computers.
Blanks to the hacker crackdown and other high-tech troubles, a merfeling force has come to tho rescue of electronic rights. The Electronic Frontier Fouxtollco. foinded by Mitch Kapcr and Oliver civil IbertsridOi. hns Irtod to bring some measure of intellipence to the debate O’rer computer law while mobilizing those who want to see cyberspeco kept open. Loompancs readers will appreciate Staring's look at the EFF.
The Hacker Crackdown is an important and enjoyabta gude to the battle between electronic ccps and rebters — ard tlx? milions ot computer users caught in the croesfxe.
1992, 6x9, 323pp. Indexed, hardcover.
THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58083)
THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
The Basic ACLU Guide to Free Expression
by Joe! M. Gora, David Goidgcrgcr,
Gary M. Stem, and Morton H Halperin
To exercise our rights, wo first must know wltat they are This informative now volume provdos the average citizen with an easily accessible description ot tho Constitution's provisions, legal doctrinar,. ard laws which govern protest activities in toe United Stales. Using a quesGon-and nnswnr format, the authors explore toe First Amendment rights of IndMduals. particularly activities to effect public pdicy and pohtcal change By discussing tho Freedom of Information laws which guarantee thn pubic’s rght to information concerning governmental activses. tb^y carafi/iy examine how governmental interference can bo circumvented Most importantly, they focus cn our Ccnstilirttonal nghts to free speech ard how those rights limil ttie abikty of government to suppress protest and d^sont. To illustrate ttieir pointe, they draw upen numerous current events such as Rag bucn'ng and censorshp of tha arts.
Because it is not only government that interferes with our right to voice dissent, marry of Uto questions doai with our nght to pretest corporate actions as well as those of private organizations.
1991, 4Hx 7, 244pp, toft cover.
THE RIGHT TO PROTEST: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94194)
Reality Creation
Introduction
“Objective" reality may be outside you. but your ex-
perience of it is in your mind. Your mind creates the
world you live in. Your perceptions, your attitudes, your
willingness to experiment and take chances — of such
is "reality" made. And it is at! under your control. If you
take the time to understand and apply what you will
learn from these amazing books, you will bo much more
in control of your personal reality.
'Libertarianism* starts with you! Liberate yourself first!
HOW REAL IS REAL?
by Pau! Watziawick
If you like the ’head’ stuff in tho Loorrpanlcs Catatag (Leary’s & Wilson's books. Prindpia DtocoMh. eic.). then you will like this. Evan If your are turned off by th* sort of thing, you still ought to read this chatiengng and thought-provoking book, because tho ideas presented here are ot tho utmost significance Io those Interested in individual Sb- erty.
How Rea! to Real?' about the
way In which communcalicn creates
what wo call •reality.’ Ai first glance,
this may socm a most peculiar
statement, lor surely ’realty is what
U. and communication is merely a
way of expressing or explaining it.
AW 4?/ xtf? As tho book shows, our everyday trad floral kfoas of realty
arc delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily U-.sbs shoring up. even at tho considorubta risk of trying Io force facta Io tit our definition of realty instead of vico versa. And the most dangerous illusion of all Is that there is only one reality. What there are. In fact, are many different versions of roaftty. some of which are contradicloty. biA all of which ere tto results of communication, and nd reflections of eternal
objective truths.
The book Is divided into three parts. Part I deals with confusion; that Is. those breakdowns of communication and attendant distortions that wise Involuntarily. Part II examines the somewhat exotic concept of by which Is meant such knots. Impasses and delusions a* may como nbcut in tino voluntary precess of actively seeKng or dn- Iberetety withholding information. Part Hl is devoted to five fascinating problems tnvoivod in oslabfching communication in areas where nooo is as yet in existence — that is. of creating a reality that can useluTy be shared by human and other beings, especial*/ animals and extraterrestrials.
A fascinating, chalcnghg. and IboughC-provoNng book — read it and SOO?
1979, 290 paces, softcover.
HOW REAL IS REAL?: $9.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88027)
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
If you're a stranger and afraid in a world you never made. then you should read The Sochi Construction Ot Reality. No one Ikes in a world ho nover made — we all create our own realties. We all live m worlds we mado ourselves, and can change and modify them to suit our purposes. This book is a good foiow-up to How Real is Real?. and in fact was recommended highly In that book
A profound. comptax and challenging bock. The Sochi Construction of Reality covers the foHowtng topics: • Tbs probtem o* the sociology of knnwtadgn • The foundations of knowledge in everyday Ute • Tho realty of every
day life • Social interaction xi everyday Ho • Language and knowledge In everyday life • Society as objoctr/o realty • Inslilutonalzatton • Sodmontatnn and tradition • Rotas • Sccpo and modes of tastilutional- Izaton • Legitimation • Origins of symbolic universes • Conceptual machinerios of universe-maintenance • Social organization for uni- verM-mainlonanco • Society as Subjective reality • lAtWhatotiWI Of realty • Primary socialization • Secondary soclslizafon • Maintenance and transformation oi subjective reality • Internalization and scoai structure • Theories about identity • Organism and Idnntty • And more.
Tho Sochi Construction of Reality ¡3 more comptax and drtticii: to read than How Real is Rest?, as it sboUd ba. since the scope and depth of the Berger and Lixkmann book is brooder and deeper than How Real to Heal? Highly recommended for those interested in our Inner space’ books.
229 pp, Indexed. sort cover.
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88028)
INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY
A Humanistic Perspective
by Peter L. Berger
This tocto and lively book, punctuated with witty. Incisive examples. Is actoressed bom to the layman who wants to know what sociology is na about and to sludants and soootog^ts who are concerned about the larger Implfcattons and dimensions of their discipline. Berger, co-author oi Tho Social Construction Of Roaaty places sedotogy In the humanist trsdtion and recognizes It as a ’peculiarly modem, pocUl.irty timely iorm of critical thought.*
Without underestimating the rnpcrtanco of soenUfic proocdjrer. n sociology, ho points out its essential affinity with history and phlosophy, srd he shows how eocidcgy in this sense con corrtnbuto to a fuller awareness of tf»e human world.
Uriike puppets, Borger notes, ’we have the possibility of stopping in cur movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act ies Ihe first stop towards freedom.’
Professor B6*ger discusses this ccnscbusness in detail, in rotation to one’s own biography. to the operations of social institutions. and to tho makeup of an individual as a product of these institutions. An excellent □ddzon to our Reality Creation Ine.
5% xA 909 pp, toft cover.
INVITATION TO SOCIOLOGY: $8.96
(ORDER NUMBER 83151)
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
by Mstectypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ra von hurst
is it a joke disguised as a re Won or a region disguised as a joke? What is Discordiarism???
Principle Discordta tho official bibto of the most relevant religion over concofrod. A kigordary underground classic. ft truly contains ’Absolutely EvorytfUng Worth Knowing About Absolutory Anything.* Heron is rovoatod Tho Law of Fives, The Gospel Accocdng to Prod. The Epistle to tho Panmclds. Tho Five Apostles cf Eris & Who They Be. The Sacred Chao. The Book of Uterus, and more... AB tho secret knowledge of Disccctfanism is revealed at last for your enlightenment, confusion a rd entertainment.
‘We kxk at tho wxxid windows on which /trw been drawn gids (concepts). Differed phtosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of pocpTo with rather simitar grids. Through a window wo view chaos, and rctato it io tho porits on our grids, and thereby understand if. Tho ORDER is in tho GRiD. That is tho Anoristic Principle. *
—The Sacred Chao
Godotan, ncn-Anstololan. holistic and hilarious. Dscordiarism is tho religion for those scrowod-Lp times. Loompanics Unlimited proudy presents cne of tho grea I books of our time: Principle Discord!a.
1SSDedition, 5K xSH, tOOpp, fftustrxtad, »oftcovir.
PRINCIPLA DISCORDIA: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 83025)
THE UNREALITY INDUSTRY
The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood
and What It is Doing to Our Lives
by fan I. Mltrott and Warren Bennis
Has the USA become coe big game show? In the years since WWH. bvo major forces have shaped our dostiny as a nation. Tty* first Is tbo overwhelming complexly of a work! that is now total»/ interconnected by mass moda. I ho soccnd is tho proliferation cf endless amounts of mindtoss entertainment into every sector of society. The Unreality Industry argues porauasr/aly that wo as a aoctot/ have rejected the challenge Io make sense of a world grown moro difficult to understand, and have takon ttgM from reality, preferring tho tnvialzathn of our lives. We rely on the mass media to Invent fantasies that sootio our fractured egos, because realty has become too ccmptox for us to bear.
PoWcs. tor example. We’d rather design, manufacture and sefi poUttoal cantfcfetes the way we do soap, then face the real issues pressing down on us aa a nation. Under the guise of entertainment «to information. TV Is In the business of caricaturiztog. Irr.-akzing and thereby demeaning our lives. Geratoo. Donahue. Oprah Winfrey and Morton Downey. Jr. are not aberatlons. They accurately represent the naw standard for dealing w4h our problems.
The Unreality Industry is for everyone who is ccoocmcd that America has become a parody of its former self, and realizes that it is ou* task to make sense cut of a naticn that lx» grown more chaotic and con'used as a result of mass communicaticn. Tiw beck gees boyznd Vaditicnal criticisms of the media by showing that it is part of a much larger phenomenon, the invention and selling of unreefty on a gigantic scale. The Unreality Industry b an important book — highly r»x>3mnxmdcd.
1939, Sx9, 9S4pp, chsrff 3 tables, Indexed, hardcover.
THE UNREALITY INDUSTRY: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88124)
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE
by Ervlng Goff man
'A3 the wood's a stage, and everybody pisys a part.. '
Ervlng Gottman Is widely regarded as the most original new force in nvxfem soootogy. Tho Presentation of Seif fn Everyday Life, ccnstoemd hs corzmi work, ts a valuable companion to How Rea! Is Real?, Ttv? Social Ccnstrvcfion & Reality, and somg of cu* other •rnality* books
Using tho metaphor of the stage as 8 frame o< reference. Dr. Goffman deals with tho important themo of human Interaction to social zhuatfons. Rslo-playng is naw rocogrizod as not merely tho pro*rinoe of the stage performer arto the mabdfusted nouro6c. but an integral and necessary function of daily livtog kx al of us.
. Stating his case tfeerty. Hoffman explores Cw* concept of self in the relation of actor to aodtence. Social technkjues cl seli-pcesontalion are illuminated by examples taken from detaled research and observation of social customs in many regions and a variety of occupational levels. One ol tre rnosl mealing axjeos of mis book Is its revefatfon of tbs many coles that must be assumed by evefyone engaged In even the stotptost life stations, tn the course of any day one may eatf y play a haJf-ttozen parts: with the boss, fellow workers, with friends, with one’s speuse, and so on
Gchrrvan’8 percepeve analog/ details exactly how ’actirg* techniques are used In the most common everyday circumstances; it bares the mainsprings of manipulation that keep safety moving. Fasclnatlngl
19S9, 4H x T, 930pp, Indexed, ec ft cover.
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 83119)
THE CHOKING DOBERMAN &
OTHER ’’NEW” URBAN LEGENDS
by Jan Harold Brun vand
In this book. Jan Hardd Bnjr.vand
examines further the phenomenon ol
Uftwi legends — oral accounts of
improbable events that never happened
quite ’that way* to all those people, but are
told as true (often attrbuted to 'FOAF’ —
trends of a friend) and embellished vtftn
local detail.
Among the tody or more now togends
(most currant and sbll widely lold) included
era 'The Baby cn the Roof.“ The Elephant
that Sat co a VW,’ and ’The Stuck
Couple.* their thorns ranging from cars 10
contamination, from sex to faulty
appliances.
THS-------------
AND OTHER "NEW” URBAN LEGENDS
klAVto-okfBr.invrnxf
1934, SU xSH, 254 pp, iHustrstcd, indexed. softcover.
THE CHOKING DOBERMAN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99091)
THE VANISHING HITCHHIKER
American Urban Legends & Their Meanings
by Jan Harold Brun vend
Tho noted fotktonsl Jan Harold
Brunvand has written th© first book about
one of the most common forma ot
contemporary folklore — the trbsn tegerd.
All of the major legends are fuiy discussed,
from toenago horror stories like Tho Hook*
and 'The Bo/fncnd's Death’ to spoofs of
adult foibles iko Tho Soiid Cement
Cadflac’ and ’The Nude Surprise Party.’
Each of thn eight chapters is followed
by an extensive bbliography. To ad the
bognnng fo'klora student, tho author also
provides a glossary cf terms in urban
legend study and an appendix of detailed
suggestions on how to cotoct and analyze
legend texts.
1951, 5HxBK, 224pp. indexed, sod cover.
THE VANISHING HITCHHIKER: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99092)
The
Vanishing
Hitchhiker
HOW TO UE WITH STATISTICS
by Darrell Huff
Darrei Hutf runs the gamut of every popularly usod typo of statistic, probes such things as the sample study. the tabuvahen method. tho interview technique, or the way the resuts are derived from tho figures, and points up Uto countless number of dodges which are used to foci rather than to inform.
From the introduction: The secret fcrgusga of steh.-ucr., so appealing in a fact-minded culture. is employed to sonsabonalzo. inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. SLitstcnl methods and statisttoal terms are necessary In reportng the mass date of social and economic trends, business conditions, ’opinion' pots. tho census. But without writers who use the words with honesty end understanding .and readers wtx> know what they mean, the results can on?/ be scmanac nonsense.*
This book is a sort of primer In ways to use statistics to deceive. II may seem n’tognthr.r too much like a manual for swindlers. Perhaps I can Just'ty It In tho manner of tho retired burglar whose published remlhscences amounted to a graduate ccursc in how to pick a lock end muffle a footfall: Tho crooks already know these tricks; honest men must loam n self defense.*
Chapter?; Include: ■ Tho Sample with Uto Built-in Bias ■ The Wei- Chosen Average ■ The Lrtlln Figures That Arc Not There ■ Much Ado About Practically Nothing ■ The Gon Whiz Graph ■ and much, much more.
1954. 5H x 3H, 142pp, iffustrded, softcover.
HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88184)
THE MEXICAN PET
More “New" Urban Legends and
Some Old Favorites
by Jan Harold Brun vand
Ihc Mexican Pct is Jan
Harold Brurrvand’s Uiird
collection of urban legends,
and includes The Shoplifter
and the Frozen Chicken,’
The Helpful Mafia
Neighbor,* The Cabbage
Patch Tragedy,' ’The Turkey
Nock.’ and many mom.
The author says in his
Preface. ’Many texts in this
took, unlko my previous
two. are quoted from news
media and other sources in
•popular* culture rather than
purely Tolk* draiiatkxi. I have
come to appreciate much
more since I began studying
urban legends how central
the print and broadcast
media have become in Uto
dsseminatien of traditional
stories. Along with Uto claim that these odd UVngs supposedly happened to the proverbial friend of a friend (Uw FOAF). tho other common vald.iUng formula used whon they aro told is. 1 think this was In the paper... or on the news.’ And since most urban legends are 8t least piwsibic, if a trit mlduely. most people tend to believe them at first — at least they believe stvwof the stories somecA tho timo.'
SU xSM, 221 pp, Wusfretod, Indexed, softcover.
THE MEXICAN PET: $8.95 (ORDER NUMBER 99093)
MIHÍ
FIemkan
I ’pet
MORE W UKRANI/ÍFGFN!»
AND Û -li OLD -TA/U H S
JAN HAROLD BRÜNVAND
CURSES! BROILED AGAIN!
The Hottest Urban Legends Going
by Jan Harold Brun vand
Curses !
RROILED .
r AGAIN !
From the master folklorist
and sly wri, Jan Brunvand.
comes a co«9ctlon of all-now
urban legends. Dd your
cousin's wtte’s dentist's
daughter tell yea about her
best friend who went to the
tanning parlor cncc loo often
and had her ms ides cocked
(tho lilln stoiy}0 Has year
husbands brother's nephew
told you tho story about the
lAdy wt-o triad to make a dead
rabbit tock aivo (’The Hare
Drier*)? If so. youVo heard —
or yea yoursoW may have told
two of tea seventy-plus
legends in this collecton.
Urban legends are Those
bizarro but befevable slates
about batter-fried rats, spiders
in harttos, Cabbage Patch
dols jhat get funerals, and Uto like that pass by word cf mouth as bong
Uto gospel truth ’ But of course, though often told by a FOAF (friend cf □
friend), they arerit 1n:e. Included In ths collocton are legends about sex.
horror, cars. Dushess. and academia. Among them are 'The Bitlo
Student’s Exam.* Tho Pregnant Shoplifter,’ The len Cra.im Cone
Caper,* 'Doni Me$s With Texas.’ and 'Mrs. Floto's Cookie Recipe.'
1939. SU xBH, 333pp, Indexed, son cover.
CURSES! BROILED AGAIN!: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99094)
PURITY AND DANGER
An Analysis ot the Concepts
of Pollution and Taboo
by Mary Douglas
‘These danger-beliefs are as much threats which one man uses to
coerce another as dangers which he h^nsptf fears io incur by his own
lapses- from rigbteousnsss. ‘
— Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger
Purity and Danger is a
clasAc And thought provoking
wort cn anthropology. Contorts
ircludo:
♦ Ritual Unclcomcss
♦ SecuVir Dntilcmort
♦ The Abominations of Lcvitl-
CUS
♦ Magic and Mracte
♦ Powora and Dangers
♦ External Boundancs
♦ Internal Lincs
♦ Iha System at War with
Used
♦ The System Shattered arte
Renewed
♦ And more.
From the iniroAtcdonr
•Pctluton idees wort in the life ol scocty at two levels. one largely instrumental. one expmssh’e. At the first lavet. the mexe obvious one. we fnd peopte trying to infiueroa oro anrthcris tchavter. Beliefs reinforce social pressures: al the powers of the universe aro caled in to guarantee an o’d man’s toying w«h. a mother's dignity, the rights o! Ilie weak and innocent. Political power ts usually held precariously and pnmative rulers are no exception. So wd find their legitimate preiansfoM badrad by belfcfc In extraordinary powors emanating from their persons, from the Ins’gna ol thc<r office or from words they can Utter. Similarly the Ideal order of scooty is guarded try dangers which threaten transgressors. Those danger-beliefs are as much threats which one man lms Id coerce another as dangers which he himself tears to incur by his c/*n lapses from righteousness. They are a strong language of mutual exhortation. At this level the laws of nature are dragged In to sanction the moral code: this kind of cisoase is caused by adultery, that by incest: this mntaorotogical dsasler is live effect of impiety. The whole universe is harnessed Id men's attempts 10 force one another «nlo good dhzenshp. Thus wo find that certain moral values are upheld and certain social rUcs defined by beliefs in dangerous contagion, as when the gfarca or touch of an adulterer is held to txfng Illness to his neighbors or his children.
•ft Is no: dffeult Id seo how po'lutbn beliefs can be used In a dialogue of ctairra and countor-dams to status. But as wo examine po’lufion boicfs wo find that the kind of contacts which are thought rtuigerous also carry □ symbolic load. This is a more interesting tevrt at which pollution tocos relata to social lile. I believe that seme poHuionr- am used as analogies for expressing a general view o* the social disorder. For example, there are befiafs ll>a! each sex is a chngor to no ether through contact with sexual fluids. According to other bdofs enhy one sox is endangered by contact wXh others, usually malos by fomales. but sometimes, the reverse. Such patterns Of sexual danger can be seen to express symmetry or hierarchy. It to In-plausible to interpret them as oxpre&srig something about the actual relation to the socos. I wggtó that many kte&s about sexual dirgcrn aro tortor Interpreted as symbols of the relation between ports of society, as mirroring designs of hierarchy or symmetry which apply in the larger socal system. What goes for sex pollution also goes for bed by pblulton. Tho two sexes can serve as a model tor the oolatoralkm arto
distinctiveness of social units. So also can tho processes of ingestion partray political absorption. Sometimes bodily orifices seem to represent points of entry- or exit of SOCfel un«8. or bodily perfection can symbolzo an ideal thcoc racy."
1966, SHatSH, 196pp. Indexed. softcover.
PURITY AND DANGER: $13.35
(ORDER NUMBER 91082)
THE POWER OF MAPS
by Donis Wood
Ths fascinating book ventures
Into terrain whore oven the most
sophisticated map falte to lend —
through the mapmaker's bias. Denis
’A'cod shows how maps are not im-
partial reference objects, but rather
instruments of communication, per-
auasion, 81X1 power Lika paintings,
toey express a point of view. By con-
nectng us to a reality that codd nal
exist in the abeerce of maps — a
wo rid of property ínes arto voting
rights, taxatoni dstricts and enter-
prise zones — ttey embody and
project tfra Interests of their creators.
Chapters inctocte:
-
Maps Work Dy Saving Interests •
Maps are Emfocddad In a History
They Help Construct • Every Map Shows This... But Not That • The
Interest tho Map Serves is Masked • The Interest is Emboded in the
Map in Sgns and Myths • Each Sign has a History • The Interest the
Map Serves Can Be Yours
Deni Wood 's The Power Of Maps to of vital interest Io any or* con-
cerned wCi reatty creation arto mind manipulation.
1992, 6x9, 266 pp, Mustn'ted. indexed, soft cover.
THE POWER OF MAPS: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88171)
THE SOCIAL CREATION OF NATURE
by Nell E vernden
!,w Social
Creation
'Nature
Cnn mason for cur failure to
"save the earth." argues Net
Evcmdan. is cur disagreement
about what "natura* really is —
how it works, wlvit constitutes a
risk to rt. and even whether we
oursefrras arc part of iL Nature is
as much a social entity as a
physical one. In addition to the
physical rescurces to be
h.imessed and transformed, il
©onsets of a domain of norms
that may be edited upon in
dótense of certain social ideate.
Evorrtocn traces the ovoteticn
of the ccnccp: of "nature" over
tho pa^t five centuries. He finds
an especially ságrtficart devel-
opment beginning In the Renais-
sartoo. when tlvs pcwers oros
ascribed to nature shilled ihcreatíhgiy to human bemgs. Ths process culminated in (Tie nineteenth century, when humans played the rote of sovereigns who assigned meaning to nature to fulfil social and economic objectives. In exploring the oomequmcoi; of conventional undo^tórtoing? Ol nature, Thu Soda/ Croat/on Of Nature soaks a
way around live limitations of a society created natura in order Id defecto what fa actually in-periled "wildness," in which. Thoreau wrote. Iws our Itope for "the preservation of tho wodd."
Chapters Include: • Tho Amtic^irty of Nature • Tho Social Use of Nature • Nature and Nomi • Thci Creation of Nature • The Purification of Nature • From rwfuretn NNlffoa Tho Literal Landscape • The Fragile Drv&bn • The Liberation o4 Nature • Natura and tho Ultra-human • And rrorc.
1992. 6x9. 199pp. indexed, softcover.
THE SOCIAL CREATION OF NATURE: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91087)
Self-Publishing
Introduction
The press Is free — for he who owns one!
In this section, Loompanics Unlimited is proud to offer its readers the world’s finest books on doing your own publishing — from flyers and pamphlets to magazines, newspapers, books, records, tapes. CDs. radio stations, desktop publishing, computer BBS’s, microfiche, etc.
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The tryant's foe, thepoopfos' friend...
PRINTING IT
by CUfford Burke
Here is everything you need to know to print anything — from a poster or handbil to a complete bdok — with style and beauty, nrd without expensive eqtipment. Printing it is already tno standard guda ter the novice, and Judging from the growing numbers of printers arrJ publshers who knap h on thotr roforanco shakos. it is destined to become a classic.
Clifford Burke Is a pool. a master prhtor. and a book designer with many awards Io hte credit. Since 1966. ho has boon conducting a one- man campaign to take the mystery out of printing and rosloce common i/jnse and taste to the craft. Hec&iwcnded.
1972, SH jc 127pp, Htoxtrxted, toft cover.
PRINTING IT: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70016)
PUBLISHING SHORT-RUN BOOKS
by Dsn Poynter
Publishing
Short-Run
Books
Ths book by the author of The
Sak-PubkAhing Manuxd is a
•Axi’comn ndcitkxi to our Soctton on
self-publishing. it is a revolutionary
concept in short-run book
manufacture. This bock will
.ntroduce you to tha now
techniques ard machinery which
will enable you to produce books
qUckty and Inexpensively at your
local quick print shop or copy
center. thus bypassng tho costly
graphte arts shops and commercial
prntors.
Tha book tells ycu bow to: Set
type inexpensively, Paste up
camera ready copy, Birrdbooks,
pamphlets, and reports Quickfy.
Tha system revealed in this
book is ideal foe
• Educators nooding/ost a few copies for a dsss
• Authors who are trying to gut Xte attention of a publisher (if is easier to soil a book than a manuscript)
• Poots who dusiro a smak private printing
• Publishers who wish to test tixf market before investing in a largo print run
• Gorpmte saios presentations
• Printers who want to make a dummy book to check the design and make a knaiproofreading
• Anyone who is in a hurry to breakir.toprint
This book itself to an exampte ot this modem eccromcai icchnctogy. Whether you want 5 or 150 copies. ycu can produce books exactly like this one far less expensively while production Cme may be measured in (toys instead of months. Highly recommended.
1930, 5H x 3‘ri, 101 pp, profusely Htustrated,
indexed, softcover.
PUBLISHING SHORT-RUN BOOKS; $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70019)
THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL
How to Write, Print & Sell Your Book
by Dan Poynter
-Self
Publishing
Manual
Hit*»» Write.
PHf< end Sdl
Yew O*ixi BojI.
The book tool has launched a
thousand books is bockl Expanded to
415 pages. The Setf-PubHstring
Manual has been pocked with cow
figures, crammed with now publshing
Idoas and jr.’^iWwXh new sales leads.
Btggor and boftcr than overt It's simply
tho best book on sori pubishing’
This woll-wnttcn manual is a
welcome addition to our Self-
Publlshlng Sccton. Tho author e the
soTpublshor of 12 books in the tost 9
years, and has experienced every
phase of the writer.’puWisher operation
by running a one-person publishing
company.
Contents inclucfe:You. An
Autltof.TUjisheG Writing Your bock
Sterling Your Own Pubashing Company. Printing Your Book.
Announcing Your Now Bosk. Promoting Your Now Book. Who Will Buy
Your Book?, Selling Your Book. Distribution, inducing a bibliography of
tocks on self-publshing, resources. and marc.
FPP6 $H x6H, 11$pp, Nusfnrted, sort cover.
THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70011)
HOW TO DO LEAFLETS,
NEWSLETTERS & NEWSPAPERS
by Nancy Brigham
Everything you need to know to
put together gmet toaffots,
newsletters erd newspapers, from
wnbng to the ^appropriate audicnco to
using desktop pubkshng to planning
and schsdukngi
This co<r<rchar<yvo. hoaviy
HUstrated book is pcrtoct for anyone
respeosbto foe putting together
anything from a smpto fryer to a
newspaper or other publication — no
matter whet towel of experience. The
comprehensive totto of contents
makes * easy for both novices and
seasoned edUors to kxato exactly the
Information thoy need quickly. And for bog'nners. there are specific chapiors highlighted that wit give them a good overall fee! for what's Invotvod n prc-dudng a publication. Lively illustrations supplement the highly n^xtobki text, making this the dofiritivo guide to creating al sorts of primed mnltKials.
1991, Oh x 11, 176pp,HuttrftM, tort cover.
HOW TO DO LEAFLETS,
NEWSLETTERS A NEWSPAPERS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70034)
PIRATE RADIO STATIONS
Tuning In To Underground Broadcasts
by Andrew R. Yoder
White X is Illegal to operate a
pirate radio station, there aren't any
laws against iatertng to one. This
book is the coy comprehens*^
source of practical information cn
hew to tune in. identify, and contoct
the most unpredetobto stations cn
the rack) spectrum.
Andrew Yoder provides you with:
A complete history of pirate radio
since fcs emergence in the 1920s • A
listing of land-based and offshore
stations will» specific descriptions of
programming activity • Station bio-
graphies and interviews with notable
pirates and FCC officials • Technical
coverage of equpment and radio
utiltes ycu need to zero In on pirate
sla'.ons • instructions for contacting stations to confirm reception and
collect coveted OSL cards • Ways to get in touch with other pirate
Istenera and DXors • Numerous dagrams ilustrating the operation of
pirate redo systems • And more!
Pirate radio stations have been around as long 88 radio Use«. Ever
since the 1920s. unlicensed broadcasters have been surrounded by an
aura of mystery. bJt they have continued to funcllcn ar. r-n exciting and
vital source of alternative music, fringe political discourse, and
unnhibited enlertainmorU for rado hobbyists and shortwave listeners
worldwide.
1990, TH x 9H. 192 pp, iHuMratod. indexed, soft cover.
PIRATE RADIO STATIONS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94168)
FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES
How to Write, Produce, Direct, Film, Edit,
and Promote a Feature-Length Film
for Less than $10,000
by Rick Schmidt
For the price of a used
American car — about
$6,000 — you can make a
feature film it you have ttve
right know-how. in Feature
Filmmaking At Used-Car
Prices, Rick Schmidt
provides that know-how. Ho
shows you:
-
How to select nnd write a
story that can bo pro-
duced on a tight budget -
How to rally a filmmaking
team through craabvo
contracts -
How to procure (and
overcome ycur tears of)
technical equipment -
How to turn filming and
odting mistakes irlo
styistic pluses -
Where to find markets for
yoir finished fim
With stop by-step instructions and summary checklists, and without the co<r<)l'eatod technical dotoils that oriy add to the cost. Feature Filmmaking At Used-Car Prices will support you spiritually, psychologically, factually, and technically as you make your fIm.
19SS, 6x 9. 249 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
FEATURE FILMMAKING AT US EDC AR PRICES: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70033)
HOW TO MAKE AND SELL
YOUR OWN RECORD
The Complete Guide to Independent Recording
by Diane Sward Rapaport
Here is the biUe
and basic text tliat has
helped revdulionrze
tf>e recording industry.
This book will help
you finance, produce,
sell and promote
records. cassettes,
and compact discs
through independent
networks.
You w2i find in-
formation on every
aspect of recording:
budgeting, financing,
legattios. recording.
manufacturing, sales and promotion. Special features irteUde
worksheets tliat enable ycu to project all the expenses Involved in
making and soling your own record, cassette, or compact disc.
Contents inctodo:
Promotion: Identifying your audience • Researching Ilie media • Promotional materials • Performing reviews • Airplay • Professional
services • Advertising
Sates: Format -and pacing • Soling at performances • Soling In stores • Record dtolrtbiXors ♦ Mail order sates • Sample sales plan
Printing: The printing process ♦ Choosing a printer
Graphics: The graphic designer • The production process • Choosing a graphic assignor
Manufacturing: The manufacturing process • Choos ng a manufacturer
Recording Procedures: Recordng equipment • The recording process
Recording Options: Arrangements • Recording nvjihGds • Recording environments
Song Rights: Song protection • Song Exploitation • Using other peoples' songs
Appendices: Compact discs • Cassettes • New technologies • Neg>
Bating record contracts • Foreign markets
And much more? This book is truy toe corrpluto guide to How To
Mako end Soil Your Own Record.
71WJ& 11 x 11, 190 pp, Uii/stratod. indexed, son cover.
HOW TO MAKE AND SELL YOUR OWN RECORD: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70030)
CASSETTE MYTHOS
Edited by Robin James
Cassette Mythos contains
dozens and dozens of essays,
reports, art. stories, comics, and
manifestoes from the citizens of
too /nafmuefo underground. where
too cassette tape ard Ute Itorrte
studio have provoked a mass
exodus into basements, bedrooms
cr garagas around Ute world.
Those networkers. in conjunction
with Ute Zne CuXure and Ute
International Postal System.
msricsPy produce, tracfe. and <$$•
tribute tlteif own music, in ther
own stylo and for their oayi
purposes, free from the censoring,
perceptkjn-ctogglng nets of cash
and commerce, forging what has
fcctoty became known 83 Ute
Cassette Culture.
1992, SA x 11, 20$ pp, Kluatrated, Indued, eon cover.
CASSETTE MYTHOS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70039)
THE TELEVISION GRAY MARKET
The Theft of Satellite, Cable,
and Videotape Programming....
by Henry L. Elsenson
The Television Gray Market
the theft c4 saterite,
cable. and videotape program-
ming. ard «octodes information
never betere available to the
consumer. WouW you
mat:
-
Mom than coo out cf ten
cable subscribers get more
for their money than you do? -
At least half of all satai Ito
dtoh owners have been
criminals? -
Copy protected videotapes
can ba duplicated by using
an inexpensive device sod
in almost every dry. ard by
mail? -
Many cabin bax (Sztributcrr.
can sell Ihor products any-
where. except wtdhin their
own slate?
Ccntcnls includo: • Sa te I ito TV basics • HOW satelite TV works •
The emergence of consumer TV RO • Satellite scran-bling ard de- scramblers • Consumer reaction to scrambling • Industry countermeasures and consumer risks • Cable TV basics • Down converters ard dcscramUers • Cable equipment modification • Combining cable ard satellite • The Video Stabilizer* • Gray market wheelers ard doatocs • Conversations with dealers • Who enforces the law? • Who buys these products and services? • Conversations with a yay market con- sumer • Consumers and the dark gray process • Specialized pam- pliett. manual?, ex?. • ¿nd nwe.
S&d for ecb.'cefcnei And enfedpinmonf purposes criyf
1993, MxtH, 160 pp. Muatrsted, indexed, sod cover.
THE TELEVISION GRAY MARKET: $23.75
(ORDER NUMBER 9107«)
THE ANARCHISTS GUIDE TO THE BBS
by Keith Wade
The Anarchist's Guide to the BBS
takes you inskfo tho fascinating wcrid of
electronic Bdlcbn Board Systems. BBS’s are
electronic mooting p“occs where people
transact business and trade tantasied.
DBS's are useful, fun. and sometimes
dangerous or strange.
A coven of wishes. electronic sex
screens, crodl card criminals, bizarre dating
services. saboteurs, hackers... a/l these and
more can be found lurking in the computer
underground. Yea can watch tho'r antes
crjoin them, if you dare!
There are fow rules covering computer
networks. Those who use them can bo
anonymous and Irrpossibta to trace. Is it surprising that DBS's have tcoome the medium <•/ choice for those who seek unlimited freedom of exprwcJpn?
Chapters Include: • WhaTs a BBS. Arr,way? * What’s In It Fee Me?
-
How Do I Get Started? • The Systems • Using the Systems • Potential Probterr« ♦ Afterward ♦ Sources Recommended Reading • Ard morel
AiXhor Ker.h Wade has spent six years in the electronic underground An expert on computer security and an avd fan of the DBS. Ite takes you cn a Wo?/ fqixnoy through an invtsbln elec Irene unrrorse. What you fbd there *111 surprise you.
1990, 3H x 9H, 99 pp. soffcMr.
THE ANAR CHSSTS GUIDE TO THE BBS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91058)
HOW TO PRODUCE A SMALL NEWSPAPER
A Guide for Independent Journalists
by the Editors of The Harvard Post
—
Iknr io Phxlucc «Small
^eUrspoper
A Cud* fee Independent Joumahsts
by Ibr Ed ton U the Hwjrd P«.*^
Traditionally. pub’iahng a
sitaII newspaper Ms been
an oxpenstvo proposition. But
those days .ire r//or. Iho
technology of printing and
typesetting has coma so far
in recent doesdos that it is
naw possible Co start a small
publfcation with almost no
initial investment A small
newspaper off the hghost
quatey can be produced
economioaii/. these days, in
a small office cr in a comer
of your own home. You need
con maor pore of equip-
ment. a typesetting machine
— which u ne»erthc*ess
compact. can be rented
rather tl'un purchased, ard
requires cn>/ gcod typing
skits to operate. A printing
press is ro looger necessary.
c< even desirable, as part of the equipment you sboUd own.
How to Produce a Sowd Newspaper covets In depth: The News-
paper Staff • Content • Editing • Prinflng • Typography • Design and
Layout • Paste-up • Atf/wtsing • Ctextelton end Dfetntxjtlcn • Finan-
cial tAittors ♦ De .id Ines ♦ Annotated Btbicgraphy • And Moro.
How to Produce a Small Newspaper ba I cogs in the library of any-
cno interested in doing their own publishing.
1983, 7x 10, 139pp, /Nuslroted, Indexed, sort cover.
HOW TO PRODUCE A SMALL NEWSPAPER: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70031)
PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK
FOR UNDER $50.00!
How You Can Get Your Book
Into Print and Keep It Thore!
by Victor Koman
$9**
PUBLISH
YOUR OWN BOOK
FOR UNDER $50!
How can «••< ymir Im»,>U in print and keep it there!
This bock Ids ycu hew te
gat a bock into pnnt quckly
and cheaply — by pubUsNng
co microfiche! It can cost
thcusands o< dollars to have a
bock priced in the tradr.onal
way. but by pubish'ng your
bock on microfiche, you can
become a pulrishod author for
less than $50. Contents
Include: • Why Self-PuMsh? •
SeM-Publshng the Old Way •
Smail is Absolutely Gorgnous!
• Publishing Strategics • The
Crty Tod Yccull Ever Need •
Mioroficho Companies •
Micrcpubisbers • Immortality.
There are 8 to! of advan-
tages to microBctto tadino’ogy.
and the author covers them al
well. Inckxled with the book is
a rrterohcho oi tho bock itsotf — one smail piece of 4* x 8* film that con-
tains e>e complete took! Hight/ recommended for anyone Interested In
small jxess publishing.
199f, S'/i x SU, 4Spp. microfiche Incfuded, soft cover
PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK
FOR UNDER $501: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70026)
HOW YOU CAN MANIPULATE THE MEDIA
Guerrilla Methods to Get Your Story Covered by
TV, Radio, and Newspapers
by David Alexander
The Mass Moda — UMuV&M. Qtifo. flAd MWVpSpm — WfeM enormous power over fxibiic opinion and sentiment. so if you have a fA^onto cause or vitally important message. yoj mus! know tx>w lo u&e tho meda to get ytxjf story covered with tho njht ’spin* that wMI all but guarantee a sympatheic woddwkto audranco.
tow. experienced media insider David Alexander revests ctevor. cagey. and creative guerrlla methods that will not criy virtuafy Iocco reporters to beat a path lo your dxr. but go*, thorn lo cover Tie story tho way /wwant H lo be. Read and team:
■ how TV. radio, and newspapers roaHy cbcoio which stories gel cov- cragc and which donT
■ the most influential media executives to contact with your story, and who to avoid
■ why an article in one ot three tep newspapers always gahs tho attention ci network TV
■ how to write enticing nows rebases, and why dumping your story right Into the newsroom via direct satellite feed to a good rica
■ how to exptort busy, competitive reporters, plus bow to win the one- on-one interview game
■ how the w*orids boat media manipulators havo successful us-ed dramatic guomla methods to get their messages plastered across the world stage.
Chapters include:
■ An overview of tho Power of the Modia
■ Inskfc tho Moda and How It Operates
■ A Day m a TV Newsroom
■ Gohng Yo<x Story Out
■ How to Prepare a tows Release
■ Using a SatelHo Feed to Get Your Story Out
■ Tho P's and O’s ci Media Interviews
■ Other Practical Examples of Media Manipulation
Think ci the media as your free ’gateway’ lo the public, and uso tho tactics in this book lo wage your cx*n crafty campaign that win put a f A'.orablo spin on your pet issue and further year cause.
J9£J,SHx2X, 112pp. toft cover.
HOW XWCAN MANIPULATE THE MEDIA: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70040)
I C-UIH 10 IKI IHDlFHOlil I1GUIKI KVOlUIION
■ IKI GUMHI
THE WORLD OF ZINES
A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution
by Mhke Gunderioy and Car! Goldberg Janice
I companies readers will bo famiiar with the werk o4 Mike Gundertoy ard Can GoWbcrg Jarice. The*/ ate tho odtem of tho infamous ard snd>y defunct Fadsheet Ftre, Iha zine that raviowod ether zhes. Now that Fadsbod Five is gone, we gat many requests for rid copies from paepto wboS-o heard about how wondortd it was. Wei. search ro rroro. Miko and Cari have taken Itair knowledge cf tho publishing underwork! and put it together in ths much-anticpaled book: Tho World of ZJnea
In a worid where most people get their cutural inp<x in p'O-dgesled and homogenized msss-modla hand-outs, a new form o! communication networking has untoashod its©* cn the world. A revolution madte possible by desktop publishing allows people wch diverse passions io share their views through smal rrogazinos — or ’zincs.* Iixfepencfcntty pcblsbod for love, ir/orrnatton and tun rather than money, there are zines devoted lo a.’mccl every concelvab’e topic, with groat lilies Ike KdUc Fringe, Temporary Culture. Virus 23, Tho Complex! Mofter. Burning Tedders, Babyish Lost Us Mcnvna, iicadpomp. and marry more.
There are al least 10.000 znos bong published in the United States today. In this heavity-niustratod ccmpondum. Mike and Cad dcscnoc more than 4CO ot tho most cokxfri zines available today. They also provide a vakrabto hetory ci the zine and complete informaten on how to pubish your <ywn znc.
For thoso w ho nwod out cn Fetish*#! Fve. and tor tha rest d us who ooddnT get enough ci i. don’t let The WoddofZinea^nycM by.
1992, 9H x 11,224pp, heevffy Mettnfod, xoft cover.
THE WORLD OF ZINES: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70038)
Miscellaneous
Introduction
Science Fiction, Ayn Rand, tattoos, Americana, and a bunch of stuff that didn't seem to fit Into any of our other subject categories...
WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP
by Michael Lesy
Now back in print, Michael Levy's cult classic about life in a small, turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town,
period photographs taken from local archires, These pctorcs tell toe story o< th© everyday Sues of the residents at a $mai Wisconsin town from 1885 io 1890.
BiX tho images aro not what one expects. Taken during □ period when taU btown epidemics raged end funeral wore more common than brthday parties, these photos graphically portray tire townspeople's suffering. Les/ has interspersed tho pictures with snippets of text from too focal newspaper, which emphasize in words the bizarre events tho photos ilkistrato.
This strfrng cottage allows readers to experience Uo al the tom of tho century in a unique- way. Enormously experimental when it was tlrel pubishod in 1973, Ooafh Trip has gone on to become a
classic cut book for the modem ago.
1973, 11x04^ 264pp, profuaoty tHuitsalod. softcover.
WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99056)
SKIN SHOWS II
The Art of Tattoo
by Chris Wroblewski
As An&MffiS Ttmo, as modem as tomorrow...
For centuries, civikzations as different as the Maoris ard the Aziecs hAs*e dovcSopcd tattooing rot only for adornment. but also in fertile/ and supercilious rkes. Today, hs crxe checkered and ccnfrcvtxsiaJ refutation has boon replaced by high aesthete stand-urir. which command the ar.er.ton of museums and art gaieties.
In ths superbly ilustrated book. Chris Wrob’ewski. th© wtxfcf s leading Body Art photographer. provides an internal >3 nA I exhibition of he art. with ancient Eastern designs and surreal Western masiorpfooos. Inhibitions are cast aside, boundaries arc pushed even further, in ths celebration of a genre that continues to astound and fascinate.
1991, 8H x 11, 130 pp. /nevr than 100 photographs,
most tn M color, soft cover.
SKIN SHOWS H: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99060)
IT'S A GAS
A Study of Flatulence
by Eric S. Rabkln. Ph.D. and Eugene M. SHverman, M.D.
From tho PTcfaco:
•Wo nil do f., but we cant tak about it And why not? In some cultures por.p'e pass a happy afternoon in contesting who can pass the most gas. but In our culture, we dent even have a smpfo. acceptaWe word for ft How can you find a ptace in ordinary ccnreraatioci for weeds Ike ftatutatton. eructation, emanation or crepitation? Yet on tho ctoor hand what polite person woufo insert decent oars wtth phrases like le< coo fly. cut the cheese. break wind or blow ori? WhaTs wrong with farP Why the secrecy? They put poppermnts by restaurant exits, but tr»*y don't ted you vbtry. We have boon tho victims of censorship Ice long» Dd jtx/knew th3l a nineteenth century Frenchman made his Irving by lading music to night cfobs? That a woman from Madson, Wisconsin ex- pfoded when en electric current igneod hor flatus? That the wxxd fart corrws from the same root as the word partridge, the very bird that's been meSSlr-g Vp your pear troo? Do you know why beans make you fart? Did you know that needy 10 percent of the population have chronic excessive flalulenoe for txjna ftde medeal reasons and that thesn pno pie can be helped by simply changing their diet? Every cne or those facts are true Hokfing back iko the sinks to high heaven. Thora's Freocfom of the Press to be considered — and tho public's ’Right Io Know/ So to thr. tock we blcvr toe lid off. From the latest madcai in- formation to tr>a suppressed works of Merary masters, from true case histories to fanciful drawings. Ites book tats it aH out Of the bag Onco and for all. ire time to clear the airf
1991, Sh x8H, 176pp. iftustrstod, softcover.
ITS A GAS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99072)
INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC
RE/Search #14
incfed.bty Strange Music surveys thn tomtory of negtocted ’paraoe safe" records (mosey from th© ‘50s — 70s), epodighting genres, artists, end coe-of-a-ki'id gems That will delight and s-jrpr^e. incredibly Strange Music takes the listener on a tcur of topsy-turvy, genro- bending sounrt’oxporicncc; it win expand (he musical patatto — filing to missing shades ard cdtxs of the o-nohena! spectrum of lessening oxpcricnco. teskles encouraging the preservation of “the perfect square foot' — too 12* LP: an art form so obvious most pocplo are Wind to its beauty. In the fucuro, many record covers themsetvee wfll bo framed 89 valuable ^Drics of art.’ yo< 3 gcxxl many ol these recoota can sill bu found f-or triting sums at flea markets.
'Genres' e xamined ©cbto 'easy listening.' ’exotica’ and 'celebrity* (massive categories to themselves) as well as more arcane recordngr, by (singng) ©ops and (pctfre-playing) pnosts. undertakers, reigbin vemnlcquisls. astronauts, opera-singing parrots, beatnik and h’pple records, and gospel by bind teenage girts wtth toi/fant hairdos. Virtually ovary musicai’Jyrfcal boundary in the history of recorded scuod has been brojicbad
1993, 8'4 x 11,204pp. PiuMnted. softcover.
INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99089)
Human Oddities
A Book of Nature's Anomalies
by Martin Monestier
Translated from the French by Robert Campbell
TIxj armless and leg less, the huge and too tiny. hdcous and too amazing!
Th® is me senate best picture book of freaks wo havo over scon’ll Martin Monaster presents (assembled from ol over tho wortd) another ard unknown wortd which we prefer to ignore. that cf human freaks. What Is it like to be bom with no arms or logs... or with three arms and tegs... lo weigh half a ton or only fifty pounds, to to unsure of your own sex or to share a txxty wito your brother or sister?
In this fascinating toe* at human anomalies the author provides Ilie sometimes disturbing answers to those distorting questions. leasing the reader with new understanding, ror.pcct and even admiration for these who seem to have toon ferpotton by God.’ This exhaustive a rd well- documonted study spans all societies. both past and present, and Is ricNy ilustratcd by rare and sometimes shocking photographs. Readers wil ba riveted by this trip into a strange wortd end como away with tho most precious gift we can offer Ila Inhabitants: acceptance.
1973, 3H x 11, 139 pp, profusefy iNusfrstod, soft cow.
HUMAN ODDHTES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99049)
FREAK SHOW
Presenting Human Oddities
for Amusement and Profit
by Robert Bogdan
From 1840 until 1940. freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States. from Iha smallest towns to tho largos! dries, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants. Siamese twins, bearded tertos. ravages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddites. By today's namby- pamby standards, such dispteys wood be considered cruel and exploitative — tho pornography of disabftty. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was wfcfefy accepted as one of Amorica's most popular forms of entertainment.
Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social Nstoiy brings to trio too world of the freak show and explores toe culture that nurtured and. btec. abandoned it In uncovering this nogtoctod chapter c4 show business, te describes in detail the flimflam artistry bch'nd tho shows, toe promoters and the audiences, and tho gradual evolution of pubic opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks often were rxx so much bom as manufactured by tho amusement industry, usually with too active participation of the freaks thcmschos. Many of the 'human curiosities' found fame and fortune, becoming toe celebrities of their time, until tho ascent of modern medicine transformed them from rrar/ols into pathclogicsil specimens.
1933, 6x9, 336pp, frustrated, Indexed, softCPW.
FREAK SHOW: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99047)
DEAR MR. RIPLEY
A Compendium of Curloddltles from the
Believe It or Not! Archives
Compiled by Mark Sloan, Roger Manley,
and Michelle Van Parys
Between the covers of this book a crowd of mon. women, animals and fish perform feats toot stretch tho limits of tho rrird. bedy and imagination. • Wortd champion chicken picker Buck Futford could catch, kJI, cook and cat a chicken in loss than two minutes! • Alice Penfold coud aft her sister Mary on a stool by her teeth onlyl • Fcur- yoar-dd Bill Crawford Boated over Cleveland for four hours wearing a harness attached to a balloon! • Here in Port Townsend. Washington, trout were trained to jump through a hoop! • And much, much more. Including dtefocatkmste. contortionists, elastic people, hammers, nails, pns. fnco fads, mental marvels, wizards, prodigies, nature’s whims, suspended anmation. and much, much more — and each mane! is frustrated with a res/photograph!ft
Bte book begins with a brfef biography of Robert Riptoy. toe quintessential American adrentoron'artsl, than enters □ gallery of oddities from the Rlpte/8 archives. Chapters such as 'Nature's Whims' and 'Tattoo Tatonf offer sights that defy expbnatkxi — a man with throe lags and a woman blowtorching her tongue,example. BcHovo H or Not'
1993, 676 x 11,211 pp, /new than 200 photographs, soft cow.
DEAR MR. RIPLEY: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99936)
FREAKS
Wo Who Arc Not As Others
by DanM P. Mannix
Originally printed in a small editton ard withdrawn by tho publshor after one month, this book (out of print tor nearly 20 years), ts brought back to eye-popping We with many new photos. Dartet P. Marntx. one of my favorite authors, is the ajthor c4 marry noir classes. and Is now enjoying something of a cult revival. A former SA'ord swaio-A'or, fireeater. fakir. and world traveler. Mr. Mannix stfl li.*es cn tho family farm with his falcon, miniature horses and ropUo collection.
Read (and see) all about • the notorious Imo affairs of midgets • ths slrargo sox Ivor, of Siamese Mins ♦ tho dwarf down's wife whose feet grew directly tram bar bedy • too mute-faced woman whoso son became her manager • the unusual amours of Jolty Daisy. the fat woman ♦ toe- famous pinbead who inspired VerdFs Rgototto • tbo tragedy of Betty Lou Williams and her parasitic t*4n • too midget, ony 34 inches tall. wlx> was happily married to a 264-pcund wHo • too human torso who cou'd sew, crochet, arrf type • ard bizarre accounts of normal humans turned into freaks — either voluntarily cc by ovl designl • And much, much more!
T9P0, 3>i x 11, 120pp. with wo tmd XfiYxxina photos
frexn tho outbof'o persons J scropbooX. soft cow.
FREAKS: $13.99
(ORDER NUMBER 99044)
THE TATTOO BUYER S GUIDE
A Complete and Candid Guide
to Getting a Great Tattoo
by Pau! Schwartz
No longer sho exclusive domain of bikers and sailors, people from all waks of Ifa are getting tattooed. Thia an on akin is bringing meaningful, affordable and legitimate personal artistic expression back into everyday life. Now. The Tattoo Buyer'* Guide gtvas you all the Insdo tips and Information you nrred to safely gat a groat tattoo which youl be proud to show ott.
This one-of-a-tond book is bnmmirg wxh invatoabta advtoa such as: How to find and rncogmza a professional and reputable tattoo artist ♦ How to protect yourself from diseases such as AIDS and live unqualified tattoonrs who oodd put your life at risk ♦ Choosing a suitable design and $ko wtth whch you will bo ptoased and which will translate W9l to the tattoo modum ♦ The truth about year options (such as removal) m Coaling wtth a bad tattoo ♦Tips for minimizing and coping with pen in ths tattooing process ♦ What to expect in tho years to come ♦ How much you should expect to pay for a professional tattoo ♦ Whet to (to when your kids want a tattoo — ensuring thalr safety without preaching.
In addition. world-renowned tattoo artists from all over the country have participated in The Tattoo Buyer's Guido M Featured Artists. Proxies of those professional and photos of ttw work stew you firsthand just what you can expect in shopping for your tattoo. Thera has never been a better time to get a grest and sate tattoo. Tho level of tochhca! mastery, artistic ability, creativity. and ccncom w*h hcahh standards among professional tattooers has never been higher — al the more reasons to gat the facts now!
1993, 5H x *‘4, 50 pp. iiiuttnrted, toft cover.
THE TATTOO BUYER'S GUIDE: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99088)
THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS SIDESHOW
The Seattle-based Jim
Rose Circus Side show v*as
too hit attraction of the
1992 Lollapalooza tour,
and has played to stand-
ing-room on>/ crowds
across Europe and tte
Unled States. At a tri-
umphant homecoming for
the troupe, ths vlteo was
filmed at the Moore
Theatre In Seattle. Febru-
ary 5.1993.
MC escape artist Jim
Rosa has assembled an
amazing croupe of human
marvels who perform as-
tonishing tears before
gasping and cheering
crowds. See Jm Rose
pound oals up Ns nose!
Sev The Amazing Mr. Ltfto
hofel heavy weights wth
Na eleven pierced body parts fnchxlng his... woll. you have to ¿w «)!
'Do not try thia a1 home’•
StV Tte Torture King oat tiro and do his human ph cushion routine,
With Wte Chan 4Q pins festooning his teeso! Sev him ram a meat
skewer clear through he toco! The Enigma, tattooed from head to
toe like a Jigsaw puzzle, cat worms, maggots. and crickets! (’He bor-
ders the dnerence between man and monster!’)
See Matt The Tube’ Crowley suck a condom up his nose and out of
ha mouth, then reverse toe process’ Soo him pump a quart of beef into
ha stomach, then pump it back out and teed ii to audienco members!
Soo much, much morof See The Jim Rose Circus Stoeshowllf And re-
member: ’Yea don’t get your money’s worth if you dcnT look!’
1993. 3S minute, fuffeefor VHS Video.
THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS SIDESHOW: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99996)
ASSHOLES FOREVER
How to spot 'em
How to stop 'em
byX. Crement, M.D.
Dr. Xavier Croment has
presented breakthrough evi-
dence that assholism is rot
Just rude behavior — it is a
contagious ds«jase that can
ba cured through proper
mcdkal troabmcnL Tltou-
sands of people have been
helped by Dr. Cremenrs
techhques.
Now Dr. Cnement adds to
he briliant work in assbollsm.
If the disease is allowed to
advance too fa/, he stales, it
may get to toe point where it
becomes resis-tant to all ef-
forts Io tree! It. Certain poo-
pie. In other words, are just
total assholes. The effort to
cure them may actually make
them worse. They wiB be ass-
heles forever.
In Assholes Forever. Dr. Crcmont discusses tho foltowing incurable assholes: The Duly Asshole O Tho Know-lt-AJt-Assbole O The Mtfe Asshole O T1h? Winning Asshote O Tte Sucking Asshole O Thn Potty Asshole O Tte Si my Asshole O The Festering Asshote O The victim Asshole O Tte Politically Correct Asshole O The Green Asshole O Rollon Assholes O Assholes Who Hate Too Much O The Free Lurch Asshole O AnJ more.
Instead of trying to reform these people, we must learn to deal with them as they are: flaming. Incorrigible assholes. Dr. Cramnnt davetos tius brilianl new boc* to teaching is how to spot them and how io dep item from sucking us in. He describes their favorite tftoks — from whlr^ng and festanng to bulf/ng ard sliming — a*»d wtiat it means to •put a plug mu.’
rm m xSH, 191 pp, rotr cover.
ASSHOLES FOREVER: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99080)
COUNTDOWN TO THE MILLENNIUM
Curious But True News Dispatches
Heralding the Last Days of the Planet
Complied by John J. Kohut and Roland Sweet
Just when )OU thought it was safe to grit your tooth ard batten dawn your hatches lex Ihe end of tte world comas thr. hiarious, a'l-ncrw col- lection of 503 of the most bizarre and oixundsh news stories ever corrpitod As we approach tte year 2000. poopta arc acting way too strange. Cdd cocurrences and ndcutous behavior arc becoming toe norm. Witness tteso omneas portents: bilbcard visions... homicidal kangaroo tails... 666 joly doughnuts... scnal buttocks fonder*... Ted Kornod/ cn Mars... Barney Rubtlo postage stamp... odor-maps and many more — seme scary, al of Item funny, tut true’ So forget the gloom ard doom of Judgment Day with this zany volume of slranger- than-ltotton facts that provc Doomsday doesn’t have to be so serious
TA? racto pirate Knztrn as the TiUpino Monkey,' who for infodonoff with worship communications during the IranJratj war, returned dunng the Persian Guff War to interrupf corrvrxjnicstions of warships entering mditery areas His trademark is Che scr&srninp message, Theos ocs tho Fikpocno Monkco/ Miaow! Miaow!' often fo'- towed by bursts of rock h'roH.9
'Under a $29 m^oo fade's! grant te combat drug trafficking, members of cho Texas Kafionsl Guard began dressing up as cactus plants at night ato-tg the Mexican border to gather date.9
1992, 5x9, 224pp, toff cov*r.
COUNTDOWN TO THE MILLENNIUM: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99083)
The TATTOOTIME Series, Volumes 1-5
Edited by Don Ed Hardy
We are proud to offer our readers the first five volumes of the beautiful Tattootimeseries, edited by longtime tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy. Tattoos often seem bizarre, even frightening, to untattoocd folks (like me). The Tattootime series documents tattooing from a Cultural viewpoint. Each volume includes dozens (even hundreds!) of clear photographs, many in lush full colors, and contains several articles by tattoo artists and students of this unique art form. The Tattootimo books of Don Ed Hardy are some of the most beautiful and unusual books you will ever own.
TATTOOTIME
Volume 1: New Tribalism
■Hie cmpha« in this beautiful vclumle is on "Neo-Tribal* or "Pre-Tech’ designs. Artistes include: Thcuo^hls on Pre- Technological Tattooing; Tattooed in Bccneo; Tattooed Mummy; Sailor Jerry; Let’s Face II Tattoo Viability; The Mark cl th© Professional; and more. Dozens and dozens of photographs and iTuslrattons. many in fiil cotar.
1988, 8fi x 31, 64 pp,
profusely iffustrated, soft cover.
TATTOOTIME. Volume 1: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99030)
TATTOOTIME
Volume 2: Tattoo Magic
This profusely Austratod volutone r. cocon! ratos on tatoloos of n relrfous, magate»!. or mystcal nature. Artidcs include: Christian Tattoos; Inventive Cover Work (covering od tattoos); Sacred Caigraphy; Tattooed Charms; Tattoo Magic; ard more. Dozens and dozens ol photographs, marry In full cctor.
1988. 8'4 x 11, 64 pp,
profusely Ntuslrittod, softcover.
TATTOOTIME. Volume 2: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99031)
TATTOOTIME
Volume 3: Music & Sea Tattoos
Ths lush volume concentrates on tattoo designa favored by saiors and rock musicians. Articles include: Saiors "n Tancos; MermaWa. Prates; Liquid Skin; Pacific Origins; Japan’s Tanco Revolution, Punks; Tattoos and Music; Punk Rock Tati ooh g; and mere. Moco than 100 photographs in ful color.
1966, 8fi x 11, 96 pp,
profusefy(frustrated, softcover.
TATTOOTIME, Volume 3: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99032)
TATTOOTIME
Volume 4: Life & Death Tattoos
Ths volume concentrates on tattoos with Irto and doaTi themes Artistes Include The Eternal Spiral; Ute S Love; Conlltct and Sur.9/al; Psyches and Outlaws; A Patbctegsrs Perspocitee; Rcm.xns to be seen (the tanned human skin latteo museum In Tokyo); lite End of the Game; And more. More than 1(X> photographs.
1968,8^x11, 96 pp,
profusely (frustrated, softcover.
TATTOOTIME. Volume 4: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99033)
TATTOOTIME
Volume 5: Art From The Heart
This amazing new volume oancontralos on ten work of several famous tatteo&s. including Bob Shaw. Thomas Woodruff, Thom doVita. Cynthia VAtkin, Michael Matono, Weirdo Art and American Classics. European Exptorers and Marquosan Tattooing, and more. Hundreds of photos and ¿lustrations. many in fUI color.
1991, 84 x 11, 138 pp,
profusely Niutfirated, soft cover.
TATTOOTIME, Volume 5: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99059)
UNMENTIONABLE CUISINE
by Calvin Hi Schwabe
of prejudice or ignorance. Americans now reject many readily available foods that are cheap, nutritious, and good to cat. Though wo unhesitanUy criticize Indians because they refuse to cat beef, tho more appalling fact that a majority of us retuse to oat oqualy valuable foods rarely recerves even passing notice. Unmentionable Cuisine is □ book about foods set Jem eaten by Americans though standard fare for others.
Ths ‘unmentionable cuisine* Intentionally focuses upon frxxds of Aiwu/drigfo that are av&ady avanaho In tnn United Stains, or could bo.
Thia is a handsome, well-crafted cockbook, unusual in its conception, scope, and ervdtion Tho author is a gourmet, world traveler, veterinarian, and epidemiologist.
Contents include: horsemeat. dbg and cat moat, rodent meat, reptiles. Insects and othor land Invertebrates. sperm, brans. and much, much mere. Racornrenodod to tho gastroncmicab/ adventurous!
1979, 6x9. 466 pp, indexed, soft cover.
UNMENTIONABLE CUISINE: $16.35
__________________ (ORDER NUMBER 99028)____________________
THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS
byE P. Evans
In the church of Falaiso in Normandy there was. until the beginning of me last century, a w art-painting of a sow being hiog up on a gallows In the market square. Itn sew had been formal-/ accused of mu'der, tried, and convicted by tba kcal ccurt in 1386. The painting was whitewashed over in 1K20. and with it the memory of this, and similar cases of arnnab being pul on trial, has almost wholly disappeared.
E.P. Evans' book, published originaty In 1906. describes with a bniliant mature of wit and scholarship, tea long ard sorry history of these extraordinary trials., 83 they occurred right across Europe from the Middle Agee up to the nineteenth century: caterpillars tried for theft; sparrows prosecuted for chattering to church; a cock burn! al the stake for laying an egg.
Tbs trials may have vanished. but many of tho issues argued cut in those mediaeval courts — of poopki's retatkxi to animate, and of tho animals' spiritual and legal rights — remain as pertinent as enter.
1X6, 5x6, 369 pp, Mustrxted, Mexod. softcover.
THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99038)
LEARNED PIGS & FIREPROOF WOMEN
Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers:
Stono Eaters, Mind Readers, Poison
Resisters, Daredevils, Singing Mice, Etc.
by Ricky Jay
This well-researched book, by coo of the wcrids great stelght-ot- hand artists, is a history of the worlds most amazing entertainment sets: Everything from teamed pigs to fireproof wemon. and all stops in between. tt»e individuals who pa^s In review withan tncsc pages were a remarkable group of men and women who oxcitcd special interest, whether the)* spouted water on the streets of Lcndcn in the seventeenth century Of wrote ten different numbers simultaneously by means of cha* extended from each finger on!y a genoration ago.
The author states: "When I started to work on this project ten years ago, I wanted only to share what I found attractive, exciting, and amusing with a reading public I believed I could interest in my pastors. What occurs to me now as I finish this book ia that people are fooled today ¡n mo samo way and by the same Hings that tocictf them lour or five hundred years ago. Wo are as skeptical, and as credjfcus, as approving ard ar. fckto now as wo were then. Cur capGCty to marvel at the strange, wonderful, and peculiar accomplishment ot otr tc.’ow human beings te undiminttecd, and an inspiration to new genomtocs of beguiing performers.
1966, 714 x 11, 357pp, profiixofy Htuxtratcd
Maxed, aoft cover.
LEARNED PIGS & FIREPROOF WOMEN: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99048)
A HANDFUL OF ZEN
by Camden Benares
•Periodically in the V/esL an
upsurge c4 interest in Zen
occurs. Zen is mentioned in
articles, fiction, comedy routires
□rd conversation. The Zen
stories tokl and live Zen
questions asked can convince
the fstener <x reader that there
& something to Zen; Our that
something can seem
madden'ngy elusl.te ard
obscurely mystical. There m
system of mysticism inherent in
Zen. Zen can to understood
and demystified.
*Zen Is a combination of
BudChtet ard Taoist views ard
developed practices. Zen is a
way of fcberaton. liberation from
Smiling belief systems ard tow
oonsetousnoss- thinking. As a
journey of sei-discovery. it gukfeB the traveler Into an expanded realty.
•The direct Havoc of Zen is neatly captured in the following traditional Zen story:
•The Zen Monk's Burden
•Two Zen monks came to a muddy street on their way to tha monastery. A pretty young woman was standing on the comer, afraid sho would drty her best cfotfes if 81to crossed. The firet monk sad, '111 carry you* to tee woman. She got cn the monk's bock and ho carried her acroes the stire-eL The second monk d*dn*t speak until they wore in sight of the monastery. Then he said. ’Monks shoiidnh tcoch pretty young women. Why dd ycu?' The f<st monk replied, 'I put her down as soon 881 (X*t through the mud. You nro still carrying her.'
That story reveals that the first monk has tho spirit of Zen and tba second monk Is burdened by his mistaking guides for gods. The first monk acted in tho personal realty ho was experiencing. The second monk Is a victim of his belief system, kxzked into unpteasant and low consctousnessi thoughts about a situation that has been resolved everywhere except In his own mind.*
1969, 5H x 614, 146 pp, Uiustratod, soft cover.
A HANDFUL OF ZEN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88159)
MOTHER NATURE'S GREATEST HITS
The Top 40 Wonders of the Animal World
by Bartlcby Nash
The animal kingdom provides an endless source of amusement and fascination tor the casual observer a flotilla of fuzzy goslings foltowing its parents through a pend, a house cat staking hs pray as graccfuty as a lioness, live elegant design of a spider's web or a zebra’s markings. But an even more profound sensation rewards those who in'/osligalo further — tlie mystery and wonder ot being brought taco to face with the unknown and too unknowable: tho mysteries of migration, the miracles of evolution and adaptation, tec intractable force of instinct
In Mother Raturo's Greatest Hits, yoi/M foam the secrete of the shark's dgesbvo tract, tec meaning of the bowerbrcTs legendary courtship danco. the truth behind dephant intelligence and the talents of the giant squid. Ycu wii even discover C»e natural phenomena rfisponslblo for animal ran ting down from the heavens.
But tho answers this book provides are realty teas significant than too questions it raises. Uto more we study tho astcundng range and dvors.-ty of animal life and behavior on tNs planet, ttxi iroro wondrous r.nd unfathomable Motoe^' Nature’s creation appears. V/hctoor those Top 40 Worxfars of ite Anioxal k'/'aWmake you tough, shudder or shako your head in disbelief, toe author hopes they give you pause to consider how closely our hun^an fate is Intertwined wzh tho fate of the animals who share our planet.
1991, 5Hx&4, 140pp, Mostrated, softcover.
MOTHER NATURE'S GREATEST HITS: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91070)
A SCENIC HARVEST
FROM THE KINGDOM OF PAIN
and VIRTUES OF NEGATIVE FASCINATION
Two VHS Videos of Machine Performances
by Sarrival Research Laboratories
Produced and Directed by Jonathan Rc/ss
Survival Research Laboratories was lotncfed to 1979 by Marte PauFne and has operated as an organization o< artists and technicians dedicated to exploring the potential for redirecting the techniques, look, and tenets cl industry and science away from their typical manifestations in practicality or product Since 1979. $RL has staged more than 30 mechanc^il presentations throughout the Un.-.od States.
Each performance consists of a unquo set of ritualized interactions tetween machines, robots, and special effozts daviccs with humans present criy as operators or audonco. SRL performances are best seen, since they are dlftcult to describe o writing. Usually a number of OAbcUcal machines static each other and assault a variety of gnxjscmu Images, and continue unifl on!)' one machine is still working. Both Of these tapes Include Interviews with Mark Paulino and other SRL artiste.
Wo guarantor) that you have never scon anything like Survival Research Laboratories!
tV&ecs am Mrxefumabte-— deme^ed tapes wist be reptacedj
A SCENIC HARVEST FROM THE KINGDOM OF PAIN
(53 minute color VHS video): $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99045)
VIRTUES OF NEGATIVE FASCINATION
(80 minute color VHS video): $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99046)
JUDGEMENT DAY
My Life With Ayn Rand
by Nathaniel Branden
His ox-wifo Barbara scooped him with hoc The Passion of Ayn Rand. but it was Nathaniel, not Barbara who was in bod with Ayn Rand, and naw Mr. Ktss-and-Tol spîls the beans with hs version of his sox affair with Ayn Rand.
When he w as 14. Nathaniel Brandon road Ayn Rand's masterpiece Tho Fountainhead. So began a journey that tod him to an alliance with the founder of Objectivism vstifcti spûnrwd noarty 18 yvars and oixtod with an explosive, passionate split.
Branden ard his first wife. Barbara, became privZeged admirers slowed into the sphere c4 “the rational.’ In time, they joined Rand and her husband. Frank, to form the center of what was Ironicaty dubbed live Collective, a circle of Intellectuals, économiste. indMduaUte. and hsngers-cn gathered around the writing and pMosophy cl Ayn Rand During (his period Branden and Rand embarked on a passionate and turbulent affair. dnr.p to mat she was 25 years older than him and tho fact that they wrore both mamod. All the took place against tho backdrop of tho ccmptoticn of Rand's most famous novel, Attas Shrugged, and the creation of the Natlianiel Branden Institute.
Judgement Day explores a world of intellectual obsession where tha bnlliant troubled mnd of Ayn Rsnd reigned supreme. Even lucler and mere drsnnatic than the novels Ayn Rand wrote, the is the story of tho novel site lived.
1989, 6 x 9, 416 pp, photos, herd cover.
9 JUDGEMENT DAY: $14.95 (ORDER NUMBER 99035)
THE WASTE STREAMS OF IGNORANCE
by Harry Jonesburg
To&xf* patterns of work and educat on
are embroiled in violence and waste.
Humans need a unified and holistic view of
how tlw soeety educates tho chid on
production and consumption of arttiacte. tn
The Waste Streams Of Ignorance, Harry
Jonesburg sketches such a view:
•The brute physical force to present in
every relationship governed by power. Al
retatlcn&Nps in today's world of artfacts
are relations of power. The brute force
interactions continually attempt to reach a
conclusion cn mo rarfleng of supertonttos.
Every day humans adjust their actions
frioordirg to the brute force they face.
•Governments txule force is visble in Its police and armed forces. Without them. Government does not exist. The boss’s bruto torco manifests itself In business laws, backed by Government's power. It slows the boss to pass on the sentence of 'economic death’ to any human who dares to violate the rituals of certainly at work. ’Economic d=»ath' cute off the human from food ard shelter. until and rf the human indr.-dual can tod another Toss.' W4h tho now boss, tho human irdr.-dual can survive economy death only by performing thn riteak of certainty, again, at tho now workplace.
’Why do humans create positions of prr.Jcgo and put thorn in control of vast amounts of brute force? Can humans seo Chat any concentraron o! bruto fccco is acccmpantod by concentrated wealth? Why do humans créalo tho centers of remensc wealth and power tFvat ruto over the human masses? Knowing that tho world of artifacts is a world of human-mata artifacts and anything in such a world entorgw item the human cbdco. shouldn't humans know why and how the wealth and pswor centers are allowed into the design and workings Of the world Of artifacts?
'Buried deep in ignorance and ruled by the master art»facte, it comes as little surprise that today's privileged posroca are solely occupied by conditioned humans who do not know tlveir own inadequacies, who are Incapable <rf ccrrcctng their own dofkfanctas. and who even fal io notice when their errors are pointed out to them by others.’
1992. 6x9, 209 pp, indexed, softcover.
THE WASTE STREAMS OF IGNORANCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94218)
WHO SAYS PARANOIA ISN'T "IN* ANY MORE?
Cartoons by Alexis Gilliland
Here’s a treat tor you — a great coTecfion of witty. sophisticated cartoons from the prizc-winnng cartoonist Alexis GilUand. Gilitand has won 3 Fannsh Achievement awards for host Ian artist, humorous. in 1977, 1978 and 1979. Ma has boon nwnina’.cd fw tho Ruga Award for best fan artist ovory year since 1978. and won the award in 1909. 1983 □rd 1984.
Deni error toso the abttty Io laugh al yourself and at &fel
Lcon’pantos Unlimited is very proud to announce the second ooloction of cartoons from AtoxIs Gilliand — enjoy!
1934, SHxSH, over 200 cartoons, softcover.
WHO SAYS PARANOIA ISNT "IN* ANY MORE?: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 9901S)
BEYOND NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Compiled by Chuck Shepherd,
John J. Kohut & Roland Sweet
Just when you thought you’d already heard It ar. here comes another hiarious verfume of bofched crimes. bizarre sexual escapades, governmental goof-ips. and genera! indecent behavior cdlecred from actual stories in the nation’s newspapers. Womanises and curiosity seekers aike win revel in the outlandish antes reveared in those newsworthy tidbits. Tho Incidents are so 012870. the oxpartorces so outrageous, they go beyond news of the weird!
Here is just one exannpte:
'A Milton, Horkte. woman was akowed by a federal tax court to deduct fravet expenses to and from her Job, a deduebon not nomxaHy fl.tewed. She proved her job was as a blood donor, and that the travel was the only way fo get her prokf-making product to market. (However, the court disavowed her cta.vn for a hiPcra! depletion &towsoce‘ for the minerals in her btood, finding that Congress intended that deduction only for nUnXjg activities. *
Categories Indudo: Poopto Vory Close to tho Edge • There's A Mach ne In My Bond • Sox Is Ite Own Punishment • Acddonts Will Happen • Put Some Oothos On • Mensa Rejects • And Much, much more.
1991, SU x a, 240pp, ktestnted, softcover.
BEYOND NEWS OF THE WEIRD: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99063)
MORE NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Over 500 All-New, All-Weird, All-Rcal News Stories
That Prove the World Is Completely Out to Lunch
Compiled by Chick Shepard,
John J. Kohut & Roland Sweet
News junktes of the wertd, rejoice! Here's an ac new tofiow-up to the
best-seling News of the Wekd that once agan shows what you've
always known to be true — fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Gathered
here In one hilanous volume am more than 500 of the weirdest
craziest, most outondtsh siorios over to find their way into the naton'a
newspapers. There are cdnoidcnccs so bizarro, crimes so unbalanced,
and behavior 80 inappropriate. you won’t believe your eyes. But it's al
true!
After robbing a branch of the Mercantke Bank in Kansas
City, two men hopped into a stolen car. As they started their
getaway they tossed out several boards studded with na&s
tnat pointed upward to flatten the tires of any pursuing
vehdtes. They ttw drove over one of the boards and had to
abandon the car before they went two blocks.
Hrfsburgh counainum Wixom R. Robinson proposed a
teash tew for cats, casing feknos vxsous animals known to
'suck the breath cut of a chsd* when they smeit rrSik on the
child's kps. Local veterinarians deputed tho basts for the
statement, despite Robinson s insistence that critics ‘took at
aS the incidents'in which a cat has sucked the breath out of a
chad.
1990, SK x a, 220pp. soft covr.
MORE NEWS OF THE WEIRD: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99068)
THE NEW ROADSIDE AMERICA
Tho Modem Traveler's Guido to tho Wild
and Wonderful World of America's
Tourist Attractions
by Mike Wilkins, Ken Smith, end Doug Kirby
There are wacky. ono of-
a-kind treasures lurking
ameng tho Gaps and
Burger Kings akxvjside
America's highways and
byways. The New
Roadside America
highlights them all —
covering every interest and
organized for easy
reference.
-
See rare fainting goats
at Dot & Un's Exotic
Anrmal Ranch in
Plentywood. Montana
♦ Have Scott?/ beam you
to Riverside. Iowa. tho
Future Birthplace of
Captain James T. Kirk
-
Loam the truth about
food storage at live
Tupperware Awareness
Center in Kissimmee.
Florida
♦ Hunt diwsaurs with mriiatorc M-1G rifias at the Prefatory FoiCil in Marblehead. Ohio
♦ Digest the uecrete of everyone's favorite mystery meal at the Spam Museum in Austin. Minneeola.
With fearless ©valuations (the restive merits of Elvis-a-Rsma versus the EMs Presley Recreation Center). Ops for all-nclusive tours (the Hals o< Fame of e*/ery sport), hundreds photos and ilustratbns. and much more. The New Roadside America is for tn'ery American who wants to pack up an oto kitsch bag and smile, smile, smie.
1992, 6x9,263pp, kteatreted, soft cover.
THE NEW ROADSIDE AMERICA: $13.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99065)
THE PASSION OF AYN RAND
A Biography
by Barbara Branden
A landmark publishing
event! The first major biography
of extraordinary Ayn Rard. ur>
qifesUonab»/ one of the most
controversial, mlluontiai, and
engmatic literary figures of the
Men:nth century. Rand's per-
sonal lie has always remained
shrouded in mystery, but now
aizhc* BarVara Bran<fen — who
spent nrclccn years as Ranefs
intimate friend and professional
coItoague — at test Wts the veu
with a rich and fascciatng por-
trait of ths most private and
complex woman. Here each
dramabc twist and turn of her
unique Bfa is traced, from
Rands early years in Russia. 10
her arrival in America and sub-
sequent leap into Hollywood as
a scroerYATtlor. through her marriage, tho publication of her bestsellng
navcSs — al -sell in print today - and the evolution of her provocative and controversial phlosophy. Based on fifty hours of taped interviews with Rand, extensive rSscussions with those who had dose contact with her — including her sister—and above all the authors own reíalbnshlp with her sublet. this exccplicnal biography is unforgeOabto. It unques- Oonabty corar»closes: to tho autobiography Ayn Rand never wrote.
1W, O P, photographs, soft corer.
THE PASSION OF AYN RAND: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99018)
THE SECRET HOUSE
24 Hours in the Strange and
Unexpected World In Which We Spend
Our Nights and Days
by David Bodanls
This fascinating book is full cf photographs of ordinary housetioM objects, animate, and poopto taken from starting perspectives: scanning etectron micrographs, th ponographs. mnerophotegraphs. infrared photographs. OX. Yoir house will never seem the same again!
1996, 7H x 9X^ soft cover.
THE SECRET HOUSE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99053)
ATLAS SHRUGGED
by Ayn Rand
Thn astotntfng novel of a
man who said that ho would
slop the motor of tho world
— and did. Tremendous in
scope. breathtaking in Us
suspense. Atios Shrugged
is udike any other novel you
have ever read, h is a mys-
tery story. r»c< about the mur-
der of a man's body. but
about the murder — and
rebirth — of man's spirit.
Ayn Rand considered
Atlas Shrugged her crown-
ng achtevomont — and you
can see why. if you read it. In
U is chalenging and com-
peting novel. Rand (fetalis
her philosophy of Chjnc-
tlvlsm, what she thinks Is
wrorg with the modem
worid. and what should ba
dona about II.
Wtf John Gaft?9 Is ha
a destroyer or a Iterator?
Why doos ho have to right his battto not against hts enemies tut against those who need him most? Why decs ha right his hardest batte against thn woman ho taves? You will know tho answer to these questions when you deoover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with no lft*cs of the amazing men and women in this remarkable novel. You wil dscovcr why a producth-a genius became a wOrthfoSS playboy, why n phi’osepher became a pirate, why a composer gave up h’s career on tho night of his triumph, ard why a beautiful woman wlio ran a trnnsoon'.ncntal rafroad fell in love with a man she had sworn to kill.
Ayn Rand's Alias Shrugged is 666 Of Ibu fftMt f9S6h3b’6Q fiAd chalongng novels ycu wil ever road.
1SS7, f.GMpp, paperback.
ATLAS SHRUGGED: $6.99
(ORDER NUMBER 11012)
ZEN WITHOUT ZEN MASTERS
by Camden Benares
ZEN
Without
Zen Masters
‘if don't laugh at aS, jwte
missed the point if you ony tough,
you\e missed your chance for iSvmina-
toon. 9—Robert Anton Wilson
An oxceltont corrpanizn to Pnndpd
Discordi,i, this is Pic first colcctbn of
truly ccntorrporary Zan parables. It is
the best Introduction Io tin new and
somntmos batting worid of moditatton.
Eastern thcoghl and the galaxy of
philosophies that make up today's ex-
porting henzen of human awareness.
Try this one out for size.
VOTING: Smitty described the Id-
towing voting system to Omar: Each
carddata would have a yes and a no
box after his or her name, allowing each
voter a choice between voting for a candidate cr voting against another eno. Each negative vote would cancel a positive vote. This. Smitty explained. wcu'd prevent a pclilicten who was ejected from assuming ha had a mandate just becsuiu a few voters found him a hotter gamble. When ho asked Omar what tie nought of the system. Omar repiod. 'I never vole. It only encourages them/
Back in print at last, this hard-lo-find :ittkj gem is highly recommended to al dans cf Priodpia Discords.
1917, SX x SH. 127pp, UJuatrated, soft cover.
ZEN WITHOUT ZEN MASTERS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94087)
Lucifer's Lexicon
1994 by L.A. Rollins
Afroccntrism, n. History in blackface.
AIDS. n. The Gay Reaper.
Anarchist, n. One who knows that cops arc criminals but hasn't figured o*ut that criminals arc cops.
Anarchy, n. The ideal state of affairs in which there is no State to stop anarchist sectarians from taking direct action and killing each other off.
Anglo, n. A polite synonym for ’’Gringo."
Animal Liberationist, n. One who defends the equality of dogs with the dogma of equality. One who opposes the oppression of opossums. One who champions the rights of chimpanzees. One who battles on behalf of cattle. A villian who victimizes vegetables.
Appeaser, n. One who wants to keep the peace: a pejorative term used by warmongers.
Atheist. n. One who does not believe in God but is still holier than thou.
Avant Garde, n. The lemmings in the lead.
Based on a True Story, Not a true story.
Chosen People, the, n. The Jews, considered as God’s Pets: an idea produced by Jewishful thinking.
Christian, n. One who expects to be saved by the Calvary.
Christian Men's Movement, the. n. A movement involving Christian men who gather together out in the woods to bang on Bibles and gel in touch with their Inner Wildmon. For more information, see Donald Wildmon's book, Iron John, the Baptist.
Christian Science, n. The science of the lambs.
Cloning, n. The Xeroxing of living things.
Coffee, n. A beverage containing caffeine, a psychoactive and addictive substance. When a coffee drinker kicks the habit all at once, it is known as "going cold perky."
Conceptual Artist, n. One who conceives of himself as an artist. Also known as a "con artist."
Controversy, n. A battle in which bullshit substitutes for bullets.
Coon, n. Formerly», a derogatory term for Blacks. Now, a derogatory term for White racists. Sometimes spelled ’Koon.”
Cover-up, n. An attempt to hide something, such as evidence of a criminal conspiracy or the weak points of one’s conspiracy theory.
Cynicism, n. The vice of disbelieving in the virtues of hypocrites.
Disaster, n. Good news for journalists.
Discovery, n. The- finding of something one was not looking for.
Egoist, n. One who- is made of Stimcr stuff.
Exploration, n. A prelude to exploitation.
Fann Worker, n. A Manuel laborer.
Freethought Today, n. The same thing as frccthought a century ago.
Gay Litorationist, n. One who has forgotten that forbidden fruit is the sweetest.
Ghetto, n. Ashanti town.
Liberalism, n. Always having to say you're sorry.
Liberation Theology, n. The gospel according to St. Marx.
Libertarian, n. One who defends liberty but docs not define it. One who believes in liberty, just like a Christian believes in Christ. One who believes the right of free speech is much more important than the ability to speak freely.
Lunatic Fringe, n. pL Those who deviate too far from the Maniacal Mainstream and the Crackpot Consensus.
Mall, the, n. The Meeea of Americans, to which they faithfully make frequent pilgrimages to perform the bizarre religious ritual known as "shopping.*
Melanin, n. A skin pigment which, according to the theories of Dr. Jeffrey Leopard, predisposes people to enjoy eating watermelon.
Minimal Art, n. A step in the right direction, art based on the premise that less is more, more or less. Minimal artists should go one step further, however, and realize that nothing is everything.
Munich, a. A synonym for ignominious appeasement of aggressors: a term used by those who claim that World War Two could have been averted by starting it a year earlier.
Murder, n. An ex post facto abortion. The right to commit murder is supported by all who truly favor freedom of choice.
Nazi-hunter, n. One who hunts the witches of Auschwitz.
Nonconformist. n. One who conforms to the norms of nonconformism.
Objectivity, n. Agreement with the subjective bias of the prevailing consensus.
Philosopher, n. One who loves wisdom but whose love is usually unrequited.
Photophobia, n. The irrational fear and hatred of irrational fear and hatred.
Planets, n. pl. Asteroids on steroids.
Politics of Meaning, the, n. An attempt to disguise the meaning of politics.
Reason, n. The faculty whose use leads to the innumerable irreconcilable contradictions between the opinions of different rationalists.
Scholarship, n. A ship of educated fools.
Soft Rock. n. A contradiction in terms.
Terrorism, n. ThC nemesis of tourism.
Underground Press, n. All the news that misfits print.
Work Ethic, n. Slave morality.
Xenophobia, n. The fear and hatred of paradoxes.
Zionism, n. The problem of which it purports to be the solution.
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1995 Catalog - Winter Supplement
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Introduction
Welcome to the 1995 Winter Supplement to the Loompanics Unlimited Book Catalog— The Best Book Catalog tn The World. We have more than two dozen new titles this time, so let's take a look.,.
We are very proud to offer our readers one of the most radical and intelligent books we havo ever published: Stove Kubby's The Politice Of Consciousness. This book gets into what freedom Is really all about — your right to choose your own state of mind. As usual, we have some fine offerings on money-making: The Small Commercial Garden, The Rummager’s Handbook, The Off-The-Beaten-Path Job Book, We Are AH Self-Employed, and Your Money Or Your Life. Sex and love are interests of ours, and this time we have How To Create Love In Your Life, and two sexually explicit videos: The Lovers' Guide To Better Orgasms, and Advanced Sexual Techniques. Also of Interest is The World Guide To Nude Beaches And Resorts.
Killing Time is the fascinating autobiography of one of the most original thinkers of our time: Paul Feyerabend. Censored 19951$ a guide to the news that didn’t make the news. How To Locate Anyone Who is Or Has Been In The Military tells you how to do exactly that. Utopias On Puget Sound 18B5-1915 Is intriguing history, and bolo'bolols a blueprint for a modern day utopia. How To Find Your Ideal Country Home will help you get out of the city, and Survival Shelters Construction Manual r\<5\ only shows you how to construct survival shelters, but how to keep them secret from the government and nosy neighbors.
Beat The Border is a guide to the U.S. border written by a long-time border agent. Home Workshop Guns For Defense And Resistance: Volume One: The Submachine Gun is another in Bill Holmes’ line series on making your own firearms.
Dlm-Mak's 12 Most Deadly Katas is another volume on death-point striking, and Car Bomb Recognition Guide tells you more than you wanted to know about car bombs. State Public Records is an excellent guide for investigators.
Shocked And Amazed! is the first issue ol a shocking and amazing zine on carnival and freak culture, and Brutar/an #14 & #15 are the latest issues of Dom Salami's fine zine. America's Lowest Cost Colleges will be valuable to anyone interested in higher education. And The Imaginary Indian reveals where we get our ideas on what Indians are all about. And be sure not to miss the special feature article, “Smokeless Marijuana," starting on page 8.
All In all, we feel this is an excellent assortment of exactly whal you have come to expect from us: the very finest in controversial and unusual books. Our next Supplement is scheduled for November. As usual, if you order from this one, you will receive the next one automatically. So happy book hunting and good reading!
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Index to New Titles
Advanced Sexual Techniques (VHS Video}
America's Lowest Cost Colleges
Beat The Border
bolo' bolo
Bailarían #14 A #15
Car Bomb Recognition Guide
Censored 1995
Dim Mak's 12 Most Deadly Katas
Home Workshop Guns For Defense And Resistance: Volume One: The Submachine Gun
How To Create Love In Your Life
How To Find Your Ideal Country Home
How To Locate Anyone Who Is Or Has Been In The Military
Imaginary Indian, The
Killing Time
Lover's Guide To Better Orgasms, The (VHS Video)
Qff-The-Beaien-Palb Job Book, The
Politics Of Consciousness, The
Rummagor’s Handbook. The
Shocked And Amazed!
Small Commercial Garden
State Public Records
Survival Shelters Construction Manual
Utopias On Puget Sound 1685-1915
We Are All Self-Employed
World Guide To Nude Beaches And Resorts, The
Your Money Or Your Life
No Longer Available
(Italics indicates new changes since last supplement.)
Antichrist
Betrayal Of Trust
Black Markets Around The World
Capitalism For Kids
Criminal Use Of False Identification
Exotic Weapons
Gestalt Self-Therapy
Getting Started In The Illicit Drug Business
Handful Of Zen
Henley’s Formulas For Home And Workshop
How To Produce A Small Newspaper
Human Sacrifice
Human Oddities
I Cried, You Didn't Listen
Law Unto Itself
Life After The City
Payback
People Without Government
Peyote Cult
Printing it
Semlotext(e) USA
Shock Value
Status For Sale
Sweet Revenge
Tools For Conviviality
When You're Up To Your Ass In Alligators
World Power Foundation
You Can Go Bankrupt Without Going Broke
You Can't Win
Zenarchy
Price Increases
(Title followed by now price. Italics indicates now changes since last supplement)
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Asshole No More, $11.95
Atlas Shrugged. $7.99
Beyond Nakedness, $16.95
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Black Book, Vol. 2. $14.95
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Complete Book Of Cordwood Masonry, $17.95
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Food Of The Gods. $14.95
Great Mambo Chicken & The Transhuman Condition, $12.50
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It Did Happen Here, $15.95
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Catalog
The Politics of Consciousness
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Steve Kubby
Steve Kubby says:
The War on Drugs is in reality a War on Freedom. It Is a war that brings misery to millions ol Americans — far out of proportion to any real throat from the drugs themselves. Through the misguided efforts lo stem the rising Iide of drug use, our government has created a lucrative industry for gangsters and violent criminals while generating Iho wider use ol harder, ever more addictive and violent drugs. Under the banner of the War on Drugs, wo have subsidized criminal activities and created a new police state, with more people behind bars than any other country in the world. Over 400.000 people are arrested each year tot marijuana possession. Right now, at least 600,000 of our fellow citizens are rotting in American jails for acts that would nover havo been considered crimes unlit sixty years ago. H Is to these American POWs, these prisoners of the War on Freedom, that (his book is dedicated.
“We claim to be a diverse, pluralistic, multicultural society, and yet we have ‘Zero Tolerance' for personal consumption of natural, psychoactive plants and fungi. We hold ourselves lo be the showcase of freedom for all the world, and yet wo have more of our citizons behind bars than any other country on Earth. Our politicians would havo you bolleve that we are a sick society that broods dangerous criminals, when Iho truth is Ihose cowardly career polilicians havo criminalized more activities than any other society. Il's a nasty web of suspicion, paranoia, and forfeiture inlondod lo distract the public from the gross incompetence of politicians who have bankrupted our economy, destroyed many of our civil liberties, and created a reign of terror.
'Yes, drugs can be dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as armed government agents who trash the Bill ol Rights, kick down doors, seize private property and drag otherwise honest and decent citizens off to jail. Our Founding Fathers would never havo allowed this War on Freedom and neither should we. It’s time for us lo stop playing on people's fears and come up with a saner policy on drugs. It's time to end Iho madness and tree our American prisoners of war.
"Drugs are dangerous, but Ihose who tell you that drugs are Public Enemy Number One are creating a smoke screen to hide the real Issues. This country is in serious trouble. The government that is now in power is in open violation of the Constitution, Police and government agents have suspended the Bill of Rights and now seize a billion dollars a year from helpless citizens. Americans, even those who do not use drugs, now live In fear of secret police from the IRS, FDA, DEA, FBI. CIA and ATF who can lako away everyth Ing you own and not even charge you with a crime. DARE agents are paid $90,000 a year to urge school children to turn in their parents, friends and family members who may be smoking pot at home."
Contents:
Book): Politics: Our External Freedom
Tho War on Freedom
Ecolopla
Zero Tolerance
Don’t Tread On Mel
We, The People
Voodoo Economics
Free Markets
Liberty Or Deathl
Criminalizing Nature
Tho Evil Empire
The Altered States of America
The Tactical Use of LSD 25
The Undiscovered Country
Inhale To The Chiefl
Log On. Tune In, Take Over
Booh II: Consciousness: Our Internal Freedom
Western Civilization Is The Disease
Rights of Passage
Subvert The Dominant Paradigm
Higher Consciousness
Molecular Theology
Manna From Heaven
In Jesus' Name, We Prey
Visionary Healing
Coming Of Age
Downloading The Cosmic Design
Appendix 1: Young People 8 Marijuana
Appendix 2: Citizen's Advisory Statement To Police Officer
Appendix 3: The BUI Of Rights
Appendix 4: Notes
Appendix S: "You Don’t Have to do Drugs to do Time "
Here Is what has already been said about Steve Kubby's The Politics of Consciousness:
"...brings the issue of drugs and freedom out of the closet and places it where it needs lo be, right In the middle of the turn of the millennium agenda of the American society, if the pursuit of happiness, enshrined in our nation’s founding documents, means anything, il means the right to explore one‘s own mind using traditional substances and approaches. The Politics Of Consciousness is long overdue and well done. ’— Terence McKenna, author of Food Of The Gods
"Explains in simple and compelling terms why we must end the insane War On Drugs,'—Eugene Schoenfeld, M.D.
"The Politics of Consciousness is a rallying cry to launch a patriotic campaign of national liberation and recapture our freedom of thought. Profound in its Implications."—Chris Conrad, author of Hemp: Lifeline To The Future
Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to oiler our readers Steve Kubby's The Politics Of Consciousness — a homemade “Patriot" missile that strikes a winning blow for life, liberty, and the pursuit of inner happiness. It is fiercely patriotic and It’s like nothing you have read before.
1995, 8x11, ISOpp, Illustrated, softcover.
THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85212)
The Small Commercial Garden
How to Make $10,000 a Year in Your Backyard
by Dan Haakenson
The Small Commercial Garden is a unique book about gardening, written by a commercial gardener. It contains not only many success stories, but also the mistakes made along the way. You will leam the commercial secrets that will Improve your garden production. Then, if you decide to become a commercial gardener, the book explains how to get started, and how to become profitable.
In the pages of this book you will leam: The four myths that keep many hobby gardeners from selling their produce • The five principles of gardening that will assure your success • How to profitably market your produce • How Io avoid mistakes in designing your commercial garden • How to fine lune your production with a simple greenhouse • And much, much more. The author believes there are many home gardeners who would like to become commercially profitable, but have not had the information that would convince them it is possible. He wrote this book because he believes a small commercial hobby gardener can become profitable, and still thoroughly enjoy the work of gardening and selling.
1995, x 11, 206pp, Illustrated, Indexed, softcover.
THE SMALL COMMERCIAL GARDEN: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 641BB)
The Rummager’s Handbook
Finding, Buying, Cleaning, Fixing, Using and Selling Secondhand Treasures
by R.S. McClurg
Collecting and selling second-hand merchandise is an entertaining, produclivo, and money-making activity for thousands of people. With The Rummager’s Handbook as your guide, you'll leam from an experienced rummager the techniques and knowledge needed lo successfully buy, sell, coll oct, and recycle secondhand goods found at garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores.
Leam how to: • Bargain easily, effectively, and politely with various types of sellers • Evaluate the ago and worth of everything from collectible glassware and china to dolls, toys, furniture, electrical appliances, and more • Clean and restore a wide range of goods and surfaces safely and economically « Store, display, and give new life to used goods In Imaginative ways • Keep track of your treasure-hunt buying and selling with a few clever inventory and record-keeping techniques • Hold a profitable garago or yard sale wlih some simple planning, pricing and displaying tips • And much more.
Whether you're a treasure hunter or interested In selling Iho treasures that you already own. 77» Rummager's Handbook is a storehouse of practical tips and imaginative ideas tor collecting and recycling hundreds of common objects.
1995, 6x9, 160pp, Illustrated, Indexed, softcover.
THE RUMMAGER'S HANDBOOK: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 641B6)
We Are All Self-employed
The New Social Contract for Working in A Changed World
by Cliff Hakim
With the advent of the global marketplace, job security — the golden yoke of dependence that once tethered employees to their jobs — has ceased to exist. Today, each oi us must take full responsibility lor our career mobility and job productivity. We Are AHSelf-Employed^tn^orXs six powerful beliefs which make up a “working creed* and form an essential guide tor adopting the new social contract. If you can reconcile your dreams with the skills you possess and the demands of the marketplace, you will be free lo be your authentic self while making a worthwhile contribution to your organization, and the broader marketplace.
Adopting Hakim's “self-employed* attitude will prepare you for the inevitable changes that come with lime, and help you create a new definition of success rooted in your own interests, skills, values, and desires. Independent in spiril, you are working with the organization, offering your expertise while collaborating with others. Drawing on the experiences of people in large corporations, small businesses, education, government, and non-profit institutions, this book provides numerous examples of people who are living a “self-employed” attitude.
We Are AU Setf-Employedvt\\\ help you move from merely surviving on a job to engaging your creativity — embedded in the responsibility symbolized by sell-employment — and successfully employing yourself In a way that draws on your talents, Interests, and deepest values.
1994, 6x9, 246pp. Indexed, hardcover.
WE ARE ALL SELF-EMPLOYED: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64185)
"Marxists think we should be bossed by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by businessmen. Feminists don’t care which form bossing takes so long as tlte bosses are women."
— Bob Black, The Abolition Of Work
The Off-the-beaten-path Job Book
You CAN Make a Living AND Have a Life!
by Sandra Gurvts
This book shows how you can work for yourself, enjoy it, and find fulfillment. It provides a road map to unusual and enjoyable work and where to find It. Featuring such varied jobs as tattoo artist, cookie maker, product tester, martial arts teacher, rafting teacher/guide, bail bonds person, funeral director, ornithologist, and cowboy/cowgirl, the book is organized by areas of interest: health care professions, food service, the great outdoors, among many others. Because 77» Off-The-Beaten-Path Job Book emphasizes mostly unusual jobs, the information is conveyed in a light-hearted yet informative manner,
The Otf-The-Beaten-Path Job Book\s also a book tor Iho nineties. Gone are the days when one devoted thirty years lo a single company. According to buslnoss-trend watchers, an American joining the workforce today will likely work in more than ten different jobs with at least five different employers over the course of a career. The author helps to remind us that work can be both fun and rewarding, and her book counts Iho many ways.
1995, 5M X 8H, 302pp, soft cover.
THE OFF-THE-BEATEN-PATH JOB BOOK: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64189)
How to Create Love in Your Life
A Guided Introduction to A Wonderful New You and The Lover You’ve Been Walting For
by Richard and Janet Reed
How To Create Love In Your Life is unlike any other ol the ‘Finding A Lover" types of literature. It offers a unique step-by-step process for the reader to transform himself or herself while finding that once-ln-a-lifetlme love relationship. This book is based on a dynamic combination of revolutionary human potential concepts and the most ancient teachings of love as a state of mind, a way of seeing, a perspective of yourself and your relationship to others.
Easy to understand and easy to accomplish, How To Create Love tn Your Life reveals a historically proven yet wonderfully new secret of love: the way to find the right person Is to become the right person... that within yourself is hidden a love magnet more powerful than even the greatest beauty and riches.
Others have found love and happiness using the unique love secrets revealed by authors Richard and Janet Rood. Now, you can. tool
1988, SU x 8U, 157 pp, Illustrated, »oft cover.
HOW TO CREATE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85214)
The Lovers’ Guide to Better Orgasms (Vhs Video)
by Dr. Andrew Stanway
Orgasm, for most people, Is the ultimate response to Intense soxual excitement. It happens when your body is released from the peak of soxual tension and the experience is a uniquely personal blend of emotional, spiritual and physical responses combined In an all-consuming moment of ecstasy.
This video explores the mysteries of orgasms, how to experience thorn (even If you've never had one before), and special techniques for increasing the pleasure of your sexual climax. The programme is divided into three separate parts: orgasms for women, orgasms for men, and a unique “Going for Gold“ section which demonstrates how couples can achieve the best possible orgasms together,
Contents includo: • What is an orgasm? • Loaming to have orgasms • How to improve your orgasms • Teaching your partner to help you to a belter orgasm • Multiple orgasms • Soxual urge, orgasms & puberty • Achieving greater ejaculation control • Increasing the intensity of your orgasm • How your partner can holp you to onjoy more powerful climaxes • Orgasmic control • Simultaneous orgasms • Instant Orgasms • Orgasms & Fantasy & Sex toys • Orgasms • Secrets of Tantric Sex.
Warning: This video contains scenes of a sexually explicit nature. Adults only. Sexually explicit content.
1993, 90 minute full color VHS video.
THE LOVERS' GUIDE TO BETTER ORGASMS: $29.95
(ORDERNUMBER 85211)
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Your Money or Your Life
Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence
by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Doos money own you? There’s a big difference between “making a living' and making a life. Do you spend more than you earn? Doos making a living feel more like making a dying? Do you dislike your Job but can't afford to leave it? Is money fragmenting your time, your relationships with family and friends? If so, Your Money Or Your Life is lor you.
Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin took back their Ilves by gaining control of tholr money. They both gave up successful — and stressful — careers In order to live more deliberately and meaningfully. Now, In this inspiring and empowering book, they explain their nine-step program that shows you how to:
♦ Get out of debt and develop savings
♦ Reorder material priorities and live well for less
♦ Resolve Inner conflicts between values and lifestyles
♦ Convert problems Into opportunities to learn new skills
♦ Attain a wholeness of livelihood and lifestyle
♦ And much more.
Your Money Or Your Life is must roading for anyone who wants to got out of the job economy and become financially independent.
1992, 5x8, 382pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
YOUR MONEY OR YOUR UFE: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64187)
Advanced Sexual Techniques (Vhs Video)
by Dr. Andrew Stanway
Making sex even better. No one is bom a groat lover. In personal and sexual relationships some things come naturally, but so much more Is learned usually by trial and error. This frank, but sensitive, programme vividly demonstrates ways for you and your partner to develop your soxual skills. It deeply explores a wide range of love-making techniques and sensual methods to enrich your life as lovers. There Is no more effective way to discover how to give and receive greater pleasure and lasting satisfaction.
Contents Include: Sox, deslro & communication • Intensifying romantic liaisons • Prolonged foreplay • Advanced foreplay • Intensifying intercourse • Creative lovemaking positions • Sex beyond the bedroom • Fantasy • Sex games • First nights together • Practicing safer sex.
Banish sexual boredom!
Warning: This video contains scenes of a sexually explicit nature. Adults only. Sexually explicit content.
1992, 60 minute», full color VHS video.
ADVANCED SEXUAL TECHNIQUES: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85210)
Killing Time
The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
by Paul Feyerabend
Killing Time Is the story of an extraordinary life. Finished only weeks before Paul Feyerabend's death, it is the self-portrait of one of this century’s most original and Influential intellectuals.
Trained in physics and astronomy, Feyerabond was best known as a philosopher of science. But he emphatically was not a builder of theories or a writer of rules. Rather, his fame was in powerful, plain-spoken critiques of “big" science and 'big* philosophy. In landmark essays and books, and in legendary lectures, Feyerabend gave voice to a radically democratic ‘epistemological anarchism*: he argued forcefully that there is not one way to knowledge but many principled paths; not one truth or one rationality but different, competing pictures of the workings of the world. ‘Anything goes," he said about the ways of science in his most famous book, Against Method. And he meant it.
Although not written as an intellectual autobiography, Killing Time chronicles the people, ideas, and conflicts of sixty years. Feyerabend writes frankly of complicated relationships with his mentor Kari Popper and his friend and frequent opponent Imre Lakatos, and his reactions to a growing reputation as the “worst enemy of science.” He is characteristically self-critical and matter-of-fact, whether about the controversy he regularly provoked or the doubts ha had about his own Ideas. ‘I never 'denigrated' reason, whatever that Is," he writes, ‘only some petrified and tyrannical version of it. Nor did I assume my critique was the end of the matter.”
Feyerabend's legacy is immense: the sea change in the way we understand science would have been Impossible without him. Contentious, often unforgiving, Feyerabend here Is also reflective, even lyrical about the pleasures of philosophy. Rarely has an Intellectual of this stature told his story with such openness, honesty, or joy,
1995, 5Hx8H, 192pp, Illustrated, Indexed, hardcover.
KILLING TIME: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94264)
Censored 1995
The News That Didn’t Make The News — And Why The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
by Carl Jensen & Project Censored
Read all about it: ■ The deadly secrets of the Occupational Safety Agency ■ The ultra-conservative group with secret plans for your future ■ The secret Pentagon plan to subsidize defense contractor mergers ■ Toxic incinerators ■ The latest on the ozone crisis ■ The AEC memo that shows why Information about human radiation experiments was censored ■ 60 billion pounds of fish that Is wasted each year ■ The return of tuberculosis ■ The Pentagon's mysterious HAARP project ■ How the news media masks spousal violence in the ‘language of love.” And more!
The 25 top censored stories of the year, Including the ten mentioned above, were compiled by Cari Jensen, Project Censored, and a national panel of 20 leading media scholars and critics.
Project Censored has been described as “one of the most significant media research projects currently being undertaken in the country,“ and “a distant early warning system for society's problems." Censored 1995 contains 25 stories that affect each and every one of us, stories which you probably didn’t hear about because they were underreported.
1995, 5H x 8H, 332pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
CENSORED 1995: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94263)
World Guide to Nude Beaches and Resorts
by Lee Baxandall
Lee Baxandall's World Guide To Nude BeachesAnd Resorts gives you thousands of choice sites and contacts spanning the globe — mostly illustrated in brilliant color — complete with accurate directions, invaluable local customs, and witty lore gathered from over twenty years of Nude Beach and Resort adventuring over six continents. From the author's Introduction:
“Relaxation or active recreation without garments — what the British call 'costumes' — and without a sense of shame is today, for much of the civilized world, an uncontroversial amenity.
“Indeed, one mark of a civilized country is its nude and topfree beaches.
“It seems almost inconceivable, given the present acceptance, that earlier In this century a boachgoer who exposed a bare knee or shoulder from a cumbersome bathing costume invited arrest.
“It has been said that self acceptance is largely an extension of body acceptance. Social nudity permits us to enhance our awareness of the reality, not merely the idea, of how much alike and similarly vulnerable we are. Discovering this, we may leam to control our lear of the gaze of another.
“Alienating barriers of social role and economic class, sex role and gender preference are reduced as we dispose of the trappings of difference, privilege and fear. Individuality can be strengthened without arrogance; Integrity can be recovered.
"The presence of our bodies—of breast and genital vulnerability in a natural context, 'Nalurism' — contributes to perspective and health. When the culture Into which we are bom strays too far from nature's laws, we suffer. A 'naturalization' is in order. This will, conversely, make it possible to more completely 'humanize' our culture.
“This book Is a guide to opportunities for you and your family and friends to enjoy recreation in the nude. And why should you and they not try II? You cannot imagine the taste of an apple if you haven't tasted one. It is no different with a nude beach or resort."
See (in full glorious color!) and Experience:
o France's clothing-free City: Cap d'Agde
O Florida's full-service nudist resorts
O Nudist Clubs in most States & Provinces
O California's elegant Hideaways
O Buenos Aires to Alaska, Bali to London
O Nude Cruises & Resorts in the Caribbean!
Lee Baxandall's World Guide To Nude Beaches And Resorts is one of the most beautiful books we have ever sold.
1995, 7x 10, 272pp, profusely Illustrated, soft cover.
WORLD GUIDE TO NUDE BEACHES AND RESORTS: $28.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85213)
Utopias on Puget Sound 1885-1915
by Charles Pierce LeWarne
James A. Farley's famous toast “to the forty-seven slates and the soviet of Washington" Introduces and establishes the tone for this study of radicalism. LeWarne finds the roots of that radicalism In the five communitarian experiments he discusses. With events such as the Everett massacre and the Seattle general strike prominent In local history, Washington has a long radical heritage. The author demonstrates that the Influence of a coterie of liberals and radicals centered on Puget Sound in such communities as Home, Burley, Equality, Freeland, and Port Angeles was felt in the state long after the “utopias* they came Io colonize ceased to exist.
‘In Utopias On Puget Sound 1885-1915 Charles Pierce LeWame analyzes the fortunes and misfortunes of five communitarian settlements: Puget Sound Co-operative Colony, Equality, Freeland, Burley and Home. Utilizing a variety of sources, many of them obscure and fragmentary, he skillfully weaves them together to describe the origins, philosophies, personnel, achievements, internal stresses, and ultimate causes for the dissolution of each of the colonies... LeWame has made an important contribution to American social history. ’— Pacific Historical Review
Thoroughly documented and indexed, this is an absorbing account of a little-known but important period in the long history of the liberal traditionin Washington Slate. "■—The Pacific Historian
1995, 6x9, 349pp, photos, indexed, soft cover.
UTOPIAS ON PUGET SOUND 1885-1915: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17080)
bolo’ bolo
by P.M.
New Edition With an Author0's Apology
This challenging and unusual book advocates the "bolo’ as the basic form of society — self-sufficient communities with free travel and free trade among them, and individuals moving about as it pleases them. But bolo' bolo is far more than a mere blueprint for how everyone is supposed to have to live—change and adaptability are built into the system.
“The name of the monster that we have let grow and that keeps our planet In its grips is: The Planetary Work-Machine. If we want Io transform our spaceship into an agreeable place again, we've got to dismantle this Machine, repair the damage it has done, and come Io some basic agreements on a new start. ...The machine Is built on its inner contradictions: workers/capital; private capital/stale capital (capitallsmAsocialism); development/underdevelopmont; misery/wasle; war/peace; womon/men; etc. The Machine is not a homogenous structure; it uses its internal contradictions to expand its control and to refine its instruments. Unlike fascist or theocratic systems or like in Orwell's 1984, Ihe Work-Machine permits a 'sane' level of resistance, unrest, provocation and rebellion. It digests unions, radical parties, protest movements, demonstrations and democratic changes of regimes."
Unlike most political books, bolo'bolotranscends traditional left/right analysis (which is always co-opted by The Machine), and examines the nature of the forces that compose the reality we all have to inhabit.
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How to Locate Anyone Who is or Has Been in the Military
by Lt. CoL Richard S. Johnson7
The author is the foremost expert in the nation on locating people with a military connection. In this book, he has brought together every conceivable means to locate current and former members of the military. This unique book has been used successfully by private Investigators, collection agencies, attorneys, military, school and family reunion organizers, genealogical researchers and people searching for missing relatives and birth parents.
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Smokeless Marijuana
1995 by August Sulemi
Nineteen ninety-five is a rare and unusual time in the nearly sixty-year prohibition of the Cannabis plant in the U.S.A. It is a time where thirty-five million educated and intelligent adults in the U.S.A. regularly use the leaf and buds for recreational and medicinal purposes. It is a time where many millions more are recognizing the tremendous value of this plant for paper, clothing, food, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and so on. It is also a bizarre time when a plant with such far-reaching and monumental value, which has become the »ccond-largest cash crop in (he U.S.A., is still remarkably and irexplicably illegal. And most importantly it is a time to say no tc the bureaucrats who perpetrate this atrocity of Cannabis prohibition.
Consider these facts (mostly gleaned from High Times) about the thirty-five million marijuana (Cannabis) consumers in the U.S.A. One out of six is over 50 years old. 18% hold doctoral degrees, and a full 70% are college graduates. Their average I.Q. is 17 points above the national average. They arc considerably healthier than their non-marijuana-using counterparts, and they suffer from cancer and cardiovascular diseases at a rate 40% lower than the average. More than one- third are vegetarians. Nearly three-quarters do not smoke tobacco.
It is for this intelligent, educated, health-conscious and somewhat aging group that 1 write this article. The only danger from marijuana other than its senseless illegality has been the common method of ingesting it by smoking. Smokeless Marijuana will enable them to reduce or even eliminate the smoking danger.
This article is aimed only at recreational use of marijuana, and it is hoped that it will expand your enjoyment of the Cannabis plant in unusual and delightful ways.
Enjoy!
(Dedicated to "Rocky, ” who for the last dozen years has admonished me to write down these methods.)
Marijuana Capsules
Up in smoke. That’s where 85% of your expensive purchased pot or your painstakingly-grown weed is going when you smoke it. Only about 15% of inhaled burning marijuana is absorbed. The rest is simply blown away.
By ingesting marijuana through the digestive system, rather than through the lungs, we can realize nearly 100% of its effects. We also spare the lungs the irritation of inhaling a burning substance. This is definitely not an article on how to make those ineffective, foul-tasting marijuana brownies of the 1960s.
The first method presented will demonstrate how to make highly-potent marijuana capsules. They can be made easily without any special techniques, and with standard kitchen equipment. Homegrown leaf or summer pinchings that would require many smoked joints to get even a slight buzz produce capsules of outrageous stoniness. Unsmokeable shake and dust can also be used. If you want to try prime buds to make capsules, be prepared for an extremely intense trip.
It takes about an hour to get stoned after swallowing a marijuana capsule, and the high lasts at least 2-3 hours. I suggest saving some of your best buds for smoking when you want to get a quick, short high.
The Theory
The tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is the active part of marijuana, the stuff that gets you stoned, is contained within the tiny plant cells. These cells arc surrounded by a tough cellulose skin. When smoked, the cellulose skin is burned, and the wonderful, stony vapors of the THC are released to be absorbed through your lungs and carried by your bloodstream directly to your brain — ecstasy! If you ate a primo bud, however, you would not get stoned. The cellulose skin is indigestible, and the pot cells will pass out of your body unchanged along with the rest of your shit.
So, how can we break through this tough, cellulose skin of the pot-plant cells, without burning them, to make the THC contained therein available to our digestive system? This will be explained as the method for making the capsules is presented.
The Method
The first piece of equipment needed is a blender. It must have exceptionally sharp blades. I keep mine sharp by honing the blades with a small round file used for chainsaw sharpening. (Editor's note: a small coffee mill or grinder will also suffice.)
Put your very dry marijuana leaf into the blender and grind the stuff up. Strain the ground-up pot through a very fine screen. A triple-zero (000) brass screen purchased from your local hardware store is best. Blend and re-blend the stuff, and filter it through the screen repeatedly. The object is to end up with ground-up weed that is near the consistency of flour. Any fibrous, leftover material can be thrown out. It is important that the marijuana be very dry and ground to the finest possible consistency. This exposes the greatest number of cells containing the stony THC to the extraction process.
The plant cells containing the THC are almost impossible to rupture in order to release the THC. Until recently, the only commonly-employed method was to bum them and inhale the smoke. That is, until the appearance of the microwave oven. Your second piece of apparatus is a microwave oven.
THC is soluble in both alcohol and oil. The alcohol is not acceptable for capsule making, so oil is the choice. As an Italian, I always use olive oil in the process, but any good liquid vegetable oil will suffice.
Place a portion, or all if you have just a small amount, of your ground-up marijuana powder into a microwave-safe, clear-glass container. Pour in some oil. The amount cannot be specified, as it depends upon the amount of your marijuana powder, A 20% oil-to-powder ratio will be about right. Microwave this mixture for a few seconds, then remove from the oven and stir. Repeat this process several times, microwaving and stirring. Add oil if necessary. The mixture must be a very oily, black, almost-tarry consistency. Continue to microwave and stir until the mixture becomes quite hot and just begins to smoke very slightly. Do not scorch the mixture. Allow the mixture to cool for a short time.
What has happened is that the marijuana plant cells have ruptured in the microwave oven, and the released THC is trapped in the oil surrounding them. The oil containing this released THC is completely digestible.
After the mixture has cooled for a short time, stuff it into empty 00 capsules. I use a plastic swizzic-stick to make sure the capsules arc packed tightly. Put the capsules into a bottle and freeze them immediately. This is important: The capsules must be stored in a freezer. The released THC dissolved in the oil will spoil or become rancid if not frozen. The capsules keep indefinitely when frozen. In fact, the freezing can make them even stronger. The freezing (ends to rupture (he few remaining THC-containing cells that the microwave may have missed.
Using The Capsules
When ingesting the capsules, they should be removed from the freezer and swallowed frozen. One capsule, or the maximum of two, are all that are needed for a long-lasting, very intense high. Remember, it takes thirty minutes to an hour and a half to get stoned, depending on how speedy your digestive system is. Also, the effects come on slowly and subtly. You may think that nothing is happening due to the slowness, but after a while you will realize that you are more stoned than you have ever been before on marijuana. Remember, you've got all the good stuff inside you. You're not blowing away 85% of it by smoking. The high is also long- lasting; not just a brief blast, then nothing, like much of the current so-called high-eaergy weed. You've got at least two hours of joyous stoniness
Here is a hint on how to maximize the effects of taking a marijuana capsule: Take it about fifteen minutes to one-half hour after a meal. Your digestive system will be in high gear from the food, and tie THC from the capsule will get into your bloodstream quickh, furiously, and delightfully! Enjoyl
One of the greatest advantages of smokeless marijuana in capsule form is the drastically-reduccd chance of getting busted. Take the capsule at home just before you go out for dinner and bar-hopping, and you’ll spend most of the evening stoned out of your mind without having any weed in your possession, any paraphernalia, or any smell in your car or on your breath. One friend calls it his “fuck the fuzz" high. Just keep your munchies out of sight. Smokeless marijuana has al least twice the munchie-inducing properties of smoked marijuana.
An Alternative Method
If freezer storage is not possible, the capsules can be made with a hard Crisco-like type of oil. The capsules must still be kept in a very cool place, preferably in the refrigerator. Storage time will be reduced in proportion to the warmth of the storage place. This method is OK if you arc making just a few capsules to be used within a short period of time.
Marijuana Wine
Yes, you read it right. Imagine a delicious, light, white wine that not only gets you drunk, but also gets you stoned. Remarkable!
This process is very easy, but it demands much more patience than capsule making. Primo marijuana wine takes at least a year for perfection. Most of the time is spent just waiting. The actual work to be done is very slight.
The recipe will be for one gallon (or four liters, for you metric-oriented ioadies). A five-gallon carboy is an excellent wine-making container for those who have enough of the raw materials.
This is an excellent method for large-quantity home growers, as it utilizes stems to make the wine. Yep, the ultimate in total use— wine from marijuana stems. You can use leaf or even buds to make the wine, but I prefer to make capsules from the leaf and smoke the buds. It’s your call, however.
The Theory
The theory is extremely simple. Remember where I informed you that THC (the stony stuff, in case your shortterm memory loss has already kicked in) is soluble in alcohol and oil? Voila! As your wine ferments, it produces alcohol, which then dissolves the THC from your marijuana material in the fermenting container. Ain't nature wonderful!
The Method
Step #1
Stuff your one-gallon jug with marijuana stems cut into short pieces about one to two inches long. Stuff it full by ramming the material down with a stick. The more you gel into the jug, the better the wine will be. Throw in some leaf or even bud if you are so inclined. Old, dried-out shake is also perfectly OK. Try not to use any seeds in (he wine, as they arc very oily, contain no THC, and can cause a bad flavor in the wine.
Step #2
Heat 2!6 quarts (liters) of water to boiling. Do not use an aluminum pan. Completely dissolve two pounds of white sugar in the boiling water. This sounds like a huge quantity of sugar, but there arc no natural sugars in marijuana as there are in fruit, and the sugar turns to alcohol. In fact, two pounds of sugar make a very dry wine. Alternatives for sweeter wine or different flavors will be discussed later.
Step #3
Pour the hot water with the sugar completely dissolved into your jug of stems. Cap the jug, shake well, loosen cap, and set the jug aside to cool to room temperature.
Step #4
In a small amount of lukewarm water (not hot!), dissolve one entire cake of fresh yeast, or alternatively, one package of active dry yeast, or one tablespoon of bulk dry yeast. It may take considerable stirring, but the yeast must be completely dissolved in the lukewarm water. Add more water if necessary.
Caution: Before proceeding with the next step, make sure your jug has cooled completely. If the water is too hot in this step or in the next, the yeast, which is a living plant, will be killed, and you will not get wine, just a jug of rotten stems!
Step #5
Pour the yeast solution into the jug, cap, shake well, and immediately remove the cap. Fill the jug to within 2-3 inches from the top with cool water. Be sure to leave several inches of space at the top of the jug or it will overflow when the fermentation begins. Cap the jug, shake well again, remove the cap, then replace it on the jug loosely! This is extremely important. If the cap is not put on loosely, the jug will explode when fermentation begins.
Step #6
Place the jug on several thicknesses of newspapers and put it in a dark place. The back of a closet is an ideal place. The contents of the jug will begin fermenting vigorously within a few hours. Frequently, some of the liquid will bubble over and out of the jug, especially if you filled it too full. Just wipe it up and change the newspapers. Do not add more water. This super-active fermentation lasts for several days. During this period it is helpful to open the jug and push the marijuana down with a clean wooden stick. Be sure to replace the cap loosely!
Step #7
Allow fermentation to continue for two weeks. During this time, bubbles will be rising continuously through the stems. Add small amounts of cool water occasionally during this two- week period to gradually fill the jug. At the same time, push the marijuana down as indicated previously. Always replace the cap loosely.
Step #8
The total fermentation time varies, but the average time for completion is approximately four weeks. The active fermentation of the first few weeks will gradually become slower and slower until it stops. This should be observed in order to determine when the fermentation has ceased.
A method of determining completion of fermentation is to tip the jug slightly back and forth. If no bubbles rise up through the stems, the fermentation is complete. Do not shake the jug at this time.
Bottling and Aging
When the fermentation is complete, carefully move the jug so as to not disturb the sediment on the bottom. A sink counter js a good place to work. Insert a length of W" flexible plastic tubing down the inside of the jug to about one inch from the bottom. Siphon (start by sucking on the tube) the contents into another clean glass jug. At this lime it is best to allow the wine to pass through several layers of clean pantyhose before allowing it to enter the second jug. This will remove particles which may come through while siphoning. (One marijuana winemaker of my acquaintance insists that his best wine results when he filters it through the crotch portion of unwashed pantyhose. Hmmm.) The wine will be quite cloudy and murky-looking at this time. You may taste it at this time if you like. It will not be smooth, but the delicious marijuana flavor will already be there. It’s hard to wail, but the next easy steps make the wine much better!
Discard the fermenting jug with its contents. It’s best to cap it. put it in a paper bag, and throw the whole thing out. (Editor's note: Be sure to wipe off your fingerprints!)
Take your jug of wine, cap it loosely, and put it in a dark place. That closet is just fine. Gradually, your wine will become clear, and a layer of sediment will form on the bottom. Allow it to settle and clarify in this fashion for two weeks to a month. Do not disturb the jug at this time. After about a month, very carefully carry the jug back to the sink counter. Be careful not to stir up the sediment on the bottom.
Rinse several 750ml wine bottles in boiling water. Carefully siphon the wine from the jug into these bottles. Try not to disturb the sediment on the jug's bottom. Again, allow the wine to pass through several layers of clean pantyhose before it enters the 750ml bottles. Seal the cap or cork with electrical tape or melted wax. An alternative to the pantyhosc-filtcring is to use coffee fillers. This will give a clearer wine with less sediment, but it is a very slow process. When the bottles are filled, cork or cap them tightly.
The wine is now ready to drink, and a bottle can be chilled if you are anxious. However, it is best now to put the sealed bottles back in that dark place. The longer you let them age tn this manner, the clearer, smoother, and more mellow the wine will become. I have kept and subsequently opened bottles that were as much as four years old. The wine was fantastic! It could easily win medals, were not the ingredients contained therein inexplicably illegal.
(Note: This homemade marijuana wine will never be quite as crystal-clear as a commercial wine. This is a natural wine with no chemicals added. Commercial wines use chemical clarifiers. The slight cloudiness your wine may have in no way affects its flavor or potency. Use caution when decanting from your 750ml bottles, so as to not stir up the very slight sediment on the bottom. All natural wines will have this slight sediment.)
Alternative Procedures
For a sweeter wine, use one-half to one cup more sugar. Honey can be substituted for alt or part of the sugar, and makes a unique, deliciously-flavored wine, Use about 25% more honey, as its sugar content is lower than straight white sugar. Several people have told me that they use the juice of a few lemons or oranges in the fermenting jug. Others have used various herbs as flavoring ingredients. I have never found these to be satisfactory.
Effects on The Body
“Will it get you stoned?” is the most commonly-asked question. The answer is a qualified yes. Marijuana wine is alcoholic; in fact, more so than commercial wines. By following the above directions, your wine will be at least 13% alcohol. So, of course, as you drink the wine you will feel the effects of the alcohol. Imbibe too much, and you will get quite drunk.
The effects of the THC are more subtle and difficult to predict exactly. The amount of THC in the wine will vary considerably, depending on how much marijuana you used in the making of the wine and the quality of the weed used. Also, the alcohol enters your bloodstream more quickly than the THC, so you will begin to feel drunk before you feel stoned. Regardless of how much or how good the marijuana used for making your wine was, you will feel the effects of the THC if you drink enough. The only difference will be how much wine you will need to drink to gel high, and how intense the high will be. On the average, two to four six-ounce glasses of the wine will get you pleasantly stoned as well as moderately inebriated.
Ingesting the THC in this fashion does not affect the body in quite the same way as smoking it does. It is similar to the capsules, in that you will not notice the effect of the THC for at least thirty minutes. It takes time for the THC to be absorbed through the digestive system. The effect is also less intense than capsules. The high comes on slowly and gradually, and almost without realizing it, you will feel very mellow and will be quite stoned.
Smoking marijuana while drinking the wine can be too much for some people, but others will find it delightful! The initial speedy effects of smoking arc gradually made more and more intense by the effects of the THC in the wine, until your body feels completely and beautifully stoned. Use caution, however, when smoking and drinking at the same time. Remember, the effect of the THC in the wine takes about half an hour to come on, and if you arc completely stoned-out from smoking when this happens, the combination could be too much.
Drinking and Enjoying
The wine should be ice-cold before drinking. A small brandy-type glass is best for drinking the wine, as the narrow top captures the marvelous aroma. It is best to drink the wine without food, as its flavor is so unique. For a real flavor rush, smoke a small amount of good marijuana; then, when your taste buds are completely psychcd-up with the munchies, pour a frosty glass of marijuana wine and sit back and sip it slowly. Are you ever in for a treat!
A hint for the wise: Your friends will love the wine, and, of course, will want a sample to take home. Parting with an entire 750ml bottle, even to the best of friends, can be quite traumatic. One solution is to bottle some of the marijuana wine in beer bottles and seal with a wine cork. The smaller amount may be easier to part with.
Enjoy!
Marijuana Champagne
This is a tough one. I have had only two bottles out of about ten attempts come out successfully. But, oh, is it worth it! A golden, clear, riotously-bubbling glass of frosty, cold marijuana champagne is a treat to be savored and remembered for a lifetime. The flavor is indescribable, and the high is fast and nice. I suspect that it is the bubbles which rocket the good stuff to your brain more quickly.
Here we go for you adventuresome folks:
Follow all the directions for making marijuana wine. Now, this is the tricky part and can only work if you have made marijuana wine at least once and preferably several times: Between three and five days before the marijuana wine in the fermenting jug has finished its fermenting, siphon from near the top of the jug 750ml into a scrupulously-clean heavy champagne bottle. Do not use one of those el cheapo bottles. Use only a very thick one with the large indentation in the bottom. Immediately cap the bottle with a plastic champagne cork. Do everything possible to secure that cork in the bottle's neck. I use a champagne wire bail, and tape the sucker with about thirty layers of duct tape. That cork must be secure. The last few days of fermentation are now occurring in a scaled bottle, and the pressure developed in the bottle is awesome. The bottle can explode with great and dangerous force. To thwart this danger, wrap the bottle with many layers of newspapers, and tape them securely. Store the bottle upright in a safe place. I put mine in the garage under a layer of blankets and old sleeping bags. One friend even went so far as to bury his in the ground. It worked, and he shared a most delightful champagne with me. Leave the bottle sequestered in its secure place for at least six months.
I have had one explosion occur, and the glass shards penetrated 50-60 layers of newspaper and embedded into the blankets. The sound of the explosion woke me from a sleep at 2 a.m. Use every safety precaution; that exploding bottle is no joke. On the other hand, if you bottle the prospective champagne a bit too late in the fermentation process, you will end up with a sickly, flat champagne with no pizazz. This is what usually happens with my attempts.
Onward with the method. If you have come this far, take your bottle with the newspapers still on it and cool it in a refrigerator for two days. After two days, take the still newspaper-encapsulated bottle outside. Remove the newspapers, then remove the duct tape from the cork. Make sure the bottle is pointing away from you, upward, and away from anyone nearby. I even go so far as to wear safety glasses, leather gloves and a heavy coat. Slowly remove the bail and push gently on the cork. If the process worked, the champagne cork will blast most satisfactorily about twenty feet into the air. If it didn’t work, all you will get is that sickly fizz. But all is not lost. Leave the semi-champagne in the refrigerator uncorked for a few days, and it will turn into a very acceptable still wine.
Marijuana Beer
This is the toughest and most unrewarding of the smokeless marijuana projects. In fact, I have never brewed it, although I have patient, persevering friends who have. The beer is usually delicious, depending on the skill of the maker. It has a pleasant hint of that delightful marijuana flavor. But it has such a low concentration of the stony THC compounds that it is virtually impossible to drink enough of the stuff to get stoned.
I will give you. who have the patience and knowledge to brew beer, very brief instructions.
Simply use any beer-making recipe that you have and substitute marijuana for the hops. Use at least two to five times the amount of marijuana as the amount of hops called for in the recipe.
One enterprising cohort of mine has plans to open a microbrewcry featuring marijuana beer as soon as they legalize the weed. Yeah, right. Good luck, friend.
Marijuana Lhueur and Brandy
If you have come this far in this work, you’ll discover that I have saved the easiest process for Iasi. The stoniness level of this stuff is just under that of the capsules, which makes it very potent indeed.
You will need a scrupulously-clcan one-liter or -quart glass bottle, preferably with a wide mouth. It must have a tight- fitting lid.
Fill the bottle with marijuana. It can be cut stems, leaf, shake, dust, or even buds. Just make sure there are few, and preferably no, seeds. Put as much of the marijuana as you possibly can in the bottle. A little bit will give you a tasty and mildly-stony drink, but a bottle packed full will give you a drink whereby one or two shots will put your brain into a delightful never-never land.
Next, fill the bottle with vodka. Regular vodka is OK, but if you can find the 100-proof stuff, use it!
Cap the bottle tightly and shake it well. Let the bottle sit for 2-3 weeks, and shake it well several times every day.
Filter the contents through a coffee filter into a clean glass bottle. It is now ready to drink! To make a brandy, add some sweetener to the bottle of stuff you just filtered. It can be honey or sugar. If you want it to be a liqueur, add whatever flavorings you wish. 1 have had it with peppermint, cinnamon, and several varieties of food colorings. My preference is the straight sluff, straight-up just as it comes from the marijuana bottle.
You can drink it straight, or use it for a mixed drink. If you make a mixed drink, use something neutral like seltzer, or you will mask that great marijuana flavor. Yes, just like the rest of the recipes in this article, it takes at least thirty minutes for you to get stoned from marijuana brandy. Sip two shots of (his magnificent elixir, sit back, relax, and you will soon be delightfully blottoed and blitzed.
Lastly, genuine good luck Io all who attempt these great smokeless-marijuana processes. Your brain and your lungs will thank you! •
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Ruralize Your Dreams
by Gene GeRue
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'Moving to the country may not create instant joy. After all, when we move, we take oursetves with us. Country living can be wonderful and it can be awful. Many people make life-altering moves based on decisions from emotional passion without due regard for common sense considerations and practical knowledge. Such moves are seldom satisfactory. This book will assist you in making a sound, lasting decision. Your joy of country living will be ever so much greater for having made the effort Io acquire the knowledge and do the planning.
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Compiled by BRB Publications, Inc.
This sourcebook gives the reader all the information needed for accurate, comprehensive public record searching at the state level. Each topic is covered in detail — where to locate (i.e., address, telephone, office hours), search requirements, modes of access, costs, access and usage restrictions, how records are indexed, when records are available, and more. Additional information includes addresses and phone numbers of governors, attorneys general, state archives, and state-wide court administrators. Special attention is paid to on-line retrieval.
State Public Records uniquely points the searcher to all major state public record databases. Functioning as a complete and accurate compendium. this in-depth sourcebook examines the following topics: Corporation Records ÜJ Criminal Records (2 Workers' Compensation Histories Q Uniform Commercial Code Recordings £□ Partnership, Limited Liability Company Records LU Federal and State Tax Liens Q Sales Tax Registrations Q Driving Records Vehicle Ownership Records £□ Accident Reports LU Vital Statistics £D Hunting and Fishing Licenses LU Trademark/Trade Name Records LU State Legislature Bills and Laws LU And more. In addition, each state chapter contains a broad list of agencies involved in occupational licensing and business registration. Over 7,900 professional and business license addresses and telephone numbers are listed.
State Public Records is a vital tool lor any investigator or researcher. 1995, 8H x 11, 357pp, soft cover.
STATE PUBLIC RECORDS: $33.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55098)
Survival Shelters Construction Manual
by M & M Engineering
It's not just crazy talk anymore, anarchism Is here! The insane foreign policies of this government have brought terrorists to America with their bombs! The Los Angeles riots were only a small sample of what is to come if the comforts we now enjoy are removed. Your only choice must be to plan ahead for the inevitable. In this book, you will see 11 different, totally complete plans, material lists, and instructions ranging from easy to construct basement blast shelters, to totally comfortable underground shelters that look like pleasant patios or gardens. M & M Engineering has finally released its trouble free survival shelter plans that you can be comfortable living in and comfortable looking at from the outside.
The purpose of this construction manual is to provide you with professionally designed survival shelters that can be built under ‘normal' pretenses so as to arouse as little concern as possible of your local zoning board, state building administration, federal agencies too numerous to list, and all your neighbors.
ft stands to reason that if you file papers with the zoning board that you are about to build a "blast shelter', you would First: Bo the talk of your town; Second: You would draw a crowd of onlookers who want to see firsthand how you are building an underground "blast shelter"; Third: The government at all levels will record and probably monitor your activities for the rest of your life; and Fourth: In the unlikely event that what the doomsayers are telling us is true, that we are about to experience a worldwide shitstorm of anarchy and terror, your building records are pubic documents'
tf anyone knows you built a nuclear blast shelter, then in times ol need they will come in mass to you in your shelter and after their failed attempts to persuade you to feed and house them, they would surely become resentful of your ‘greed" and ‘selfishness" with “their" food and medicine. Simply put, you have given your friendly neighbors a target, and they will eventually breach whatever security measures you may have devised to get at your food, medicine and weapons. This book tells bow to build a survival shelter with no one being the wiser.
Contents include: Above ground fallout shelters A Military shelters ▲ Below ground shelters ▲ Below ground fallout shelters ▲ Below ground blast shelter A Basement fallout shelter I A Basement fallout shelter II ▲ Basement fallout shelter III A Basement fallout shelter multi-use ▲ Basement fallout shelter prefab A Burial vaults ▲ And more.
Survival Shelters Construction Manuals a book that belongs In the library of everyone concerned with survival-
1994, 8H x 11, 126 pp, Illustrated, softcover.
SURVIVAL SHELTERS CONSTRUCTION MANUAL: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11102)
Beat the Border
An Insider’s Guide to How the U.S. Border Works & How to Beat It
by Ned Beaumont
Free men want to travel freely. In today’s world of big. bureaucratic states, however, border guards and complex regulations often impede free travel. Such restrictions to human liberty are even in place in that land of the free," the United States of America.
Crossing the U.S. border can be a trial no matter how honest and law-abiding a person may be. The desperate and the criminal have the option of illegal entry, sneaking across the American border at the empty spaces of the desert or along the rocky coast. Most travelers like yourself, though, attempt to cross at lawful points of entry.
This book Is for you. Every time you try to cross the border into the United States, you are subject to inspection by a uniformed officer ol the government. And every year, thousands of people are denied admission to the U.S., often lor trivial, purely technical, or easily avoidable reasons. To further complicate matters, inspectors at the border use a number of tricks — legal, extralegal, and downright dirty — to keep people they dislike from crossing Into the U.S. This book reveals how and why they do so and teaches you explicitly how to avoid such hassles. By learning the rules — written and unwritten — of the border, you will learn Io glide through inspections In short, you will be able to beat the border.
1995, 5H x8h. 151 pp, softcover.
BEAT THE BORDER: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61149)
Home Workshop Guns for Defense and Resistance
Volume One: The Submachine Gun
by BUI Holmes
Finally, the average person can easily fabricate his own submachine gun—even from a truck axle—with a minimum of tools, equipment and materials. This nontechnical book walks you through building the receiver, breech block, barrel, trigger assembly, stock, pistol grip, sights and magazine, as well as heat treating and finishing. This vital knowledge is a must for every citizen who is concerned about the direction of our increasingly restrictive government. Warning: \\ is illegal to manufacture or possess the firearms described in this book without proper government authorization. Therefore, all BATF and local law enforcement rules apply. The procedures described in this book are tor academic study only.
1977, 8Hx5H, 152pp. Illustrated, softcover.
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE:
Volume One: The Submachine Gun: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25079)
Dim Mak S 12 Most Deadly Katas
Points of No Return
by Erle Montalgue
Originally, the 12 secret deadly katas of dlm-mak, or death-point striking. were only given to the most advanced students or family members who inherited the ancient martial system in China. One technique per year was given over a 12-year period. At the end of that period, the practitioner was so adept at using his hands that no one could match him.
Today, most of us don’t have the time or perseverance required to achieve this kind of mastery, and author Erle Montaigue acknowledges this. ‘Because we are twentieth-century human beings," he says, “we want things unnaturally quicker, and most of us do not wish to spend the time loaming a new martial art, especially one as intricate as taijiquan (dim mak)." In this book. then, he teaches the 12 most deadly katas of dlm-mak, offering his students a shortcut to learning the natural circular body movement of dim-mak, or taiji, which is based on the powerful points along the acupuncture meridians and can be as healing as it is lethal. In addition, he provides quick, concise training in specific patterns of movement or forms based on these points that can be used as a whole separate martial art. Part One teaches the solo form — not really a continuous kata but 12 separate katas. Part Two puts it all together with the student learning Io respond to a training partner's attacks with each ol 12 free-sparring techniques, called san-saux or Kumite, that directly correspond to the 12 katas taught in Part One.
1995, 5H x9H, 224pp, Illustrated, softcover.
DIM MAK’S 12 MOST DEADLY KATAS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34073)
Brutarian #14 & #15
Edited by Dom Saleml
Hey! Here are the latest Issues of Brutarian, Dorn Salemi's amazing zine devoted to the sleaziest elements of popular culture. The Brutarian Library. Six Pack Theatre, Audio Deprevation, and many more regular features, as well as articles such as "Origins of the Poker Playing Dogs,’ "Hong Kong Movie Stars,’ ’An Interview with Honor's Naughty Giri: Lucy Taylor," and more. Two-flsled writing by Jim Schoene, Oom Saleml, Fuckin' Crites, Clay Parker, and many others, and klck-ass artwork by the likes of John Crawford, Tom Coriette, Doug Allen, Danny Hellman, and others) Reviews of books, movies, videos, audios, etc. Brutarian\s must reading for anyone Interested In the current pop culture scene.
19945 1995, 8Hx11, total of 150 pp, Illustrated, softcover.
BRUTARIAN «14 & «15: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99120)
The Imaginary Indian
The Image of the Indian In Canadian Culture
by Daniel Francis
Images of the Indian have
always been fundamental to
Canadian culture. From the
paintings and photographs of
the nineteenth century Io the
Mounted Police sagas and the
spectacle of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West Show; from the performances of Pauline Johnson,
Grey Owl, and Buffalo Long
Lance to the media images of
Oka and llijah Harper — The
Imaginary Indian is ever with
us, oscillating throughout history from friend to foe, from
Noble Savage to blood-lhirsty
warrior, from debased alcoholic to wise elder, from monosyllabic ’squaw” to eloquent
princess, from enemy of
progress to protector of the environment.
The Imaginary Indian has boon, and continues to bo — as Daniel Francis reveals In this book— just about anything the non-Native culturo
has wanted it to be; and the contradictory stories non-nativos toll about
Imaginary Indians are really stories about themselves and the uncertainties that make up their culture heritage.
The Imaginary Indian Is rooted In the colonial past and continues to
be part of the modem tradition stemming from the past. This is not a
book about Native people; it is the story of the images projected upon
Native people — and the desperate uses to which they are pul.
1992, 5H X8H, 270pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE IMAGINARY INDIAN: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99122)
America's Lowest Cost Colleges
A Comprehensive Directory of More Than 1,000 Fully Accredited Colleges and Universities With Low or No Tuition
by Nicholas A. Roes
You can get a top
quality education at a very
reasonable price. Although you'd never guess
it from the headlines In the
newspapers, there are top
quality schools In all 50
states that are fully accredited, and have the
type of programs you are
looking for. Some have
open admission policies,
and accept all applicants.
Others require a Congressional recommendation to be considered.
Some are community colleges whose credits are
readily transferrable to
junior and senior years at
more expensive schools.
Some are lour year colleges. Some are universifies with graduate schools. And some are medical schools.
A college Is the second biggest investment a family makes (next Io
buying a home). You should comparison shop for the program you want.
Don't believe the Iio that more expensive Is always better.
America's Lowest Cost Colleges is the the most sensible place to begin a college search. Address Inquiries to ’Admissions Office’ of several schools. Then plan personal visits to the few schools you are considering most seriously. This directory lists names, addresses, phone numbers and degrees offered for more than 2,000 schools. The tuition listed includes other mandatory fees, and is for a full academic year.
1995, 5Hx8H, 184pp, Indexed, softcover.
AMERICA'S LOWEST COST COLLEGES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88198)
Car Bomb Recognition Guide
How They're Made, How To Detect Them
by Lee Scott
This book shows
how criminals and
terrorists can rig an
automobile to become a deadly
infernal machine
with a single purpose — to kill its
occupant. Knowing
how to recognize
one of these suspicious devices could save your life.
Lee Scott has illustrated not only all of the classic car bombs and traps but also a number of original and lesser-known designs, including how a speedometer can bo modified to detonate a hidden bomb; how a knife can be set up to rip through the car seat when the driver sits down; how a single piece ol fuse, some metal nuts and a cigarette can be combined Io blow up a pickup truck; plus a number of other insidious, creative devices made from such common items as garbage bags, highway flares, matches and garage door openers.
No police bomb technician, counterterrorist specialist or concerned citizen can atford to be without this knowledge. For academic study only.
1995, 8H x 11, 64pp, Illustrated, softcover.
CAR BOMB RECOGNITION GUIDE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31047)
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Self-Sufficiency Gardening
Financial. Physical and emotional Security from Your Own Backyard
by Martin P. Waterman
A Practical Guide for Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Herbs, Medicines and Other Useful Products
Have you ever dreamed of growing most of your own food, and becoming less dependent on outside resources? If so, Self-Sufficiency Gardening: Financial, Physical and Emotional Security from Your Own Backyardcan provide you with the valuable knowledge you'll need to put such a plan into effect!
Widely-respected horticulturist and journalist Martin P. Waterman has prepared this practical guide for growing vegetables, fruits, nuts, herbs, medicines and other useful products with the novice gardener in mind. Chapters include information on:
♦ The basics of self-sufficiency gardening
♦ Organic growing procedures
♦ An overview of vegetable growing
♦ Cultivating herbs and medicinal plants
♦ Raising non-food and other valuable crops
♦ Edible landscaping
♦ Greenhouse gardening
♦ Hydroponic gardening
♦ Computer gardening and the Internet
♦ Seed saving and propagation
♦ Preserving and storing crops
♦ Earning income with your crops
♦ The future of sustainable agriculture
♦ Fad-filled appendices of self-sufficiency gardening resources
♦ And much more!
Time-tested gardening techniques are interspersed with the latest innovations In computer gardening technology, to provide the reader with everything that's needed for Self-Sufficiency Gardening: Financial, Physical and Emotional Security from Your Own Backyard.
Martin P. Waterman is a highly-regarded gardener and journalist, having authored over 500 articles and columns in such publications as Plant and Garden, The Oki Farmer's Almanac, Harrowsmith, Backwoods Home, The Growing Edge, The Computer Paper and Computing Now! Waterman is a world-recognized fruit breeder, known for his hardy northern grapes, and is a director of the North American Fruit Explorers, as well as a business consultant specializing in computers and the Internet.
1995, 8Uxl 1, 128pp, Illustrated, Indexed, softcover.
SELF-SUFFICIENCY GARDENING: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14175)
Travel-trailer Homesteading Under $5,000
by Brian D. Kelling
Are you tired of paying rent? Do you yearn for the stability and sense of security that come with owning your own home? And do you despair when you consider the high cost of buying or constructing a decent place in which to live?
Brian D. Kelling's Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000 explains how a modest investment can enable you to put an inexpensive roof over your head and live a more independent and self-sufficient life! By following the author's many Informative tips, you'll be able to purchase a suitable piece of land, acquire a travel-trailer or RV that can be used as a serviceable shelter, and make the necessary improvements to your property that will enable you to live in comfort and style!
Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000 te\\s you how to: Break down your costs effectively • Choose the tools you'll need • Pick the proper piece of land • Select an affordable travel-trailer or RV • Construct a septic system • Provide a potable water supply • Generate power, including the Installation of solar panels « Install an adequate heat source • Arrange for efficient refrigeration • And much, much more, including two dozen photographs and illustrations, plus an Informative Introduction by Bill Kaysing!
Don’t keep throwing your money away on rent! Taste the sense of freedom that comes from owning your own home! Declare your own financial Independence, and try Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000.
1995, 5H x8U, 80pp, illustrated, Indexed, softcover.
TRAVEL-TRAILER HOMESTEADING UNDER $5,000: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17079)
The Gas
A Novel of Sex and Violence
by Charles Platt
Pick any author, from Terry Southern to Samuel Beckett, and you're likely to find an erotic novel lurking somewhere in his past. From the 1950s through to the 1970s, dozens of novelists were tempted to write erotica in a spirit of playful rebellion. Most of their work was commissioned by Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, the man who gave the world Vladimir Nabokov, William Burroughs, and a huge number of less distinguished "fuckbooks."
Most of these novels were published under pseudonyms, and most of them disappeared without a trace. The Gas by Charles Platt Is a rarity: it appeared under the author's real name and has refused to die.
Described by Platt as "slapstick sadomasochism," The Gas is a bizarre mixture of deadpan humor and blood-soaked depravity. Published originally by Girodias. it went through several printings in the United States before Olympia Press ceased operations. A new edition of The Gas appeared In England in 1980, was seized by the Director of Public Prosecutions and was used as evidence in a trial which put the publisher behind bars for three months. Now Loompanics presents an entirely new, revised edition of this classic which has remained unavailable in the United States for twenty years.
In unflinching detail, the book describes the comic and horrific consequences when a cloud of toxic gas is accidentally released from a biological warfare laboratory and wafts across southern England. The gas has two effects: it relaxes Inhibitions and accelerates hormone production In men and women. Within a matter of hours, "British reserve" becomes a thing of the past. Businessmen, housewives, farmers, priests, shopkeepers, and teenagers are soon ripping off each others' clothes and partying in the street.
Platt notes that he wrote the book in an attempt to exorcise his own British Inhibitions before he finally gave up on his homeland and emigrated to the United States. The Gas bears no resemblance to the author's current work for respected publications such as Wired magazine. Still, Its iconoclastic energy and its Insistence on violating every social norm have earned it a unique, enduring status. Not For Sate To Minora.
1995, 5H X 8H, 200pp, soft cover.
THE GAS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94262)
Stoned Free
How to Get High Without Drugs
by Patrick Wells with Douglas Rushkoff
‘Stoned Free is a rollicking encyclopedia of multisensory methods for simulating neurotransmissions. AH legal, so far. ’ — Dr. Timothy Leary
‘Stoned Free is the best book yet on how to expand your consciousness without going to ¡ail for it."
— Robed Anton Wilson
Now you can fust say “No!" to drugs... and get high anyway! Patrick Wells and Douglas Rushkoff explain how In Stoned Free: How to Get High Without Drugs, their ground-breaking treatise that Is essential reading for those psychic explorers among us who want to avoid Incarceration, save money, and skip the wear and tear on their bodies... yet still yeam to cop a buzz.
Stoned Free expounds on this topic by enumerating several consciousness-altering techniques — some of which are timeless In origin, while others have been made possible by recent technological and medical advances that the ordinary citizen can employ to attain states of awareness which transcend reality as It is normally perceived... In other words, How to Get High Without Drugs!
team how to enhance your cognitive horizons through:
• Meditation
• Breathing techniques
• Musical and dance regimens
• Deprivation methods
• Physical therapies
• Visualizations
• Consciousness-raising programs
• High-tech highs
• Communing with nature
• Sleep and dream manipulations
• Concepts of synchronicity
• And much, much, more.
So read up, wise up, and get up... naturally! Stoned Free provides the answers for those who want to learn How to Get High Without Drugs!
1995, 5Hx6H, 160pp, Illustrated, softcover.
STONED FREE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85203)
The Rape of the American Constitution
by Chuck Shiver
We used to bo a free nation... before The Rape Of The American Constitution! In one of the most scathing diatribes ever penned, author Chuck Shiver describes the systematic deflowering of the American Constitution's most fundamental principles. Shiver traces the history and pattern of the Improper U.S. Supreme Court decisions, uninformed legislation and executive Improprieties which have resulted in a complete undermining of the beliefs and ideals upon which the United States of America was founded.
Is the American Constitution a worthless piece of paper? That's what it has become, according to Shiver. He details the conditions that led to the crafting of the American Constitution, quite possibly the most amazing document In modem history. Then Shiver describes, by examining examples of Its abuse, The Rape Of The American Constitution.
This book contains:
• The Constitution's background including: the nature of power, the Colonial crisis with Great Britain, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights.
• A detailed analysis of the plundering and violation of the Constitution's every tenet, including chapters on:
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The Allen and Sedition Acts of 1798
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Atrocities committed against the Cherokee Nation 1828-1838
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The Secession of 1860
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Johnson's 1868 Impeachment
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The Bonus March of 1932
★ Japanese-American Internment in 1942
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McCarthyism 1950-54
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The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago
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1973's Roe v. Wade Decision
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Boston Busing in 1974
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Gun Control in 1989
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1989’s War On Drugs
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Flag Burning 1989-90
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The income tax and the I.R.S. in 1990
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Taxation by Federal Judges In 1990
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Affirmative discrimination In the 1990s
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and much morel
You won't soon forget this caustic commentary on the decline and fall of our American rights and freedoms that has resulted In The Rape Of The American Constitution!
1995, 5Ü x8H, 334pp, illustrated, Indexed, softcover.
THE RAPE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58090)
"...the cover was unnecessarily provocative... the worst book that I have ever read." — Association of Libertarian Feminists
Freakshow
A Novel
by Jacquln Sanders
Loompanics Unlimited proudly announces a first for us — the first novel to be published by our company: a reprinting of a brilliant and compelling tale of the individual against the forces of conformity. First published in 1954 to widespread praise (see excerpts from reviews, below), Freakshow has remained undeservedly unknown — until now.
F/wArs/KJH'is the powerful story of Bat Fidler, a lonely drifter whose search for excitement leads him to accept a job with a carnival sideshow. The moment that he joined the carnival he was attracted to two sideshow “freaks': the beautiful but deformed Fish Girl and Emmy, a pretty young stripper.
A misfit even among freaks, Bat falls In love with the Fish Girl, wile of the carnival's jealous manager. Against his will, Bat finds himself drawn... first into the Fish Girt's trailer... then Into her arms... and finally Into an act of violence which brings his amazing camy career to a startling endl
When 'normal' people force him back into the "normal“ world, Bat discovers a freakshow of another kind: in the hypocrisy and lust that masquerade as love!
Excerpts from reviews:
'Harsh with the glaring quality of a cheap carnival this novel is the story of a man who becomes involved with the people styled freaks' in sideshows. Bat Fidler is a lonely drifter who is his own worst enemy. He finds himself a place in carnival life as a wrestler and soon he is the center of a nightmare of love and violence, tom by the unnatural lure of the Fish Giri.'— Tulsa World
•Judging by the throngs at freak shows, this first novel should do well al Ihe literary box office. It manages to capture the gaudy carnival flavor and Is peopled by such physical misfits as Fish Boy, Tattoo Joe, Egghead and the Texas Giant... Sanders Is a writer of promise." — Philadelphia Inquirer
‘Wherever Bat goes in the universal freakshow, he finds that without love there are only freakishness and violence... In these bizarre settings, Bat's struggles against brute cruelly and hypocrisy, against his own dread of abnormality, make it a compelling story." — New York Herald Tribune
"Jacquin Sanders... writes knowledgeably and powerfully of carnival life and sensitively of carnival people. Mr. Sanders will make you sweat." — The New York Times
“A disturbing, shocking book."— Dallas Times-Herald
"Told with a strength which startles and horrifies." — Time and Tide
Ladies and gentlemen, Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to present an astonishing accomplishment: Jacquin Sanders' Freakshow.
1954, 5H X 8U, 242pp, *ott cover.
FREAKSHOW: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99114)
The Hitchhiker's Handbook
by James MacLaren
Hitchhiking is an American
institution... yet very few people
know how to do it correctly and
efficiently. In The Hitchhiker's
Handbook, long-time hitchhiker
James MacLaren provides the
neophyte vagabond thumber with
a complete, indispensable guide
to the ways and means of traveling
for free on the open roadl
The Hitchhiker's Handbook,
written in the street-wise
vernacular and style of America's
free-wheeling road explorers,
provides well-crafted, informative
instructions on: b How Io dress for
hitchhiking success b What to
take with you b Where to position
yourself alongside the road b Body
language and general com-
portment b Expedient sign-making b How to avoid trouble with the police b Emergency sleeping resources b How Io generate repeat rides b Dealing with unforeseen occurrences b Sex on Ihe road b Advanced hitchhiking lips b And much more.
Whether you’re making an emergency commute to work after your car breaks down or planning an extended unbudgeled Investigation of Ihe world's highways and byways, no one who intends Io hang their thumb in the breeze and troll for a free ride should be without The Hitchhiker's Handbook.
1995, 5!i x 8H, 145pp, soft cover.
THE HITCHHIKER'S HANDBOOK: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17075)
-Question Authority.
-Why?
Asshole No More
A Self-Help Guide for Recovering Assholes — and Their Victims
by Xavier Crement, M.D.
if you can't think of at least 12 people to give this book to, then don't buy it. (Someone else will probably give it to you.)
Until recently, it was almost impossible to find anyone in the healing profession who would take the disease of assholism seriously. Compulsively rude treatment of others was viewed only as a character flaw, not as an addiction over which the asshole had no real control. We believed that assholes were assholes because they didn't know any better.
All of this Is rapidly changing, thanks Io the ground-breaking work of Dr. Xavier Crement, as told in this brilliant overview, Asshole No More. Dr. Crement had already established his reputation in proctology when he came to the realization that he was an asshole. He sought help to overcome his affliction, but could not find any. Now, as a recovering asshole, he has switched to the practice of psychiatry and devoted his life to helping other assholes find help and a new life.
Chapters include: o Defining Assholism o The Essence of Assholism o The Run-of-the-Mill Asshole □ The Three-Piece Asshole o The Litigious Asshole o When Society Becomes an Asshole o Reading, Writing & Assholism o Assholism in the Media o The Tore Epidemic o Living With Assholes o Working With Assholes o The Bom Asshole o Adult Children of Asshole Parents o The Road to Recovery o And much, much more.
1990, 5H x8H, 190pp, softcover.
ASSHOLE NO MORE: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99116)
Practical Lsd Manufacture
by Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester has done it again! The underground mastermind of outlaw chemistry and psychedelic cookery has provided up-and-coming Owsley-wannabes with Practical LSD Manufacture, the most detailed, comprehensive and concise description ever of several of the methods employed in the preparation of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, from natural sources. Uncle Fester also offers a break-through in psychedelic literature: a simple process for extracting the hallucinogenic drug TMA-2 from the commonly-grown calamus plant.
Practica! L SD Manufacture contains :
a An overview of LSD Manufacture
▲ Natural sources of the lysergic amides, including harvesting procedures for ergot-infested rye and Spartina marsh-grass
a An interpretation of LSD-progenitor Albert Hofmann’s patented “one- pot shot" method of LSD synthesis, plus purification and storage techniques
a A never-before-published presentation of “Method X,“ wherein a propionic anhydride mixes with lysergic acid, allowing for a much-improved synthesis
a A section on solvent management, a crucial but often overlooked detail all chemists should be aware of
a How to manufacture the hallucinogen 2,4,5-trimethoxyamphetamine (TMA-2) from the calamus root
a Detailed growing, harvesting and availability information on the calamus plant
a Cautionary notes on keeping out of trouble
a And much, much more!
Uncle Fester says: “I can think of no other area of organic chemistry which, to we common working pot-boilers, is shrouded in as much mystery, or is as thoroughly obfuscated as the production of LSD. The scientific articles dealing with this topic are barely readable by the typical person with an undergraduate degree in chemistry. They assume a level of understanding of the arcane field of lysergic chemistry not generally possessed by even those skilled in the ’cooking arts.'
“The 'underground publications' covering this topic have done little to clean up this situation. They have merely regurgitated the original unintelligible works until they have become like mantras, repeatedly chanted and not understood.
“It is here that this book shall break new ground. Rather than presenting this field as a magic act, the sources of lysergic acid raw materials In nature shall be detailed, and their mystery removed. The processes required to isolate this raw material and move it on in pure form lo LSD shall be expounded upon. Common threads shall be drawn between the various procedures lo show what variations in technique are acceptable, and which produce the disappointing commercial product we are all loo often cursed with."
Loompanics Unlimited is proud to offer our readers Uncle Fester’s complete, illustrated guide for anyone who is interested in Practical LSD Manufacture! Sold for information purposes only.
1995, 5M X 8H, 119pp, Illustrated, softcover.
PRACTICAL LSD MANUFACTURE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85202)
The South Was Right!
by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy
Not for the weak-at-heart, The South Was R/ght!\s an authoritative and documented study of the mythology behind Civil War history and its lasting effects on contemporary society. The authors exhibit evidence that the South was an independent country invaded, captured, and still occupied by a vicious aggressor. The needless bloodshed of the War for Southern Independence now contrasts with many of the present-day secessions without bloodshed throughout the world.
Much of Civil War history is untrue. Like most history it Is written by the victor. The story told is that millions of Southern men went to war over an issue that only affected 6 percent of the population. Such absurdity is readily seen. The deception must not continue.
Read this book and learn the truth. There was no shining Northern force fighting a moral battle for the sake of ending slavery. There was no oppressive Southern force fighting to preserve it, either. After the South declared its independence, the Union ruthlessly invaded, leaving Southerners no choice but to defend themselves. Unfortunately, they lost that struggle and have suffered for nearly a century and a half because of it.
The South has become an economic colony of the North, used and exploited like colonies throughout the world. Politically, the North still controls the government and continues to impose its social agenda on the rest of the country at the expense of individual liberty. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, the first federal department to infringe upon the rights of sovereign stales, continues to suppress any efforts to reclaim liberty for the Individual from the federal government.
Today, as a result of the war in which the South lost its right to be a free country, Northern politics still reign with an iron fist. The Southern people are second-class citizens in a despotic society where fraudulent political maneuvers, oppressive acts, and unfair legislation continue as acts of ethnic cleansing to obliterate all symbols of their history and heritage.
Sure to be one of the most controversial books of the decade, The South Was Right! is an attempt to set the record straight. The South Was Right! Is sure to raise eyebrows and questions and draw fire from a number of special-interest groups. But the authors maintain, through rigorous research, how the South had a legal precedent to secede and a right to defend its borders. Even today it has just as much reason to reclaim its liberty as the people of Poland, the Baltic states, Palestine, and the states and provinces of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have done for themselves. Southerners should read this book with a sense of urgency and obligation to the past. Others should read it with open minds. Leave this book out on your coffee table and watch your guests turn pale.
1994, 6x9, 448pp, photos. Indexed, hardcover.
THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT!: $22.50
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Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture
Revised and Expanded Third Edition
by Uncle Fester
A brand-new, revised and expanded edition ol one of our best-selling 'cookbooks,* including a recipe for the hot new drug, methcathinone, or 'cat.' Here's what Uncle Fester has to say about the new Third Edition:
'The world of amphetamine manufacture is an Increasingly complicated and profitable place. An unending tide of rules and regulations continue to sweep the land, making materials useful lor the home manufacture of drugs over more difficult to obtain. The infiltration of the populace with over greater numbers of police Informants continues unabated. It is Into this environment that I bring forth the Third Edition of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture.
'In such an environment, the aspiring manufacturer must be prepared to start cooking using over the counter materials which will never be denied the public duo to their value to monlod and powerful interests. I, for one, see little likelihood that products such as off-the-shelf diet pills and cold remedies will be successfully routed from the store shelves just to fight another futile round of the Drug War.
‘As my contribution to this Drug War. I launch for you the Third Edition of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture. Great emphasis has boon placed upon the use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and hardware store chemicals as starting materials. Simple and tested procedures are presented which effectively convert OTC garbago into high- octane, very pure human rocket fuel.
'My very special treat lor you in this edition Is Iho most easily home manufactured drug of all time, the very onjoyablo methamphetamine analog, Methcathinone (CAT) — Kllchon Improvised Crank. You will be very pleased, I'm sure.' — Uncle Fester
Speed, crank, wire, cat, crystal meth, ice, ecstasy... This is the most amazing, step-by-step, how-to-do-lt book on the manufacture of methamphetamine ever printed. The result ol over a decade of research and experimentation, this book is not meant to encourage anyone to break the law; rather, it points out the ultimate futility of government prohibition of ‘controlled substances* by showing just how easily these substances can be manufactured.
Every step of methamphetamine manufacture is covered, from procuring the necessary chemicals and lab equipment to keeping out of trouble with Ihe law. The author has gone to pains Io determine which chemical purchases are being monitored by the bureaucrats. The unavailability of certain chemicals means manufacturing processes have been revised from previous editions to take advantage of those chemicals still available.
Chapters include:
• Chemicals and Equipment • The Leuckardt-Wallach Reaction: An Overview • Preparation of Phenylacotone • Preparation of N- Melhylformamide • Making Methamphetamine • Industrial-Scale Production • Other Methods of Making Phonylacetone • A New Breakthrough: Phenylacetone from Allylbonzono • The Way of the Bomb • Reductive Alkylation Without the Bomb • Methylamine • The Ritter Reaction: Amphetamines Directly from Allylbonzene • Methamphetamine from Ephedrine • Mothcalhlnone: Kitchen Improvised Crank • MDA, XTC, and other Psychedelic Amphetamines • And much, much more.
’Controlled substances* laws are being used to violate Ihe civil rights of American citizens. This book demonstrates the absurdity of all such laws by showing just how easily these substances can be manufactured. Sold for informational purposes only.
1994, 5H x Sri, 203pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE
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You Are Going to Prison
by Jim Hogshire
There's no doubt about it. You saw the flashing red lights, you found a good attorney, you even beggod for mercy. Now You Are Going To Prison and there's not a damn thing you can do about it... except learn how to make the time go easier.
Jim Hogshire guides you through the correctional system, pointing out all the dangers and scams, loading you toward Ihe safest path. If you or a loved one are about to be swallowed up by Ihe system, you need this Information If you hope to come out whole. Topics covered include: Custody: Dealing with police •
Why you should sometimes tell
the cops exactly where your slash Is • Handling confrontations in jail • Making bail • And much more.
Trial: Why public defenders are often Ihe best attorneys • How to plea bargain • Mike Tyson's second biggest mistake • The importance of the pre-trial sentencing report • And much more.
Prison: Rape: Everything you ever wanted to know, and some stuff youll wish you didn't • Improvised weapons, including zip guns, knives and torchings • The best prison jobs • Selling food and drugs, and other prison hustles • Toilet bowl wine • And much more.
Jailhouse Justice: Your rights in prison • Segregation and 'Marionlzatlon,' some ol the cruelosl punishments evor infliclod on human beings • Filing grievances and lawsuits • And much more.
Execution: Life on death row • Deathwalch, a minuto-by-mlnuto account of a convict's last days • Lethal Injection • Electrocution • Gas chambers • Hanging • And much more.
You Are Going To Prison Is the most accurate, no-bullshil guide to prison life we have ever seen. You don't want Io read this book unless you're going to do time, because you won't be able to got the sickening images out of your head.
1994, 5ri x Sri, 185 pp, index, soft cover.
YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40083)
'Planning to embezzle a couple mH from your company's pension plan? Hold up a bank? Kill your wife’s lover? Chances are you'll end up doing time, and if Jim Hogshire's You Are Going To Prison is any indication, it won't be a country dub. (in fact, there are only two "country dub"prisons, says Hogshire — Allenwood, Pennsylvania, the other in Elgin, Florida.) Based on inside information from prisoners who have endured long sentences in such ominous institutions as the federal maximum-security prison in Marion, Indiana, the book provides prospective inmates with a step-by-step guide to incarceration, beginning with arrest and ending — at least in some unfortunate cases — with the administration of the death penalty. '— Esquire, January 1995
‘From your first contad with a policeman to what you will feet when you die In the gas chamber, Hogshire covers almost everything you need to know. "— Factsheet Five, *54
Important reading for anybody new on the inside and anybody on the outside still naive Io the grave consequences of getting caught for breaking the law.'—Talking Raven
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Welcome to the Loompanics Unlimited Book Catalog — The Best Book Catalog in the World. This catalog is an important source for anarchists, survivalists, iconoclasts, self-liberators, mercenaries, investigators, drop-outs, researchers, and just about anyone interested in the strange, the useful, the arcane, the oddball, the unusual, the unique and the diabolical.
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GUNS. Guns are even more American than Mom and apple pie. Come on, America, show us your guns! (Pages 84 thru 93)
WEAPONS. “The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” — The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. Van Vogt. (Pages 94 thru 98)
GUERRILLA WARFARE AND TERRORISM. Will it happen here? It has in many (most?) other countries... (Pages 99 thru 108)
MURDER, DEATH AND TORTURE. Little discussed areas of the political arts. (Pages 109 thru 116)
SURVIVAL. Survive and prosper in the coming “interesting” times. (Pages 117 thru 121)
SELF SUFFICIENCY. Taking care of yourself—without government “help.” (Pages 122 thru 130)
HEAD FOR THE HILLS. Dropping out, retreating, uninhabited islands, nomadic living, and more. (Pages 131 thru 135)
GIMME SHELTER. Real housing for real people. (Pages 136 thru 140)
PARALEGAL SKILLS. Free yourself from the Legal Guild. (Pages 141 thru 144)
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DON'T MISS THE SPECIAL ARTICLES AND FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE!!!
A Plague Upon the Land, by Michael Chesbro, Artwork by Nick Bougas, (Page 33)
Guns are Still Saving Lives, by Robert Waters, Artwork by Nick Bougas, (Page 84)
Food Drop Fiasco, by Russ Kick, Artwork by R.L. Crabb, (Page 107)
It's Been 65 Years. Why Are We Still Fighting the War on Drugs? by Vin Suprynowlcz,
Artwork by Craig Howell, (Page 181)
The Kiwi Thought Police Try to Make Sense of the Loompanics Catalogue,
based on actual incidents in New Zealand,
Comix by R.L. Crabb, (Page 252)
INDEX BY TITLE
(Italics indicates New Titles Since 2002 Main Catalog)
ABOMAN’S GUIDE TO SURVIVAL AND SELF-RELIANCE................................................. 119
ABOMAN’S GUIDE TO WILDERNESS SCHOOLS AND PRIMITIVE EVENTS............................. 119
ABRACADABRA! ........................................ 263
ACCESS TO THE AIRWAVES
ACID TRIPS AND CHEMISTRY
ACQUIRING NEW ID
ADVANCED DIM-MAK
ADVANCED FUGITIVE
ADVANCED LOCK PICKING SECRETS
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF CLANDESTINE PSYCHEDELIC & AMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE
AGAINST CIVILIZATION
AGAINST EMPIRE
AGAINST METHOD
AGAINST THE GRAIN
<em>AGENTS OF REPRESSION
ALL ABOUT HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS
ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST
ALMOST UNPUBLISHED LENNY BRUCE
ALTERNATIVE HOUSEBUILDING
ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE
AMERICAN GINSENG: GREEN GOLD
AMOK FIFTH DISPATCH
ANARCHIC HARMONY
ANARCHISM
ANCIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
ANCIENT MAN: A HANDBOOK OF PUZZLING ARTIFACTS
ANCIENT STRUCTURES
ANGELS DON’T PLAY THIS HAARP
<em>ANIMALS AND PSYCHEDELICS
APOCALYPSE CULTURE II
APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY
ARMED DEFENSE
ART & SCIENCE OF DUMPSTER DIVING
ART & SCIENCE OF MONEY LAUNDERING
<em>ART OF CONTRARY THINKING
ART OF DECEPTION
ASK ED: MARIJUANA LAW
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS, I’LL TELL YOU NO LIES
ASSASSIN!
ASSET PROTECTION SECRETS
ASSHOLE CONSPIRACY
ASSHOLE NO MORE
ASSHOLES FOREVER
ASSORTED NASTIES
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL
AYN RAND CULT
B& EBOOK
BACK DOOR GUIDE TO SHORT-TERM JOB ADVENTURES
BACKYARD BALLISTICS
BACKYARD CASH CROPS
BACKYARD MEAT PRODUCTION
BAD GIRLS DO IT!
BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERIES
<em>BALLAD OF CARL DREGA
BANDITS
BASEMENT BUGGER’S BIBLE
BAZOOKA
BE YOUR OWN DICK
BE YOUR OWN EQUALIZER
BE YOUR OWN UNDERTAKER
<em>BEARS’ GUIDE TO EARNING DEGREES BY DISTANCE LEARNING
BEAT THE BILL COLLECTOR
<em>BEAT YOUR TICKET
BEATING THE CHECK
BEATING THE SYSTEM
<em>BECOMING SELF-RELIANT
BEFORE YOU SHOOT
BEST CAT HOUSES IN NEVADA
<em>BEYOND PEPPER SPRAY
BIBLE MYTHS AND THEIR PARALLELLS IN OTHER RELIGIONS
BIBLE OF BIBLES
<em>BIG BOOK OF BODILY FUNCTIONS
BIG BOOK OF FILTH
BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
BIG BUCKS SELLING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
BIG HOUSE
BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER
THEY FALL
BIOLOGICALANOMALIES: HUMANS I
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS II
BIOLOGICALANOMALIES: HUMANS III
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: MAMMALS I
BIOLOGICALANOMALIES: MAMMALS II
<em>BIOMETRICS
BIOTERRORISM
<em>BIOTERRORISM
BIOWARFARE IN AMERICA
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD
BIRTH OF HEROIN AND THE DEMONIZATION
OF THE DOPE FIEND
BLACK BOOK OF ARSON
BLACK BOOK, Volume 1
BLACK BOOK, Volume 2
BLACK BOOK, Volume 3
BLACK COLLAR CRIMES
BLACK CONFEDERATES AND
AFRO-YANKEES IN CIVIL WAR VIRGINIA
BLACK MEDICINE
BLACK MEDICINE II
BLACK MEDICINE III
BLOOD-LUST CHICKENS AND RENEGADE
SHEEP
<em>BLOODY BILL ANDERSON
BLOWGUNS
BLUEBIRD
BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE
BODY BAZAAR
BODYGUARDING
BOOK OF E
BOOK OF THE PENIS
BOOK ON BOOKIES
BOSTON’S GUN BIBLE
BOUNCER’S GUIDE TO BARROOM
BRAWLING
BOXING’S DIRTY TRICKS AND OUTLAW
KILLER PUNCHES
<em>BREAKDOWN OF NATIONS
BREAKFAST WITH THE DEVIL
BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUGS
BROTHEL
BUG BOOK
BUILD A CATAPULT IN YOUR BACKYARD
BUILD YOUR OWN LASER, PHASER,
ION RAY GUN, AND OTHER WORKING
SPACE-AGE PROJECTS
<em>BUILD, UPGRADE, AND REPAIR YOUR
COMPUTER
<em>BUILDING A LOG CABIN RETREAT
BUILDING TIPIS & YURTS
<em>BUILDING WITH EARTH
BULLETPROOF PRIVACY
<em>BULLWHIP BOOK
BURIED ALIVE
BUY MORE, PAY LESS
BUY THIS BOOK... OR WE’LL SUE YOU!
BYTE ME!
<em>BYTE WARS
CAMP 38
CAMP OF THE SAINTS
<em>CANNABIBLE
<em>CAO DAI KUNG-FU
<em>CAREERS IN PRIVATE SECURITY
CELEBRITY DIRECTORY 2002-2003
CELLING OF AMERICA
<em>CELTIC SEX MAGIC
CHAMPIONSHIP STREETFIGHTING
<em>CHAOS, CREATIVITY, AND COSMIC
CONSCIOUSNESS
CHEATERS ALWAYS PROSPER
CHEATING AT BLACKJACK SQUARED
CHELATION WAY
CHOOSE MEXICO
CHOOSE THE SOUTHWEST
CHRIST CONSPIRACY
CHRIST MYTH
CHURCH OF SATAN
CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT KEY CASTING MANUAL
CIA’S BLACK OPS
CIA’S GREATEST HITS
CIDER HARD AND SWEET
CIRCUS OF THE SCARS
CITIZEN MUCKRAKING
<em>CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE HANDBOOK
CIVIL WAR TWO
CLITORAL TRUTH
CLOSET CULTIVATOR
COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK
CODE MAKING AND CODE BREAKING
CODES, CIPHERS & OTHER CRYPTIC &
CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATION
<em>COINTELPRO PAPERS
COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO SWITCHBLADE
KNIVES
<em>COLLEGE DEGREES BY MAIL AND
INTERNET
<em>COMBAT CONDITIONING
COMBAT KNIFE THROWING
COMBATIVES
COMBINATION LOCK PRINCIPLES
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY
COMPLETE BOOK OF UNDERGROUND
HOUSES
COMPLETE GUIDE TO E-SECURITY
COMPLETE GUIDE TO INTERNET PUBLICITY .6
COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING
COMPLETE GUIDE TO SEXUAL POSITIONS 159
COMPLETE HOCKER’S HANDBOOK
COMPLETE MODERN BLACKSMITH
COMPOSTING TOILET SYSTEM BOOK
CONCEALABLE POCKET PISTOLS
CONFESSIONS OF A HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST, PART I
CONSPIRACY READER
CONSPIRANOIA!
CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF
CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES
CONTINGENCY CANNIBALISM
COOKING WITH THE SUN
COP KILLERS
COP TALK!
COPS! MEDIA VS. REALITY
CORPORATE PREDATORS
COUNTERFEIT I.D. MADE EASY
<em>COUNTER-TERRORISM EQUIPMENT
COUNTRY LIVING IS RISKY BUSINESS
COUPd’ETAT
COVERT CATALOG 2000
COVERT SURVEILLANCE & ELECTRONIC PENETRATION
COWBOY ACTION PISTOL SHOOTING
CREATIVE CASH
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER’S TOOLBOX 193
CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
CREDIT POWER!
<em>CREDIT REPAIR
CREDIT SECRETS
CRIMINAL DEFENDANT’S BIBLE
<em>CRIMINAL LAW HANDBOOK
CRIMINAL RECORDS BOOK
<em>CRISIS PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK
CROWD
CRYPTO
CRYPTO ANARCHY, CYBERSTATES, AND PIRATE UTOPIAS
CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS 110
CYBERSHOCK
DARK ALLIANCE
DAVID’S TOOL KIT
DEADLIEST MEN
DEAREST PET
<em>DEATH BY “GUN CONTROL"
<em>DEATH TOUCH
DECONSTRUCTING JESUS
<em>DEMONS OF THE MODERN WORLD
DESPERATE MEASURES
DIAL 911 AND DIE
DID JESUS EXIST?
DIE BROKE
DIM-MAK
<em>DIRTY DOZEN
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF THE VIETNAM WAR
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF WORLD WAR II 231
DIRTY TRICKS COPS USE
DISADVANTAGES OF BEING EDUCATED .. .213
<em>DISGUISED WEAPONS
DISK DETECTIVE
DITCH MEDICINE
DIVINING ECSTASY
DOCUMENT FRAUD AND OTHER CRIMES OF DECEPTION
DO-IT-YOURSELF GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK 90
DO-IT-YOURSELF MEDICINE
DO-IT-YOURSELF SUBMACHINE GUN
<em>DON’T BE A VICTIM!
DON’T GET CAUGHT WITH YOUR PANTRY DOWN!
DON’T LET THEM PSYCH YOU OUT!
DON’T SHOOT THE BASTARDS (YET)
DRAGON’S TOUCH
DRINK AS MUCH AS YOU WANT AND LIVE LONGER
DRUG SMUGGLING
<em>DUMBING US DOWN
<em>DUMPSTER DIVING: THE ADVANCED COURSE
EARTHSHIP: Volume I
EARTHSHIP: Volume II
EARTHSHIP: Volume III
EAT WELL FOR 990 A MEAL
ECCENTRIC LIVES AND PECULIAR
NOTIONS
ECONOMIC SODOMY
ECSTASY
ECSTASY: THE COMPLETE GUIDE
EDEN DIRECTORY OF PRIVATE MAIL
<em>DROPS
EDUCATED GUIDE TO SPEEDING TICKETS. 143
EGO AND ITS OWN
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND
SECRETS
ELUSIVE INNOCENCE
EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIM-MAK
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL ANARCHY
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SACRED SEXUALITY
END OF ECONOMIC MAN
ENERGY OF MONEY
<em>ESPIONAGE
ETHICAL SLUT
ETIQUETTE FOR OUTLAWS
EVERYBODY’S GUIDE TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT
<em>EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
EVERYTHING’S A RACKET
EXECUTION
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
EXTREME COVERT CATALOG
<em>EXTREME ISLAM
<em>EXTREME SURVIVAL ALMANAC
FAKE ID BY MAIL AND MODEM
FANTASTIC INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA
TESLA
FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES
<em>FEDERAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS HANDBOOK
$50 & UP UNDERGROUND HOUSE BOOK
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<em>MANUAL
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FINAL EXIT (VHS Video)
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<em>FIRST AMENDMENT AND CIVIL LIABILITY
<em>FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
FORBIDDEN SECRETS OF THE LEGION OF DOOM HACKERS
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY
FRAUDS, RIP-OFFS AND CON GAMES
FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS
FREE ENERGY PIONEER
FREEDOM FROM WORK
FREEDOM ROAD
FREE-ENERGY DEVICE HANDBOOK
FREELANCE WRITER’S HANDBOOK
FREEWARE ENCRYPTION AND SECURITY
PROGRAMS
FROM CHOCOLATE TO MORPHINE
FUEL FROM WATER
FUGITIVE
FULL AUTO
GANGBANGERS
GANGS AND THEIR TATTOOS
GAS
GASLIGHTING
GAUNTLET #7
GAUNTLET #15
GAUNTLET #16
GAUNTLET #19
<em>GAUNTLET #22
<em>GAUNTLET #23
GENITOLOGY
GET A LIFE
GET EVEN
GET EVEN 2
GET THE FACTS ON ANYONE
GETAWAY
GETTING STARTED IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
GHOST ARMY OF WW II
GIANT BLACK BOOK OF COMPUTER VIRUSES
<em>GLOBAL TERRORISM
GOD AND THE STATE
GOOD SPIRITS
GOURMET CANNABIS COOKERY
<em>GOURMET COOKING FOR FREE
GOVERNMENT VS. EROTICA
<em>GRETA GARBAGES OUTRAGEOUS BATHROOM BOOK
<em>GROWING PROFITS
GROWING THE HALLUCINOGENS
GUERRILLA GUNSMITHING
GUGEGONGJI
GUIDE TO EMERGENCY SURVIVAL COMMUNICATIONS
<em>GUNS SAVE LIVES
HAARP
<em>HACKER DIARIES
<em>HACKERS CHALLENGE
HACKERS BEWARE
HACKING EXPOSED
HAGGLER’S HANDBOOK
HANDGUNNER’S GUIDE
HAPPY HACKER
HARDCORE
HARD-CORE COLLECTIONS
<em>HARMFUL TO MINORS
HASHISHI
“HAVE-MORE” PLAN
HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK
HEALING BRAIN
HEAVY DUTY NEW IDENTITY
HERBS FOR SALE
HERBS OF THE NORTHERN SHAMAN
HEROIN USER’S HANDBOOK
HIDDEN DOORWAYS
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT .
HIGHLIGHTS
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR JESUS
HISTORY OF PUNISHMENT & TORTURE
HISTORY OF SHIT
HISTORY OF TORTURE
HITCHHIKER’S HANDBOOK
HITTING YOUR MARK
HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY
HOLY HOMICIDE
HOME BUSINESSES YOU CAN BUY
HOME SECURITY
HOME TOWN ADVANTAGE
HOME TREE HOME
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HOME WORKSHOP ,50-CALIBER SNIPER RIFLE
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, Volume III
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HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, Volume One
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, Volume V
HOME WORKSHOP PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
HOME WORKSHOP PROTOTYPE FIREARMS. 92
HOME WORKSHOP SPY
HOMEMADE AMMO
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
HONOR AMONG THIEVES
HOSTILE GROUND
HOUSES TO GO
HOW HITLER COULD HAVE WON
WORLD WAR II
HOW TO AVOID A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION
HOW TO BE AN ASS-WHIPPING BOXER
HOW TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL
CON ARTIST
HOW TO BUILD A LOW-COST HOUSE OF
STONE
HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE .138
HOW TO BUILD AND FURNISH A LOG CABIN 136
HOW TO BUILD FLASH/STUN GRENADES
SUPPRESSORS
HOW TO BUILD THIS LOG CABIN FOR $3,000 139
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN LOG HOME FOR LESS THAN $15,000
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
• HOW TO CHANGE YOUR NAME
<em>IN CALIFORNIA
HOW TO CIRCUMVENT A SECURITY ALARM
IN 10 SECONDS OR LESS
HOW TO COLLECT ILLEGAL DEBTS
HOW TO CREATE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE
HOW TO DATE YOUNG WOMEN
HOWTO DETERMINE UNDISCLOSED
FINANCIAL INTERESTS
HOW TO DEVELOP A LOW-COST FAMILY FOOD-STORAGE SYSTEM
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND
<em>HOW TO DISAPPEAR IN AMERICA
HOW TO DO BUSINESS “OFF THE BOOKS”
MORE WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN
HOW TO EARN $50,000+ A YEAR WITH
<em>YOUR HOME COMPUTER
HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
HOW TO FIND YOUR G-SPOT
HOW TO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING
HOW TO GET A GREEN CARD
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY
- BOOK II
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PLACES
HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE
HOW TO LEGALLY OBTAIN A SECOND
CITIZENSHIP AND PASSPORT - AND WHY YOU WANT TO
HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS
HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A DANGEROUS WORLD
HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY -AND LIKE IT
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HOW TO MAKE $100,000 A YEAR AS A
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<em>HOW TO MAKE $50 PER HOUR SCREWING IN LIGHT BULBS
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HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
Volume: II
HOW TO MAKE DRIVER’S LICENSES AND
OTHER ID ON YOUR HOME COMPUTER
UNDER $500!
HOW TO OPEN HANDCUFFS WITHOUT KEYS 73
HOW TO OPEN LOCKS WITH IMPROVISED TOOLS
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR
MONEY OFFSHORE
HOW TO SAVE YOUR TEETH
HOW TO SCREW THE POST OFFICE
HOW TO SETTLE WITH THE IRS...
FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR
HOW TO SNEAK INTO THE MOVIES
HOW TO SPOT A LIAR IN A JOB INTERVIEW .28
HOW TO SPOT A PHONY RESUME
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
SUPERMARKET
HOW TO SURVIVE FEDERAL PRISON CAMP .67
HOW TO SURVIVE THE IRS
HOW TO USE THE FEDERAL F.O.I. ACT
AND THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974
HOW WAL*MART IS DESTROYING AMERICA (and the World)
HOW YOU CAN MANIPULATE THE MEDIA
HUMAN COUGAR
HUMAN HISTORY
HUMANURE HANDBOOK
HYDROPONIC HOT HOUSE
<em>I AM NOT A NUMBERI
I AM RIGHT - YOU ARE WRONG
I WALKED AWAY
“I WATCHED A WILD HOG EAT MY BABY!”
I.D. FORGER:
<em>LD. MASTER
ICONS OF EVOLUTION
IDENTITY THEFT
IDENTITY, PRIVACY, AND PERSONAL FREEDOM
IF WE CAN KEEP A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE... 196
IMPROVISED WEAPONS IN AMERICAN 4
PRISONS
IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS
IN THE GRAVEST EXTREME
INCREDIBLE INTERNET GUIDE TO
SCANDALS & CONSPIRACIES
<em>INDOOR MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE
INFORMATION WARFARE
INFORMATION WARFARE
INSIDER SECRETS TO DIAMOND DEALING
<em>INSULTING ENGLISH
INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE
INTERNET PREDATOR
INTERRORGATION
<em>INTO THE BUZZSAW
INTOXICATION
INVESTIGATOR’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK 2
<em>INVISIBLE ADVANTAGE WORKBOOK
INVISIBLE MARIJUANA AND
PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOM GARDENS
<em>INVISIBLE RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY
ISRAELI HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE
PALESTINIANS
IT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD
IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
JAMMING THE MEDIA
<em>JESUS PUZZLE
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LOCKS
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KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS
KNIVES, KNIFE FIGHTING, & RELATED
HASSLES 98
LAST FRONTIERS ON EARTH .131
LAST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN
LAST SUPPERS
LAWSUIT SURVIVAL GUIDE
LEGAL RESEARCH
<em>LEGALIZE THIS!
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LIES ACROSS AMERICA
LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME
<em>LIFE AFTER TERRORISM \
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MAXIMIZE YOUR VITALITY AND POTENCY
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MEN AGAINST THE STATE
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MILABS
MILK
MIND CONTROL, WORLD CONTROL
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<em>MODCON
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<em>MODERN PAGANS
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MONEY IS MY FRIEND
MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME
MORE POWER TO YOU!
MORE SCAMS FROM THE GREAT BEYOND!.. 58
MORTGAGE-FREE!
MUERTE!
MULTI-ORGASMIC MAN
MURDER AT THE CONSPIRACY CONVENTION .
MYTH OF NATURAL RIGHTS
<em>NATION OF VICTIMS
NATIVE AMERICAN ANARCHISM
NATURAL CAPITALISM
NATURAL LAW
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS
NET SPIES
NEW GOOD VIBRATIONS GUIDE TO SEX
NEW I.D. IN AMERICA
NEW ROADSIDE AMERICA
NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRATION GUIDE
NICE JOB
NIGHT MOVEMENTS
<em>9-11
990 A MEAL COOKBOOK
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s. Book#1
<em>NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s, Book #2
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101 THINGS TO DO ‘TIL THE REVOLUTION .245
101 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT
SCIENCE AND NO ONE ELSE DOES EITHER
1,001 EXCUSES!
ONLINE OPERATOR
<em>OPENING COMBINATION PADLOCKS
OPIUM
OPIUM FOR THE MASSES
OPIUM POPPY
ORAL CARESS
OUR ENEMY, THE STATE
OUT OF BUSINESS
OUTLAW’S BIBLE
OVERSEASAMERICANS
OVERWORKED AMERICAN
OWNING THE FUTURE
PANTIES DOWN! BEFORE MONEY DOWN! . 150
PAPER TRIP III
PASS THE TEST
PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSE
PATENT SECRETS
PEDOPHILES ON PARADE
PENNY STOCK WINNERS
PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES, 1492 - Present
PERPETUAL PRISONER MACHINE
PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE 102
PERSONAL DEFENSE WEAPONS
PERSONAL PRIVACY THROUGH FOREIGN INVESTING
PEYOTE AND OTHER PSYCHOACTIVE CACTI 180
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM
PHONEBOOK
PICK GUNS
PIHKAL
PILLS-A-GO-GO
PIRATE RADIO OPERATIONS
PLAGUES OF THE MIND
<em>PLANTS OF THE GODS
PLEASURES OF COCAINE
POISON PEN LETTERS
POLICE SNIPER
POLICEMAN IS YOUR FRIEND AND OTHER LIES
POLITICAL TRASHING
POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
POOR MAN’S FORT KNOX
POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND, Volume 1
POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND, Volume 2
POOR MAN’S RAY GUN
PORN 101
POT PUZZLE FUN BOOK
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE
PRACTICAL LSD MANUFACTURE
PRACTICAL PHOTOVOLTAICS
PRANKS!
PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE... 263
PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY
PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY II - ANCESTRAL SKILLS
PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS LIVING & SURVIVAL SKILLS
PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS SKILLS, APPLIED & ADVANCED
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
PRISON KILLING TECHNIQUES
<em>PRISON-ESE
PRIVACY FOR SALE
<em>PRIVACY HANDBOOK
PRIVACY POACHERS
PRIVATE INVESTIGATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
<em>PRODIGAL GENIUS
PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER’S HANDBOOK
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS
PROFESSIONAL’S GUIDE TO PYROTECHNICS 101
PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST TERRORISM 100
PROTECTIVE SERVICES
PSILOCYBIN
PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS OF THE WORLD 160
<em>PSYCHE DELICACIES
PSYCHEDELIC CHEMISTRY
PSYCHEDELIC SACRAMENT
PSYCHEDELIC SHAMANISM
PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS FOR THE MIND
PSYCHEDELICS ENCYCLOPEDIA
PSYCHOPATH’S BIBLE
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS
PSYCHOTROPEDIA
PUBLIC DOMAIN
PUBLIC RECORDS ONLINE
PUZZLE PALACE
QUACK!
QUICK & DIRTY GUIDE TO WAR
QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO LEARNING LANGUAGES FAST
RACE TO INCARCERATE
<em>RACE TO THE BOTTOM
RAGNAR’S GUIDE TO INTERVIEWS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND INTERROGATIONS 49
RAGNAR’S GUIDE TO THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
RAGNAR’S URBAN SURVIVAL
RAMMED EARTH HOUSE
RAPE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION .235
RATIONAL RECOVERY
RAW DEAL
REAL WORK
REAL WORLD SELF-DEFENSE
REBELS ON THE AIR
REBORN IN CANADA
REBORN IN THE USA
REBORNOVERSEAS
REBORN WITH CREDIT
RECREATIONAL DRUGS
REDNECK MANIFESTO
REMARKABLE LUMINOUS PHENOMENA IN NATURE
REPOSSESSION: BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY 72
REPOSSESSOR’S GUIDE TO AUTO LOCKS
REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT
RESIST NOT EVIL
REVISIONIST VIEWPOINTS
RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
RIP-OFF BOOK
<em>RUNNING ON EMPTINESS
SAFEHOUSE
SALVIA DIVINORUM GROWER’S GUIDE
SATAN SPEAKS!
SATANIC BIBLE
SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE
SAVAGE SCIENCE OF STREETFIGHTING
SCANNER MODIFICATIONS AND ANTENNAS. 49
SCIENCE FRONTIERS
SCOURGE OF THE DARK CONTINENT
SCRAM
SCREENWRITER WITHIN
SCREW THE BITCHI
SECOND-HAND SUCCESS
SECRET AND SUPPRESSED
SECRET MESSAGES
SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS
SECRET SOFTWARE
SECRETS OF A BACK-ALLEY ID MAN
SECRETS OF A SUPER HACKER
SECRETS OF COLD WAR TECHNOLOGY
SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE
<em>SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
SECURITY SYSTEMS SIMPLIFIED
SEIZING THE AIRWAVES
Selections From FREE AMERICA
SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL
SELF-SUFFICIENCY GARDENING
<em>SELL YOUR MUSIC
SELL YOURSELF TO SCIENCE
SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS
SENSE OF SURVIVAL
SEVILLIAN STEEL
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION
SEX DRUGS AND APHRODISIACS
SEX, DRUGS, & THE TWINKIE MURDERS
SEX, DRUGS, VIOLENCE AND
THE BIBLE
SEXUAL CRIMINAL
SEXUAL ENERGY ECSTASY
SEXUAL SECRETS
SEXUAL SOLUTIONS
<em>SHADOW GOVERNMENT
SHADOW MERCHANTS
SHADOW UNIVERSITY
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE
SHATTERED LIVES
SHATTERING THE MYTHS OF DARWINISM .201
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES
<em>SHIT MAGNET
<em>SHOCKED AND AMAZEDI
SIDESHOW
6 NIGHTMARES
<em>SIDESHOW U.S.A
SIMPLE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING
SIMPLE LIVING INVESTMENTS
<em>SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
SLING
SMALL SCALE CRAYFISH FARMING
SMALL TIME OPERATOR
SMART CASINO GAMBLING
SMART GUIDE TO BETTER SEX
SNITCH
SNITCH CULTURE
SNOW CAVES
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE
SOURCES
SOUTH WAS RIGHT!
SPECIALTY POLICE MUNITIONS
SPY GAME
STAND UP TO THE IRS
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STATE VS. THE PEOPLE
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STEAL THIS BOOK
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<em>STEALTH JUROR
STILLATLARGE
<em>STOLEN LIVES
STONED FREE
STRANGE CREATIONS
STREETE&E
STREET SMARTS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM 79
STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS 202
SUPER PRIVACY
SURTHRIVAL GUIDE FOR UNDER 18ERS
SURVIVAL BARTERING
SURVIVAL SKILLS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
SURVIVAL WITH THE ATLATL
SURVIVALISTS MEDICINE CHEST
SURVIVING AN IRS TAX AUDIT
SURVIVING IN PRISON
SURVIVING ON THE STREETS
TAKE NO PRISONERS
TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE
TALLAHASSEE PROJECT
TAN YOUR HIDE!
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TECHNIQUES IN COUNTERSURVEILLANCE
TECHNIQUES OF BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING
TECHNIQUES OF SECRET WARFARE
TELLING LIES
TEMP WORKER’S GUIDE TO SELF-FULFILLMENT
TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION
<em>TERRORISM AND WAR
THAT’S DISGUSTING
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF KNOCKOUT PUNCHING
THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES 233
THEY’RE WATCHING YOU! i / .46
THINK FREE TO LIVE FREE
THREESOME
THROBBING MODEMS
TIHKAL
Tijuana bibles: volume 1
TIJUANA BIBLES: Volume 3
TIJUANA BIBLES: Volume 4
TIME ON THE CROSS
TO BREAK A TYRANT’S CHAINS
TOTAL SYNTHESIS II
TRAVEL-TRAILER HOMESTEADING UNDER $5,000
TRIPS
TRUEBLOOD
TRUTH ABOUT LYING
TUNE IN ON TELEPHONE CALLS
TURNER DIARIES
<em>TURNING PRO
21st CENTURY FRAUD
21st CENTURY REVENGE
<em>U.S. IMMIGRATION MADE EASY
UBERHACKER!
ULTIMATE INTERNET OUTLAW
ULTIMATE INTERNET TERRORIST
<em>UNCIVIL WARS
UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM
UNDERCOVER WORK
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
UNDERSTANDING U.S. IDENTITY DOCUMENTS
UNDERWATER AND UNDERGROUND BASES H;-
UNINHABITED OCEAN ISLANDS
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
<em>UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR '
UN-JOBBING
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, ORDINARY PEOPLE. .114
URBAN LEGENDS
UR-INE TROUBLE
VAMPIRES OR GODS?
VARIETIES OF PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE
VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS
VIRUS OF THE MIND
<em>VIRUSES REVEALED
VIVA LA VULVA
WAGING WAR FROM CANADA
WAR WITH EMPTY HANDS
WATCHDOGS
WEALTH-BUILDING SECRETS
<em>WEB HACKING
WEIRD SCIENCE
WEST COAST SMOKE
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE MID EAST AND OIL .. .223
WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THEWORLD
WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST
WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR
WHITE SLAVES, AFRICAN MASTERS
WHO ARE YOU?
WHO BECOMES A TERRORIST AND WHY
WHY ATHEISM?
WIDE OPEN TO TERRORISM
WILD AND FREE COOKBOOK
<em>WILDERNESS EVASION
<em>WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
WIND ENERGY BASICS
WINNER OF SLOW BICYCLE RACE
WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
WORD CONTROLLED HUMANS
WORK LESS & PLAY MORE
WORKBENCH SILENCERS
WORKING FOR YOURSELF
WORLD GUIDE TO NUDE BEACHES AND RESORTS
WORLD OF CHICK?
WORLD’S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS
WORLD’S TOP RETIREMENT HAVENS
YOU & THE POLICE!
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AT SWAP MEETS, FLEA MARKETS, ETC.
by Jordan Cooper
You can make cash money selling at swap meets, flea markets, etc. — once in a while as a part-time income, or as a full-time business. Several years ago, Jordan Cooper found himself laid off and without an income. He and his wife held a yard sale, and then took the leftover items to a local swap meet. In one day, they took in several hundred dollars. He hasn’t worked at a regular job since. Sometimes, his profit for a single weekend is more than an entire month’s salary at his former job! In this exciting new book, he offers you a professional insider’s view of the swap meet scene, from selecting your merchandise to how to deal with the IRS. His tips and how-to’s were learned in the Schbol of Hard Knocks — and can save you some hard knocks of your own.. Some of the topics covered include: • Working swap meets vs/i^enihg ak retail store — nine advantages of working swap meets • How to select your merchandise — finding the right items for the right locale • How to set up your booth to both attract more customers and reduce your own workload • What to do during slow periods — surefire methods to get customers to come to your tables • Equipment and supplies —12 things you should always take with you • How to figure out how much to charge for your merchandise • The easiest way to keep track of sales • Profiles of typical swap meet vendors — and typical customers • How to advertise at the swap meet — the best ways to draw customers to your exhibit • A complete glossary of terms used at swap meets • And much, much more. How to Make Cash Money Selling at Swap Meets, Flea Markets, Etc. is the single finest book of its type ever published. Highly recommended.
1988,516 x 816, 177 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE CASH MONEY SELLING
AT SWAP MEETS, FLEA MARKETS, ETC.: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13077)
MAKING DOLLARS WITH PENNIES
How the Small Investor Can Beat
the Wizards on Wall Street
by R. Max Bowser
Max Bowser’s penny-stock portfolio began with $4,000 in June, 1986. Ten years later, that investment grew to nearly $40,000. In Making Dollars with Pennies, he shares his secrets and recommendations for making your money work. Through clear-cut and well- researched information, you too can turn spare change into success.
“I’ve made enough with my Bowser stocks for myself and my husband to go on a lovely vacation for each of the last nine years,” said an Elmwood, New Jersey housewife, Rose Marie Bienick.
In this book you’ll learn, among other things: • Why Merrill Lynch hates $2 stocks • Why you should buy minipriced stocks • When to sell • How to navigate through the penny-stock waters.
When you can’t join the Wall Street wizards, beat ’em! This book will show you how.
1998,516 x 816, 200pp, indexed, stock tables and charts, soft cover.
MAKING DOLLARS WITH PENNIES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64220)
SECOND-HAND SUCCESS
How to Turn Discards into Dollars
by Jordan L. Cooper
Second-Hand Success is the story
of successful merchants who turn discards into dollars. Jordan L. Cooper is
the author of Shadow Merchants and
How to Make Cash Money Selling at
Swap Meets, Flea Markets, Etc. In Second-Hand Success, he reveals the
tricks used by dozens of clever entrepreneurs to turn trash1 into treasure.
Second-Hand Success will show
you where to find all kinds of used merchandise, from, paperback books to
World War ÏÏ bombers, and where to sell
it for top dollar. You’ll leam not only “Wallace’s Secret,” but the secrets of dozens
of successful second-hand sellers who
will inspire you to extract the worth from “worthless.”
1995,516 x 816,197 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
SECOND-HAND SUCCESS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64167)
MAKE MONEY READING BOOKS
How to Start and Operate Your Own Home-Based
Freelance Reading Service
by Bruce Fife
Would you like to have a job that pays you to sit back in your own living room and read books, plays, magazine articles and unpublished manuscripts? If you would, this book will open up a new world of opportunity to you. It explains in detail how you can set up and operate a successful freelance reading service in the comfort of your own home.
There are thousands of businesses and individuals that need and use readers and pay well for their services. In this book you will discover the many exciting opportunities available to freelance readers, and how to start your own reading service business. This is not just a “how to” book, it is a “how to make reading a business” book.
Anybody can break into this business. Having a college degree is helpful but not necessary. The ability to read well and a genuine love of reading are the two primary requirements needed to operate a profitable reading service. Chapters include: • Making money reading • Freelance reading opportunities • Setting up your business • Marketing your services • Guidelines for success • How to become a published author • Literary services • Book reviewing • Researching • Translating • Indexing • Literary representation • Manuscript reading • And more.
The author has practical, first hand knowledge about reading services. He is an independent book publisher who hires and works with many freelance readers throughout the country.
1993,516 x 816,208 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
MAKE MONEY READING BOOKS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64143)
GROWING PROFITS
How to Start and Operate a Backyard Nursery
by Michael and Linda Harlan
Turn your love of plants into an
enjoyable and profitable business!
Learn how to start a nursery in
your backyard with virtually no
capital investment. In an area of
only 1,000 square feet, it is possible to generate over $5,000 worth
of plants in a single growing season. Many of today’s large commercial nurseries began as small
backyard operations. This handbook is your practical guide to: •
Licensing • Site Preparation •
Equipment Needs • How and
Where to Find Supplies • Plant
Selection and Production • Quality
Control • How to Market Your
Products »And much more.
A backyard nursery is a wonderful busihess for the person who
wants to make a living from self-employment at home, for the young person anxious to earri some fun money, for the mother who wants to make extra money while staying at home to take care of young children, for the retired person who wants to supplement a pension or for the landscaper who wants to make more money on the plants he installs. Work at home and watch your profits grow in your own backyard!
2000,x 8%, 216 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
GROWING PROFITS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64292)
PATENT SECRETS
How You Can Protect Your Invention
for as Little as $25
by Steven Hampton and Craig Herrington
So you’ve just invented a new thingamajig, and it’s destined to change the world... or at least become a new American icon. Now all you have to do is get it on the market before some thief or industrial spy steals your idea and beats you to the punch! Well, before you gather up all your paperwork and head downtown, checkbook in hand, to find a patent lawyer and apply for a patent, there are some things you should know up front: • A patent costs thousands of dollars in legal and filing fees — and may offer precious little protection from a practical point of view • While a patent may look prestigious on paper, it is no guarantee of wealth for the inventor • You can protect your invention yourself for as little as $25 — and invest your time, money, and effort in developing your idea and getting it into the hands of the public.
This book, written by two successful inventors who speak from experience, will explain the three major avenues available to you when it comes to protecting your invention — including the advantages and disadvantages of each. You’ll also learn how to work out the kinks in your idea before you get the ball rolling, the three questions you must ask yourself to determine whether your idea will fly, how to apply for grant money that will help to finance the development of your invention, the important criteria that will determine the marketability of your product, and the three critical rules of thumb you must adhere to before you even consider pursuirig a patent. In addition to providing a detailed roadmap of the patent process, the authors explain the perils and pitfalls of seeking investors and licensing your product to a second or third party. Finally, for those brave souls willing to strike out on their own, the authors discuss the ins and outs of becoming an entrepreneur — and show you how it’s possible to make millions in today’s market by working only a few hours a day — without ever leaving home!
2000,x 8%, 145 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
PATENT SECRETS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 76066)
BIG BUCKS SELLING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
Second Edison
by Cliff Hollenbeck
Whether ÿôu are looking to
start your first business, or to kickstart an existing one, this is the
book for you. Drawing on years of
practical expérience, Cliff Hollenbeck explains step-by-step the
factors that can make or break a
photography business. You’ll learn
how to avoid common problems,
expand your business, and make
the best possible décisions every
step of the way.
Learn all about: • The art of
business administration • Records
and licenses • Insurance planning
• Capitalization • Developing a
business plan • Hiring a lawyer •
Copyright law • Business ethics •
Taxes, audits and CPAs • Profit planning • Consulting business advisors • Understanding business formats • Budgeting • Marketing on the
Internet • Digital portfolios • Stock photography online • Business software • Selecting a computer • Graphics software • And much, much
more.
Big Bucks Selling Your Photography also features a complete
set of business forms, successful marketing strategies, and vital
advice on pricing your photography.
2001,8tex 11,144 pp, indexed, soft cover.
BIG BUCKS SELLING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64248)
BUY MORE, PAY LESS
Insider Tips to Get the Price You Want
on Anything!
by Corey Sandler
Carey SatasiSer
Never pay full price for
anything again. Live a first-class lifestyle; enjoy exclusive
discounts, free upgrades,
special perks, and “insider”
rates; and save thousands of
dollars in ways you never
dreamed of. Consumer
expert Corey Sandler gives
hundreds of money-saving
hints, tips, and secrets on
what to buy, where to buy it,
and how to buy it. Buy More,
Pay Less features thousands
of cost-slashing, fortune-building strategies that will
enable you to: • Get the best
deals, extras, and low-cost
financing on big-ticket items
like homes and cars • Travel
first class to any destination at budget rates • Dictate your terms to
real estate, investment, and travel agents • Get the best coverage
arid terms possible on all types of insurance — home, car, health, life,
and more • Outfit your home with the finest appliances, electronics,
and furnishings for a fraction of retail price • Negotiate interest,
finance, and billing terms with banks and credit agencies... usually
with just a phone call • Find fabulous deals online, while shopping the
Internet safely • Watch your savings grow in worry-free, reliable
investments • Enjoy big savings on entertainment, vacations, and
hobbies • Find aid for higher education • And much, much more.
Start enjoying the good things in life... for much, much less!
2001, 7x9,552 pp, indexed, soft cover.
BUY MORE, PAY LESS: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64247)
SELL YOUR MUSIC
How to Profitably Sell
Your Own Recordings Online
The Musician’s Survival Guide to
Direct Distribution on the Internet
by Mark W. Curran
Have you always dreamed of
making it in the music business,
only to find the doors to the majors
were closed in your face? Did you
think that you had to play with the
“big boys” to make any money in
this business? Take heart, for now
there is a way you can make a fortune selling your original recordings
on the Internet and kiss the major
record companies and distributors
good-bye.
This book covers how easy it is
to: • Record and sell your own
music from home • Design your
own music sales Web site •
Become your own music publicist •
Form your own online record label •
Get free publicity from TV, Radio,
Print, and Internet Media • Create spin-off merchandise that will triple your profits • Launch your own online radio station for free • Sell through Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Yahoo, and scores of others. Plus, up-to-date resource lists for: Online Radio Stations • MP3 Portal Sites • Music Media Contacts. There’s even a special BONUS section on how to set up a home-based digital recording studio that can deliver digital quality sound comparable to that of MILLION DOLLAR world-class facilities.
So let a renowned music-marketing expert show you step-by-step how to record your music and get it out to a worldwide audience, for very little cost. With the secrets contained in this book, learn how you can build a following, sell your music direct, and achieve your musical and financial dreams.
2001,516 x 816,198 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
SELL YOUR MUSIC: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64263)
THE PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER’S HANDBOOK
Beating the System by Hook and by Crook
by Weasel Murphy
Weasel Murphy, a professional
gambler and former casino worker lifts
the green felt curtain on the secrets of
the gambling world. From back-alley
crap-shoots and cardroom set-ups to
Las Vegas slots and high-stakes
poker.
Learn how the professional gambler spots a cheat or scam, works a
slot machine for big cash, offloads
bundles of money from unsuspecting
chumps, runs an inside job on a
casino floor for hundreds of thousands of dollars in greenbacks, outwits the bosses at craps and poker,
deals a dirty deck without anyone
ordinarily suspecting a thing.
Very few of the big-spending card-
sharps who are being chauffeured about Las Vegas got to where they
are by relying on luck. They’ve used insider know-how to beat the
odds and rake in the dough. Now, you can learn what to look for —
and study up on how tb ride along with ’em! Deal yourself in, and
order a copy of The Professional Gambler's Handbook today!
1997, 516 x 8%, 143 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER’S HANDBOOK: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64205)
50% OFF!
Never Pay Full Price Again!
by Todd Holze and Duane Holze
Do you want a proven money
saving strategy.to accumulate savings and wealth into your life? With
a plan for success, the authors of
50% Off I show you how to buy at
incredibly reduced prices, avoid
depreciation and keep the money
in your pocket. From classified ads
to the high-powered Internet, great
deals are everywhere when you
know where and how to look. With
just a few techniques you will learn:
• Places to find unbelievable deals
right in your neighborhood • Simple
yet powerful negotiating skills •
How to close a deal at your price •
Even how to create deals using no
money.
Included with each book is the
FREE CD-ROM Web Guide offer-
ing links to valuable Internet information such as Free Pricing Guides,
over 2000 Free Local Newspapers and Classified Ads in all 50 states,
Online Auctions and even Free Internet Service. This powerful paperback can help you enjoy a higher confidence level and more motivation while accumulating savings. Don’t put it off any longer. Get
started today and never pay full price again!
1999,516 x 816,144 pp, illustrated, Indexed, free CD, soft cover.
50% OFF!: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64238)
MONEY IS MY FRIEND
Eliminate your financial fears —
and take your first steps to financial freedom!
byPhilLaut
Does money slip through your
fingers with the elusiveness of
water? Would you like to stop
working for money, and have
money work for you? Would you
like to make friends with money?
If your answer to any of these
questions is “Yes,” then you want
this book.
Money Is My Friend is the
best book bn money to come
along in a long time and we highly
recommend it. The purpose of this
book is to eliminate poverty in the
world and to make abundant living
socially acceptable. This book is
about achieving financial freedom. Financial freedom is when
you never do anything that you
don’t want to for money and you
never omit doing something that
you want to do because of lack of money. Another way of describing
the condition of financial freedom is that money works for you, instead
of you working for money.
The author probes every possible area of life that could be holding
the reader back from reaching his fullest potential. If money has
always been a problem for you, you will find in this book some real
insights into the cause of your situation. He draws attention to those
areas of our emotional make-up which may be stopping us from “getting ahead.” He then offers suggestions for specific affirmations to be
used by the reader in dealing with those areas of inner conflict.
1089,414 x 7,145 pp, soft cover.
MONEY IS MY FRIEND: $6.99
(ORDER NUMBER 64040)
SMALL SCALE CRAYFISH FARMING
For Food and Profit
Crayfish are big business now! You’ve seen
buckets of boiled crawdads
in beer commercials; “Red
Lobster” restaurants sell
them as spicy “Cajun popcorn;” Popeye’s fried
chicken franchises have a
fried crayfish dinner. That’s
nationwide. In Louisiana and
Texas they have been
sought after for generations
as a delicacy.
Crayfish can be grown to
a large, food-marketing size
anywhere in the USA except
Alaska. The pond habitat
can be any size and need
not be over a foot deep. The
crayfish habitat can be on
swamp or marginal land,
and feed can be easily
grown, while supplemental
feeds are inexpensive. The
feed conversion ratio is higher than any other meat-producing animal or fish. The flesh is similar to shrimp, crab, and lobster. The crayfish need less than a year to mature, breed and fatten up for harvest. They are self-stocking after the initial stocking the first year.
Small Scale Crayfish Farming covers: • Distribution • Reproduction • Life Cycle • Molting • Food • Site Selection • Water Needs • Stocking • High Growth Foods • Harvesting • Baits • Traps • Intensive Culture • Supply Sources • Marketing • And much, much more.
1997,5M x 816, 56 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SMALL SCALE CRAYFISH FARMING: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64111)
HOW TO GET PAID $50,000
A YEAR TO TRAVEL*
*Without Selling Anything
Complete Handbook and Guide
2002-2003 Version
by Craig Chilton
This is a complete placement handbook and guide for one of the most incredible jobs on earth. It is the type of position that most people dream about, but do not realize exists. The position is almost unknown to those outside the field, simply because people almost never give conscious thought to the way recreational and specialized vehicles reach their respective dealerships and destinations. Chances are you have never seen a motorized vehicle of a recreational or specialized nature being transported on a truck. That is because they almost never are, due to their size and height. Almost invariably, they are driven from their hundreds of points of manufacture, to their thousands upon thousands of dealerships and customers, throughout the USA and Canada.
How to Get Paid $50,000 a Year to Travel tells you exactly how to find this kind of work. Virtually all drivers who own this book and work full time at it earn at least $50,000 a year, and most of those who follow the book’s many tips and instructions earn between $45,000 and $60,000 a year. $45,000 per year is a comfortable level of earnings, because this provides you with the amount of time off per year that is enjoyed by most office workers. If you would like to explore making good money in this unique field, there is no better starting place than How to Get Paid $50,000 a Year to Travel!
2002,816 x 11,303 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO GET PAID $50,000
A YEAR TO TRAVEL*: $31.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64260)
THE BOOK ON BOOKIES
An Inside Look at a Successful
Sports Gambling Operation
by James Jeffries as told to Charles Oliver
Have you ever wondered why the bookie always wins and you always lose? Do you want to know when your bookie will adjust the point spreads and in which direction? Would you like to give yourself the best chance possible of finally leveling the playing field with your bookie and start taking his money for a change? Could you run your own book?
If you have ever had any of these thoughts, The Book on Bookies is for you. Between the pages of this hot new book, you’ll find all the answers you need to put the odds in your favor for a change. Never before has a book given you the exciting behind-the-scenes perspective of being in the bookie’s office in the minutes just before the game begins, as the telephones ring off the wall and the bookie and his clerks are scribbling furiously to get all the action down. You will be taken step-by-step from the slow days of summer through the high-stake hours of Super Bowl Sunday to the supercharged opening weekend of March Madness.
The author, a successful retired bookie, reveals every aspect of a bookmaker’s operation: Setting up shop, finding customers, taking action, grading the homework, and collecting the money you are owed. Find out how successful bookies make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year taking book on professional or college sports — football, basketball, hockey, horse racing, baseball, boxing, NASCAR, and even golf. Learn about point spreads, straight bets, half-points, parlays, exactas and trifectas, teasers, exotics, sweeps, money lines and run-lines, matchups, and groupings. Everything you need to know to wager wisely... or be a bookie! This book will make anyone a winner!
2000,516 x 816, 160 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE BOOK ON BOOKIES: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64241)
HERBS FOR SALE
Growing and Marketing Herbs,
Herbal Products, and Herbal Know-How
by Lee Sturdivant
Herbs For Sale covers just about every
possible way of making money with herbs.
This is the best guide to the burgeoning
small business world of herbs and covers a
broad range of herb business possibilities:
From starting a backyard culinary herb business in your existing garden, to growing
herbs in a greenhouse, or gourmet garlic on
small acreage; opening and operating an
elaborate Herb Farm able to handle thousands of visitors on a weekend; collecting
and selling herbs from the wild; making and
selling herb vinegar, pillows, extracts, and
so forth. It details some of the current con-
frontation between herbalists and the FDA, and guides would-be herbal business people towards successful, environmentally sound business practices.
There are also possibilities in teaching about herbs: From leading herbal walks to putting out an herbal newsletter or running herb weekends at an Inn or Bed and Breakfast. Costs, prices, and profits are all covered frequently. There are over 250 pages of ideas and information to inspire those with an interest in herbs into the world of small business, with each section in the book followed by a thorough reference section about where to get supplies and even more information.
The author, Lee Sturdivant, traveled the country visiting successful herb businesses in many areas, and adds those experiences to her own as a commercial herb and flower grower in the San Juan Islands in Washington State. Herbs For Sale is essential reading for anyone interested in owning and operating an herb business.
1994,516 x 816,254 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HERBS FOR SALE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64163)
THE SCREENWRITER WITHIN
How to Turn the Movie in Your Head
into a Salable Screenplay
by D.B. Gilles
If you’ve ever dreamed of writing
a screenplay, The Screenwriter
Within is the book for you. Insightful,
inspirational, and wildly irreverent, it
takes you through all the stages of the
writing process, using references to hit
movies and the author’s personal
experience to show you how to: • Turn
everyday events into big-screen successes • Find the best stories to turn
into screenplays • Develop strong
characters • Write compelling dialogue
• Find your niche as a screenwriter
and much more.
The Screenwriter Within is must
reading for anyone who has ever
thought of writing a screenplay.
2000, 5x8,233 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE SCREENWRITER WITHIN: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70061)
NATURAL CAPITALISM
Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
In this groundbreaking paradigm for the
economy, three leading
business visionaries
explain how the world is
on the verge of a new
industrial revolution, one
that promises to transform our fundamental
notions about commerce
and its role in shaping
our future. Traditional
capitalism, they argue,
has always neglected to
assign monetary value
to its largest stock of
capital — namely, the
natural resources and
eco-system services that
make possible all economic activity, and all
life. Natural capitalism in
contrast, takes a proper
accounting of these
costs. As the first step
toward a solution to environmental loss, it advocates resource productivity — doing more with less, wringing up to a hundred times as
much benefit from each unit of energy or material consumed. Natural
capitalism also redesigns industry on biological models that result in
zero waste, shifts the economy from the episodic acquisition of goods
to the continual flow of value and service, and prudently invests in
sustaining and expanding existing stores of natural capital.
Drawing upon sound economic logic, intelligent technologies, and
the best of contemporary design, Natural Capitalism presents a
business strategy that is both profitable and necessary. The companies that practice it will not only take a leading position in addressing
some of our most profound economic and social problems but will
gain a decisive competitive advantage through the worthy employment of resources, money, and people.
1999,6x9,416 pp, indexed, hard cover.
NATURAL CAPITALISM: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64237)
HOW TO MARKET A PRODUCT
FOR UNDER $500!
A Step-By-Step Action Manual for Marketing a
Product Nationally, Without Phone Calls
by Jeffrey Dobkin
A great reference tool and an
unbelievable marketing guide for
small businesses! This book will
make your marketing easier,
faster, and cheaper than ever.
Make your marketing twice, five
times, even ten times as effective
and yet lower the cost. This book
shows you how to create effective
low-cost campaigns easily. Find
new markets effortlessly. Test
new markets at almost no cost.
Increase the effectiveness of any
campaign, guaranteed. No theory. No history. Plenty of samples
and examples. Over 21/2 pounds
of lean marketing how-to information.
Learn the inside secrets of direct marketing in a few nights of easy
reading. Specific how-to information you can put to use right now to
launch a product, or make your current marketing even more effective
and at a lower cost. An easy and fast plan you can work yourself or
with limited help, from an office — or your'home. Explicit how-to
instructions for both experienced and non-experienced marketers in
traditional and non-traditional marketing methods. You never learned
this stuff in college!
For Inventors • Entrepreneurs • Home Offices • Small Offices •
Small Businesses • Ad Agencies • PR Agencies • Start-ups • Direct
Response Firms • Mail Order Merchants • Consultants • Marketing
Professionals • Copywriters • Service Businesses • Direct Response
Agencies • Anyone with an idea or product who wants to market it
nationally — for under $500!
1998,816 x 11,403 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO MARKET A PRODUCT FOR UNDER $500!: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64239)
PENNY STOCK WINNERS
True Stories of Successful Investors
by R. Max Bowser
Welcome to the arena of “penny
stocks.” These are stocks that sell for
$5 or less a share. Penny Stock Winners is a collection of interviews of fifteen successful individuals who have
entered into the exciting world of
microcap investing. They come from
different walks of life. They share a
love for small companies with great
futures. These investors have one
thing in common: a successful investment system named “Bowser’s Game
Plan.” The Game Plan helps with the
selection of companies to consider,
when to buy their stock and when to
sell for maximum profits. These
investment techniques are explained
in simple-to-understand steps. Also,
eight financial advisors and professionals tell their views regarding
the positive reasons for investing in microcap stocks. And Bowser
includes a chapter on how to prevent being victimized by brokers that
sell and later manipulate a company’s stock. A list of brokers that
have been accused of operating these scams is included. Must reading for anyone interested in penny stocks.
2000,516 x 816,220 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PENNY STOCK WINNERS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64244)
SMALL TIME OPERATOR
How to Start Your Own Small Business, Keep
Your Books, Pay Your Taxes,
and Stay Out of Trouble
by Bernard Kamoroff, CPA
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For all Small Businesses
-
Self Employed Individuals
• Employers -
Professionals
-
Home-Based Businesses
Small Time Operator is a
good and widely praised book
on starting and running your
own small business. The topics covered are general to
most (if not all) small businesses. That is, it does not
suggest specific ideas for
what kind of business you
ought to go into (like some of
our other Money books). It
assumes that you have already picked a particular business idea you
want to get started, and goes from there. Small Time Operatons well
worth the price if you are thinking of starting (or have already started)
your own small business.
2002,816x11,225pp, illustrated, Indexed, sample forms, soft cover.
SMALL TIME OPERATOR: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64017)
COMPLETE GUIDE TO INTERNET PUBLICITY
Creating and Launching
Successful Online Campaigns
by Steve O’Keefe
With an extremely
crowded and competitive
online marketplace, attracting and holding an audience
is now more critical to a
company’s success than
ever before. This sequel to
Steve O’Keefe’s best-selling
classic Publicity on the internet offers a step-by-step
guide to creating and
deploying online campaigns. You will find detailed
instructions on how to plan,
design, and implement your
campaign effectively so you
can dramatically increase
traffic to your Web site.
You’ll also learn how to také
advantage of current technologies and industry standards such as
search engine optimization, email marketing, email merge software,
and syndication and affiliate programs.
The definitive resource for PR and marketing professionals, this
book covers the latest tools including: • Direct email and newsletters •
Streaming audio and video • Online seminars and workshops • Webcasting conferences and presentations • Using contests and sweepstakes • And much more. Throughout the book, you’ll discover
inspiring and instructive vignettes and case studies based on over
1,000 online campaigns that you can apply to your own company.
Plus you’ll gain key information on how to measure and analyze the
results of your campaign.
2002,716x9,448 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
COMPLETE GUIDE TO INTERNET PUBLICITY: $34.99
(ORDER NUMBER 64256)
AMERICAN GINSENG: GREEN GOLD
A grower’s guide, including ginseng’s history
and use
by W. Scott Persons
From the author’s introduction: “American Ginseng! It’s one of the world’s most valued plants. Each fall, thousands of mountain folk struggle up and down and across the wooded slopes of the eastern United States searching for this forest weed. They call it green gold.
‘Tve found, however, that there’s more gold to be made by growing ginseng than by hunting it wild. It’s almost a secret that each year over 500 tons, worth nearly 40 million dollars, are cultivated in the United States. In five or six years (and with little capital investment) you can raise $30,000 worth of ginseng on only half an acre!
“Anyone who can raise flowers or vegetables can learn to farm this prized botanical. No sophisticated techniques are required — only a goodly portion of patience and a willingness to bend your back and get your hands dirty.
“American ginseng has great potential as a small-scale cash crop. Young people can grow it as a second income or to increase their self-sufficiency, older folks as a source both of extra retirement income and of satisfying, moderately strenuous outdoor activity. The small farmer can net a greater profit cultivating ginseng on a rugged, otherwise idle, woodlot than he can net raising just about any other legal crop on an equal area of cleared land. An individual also can cultivate a small bed of this fascinating and subtle herb just for his (or her) own consumption.”
American Ginseng: Green Gold has everything you need to get started raising this high-value cash crop today.
1994,6x9,215 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
AMERICAN GINSENG: GREEN GOLD: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64175)
WEALTH-BUILDING SECRETS
As Practiced by the World’s Richest People
What the Kuwaitis Can Teach You about
Getting Rich — and Staying Rich
by William Beaver
Ever wondered how the world’s
richest people got so rich? And
what their secrets are for staying
rich? Well, this is the book for you.
It contains the wealth-building
secrets of the Kuwaitis, who consistently rank at the top of the list of
per capita income each year.
“Kuwaiti wealth-building
secrets!” you are probably thinking.
“That’s easy. If I had an oil well in
my backyard, I’d be rich too!”
Well, discovering that they controlled 10 percent of the world’s oil
reserves certainly made Kuwait
and its citizens a lot richer, but they
were rich long before oil was discovered, and they have put their oil
money to work for them to amass
an even greater fortune.
“But they’re in the Middle East,” you say. “Their secrets for making
money wouldn’t work here.”
Yes, they will; they will work anywhere for anybody. Is this a magic
formula for getting rich quick? No, but if you put the four easy steps to
wealth-building as practiced by the Kuwaitis to work for you, you too
will get rich. Guaranteed.
So, do you want to continue daydreaming about winning the lottery or striking oil, or do you want to get serious about making big
money? Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the secrets of the world’s
richest people.
1998,516 x 816,121 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
WEALTH-BUILDING SECRETS: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64217)
START AND RUN A PROFITABLE DESKTOP
PUBLISHING BUSINESS
by Barbara A. Fanson
You can make up to
$100,000 a year as a desktop publisher if you know
where to find clients, how
much to charge and how to
manage your business effectively.
Whether you would like
to strike out on your own or
have been operating a business for years, this book is
full of helpful advice on how
to run an efficient and profitable desktop publishing
business — from registering
a business name to producing artwork to sending
invoices. Samples, work-
sheets and checklists complete this package for the desktop publisher.
Topics include: • Opportunities on the Internet • 24 hot design
trends for the future • Marketing your business • Working efficiently •
Pricing your work and collecting your debts.
Why go to work for somebody else — when the future of your
career is right on your desk?
1997,814 x 9%, 149 pp, soft cover.
START AND RUN A PROFITABLE DESKTOP
PUBLISHING BUSINESS: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64219)
BACKYARD CASH CROPS
The Source Book for Growing
and Marketing Specialty Plants
by Craig Wallin
Which one of these specialty
crops will start your growing
business?
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Bulbs
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Cut Flowers
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Live Flowers
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Culinary Herbs
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Fragrant Herbs
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Medicinal Herbs
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Cut Crops
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Landscaping Plants
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Small Fruits
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Bonsai
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Ornamentals
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Dried Plants
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Sprouts
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Exotic Mushrooms
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Tree Crops
-
Vegetables
-
Greenhouse Specialties.
You will learn about over 200 specialty crops. How to market your
crops. How to decide on the best specialty crops for you. How to sell
all you can grow. How to make “value-added” products from your
crops — resulting in still more income. How to set up a successful
“pick-your-own” patch. How to get free expert advice for any crop.
How to tap over 200 hard-to-find wholesale sources for seed and
plant starts.
1994,6x9,240 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BACKYARD CASH CROPS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64092)
SHADOW MERCHANTS
Successful Retailing Without a Storefront
by Jordan L Cooper
In $hadow Merchants, the author of
How To Make Cash Money Selling At
Swap Meets, Flea Markets, Etc. and Second-Hand Success continues your education in unconventional ways to make
money without having a job or owning a
conventional retailing business. It takes a
lot of time and money to start a small business such as a laundromat, restaurant,
shoe store or machine shop. Most people
don’t have the time or money, but they do
have the time and money to become a
shadow merchant.
A shadow merchant is a retailer who
doesn’t have a storefront, but sells his
wares in any one or a combination of alternative market locations.
Being a shadow merchant may not offer the prestige of being a store
owner, but it definitely offers some advantages that far outweigh the
negative aspects. These include: • Low initial investment • Can be
done part-time while still holding down a full-time job • Low initial overhead, an important consideration even for existing businesses •
Mobility — if your initial choice of locations is wrong, it’s easy to
change • The flexibility of being able to walk away from the business
with a minimum loss if it fails.
With only a small investment of time and money, it’s possible to
become a shadow merchant this coming weekend, or even before. It
can be done in less than an hour, with a total cash investment of
under$10.
In Shadow Merchants, the author shares his years of experience
with you. One way out of the rat race is to become a shadow merchant!
1993,516 x 816,143 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
$HADOW MERCHANT$: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64145)
HOW TO MAKE $50 PER HOUR
SCREWING IN LIGHT BULBS
Creating Life-Long Financial Security
in the Personal Service Businesses
by Kyle Thorson
Finally an easy plan for being
your own boss! This book shows
you how to build a successful business doing ordinary tasks that
everyone needs... for EXTRAORDINARY money. You will learn: • Fun
ways to make big bucks • Simple
skills you can start your business
with... today! • Tricks for getting top
dollar for your services • How to
easily achieve lifetime financial
security • What tools and skills you
will need • Effective advertising for
pennies • A clear step-by-step business plan • Tons of tried and true
success tips.
Chapters include: • Get In, Get Out, Get Paid • The Big Secrets of Success • The Handyman Business • Other Personal Service Businesses • The Skills List • The Million Dollar Flyer • Target Markets • Signs and Business Cards • Setting Your Rates • Time Management and Organization • Getting Paid • Marketing Ideas for Big Bucks • Doing Bids • Free Estimates • Franchises • Hardware Stores • Learning Tricks • Mistakes • When Things Go REALLY Wrong • If You Think You Have NO Money • And much, much more.
2001, 816x11,150 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE $50 PER HOUR
SCREWING IN LIGHT BULBS: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64255)
THE BACK DOOR GUIDE TO
SHORT-TERM JOB ADVENTURES
• Internships • Extraordinary Experiences •
Seasonal Jobs • Volunteering • Work Abroad
by Michael Landes
Crave an amazing work or learning adventure for the summer? Need
to get real work experience in your
field of dreams? Searching for the
launchpad to the unconventional
career you were born to have? Then
start by reading The Back Door
Guide to Short -Term Job Adventures!
This incredible resource offers
thousands of detailed listings for
internships, seasonal work, volunteer opportunities, overseas jobs,
and other short-term work experiences. Author Michael Landes has
dedicated his life to developing and
researching various alternative careers for the corporate weary, 9-to-5 bleary workhorse, as well as the happily employed adventure-
seeker. This book provides first-hand accounts of what it’s really like
living, working and learning in a totally new, completely different job
environment.
Opportunities range from mountaineering to museums, work
camps to wildlife, and each listing is complete with detailed and up-to-date information, including who to talk to, what it pays, where it’s
located, helpful insider tips on getting hired, and Internet sites for the
web savvy. There are numerous tips, quotes, features and stories
from previous readers which will enlighten and amuse you.
So why wonder what your life might be? Seize your life and your
career path today, and step through The Back Door Guide to Short
-Term Job Adventures! The world awaits you.
1997,816x11,496pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE BACK DOOR GUIDE TO SHORT-TERM JOB
ADVENTURES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64211)
YOU’RE FIRED!
How to Turn a Pink Slip
into a Golden Opportunity
by Andy Kane
Laid-off, let go, downsized, canned
— no matter how you slice it, you’ve
been fired, my friend. And unless you
plan on marrying a millionaire or winning the lottery, you’ve got to figure out
what you’re going to do for cash
before the next round of bills arrives.
But don’t worry because, believe it or
not, getting fired is a good thing 99
percent of the time. That’s been the
experience of entrepreneur Andy
Kane, who has gone through more
business cards than most people have
teeth.
Written with Kane’s trademark
irreverent humor, this guide to surviving today’s economy offers practical,
inventive, sure-fire advice on every-
thing you’ll need to do to get back on top. You’ll learn how to: • Get
your foot in the door • Create a resume that will get noticed • Evaluate
job offers (and scams) • Network • Turn a hobby into a career • Start
your own business • And much more.
If you’re out of work now, or think a pink*slip might be in your
future, this book is required reading.
2002,516 x 816,101 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
YOU’RE FIRED!: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64259)
HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR AND MORE
WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN
by Don Lilly
How to Earn
’IS to ’SO an Sour
méte r*2'"l 11 1
With a Pickup Truck
or Van now u“*
This completely revised and
updated book is one of the finest
money-making publications we have
seen. It is work-oriented and leads its
reader through each step necessary
to setting up their own business with
virtually no capital investment and no
experience. If you are unemployed or
under-employed, don’t be at the
mercy of employers, economic
slumps, job shortages, or skill defi-
ciencies. You can start your own busi-
ness with virtually no capital
investment.
A hauling service can be started in
any city, town or village, in any season
and at any time convenient to you.
You set the pace, accept or reject
work as you see fit, and have the freedom and flexibility to carry on
important activities. And, you will have a chance to do a lot of busi-
ness “off the books,” which makes this an idea well worth considering.
Discover the secret of tapping sources of free merchandise and
genuine treasures. And get paid a minimum of $15 an hour to take
away items for the home, office, or business. Such things as con-
struction materials, tools, auto parts, hardware, plumbing and electri-
cal supplies, furniture, sporting goods, toys, clothing, small and large
appliances, carpets, and objects of art, are still usable, some brand
new — and you will be paid to haul it away!
Illustrated with line drawings, the book includes a rate chart,sam-
ple ads, practical tips, lots of sound, workable advice, and has all the
information you need for turning your vehicle Into a “money machine.”
1998,516 x 816,171 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO EARN $15 TO $50 AN HOUR AND MORE
WITH A PICKUP TRUCK OR VAN: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64073)
CREATIVE CASH
How to Profit from Your Special Artistry,
Creativity, Hand Skills, and
Related Know-How, 6th Edition
by Barbara Brabec
Crazy for crafts? Got a
knack for knitting? A pen-
chant for painting? Turn
your passions into
money-making vocations
with Creative Cash. This
book is chock-full of ideas
— plus a step-by-step
guide to success. You’ll
find: • Which hobbies
make money • Marketing
ideas • How to sell your
work wholesale, retail and
through the mail • How to
write articles about what
you know —• and sell them
• How to begin teaching at
home or local craft shops.
Author Barbara
Brabec is one of the
world’s leading experts on
the subject. Following her advice, you too can harness the power of
your creativity — right into your bank account!
1998, 7x 9,296 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
CREATIVE CASH: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64222)
INSIDER SECRETS TO DIAMOND DEALING
How Real Money Is Made
by Maximillian S. Callahan
It has been said that
diamonds are “the most
valuable, not only of pre-
cious stones, but of all
things in this world.” It
has also been said that
“diamonds are forever.”
The ageless, timeless
allure and value of dia-
monds cannot be denied.
Something so small it can
be mailed using a single
postage stamp and yet so
valuable it could buy and
furnish a fine home in the
United States is bound to
inspire those adventur-
ous souls willing to resort
to more “unconventional”
methods in seeking that
ever-elusive pot of gold at
the end of the rainbow. It
takes a certain type of
person to survive, and
even thrive, in a cut-
throat world where the
businessmen in silk suits are arguably even tougher than the ruffian
smugglers who move the contraband.
Author Maximillian Callahan has seen it all, and in this book he
shares the wisdom of his experience with you, from the basics of the
business, including equipment requirements, essential industry jar-
gon, and the factors that determine a diamond’s value, to a careful
straightforward, and revealing look at the cold, hard world of diamond
smuggling.
1996,5% x 8K, 165 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
INSIDER SECRETS TO DIAMOND DEALING: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64195)
DIE BROKE
A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan
by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine
Die Broke: A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan, is a book that will restore your confidence, increase your net worth, and help you to attain the lifestyle of your dreams! Co-authored by Stephen M. Pollan, one of America’s most trusted financial advisors, it’s a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you’ll leam that life is a game where a loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. In order to play this game to your best advantage, there is a four-step process: Quit today! No, don’t tell your boss to shove it... at least not out loud! But in your head, accept that from this day forth you’re a free agent whose Number One priority is your personal bottom line. Pay Cash! Spending should be neither convenient nor painless. Saving, not spending, must become reflexive, and credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (such as purchasing homes or cars) when paying cash is impossible. Don't Retire. Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss. Die Broke! It sounds terrifying, as if it should be the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now; fear of imprisonment in the long run.
The co-authors sum up their philosophy in one phrase: ‘The last check you write should be to the undertaker—and it should bounce!” Read Die Broke: A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan now, and make that prospect a reality!
1997,5x8,305pp, indexed, soft cover.
DIE BROKE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64213)
GET A LIFE
You Don’t Need a Million to Retire Well
3rd Edition
by Ralph Warner
A satisfying retirement is
not for sale. Contrary to
mainstream media scare
tactics, you do not need a
huge stash of cash — or
mutual funds, and you most
certainly won’t have to eat
dog food to survive old age.
Author Ralph Warner
says the chances of enjoying an active, fulfilling retire-
ment have very little to do
with money. In fact, the
lifestyle choices you make in
your 40s and 50s will largely
determine whether you’ll live
a happy retirement or a
lonely, bored, depressed
and sick one.
Spending all your time
working to save money — neglecting family, friends, and your own health — isn’t the path to contentment. As one active retiree interviewed by Warner puts it, “If your entire life centers around your work, then your life stops when your work stops.”
This book teaches you the keys to retirement success, including: • Developing your curiosity • Protecting your health • Learning to make new friends of all ages • Staying physically active • Finding meaningful interests • Nurturing family relationships.
Putting aside a nest egg is never a bad idea. But once you adopt sensible savings and investment plans, you can then go on to comfortable middle years — and an excellent retirement.
2000, 7 x 9,336 pp, indexed, soft cover.
GET A LIFE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64223)
HOME BUSINESSES YOU CAN BUY
The Definitive Guide to Exploring Franchises,
Multi-Level Marketing,
and Business Opportunities
Plus: How to Avoid Scams
by Paul and Sarah Edwards and Walter Zooi
Today, more so than ever before, money-making opportunities — and the scams that superficially imitate them — abound! A person can become extremely wealthy in a short time by taking advantage of the right break or fall prey to a nefarious get-rich-quick swindle, and lose everything in one fell swoop of fate! How can one tell the difference?
By reading Home Businesses You Can Buy, that’s how! This is the best source available for learning how to select successful and rewarding “pre-packaged” home businesses. The reader will find everything he or she needs to make confident and successful business decisions, but most importantly, this book will provide readers with the know-how they need to recognize reputable opportunities while weeding out the many scams to which even the brightest entrepreneurs sometimes fall victim.
Home Businesses You Can Buy includes: • Facts about over 200 franchises, multi-level marketing companies, and business opportunities you can purchase and operate from your home. • Worksheets to help you at every step along the way. • A detailed reference section on governmental agencies, trade associations, and other business resources.
Order now — and begin safely searching out the money-making chance of a lifetime that can enrich you beyond your wildest dreams!
1997,6x9,316 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HOME BUSINESSES YOU CAN BUY: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64208)
THE ENERGY OF MONEY
A Spiritual Guide to Financial
and Personal Fulfillment
by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.
The author draws upon
her more than twenty
years’ experience in syn-
thesizing spiritual and
practical techniques for
managing yourself and
your work to create a revo-
lutionary program that can
free your financial energy
and use it to achieve per-
sonal life goals and finan-
cial wealth. Combining a
complete self-help and
self-discovery regimen with
proven methods of money
management, this power-
house guide to prosperity
presents twelve principles
that will help you:
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Uncover the hid-
den landscape of
beliefs, patterns,
and habits that
underlie and some-
times subvert your everyday use of money and personal resources • Tame the dragons of driven behavior and busyholism • Defuse fears of deprivation and scarcity • Embrace and work through paradox and confusion • Consciously focus your money energy • Clear yourself to receive the energy and support of others and the universe • Develop and stay on your personal path to abundance.
Through easy-to-follow exercises and meditations, effective worksheets, and other interactive processes, Dr. Nemeth will guide you to financial success and help you manifest your special contribution to the world.
1999,516 x 816, 330 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE ENERGY OF MONEY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64243)
YOUR ONLINE GOLD MINE GUIDEBOOK
I Make $100-$250 Weekly for 3 Hours Work
by Robert Moffett
Why not be your, own boss? You have all the information and tools to start your own online business. This book is your personal tool kit.
This book offers down to earth, practical information on selling online:
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How to write great ads
-
Adding photos inexpensively
-
Up-to-date online help
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Read about one way to get started for as little as $69
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Learn the ten mistakes you don’t want to make
-
Find out how to start the world’s easiest part-time business or one of the most profitable and exciting full time businesses if you have a strong desire and determination to be your own boss.
This book is a wonderful source of resources, information, and inspiration on identifying, finding, and marketing items on online auctions such as eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon. Whether you are just starting out or are an experienced online seller you will find a ton of useful tips and guidelines to help you in your new business.
1999,516 x 816,146 pp, soft cover,
3% Floppy Disk enclosed, PC format only.
YOUR ONLINE GOLD MINE GUIDEBOOK: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64253)
FREELANCE
WRITERS
FREELANCE WRITER’S HANDBOOK
Second Edition
by James Wilson
Do you want to write? Why? Is it
because you think it’s an exciting
career? Do you think it’s glamorous,
intellectual, emotionally rewarding, or
perhaps, it pays well?
Written by an author who has made
his living writing 70 books and more
than 1,000 magazine articles for over
twenty years, this book gives you the
down-and-dirty facts about writing for
money. Freelance Writer’s Handbook
shows you: • The benefits of writing as
a career • Myths about writing • Getting
started • Seeking a market • Editors •
How writers get paid • Tricks of the
trade • Handling rejections • Under-
standing contracts • Some important
“Don’ts” • And much, much more.
Much has happened since the first edition of this classic, and tech- I nological advancements have led to this second edition. New developments include faster computers, digital photography, e-mail, electronic submissions, and e-publishing, to name a few. Let a real professional show you the ropes. So before you quit your day job, check out Freelance Writer’s Handbook.
2001,516 x 816,222 pp, soft cover.
FREELANCE WRITER’S HANDBOOK: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64245)
MAKE $$$ AS A NON-FICTION WRITER
by Duncan Long
You want to write, but how do
you break into the field?
Duncan Long, author and
teacher, with over 30 years experi-
ence as a non-fiction writer, shows
you the ropes. Find out: • If you
have the right “stuff” to become a I
writer • What are realistic expecta-
tions of income as a writer? • Do
you have to use an agent? • Is free-
lancing your only option? • What
kind of workspace and equipment
do you need? • How to find those
elusive writing assignments • How
to pitch your own ideas • Methods of
dealing with writer’s block • What
your finished work should look like
when it’s sent • How to present
yourself professionally.
If you’ve been wanting to make writing your full- or part-time career, don’t put it off any longer! Let Duncan Long show you how to get started today.
“Duncan Long has a lot to offer the aspiring author trying to break into the publishing business. He has mastered the process of identifying holes in the market and filing them with clear, informative, entertaining books. You can learn from his success.”— Jon Ford, Editorial Director, Paladin Press
“Here’s a presentation by the king of practical application and howto books that will put your manuscript on the editor’s desk! Duncan’s pragmatic approach to writing has garnered him a reputation as a writer’s writer. Finally, he’s agreed to share his secrets.” — Larry Combs, Editor, Desert Publications
“Duncan Long is a pro who has done what few have been able to do: make a living as a genuine freelance writer.”— Michael Hoy, Book Editor, Loompanics Unlimited
2000,516 x 816,219 pp, soft cover.
MAKE $$$ AS A NON-FICTION WRITER: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64240)
HARD-CORE COLLECTIONS
Brutal but Effective Techniques
for Getting the Money
by David DeMercurio
“I am a professional private collector. Collecting money is my job, and I do it well. I get the money, and you can, too — after reading my book.”
In 20 years of chasing down debt dodgers, David DeMercurio has seen it all, and he has learned what works (and what doesn’t) in collecting “uncollectable” bills. Hard-Core Collections reveals the professional secrets and methods of a private collections man. Find out how to make a good living collecting back child support, uncollected judgments, or any unpaid bills, as well as effecting evictions.
Let’s face it — there are a lot of debt-collecting services out there, and there are lots of laws that restrict what you can do to make debtors pay up. To succeed in this dirty business, you’ve got to have an edge. Hard-Core Collections gives you that edge with a brutal but effective approach to getting the bucks without breaking legs or winding up in jail.
1999,516 x 8M, 126 pp, soft cover.
HARD-CORE COLLECTIONS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64230)
NICE JOB
The Guide to Cool, Odd, Risky,
and Gruesome Ways to Make a Living
by Lookout Media
Are you bored with
your job? Tired of asking
“Want fries with that?,” or
already mastered the intri-
cacies of faxing and filing? Wondering if there
might not be, well, a bit
more to life? Something
more exciting... or just
plain weird? Nice Job is
just the remedy you’ve
been searching for.
Packed with over 80
detailed, fun-to-read pro-
files of the world’s most
interesting and unusual
professions, Nice Job
delivers jaded job
searchers from the
depressing daily grind into
a wild and wonderful job
market of inspiring possi-
bilities.
To create this book,
the Lookout Media team spent two years on one of the grandest
vocational reconnaissance missions ever, tracking down mercenar-
ies, bounty hunters, and Bigfoot researchers; peeking backstage into
the world of erotic dancing and film; and trekking to wildland firefighting outposts. The result is the most creative and entertaining career
guide available, proving once and for all that “work” doesn’t have to
be a four-letter word.
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Do you want to abandon the rat race? Join the dog race
instead as a dog musher. -
Are you wishing you had an office with a great view? See the
country (and the hottest sporting events) as a blimp pilot. -
Or why not parlay that expensive (and oh-so-useful) liberal
arts degree into a stint as an erotic screenwriter, celebrity
biographer, or crossword puzzle editor?
If you are curious how far afield your skills can take you, crack
open Nice Job and take the first step toward swapping your career
for a lifestyle.
1999,7x 10,288 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
NICE JOB: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64229)
ONLINE OPERATOR
Business, Legal, and Tax Guide to the Internet
by Bernard Kamoroff, C.P.A.
Stake your claim on the
Internet... and avoid costly
legal trouble along the way.
For both new and ongoing
businesses, and all self-
employed individuals and pro-
fessionals, here is complete,
up-to-date coverage of essen-
tial legal, tax, and nuts-and-
bolts business issues for Web
sites, e-commerce, and sur-
vival on the Internet.
Online Operator includes:
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Setting up an Internet
business: legal struc-
ture, permits, licenses,
financing, insurance,
bookkeeping -
The “tax free” Internet:
tax laws and federal regulations
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Web sites: design, hosting, secure servers, online ordering,
credit cards, technical and legal issues -
Trademarks and domain names
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Online copyrights and patents
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Licensing, privacy, security, and liability issues
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Fraud, theft, and hacker protection
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International laws, exporting, and overseas sales
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Home-based Internet businesses
-
And much more.
2001, 7x9,224 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
ONLINE OPERATOR: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64252)
MEMOIRS OF A BOOK SNAKE
Forty Years of Seeking and Saving Old Books
by David Meyer
There is no such thing as a book
snake, but this is what the author
was mistakenly called. What he
actually was for over forty years
was a book scout — someone who
sought, discovered, and saved old
books wherever he could find them.
Among his discoveries was a first
edition of Jane Austin’s Sense and
Sensibility snatched from the clutter
of a used bookstore’s front window,
signed novels by John Steinbeck
and Somerset Maugham found in a
heap in a resale shop, rare pioneer
narratives turned up in a trunk in a
neighbor’s house. It was an adven-
ture which led him to important
books by great writers of the past
two centuries, lost in the upheavals of life, and found again in out-of-
the-way places. And along the way he met booksellers as unique and
unforgettable as the books they handled. This is a story of a scout
who couldn’t pass a place which looked like it might harbor books
without stopping to find out.
“Old bookshops have been the hunting grounds of my life. Also
antique shops, second-hand resale shops, sometimes attics and
basements, and just plain junk shops. No respectable dealer in anti-
quarian books would admit to visiting such places, but that’s where
the book scouts, true treasure hunters that they are, usually go. It’s
not the place that matters, it’s what you find there.”
2001,5% x 7V4,157 pp, hard cover.
MEMOIRS OF A BOOK SNAKE: $23.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64251)
HOW TO EARN $50,000+ A YEAR
WITH YOUR HOME COMPUTER
Over 100 Income-Producing Projects
Completely Revised and Updated
by Phil Philcox
Turn your PC into a
cash cow—now! Need
extra $$$$ for fabulous
vacations, college
tuition, home improve-
ment, or retirement
planning? Ever fanta-
sized about saying
good-bye to the office
and enjoying the luxury
of being your own
boss? Whatever the
reason for wanting
more money, you can
find it — with your per-
sonal computer and the
invaluable help of this
fact-filled handbook.
Chock-full of more than
100 rewarding,
income-producing proj-
ects, this up-to-the-
minute resource gives
you step-by-step
guidelines and tips on
identifying markets,
reaching clients, and making money right from your home computer.
You’ll discover exciting, moneymaking choices from “A” (Advertising Design »Anonymous Mailman »Auction Online) to “W” (Web Page Designer • Will Maker • Word Processing Tutor); and dozens inbetween (Book Reviewer • Dating Service Online Provider • Handwriting Analyst • Money Detective • PC Doctor). Plus 400 Web site addresses for money-making information and software and over 100 Web sites to visit for free and demo software downloads, a valuable source for both individual entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand services.
Whether you’re a computer whiz or a complete novice, this indispensable guide can help you turn your PC into a full or part-time moneymaker with all the tools you need for success.
2002,516 x 8te, 200 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO EARN $50,000+ A YEAR
WITH YOUR HOME COMPUTER: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64261)
CHEATING AT BLACKJACK SQUARED
The Dark Side of Gambling
by Dustin D. Marks
It may be shocking and it’s certainly dangerous. Nevertheless, this unique book represents the definitive resource on how professional con men cheat at Blackjack and other card games. The author, a former high-stakes cheater, explains an amazing array of specific moves with clear, understandable text and detailed, easy-to-understand illustrations.
The author covers switching cards in play, stacking the deck, adding to the bet after seeing the cards, stealing chips, mucking, tells, counting tips, how to use disguises, and — for the first time ever — the use of computers, hacking techniques, and sophisticated electronic devices to get the money. Obtain a once-in-adifetime view inside the hidden, dark world of cheating where the stakes are high (and not only in terms of money), the most innocuous gesture becomes a signal, and the playing cards are tools of deception. This book is destined to become a classic.
1996,616 x 816,201 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
CHEATING AT BLACKJACK SQUARED: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64225)
HOW TO HAGGLE
Professional Tricks for Saving Money
on Just About Anything
by Max Edison
As a professional pawnbro-
ker, Max Edison buys and sells
stuff every day. And he gets a
great deal every single time!
This book reveals all of his
secrets for the most important
part of the process — the criti-
cal back-and-forth negotiating
on price, better known as hag-
gling.
Why should you know how
to haggle? To save hundreds of
dollars on all sorts of merchan-
dise! Who haggles? Everyone,
from people running garage
sales to big department stores!
This book will teach you exactly
when, where, and how to hag-
gle over TVs, stereos, guns,
jewelry, cars, real estate, gold
and silver, and other must-have
things. Learn all about the psy-
chology of haggling, special precautions to take before you buy or sell
anything, necessary tools of the trade, how to build your case for the
best possible deal, and much more.
Don’t be a sucker and pay full price for anything. Don’t be a fool
and sell your precious stuff for less than it’s worth. Read this book and
maximize your profits today!
2001,516 x 816, 61 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO HAGGLE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64250)
SMART CASINO GAMBLING
How to Win More and Lose Less
by Olaf Vancura, Ph.D.
Written for anyone who
even thinks about stepping
into a casino, Smart Casino
Gambling is the fast-paced
yet down-to-earth guide that
will improve every player’s
chances of winning more (or
maybe losing less). In an
anecdotally rich fashion, Dr.
Vancura leads the reader
through an entertaining and
educational tour of each of
the most popular casino
games. Included are numer-
ous excerpts from interviews
with gaming leaders and
industry executives repre-
senting major casinos
around the country.
Not another “get-rich-
quick” gambling book with false and lofty claims about supposed “win-
ning systems,” Smart Casino Gambling explains which games can
legitimately be beaten, and which to avoid if you want to keep your
shirt. Dr. Vancura lucidly dispels the myths, superstitions, bogus sys-
tems, fallacies, and just plain wrong information surrounding gam-
bling. In a light-hearted yet factual way, he teaches you how casinos
really make their billions, including the tricks used to part players from
their money. Read Smart Casino Gambling and never look at a
casino the same way again!
1996,616 x 816,334 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SMART CASINO GAMBLING: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64227)
Underground Economy
Introduction
The “black” market, as every libertarian knows, is merely the real market driven underground by government controls. As politicians and bureaucrats eat away at your money with taxes and inflation, more and more people are beginning to participate in the “Underground Economy” — a booming economy whose transactions are not reported to the government. The government itself admits that billions of dollars a year go unreported in the underground economy.
This section contains the most complete collection of books on the underground economy and related subjects ever offered for sale. The books range from scholarly treatises to the nuts-and-bolts of moonlighting, bartering, evading price controls and rationing, smuggling, and in general, dodging the regulations and taxes which hamstring the “mainstream” economy. The underground economy is the free market. May your taxes be low, and all your trades profitable...
GETTING STARTED
IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
by Adam Cash
Adam Cash,
author of the best
sellers Guerrilla Capi-
talism and How To Do
Business “Off The
Books" returns with
his third how-to book
on the Underground
Economy — Getting
Started in the
Underground Econ-
omy. In this easy-to-
read volume he tells
you how to ease your
way into the tax-free
Underground Econ-
omy. Topics covered
include:
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The myth of a
steady job — why
working for some-
one else will never
bring you the
financial security
you desire -
Case histories of
underground busi-
nesses — what cheaters!
you can learn from others already doing it
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Traps to watch out for
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How to make the most of your regular job — using information
and contacts you already have to get into the Underground
Economy -
Getting the most from your money now — why a penny saved is
better than a penny earned -
The best kinds of businesses for getting paid in cash
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And much more, including an extensive Recommended Reading List.
Don’t believe the propaganda you hear about tax “cuts” — what-
ever the federal government cuts in taxes, it will make up in inflation
and new taxes — and you can expect state and local taxes to keep rising as well. Why not do as millions of your fellow Americans are doing
and join the Underground Economy? Become a Guerrilla Capitalist!
Let Adam Cash show you the way.
1999,516 x 816, 160 pp, soft cover.
GETTING STARTED
IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13068)
THE PRIVACY HANDBOOK
Proven Countermeasures for Combating Threats
to Privacy, Security, and Personal Freedom
by Michael Chesbro
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase safety,” observed Benjamin Franklin in 1759, “deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Unfortunately, in today’s climate of fear, the government, the media, and plenty of other American citizens see things differently.
If you are not willing to accept “some restrictions on civil liberties to guarantee security” (as NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, former Secretary of State James Baker, and others have phrased it), this book is essential reading. In it, Michael Chesbro shares hundreds of simple but effective measures you can take — short of armed revolution — to preserve your privacy and personal sovereignty in the face of Big Brother run amok.
By being aware of the various threats to financial privacy, computer and online security, private communications, home security, and more, and by employing these techniques to combat them, you can protect yourself from rogue government agents and meddling bureaucracies as well as nosy neighbors, prying family members, identity thieves, stalkers, solicitors, and other enemies of privacy and personal liberty.
2002,5M x 816, 295pp, soft cover.
THE PRIVACY HANDBOOK: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10078)
RAGNAR’S GUIDE
TO THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
by Ragnar Benson
Ragnar Benson has a Ph.D. in sur-
vival smarts and a knack for figuring out
what topics are of vital interest to the
average person who works hard to
make ends meet, min^ls his own busi-
ness and asks the same in return. And
he’s struck gold again with this timely
guide to the underground economy.
Through detailed case studies,
Ragnar shows you how to make a living
without having a job. This does not
mean without working. The information
in this book is not hypothetical or from
secondary sources. It is straight from
the horses’ mouths: Thomas the wood-
cutter, Nathan the lawyer, Mimi the
housecleaner, David the carpenter,
Junior the locksmith, Matthew and Sarah the produce vendors, Kevin the mechanic, Phil the mushroom stalker, and Keith the computer wizard, among others.
All of these individuals are cashing in on today’s booming economy — without having to pay Uncle Sam and his free-loading cousins up to half of their earnings. From them you’ll learn how to pick the right kind of work, work and get paid without supplying your Social Security number, prepare and stick to a budget, advertise your services or products, and finance your projects when you can’t go to the bank. You’ll also learn a plan for the down side of working underground.
According to Ragnar, there has never been a better time for going underground. “Keith has more than ten years of successful experience in the underground economy. Unlike many, he has completely researched the issuing of SSNs and 1099s. Concerning SSNs, he said, 7 often contract to do computer installation and programming with large corporations. Rather than spending $300 per hour plus expenses to bring in an expert from afar, they are happy to get me immediately at $50 per hour. If it’s very short-term, one-time employment, I provide completely bogus, made-up Social Security numbers. Otherwise I use the numbers of real people I have collected from various sources.
“‘Conditions maybe changing, but completely bogus numbers are good for at least three months before notice is received that these numbers are invalid. Notification to the employer only involves the fact that the questionable employee must appear in person to explain things to a local Social Security officer. Nothing more serious occurs. Usually I am long gone by notice time,’Keith said.
“‘In the case of long-term contracts I supply real numbers gleaned from old employment records, credit reports, driver’s licenses, hunting licenses, and any other sources I can lay my hands on. Virtually every application these days includes a place fora Social Security number,’ Keith claimed. ‘I am continually conscious of the need for fresh numbers. It is surprising how many just pop up in my normal day-to-day routine. Got one this A.M. off a credit application lying on a new-car dealer’s desk.’
“‘Social Security administrators claim that they make no real effort to sort things out when bogus extra earnings appear on other people’s records. They should be glad for the extra Social Security, one clerk told me. Apparently this is a very common occurrence these days.’
“SSNs are not required for workers when payment is made to their corporation. Keith reiterates that making up corporate ID numbers is easy.”
With the help you get from Ragnar’s Guide to the Underground Economy, the dividends will be immediate and unlimited... and that’s a promise you can take to the bank!
1999,516 x 816,159 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
RAGNAR’S GUIDE
TO THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 13089)
HOW TO DO BUSINESS
“OFF THE BOOKS”
by Adam Cash
Adam Cash, author of the classic Guerrilla Capitalism, returns with his second book on the Underground Economy.
The IRS continues its abuses of the rights of Americans, and governments at all levels continue to raise taxes and spend beyond their means. Millions of Americans at all economic levels are feeling the squeeze, and are fighting back — not only by protesting and writing letters to their congressmen, but by actually disobeying the law by just simply not reporting income, and by falsifying their tax returns. These people are what we call “Guerrilla Capitalists,” people who are practicing free enterprise in this unfree economy of ours. Adam Cash first showed you exactly how millions of Americans are defending themselves against a greedy and coercive government by evading taxes, and now he digs even deeper into the secrets of the Underground Economy with his amazing new volume, How to Do Business “Off the Books.’’
Contents of this amazing book include: • Why taxes will keep going up, regardless of the promises of politicians • How the fat cats avoid paying taxes — and why their techniques are not for you • Looking for loopholes in the tax laws • The Underground Economy and the law • The ins and outs of receipts — how Guerrilla Capitalists can multiply “business” deductions • How to “backstop” your tax returns and falsify deductions • Case histories of actual underground businesses— how they avoid getting caught and what you can learn from them • What types of businesses are best for the Underground Economy — and how to get one started.
How to Do Business “Off the Books” shows you how millions of your fellow Americans are practicing free enterprise in the Underground Economy.
1986,516 x 816, 138 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO DO BUSINESS
“OFF THE BOOKS”: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 13056)
HOW TO DETERMINE
UNDISCLOSED
FINANCIAL INTERESTS
This is a manual written for government revenue agents describing in amazing arid chilling detail how to “Al Capone” a guy — how to snoop into yourprivate financial records, discover unreported income, and nail you for income tax evasion. Do you think your financial privacy is safe from the prying eyes of Big Brother? Not a chance! Never before has there been a book like this! Learn how government revenue agents piece together your entire financial history using all of your ^private” records. Slowly, but surely, the agents prepare an airtight case against you — without ever having to inform you about the investigation!
Contents of this amazing book include: • How agents obtain your confidential bank records • How your checking account is analyzed • How to recognize cashed checks and what they tell about the target • How agents determine the origins of all your deposits in checking and savings accounts • Safe deposit boxes • Why banks keep loan files, how agents get at them, and what they reveal about the target • How credit card records are acquired and used • Acquiring information from banks and governments about the target’s property holdings • Tracing your holdings in foreign bank accounts. If you thought there was such a thing as financial privacy in America, this book shows you just how wrong you are. You are the “target” and your cooperation is not needed! Government agents (and knowledgeable private investigators) can find out everything about your most private transactions, without you even knowing you’re under investigation!
This is the single most revealing book on financial investigative methods we have ever seen. Highly recommended to anyone concerned with their financial privacy and how it is being violated.
1983,816 x 11,84 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO DETERMINE
UNDISCLOSED FINANCIAL INTERESTS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55085)
TAX AVOISION
Taxation is theft!
If you are tired of seeing your hard-earned money taken from you and spent on military boondoggles, overseas vacations for bloated bureaucrats, and fancy offices for parasitic legislators, then you would probably like to reduce your taxes. The books in this section have been carefully selected to be of maximum help to you in avoiding taxes of all kinds. They contain methods of tax avoidance that really work. Whose money is it, anyway?...
HOW TO SETTLE WITH THE IRS...
FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR
by Arnolds. Goldstein, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.
Here at last is the
step-by-step guide to the
little-known IRS. Offer in
Compromise Program
that can help you settle
your tax bill for a small
fraction of what you owe
Uncle Sam! Tens of
thousands of taxpayers
are finding it easier than
ever to end their tax
problems with this newly
expanded program —
and now you, too, can
save a bundle on your
tax bill with the no-holds-
barred tax saving strate-
gies you’ll discover in
this essential book. It’s
all here — from preparing your offer, to negoti-
ating your best deal, to
pocketing the savings!
Plus, you will learn:
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What you must do right now — even before you file your tax
return -
How to tell if an Offer in Compromise is your best option and
three great alternatives when it is not -
Ten key strategies to protect everything you own from the IRS
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How to look “penniless” to the IRS — even if you’re a million-
aire -
14 perfectly legitimate tactics to stall the tax collector and stop
IRS seizure, liens and levies -
How to find free and low-cost tax help
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How to whittle estate and business taxes down to nothing
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How to get the IRS to mark your tax bill “uncollectable”
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The three best stories to avoid penalties and interest
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How to outfox pushy and intimidating IRS agents
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Four ways to automatically gain more time to pay your tax bill
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The secrets of offshore havens to legally shelter your assets
from the IRS -
How to settle state taxes as easily and cheaply as federal
taxes -
How and why you must sidestep the ten killer mistakes every
delinquent taxpayer makes -
How to assert your rights as a taxpayer
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And much, much more!
1997,816x11,260 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO SETTLE WITH THE IRS...
FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73073)
HOW TO GET TAX AMNESTY
A Guide to the Forgiveness of IRS Debt,
Including Penalties & Interest
by Daniel J. Pilla
Deep within our economy lies an entire culture comprised of those who have resigned themselves to a lifetime of running and hiding from the tax man. There is no freedom and there is no rest. Their hope each day is only for survival and someday for: TAX AMNESTY! Today’s statistics reveal that a staggering 6 million citizens have been driven to non-filing of tax returns. They have been forced underground by abusive tax collection, the assessment of strangulating penalties and usurious interest. With tax debts increasing at a crippling 24% annually, it has actually become more productive for them not to work, to stay underground!
In How to Get Tax Amnesty, Daniel J. Pilla describes in detail four tax amnesty programs that can work for you—today. Under this program, the IRS must accept the taxpayer’s offer as payment in full, even if the offer is nothing. You win a Fresh Start! The programs outlined in this book are the direct result of policy changes within the IRS. If IRS indebtedness has become a way of life for you, it’s time for you to reap the benefits of these new policies. Now is the time for TAX AMNESTY!
1998,516 x 816,253 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO GET TAX AMNESTY: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73071)
HOW TO PROTECT
YOUR MONEY OFFSHORE
Second Edition
by Arnold S. Goldstein, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.
You don’t have to be a millionaire to profit from the wealth preservation secrets of the ultra-rich, who for years have benefited from the strategies of some of America’s best legal minds! You, too, can make use of financial planning that will protect everything you own against any financial or legal threat, under ail circumstances! Author Arnold S. Goldstein has spent over 30 years in the trenches as an asset protection lawyer, and has learned that the only safe way to hold wealth today is in an offshore asset protection trust. Now he shares his secrets with you, explaining how to protect your wealth from lawsuits, creditors, the IRS, ex-spouses, and other legal predators; from snoops who are anxious to eyeball your wealth and financial affairs; from confiscatory taxes, a sagging U.S. economy and certain wealth erosion, and much more! Leam how to become financially invisible and 100% snoop-proof, amass wealth faster as an international profiteer, legally beat the IRS using tax-haven trusts, and take the first * step on the road to lifelong financial security — read this book today!
1996,4x7,206 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO PROTECT
YOUR MONEY OFFSHORE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 73078)
SURVIVING AN IRS TAX AUDIT
by Attorney Frederick VZ Dally
Get the information you
need to beat the IRS at its
own game! If an IRS audit
looms in your future, you
probably feel more than a
little uneasy. What will the
auditor ask? What Will he
look for? Worry no more.
Surviving an IRS Tax
Audit explains what to say,
what to do, even what to
wear, so that a visit with an
auditor doesn’t turn into a
disaster.
With material pulled
directly from IRS training
manuals, Surviving an
IRS Tax Audit exposes the
tricks of the auditor’s trade.
It provides you with a pro-
file of people most likely to
be audited, and discusses whether or not the IRS can examine your “lifestyle” during an audit. Author Fred Daily, a tax attorney who has helped thousands of people with audits, also suggests three steps to take when an unreasonable auditor goes too far.
In plain English, Surviving an IRS Tax Audit covers: • the audit process from start to finish • the different types of audits — correspondence, office and field • appealing an audit within the IRS • going to Tax Court to protest your audit • and much more.
Nearly 50% of all taxpayers will be audited during their lifetime. Surviving an IRS Tax Audit levels the playing field, giving you the information you need to act and speak like a tax pro.
1999, 7x9,260 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
SURVIVING AN IRS TAX AUDIT: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76064)
OFFSHORE HAVENS
...and other safe places to keep your money
in unsafe times!
by Arnolds. Goldstein, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.
OFFSHORE HAVENS...
They're legal and not just for
the rich! Read Dr. Arnold S.
Goldstein’s Offshore Havens
and discover how you too can:
• Achieve total secrecy and
financial privacy by banking
offshore. • Transfer your
wealth offshore and keep it
safe from lawsuits, creditors,
the IRS and others who want
to put their hand in your
pocket. • Invest globally... and
build your wealth faster! • Pick
the offshore haven that best
meets your objectives. •
Choose the right offshore bank
and maintain an account —
easily and safely. • Do busi-
ness offshore... and reap
extraordinary benefits.
Dr. Arnold S. Goldstein is
an attorney, professor, best-
selling author and a nationally recognized expert on asset protection, taxes, personal finance and offshore banking. He has helped hundreds of Americans establish offshore accounts.
1995,6x9,238 pp, indexed, hard cover.
OFFSHORE HAVENS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64196)
STAND UP TO THE IRS
Fight IRS Collections •
Defend Yourself In an Audit • Sixth Edition
by Attorney Frederick W. Daily
This is the book that the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t want you to read! No three letters frighten the average American more than IRS. And that shouldn’t be surprising, given that nearly 50% of all taxpayers are likely to be audited at least once during their lifetime. But with the help of Stand Up to the IRS, taxpayers can fight the fearsome power. San Francisco tax attorney Fred Daily reveals secrets that the IRS doesn’t want you to know, and arms the attentive reader with all of the pertinent information needed to confront America’s most powerful and impersonal government agency.
Stand Up to the IRS explains how to:
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Gather documentation for an audit • Learn what to say — and not to say — when facing an auditor • Read and comprehend an audit report • Appeal an audit • Obtain a copy of the auditor’s notes • Take the IRS to Tax Court — nearly half the people who go to Tax Court win at least a partial victory. And, if you still owe money, Stand Up to the IRS tells how to: • Get a long-term payment plan • Settle your tax bill for pennies on the dollar • Determine if your tax debt can be eliminated through bankruptcy • Stop wage and property seizures.
If you’ve got tax problems, get a copy of Stand Up to the IRS... today!
1999,816x11,368 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
STAND UP TO THE IRS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73077)
HOW TO SURVIVE THE IRS
My Battles Against Goliath
by Michael Louis Minns
How to Survive the IRS, by renowned trial attorney Michael Louis Minns, shows you, through first-hand case studies, exactly what can be done if you are accused of wrong-doing by the IRS. Over the course of his twenty-four-year law career, Minns has developed the reputation for being the best criminal tax defense attorney in the country. When it comes to battling the IRS, his record is astonishing. This book chronicles several cases that he has handled over the years. All are indicative of the IRS’s gross abuse of power.
In these pages you will hear from people who didn’t understand the tax laws, people who didn’t believe they had to pay taxes, and people who were led astray by bogus tax experts. All were average citizens who were prosecuted mercilessly by the IRS. You will also read about:
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IRS agents who stormed a taxpayer’s home, holding laser-sighted guns on his family members. The charge: alleged tax evasion!
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An IRS agent who “edited” an interview tape of an audit.
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How IRS agents lied on reports and stole, or altered tax records.
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How little the IRS really knows about its own tax code.
Minns also explains the five different kinds of tax offenders. He reveals what kinds of actions raise red flags for the IRS, and explains what kinds of tax avoidance do and do not work (and most do not).
How to Survive the IRS contains more than just shocking stories of government bureaucracy and abuse. A helpful chapter entitled “One Hundred Tax Tips” will enable readers to steer clear of the predicament that many of his clients became embroiled in. The insightful appendix provides information on all of the classic ways in which people try to get out of paying taxes, covering topics ranging from deductions and offshore banking, to tax shelters and multiple trust schemes. How to Survive the IRS is sure to educate and infuriate as it exposes the inner workings of the federal government’s most feared agency.
2001,6x9,336 pp, hard cover.
HOW TO SURVIVE THE IRS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76067)
PRIVACY AND HIDING THINGS
Introduction
We all have something to hide, don’t we? From nosy neighbors, cops, tax collectors, burglars and other riffraff who have no respect for privacy. The books in this Section contain specific instructions for hiding guns, gold, sexual implements, survival foods, or anything else you want to be YOURS. There are also several books on general privacy — how to get it, how to enjoy it, and how to keep it. This section is a must for every private citizen.
HIDDEN DOORWAYS
(VHS Video)
Have you heard about, or tried protecting your valuables by hiding them? Good idea, but most hiding places could be found and don’t give you quick access... until Hidden Doorways} This original video shows you step-by-step instructions that enable you to build your own hidden room with common materials found at your local lumber yard and hardware store. It will turn a closet or larger area into a secret hiding place.
Hidden Doorways enables virtually anyone who can hammer and saw to install a completely undetectable, hidden room. The video includes footage of a working, secret room, step-by-step construction of a hidden room, instructions on where to locate your secret room, and a phone number to call if any questions should arise. Like something out of a James Bond movie — for you to use!!!
Videos are non-returnable.
Damaged tapes will be replaced.
1996,4016 minutes, color VHS Video.
HIDDEN DOORWAYS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10064)
TELLING LIES
Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace,
Politics, and Marriage
Revised and Updated
by Paui Ekman
The success of business negotiations and personal relationships, as well as international diplomacy and espionage, often hinges on determining what others may or may not be concealing. In this book, Paul Ekman, a renowned authority on emotion, facial expression, and gesture, reveals how to identify deceit. By knowing what to look for in others’ faces, voices, bodies, and words, we can detect leakages and deception clues that indicate lies. Chapters include: • Lying, Leakage, and Clues to Deceit • Detecting Deceit from Words, Voice, or Body • Facial Clues to Deceit • Dangers and Precautions • The Polygraph as Lie Catcher • Lie Checking • Lie Catching in the 1990s • Lies in Public Life • and much more.
In addition, the author cites the case of Lt. Col. Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter during the Iran/Contra scandal congressional hearings, to demonstrate his judicious use of behavioral clues to detect lies.
This is the first book to explore the many dimensions of lying — the makings of a successful liar, why so many of us become willing victims — and to offer straightforward and cautious methods for uncovering deception. *
2001,516 x 816, 390 pp, illustrated, Indexed, photographs, soft cover.
TELLING LIES: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88164)
CODES, CIPHERS & OTHER CRYPTIC &
CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATION
Making & Breaking Secret Messages
from Hieroglyphs to the Internet
by Fred B. Wrixon
Codes, Ciphers &
Other Cryptic & Clan-
destine Communica-
tion chronicles the
world of secret com-
munication from hiero-
glyphics to the
Internet. The making
and breaking of codes
through history has
won or lost wars,
exposed political
intrigue, disguised
secret religions and
secured financial
transactions. It is a
fascinating world of
technological
advances, cloak and
dagger maneuvers
and war espionage.
Whether browsing through or reading cover to cover, you’ll leam
the amazing achievements of cryptology from Rosicrucians’ and
Masons’ secret transmissions, to the Ultra operation which broke the
German code and helped win World War II, to computer codes that
protect ATMs and the Internet today.
Progressing methodically through the development of each coding
method, concise and engaging profiles describe the structural basis
of each system and the thrilling stories that surround it. Biographies
identify the significant code developers and breakers. Illustrations of
letter and number patterns recreate the code makers’ procedures,
and sketches of coding machines show the actual devices used in the
field.
Every type of coded communication is covered from transposi-
tions, substitutions and polygraphic ciphers to signals, stenography
and ancient symbols. In special chapters, code and cipher breaking
hints and puzzles explain how to make your own secret messages
and how to break other people’s. Anyone can become an amateur
cryptologistl
1998,8 x 916, 704 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
CODES, CIPHERS & OTHER CRYPTIC &
CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATION: $17.98
(ORDER NUMBER 10071)
I AM NOT A NUMBER!
Freeing America from the ID State
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Claire Wolfe
No one says it better than Claire Wolfe: “A passive, malleable, well-catalogued, and constantly observed population is what every tyrant in history has desired and what no government of the free would ever wish for.” But that is exactly the kind of government the world — including the U.S. — is headed for.
We’re already compelled to carry a government-assigned number to get health care, enroll our kids in school, open a bank account, drive a car, hold a job, buy stocks, or even rent a video. We endure scans, warrentless searches, and inspections. Cameras peer at us everywhere. Rude, ignorant “security screeners” pat us down at airports while we cower submissively. The “Patriot Act” (in the name of “homeland security”) encourages neighbors, business contacts, and strangers to spy and report on us if we seem “suspicious.”
And things are getting worse every day.
This book is for people who want to take steps, within their own lives and their communities, to ensure that the surveillance stops here. It is not for the weak willed. As Wolfe writes, you can’t have both freedom and a convenient, secure, go-along-to-get-along life. If you aren’t willing to take personal risks, read no further.
‘We are about to be numbered like prisoners and tracked like cattle in a herd. Now we face three choices: to bow and be slaves, to rebel — or simply to live free, in spite of their rule.” If the last choice is one that appeals to you, this is the book for you.
Find out...
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How we came to have a national ID driver’s license in spite of Congress having voted to repeal the damn thing (and how to-get around it).
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How the “Deadbeat Dad” law intrudes on the privacy of every one of us (including childless people and responsible parents) and how that law was used as the excuse to construct a database that will be used to track our every move.
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How new communities of free Americans could be the best way to fight oppression. These may exist physically or simply consist of like-minded individuals with a common cause. Separate, private societies can exist, even within an oppressive country, linked by their commitment to freedom.
Claire Wolfe believes “we can create an entire Free America right under the eyes of — right inside the gaping maw of — the growing ID state.” We are drawing a line in the sand and saying, “No, I am not a number. I am a free human being.” If you are fed up too, get I Am Not a Number! and take those first steps toward living free.
2002,816x 11,208 pp, soft cover.
I AM NOT A NUMBER!: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58155)
HOW TO HIDE THINGS IN PUBLIC PLACES
by Dennis Fiery
Did you ever want to hide something
from prying eyes, yet were afraid to do so
in your home? Now you can secrete your
valuables away from home, by following
Dennis Fiery’s eye-opening instructions in
How to Hide Things in Public Places.
The world around us Is filled with cubby-
holes and niches that can be safely
employed... and this book identifies them.
Among the topics covered are: • How can
you possibly hide things in public places?
• Principles of public hiding • More princi-
ples and strategies • Containers, dead
drops and miniature • Landscape and hiding around the home • The street and
other urban areas • Hiding items with innocent bystanders • Public buildings and businesses • Some specific public buildings to consider • Relaying messages • Some safety rules • And much more!
Dennis Fiery says: “Many books have been written about hiding. But they all focus on privately hiding things in your own home, car, or on your person. Why should we need to hide things in public places? Well, many reasons exist for hiding things, and there are just as many reasons for hiding things in public places....
“When I talk about ‘public places’ I’m referring to places that anyone can enter or reach, as opposed to ‘private places’ such as those inside your home or other people’s homes. Some public places are supposed to be private — like the storerooms in back of shops, and many of the hidey spots discussed throughout this book. But since we can usually get away with sneaking into these places they are included in the discussion.”
Illustrated with numerous photographs, and including an index of hiding places, appendices of Simplex lock combinations and appropriate vendors, and a bibliography, this is the most comprehensive and informative book ever written about public hiding spots. Eliminate the risks involved with hiding your possessions at home by utilizing the techniques contained in How to Hide Things in Public Places.
1996,5M x 8M, 216 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover. HOW TO HIDE THINGS IN PUBLIC PLACES: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10065)
BULLETPROOF PRIVACY
How to Live Hidden, Happy, and Free!
by Boston T. Party
Boston T. Party, author of You & The
Police!, has done it again! This time the
intrepid scribe, one of the most innova-
tive, lucid, and practical writers in print,
has penned an extremely helpful work
which explains how to maintain any level
or degree of privacy that the reader
desires. While many privacy books are
outdated or just plain fluffy, Bulletproof
Privacy is a street-savvy digest com-
piled by a practicing expert. The author
has maintained a low profile all over the
world, and his knowledge, insight, and
mastery of prose, interwoven with his
clear, witty style, makes Bulletproof Pri-
vacy the modern definitive guide in
these troubled times. Learn how to: • Travel discreetly • Relocate and disappear • Make encrypted phone calls • Conduct business quietly • Become invisible to databanks • Buy and sell without a trace • Handle government officials • Use the mails privately • Not leave a paper trail
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Use ID properly • And much more than you ever dreamed possible!
Learn to foil the minions of the system! Discover new ways to confound the computers that store vast amounts of information about us! Live happy, hidden, and free... with Bulletproof Privacy!
1997,516 x 816, 160 pp, soft cover.
BULLETPROOF PRIVACY: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10067)
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by
Boston T. Party
author oft
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Ww&Tho Poncel
Hologram of Liberty
THE EDEN DIRECTORY
OF PRIVATE MAIL DROPS
In the U.S. and 90 Foreign Countries
A confidential mailing address is a superior way to begin increasing your personal privacy. Very few people really need to know where you actually live, so why advertise the fact with every piece of mail you send out? There are actually many good reasons for using a mail drop:
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Carry on secret correspondence • Conduct business under other names • Hide personal mail from snooping neighbors, employees, spouses • Avoid theft of magazines, boxes, etc., in apartments and hotels • Have mail waiting on travel routes • Use an actual street address as your own • Hide residence addresses from snoops . and dangerous types • Instant privacy for divorces, bankruptcies, lawsuits, etc.
The most complete source for finding a mail drop anywhere in the world is this all new Eden Directory of Private Mail Drops. Almost 3,000 services in more than 500 U.S. cities, and over 400 services located in 90 foreign countries give you the ultimate options you need to arrange privacy for your communications and other needs. Many of these firms offer related services which can be very convenient: parcel shipping, telephone services, notary, lottery tickets, rubber stamps, FAX, film developing, money orders, courier services, check cashing, UPS shipping, Western Union, etc. They will follow your instructions faithfully, since their main interest is earning the fees for their services. They can hold mail and/or remail under other names in different cover envelopes. Rates tend generally to be quite reasonable, and you can almost always call to see if you have any mail.
Mail drops can be very instrumental in creating personal privacy. The Eden Directory of Private Mail Drops offers you the widest selection available anywhere.
2000, 816x11,110 pp, soft cover.
THE EDEN DIRECTORY
OF PRIVATE MAIL DROPS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10076)
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS
by Samuel Rubin
Now, for the very first time, a
book devoted exclusively to covert
inks! This is a reference volume for
those desiring ready access to
information about the covert inks
used by criminals, intelligence
agencies, and others. Except for
the limited instruction in spy cen-
ters, there is no course in covert
inks available to law enforcement
officers, private investigators, and
cryptologists. This book is offered
as the basis for such a course of
instruction. It is a how-to self-study
book for police and security offi-
cers, federal agencies, state
police, county sheriffs, prison war-
dens, and others — for anyone
who wishes to improve their knowl-
edge of secret inks.
Some of the contents include: • Invisible inks • Vanishing inks •
Disappearing and appearing inks • Ultraviolet inks • Poison inks •
Secret inks used by gamblers to mark cards • Incendiary and
pyrotechnic inks • A section on covert pens • Covert mail opening
techniques • And much, much more!
Altogether more than 130 formulas and recipes for making your
own secret inks are given! If you want to leam all about how to make
and use secret inks, The Secret Science of Covert Inks is the book
you have been waiting for!'
1987,516 x 816,120 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE SECRET SCIENCE OF COVERT INKS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55056)
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS
The Complete Manual of Long Term
Underground Storage
by eddie the wire
This is a hardcore book for hardcore individualists who don’t trust banks, or anybody else, for that matter. It tells you in step-by-step detail how to bury any valuables or contraband you might wish to store and conceal, and how to defeat searchers who might try to find your caches.
Contents include:
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What do you have to hide? • When to bury it so you won’t be seen • Where to bury it so it can’t be found • How to beat metal detectors • How to outfox search teams • Information security • How to retrieve your burial containers • Protecting against moisture • Burial containers: Built and bought • How to pack burial containers — and where to get them • How to bury it without leaving telltale traces • And more, including source listings for Cosmoline and other hard-to-find items.
How to Bury Your Goods is the single finest book ever written on methods of long term underground storage. Bury it now and dig it deep!
1987,516 x 816, 72 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO BURY YOUR GOODS: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10049)
super Privacy
The Complete Guide to Personal Privacy and
Financial Freedom In Tomorrow’s Cashless
Society
by Bob Hammond
Debit cards, credit cards,
ATMs, electronic transfer of
funds, all-powerful supercom-
puters that can get your life his-
tory in an instant, and
government agencies, corpora-
tions, and private individuals
able to tap into your credit his-
tory without your permission or
knowledge. Scare you half to
death? It should, but Bob Ham-
mond is about to tell you how it
is possible for the private citi-
zen to maintain his privacy in
the dangerous cashless society
of tomorrow.
This is the first book to both
predict the plastic and com-
puter world of the 21st century
and provide you the reader with
step-by-step instructions nec-
essary to not only maintain
one’s privacy and true identity, but also to protect and secure bank
accounts, financial transactions, credit history, and future earnings
from the predatory asset thieves of tomorrow.
In this remarkable book, a master of personal privacy and financial
wizardry clearly explains how individuals can fully protect their cash
and accounts from creditors, lawsuits, currency recalls, and high-tech
crooks; obtain new, legal government identification such as a pass-
port, driver’s license, and Social Security card; set up an offshore
bank account or private trust; effectively deal with the government’s
new encoded currency; and much more. Leam how those who yearn
to fight the power can break free of the system once and for all, while
legally creating a whole new identity! Read this book today — and
change tomorrow for the better!
1997,516 x 816,128 pp, soft cover.
SUPER PRIVACY: $16.00 (ORDER NUMBER 10068)
CODE MAKING AND CODE BREAKING
by Jack Luger
Enter the fascinating world of code making and code breakingl We live in the information age. Information is bought, sold, and stolen, just like any other goods. Spies sell military secrets. Businesses are victims of corporate espionage. Smut-seeking tabloids pay huge sums for the intimate details of celebrities’ lives.
Businesses and private individuals are fighting back with the same weapon used by governments the world over: codes.
Code Making and Code Breaking is a practical, illustrated guide to building and busting codes. Learn how to construct codes from the simple to the complex. Learn about computers and other devices used in code making and code breaking. Learn why the most unbreakable code isn’t always the best code.
Chapters include: • History • Secret Writing: The Basics • Substitution Ciphers • Electro-Mechanical Ciphers • Transposition Ciphers • Codes • Code Breaking • Quasi Cryptosystems • And more!
Code Making and Code Breaking is must reading for those who want to keep their secrets safe.
1990,5M x 81/2,121 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
CODE MAKING AND CODE BREAKING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10052)
THE POOR MAN’S FORT KNOX
Home Security with Inexpensive Safes
by Duncan Long
With government restrictions on what we can and can’t own, with searches of supposedly private safety deposit boxes becoming routine, more and more people are taking control over guarding their valuables. For those who are wary of putting money and other valuables in the hands of unreliable institutions, home safes offer a sane alternative. But what kind of features do you need, and how can you get them for the least amount of money?
The Poor Man's Fort Knox provides a detailed analysis of the wide range of home safes available — to average citizens — everything from pistol strongboxes to walk-in vaults. Using illustrations, photographs and a lot of hands-on experience, Duncan Long reveals: • the secret to finding top-of-the-line safes at bargain basement prices • dirt cheap alternatives to safes • the best custom safes designed specifically for firearms • the most secure fireproof location in any home • tricks for getting burglars to ignore your safe • and much more!
The Poor Man's Fort Knox will show you how to safeguard your valuables without red tape, scrutiny, or interference. With your home safe, you will enjoy the peace of mind of having control over those things you value most.
1991,516 x 816, 41 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE POOR MAN’S FORT KNOX: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10057)
PERSONAL PRIVACY
THROUGH FOREIGN INVESTING
Second Edition
by Trent Sands
In recent years, new federal laws have made it ever more difficult for Americans to conduct their financial affairs with any degree of privacy. Recent US Supreme Court decisions have even concluded that citizens have no legal expectation of privacy in the operation of their bank accounts and other financial investments. Overseas investing offers a viable way for an individual to reclaim some of his financial privacy. But the individual who is contemplating taking this step needs to understand that he will be violating many US Federal laws. Trent Sands shows how to secretly get around these privacy-destroying laws, and discusses which foreign countries are the best bets for financial privacy seekers.
This book is sold for informational purposes only. , 2000,516 x 816, 72 pp, soft cover.
PERSONAL PRIVACY
THROUGH FOREIGN INVESTING: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61170)
HOW TO HIDE ANYTHING
by Michael Connor
As burglaries, break-ins and armed robberies escalate, the need for secret hiding places for valuables is vital for anyone who has something worth hiding. With the aid of this book, you can construct small or large secret hiding places that will protect your valuables from unauthorized hands, yet keep them accessible for when you want them.
With little effort or expense, you can hide cash, armaments and even family members right in your own home. How to Hide Anything tells you how to construct dozens of hiding places in your house and yard. Here are small hiding places for concealing money and jewelry and large places for securing survival supplies or even persons. Over one hundred drawings show how to turn ordinary items into extraordinary hiding places. Considering what you could lose, the money for this book may be the best you ever spend!
1984,516 x 816, 120 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO HIDE ANYTHING: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10043)
THE BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES
by Jack Luger
The biggest and best book on concealment of physical objects ever printed! This huge book tells how searchers find hidden contraband and how to hide your stuff so it can’t be found.
Topics covered include: • Hiding places in the home, on your person, and in automobiles • The different types of searchers you may encounter, and the intensity of the searches they may conduct • Tools and techniques used by searchers, including mirrors, metal detectors, vapor detectors, dogs, and more • Two sure ways of foiling search dogs • The tools you will need to build your own secret hiding places and where to get them • Things to consider when choosing hiding places • How much work is involved? • A lengthy chapter on concealing weapons and the best tactics for employing them • And much more!
What do you have to hide? A partial list might include: • Prohibited items • Unobtainable after-the-crash items • Items that must remain secret • Items that can be easily hidden and easily stolen.
We have all got something to hide, or something that should be hidden — that is why The Big Book of Secret Hiding Places is so valuable. Order your copy today.
1987,816x11,124 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE BIG BOOK OF SECRET HIDING PLACES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10048)
MODERN CAMOUFLAGE
by Duncan Long
Here is an insider’s look at both tried and true camouflage techniques as well as new tactics that professional soldiers use to conceal themselves on today’s modern battlefields. Modern Camouflage also discloses the secrets of hiding personnel and equipment from observation and how to confuse and deceive an enemy as to the existence, location or nature of vehicles and buildings.
This book also gives a straight, no-holds-barred assessment of infrared equipment capable of defeating many types of camouflage and shows how simple third world tactics can surmount the threat posed by the most expensive eavesdropping equipment modern armies have. Included is a look at creating decoys, dummy emplacement and fake vehicles which will draw enemy attention and fire away from hidden friendly sites.
In an age when fortresses are easily breached by artillery and “smart” bombs and missiles, the techniques of avoiding detection through camouflage are essential and will often decide whether an army faces quick and disastrous defeats or comes out on top. Whether you’re in the safety of your home, simply interested in modern military tactics, or sitting in a foxhole concerned with surviving on today’s high tech battlefield, Modern Camouflage is an eye opener that belongs on your must read book list.'
1992,516 x 816, 79 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MODERN CAMOUFLAGE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10058)
SECRET MESSAGES
Concealment, Codes & Other Types
of Ingenious Communication
by William S. Butler & L. Douglas Keeney
From the fall of Troy to
interstellar messages by way
of the Underground Railroad
and Captain Midnight, Secret
Messages is a collection of
ninety-five of the most inter-
esting examples of code and
concealed communications
throughout history. The
authors have compiled a fas-
cinating array of encrypted
communications from a varied
field. Many of these examples
are from times of war, including the story of how a too sim-
ple code was the undoing of
Benedict Arnold, and how
Commander Jeremiah Den-
ton blinked in Morse code to
indicate that his North Viet-
namese captors were torturing him. Others are more
lighthearted, such as the cre-
ative use of hand signals by catchers and managers in modern base-
ball. And some selections offer a glimpse into how codes are used in
everyday life, unbeknownst to most of us, in places like hospitals,
police stations, and firehouses.
Uncovering hidden layers, Secret Messages will amaze you with
its new insights into history and how it has been shaped by cryptogra-
phy. It also explores the future of encryption, where technology will
enable vast amounts of information to be hidden within minuscule
hosts such as human DNA, or the dot of an T. Full of stories of
human creativity and ingenuity, Secret Messages is an engaging
book that will inspire and delight.
2001,516 x 816,192 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
SECRET MESSAGES: $23.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10073)
THE PRIVACY POACHERS
How the Government and Big Corporations
Gather, Use and Sell Information About You
by Tony Lesce
The amount of information about you kept on computers is staggering: bank statements, credit card reports, medical records, school transcripts, job applications, driving history, videotape rentals, tax returns, legal records... the list goes on and on. And wherever there’s information, The Privacy Poachers are trying to get their hands on it. The Privacy Poachers explains exactly who is collecting information about you and what they’re doing with it. Government and private snoops can combine data from your financial transactions with information from surveillance, telephone taps, mail monitoring, and other privacy invasions to create a detailed dossier of your life. This information is then packaged and sold, over and over again, without your knowledge or permission.
The Privacy Poachers can have a devastating impact on your life. Many New Englanders found out the hard way when a national credit bureau falsely tagged them as deadbeats. An Arizona man found out when a police computer responded to his name with the warning, “High Risk: AIDS.” Despite privacy laws, false or damaging information can be broadcast around the globe in the blink of an eye.
The Privacy Poachers, explains how you can take control over most of the information collected on you. After you read this book, you will know what your legal rights are and how to keep personal information away from the Privacy Poachers.
1992,516 x 816,155 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE PRIVACY POACHERS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58080)
THE INVISIBLE ADVANTAGE WORKBOOK
Ghillie Suite Construction Made Simple
by Tom Forbes
The three-dimensional camou-
flage of the famed ghillie suit is
unparalleled in its ability to conceal
the outdoorsman. But preassem-
bled suits are expensive, and kits
can be both costly and time-con-
suming. Tom Forbes has come up
with an alternative.
Using simple! procedures and
economical, easily found materials,
Forbes guides readers through the
manufacture of several different
kinds of ghillie suits, including the
garment used by ^he British military
during World War II. This handy
workbook contains tips on materials
and techniques Used in ghillie suit
construction, as well as valuable
information on stalking methods.
2002,516 x 816,80 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE INVISIBLE ADVANTAGE WORKBOOK: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10077)
CRYPTO
How the Cbde Rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age । by Steven Levy
In this full-sc^de account of
the great Code VVar that shook
the computer agle, best-selling
author Steven Levy (author of
Hackers) lucidly outlines the
development of I a “people’s”
cryptography and its head-on
collision with the US govern-
ment. Crypto is about privacy in
the information ¿ge and about
the nerds and visionaries who,
over twenty years ago, predicted
that the Internet’s greatest virtue
— free access to! information —
was also its most' perilous draw-
back: a possible 0nd to privacy.
Those fearless “crypto
rebels” come alive here in a nar-
rative that is as 'dramatic as a real-life thriller, a hugely read-
able blend of geniuses-at-work, sci-fi, and political intrigue, anchored
by the firm voice of a guide who knows technology, politics, and digi-
tal culture. There is Whit Diffie, the long-haired Newton of crypto who
invented the astounding “public key” solution; David Chaum, whose
“anonymous digital money” actually threatened the global financial
infrastructure; and “cypherpunks” like Phil Zimmermann who freely
distributed military-strength codes under the nose of the US govern-
ment. There is al^o the first behind-the-scenes account of what the
secretive National Security Agency really had in mind when it created
the controversial ‘¡Clipper Chip” — and how the Clinton administration
bungled the operation.
In addition, Levy explores what turned out to be a decisive devel-
opment in the crypto wars — the unlikely alliance between the wire-
heads and big business. Their shared goal: to defend our right to
privacy from the government and other snoops. From the writer who
made “hackers” a household word, Crypto is a groundbreaking book
about the hottest jssue on the electronic frontier. It is destined to be a
classic in its field. !
2001,6x9,368 pp, Indexed, hard cover.
CRYPTO: $25.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10074)
FAKE I.D.
The famous Loompanics “Fake LD.” Section!
The Most Comprehensive Collection of
Fake LD. Books Ever Offered For Sale!
INTRODUCTION
If you wonder why we
have a whole Section
devoted to Fake I.D.,
take a good look at the
picture on the left, and
think about it, really hard.
Many times throughout
history, having the right
“papers” has meant the
difference between slav-
ery and freedom, if not
life and death.
The government
always lies when they
offer excuses for why
they want to tattoo num-
bers on all of us — they
say they want to do it to
“prevent crime,” or to
stop “illegal aliens,” or
“so you can collect the
proper amount of Social
Security,” or some other
bullshit. The real reason,
of course, is that they
want to have as much
control over each and
every one of us as they
can get. I.D. cards, I.D. number, “identification papers,” and
other garbage heaped upon you by the government telling
you who you are — these are the real trappings of totalitari-
anism.
At Loompanics, we believe each citizen owes it to himself to find out as much about I.D. cards as he can, as a matter of self-defense. This Special Fake I.D. Section will remove the mystery from I.D. cards and reveal the government’s paper reality for what it really is: ONLY PAPER...
In this amazing Section, you will find out all you ever wanted to know about FAKE I.D. A couple of extra sets of I.D. in “safe” names should be in everyone’s survival kit (look at that picture again!). From all the best ways to get I.D. in whatever name you want right from the government itself, to how to make your own I.D., to books on makeup and plastic surgery — Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to offer our customers the most comprehehsive selection on books of Fake I.D. and related subjects ever assembled.
We strongly urge you to buy these books NOW. They could easily “disappear” from the market...
Are your papers in order, sir?
Who are you?
The Encyclopedia of Personal Identification
by Scott French
This book reveals the tricks and truths of the identity game from all sides of the game! Learn how to steal or protect any identity, and find out exactly how the government and private companies are infringing on your rights — and how to stop them!
Who Are You? not only draws from the unique writing skills and knowledge of Scott French, it also incorporates insider information from experts ranging from FBI and customs agents to top graphic artists, offshore attorneys, master thieves, and professional sharks.
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How to steal anyone’s identity
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How to prevent your identity from being stolen
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How to get a driver’s license even if yours is suspended
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How to make great IDs on a home computer
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How to read and verify any check
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How to manufacture checks on a home computer
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Where to buy the best fake ID in the world
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How to make holograms and state seals
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How to open a bank account without a Social Security number
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How to open an untraceable offshore ATM account
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How to get a second passport
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Where to get a “real” birth certificate
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How to read and verify any Social Security number and earnings record
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How to create a complete ancillary ID package
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How credit cards are forged, stolen, and used
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How to find (or verify) mail drops
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How to read vehicle tags
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How to build a “legend” Jimmy Hoffa would be proud of
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How new credit agency programs are designed to catch ID abusers
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How to safeguard your privacy, every minute of the day
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How the IRS spots phony/forged receipts
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And much, much more.
Plus: Sources, Web sites, rules, regulations, tips, techniques, and state-of-the-art information that will change the way you do business and the way you live your life! Get Who Are You? The Encyclopedia of Personal Identification today!!!
2000,8% x 11,348 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
WHO ARE YOU?: $44.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61175)
THE I.D. MASTER
Identity Change Insider Secrets
Little-Known Tactics
of Identity-Change Professionals
by John Q. Newman
In The I.D. Master, identity-change professional John Q. Newman reveals little-known insider secrets of identity changing. In these pages, you will discover:
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Using the law to create a new identity — how to use name-change laws to your advantage
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Creating a new identity as a crime victim — how police reports can help you change your identity
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How police search for people — the best times to use fake I.D.
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How to create a useable Social Security number — one that won’t be flagged by the taxman
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A legal alternative to a Social Security number — how anyone can get one
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A new identity via identity theft — in some ways, this can even be the preferred method of identity changing
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The Delayed Birth Certificate — how to obtain one in any name you want
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How to use a “ghost address” to establish a new identity
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How to create a fake employment history — and back it up
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How to create a fake education history — complete with real transcripts
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New identity after 9/11 — what to expect, and how to slip through the cracks
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And much, much more.
The I.D. Master is the very latest information available on identity changing —- from one of the most renowned professionals in the field. If you want to keep up with the pros, then you need The I.D. Master. 2002,816x11,129 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE I.D. MASTER: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61183)
BIOMETRICS
Identity Verification in a Networked World
by Samir Nanavati, Michael Thieme,
and Raj Nanavati
Big Brother marches on. No
longer a science fiction solution,
biometric technologies are being
deployed by thousands of com-
panies and public agencies to
increase security, protect per-
sonal information, and reduce
fraud. Along with this broadscale
deployment comes a wide range
of critical issues, including pri-
vacy risks, secure biometric sys-
tem design, and the strengths
and weaknesses of leading tech-
nologies such as finger-scan,
iris-scan, facial-scan, voice-
scan, and signature-scan. A full
understanding of the biometric
! Biometrics!
Identity Verification in a Neluxnixd World ;
technologies, applications, and markets is required for successful uti-
lization of biometrics in today’s snoopy environment.
Reviewing large-scale project examples, the authors: • Discuss
the metrics used to determine how well biometric systems operate •
Define how biometric deployments can be privacy-enhancing or pri-
vacy-invasive • Dispel various myths and misunderstandings sur-
rounding biometric technology • Address topics such as system
components, data acquisition, template generation and matching,
and typical deployments for each biometric technology.
Written by leading industry authorities, this book provides you with
everything you need to know about the technology, the industry, the
applications, and the challenges that define biometrics today. It
explains why institutions are turning to biometrics to authenticate
employees, customers, and citizens in mission-critical applications. It
also provides a broad conceptual understanding of the technology,
explains specialized terms and concepts, and concludes with an
analysis of the factors to be considered when designing, deploying,
and maintaining biometric systems.
2002, 716 x 9,320 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BIOMETRICS: $34.99
(ORDER NUMBER 61184)
HOW TO DISAPPEAR IN AMERICA
by Barry Reid
Leave the Past. Start Life Over.
\Ne all think about leaving or “starting life over,” but what does it take to do it? Maybe you can’t stand the people around you, or you’re stuck in a job “going nowhere,” or, worse, you’re in an abusive, dangerous relationship. It’s not only time to hit the road, you must leave! Written by expert author Barry Reid (of Paper Trip fame), this all-new book spells out every aspect of disappearing in America. For over thirty years Reid has counseled people whose lives required “going underground” in order to start their lives over safely. You can benefit from their experiences and his practical advice with “how-to” information on everything you need to know: • Planning your “escape” • Deciding what to take with you • How to get where you’re going • Arranging things in advance • Fast, safe ways to make money • Getting new credit quickly • Transitioning into a new ID • Best places to live and why • Low-profile living techniques • Using mail drops properly • Getting a new SSN • Taking kids, if necessary • Regaining property left behind • Using attorneys advantageously • And much, much more.
PLUS hundreds of practical, useful, even “lifesaving” ideas for success in your new life. This inspiring book tells exactly what you need to know, how best to go about it, and what you can expect once you do decide to disappear in America. Why suffer a miserable “existence” when you can “escape” into an entirely new life?
2002,816x11,115 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO DISAPPEAR IN AMERICA: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61181)
CREDIT REPAIR
You don’t have to be stuck with bad credit
6th Edtion
by Attorneys Robin Leonard and Deanne Loonin
You don’t have to be stuck
with bad credit. Perhaps
you’ve had problems with
credit. Perhaps you haven’t,
but your credit report says
you do anyway — nearly 70
percent of credit reports con-
tain errors. Either way, a less-
than-flattering report can hurt
your chances of qualifying for
a credit card, mortgage or
any other kind of loan — it
can even get in the way of
renting an apartment or finding a job. But a bad credit
report can always be
improved, or corrected. In
plain English, Credit Repair
shows you how to fix your
credit situation quickly, easily
and legally.
Learn how to: • avoid overspending • establish a realistic budget • get out of debt now • build a financial cushion • read and understand your credit report • get mistakes on your credit report fixed • get positive information added to your credit report • negotiate with creditors • and much more.
Credit Repair includes sample credit reports, lists of agencies and organizations to turn to for additional help, as well as summaries of relevant state laws. This edition provides a new chapter on how creditors and employers use your credit report, options to avoid if you’re trying to find cash to pay off debts, and new information on obtaining your credit score, protecting your Social Security number and avoiding credit discrimination.
2002,816x11,213 pp, indexed, soft cover,
includes 30 forms and letters, as tear-outs and on CD-Rom.
CREDIT REPAIR 6th Edition: $24.99
(ORDER NUMBER 61182)
HOW TO SPOT A PHONY RESUME
Secrets of the Most Successful Writers
of False Information
by Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D.
Think you’re clever enough to doctor your resume and fool prospective employers? Probably not. According to this book, you’re probably falling into the same Burmese tiger traps as everybody else. By understanding how a shrewd employer reads a resume, you’ll learn how to reinvent your history so you don’t make obvious mistakes.
Or maybe you’re on the hiring end and think that you can spot a phony a mile away. This book tells you how to interpret the details, do the math, and check out the information. It’s much less expensive to do an investigation now than retrain someone later, the author says.
In How to Spot a Phony Resume, you’ll learn:
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The 10 things that arouse suspicion • Reasons employers do — and do not — check out information on resumes • How to avoid public embarrassment • If it’s too good to be true — it probably is • What other documents support — or give away — about an applicant • The questions employers ask references.
So before you go ahead and turn yourself from an auto mechanic into a brain surgeon on paper, or before you hire someone who seems just right for the job, read this book. You’ll save time, money, and most important — aggravation and embarrassment.
1998,516 x 816,122 pp, indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO SPOT A PHONY RESUME: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61158)
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR NAME IN CALIFORNIA
9th Edition
by Attorney Lisa Sedano
Make your name
change legal. Divorce,
complicated spelling,
tricky pronunciation, per-
sorial preference — any
of these may convince
you that it’s time for a
new riame. But juggling
more than one name can
create confusion with
government agencies,
delays at the bank and
hassles in your personal
life.
Fortunately, it’s easy
to avoid these troubles
by making your new
name legal — and you
don’t need a lawyer to do
it. How to Change Your
Name in California pro-
vides step-by-step
instructions and all the forms you need to: • Choose a name you love
and make it your own • Change back to your former name after
divorce • Change your child’s name after adoption, remarriage or a
change in custody • Get a new or amended birth certificate for you or
your child • Get identification in your new name, including a driver’s
license, Social Security card and passport.
Completely revamped to reflect current law, this 9th edition also
discusses the latest information about the “usage method” of changing your name.
2001,816x11,140 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR NAME IN CALIFORNIA: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61179)
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ACQUIRING NEW ID
How to Easily Use the Latest Computer
Technology to Drop Out, Start Over,
and Get On with Your Life
by Ragnar Benson
Life today is fraught with uncer-
tainty. Who can predict when love
might turn to hate, a prosperous busi-
ness be driven to bankruptcy by a
frivolous lawsuit or an unethical com-
petitor, or an honest person forced to
flee from an overzealous govern-
ment? Many people now believe that
every thinking person should have a
well-conceived, ready-to-activate
escape plan just in case of an emer-
gency.
The recycled information avail-
able in most traditional new ID books
— most of which are 10 to 15 years
old — fails to take into account the
way computer technology has
changed the process of obtaining (or monitoring) identity documents. You can no longer hope to start over using the “dead baby’s birth certificate” trick so popular in the past. Everyone is aware of that ruse, including Social Security, driver’s license and passport bureaus, and child support enforcement agencies.
What you need is a plan that allows you to make your own identity documents on your home computer. In this comprehensive, stretch- to-fit escape plan, Ragnar Benson explains how to drop out, start over, and get on with your life!
1996,516 x 816,142 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
ACQUIRING NEW ID: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61150)
FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS
This reprint of a 1985 report from
the US House of Representatives
covers phony diplomas, degrees, and
academic credentials. It contains
information on the FBI’s “Operation
Dipscam,” which in the past few years
has shut down dozens of diploma
mills in the US.
The report contains reproductions
of advertisements from diploma mills,
and photos of phony degrees pur-
chased through the mail. It goes into
considerable detail on how doctors
and other professionals use these
fraudulent credentials, with many fas-
cinating case histories.
“The FBI has found that an individ-
ual could obtain credentials from a wide selection of institutions by the meeting of one single requirement — the payment of a fee ranging from $25 for a meritorious citation to $28,000 for a medical degree complete with transcripts and letters of recommendation... The FBI found that fraudulent diplomas may be issued in the name of the diploma mill itself or they may be falsified duplicates of diplomas issued by legitimate colleges and universities. During raids closing one diploma mill, FBI personnel have confiscated thousands of falsified diplomas identical to those conferred to graduates of such reputable institutions as Harvard, Yale, Emory, and the University of Alabama as well as those of nonexistent ‘sound-alike’ schools.” Fascinating reading for anyone interested in the “problem” of Fraudulent Credentials!
1985,6x9,79 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
FRAUDULENT CREDENTIALS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61088)
HOW TO GET A GREEN CARD
Legal Ways to Stay in the U.S.A., 4th Edition
by Attorney Loida Nicolas Lewis
with Len T. Madlansacay
Read this book before you apply for a Green Card. The best way to get a green card is to understand all the requirements — before you start your application. Making a mistake can ruin your chances forever. This book clearly explains all the ways you can qualify for and obtain a green card. Former INS attorney Loida Lewis and immigration expert Len Madlansacay give you insider advice on how to work with the INS. They show you how to prepare and present all the right documents and let you know exactly what to expect every step of the way.
Learn the quickest way to get a green card through: • your family — parents, brothers, sisters and adult children • your husband, wife or fianc6(e) • your employer • your profession. Understand how to: • enter green card lotteries • invest in the U.S. and qualify for an entrepreneur green card • qualify for political asylum or refugee status • get Labor Certification for a domestic worker • get a green card for an adopted child • also provided is a list of over 400 immigration groups that will help you with the paperwork and offer counseling and legal referrals. Many samples of properly filled-out forms are included.
2001,816x11,390 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO GET A GREEN CARD: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61142)
REBORN IN CANADA
Personal Privacy Through a New Identity
Revised and Expanded Third Edition
by Trent Sands
Oh! Canada! When the destination for a new identity is north of the border, it takes more to merge than ordering Canadian beer and attending a hockey game.
Trent Sands (author of Reborn in the USA, Reborn With Credit, and Reborn Overseas) gives readers the important information they need to live without suspicion in Canada, from getting a provincial driver’s license to signing up for health care.
This third edition covers changes in the licensing system; how to prove residency; how to set up “employment;” and the “two-wallet system,” an essential for anyone traveling back and forth between the US and Canada.
When you need to gain privacy, or to just get out of Dodge, Reborn in Canada is your ticket to freedom.
1999,516 x 816,116 pp, soft cover.
REBORN IN CANADA: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61114)
FUGITIVE
How to Run, Hide, and Survive
by Kenn Abaygo
If you’re serious about going on the lam, this book may be the most valuable asset you’ve ever laid your hands on. It may just save your life. Author Kenn Abaygo, a U.S. government reconnaissance and intelligence gathering specialist with years of professional experience worldwide in the art and science of evasion, spells out exactly what it takes to make it, down to the smallest detail.
Precise, easily digested information will guide you clearly through the mountains, forest, desert, swamps, and plains like a shadow on the darkest night. You will learn how to build an “invisible” evasion shelter, erect path guards that divert a potential intruder without his even knowing it, “lose” a pack of “unshakable” tracking dogs, enter the “Network” of people willing to assist those like you who are evading pursuers, apply natural camouflage and principles of camouflage that will keep you unseen (even with almost no cover), and utilize primitive first aid skills and medicinal herbalism in the wilderness. This unique manual slinks into the unknown and exposes you to possibilities you never even considered.
1994,516 x 816,96 pp, soft cover.
FUGITIVE: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61141)
UNDERSTANDING U.S. IDENTITY DOCUMENTS
by John Q. Newman
Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to present the largest and most in-depth study of the United States identification system ever prepared — John Q. Newman’s Understanding U.S. Identity Documents. Must reading for all new identity seekers, and anyone else interested in identification, false identification and alternate I.D.!
You know who you are. Your friends and family know who you .are. But thousands of people you deal with in government and business know you only from a document. If you alter your documents, you can evade taxes, regulation and supervision. You can also reap a wide spectrum of benefits and privileges that are bestowed on those people the system likes.
Understanding U.S. Identity Documents provides a detailed examination of the most important documents for establishing identity: birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and passports. It shows how each document is generated and used, and explains the strengths and weaknesses of the agencies issuing them.
Understanding U.S. Identity Documents contains the most detailed examination of basic identity documents ever made available to the public. Each of the four sections contains more information than most entire books on the subject.
There is a no more thorough, up-to-date reference on U.S. identity documents and the U.S. identity system available anywhere. John Q. Newman’s Understanding U.S. Identity Documents is an essential reference for anyone concerned with their official identity and how it is maintained arid manipulated.
1991,816 x 11,207pp, illustrated, soft cover.
UNDERSTANDING U.S. IDENTITY DOCUMENTS: $27.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61129)
REBORN IN THE USA
Personal Privacy Through a New Identity
Revised and Expanded Third Edition
by Trent Sands
Becoming a completely dif-
ferent person — on paper — is
all about finding the chinks in the
system where you can climb in
and use it to your advantage. In
this third edition of Reborn in
the USA, updated for the new
millennium, author Trent Sands
expertly tells you how to creafe
and obtain official documents,
while avoiding the common pit-
falls that land those unprepared
in jail.
Trent Sands, the expert
behind Loompanics’ classic
“Reborn” series, (Reborn with
Credit, Reborn Overseas, and
Reborn in Canada) gives com-
plete information about how to
obtain a new driver’s licerise,
passport and other documents.
After reading this new edition, you’ll discover what the pros know: • How to duplicate modern security features such as holograms, seals and magnetic strips. • How to determine if an identity you wish to acquire is already being used — and how to escape detection once you’re using it. • How to instantly get a new “job” or “business.” • With the advent of computers in the last decade, government and law enforcement agencies have spun tighter webs around anyone living in America. Now, those seeking new identities can fight back and dip into their own computer arsenals for help in creating a totally new — totally clean — paper trail.
Perhaps most important, you’ll learn how to cover your tracks, and make fresh new ones — as somebody else.
1998,516 x 816,166 pp, soft cover.
REBORN IN THE USA: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61156)
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
AND NEVER BE FOUND
by Doug Richmond
Heavy-duty disappearing tech-
niques for those with a “need to know!”
This book tells you how to pull off a
disappearance, and how to stay free
and never be found. It analyzes all the
ways you could be found by whoever
might be looking for you — Missing
persons bureaus, the peds, Private
eyes and skip tracers, Insurance com-
panies — and tells you how to evade
their pursuit.
This book tells you how to plan for
a disappearance, how to arrange for
new identification, and even how to
stage a “Pseudopide” to make your
pursuers think you are dead!
How to make it appear that you
have left the country when you really
haven’t, how to cope with the first days, how to get a job» establish
credit, and find a place to live. How to avoid leaving a paper trail, who
might be looking for you and how to avoid them, case histories, and
more!
Everything you need to know about How to Disappear Com-
pletely and Never Be Found is in this amazing book!
1986,516 x 816, 107 pp, soft cover.
HOWTO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
AND NEVER BE FOUND: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61082)
NEW I.D. IN AMERICA
How to Create a Foolproof New Identity
by Anonymous
Did you ever wish you had
just one more chance at life —
the proverbial “Clean slate?” Do
you want to shake free from
those alimoriy payments or your
lousy credit record? Or would
you like to have a couple of
extra sets of “alternate” I.D. just
in case Big Brother gets a little
too frisky? With New I.D. in
America, you can get lost per-
manently.
This excellent book is a
step-by-step guide to precisely
creating a totally new identity —■
to having a bona fide birth cer-
tificate, drivers license, pass-
port, Social Security number,
credit cards — all you need to
make a clean break with your
past and get yourself New I.D.
In America. The author, a private investigator who has spent a lifetime both locating missing persons and helping clients “get lost’ permanently, reveals his secrets to you. Learn how to become a totally new persqn, project exactly the image you want to and then prove you are who you Say you are.
You can project the reputation of being a successful, influential business person with a prestigious address and corporate backing. Or do you desire a sheltered business savings account that is virtually untraceable? You can create either at will — for personal or business reasons. And you can do. all this without fear of ever being caught, with these careful instructions. Here’s your chance for a new identity! Grab it!
1983,516 x 816,120 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
NEW I.D. IN AMERICA: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61048)
SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE
New I.D. in Canada, England,
Australia, and New Zealand
by Tony Newborn
Written especially for use in Britain and the Commonwealth nations, Secrets of International Identity Change shows how to obtain the legal and valid documents you need to support an ID change. No counterfeit ID is included here, only watys to get ID through legitimate channels: right from the government itself! Credit cards, birth certificates and driver’s licenses are yours for the asking, as well as a British passport and medical card — two of the most important documents in the world today.
Examples of application forms (passport, motor vehicle registration, unemployment benefits, driver’s license, mail-redirection) and documents (birth and death certificates, unemployment benefit info) are included. No fake ID library is complete without Secrets of International Identity Change.
1989,816 x 11,120 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SECRETS OF INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE: $21.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61071)
REBORN WITH CREDIT
Revised and Expanded
Second Edition
by Trent Sands
When your credit report reads more like
a horror story than a fairy tale, it’s time to
.pick up Reborn With Credit. Author Trent
*Sands (Reborn in the USA, Reborn in
Canada, and Reborn Overseas) explains in
clear detail how the credit system works —
and how to get it working for you. This sec-
ond edition outlines changes in the credit
industry, how to most effectively use the
Internet, and how to remove negative infor-
mation from your report.
If you have a bad credit history, you don’t
need to spend thousands of dollars at a
credit repair clinic for a makeover. Reborn
With Credit not only BhOWs you how to clean up your rating, but also how to access tens of thousands of dollars from new cards and how to convert high-interest credit card debt to manageable, low-interest loans. And with a new beginning, you’re more likely to get a happy ending. Reborn With Credit shows you how.
1999,516 x 816, 103 pp, soft cover.
REBORN WITH CREDIT: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61131)
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD
Reprint of a Government Report
"... the foundation, or breeder document, for almost any other kind of identification for citizens is the birth certificate. Over 7,000 State and local vital records offices issue birth certificates with no uniform standards for issuance processes, controls, or quality of documents. In some jurisdictions, birth certificates are easily counterfeited, obtained through imposture, or created from stolen legitimate blank forms”
This US Government report covers birth certificate fraud. It deals with: • The Problems • The Issuing Agencies • The Birth Documents • The Issuing Procedures • The User Agencies • And Recommendations for controlling birth certificate fraud.
Birth Certificate Fraud is the very latest information on what the US Government knows about fake ID, and how it is trying to stop it. Must reading for anyone interested in identification and false identification.
1988,816 x 11,36 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61098)
SECRETS OF A BACK-ALLEY ID MAN
Fake ID Construction Techniques
of the Underground
by Sheldon Charrett
Find out how crafty coun-
terfeiters stay one step ahead
of the bureaucrats and secu-
rity professionals and readily
replicate drivers licenses, birth
certificates and other suppos-
edly “secure” identity docu-
ments. In Secrets of a
Back-Alley ID Man, Sheldon
Charrett will show you the
most effective “new school”
and “old school” techniques
for new IDs, as well as poor
man’s tricks for those on a
tight budget:
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The latest printers, scan-
ners, cameras, software
and other equipment used
to forge IDs • Ground-
breaking research in hologram reproduction • Simple and quick methods for producing do-it-yourself templates for licenses and official seals • Ways to make composite IDs using a standard 35 mm camera • And the availability of ready-made IDs on the Internet and from other sources.
Plus, for the first time ever in print: precise instructions on how metallic holograms and repetitive lettering are done at home. Also included are difficult-to-find drivers licenses backs, which are nonexistent on the Internet and ignored in other ID books. For academic study only
2001,816 x 11,96 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SECRETS OF A BACK-ALLEY ID MAN: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61178)
Jack Luger
COUNTERFEIT I.D. MADE EASY
by Jack Luger
See how easy making counterfeit
I.D. can be! Counterfeit I.D. Made
Easy includes step-by-step instruc-
tions on how forgers make these
authentic-looking documents: • Dri-
vers Licenses • Photo I.D. Cards •
Credit Cards • Birth Certificates • And
much, much more!
Topics covered include: • The dif-
ferent purposes counterfeit I.D. is used
for • What goes into real I.D. • Obtaining simple genuine I.D. • The forger’s
kit: sources for the supplies and equip-
ment I.D. counterfeiters use to pro-
duce their bogus documents • Forgery
techniques: paste-up, photocopies,
watermarks, signatures, altering pho-
tostats, aging the document, ultraviolet
ink, and more • How forgers exercise quality control over their coun-
terfeit I.D. • How forgers pass fake I.D. • And much, much more,
including banking, impersonation, employment, and more!
Written by a professional in the printing and graphic arts trades,
Counterfeit I.D. Made Easy takes you into the basements and work-
shops of professional forgers to reveal their techniques. The tools are
simple, the supplies readily available. Counterfeit I.D. Made Easy
includes detailed illustrations, as well as tips on how forgers use the
fake I.D. they make and how you can spot counterfeit credentials.
There is no secret to how great-looking I.D. is produced — not
with Counterfeit I.D. Made Easy.
1990,516 x 816,131 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
COUNTERFEIT I.D. MADE EASY: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61111)
HOW TO MAKE DRIVER’S LICENSES AND
OTHER ID ON YOUR HOME COMPUTER
by Max Forgé
Sometimes you just need to fake
it.
Author Max Forgé brings libera-
tion to the technology front with this
step-by-step manual that tells you
everything you need to know about
making your own ID cards at home.
Instructions are outlined in plain lan-
guage so that even a novice can set
up shop, download software, and
create authentic-looking cards to
fool bouncers and store clerks.
This book covers: • How to down-
load software and license templates
off the Internet • The best equip-
ment to use • How to change an
existing license to suit your needs •
How to add holograms and other
anti-counterfeiting devices • Printing,
cutting, and laminating • How to use the license intelligently • Back-up
ID — what it is and how to use it.
With this book, you’ll never again sit around waiting for your mail-
order ID. Gone are the days when you have to settle for flagrantly
fake ID. Bring the power of technology home with this book, and do it
yourself — the right way.
1999,516 x 816, 104 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE DRIVER’S LICENSES AND
OTHER ID ON YOUR HOME COMPUTER: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61164)
HOW TO SPOT A LIAR IN A JOB INTERVIEW
An employer’s guide to detecting
those who speak falsely in interviews,
assessment sessions, and all other
communication when seeking employment.
by Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D.
The hiring process at all levels
of any organization grows neces-
sarily more complex with the
advancement of time. New statu-
tory laws on the books, new court
decisions, and stacks of new reg-
ulations, rules, procedures, proto-
cols and interpretations of political
correctness have all made the job
of hiring trickier for the hiring
organization. Add to this appli-
cants who are less than truthful
on r6sum6s and applications,
who procure false references and
who lie in the interview process,
and you can see why more and
more managers are having less
and less fun hiring people.
This book will show you how
to: weed out dishonest applicants;
reduce turnover; lower negligent
hiring risks; improve standards; avoid recruiting mistakes; and main-
tain organizational integrity.
Use these highly effective screening techniques: same question
series; body language; personal assessment; technical questions;
resume cross check; application check; reference checks; back-
ground checks; focused stress; lie traps; interview tools; and plan-
ning.
1999,516 x 816,125 pp, indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO SPOT A LIAR IN A JOB INTERVIEW: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61165)
IDENTITY THEFT
The Cybercrime of the Millennium
by John Q. Newman
Your most valuable possession is not
your house, your car, or your collection
of antique jewelry. Your most valuable
possession is what makes you you —
your identity. What would happen if
someone stole it?
Each year, more than 500,000 Amer-
icans fall victim to identity theft, and that
number is rising. A stolen identity can
mean the loss of your job, your credit
rating, your friends, and in extreme
cases, can result in a prison sentence
for a crime you did not commit.
Chapters include: • Information
Everywhere • Credit Bureaus • Partners
in Identity Theft • Government Data and
Identity Theft • The Wild World of the Information Broker • The Fake ID Seller • Another Part of the Identity Theft Game • Other Information Sources for Identity Thieves • The Different Types of Identity Thieves • Identity Theft by Organized Crime • The Long-Term Identity Thief • The Malevolent Identity Thief • Avoiding Identity Thieves • Fighting Back After Victimization • The Internet and Identity Theft • Stopping Identity Theft • And More.
In Identity Theft: The Cybercrime of the Millennium, you will leam: • How identity thieves use computer networks and other information sources to adopt, abuse, and subsequently ravage the identities of unsuspecting victims within a few weeks. • Why credit bureaus and government agencies can be considered the identity thief’s partners in crime. • What you can do to protect yourself from identity theft,. and how to fight back effectively if you are one of the unlucky victims. • Two things that must be done immediately in order to stop identity theft forever.
This book is the most effective tool in your arsenal against the cyberspace grifter. Use it to protect your identity — while you still have one.
1999,516 x 816,98 pp, soft cover.
IDENTITY THEFT: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61163)
THE INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE
Secrets of Clandestine TraVel Overseas
by Kenn Abaygo
The International Fugitive is your passport to the world of clandestine travel, international border crossings, and covert living overseas. Master fugitive Kenn Abaygo guides you on a trip down the sinister streets and through the twisting alleys of life as a fugitive abroad. Learn what your m.o. must be in a place where the rules are entirely different than they are in your home country, foreign security forces may be tracking your every move, and a seemingly innocent cultural misunderstanding can get you caught... or killed.
Drawing on his more than 20 years of experience slinking undetected through the world’s great cities, quietly sailing into and out of exotic ports, and moving like a shadow over the backcountry of six continents, Abaygo will teach you: • various means to cross heavily guarded borders — and when to resort to overt versus covert methods • how to best hightail it out of North America for points abroad • the many, many ways to get around undetected in Europe, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere • the best places on the planet to go deep underground • secrets of low-profile living and working overseas.
Whether you are a government operative, corporate intelligence collector, someone who witnessed something you now wish you hadn’t, or simply a traveler who wants to leam how to blend in to the local scene and remain anonymous in your journeys, Kenn Abaygo points out the pitfalls and problems of overseas escape and helps you get around them safely.
1999,516 x 816,146 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE: $17.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61166)
THE PAPER TRIP III
The Master Guide to New Identity
by Barry Reid
Big Brother now works with hundreds of privately owned databases that track and control millions of names. One of them is yours.
Credit bureaus often victimize innocent people as they parlay information about your credit history. Is there something you want to keep private?
An increasing number of states are insisting that Social Security numbers be included on driver’s licenses. Is your state next?
Why fall prey to a brutal bureaucratic numbering system when you can be free? The Paper Trip ///shows you how in this updated manual for obtaining and maintaining a new identity. Author Barry Reid shows you how to:
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Make your records invisible and unknown to databases
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Thwart identity thieves
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Live as your new self
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Take advantage of vital records offices
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How to legally obtain a new Social Security number
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Make do-it-yourself ID.
Consider this book an investment — not only in what to do, but how to avoid the common mistakes that can land you in jail, or worse.
1998,816 x 11,166 pp, soft cover.
THE PAPER TRIP III: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61160)
CREDIT SECRETS
How to Erase Bad Credit
by Bob Hammond
Solve your financial and
credit problems once and for all!
Credit Secrets is a dynamic,
easy-to-follow program that pro-
vides specific, jargon-free
instructions on how to eliminate
your debts and remove negative
items from your credit files
regardless of your past or pres-
ent financial situation.
This book will save you thou-
sands of dollars in fees, finance
charges and interest payments
as you learn the latest tech-
niques in creative financing —
proven methods of becoming
debt-free and establishing good
credit. Discover the inside info
used by lawyers and credit con-
sultants, including: how to
become debt-free without bor-
rowing or bankruptcy; dynamic strategies for negotiating with credi-
tors; secrets of file segregation — the only completely legal method
for erasing bad credit overnight. Don’t miss out on this amazing
opportunity to get yourself on solid financial ground.
1997,516 x 816,126 pp, soft cover.
CREDIT SECRETS: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61121)
Bob Hammond .
HOW TO LEGALLY OBTAIN A SECOND
CITIZENSHIP AND PASSPORT — AND WHY YOU
WANT TO
by Adam Starchild
Nationality law is one of the most confusing areas of international jurisprudence, primarily because law on nationality in different countries is extremely varied, based on individual histories, traditions, and legal concepts.
Anyone considering acquiring more than one nationality should proceed in full awareness of the risk of winding up with no nationality at all. You must proceed with care and, in all cases, seek well qualified legal advice. Obtaining accurate information can be difficult — different consulates of the same country often give different answers, which don’t necessarily match the answers given by a citizenship lawyer within the country. And many countries are reluctant to give general information for publication. They simply answer inquiries (if they answer at all) by saying that every case is different and the individuals concerned should visit the consulate and bring their documentation.
These difficulties are mentioned so that you will know to check and double check every possibility regarding your country of ancestry or that of your spouse. The first answer you get may not be the right one.
The main effect of the international legal confusion surrounding second passports and dual nationality is that some people have more than one nationality. And some people even have more passports than nationalities.
1995,516 x 816,132 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO LEGALLY OBTAIN A SECOND CITIZENSHIP AND
PASSPORT — AND WHY YOU WANT TO: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61147)
THE
NEW IDENTITY
Revised and Expanded
Second Edition
John Q. Newman
THE HEAVY DUTY NEW IDENTITY
Revised and Expanded
Second Edition
by John Q. Newman
Wouldn’t it be great to wake up
one morning as someone else: a dif-
ferent name, a new life, all your trou-
bles and debts left behind? But be
careful what you dream — it just
might come true. Actually trying to
live under a new identity would be
most people’s worst nightmare. Ask
the people who have tried it — John
Q. Newman has. In this revised and
expanded edition of his classic The
Heavy Duty New Identity, Newman
reveals how difficult it really is living
under an assumed identity, and
includes the very latest develop-
ments in computer cross-referencing — and how to get around law
enforcement’s latest tricks and
traps.
Chapters include: • Creating a New Identity • They Want Your Ass
• Fugitives and the Police • Police Computers and How They Search
for You • Bail Bondsmen and Bounty Hunters • Crossing the Border •
Selecting a Hideout • Staying Free and Keeping in Contact • The
Transitional Identity • The Transitional Identity II • Making the Break •
Living the Transitional Identity • The Permanent New Identity • The
Problem of Mental Stress • Bonding With Your New Identity • Living
the Life • And more.
The Heavy Duty New Identity, shows what it is like living a lie.
John Q. Newman provides a program for building a new identity that
will not fail. When there is no other choice — when the stakes are
high — when your life depends on it — get The Heavy Duty New
Identity.
1998,516 x 816,105 pp, soft cover.
THE HEAVY DUTY NEW IDENTITY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61116)
THE MODERN IDENTITY CHANGER
How to Create a New Identity for Privacy
and Personal Freedom
by Sheldon Charrett
Finally, here is an all-new, up-to-date instruction book on the art and science of obtaining and using a complete new identity. The Modern Identity Changer focuses on the major pitfails of traditional identity changing, while explaining current solutions and approaches to the inherent problems posed in this pursuit.
Far from a slim handbook on the outmoded method of acquiring a deceased infant’s birth certificate and using that information as a springboard, for a complete new identity, The Modern Identity Changer outlines a complete identity changing program, complete with step-by-step instructions and illustrations on how to go about acquiring a new identity in today’s data-drenched society, how to produce and manufacture the documents necessary to maintain and support that clandestine identity, and how to obtain credit, employment, and banking privileges for that ersatz identity. It’s all here, from obtaining a legitimate Social Security number, driver’s license, and work ID to outwitting Big Brother’s bureaucrats and their persistent demands for papers, stamps, cards, and tracking numbers. By studying this book, identity changers, freedom seekers, and privacy enthusiasts can maintain a fresh arsenal of information in the war against totalitarianism. For academic study only.
1997,516 x 816, 144 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE MODERN IDENTITY CHANGER: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61154)
ADVANCED FUGITIVE
Running, Hiding, Surviving and Thriving Forever
by Kenn Abaygo
Suppose the circum-
stances of your life forced
you to drop out of sight for an
extended period of time...
imagine that you have a
need to simply vanish and
take on a new personality in
some foreign city, or survive
in a makeshift hideout in the
wilds of the Yukon! What if
you knew you could never
come back? Could you do it?
These are just a few of the
tough questions a fugitive
must ask himself if he is seri-
ous about splitting the scene
for a year, ten years, or the
rest of his life.
Author Kenn Abaygo has
crafted this book to teach the
advanced evasion tech-
niques that other fugitives
have used effectively to disappear and stay out of sight
indefinitely. The reader will benefit from their mistakes and experi-
ences, and will obtain greater understanding of the many intricacies
involved in staging a successful evasion in any terrain, including finding a “doorman” who will show fugitives the way into the network of
people who are willing to assist evaders; choosing an ideal location;
exploiting the many survival assets available at no cost to the nation’s
proverbial homeless; selecting appropriate weapons for hunting and
self defense; taking the necessary steps to avoid being tracked, spot-
ted, stalked, or fired upon by a sniper; and toughing it out in the wilds
under the most severe conditions nature has to offer. If being a suc-
cessful fugitive has suddenly become your long term ambition, con-
sider this book to be your best friend and confidant... and don't leave
home without it!
1997,516 x 816,139 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ADVANCED FUGITIVE: $17.00
(ORDER NUMBER 6.1153)
CREDIT POWER!
Rebuild Your Credit in 90 Days or Less!
by John Q. Newman
Millions of Americans cannot buy a car, rent an apartment, charge at a department store, or get a decent job because of negative or inaccurate information in the files of credit bureaus, employers, or government agencies. The ability to obtain credit has become a literal necessity in order to survive. People who can’t obtain credit find it difficult, if not impossible, to do many basic things in everyday life: rent an automobile, reserve a hotel or motel room, purchase a concert ticket, and many others.
Credit Powerl explains in easily understandable detail exactly how your credit rating is determined, where the credit bureaus get their information, and how you can fight back with a proven and tested step-by-step program to rebuild your credit and get those applications approved!
Credit Power! presents the most useful, productive, and practical credit repair and manipulation guide.ever written, with information never before available to the public. Here are all the tools you need to rebuild and effectively manage your credit rating, as well as your financial image as perceived by the world of business and commerce.
Good credit is as necessary to life today as clean air and water. Credit Power! shows you how to obtain good credit no matter what your present situation may be. It explains what can be done, using the current laws, to achieve A -1 credit. Read Credit Power! and try its methods of restoring and rebuilding credit now! It could be one of the smartest financial moves of your life.
1997,816x11,198 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CREDIT POWER!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61161)
SCRAM
Relocating Under a New Identity
by James S. Martin, Attorney at Law
Have you ever watched a ship go out to sea and wished you were on it, leaving your problems behind? You’re not alone. Many people would love to make a fresh start, in a new town, under a new name. But how? James S. Martin, an attorney with years of experience both in the United States and abroad, answers ail your questions about relocating under a new identity. Questions like:
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Should I divorce before leaving?
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Should I declare bankruptcy first?
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How can I get a birth certificate in a different name?
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How do I get a brand new Social Security card?
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Who will be looking for me and how will they try to find me?
SCRAM: Relocating Under a New Identity includes ten real-life case histories that show the problems and opportunities for identity changers. If you’ve ever wondered what it would take to start over, then check out SCRAM!
Chapters include:
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The commitment to a new identity • Social reorganization • Personal reorganization • New identity papers • Tracing missing persons • Changing your looks • The right to travel • Faking death • Chances of success and more, including Case Histories of real-life identity changers!
The author states in his Introduction:
“Nothing herein should be construed as instruction on how to break the law, nor should it be read as encouragement to do so. In fact, all of the information provided is intended to advise against breaking the law while the individual plans or effects a new identity. Eveiy day, the federal Justice Department creates new identities for criminals and the worst examples of society, as well as assisting them with taxpayer money! Why shouldn’t that choice be available for other citizens? Why shouldn’t you have the opportunity for a ‘clean slate?’ If you do have the aim of reinventing yourself, be aware that you are not alone, nor were you the first to dream of it.”
1999,516 x 816,98 pp, soft cover.
SCRAM: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61138)
METHODS OF DISGUISE
Second Edition Revised and Expanded
by John Sample
Whether you’re an actor, an under-
cover cop, a gambler, an armed robber,
a fugitive, a con man, a practical joker,
or a host for a costume party, Methods
of Disguise will show you easy ways to:
• Change your facial characteristics •
Alter the looks of your eyes and mouth •
Change the shape of your body • Dis-
guise your voice • Alter your apparent
height and weight • “Age” yourself by
adding years to your appearance • Con-
trol and change habits and mannerisms
• Choose and apply makeup • Undergo
plastic surgery • Use wigs, mustaches
and beards • Change sex or cross-dress
• Create false fingerprints • Build a
handy pocket disguise kit for instant changes • And much more.
John Sample’s Methods of Disguise is an easy-to-follow guide
which includes over 130 detailed illustrations as well as sources for
makeup, uniforms, shoe lifts, badges and I.D. cards, contact lenses,
prostheses, skin tanning preparations, fake tattoos, transvestite sup-
plies, voice changing devices, wigs and hairpieces, and much more.
With Methods of Disguise, you can learn how to change yourself
so completely even old friends won’t recognize you!
1993,516 x 816,258 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
METHODS OF DISGUISE: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61139)
REBORN OVERSEAS
Identity Building in Europe,
Australia & New Zealand
Second Edition
by Trent Sands
The walls between nations are crum-
bling, opening rare opportunities for those
who need a new identity. The revised Sec-
ond Edition of Trent Sands’ Reborn Over-
seas shows how to build a foolproof identity
in Europe, Australia & New Zealand.
The formation of the European Common
Market has created a paper-tripping para-
dise. With an identity in any one nation, you
can live, work and travel in all twelve.
Reborn Overseas shows how to penetrate
that system without leaving the United
States.
Australia and New Zealand also have
much to offer the identity seeker. Australia’s new Tax File Number
actually makes it easier to build a new life down under — if you get
started now. And the connections between Australia, New Zealand
and the United Kingdom multiply the opportunities for work and travel.
Reborn Overseas shows how to get all the documents needed
for a complete paper identity. It also shows how to fake education,
employment and credit references so you can blend right into your
new home. Chapters include: • The New Europe • Flowchart for a
British Identity • Laying the Groundwork • Completing the Basic Iden-
tity • Employment, Education and Credit • The British European •
Reborn in Australia and New Zealand • The Australian Opportunity •
Flowchart for an Australian Identity • Australian Birth Certificates •
Supporting ID in Australia • The Australian Driver’s License • The Tax
File Number • The Australian Passport • Employment, Banking and
Credit • Identification in New Zealand • And more.
Join the new breed of global identity changers — get Reborn
Overseas! This title is sold for informational purposes only.
2000,516 x 816,104 pp, soft cover.
REBORN OVERSEAS: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61172)
FAKE ID BY MAIL AND MODEM
by Trent Sands
Thanks to the wonders of computer
technology, fake ID is better than ever! ID
cards such as driver’s licenses, Social
Security cards, union cards, employee
and student ID cards are so real-looking
that only seasoned professional ID
checkers can tell the difference!
And thanks to the Internet, suppliers
of fake ID are all over the place!
Topics covered in this revealing new
text include: • What kinds of ID are avail-
able — and who sells them • What fake
ID should — and should not — be used
for • How to “customize” your mail-order
ID • The exact texts of laws against fake
ID and how vendors get around these
laws • “Ghosting:” The only way a mail-order driver’s license can actually be used to drive a car and pass a police check • Actual photographs of fake ID documents the author ordered by mail and modem • The author’s recommendations for the best cards available today • Mail-order passports — sold through the mail and completely legal in the United States • And much, much more.
Here in the computer age, fake ID is better and more widely available than ever before — get your Fake ID by Mail and Modem today!!! Sold for informational purposes only.
2000,516 x 816,98 pp, soft cover.
FAKE ID BY MAIL AND MODEM: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61174)
HOW TO LOSE YOUR EX-WIFE
FINANCIALLY FOREVER!
Gain Financial Freedom from Your Ex: Escape the
Bondage of Excessive Child Support and Alimony
by Jason C. Roberts
An absolute must book
for every divorced or
divorcing male! Yes, if
you’re behind in child sup-
port or alimony payments,
you can be persecuted by
both Federal and State
bureaucrats! Learn how to
end excessive child sup-
port and/or alimony for-
ever!
What this book is all
about: $ Keeping personal
finances a secret and inac-
cessible from an “Ex” $
Keeping financial assets
safe from seizure, including the IRS $ Finding out in
advance what legal pro-
ceedings an “Ex” is plotting
$ Paying less child support
and no alimony $ Behind in child support payments? Who will be in
pursuit? What can be expected? Stopping all pursuers dead in their
tracks! $ How an “Ex” financially traps a man serving in the military $
The “GOTCHA” program Uncle Sam uses and how to defeat it $ Stop-
ping garnishment $ The statute of limitation law, friend or foe? $
Selecting a “winning” lawyer $ Defeating the process server $ And
much, much more.
Losing an ex-wife financially can mean the difference between living a lifestyle of financial tranquility, or dragging around that court-cre-
ated “ball and chain” of deprivation and poverty for years into the
future. Learn How To Lose Your Ex-Wife Financially Forever!
1990,816x11,154 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO LOSE YOUR EX-WIFE
FINANCIALLY FOREVER!: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61177)
THE I.D. FORGER:
Homemade Birth Certificates
& Other Documents Explained
by John Q. Newman
A person intent on
creating a new identity
will have to come up with
numerous types of paper
documents such as birth
certificates, college tran-
scripts, degrees, refer-
ence letters, and the like.
It is often impossible to
obtain real documents in
the name of the new
identity. This leaves the
person who wishes to
change identities with
two options. The first
option is to purchase
false documents from
one of the numerous pur-
veyors who advertise in
the national tabloids and
magazines. False-docu-
ment sellers can also be
consulted on the Internet.
The first problem with
purchasing documents
via this route is that the
quality of these documents is always in doubt. The second problem is that many of these businesses operate outside the law controlling the manufacture and sale of false documents. These sellers can be raided by the police or FBI at any time. Even worse, the mail these businesses receive may be subjected to what is known as a “mail cover.” During a mail cover, the name and return address of all incoming mail is .recorded. Those people attempting to order from the business would wind up with their name in an investigator’s database, and they might face a visit from the police at a later time.
The second option is creating their own: People wanting to establish a new identity need to become adept at the skill of document forgery in the early stages of their identity creation. These forged documents will allow the identity-seeker to obtain real, genuine identity documents from government agencies and other places. A false birth certificate will allow the acquisition of a valid driver’s license from a state motor vehicle department. A false transcript can be used to register for classes at a university, and maybe even obtain a scholarship. A fake employment reference letter can be used to obtain a good job in the new identity.
A proficiency in document forgery allows the seeker of a new identity to create the foundation of his alternate self at home, without drawing the attention of curious busybodies. Forgery is easily learned by most people, and the more a forger practices, the better the documents that can be produced. Eventually, the diligent forger will be able to turn but documents that only a skilled document examiner could prove to be fakes, and then only after an extensive examination. Good-quality forgeries are almost never detected by people who commonly examine identification documents.
The I.D. Forger covers in step-by-step detail all of the classic and modern high-tech methods of forging the most commonly used identification documents. Chapters include:
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The uses of homemade documents • Old-fashioned forgery • Computer forgery • Birth certificate basics • Old-fashioned birth certificate forgery • Computer forgery of birth certificates • Driver’s license and identification card forgery • Social Security cards • Other miscellaneous document forgery • And more.
The I.D. Forger is must reading for anyone interested in identification and false identification — sold for informational purposes only.
1999,5U x 816, 107 pp, soft cover.
THE I.D. FORGER: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61168)
IDENTITY, PRIVACY,
AND PERSONAL FREEDOM
Big Brother vs. the New Resistance
by Sheldon Charrett
From the Introduc-
tion:
“To ensure that no
one steps out of line,
Big Government uses
modern supercomput-
ers to hoard ridiculous
amounts of personal
information on citi-
zens, who are forcibly
sucked into the
imploding nucleus of
an impending catas-
trophe. The catastro-
phe is the inevitable
misuse of our per-
sonal information to
strip us of our privacy,
personal freedom,
and identity. A free-
thinking citizen is a
bureaucrat’s worst
nightmare; a population of broken spirits is much less likely to throw monkey wrenches into the machine.
“Fortunately, there are those among us who have seen the future. They have seen the nucleus of Big Brother undergo a radioactive decay, sparking a reaction that ultimately will cause its demise.
“They are the members of the New Resistance. Those who have stood outside the machine, studied it, and seen it for what it was: an unloving foster parent that we never asked for yet does everything it can to control our lives under the threat of forceful reprisal.
“The New Resistance gains new members every day. You may wish to become one after reading this book. Perhaps you already have.”
Contents include:
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Big Brother Is Getting Bigger
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Corporate Conditioning
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Unconstitutional Laws • The New Resistance • You Are Not Powerless • Vote Early, Vote Often
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How to Manufacture Professional-Quality Identity Documents
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Obtaining Officially Issued Documents Under a New Identity
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Mail and Address Privacy
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Telephone Privacy
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How to Make Free Private Phone Calls
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Making the Most of Caller ID
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Internet Privacy
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E-Mail Privacy
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Freedom of Employment and Income
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Apparent Sources of Income
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Living Inexpensively
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Social Security
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Collecting Social Security Under a New Identity
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Pocketbook Numbers
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Banking Privacy
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How to Open a Bank Account Without a Social Security Number
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Marriage Privacy (and ID Tricks)
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Freedom on the Road • And much, much more.
Sheldon Charrett’s Identity, Privacy, and Personal Freedom is the best book yet on I.D. No freedom lover should be without this book.
1999,814x11,235 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
IDENTITY, PRIVACY,
AND PERSONAL FREEDOM: $40.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61167)
A Plague Upon The Land
© 2003 by Michael Chesbro
Artwork © 2003 by Nick Bougas
A slowly creeping pestilence, long present in the land, has rapidly become a virulent plague infecting all levels of society. This plague is insidious^ hiding itself among the benign and even disguising itself as the beneficial, but it is assuredly a malignant disease that if left untreated will result in the gravest of harm, even to the death of our very society and way of life. This malignant disease is government surveillance, a plague upon the land.
Year after year the government has proposed and implemented more and more oppressive regulations that tear at the very heart of this great republic. These regulations trample the Constitution under a jack-booted foot and toll the death of freedom and the rightful liberties of We the People!
We need only look back a generation or two to see the beginning of this government surveillance program with the issuing of Social Security numbers (SSNs) to everyone of working age. Opponents of this governmentally assigned “national ID number” were assured that their fears were unfounded. The SSN, we were told, will only be used to administer the Social Security program.
Your SSN is nothing more than an account number to keep track of funds contributed to your Social Security account. Originally Social Security cards were even annotated with the words “Not For Identification.” However, as We the People began to accept this new “national identification number,” things began to change. The words “Not For Identification” quietly disappeared from our Social Security cards, and the SSN was adopted by the IRS as our taxpayer identification number.
As of October 1, 2000, you
must provide your SSN in
order to be issued a driver’s
license, a fishing license, or
even a marriage license.
The implementation of a national identification number was now firmly in place. Other agencies and organizations began to adopt the SSN for identification purposes. Requests for your SSN began to appear on forms throughout the government and
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in the private sector. The SSN, which heretofore was not needed until you began to work and earn a taxable income, was now a necessity for even the youngest children. In fact the IRS declared that parents could not claim a tax exemption for their children unless said children had SSNs and those numbers were listed on the parents’ tax return forms!
As oppressive and intolerable as this national ID system was becoming, worse was yet to come. The federal government still could not track everyone. People with a desire for some degree of personal freedom and anonymity from Big Brother were still able to slip through the cracks. So, over the objection of the states and oyer the objections of We the People, the federal government passed federal law 42 USC 666(a)(13) which requires states to collect an SSN as a condition of issuing any type of license. Some states attempted to protest this trampling of our freedoms, declaring the federal legislation “inappropriate, intrusive, and offensive.” In response to this the federal government simply refused to provide these states with federal funding for assistance to the poor (funds which the federal government derived from the states in the first place) unless the states complied with this mandatory numbering system. As of October 1, 2000, you must provide your SSN in order to be issued a driver’s license, a fishing license, or even a marriage license!
Yes, you read that correctly. In order to travel on the public highways, relax along the bank of a babbling brook, or even fall in love and get married you need Big Brother’s national ID number (your SSN)! The federal government finally has a national ID number, issued to everyone at birth and following them to the grave. George Orwell’s 1984 had arrived in the year 2000.
Although the national ID number (an abomination to a free people) is the key that ties it all together, Big Brother has not been idle in other areas. The advent of affordable computer technology and the adoption of this technology by government agencies and private businesses created a number of databases containing private and personal information about us. With the ever-increasing and mandated use of the SSN as a national ID number these databases are now cross-referenced and capable of providing a most detailed dossier on your private life!
The intrusive capability of the federal government is far greater than anything ever dreamed up by Nazi Germany’s Gestapo or the Soviet Union’s KGB.
The federal government has developed the most comprehensive system of tracking and electronic surveillance of We the People ever to exist. The intrusive capability of this surveillance system is far greater than anything ever dreamed up by Nazi Germany’s Gestapo or the Soviet Union’s KGB.
The creation and cross-referencing of govern- I mental and private sector databases, all of which are being tied together using our national identification numbers (our SSNs) allows Big Brother to cast a wide net of electronic surveillance.
Financial Surveillance
Big Brother wants to track your every financial transaction. To this end the government requires that you provide your national ID number (SSN) when establishing any type of financial account. The reason for this is to enable government tracking of your financial transactions and has little to do with simply reporting tax-related information. To see this for yourself, go to your local bank and try to open a non-interest-bearing checking I account without providing your SSN. Because the I account draws no interest there is nothing that needs to be reported for tax purposes, but the bank will demand that you still provide your SSN as a condition of opening an account. You see, Big Brother requires your bank to spy on you!
The Bank Secrecy Act (31 USC Section 1051 et. seq.) requires that your bank keep records of your banking transactions that “have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, and regulatory investigations and proceedings.” This of course raises the question as to just what these types of transactions might be. Well, to begin with, it is any and all transactions or combination of transactions involving $10,000 or more. It is also any transaction or I combination of transactions totaling $5,000 or more which “is not the sort in which a particular
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customer would normally be expected to engage.” And, it’s any transaction where you take steps to keep your transactions below these stated limits. This is a crime that Big Brother calls structuring —kind of like getting a speeding ticket for driving 47 miles per hour in a 50-mile-per-hour zone.
Much of this monitoring of our banking transactions is accomplished by a computer program called “America’s Software.” According to Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), in statements made before Congress on October 19, 2000, regarding threats to financial freedom: “The constant surveillance is accomplished, as is most privacy invasion these days, by a special banking computer software program called ‘America’s Software’ which allows every transaction in any account to be watched constantly. It produces a daily record for bank officials, who now have certain obligations imposed by U.S. law that require the reporting of ‘suspicious activities’ to federal agents.”
These reports of suspicious activity are submitted to FINCEN, the “Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.” FINCEN is a network of computer databases and more than 140 million financial records maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department. FINCEN shares these databases with every office of the U.S. Attorney, the FBI, BATF, DEA, Secret Service, U.S. Customs and more than 50 other departments and agencies. All of these agencies can use FINCEN databases to investigate persons of interest, and conduct fishing expeditions among the various “suspicious activity” reports submitted by financial institutions.
According to FINCEN’s own reports the number of “suspicious activity” reports submitted by financial institutions about their customers is steadily increasing, and more than doubled between 1996 and 2000. The following chart shows the number of suspicious activity reports received by FINCEN for each year 1996-2000.
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 (first half of the year)
49,786 81,597 96,932 120,506 100,353
Every check you write is copied and stored in a database. Every credit card transaction you make becomes a permanent computer record. Every deposit you make to your accounts and every time you get a tittle cash from an ATM you add lines to your financial dossier.
This ever-increasing intrusion of Big Brother into our financial activities tramples our 4th
Amendment rights into the dirt, but worse is yet to come.
Communications Surveillance
The ability to track every dollar we spend isn’t enough for the government. Big Brother wants to snoop into our private communications. He wants to track what we read and what we think!
To this end the F.B.I. came up with a system called “Carnivore” to track and monitor our online activity and to record our private communications to friends, family and business associates.
Carnivore (now upgraded and renamed “DCS 1000”) is a black box that the F.B.I. connects into the network of an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Thereafter they (the F.B.I.) monitor traffic across the network from some remote location without further involvement from the ISP.
Unlike traditional telephone taps which require a warrant and are installed with the assistance of the telephone company (thus providing some oversight as to who is being monitored) once Cami- vore/DCSlOOO is in place Big Brother can monitor anyone or everyone on the network. Because there is no continued involvement by ISP personnel there is no one to say, “Hey, you’re not supposed to be doing that!”
Carnivore can monitor every e-mail sent over a network, and every site visited from that network.
According to information obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) through the Freedom of Information Act, Camivore/DCSIOOO can monitor every e-mail sent over a network, and every site visited from that network. To be fair, however, we should ask: Just because the system is capable of monitoring every e-mail sent across a network, does that mean that the F.B.I. is actually ignoring the 4th Amendment and monitoring the e-mail of persons other than the listed targets of an investigation? Unfortunately that’s exactly what they seem to be doing. According to Associated Press (AP) reports in May and June 2002 concerning the Camivore/DCSIOOO system installed on various
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ISPs: “The F.B.I. software not only picked up the e-mails of its target but also picked up e-mails on non-covered targets.” Simply put, Big Brother is, without a warrant, and with a complete disregard for the 4th Amendment, copying and reading your private, personal e-mail as it travels across the monitored network of your ISP.
There has been significant public protest over Camivore/DCSlOOO. The protest has ranged from advocates of personal privacy, such as myself, to national organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), to the halls of Congress. These protests center on the F.B.I.’s failure to fully disclose the capabilities of Carnivore/DCSIOOO (secret surveillance against the American people) and the potential, actual and continued misuse and unlawful electronic monitoring of the private communications of We the People.
Once in place, Magic Lantern records your keystrokes as you type on your computer keyboard. It captures whatever you type, including private letters, passwords, account numbers, etc., and when you next go online it secretly sends this file off to Big Brother.
However, Carnivore/DCSIOOO wasn’t enough for Big Brother. Camivore/DCS 1000 can only capture what you send across the Internet (i.e., e-mail and Web sites), but Big Brother wants to know what you are writing off-line and storing on your personal computer at home. To this end the F.B.I. came up with project Magic Lantern.
Magic Lantern is a computer virus (well... actually a Trojan horse) that Big Brother uses to infect your computer. Once in place Magic Lantern records your keystrokes as you type on your computer keyboard. It captures whatever you type, including private letters, passwords, account numbers, etc., and when you next go online it secretly sends this file off to Big Brother.
At least one company that makes anti-virus software, McAfee Corp., contacted the F.B.I. to ensure its software would not detect the Bureau’s snooping software.
Now you may think that your anti-virus software would catch this type of trick — after all that’s what it’s designed to do. Unfortunately, the anti-virus companies have been co-opted by the government to weaken their anti-virus software so that it will not detect Magic Lantern. According to a November 23, 2001 Washington Post article: At least one company that makes anti-virus software, McAfee Corp., contacted the F.B.I. to ensure its software wouldn’t detect the Bureau’s snooping software.
Even the F.B.L admits that
Digital Storm will result in a 300% increase in electronic surveillance over the next 10 years as the system is fully developed and put into place.
But Big Brother isn’t through yet. There is also project Digital Storm. Digital Storm will bring the F.B.I.’s electronic surveillance capability (i.e., wiretaps, Camivore/DCSlOOO, Magic Lantern, et. al.) along with access to commercial records (credit reports, driver’s records, real estate records, etc.) into one giant system for the covert surveillance of We the People!
Even the F.B.L admits that Digital Storm will result in a 300% increase in electronic surveillance over the next 10 years as the system is fully developed and put into place. If Big Brother is admitting to a 300% increase of covert electronic surveillance of the American people we can reasonably assume that the real number is much greater than 300%!
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When Thomas Jefferson scribed the words of the Declaration of Independence he clearly set forth the principles of the powers of government for this great republic, stating: . .governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” When it comes to Carnivore/DCSIOOO, Magic Lantern, Digital Storm and other secret monitoring of the private communications of the American people, Big Brother is clearly acting without the consent of the governed!
The Patriot Act
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the United States, killing thousands and destroying the World Trade Center in New York. Congress moved quickly to pass legislation in response to this attack and one month later the President signed into law the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was passed by a large majority in both the House and the Senate, without time for review or debate. It was a knee-jerk reaction to the terrorist attacks. No politician wanted to be seen as being weak on terrorism, and Big Brother loaded the bill with proposals for some of the most intrusive surveillance capabilities ever dreamed up by any government agency, with no regard for the Constitution and the freedoms and rightful liberties of the American people.
The Patriot Act was a dream for Big Brother and a nightmare for free people.
This Patriot Act was a dream for Big Brother and a nightmare for free people. It massively expanded the surveillance and covert activity potential of government agents against the American people. It removes judicial discretion in the issuance of warrants for electronic monitoring. Big Brother does not even need probable cause to obtain a warrant anymore. A warrant must now be issued if the government will merely certify that “information likely to be obtained by such installation and use is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.”
In reviewing the Patriot Act, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org][www.eff.org), an organization focusing on personal privacy and individual rights, stated: “The civil liberties of ordinary Americans have taken a tremendous blow with this law, especially the right to privacy in our online communications and activities. Yet there is no evidence that our previous civil liberties posed a barrier to the effective tracking or prosecution of terrorists. In fact, in asking for these broad new powers, the government made no showing that the previous powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on U.S. citizens were insufficient to allow them to investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism.”
Several cities across the nation are passing resolutions that state that the Patriot Act is a threat to the rights and freedoms of the American people.
Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director of the ACLU’s Washington Office, stated: “These new and unchecked powers could be used against American citizens who are not under criminal investigation, immigrants who are here within our borders legally and also against those whose First Amendment activities are deemed to be threats to national security by the Attorney General.”
However, it’s not just organizations focusing on personal privacy and civil liberties that find the Patriot Act to be a threat. According to a July 1, 2002, ABC News report, several cities across the nation are passing resolutions that state that the Patriot Act is a threat to the rights and freedoms of the American People. These cities include Cambridge and Amherst, MA, Ann Arbor, MI, Denver, CO, Berkeley, CA, and others. As an example of the wording of these resolutions, the Cambridge, MA resolution states in part: “We believe these civil liberties [freedom of speech, assembly and privacy; equality before the law; due process; and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures] are now threatened by the USA Patriot Act.”
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The rights and freedoms we surrender today will be lost forever.
The creeping pestilence of government surveillance against the American people has finally become a virulent plague.
What Can You Do?
The first and most important step in countering this plague of surveillance and intrusion into our private lives is to realize that it exists and that it is a clear and present danger to the rightful liberties and freedoms of We the People. Stay aware of the conduct of our public servants and government agencies and make others aware of their actions. If we enlighten the people generally, tyranny and oppression will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Contact your elected officials and demand that they take action to stop the covert surveillance of the American people by Big Brother run amok. Some will say that it does little good to write and call government bureaucrats, and this may be true, but if you don’t protest the shredding of the Constitution you are in no position to complain when your rights are taken away. Furthermore, when enough of us voice our concerns and demand that our public servants uphold their oaths to support and defend the Constitution some of them just might listen, especially during an election year. It’s also important to remember that there are good men in government. By bringing matters to the attention of these men it is often possible to get them to take action.
Make a habit of not disclosing your SSN. Your SSN has become a “national ID number” and is the key that ties Big Brother’s databases together. Just because some form has a space for your SSN doesn’t mean that you have to provide it. If dealing with the government, require that they provide their specific authority for collecting your SSN and that they disclose to you how that information will be used. Make them provide you with Privacy Act disclosure information every time you disclose your SSN.
Deal in cash whenever possible. In those cases where cash is not an option (such as sending larger
amounts of money through the mail) use less traceable instruments such as postal money orders. Remember that financial institutions are required to spy on their customers, reporting your actions to Big Brother. Every time you conduct a financial transaction you add another line to your financial profile, unless you conduct those transactions in cash!
Encrypt. Encrypt. Encrypt. Use high-level encryption programs (such as PGP available for free at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html][http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html) to secure your online communications. Encrypted e- mail should be the standard rather than the exception. If your e-mail is encrypted it makes little difference if it is captured by Camivore/DCSIOOO or some other online surveillance system. Big Brother can’t read it if it’s encrypted! Use other e- security techniques such as anonymous remailers (http://anon.efga.org/Remailers][http://anon.efga.org/Remailers), and proxy servers such as Anonymizer (http://www.anonymizer.- com/). These security techniques are discussed in detail in my books The Complete Guide to E-Secu- rity and Freeware Encryption and Security Programs.
We must never surrender our essential liberties in the name of temporary safety; In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
We must stand ever vigilant to safeguard our rightful liberty and freedoms, even when this means safeguarding against the encroachment of Big Brother and over-zealous government agencies run amok. The rights and freedoms we surrender today will be lost forever.*
Michael Chesbro is the author of *The Complete Guide to E-Security, Free-ware Encryption and Security Programs, Don't Be a Victim!, Wilderness Evasion, and other books.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
Introduction
Well, 1984 has come and gone, but Big Brother is still watching you. If you don’t think so, take a look at some of the books in this Section. The latest in wiretapping and electronic surveillance methods and equipment, techniques of spying and shadowing, snooping, super-secret government agencies and more — prove that Big Brother is watching you.
SNITCH
A Handbook For Informers
by Jack Luger
Every day in the USA,
there are more laws and
more law-breakers, and
more people willing to pay
cash to find law-breakers.
Federal, state and local
governments; business
and citizen groups; pri-
vate detectives and insur-
ance agencies — all pay
quick cash for the right
information.
In fact, you can
become a professional
informer, developing
information for a living, if
you know how. The IRS
pays out a percentage of
taxes collected from tips.
The DEA hands over
money seized from drug
dealers. And the Federal
Government will pay up to
hundreds of thousands of
dollars for advance notice
of an assassination attempt!
In Snitch: A Handbook for Informers, Jack Luger tells you what
information is valuable, how to gather it, and how to sell it. He shows
you how to snitch and collect completely anonymously. He details
how crooks negotiate their way out of prison sentences, how cops
treat informers, and how to keep from being finked-out yourself.
If you are looking for an unconventional way to make money, get
Snitch: A Handbook for Informers. Because the dirt you dig up
could be paydirt.
1991,516 x 816, 145 pp, indexed, soft cover.
SNITCH: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40075)
SNITCH CULTURE
How citizens are turned into the eyes
and ears of the state
by Jim Redden
You can’t trust anyone these days and it’s no accident. Children turn their parents in to the police on two-bit drug charges. Classmates tattle on one another to school officials. Friends rat each other out to the authorities. Political advocacy groups report suspected dissidents to the FBI. Employers hire undercover agents to spy on workers. Lawyers are forced to report clients who pay with cash to law enforcement agencies.
Welcome to Snitch Culture, a surveillance society far more insidious and pervasive than anything George Orwell ever imagined. Elected officials from both political parties have spent decades building a vast domestic intelligence network to track every man, woman and child.
2000,516 x 816, 246 pp, soft cover.
SNITCH CULTURE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58139)
THE PUZZLE PALACE
Inside The National Security Agency,
America’s Most Secret
Intelligence Organization
by James Bamford
The National Security Agency (NSA) Is the most secret agency within the US Government. For many years the government denied that it even existed. It was established not by law but by a top secret presidential memorandum that has been seen by only a very few officials. Yet it is many times larger than the CIA, spends billions of dollars more per year, and its director is the most powerful official in the American intelligence community.
In the three decades since Truman secretly created the agency in 1952, the NSA has managed to elude publicity to an extraordinary degree. Now, in the first book ever written on the National Security Agency, James Bamford traces its origins, details its inner workings and exposes its far-flung operations.
He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA — where there are close to a dozen underground acres of computers, where a significant part of the world’s communications are monitored, and where reports from a number of sophisticated satellite eavesdropping systems are analyzed. He also gives a detailed account of NSA’s complex network of listening posts — both in the United States and throughout much of the rest of the world.
The Justice Department tried to suppress the publishing of this book! Read the truth about the super-secret piggy NSA!
1983,5x8,655 pp, Indexed, softcover.
THE PUZZLE PALACE: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10040)
THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND CIVIL LIABILITY
by Robert M. O’Neil
In this book, the
distinguished First
Amendment scholar
Robert M. O’Neil con-
fronts the new threats
to free expression
posed by civil liability
suits brought against
the media. Until very
recently, publishers
and media producers
had assumed that —
with a few exceptions
such as libel — free-
dom of expression
was absolute and pro-
tected from civil liabil-
ity claims in the form
of damage awards.
In the late 1990s,
these complacent
assumptions were
sharply challenged.
The case of the Hit
Man manual signaled
the shift. After a hired
assassin had been
convicted of a brutal murder in a Washington, D.C., suburb, it was
revealed that he had made use of a book that contained graphic,
detailed instructions on how to carry out an execution. When the fam-
ily of the victims sued the publisher for wrongful death, a federal
appeals court ruled that the book was “not protected speech” since its
apparent purpose was “to facilitate murder.” A publisher was thus, for
the very first time, potentially liable for criminal acts committed by a
reader of one of its books.
Later cases, especially a suit against Oliver Stone, producer of the
violent film Natural Born Killers, have invoked this ruling in seeking to
impose liability on those who create and distribute material that
“causes” others to inflict injury or death.
O’Neil looks at seven areas where free expression is now at risk of
incurring civil liability: libel and slander (including a separate analysis
of libel on the Internet), privacy (paparazzi and others who intrude),
defective or dangerous “products,” incitement (the claim of a link
between speech and criminal acts, as in the Natural Born Killers
case), advertising, news-gathering (for example the Food Lion/ABC
Primetime Live case), and threats and incitement on the Internet (as
in the anti-abortion Nuremberg Web site case).
The author’s clear exposition and analysis illuminate the issues for
a broad range of readers concerned about a host of new threats to,
and the limits of, free expression. This is a very important book — one
that should be read by every lover of freedom of speech.
2001, 6x9,197pp, indexed, hard cover.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND CIVIL LIABILITY: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58149)
THE STATE VS. THE PEOPLE
The Rise of the American Police State
by Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman
For years, Claire Wolfe and
Aaron Zelman have been two of
the most passionate and articu-
late defenders of individual
freedom in America. We are
very happy to see these two
heroes join forces to produce
this truly chilling volume.
From the Foreword: “Free-
dom is slipping out of our
hands. In the United States
people are losing ancient legal
rights. We are searched without
warrants, forced to give evi-
dence against ourselves,
denied the right to self-protec-
tion, and prosecuted for our
points of view. Our assets are
brutally confiscated. Some of us
are denied jury trials, tried twice
for the same deed, or impris-
oned entirely without charges.
“We are under surveillance whenever we bank, drive the highways, or enter a public place. Our most private records are available
for inspection by authorities. We must get permission to perform ordi-
nary tasks. Hospitals give government ID numbers to our children at
birth. Schools subject our children to arbitrary searches; they drug,
expel — and sometimes even arrest — children whose thoughts or
demeanor don’t convey proper submission.
“Every day we pick up the newspaper, click onto a Web site, or
tune in our televisions to learn of another no-knock SWAT raid,
another death at the hands of police, another act of official brutality or
corruption, another outrage going unpunished solely because the
perpetrator is a member of the elite. Laws and regulations choke us
until we can scarcely breathe, let alone breathe free.
“This book asks the question: ‘Is America becoming a police
state?’ That is not quite the same as asking, ‘Is America becoming a
dictatorship?’ or ‘Is America becoming a tyrannical state?’ Tyranny,
dictatorships, and police states are related. But a police state is a dis-
tinctive form of government.
“In Chapter One we define the characteristics of police states and
trace the history of this form of government. Throughout, as we exam-
ine how America is being altered and becoming less free, historic
police states serve as a point of reference. The similarities are chilling. A police state is brutal, yes. But it is also persuasive. Its premises
seem reasonable, its actions necessary for the good of all. That is
precisely why it is such a danger to us. In the following 13 chapters
you will see, in detail, the way the United States is fulfilling the police
state model, all in the name of social betterment or security. It’s not a
pleasant picture. But if we are to have any hope of undoing the dam-
age, of winning back our freedoms, we must understand the means
by which we are losing them.”
Chapters include:
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What Is a Police State? • Learning to Obey • For Your Own Good • The War on Everything • “Everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory” • “Justice” Feeds the Power of the State • Privacy Is Erased • Thought Control: Ues and Language • Ruthlessness Reigns • A Monopoly on Arms • Not Yet a Police State • Can We BE Free Again? • Black September 2001 • And much more, including How the U.S. Government Created the “Drug Problem” in the USA.
The State vs. The People is one of the most important books we have ever sold, and should be read by every lover of freedom.
2001,51& x 8M, 473 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE STATE VS. THE PEOPLE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94355)
THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
9-11 and State Terror
by Len Bracken
Did the U.S. Government want the 9-
11 attacks to occur? The Shadow Gov-
ernment presents the. alarming evidence
that nation-states actively engage in ter-
ror, and also passively allow terror to be
visited upon their citizens. It is not just lib-
eration movements and radical groups
that deploy terrorist tactics for offensive
ends. States use terror defensively to
directly intimidate their citizens, and to
indirectly attack themselves or harm their
citizens under a false flag. Their motiva-
tion? To provide pretexts for otherwise
unwanted wars, or to gain increased
police powers. Statesmen have executed
indirect terrorism in various ways, but most plots tend to involve the pretense of blind eyes, misdirection, and cover-ups that give the statesmen plausible deniability. The sinking of the Lusitiania, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the October Surprise, the first World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing and other well-known incidents suggest that terrorism is often successfully used by states to take the offensive against enemies at home and abroad.
Was 9-11 such an indirect defensive attack? Author Len Bracken traces the clues circumstantially connecting a multi-armed hydra of oil interests, the CIA, FBI, diplomats and statesmen to the September 11 attacks and examines whether they were engineered or allowed as a pretext for the war in Afghanistan. The subsequent anthrax attack targeting Democratic senators is considered in light of the controversial USA Patriot Act’s rights-encroaching measures and the act’s easy passage under conditions of terror. A shadow government appears to have covered the land like black ice.
2002,6x9,277pp, Indexed, soft cover.
THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58159)
AGENTS OF REPRESSION
The FBI’s Secret Wars
Against the Black Panther Party
and the American Indian Movement
by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
From the Red Scare of 1919-1920 to the McCarthy period of the 1950s to the COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) era of the 1960s, the FBI has operated primarily as America’s political police. Set against this sordid background, the complex of FBI operations conducted against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, including murder, kidnapping, and a range of other illegal activities, provides a shocking indictment of the lawlessness of the “law enforcers.”
Profusely illustrated and indexed, Agents of Repression is the benchmark text for those concerned with understanding not only what Happened to the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement, but the functional reality of America’s political police.
Contrary to official announcements that COINTELPRO-type activities ended in 1971, the authors demonstrate that the FBI not only continued them, but in some cases actually increased their levels of intensity and violence. Agents of Repression concludes with consideration of recent FBI attempts to disrupt or destroy the Puerto Rican Independence rhovement and the Central America sanctuary and solidarity movements. The mentality and operational priorities of the FBI have remained constant despite the supposed “reforms” it underwent during the late 1970s. In light of the Homeland Security Act, a measure which formally sanctions many of the worst abuses in which the Bureau engaged a generation ago, every activist in the country should become intimately acquainted with the experiences of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.
2002,6x9,535 pp, indexed, soft cover.
AGENTS OF REPRESSION: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58157)
CRIMINAL RECORDS BOOK
The Complete Guide to the Legal Use
of Criminal Records
by Derek Hinton
Learn how to legally
use criminal records!
Where and how to
access criminal records: •
Within the local, state and
federal court systems • At
state agencies and central
repositories • Online
access to criminal informa-
tion • Incarceration and
sexual offender records.
Know the employer and
vendor compliance guide-
lines: • Restrictive vs. per-
missive states • How to
abide by the FCRA man-
dates • Keep in compliance
with Title VII.
Practical “Hands-On”
information: • Advice when
obtaining criminal records
yourself • How to select criminal record vendors • How to deal with privacy issues.
Anyone involved in background screening, human resources, security or employment law should read this book.
2002, 7x9,317pp, indexed, soft cover.
CRIMINAL RECORDS BOOK: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76072)
THE COINTELPRO PAPERS
Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against
Dissent in the United States
by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
Readers anxious
about the loss of civil lib-
erties under George W.
Bush will find ground for
their fears — and sug-
gestions for activism —
in The COINTELPRO
Papers. Ward Churchill
and Jim Vander Wall’s
exposé of America’s
political police force, the
FBI, reveals the iron fist
hiding beneath the velvet
glove of “compassionate
conservatism.”
Reproducing many
original FBI memos, the
authors provide exten-
sive analysis of the
agency’s treatment of
the left, from the Com-
munist Party in the
1950s to the Central
America solidarity move-
ment in the 1980s. Ward
Churchill’s substantial new preface to this edition updates the cases
of several incarcerated Black Panthers and analyzes the events at
Ruby Ridge and Waco, as well as the wars on drugs and terrorism.
Churchill makes a compelling argument that U.S. law enforcement
has become thoroughly militarized, with devastating consequences
for all those who work for social justice.
2002,6x9,555pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE COINTELPRO PAPERS: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58158)
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Practical Advice for Finding Passengers,
Getting Them to Safety, and Staying One Step
Ahead of the Tyrants
by Jefferson Mack
Many times in history, individuals dedicated to freedom have risked everything to help desperate people fleeing unjust persecution. In the United States in the 1800s, the term Underground Railroad was coined to describe the network of citizens dedicated to helping those who had been enslaved in the South find freedom in the North and in Canada. In the 21st century, though slavery has been abolished, there are still injustices, cases in which the law of the land conflicts with the God-given rights of American citizens. And fortunately there are still those who will stand up and help those fugitives find safety and freedom in another place, perhaps under another name.
Jefferson Mack believes that, given a chance, there are many Americans willing to take that stand, and it is for them that he has written this blueprint for justice. Underground Railroad gives the average citizen the information he or she needs to help unjustly accused fugitives to safety. In this eye-opening guide, you will learn how to organize an underground railroad, spread the word through the grapevine, find and maintain safe houses, build networks of likeminded friends, and establish the all-important security features, including how to assess a potential “passenger’s” suitability and spot ringers. You will even learn what to do if you need to take flight yourself. This book is a vital addition to the library of any true American sickened by the sad decline of justice in “the land of the free.”
2000,516 x 816,134 pp, soft cover.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32070)
STOLEN LIVES
Killed by Law Enforcement
Second Edition
Now Documenting over 2,000 Cases
These victims of brutal police cannot
speak for themselves, but we can and we
will. There is a nationwide epidemic of
police brutality in the United States.
Stolen Lives provides important and
compelling exposures of police brutality
and murder. People who’ve been killed,
their families and loved ones, and com-
munities under the gun speak through
these pages and tell their stories. Among
people who don’t deal with police brutal-
ity in their daily lives, this book shows
that it’s more than just a “few bad apples”
or some “isolated incidents.” Many such
people will be moved to join the struggle against police brutality and stand with those under the gun when they see the shocking scope of this epidemic.
The government is not informing the public of the true extent of police killings. People are shot and killed with little or no provocation. They die from choke holds, hog-tying, pepper-spray, beatings and high speed car chases. They die on the streets, in their own homes, on the border, in jails and prisons. The officers involved are almost never indicted, prosecuted, or punished in any way. When media report on cases of police brutality, they generally rely almost exclusively on police reports. Police generally say they had “no choice but to shoot.” Many family members say that their loved ones are killed twice: first by the police and then by the press. Often the media does not seek out eyewitnesses or family members for their side of the story. When the media reports only what the police have to say and fail to do a thorough investigation, this keeps the public from learning the true extent of police brutality. Stolen Lives breaks this wall of silence.
1999,816x11,369 pp, soft cover.
STOLEN LIVES: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34107)
THE SAFE HOUSE
Setting Up and Running Your Own Sanctuary
by Jefferson Mack
The Safe House is a must for
anyone who needs to lie low — for
a while, or forever. If you or some-
one you know is being stalked by
the law, an angry ex, or an
overzealous business rival, this
book gives you the wherewithal to
get out of cheap motels and hide
safely in a nondescript home.
In easy-to-understand terms,
this book details precisely how
you can set up and run a safe
house, even if you have no experi-
ence. You’ll get crucial information
on: • Deciding if a safe house is for
you • How to detect visual and
electronic surveillance • How to
throw nosy neighbors or law
enforcement officers off the track •
How to set up a situation with fake
ID and false premises • What makes a good safe house.
For those who require a haven right away, and can’t afford to make a mistake, The Safe House could be the most valuable resource around. If you value your life, that is.
1998,516 x 816,84 pp, soft cover.
THE SAFE HOUSE: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 10070)
How to Lead a Secret
Life of Insurgency in an
Increasingly Unfree World
RESISTANCE TD
INVISIBLE RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY
How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an
Increasingly Unfree World
by Jefferson Mack
What is invisible resistance to
tyranny?
It is an underground movement
of secret freedom fighters, each acting individually and independently to
ignore, evade, resist, and thwart the
increasingly heavy hand of govern-
ment power. Invisible resisters do
not join protest groups, stand on
street corners making speeches, or
run with a mob throwing rocks at
police vehicles. Rather, they make
up a collective silent insurgency that
tyrants won’t be able to put down
because they won’t be able to find it.
Government enforcers will fruitlessly
look for organizations with no mem-
bers, commanders who aren’t there,
secret headquarters that don’t exist,
and couriers that carry no messages.
Invisible Resistance to Tyranny is both a manifesto and manual for everyday citizens who are alarmed by the never-ending encroachment upon the individual freedoms recognized (not “granted”) in the Bill of Rights and who want to do something about it now before it comes down to a choice between violent revolution or total submission. It outlines a progressive program of resistance that anyone can undertake without having to protest in the streets, go on hunger strikes, or take up arms.
For anyone living in a country where the authorities limit everyone’s civil liberties while increasing their own perks and power, engaging in invisible resistance can be a giant step toward achieving greater freedom now and in the future. Read this book. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
2002,516 x 816,152 pp, soft cover.
INVISIBLE RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32077)
NET SPIES
Who’s watching you on the Web?
by Andrew Gauntlett
Do you have a private life? If
you think you do, you may have
to think again. The World Wide
Web poses a threat to the per-
sonal privacy and rights of all of
us — whether or not we use a
computer. Our financial and
confidential details are stored
on hundreds of computers and
most are vulnerable to being
hacked via the phone line. Cor-
porations monitor our online
activity, building consumer pro-
files so they can manipulate our
spending. Governments are
currently spying on our e-mails,
telephone conversations, and
faxes, using the latest technol-
ogy. Even our most intimate
moments are vulnerable — hid-
den “webcams” broadcast from
public toilets and changing rooms to Internet pay sites, catering to the
dubious needs of “cyber-voyeurs.” In this book, Andrew Gauntlett
shows how the Internet is a double-edged sword; offering untold ben-
efits, and posing dangers that have yet to be addressed by compa-
nies, the media, or governments. Net Spies assumes no knowledge
of computers, but offers hints and tips on how to safeguard your pri-
vacy in the Information Age.
1999,6x9,175 pp, indexed, soft cover.
NET SPIES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58132)
IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
A Complete Guide to Protecting Your Privacy,
Identity & Assets
4th Edition
by Larry Sontag
Government, big business, and common thieves are monitoring your every move, every purchase, every visit to the doctor, and every phone call. Your safety and financial security depend on your ability to regain your privacy. Strangers now know more about you than you do. With twenty-first century technology you leave an electronic trail wherever you go. Your personal information is stored, analyzed and shared with people who can and do use it for profit. Your very identity is threatened as today’s high-tech computers allow thieves to virtually steal your name, your credit, your medical history and your good reputation.
You can and must protect yourself! Current laws protecting privacy are completely inadequate. Government has a vested interest in reducing, not increasing our rights to privacy protection. This book contains up-to-date information on how you can fight back. Included are:
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Taking yourself off mailing lists and other databases • Keeping your financial transactions completely private • Preventing big business and bureaucrats from gathering more data about you • Surfing the Internet anonymously • Protecting your identity, your credit and your physical safety by small changes in your daily routines and behavior • and much, much more.
You can dictate what others know about you. This book shows you in complete detail, what to do and how to do it. An invaluable aid for those being stalked or harassed in any way, and for anyone who wants to take back control over their life.
2001,5x8,285 pp, soft cover.
ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10072)
THE CIA’S BLACK OPS
Covert Action, Foreign Policy, and Democracy
by John Jacob Nutter, Ph.D.
Since 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly worked
to subvert foreign powers and overthrow enemy governments to fur-
ther US influence abroad. The vast array of CIA black operations —
black ops — includes covert wars against Saddam Hussein, secret
missions to the Afghan mujahedin, the Nicaraguan contra war, the
overthrow of Guatamalan leaders, assassination plots against Castro
and others, domestic and foreign narcotics conspiracies, under-
ground Mafia relations, and even controversial plans to dupe top US
officials. Black ops have stretched the agency’s influence far beyond
its original purpose. The CIA's Black Ops explains the many and var-
ied types of covert action — subsidies, graymail, propaganda, psy-
chological operations, economic warfare, military support,
paramilitary operations, coups d’etat, and assassinations — and pro-
vides detailed examples of successes and failures undertaken in the
name of “national security.” This book reveals how the United States
has become too enamored with covert action; how black ops have
often substituted for US foreign policy; and how, during the cold war,
the CIA developed into a policy maker, dangerously independent of
the government that created it.
This unique volume analyzes the issues involved in assassination,
secret and private armies, clandestine economic warfare, the
exploitation of the CIA by American corporations, and the power of the
CIA in a democratic society and ties these issues together to create a
lens through which the reader can view covert action and its relation-
ship to the larger issues of American foreign policy and democratic
principles. Unusual and exclusive, this is a courageous and unprece-
dented declassification and analysis of foreign exploits and domestic
secrets, covering clandestine activities from the birth of special oper-
ations to today’s underground action and illustrating how CIA covert
action, in attempting to subvert oppositional governments, succeeded
in subverting American democracy.
2000,6x9,360 pp, indexed, hard cover.
THE CIA’S BLACK OPS: $29.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58131)
MASS CONTROL
Engineering Human Consciousness
by Jim Keith
Here stands the New Man. His concep-
tion of reality is a dance of electronic
images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer
construction of his masters, designed so
that he will not — under any circumstances
— perceive the actual. His happiness is
delivered to him through a tube or an elec-
tronic connection. His God lurks behind an
electronic curtain; when the curtain is
pulled away, we find the CIA sorcerer, the
media manipulator...
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From the first stirrings of the psycho-
logical and technological control of human-
ity at the turn of this century, to the creation
of an education system intended to dumb
students down rather than teach them •
From the creation of the CIA and secret societies of the elite, to mass
drugging of the population • From the use of subliminal persuasion, to
the creation of cults of control • Finally, to the invention of top secret
mind control devices with capabilities far beyond anything that the
media has ever revealed to ah unsuspecting public • All of this and
more is told in this thoroughly documented history of the control of
mankind.
Mass Control carefully and thoroughly exposes the secret plans
to dominate world consciousness, and to put the reins of control in the
hands of a few. In the pages of this book we see exposed a century of
corruption, and the strange pieces of the puzzle are put in place.
Finally, the terrifying hidden history of world control makes sense.
1999,5te x 81/i, 253 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
MASS CONTROL: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58130)
^CONSCOSNESS^
RAW DEAL
Horrible and Ironic Stories
of Forgotten Americans
by Ken Smith
Remember William Sidis,
Frank Olson, Sarah Win-
nemucca? Of course you
don’t. They are just three vic-
tims who suffered outrageous
misfortune due to American
greed, callousness and
shortsighted thinking and
were unceremoniously for-
gotten.
In Raw Deal, Ken Smith
tells the stories of twenty-two
Americans who, despite their
positive attitudes, suffered
wretched fates. Americans
like: William Sidis, a brilliant
scientist who anticipated the
discovery of black holes who
was terrorized by his parents,
the press and the academic
community until he worked a
series of anonymous menial
jobs and died of a brain hemorrhage at 46; Frank Olson, who was unwittingly sent on a government-sponsored LSD trip and never returned, hurling himself through a 10-story window; Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute Tribe leader who negotiated survival necessities for her people from a stingy and dishonest government, opened a school,- wrote books and lectured across the country. She died a lonely, diseased death after her U.S. agents snatched the last of her livelihood.
When you’re about to be overcome by the self-affirming, egoinflating, America-is-a-happy-place hogwash that permeates our culture, read Raw Deal for the unsettling truth about the way Americans really treat each other.
1998,5x7*6, 287pp, illustrated, soft cover.
RAW DEAL: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99166)
THE MANIPULATED MIND
Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination
by Denise Winn
This is the single finest book we
have ever seen on “brainwashing.”
Ever since American prisoners of
war in Korea suddenly switched
sides to the Communist cause, the
concept of brainwashing has contin-
ued to fascinate and confuse. Is it
really possible to force any thinking
person to act in a way completely
alien to his character? What makes
so-called brainwashing so different
from the equally insidious effects of
indoctrination and conditioning, or
even advertising and education?
Research findings from psychol-
ogy show that brainwashing is not a
special subversive technique; it is
the clever manipulation of unrealized
influences that operate in all our lives. This book, by breaking down so-called brainwashing to its individual elements, shows how social conditioning, need for approval, emotional dependency and much else that we are unaware of, prevent us from being as self directed as we think; and conversely, which human traits make us the least susceptible to subtle influence. We are all “brainwashed” every day and this book can help you to recognize the ways and protect yourself. Highly recommended.
2000,516 x 816,217 pp, soft cover.
THE MANIPULATED MIND: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58023)
MAXIMIZING HARM
Losers and Winners in the Drug War
by Stephen Young
Debate about the drug war has
increased since the film Traffic was
released. While the movie asks some
interesting questions, it just scratches
the surface compared to this newly
released book. According to the author,
American drug prohibition is worse than
a failure — it’s a monumental boondog-
gle that hurts common citizens and
increases the problems associated with
drugs.
From the first page of this brief, but
information-packed book, prohibition is
dissected with logic and facts. It starts
with the current state of the drug war,
but goes on to show how this situation
isn’t just a modern anomaly. Without getting too technical, Maximizing Harm offers economic and historical perspectives illustrating the inherent flaws of trying to control drug use by outlawing drugs.
While some groups are targeted more often than others, the book makes a firm case that most Americans are hurt in some way. Constitutional rights have taken a beating in the drug war, and many disturbing cases of innocent people who have been killed or brutalized in the battle are detailed.
From the losers, the book moves to the winners. Billions of dollars and other benefits are at stake. Politicians, business interests, law enforcement and other government agencies scramble to get their piece, and Maximizing Harm shows how they do it.
A quick and engrossing read, Maximizing Harm offers a broad overview with specific details to show the time has passed to wring our hands about the endemic misery of the drug war. It’s time to stop it.
2000,6x9,164 pp, soft cover.
MAXIMIZING HARM: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85369)
WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC
SURVEILLANCE
Commission Studies
This remarkable book is a compi-
lation of two special reports commis-
sioned by the Federal Government in
response to the rising use of elec-
tronic surveillance for legal and illegal
purposes. Representing the collec-
tive knowledge of a select group of
experts, Commission Studies is a
veritable gold mine of practical infor-
mation on the nuts and bolts of wire-
tapping and bugging. Never before
has this kind of sophisticated intelli-
gence been available to the general
public!
Commission Studies contains sur-
WIRETflPPM FIND
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
CQœs™ STUDIES
prisingly thorough, illustrated descrip-
tions showing how eavesdropping, bugging, wiretapping and
interception of data transmissions are accomplished. Contains
detailed descriptions and comparisons of all the devices used: wire-
less transmitters, microphone systems, tape recording systems, radio
eavesdropping devices, miniature devices, and many others. More
importantly, you’ll be shown ways to detect these devices, disarm
them, and protect yourself from becoming a victim of invisible spies!
Commission Studies also includes a priceless section on tape
recordings and the law. Includes the rules of evidence for tape recordings in court, the quality of recordings, methods of falsification, and
how to determine if tapes have been altered. Learn to insure your
conversations could not be used in court even if they were recorded!
Among the finest books ever printed on the subject!
1976, 816x11, 98 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
WIRETAPPING AND ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58021)
COVERT SURVEILLANCE
& ELECTRONIC PENETRATION
Edited by William B. Moran
This how-to-do-it manual will be of great interest to citizens, law enforcement personnel and private investigators. It is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and equipment used in secret surveillance. The knowledge brought together in this one work is essential for security personnel operating in today’s competitive high-tech climate. Contents include:
Techniques of Shadowing and Tailing: A description of the processes used in physical surveillance. Includes vehicle and foot surveillance in both mobile and “stakeout” settings.
Night Surveillance Equipment: Describes the types of night viewing devices available, their capabilities, their drawbacks.
Electronic Eavesdropping Techniques and Equipment: Covers the whole field of transmitters, receivers, microphones, tape recorders and other surveillance equipment. Includes discussions of miniaturization, concealment, lab field tests of performance and other factors.
Wiretapping: Detailed explanations of how rooms are bugged and telephones tapped. Describes the equipment and techniques, and offers countermeasures. Includes in-depth hypothetical examples of interception of computer data transmissions, long distance telephone calls and suburban telephone service.
And Much More! Including Applicable Laws on surveillance, wiretapping and bugging, and an Annotated Bibliography of surveillance books.
William B. Moran has compiled scattered and hard-to-find information into one indispensable book. If you’re concerned with security and privacy, make sure you have precise up-to-date knowledge of the techniques and equipment of spying.
1999,516 x 816,124 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
COVERT SURVEILLANCE
& ELECTRONIC PENETRATION: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55043)
DAVID’S TOOL KIT
A Citizens’ Guide to Taking Out
Big Brother’s Heavy Weapons
by Ragnar Benson
DAVID'S TOOL KIT:
A Citizens’ Guide to Taking Out
Big Brother’s Heavy Weapons
by Ragnar Benson
Here it is: the book that
had to be written!!! What do
you do when faced with the
overwhelming firepower of
ruthless authority? Fight
back, that’s what! Weapons
expert Ragnar Benson pro-
vides citizen defenders with
the information they need to
mount a successful cam-
paign against overwhelming
odds... and win!
Learn how to: • Employ
homemade explosives and
detonators • Construct
Molotov cocktails — and
use them to destroy tanks! •
Build effective flame throw-
ers — and learn how to
deploy them • Select accu-
rate sniper rifles and scopes
• Place claymore mines
where they will do the most
damage to Big Brother’s troops • Generate smoke • Use two-way radios • Identify tanks, helicopters, armored personnel carriers, thin skinned utility vehicles, jet aircraft, and more — and take them out!
Brief histories of armed resistance and tank warfare are included, along with a detailed analysis of anti-tank procedures. Learn how to defend against and neutralize mortars, artillery, heavy weapons and their carriers. This may be the most essential self-defense book ever written! A must for every citizen defender who wants to fight the power!!! Order your copy today — there is no telling when you will need it.
1996,516 x 816,200 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
DAVID’S TOOL KIT: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32060)
THE POLICEMAN IS YOUR FRIEND
AND OTHER LIES
by Ned Beaumont
America is a society built upon lies, supported by lies, and dedicated to promoting lies. In this astoundingly revealing look at the deceptions that are perpetrated upon us from infancy to old age, author Ned Beaumont peels away the fabric of deception and unveils the hidden untruths that enslave us and poison our perceptions.
Policemen, bureaucrats, teachers, politicians, lawyers, financiers, military leaders — they are all part of the insidious system of disinformation and manipulation that distorts our most basic freedoms and beliefs, and molds us into unthinking minions of the entrenched power structure which exists only to profit from our loss. Beaumont exposes the lies that perpetuate this evil misinterpretation of truth and grind us down into mindless fodder for the heartless conspiracy which desires only to enthrall us and control our every action and desire.
The sneering cops on the beat, the robotic federal agents who slaughter innocent civilians in their beds, the condescending judges who dole out decades of jail time for petty offenses, the narrowminded teachers who do their best to snuff out creativity and resourcefulness — these are the liars and deceivers who have fastened themselves to our necks like obscene vampires in search of an ongoing supply of free sustenance. They deserve to be exposed, ridiculed, and replaced — and Beaumont has begun this process by providing this work.
Read this book — and be free at last!
1996,516 x 816,151 pp, soft cover.
THE POLICEMAN IS YOUR FRIEND
AND OTHER LIES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58095)
THEY’RE WATCHING YOU!
The Age of Surveillance
by Tony Lesce
The hills have eyes... and
so does just about every pri-
vate and governmental secu-
rity agency you can imagine!
We live in an increasingly
transparent world, where
practically ail of our move-
ments and activities are mon-
itored, and in his sometimes
frightening They're Watching
You! The Age of Surveil-
lance, author and security
expert Tony Lesce reveals the
technology and prevailing
philosophy that make this
state of affairs possible. Con-
tains sections on: • Surveil-
lance in Public • Private and
Public Surveillance • Surveil-
lance as Intimidation • Dig-
ging up Dirt • Commercial
Motives • The Myth of “Secu-
rity” Investigations • Tools and
Techniques • The Internet • Protecting Yourself • The Future.
Now, more than ever before in the evolution of the human race, the reality of ongoing, everyday surveillance is a factor that cautious citizens must take into account when planning their activities.
What the indifferent observers know about you can be hurtful, so it’s in your best interest to inform yourself of the extent of the incessant surveillance that is in place, and act accordingly! Read Tony Lesce’s complacency-shattering book as soon as possible, and remember...
They're Watching Youl
1998,514 x 816, 130 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THEY’RE WATCHING YOU!: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58111)
ELUSIVE INNOCENCE
Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused
by Dean Tong
With the rise in divorce and child custody battles, child abuse charges (oftentimes false) have become the weapon of choice. These false accusations rip families apart and leave a long line of destruction in their path. Elusive Innocence gives those falsely accused the means for countering and defeating abuse allegations. According to the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, there were one million confirmed reports in 1998 — of these, 71% were unfounded and false. If abuse did not happen, we must not allow emotions, politics, and hysteria to get the best of us. We must not treat non-abused children as real abuse victims.
Elusive Innocence aids those unjustly accused, defense attorneys, social workers, therapists, guardians-ad-litem, police officers, teachers, prosecutors, Judges, legislators, et aL, navigate the labyrinth of false accusations. From fighting false allegations of child abuse and domestic violence to problems and solutions, dos and don’ts, ten appendices, including how to choose your attorney, a look at science in the courtroom, a critical view of alleged medical findings, interrogatories of false accusers, and an investigative flow chart, wrongly accused victims and their attorneys are armed with state-of- the-art defense tactics for litigation.
Be Forewarned! Be Forearmed! If unjustly accused, do not let innocence settle on the horizon. Do not let your case vacillate and meet its demise because innocence is elusive. It does not have to be. Reclaim your good name, your children, and your rights. Read Elusive Innocence today.
2002,514 x 814,278 pp, soft cover.
ELUSIVE INNOCENCE: $15.99
(ORDER NUMBER 58147)
INFORMATION WARFARE
Cyberterrorism:
Protecting Your Personal Security
in the Electronic Age
Second Edition
by Winn Schwartau
The existence, possibilities, and vulnerabilities discussed in Information Warfare have been rigorously studied. Today, this modem, largely unrecognized cyberwar costs American taxpayers an estimated $100-300,000,000 per year, through:
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Industrial Espionage
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Hackers and Cyberpunks
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Malicious Software and Viruses
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Data Eavesdropping
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Code Breaking and Chipping
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Attacks on Personal Privacy
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HERF Guns, EMP/T Bombs and Magnetic Weaponry
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Binary Schizophrenia.
In Information Warfare, information security analyst and author Winn Schwartau strains the high hopes and hucksterish hype of the “information superhighway” through an analytical sieve of great insight, and provides a clear examination of the inherent dangers posed by such a vast, uncharted electronic network.
Information Warfare explains that cyberterrorists can easily invade and modify unsuspecting citizens’ credit reports, bank accounts, driving records, plane reservations, and many other facets of modern computerized daily life. In theory, such irresponsible meddlers could bring the stock exchange to a halt! Nothing is safe or secure. Our high-tech vulnerabilities are clearly detailed, and the horrifying possibilities are outlined.
The concerns and capabilities of the future can best be addressed through the continued sharing of information and insights between the private and public sectors, and the hard work of individuals who are dedicated to furthering this process. Information Warfare contributes admirably to those ends, and is a book that should be read by anyone who cares about creating a more secure world.
1996,6x9, 768 pp, indexed, soft cover.
INFORMATION WARFARE: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58113)
BLUEBIRD
Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality
by Psychiatrists
by Colin A. Ross, M.D.
From the introduction: “The
major goal of the Cold War
mind control programs was to
create dissociative symptoms
and disorders, including full
multiple personality disorder.
The Manchurian Candidate is
fact, not fiction, and was cre-
ated by the CIA in the 1950s
under BLUEBIRD and ARTI-
CHOKE mind control pro-
grams. Experiments with LSD,
sensory deprivation, electro-
convulsive treatment, brain
electrode implants and hypno-
sis were designed to create
amnesia, depersonalization,
changes in identity and altered
states of consciousness. The
purpose of this book is to
prove that the creation of con-
trolled dissociation was a
major goal of mind control research.
“Because the subject matter of this book is likely to provoke extreme reactions, I have taken great care to present only facts which are fully documented and based on objective, public domain information.
“Bluebird blows the whistle on extensive political abuse of psychiatry in North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Many thousands of prisoners and mental patients were subjected to unethical mind controlexperiments by leading psychiatrists and medical schools. Organized academic psychiatry has never acknowledged this history. The network of mind control doctors involved in BLUEBIRD has done a great deal of harm to the field of psychiatry and to psychiatric patients. My goal is to break the ugly silence.”
2001,6 x 9,406 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
BLUEBIRD: $27.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88224)
HAARP
The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy
by Jerry E. Smith
The HAARP project in Alaska is
one of the most controversial proj-
ects ever undertaken by the US
government. This futuristic technol-
ogy covers everything from super-
beam weapons to worldwide
mind-control devices. HAARP has
many possible scientific and mili-
tary applications, from raising a
planetary defense shield to peering
deep within the earth. Jerry Smith
gives us a history of the HAARP
project and explains how it can be
used as,f)an awesome weapon of
destruction. Smith exposes a
covert military project and the
accompanying web of conspiracies
behind it — a web that leads to
even more conspiracy theories.
Smith convincingly explains why this is the ultimate example of science out of control — and why Star Wars technology is more than just a futuristic concept.
1998,6x9,264 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HAARP: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91164)
THE PHONE BOOK
The Latest High-Tech Techniques and Equipment
for Preventing Electronic Eavesdropping,
Recording Phone Calls, Ending Harassing Calls,
and Stopping Toll Fraud
by M.L. Shannon
If you think your phone calls are private, you need a good dose of reality. Today there is a myriad of products available to tap and record electronic communication. Luckily, there are also products that detect and deflect surveillance. M.L. Shannon covers the latest phone tapping technology and methods in The Phone Book, a resource no privacy-minded person should go without.
Are you aware that your cordless phone calls can be monitored with a $50 scanner and that your pager messages can be intercepted with a device that costs less than $50? Do you know that with the new Clipper Chip and the Digital Telephony Act, government agents will be able to tap virtually any phone, any where, any time — with or without a warrant? Do you know the most effective way to end harassing phone calls?
The next time someone taps his way into your life, be prepared. Buy this book.
1998,816x11,265pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
THE PHONE BOOK: $42.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55110)
PRIVACY FOR SALE
How Big Brother and Others are Selling Your
Private Secrets for Profit
by Michael E. Chesbro
Your life is a business all right, but
you’re not the only one profiting from it.
Scores of government agencies, mail-
order businesses, telemarketers,
financial institutions, charitable organi-
zations, and the data bandits are col-
lecting details of your private life and
peddling them to the highest bidder or
using them to rip you off I “No way,” you
may be thinking. Think again.
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Your canceled checks or credit
card charges record the names
of your doctors and hospitals,
the publications you read, the
relatives you help, the political
and charitable activities you
support, the volume of business
you give your liquor store, and the amount you spend on transportation.
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Remember when you had to provide your Social Security number to get a driver’s license and register your auto? Guess who your state sold those databases to?
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Do you think that your medical history is privileged information between you and your family doctor? Your files could easily end up in a central depository — and in the hands of insurance companies or prospective employers.
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Did you think twice before giving the salesclerk at the department store your Social Security number and date of birth so you could charge that sweater? Did you know that you just gave a perfect stranger the “crown jewels” of credit card fraud?
In this comprehensive examination of federal laws and court decisions related to privacy, the author gives you a practical understanding of your legal rights and shows you the best way to assert your Constitutional right to keep your personal history and purchases from being tracked and sold to privacy profiteers.
1999,516 x 816,180 pp, soft cover.
PRIVACY FOR SALE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52061)
CONDUCTING INVESTIGATIONS
Introduction
Professional methods and techniques for information and intelligence gathering — now revealed for YOU to use! Now you can find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your “need to know” with these revealing professional manuals.
HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
A Handbook for Investigators
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Ronald Eriksen
The best book on finding
someone just got better!
How to Find Missing Per-
sons is a completely revised
and expanded second edi-
tion!
How to Find Missing
Persons has been used for
over a decade by bounty
hunters, private investiga-
tors, skip tracers, process
servers, auto repossessors,
genealogists, adopted chil-
dren searching for birth par-
ents, and many others.
Ronald Eriksen is a no-
bull investigator who’s
learned his tricks on the
mean streets of the Ameri-
can metropolis. This all pur-
pose guide is highlighted
with real case histories of
missing persons investiga-
tions, including one where
the author squeezes information out of a Swiss banker!
Topics covered include:
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How to Schmooze Information Out of People
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Getting Unpublished Phone Numbers
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Getting Around Caller ID
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The Post Office
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Using the Salvation Army
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School Records
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Records from Mexico
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
•Adoption Records
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And much, much more — including How to Make a Living as a Professional Missing Persons Investigator!
If you’re looking for that someone special; you couldn’t ask for a better guide. Order your copy today!
1994,516 x 816,215 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO FIND MISSING PERSONS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61145)
BE YOUR OWN DICK
Private Investigating Made Easy
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by John Q. Newman
Private investigating is all about fast cars, sexy consorts, and unlimited expense accounts — on television. In real life, however, the world of the investigator requires excellent research skills, patience, and savvy to gather information from people, computers, or the library.
John Q. Newman (author of Understanding US Identity Documents, The Heavy Duty New Identity, and Identity Theft: The Cybercrime of the Millennium) provides tools that make private investigating a snap for anyone. Even a novice can leam to find out about information such as a target’s health, finances, employment, private life, “past lives,” and hobbies. This second edition brings the art of investigation to technology’s forefront, with new chapters on:
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Computer software and databases
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The Internet and information brokers
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Understanding criminal records
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Developing inside sources
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How to run an investigation
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Civil court records
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The importance of the Social Security number.
Why pay someone else to do the work you can do all by yourself? When you need to know the right information, it pays to Be Your Own Dick.
1999,516 x 816,158 pp, soft cover. ».,
BE YOUR OWN DICK: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55117)
YOU CAN FIND ANYBODY!
by Joseph Culligan
From the preface: “This reference manual has been published due to the overwhelming response from television shows featuring cases of mine in which regular, everyday people were able to find loved ones by simply searching public records. You will be able to access a myriad of public records with the aplomb and dexterity of an experienced investigator.”
Right at your fingertips, you can have access to thousands of government and law enforcement agencies, records departments, and licensing bureaus used by private detectives — all you have to do is pick up this book and find the information you need.
Private Investigator Culligan’s firm has worked on many high-profile cases for the media, including the case of the exiled general from Central America, the case of the game-show inventor who was sued for palimony, the case involving a member of a well-known family in Palm Beach charged with assault, the case of a children’s show host who was arrested on the west coast of Florida, the case of the nation’s largest failed savings and loan institution, the case of the Wall Street arbitrator whose actions changed the way the stock market conducts business, and many more.
2001,616 x 916,436 pp, hard cover.
YOU CAN FIND ANYBODY!: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55127)
RAGNAR’S GUIDE TO INTERVIEWS,
INVESTIGATIONS, AND INTERROGATIONS
How to Conduct Them, How to Survive Them
by Ragnar Benson
Ragnar Benson is America’s
most famous survivalist. Plus, he’s
a writer, with more than 30 books
under his belt. You probably know
that he’s also a powder monkey of
some renown, a trapper, a hunter,
an emergency medicine dis-
penser, and an “underground
economist.” But did you know that
he’s also a gumshoe? Yep, in his
free time, Ragnar moonlights as a
private investigator. In fact, he’s
been involved in the private inves-
tigation business for more than 25
years.
In his first book on the subject
of investigations, Ragnar provides
two books in one. He reveals how
Pls, cops, and military interroga-
tors conduct interviews, investiga-
tions, and interrogations, and he shows prospective witnesses how to
survive them. For investigators, he shares his professional secrets
and real-life scenarios for creating effective pretexts for any situation,
opening a witness up and keeping him talking, maximizing the last
five minutes of an interview, recognizing and “listening” to nonverbal
clues, and knowing when to use honey and when to splash on the
vinegar to get the desired results. Then he turns the tables on his fel-
low investigators and gives potential witnesses specific tips for avoiding — or at least surviving — the tactics, techniques, and tricks
favored by skilled interrogators.
Whether you want to be an investigator or avoid one, you won’t
want to miss Ragnar’s Guide to Interviews, Investigations, and
Interrogations.
2000,516 x 816, 120 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
RAGNAR’S GUIDE TO INTERVIEWS,
INVESTIGATIONS, AND INTERROGATIONS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55124)
TECHNIQUES OF SECRET WARFARE
The Complete Manual of Undercover Operations
by Carl Hammer
The most complete, up-to-date information on spying available anywhere! Now you can study the techniques used by real professional spies and investigators. Learn how to gather any type of information you may want — or stop others from getting info on you!
Topics covered in this comprehensive book include:
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The significance of Human Intelligence • Infiltration and maintaining cover • Temporary missions: Methods for gaining entrance to enemy installations; how to open and reseal letters; surveillance techniques • Protracted missions: recruitment techniques • Security: Travels; safe houses; hide-outs; surveillance techniques; bug detectors • Escapes: Trains and vehicles; ways of evading dogs; escaping from handcuffs • Reporting systems and communications techniques: Letter drops; couriers; civilian postal and telegraph systems; telephone; radio; visual signals; audible signals; simple codes; scrambling systems; invisible ink • Photography: hand cameras; video cameras; night vision devices • Enemy interrogation techniques and how to counter them.
Examples from real operations and case histories are included to illustrate the techniques described. This is vital information for everyone interested in intelligence-gathering or privacy.
1996,516 x 816,174 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TECHNIQUES OF SECRET WARFARE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55118)
SCANNER MODIFICATIONS AND ANTENNAS
by Jerry Pickard
Whether you’re scanning for valu-
able emergency information or just
out of curiosity, you want to get the
most out of your equipment. But if
you think your straight-out-of-the-box
scanner is working to its fullest poten-
tial, think again.
Scanner Modifications and
Antennas will teach you how to: •
handle sensitive components • create
dedicated search banks • increase
the speed of your scanner • work
safely on components • eliminate
shock hazards • track a channel’s
usage • improve the sound on a tinny
PRO-43 • build an easy scanner
amplifier • “fix” an apparently dead
nickel-cadmium battery • design an
antenna the easy, math-hater’s way.
You’ll find information here on antennas, circuits, and tricks author Jerry Pickard has learned from the experts, and odds and ends that came from pure serendipity. In every case, Pickard has written the instructions as simply as possible so that just about anyone who can determine the hot end of a soldering iron can do the modifications.
1999,516 x 816,176 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SCANNER MODIFICATIONS AND ANTENNAS: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55129)
THE BASEMENT BUGGER’S BIBLE
The Professional’s Guide to Creating, Building
and Planting Custom Bugs and Wiretaps
by Shifty Bugman
Shifty Bugman has done
his time in the shadowy world
of surveillance — and now
you can benefit from the first-
hand experience and hard-
won wisdom of a seasoned
pro. The Basement Bug-
ger’s Bible is the most com-
prehensive book on audio
surveillance ever written.
Complete with hundreds of
diagrams, schematics, and
photos, this hands-on man-
ual is bursting with authorita-
tive, verifiable data that is
specific, concrete, and imme-
diately applicable.
In a refreshing departure
from typical textbook treat-
ments, Shifty’s anecdotal
style takes the reader on a sordid covert odyssey that offers an inside look at how a pro works, what tools he uses, and the process he follows in creating, building, and planting custom bugs — complete with actual blueprints of bugs built for big-time gigs.
Shifty leaves nothing to the imagination. Anecdotal detail puts the technical data in context, fleshing out what other books of the genre merely imply and throwing open Pandora’s box of goodies, from ultrasonic bugs, RF bugs, optical bugs, fiberbugs, laserbugs, hardwire bugs, and carrier current bugs to ultra long-range directional microphones, hose mics, contact mics, and spike mics, plus a dozen different phone taps, counterbugging secrets, and much, much more. It’s all here — everything you ever wanted to know about the underground business of bugging... and probably a few things you didn’t. For academic study only.
1999,816 x 11,318 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE BASEMENT BUGGER’S BIBLE: $50.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55114)
THE BUG BOOK
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
About Electronic Eavesdropping...
But Were Afraid to Ask
by M.L. Shannon
What would you do if you thought you were being bugged? How would you defend yourself? How would you even know about it? If you’ve pondered these questions, and especially if you haven’t, you need to read this book. It was written to tell you, the average Joe, everything there is to know about tiny hidden transmitters that can broadcast your personal and business conversations to spies, government agents... even the next-door neighbors.
Find out how these devices work, how effective they are, how to find them and deal with them and how to use this technology in your own self-defense if necessary. The Bug Book includes scores of ideas and resources for protecting the privacy of landline, cellular, and cordless telephones, as well as pagers, fax machines, and computers, plus phone phreaking terms and tricks and, as one reviewer put it, true tales of the Biz that “will spook you... and a few that will make you laugh.”
2000,816x11,167 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE BUG BOOK: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55120)
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SECRETS
Of An Old-Fashioned Spy
by Sheldon Charrett
In this information-run-amok age of pencil-necked pencil pushers, who can an aggrieved party call on for an old-fashioned spy job? Why, an old-fashioned spy, that’s who! A member of this dying breed doesn’t sit behind a counter doing candy-ass background checks or “due-diligence” searches. An old-fashioned spy builds a bug room, plants it on the target premises, and stakes out the joint in person with a radio receiver—the old-fashioned way! Let the author, a die-hard old-fashioned spy himself, show you how to:
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Build bugs or take advantage of those already in place — be they cordless phones, baby monitors, or cell phones • Assemble a DTMF (Touch-Tone TM) decoder with LCD readout or decode the phone tones without one • Construct a red box for free pay phone calls • Map a cellular coverage area • Modify a Mr. Microphone to broadcast outside the commercial FM band • Crack answering machine passwords in seconds • Make a crystal-controlled FM phone tap for those annoying subjects who refuse to use cordless phones • Defeat digital and spread-spectrum cordless phones with an FM phone tap • and more!
Many of the procedures in Electronic Circuits and Secrets have not been published anywhere — and certainly not in such a clear and entertaining style. Here, friends, is an honest-to-goodness, hot-off- the-press, in-their-faces, knock-’em-dead, tell-your-friends-and- neighbors original — the book old-fashioned spies everywhere are clamoring for! For academic study only.
1999,816x11,125pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SECRETS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55121)
THE TRUTH ABOUT LYING
How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself
from Deception
by Stan B. Walters
Ever have the feeling someone is lying to you? This book gives you the tools to figure if he’s lying... or is just nervous, if she is evading the truth... or is just distracted. Stan Walters, one of the nation’s foremost experts on lie detection, tells you all the signals of nervousness, stress, evasion and outright lying, and tells you how to handle the situation if you think you’ve uncovered a lie. You can’t stop someone from lying to you, but you can get at the truth!
Leam all about:
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How to tell what a person’s normal behavior is so you can look for inconsistencies
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The mistake of judging honesty based on eye contact and other myths
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The seven steps you’ll need to uncover a lie
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The five reaction behaviors that can mask deception
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What to do to have open, honest communication with friends, loved ones, coworkers and everyone else with whom you come into contact.
These strategies will improve relationships and communication by showing you how to spot a liar and, more importantly, how to get to the truth!
2000,516 x 816,207pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE TRUTH ABOUT LYING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55125)
CITIZEN MUCKRAKING
How to Investigate and Right Wrongs
in Your Community
The Center for Public Integrity
With six billion people
on the planet and 275 mil-
lion living in the USA, who
can blame anyone for
thinking that one person
can’t make a difference?
But don’t believe it for a
second.
Citizen Muckraking
contains inspiring stories
about ordinary people who
started asking basic ques-
tions about things in their
communities that some-
how just didn’t seem right.
They wrote letters,
attended hearings,
obtained government doc-
uments, asked direct ques-
tions of public officials —
all things that full-time, pro-
fessional investigative
reporters do day in and day
out — and their questions
actually brought about change. In other words, the truth emerged, the public became enraged, and wrongs were righted.
This book outlines some basic techniques that you — or any other citizen — can use to obtain information about the toxic-waste dump in your neighborhood; the city-council zoning decision that seems to benefit one of the council members personally; the reason your utility rates have been going up; why some property-tax assessments increase yearly but others don’t; etc. Information truly is power, and this book shows you precisely how to get the facts — and what to do with them after you’ve got them.
2000,5x8,207pp, Indexed, soft cover.
CITIZEN MUCKRAKING: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55123)
CELEBRITY DIRECTORY 2002*2003
The Ultimate Guide to the Addresses of Over
8,000 Film and Television Stars, Authors,
Politicians, Recording Stars, Athletes,
and Other Famous People!
With over 8000 entries, the Celebrity Directory 2002-2003 is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the stars of all walks of life. Some call it the ultimate resource for contacting famous people. Some simply call it the coolest address book imaginable. Whatever you call it, one thing is for sure — there’s nothing quite like the Celebrity Directory 2002-2003. If a person is famous, chances are they’re in here. Journalists and research librarians rely on it as an essential reference. Celebrities rely on it to remain within easy access of their fans.
You can rely on the Celebrity Directory2002-2003to be the most direct and effective way to find out how to send praise, reassurance, help or criticism to your favorite famous person. If you’re interested in letters, pictures, autographs and recommendations from the stars, the Celebrity Directory 2002-2003 is your ticket.
2002,816x11,256 pp, soft cover.
CELEBRITY DIRECTORY 2002-2003: $39.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55119)
FIND IT ONLINE
The Complete Guide to Online Research
by Alan M. Schlein
Find what you're
looking for... now!
Are you using cyber-
space to find infor-
mation? The Internet
has exposed a cyber
trail of information
about people and
businesses that is
useful to have, legal
to access and easy
to get — once you
know how! Find It
Online paints an
incredible cyber pic-
ture of where and
how to tap into over
1,000 online sources
that will: • Locate
hard to find people,
experts, newsmak-
ers and specialists of
all kinds • Reveal
criminal, litigation, voter registration and genealogy information
sources • Search for public information such as assets, debts, liens,
bankruptcies and judgments • Screen potential employees, business
associates, or even suitors • Uncover competitive intelligence on
businesses.
Find It Online is not just another web site directory! The author
shares his years of expertise and connections as an award winning
investigative reporter to reveal both Internet and commercial
resources — and how to critically evaluate the quality and accuracy of
the information you find. Find It Online is presented in a format that
will appeal to the most savvy web explorer or the newest Internet sub-
scriber.
This book is not filled with fluff. Find It Online is not only accurate
and current, but also easy to read. Over 1,000 sources are identified
— including both government and private. It’s not all on the Internet,
either.
Online pioneer and award winning journalist Alan M. Schlein is
your Cyberspace Navigator. Learn the tactics and strategies he uses
to train business and journalism professionals.
2002, 7 x 10,544 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
FIND IT ONLINE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55116)
EXTREME COVERT CATALOG
The World’s Most Complete Guide to Electronic
Surveillance, Covert and Exotic Equipment
Supplies and Suppliers
by Lee Lapin
The future is here!
$1400 for a covert video pen? Buy direct from the source and save a cool thousand bucks... Need the top of the line in computerized phone interception equipment? (Hell, it not only records everything, it automatically tells you who to call to geta subpoena for every unlisted number.)
From the most sophisticated federal level, “secret” suppliers to the cheapest Japanese equivalent. The Extreme Covert Catalog has your number. Literally...
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A $69.00 sub-miniature video camera that can see perfectly in almost no light
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Prepackaged video collectors hidden in plants, telephone pole transformers, eyeglasses and even shirt buttons
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Low cost fax interceptors
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State-of-the-art digital, spread spectrum covert transmitters
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New counter measures tools to keep your environment surveillance free
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The best deals in personal and automobile tracking systems
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A low cost device which converts your VCR into a defacto time lapse unit
-
LASER window bounce readers
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A real world source for wireless computer interception (TEMPEST) gear
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The world’s best digital recorder source
-
Cell phone detectors, interceptors and blockers
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Reverse sun glasses, the best lock picks ever made, ISDN invaders, computer key stroke recorders, “snitch” GPS cell phones, tell-tale tracking wristwatches and MUCH MORE!
2002,81A x 11,447pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
EXTREME COVERT CATALOG: $49.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55128)
PRIVATE INVESTIGATION STRATEGIES
AND TECHNIQUES
The World’s Greatest Private Eye
Reveals Her Secrets
by Angela Woodhull
Author
Angela Woodhull
Is a private inves-
tigator with atti-
tude. In this book
she tells us of her
exploits ferreting
out the truth for
her clients and
we are taken with
her on some
really wild excur-
sions. Each case
history is then
analyzed to
determine the
strategies that
made it work.
While we may be
entertained by
her stories, we
are also learning
successful meth-
ods to use for
ourselves,
whether trying to
find out informa-
tion that involves
you or someone
you know, or if
you are a private investigator with clients of your own.
Angela Woodhull is streetwise and holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. As we see from her examples, once you have found out all you can from public records, you still have to pound the pavement to find information for yourself. You will learn the importance of a good database and of checking courthouse records and rap sheets. You’ll also see that sometimes paper chasing isn’t enough and that you have to get out on the streets and use a good pretext to find out what you want to know. Angela Woodhull shows how she has done this with great success.
Read all about real life cases of unfaithful spouses, fruitcakes, vengeful ex-employees, process serving, skip-tracing, pretexting, and much more. The author advises you on how to sell your services, as well as the qualities necessary for success in this tough and fascinating business. Whether you are a private investigator yourself or you find the field of private investigation compelling to read about, Private Investigation Strategies and Techniques: The World's Greatest Private Eye Reveals Her Secrets gives the reader the inside dope on what this profession is really all about.
2001, SW x 816, 175 pp, soft cover.
PRIVATE INVESTIGATION STRATEGIES
AND TECHNIQUES: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55126)
THE INVESTIGATOR’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK 2
Completely Updated with Hundreds
of New Inside Sources!
by Robert Scott
“You can run, but you can’t hide” is truer today than ever before! Technological advances have opened up new avenues for pursuing people and information which are easily available to professional investigators. The Investigator's Little Black Book 2 contains resources that can be readily accessed: commercially available spy satellites; phone numbers through which criminal, financial and other sensitive records can be obtained; the IRS database that’s available to private-sector investigators — these and hundreds of other “power numbers” are right at the sleuth’s fingertips in this compact, comprehensive, no-nonsense reference tool.
Compiled by Los Angeles private investigator Robert Scott, The Investigator's Little Black Book 2 is an invaluable guide to governmental sources, public and private databases, experts in many fields, background investigation resources, and other sources which allow the investigative practitioner to harvest information quickly and cheaply. Private investigators, reporters, media researchers, legal investigators, insurance adjusters, law enforcement agents, bill collectors, skip tracers, and those conducting personal investigations can all benefit from this handy resource. The Investigator's Little Black Book 2 is absolutely indispensable for those who want to find their quarry as quickly and easily as possible.
1998,4 x 816, 208 pp, appendix, soft cover.
THE INVESTIGATOR’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK 2: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55102)
PUBLIC RECORDS ONLINE
The National Guide to Private and Government
Online Sources of Public Records, 4th Edition
Edited by Michael L. Sankey and James R. Flowers, Jr.
and Peter Weber
Today there are literally thou-
sands of public records and public
information sources which are
accessible by anyone with a com-
puter and a modem. This is the
result of the growing number of gov-
ernment agencies and private com-
panies that have made public record
information available online or on
CD ROM. With this rapid growth
comes an increasing requirement
for online users to understand what
information is available and what is
not, learn how information is gath-
ered and stored, and determine
“who” has the information they need
Now online users can solve the above problems by reading Public Records Online! Learn how to find records for crimes, assets and liens, motor vehicles, bankruptcies, aircraft and vessels, corporations, Uniform Commercial Code, and Worker’s Compensation. Find out how to access information regarding addresses, trade names, patents and trademarks, real estate and assessments, legislation and regulations, death indexes, and much more!.
Now you can find... 2,000+ Direct Government Sources — from cities to counties to states to federal agencies • 200+ Direct Private sources —- National companies and regional specialists • Find Records for FREE — Over 1000 web sites with free access to current records available • CD-ROMs and Databases for Sale — Obtain bulk records direct from the source to create your own database • Indices by Category — 27 Information types indexed for quick company lookup • Public Record Primer—60 Pages of educational “How-To” material ... Thanks to Public Records Online!
2003, 7x 10,516 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
PUBLIC RECORDS ONLINE: $20.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55107)
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY
— BOOK II
The Encyclopedia of Personal Surveillance
by Lee Lapin
From Electronic Surveillance to Databank Cracking — It’s All Here!
• AUDIO SURVEILLANCE. Equipment, professional tricks, and more.
• ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS AND HARD-WIRING. Photos and operation notes on the super secret CIA fine wire kit, and more.
• ACCESSIBLE HIGH LEVEL BUGS AND TAPS. The hottest items available, operating tips, sources and suggestions, and more.
• RECORDERS. The hottest government undercover recorders and where to get act-alikes for thousands of dollars less, and more.
• THROUGH WALLS. The art of seeing and hearing through solid walls, plus a brand new material that works as a hidden microphone.
• INTELLIGENCE KITS. Sexy spy kits and do-it-yourself systems, and more.
• RECEIVERS, SCANNERS AND THE RF SPECTRUM. How to hide transmitters, how to set up and run listening posts, and more.
• THE PHONE COMPANY. How to tap a phone with no equipment, phantom phone taps, and more.
• SOURCES. Over 200 suppliers of surveillance and counter-measures equipment, and more.
• COMPUTER CRACKING. A brand new, ready made, inexpensive unit that will read any computer from hundreds of feet away, and more.
• INFORMATION TRACKING. Thousands of databases holding personal, financial, and “private” information on literally everyone, and more.
How to Get Anything on Anybody — Book II is a must for anyone interested in the very latest in the fields of surveillance and counter-surveillance. Order your copy today.
1991,816x11,232 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY — BOOK II: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55087)
HOW TO USE THE FEDERAL F.O.I. ACT
AND THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974
A Citizen’s guide on using
the Freedom of Information Act and
the Privacy Act of 1974
to request government records
Find out fast what government agencies have in their files about you, your activities, your associations and anything else some snoopy investigator found “of interest.” It’s not always easy dealing with government bureaucracies, but this definitive guide spells out the quick- and-easy ways of getting directly to your targets of inquiry.
The task is made manageable by a step-by-step presentation, from initial letters (samples included) to appeal forms (samples also provided). Details on fees that can be charged, as well as the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of various federal agencies are given. Everything you need to know is spelled out in easily understandable language. All the “exemptions” are spelled out, giving the reader a clear presentation for dealing with the beast of governmental secrecy. Recent court decisions complete the analysis of how the ordinary citizen can take on the bureaucracies. If you ever thought the government was keeping files on you, here is the indispensable guide you need to find out for sure.
1987,816 x 11,62 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO USE THE FEDERAL F.O.L ACT
AND THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55074)
SPY GAME
Winning Through Super Technology
by Scott French and Lee Lapin
Formerly titled Ninja 1990, this is the long awaited sequel to two of the most popular intelligence/investigative books ever published, The Big Brother Game and How to Get Anything on Anybody! Spy Game is the ultimate reference source for anyone interested in surveillance, intelligence, shadow living, self defense, traditional ninja techniques and tools, detective work, or just self survival in today’s world.
Partial contents include: • Electronic voice changers • Unusual alarm and security devices • New methods for climbing slick surfaces • Interesting poisons and potions • Camouflage and recognition • Beating psychological tests • Surreptitious infrared audio monitoring — the very latest trick in eavesdropping • Using trick codes for private communications • New techniques for finding and defeating electronic surveillance devices • A cheap, but effective, anti-tap device • How to duplicate expensive courier, electronic surveillance, undercover cop, and repeater briefcases for less money • Remote optical surveillance — an unusual device that allows optical tailing and targeting over great distances • How to build your own mobile surveillance van • High and low technology in the art of surveillance • Peeking: fiber optic keyholing • Night vision devices • Cordless and mobile phone details • Lie detector testing and countermeasures • Laser communications • And much, much more! 119 Sections!
The secrets of the ultra-tech warriors of the 1990s — now revealed for you to use!
1985,9 x 12,506 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
SPY GAME: $45.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55070)
SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE
by Harold Hough
Once the exclusive tool of govern-
ments, satellite technology is now
available to anyone who knows how
to use it. Using actual satellite photos,
helpful diagrams and simple lan-
guage, Satellite Surveillance
explores the many commercial uses
for satellite imagery, including:
-
Land and water navigation
-
Pest control
-
Zoning and land use planning
-
Fighting forest fires
-
Mapping
-
Investing in commodities
-
Tax assessment
-
Pollution control
-
Environmental monitoring
-
Habitat creation and protection
-
Oil and gold exploration
-
Organizing disaster relief
-
Building roads, bridges and dams
-
Earthquake preparation
-
Crop damage assessments
-
And much more.
Satellite Surveillance gives you access to this powerful technol-
ogy. You will learn where to buy satellite images. You. will learn how to
enhance and interpret them to bring out the exact information you
need. And you will also learn how to hide from “the eye in the sky.”
Satellite Surveillance is an essential reference for civil engi-
neers, farmers, city planners, insurance companies, environmental-
ists, geologists, freight carriers, investigative reporters — and anyone
concerned with the uses and abuses of satellite technology.
1991,516 x 816,196 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58075)
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE
A Complete Guidebook
by Burt Rapp
Want to tail somebody without
them knowing, or conduct a stake-
out? Here is a no-nonsense guide to
shadowing and surveillance tech-
niques, with the emphasis on do-it-
yourself and low support methodsl
Topics covered in detail include: •
Fact vs. fiction in surveillance — it
ain’t like the movies • What a private
citizen can do — including several
advantages you have over the police
• Tailing on foot: Loose tails, close .
tails, and rough tails — and when
each should be used • Automobile
tailing — alone and with partners •
Decoys, disguise, and deception •
How to conduct a physical search
without your subject finding out •
Photographic surveillance — cameras and equipment for both day and night • Stake outs: observation posts and fixed surveillance • Electronic surveillance — bugging and telephone tapping • A chapter on how to lose a tail if you are being followed — how to tell if you are being followed, and several surefire methods to shake any tail, either on foot or in an automobile • And much, much more.
Professional surveillance operatives, police officers, and the private citizen alike can all leam from this excellent manual. If you want to keep tabs on an unfaithful spouse, a dishonest employee, or a business competitor, the information you need to know to do it right is in Shadowing and Surveillance: A Complete Guidebook. And if you want to find out if you are under surveillance, you will find that in here, too.
1986,516 x 816, 134 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SHADOWING AND SURVEILLANCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55052)
SEX CRIMES
INVESTIGATION
: A PRACTICAL MANUAL
by Burt Uapp
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION
A Practical Manual
by Burt Rapp
Sex crimes! Ml sorts of sex crimes are in
the news today — more than ever before.
For some time, a book to help police officers
(and others involved) investigate such
crimes has been badly needed. Now, Burt
Rapp has produced such a volume. The
emphasis in Sex Crimes Investigation is
on practical matters, not philosophy, law, or
politics.
Topics covered include: • Sex as a
motive for murder • Pornography — rhetoric
and reality — different kinds of pornography
and where they are sold • The “Snuff” Film
— a popular myth debunked • Rape — first,
second and third-degree rapes — spouse rape • Prostitution — other
crimes relating to prostitution • Use of the mails — sex clubs and sex-
related scams • Computer sex networks — sexual “bulletin boards” •
Miscellaneous sex-related offenses — animal contacts — fornication
— obscene language — telephone callers • And much more, including an important chapter on rape prevention, how to develop and
exploit information sources, and a complete glossary of terms useful
in sex crimes investigation.
Sex Crimes Investigation is a book no modern police officer can
afford to be without. This fine professional manual will also be of inter-
est to anyone interested in sex crimes and their investigation —
highly recommended.
1988,516 x 816, 192 pp, glossary, soft cover.
SEX CRIMES INVESTIGATION: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55071)
UNDERCOVER WORK
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
Undercover! Undercover operations and their relation to the techniques of espionage have acquired a mystique and image of glamour that overshadows how truly grimy they often are, and the abuses that can result from them. In reality, an undercover operation is a tool, morally neutral, and it is the people using the tool who make it worthwhile or sleazy. This book will clear up the misconceptions and give the real inside story on undercover operations and how to conduct them.
Contents include: • A complete glossary of undercover terms and what they mean • The strange and bizarre world of undercover operations • Actual case histories of real-life undercover operations • Undercover work and the law — what you can and can’t do legally • How to recruit undercover agents • A quick and inexpensive training program for undercover operatives • How an undercover agent establishes his cover — six vital details • How to avoid detection — and what to do if your cover is blown • How police pay informers • How police protect informers — and why they will “burn” informers to help their own careers • The best weapons to carry on assignment • How to tell if undercover agents have infiltrated your establishment — and what to do about it • And much, much more!
All in all, Burt Rapp’s Undercover Work is the single best book ever written on the subject — highly recommended!
1986,516 x 816,138 pp, soft cover.
UNDERCOVER WORK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55053)
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY
State of Art Investigation/Surveillance
Techniques From the World’s
Best Intelligence Organizations
by Lee Lapin
This book is a giant con-
sumer’s guide to the latest surveil-
lance equipment and techniques.
The author’s previous book was
banned altogether by the British
Government and earned him
threats both from the FBI and the
U.S. Attorney General. How to
Get Anything on Anybody is
recommended for law enforce-
ment agencies, private detectives,
members of the intelligence com-
munity, and just plain private citi-
zens concerned with learning the
techniques, methods and equip-
ment used in intelligence gathering and surveillance operations.
Among the topics covered are: • A consumer’s guide to electronic surveillance equipment. Actual side-by-side tests, price comparisons and sources. • Easy sources for the CIA chemical that lets you read right through any envelope and then disappears without a trace! Price? About $1.00... • Listening through walls: Does the Bionic Ear exist? A side-by-side examination of eleven devices that can pull sound out of thin air and even through thick walls. • Four experts tell their pet ways to bug any target, plus how to avoid surveillance. • Eleven bugs that are not detectable by any means! • Specific evaluations of every type of counter measure equipment. • Do dead bugs really tell lies? A look at the non-linear junction detector. The TRD — is it the ultimate answer for locating telephone taps? • Secure phones: the executive dream. The author tests the two types on the market with some surprising conclusions. • Understanding scramblers — choosing the best system for you and how to beat a lot of them... • And much, much more!
1987,816x11,263 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO GET ANYTHING ON ANYBODY: $40.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58025)
A PRACTICAL GUIDE
TO PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE
by Harold Hough
With an inexpensive camera,
you can take surveillance photo-
graphs that are nearly as good as
those costing governments millions
of dollars.
A Practical Guide to Photo-
graphic Intelligence is a guide to
taking and interpreting surveillance
photographs. Using actual spy pho-
tos and helpful illustrations, this
book will show you how to: • Plan a
photographic surveillance assign-
ment • Take useful photographs of
objects miles away, and determine
their exact dimension • Read docu-
ments that have been burned to
ashes • Develop film anywhere,
anytime, using minimal equipment •
Use aerial photography to spy on
distant targets • Use infrared photography to capture images that would otherwise be invisible • And
much more, including recommendations for film and equipment, and
how the government uses high-tech surveillance methods to get
around your Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable
searches.
A Practical Guide to Photographic Intelligence is an essential
book not only for spies, but for businesses looking to get a jump on
the competition, for attorneys verifying claims, for private investiga-
tors and police officers, for investigative reporters and celebrity pho-
tographers — even for those concerned they may be the victim of
photographic intelligence.
1990,51A x 8%, 136 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE
TO PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55082)
TUNE IN ON TELEPHONE CALLS
Guide to Intercepting Cellphone, Cordless &
Other Phone Calls on Scanners
& Shortwave Receivers
by Tom Kneltel, K2AES
You’ve seen it on TV. You’ve
heard about it on the radio. Now
you can own the completely
revised and updated new edition
of the book that made listening in
on phone calls the booming
hobby it is today.
What do people discuss over
the telephone when they think
they have total privacy? They
argue, exchange personal and
business secrets, make legal and
illegal deals, conduct lurid or illicit
romances, gripe about money
woes, gossip, brag, lie, and more.
These are business people, politi-
cians, prostitutes, the media,
celebrities, criminals, and your
neighbors!
Few people are aware that “private” calls made over car phones, cordless phones and other such devices are broadcast over the airwaves. These calls can be easily overheard by anyone with an inexpensive short-wave receiver or police type scanner. It takes no technical expertise to eavesdrop, and listening in has become a popular pastime, despite virtually unenforceable legislation enacted to regulate such invasion of privacy.
This book is about such telephone calls, and the discrete frequencies and channels they use that can be easily received on home and portable receivers. This edition contains hundreds of new frequencies. Now you can Tune In On Telephone Calls!
1993,6x9,160 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TUNE IN ON TELEPHONE CALLS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55092)
DISK DETECTIVE
Secrets You Must Know to Recover Information
from a Computer
by Norbert Zaenglein
When you need to get the
goods on someone, why dig
through backyard trash bins
when you can get the juicy stuff
from a computer’s trash bin?
Even people who use com-
puters every day will be
shocked to learn just how diffi-
cult it is to delete data perma-
nently. There’s no need for
expensive "recovery” programs,
usually restricted to law
enforcement.
Disk Detective is designed
to bring the secrets of recovery
from IBM-compatible computers
to the average person. Whether
you’re trying to recover your
own lost masterpiece — or
someone’s else’s secrets —
you’ll learn: • How to get information from overwritten files and reformatted disks • How to retrieve deleted files • How to discover passwords • How to retrace Internet footsteps • Perhaps most important, this book shows you how to get rid of your own private files — for good!
1998,516 x 816, 104 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DISK DETECTIVE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55111)
GET THE FACTS ON ANYONE
Find Out Confidential Information
About Any Person or Organization, 3rd Edition
by Dennis King
In this high-tech information age, you
can find out almost anything about any-
one: • Confidential background data on
business or legal clients • Possible crimi-
nal records of prospective employees •
Malpractice judgments against your
physician • Financial information on can-
didates for public office • Even the phone
number of your favorite celebrity... This
innovative reference book shows you
how!
Indispensable for journalists and
researchers, this practical handbook Is
also ideal for checking out business con-
tacts, job seekers, employers, cus-
tomers, companies and organizations of
all kinds. Step-by-step instructions explain exactly how to dig out the
facts you want from public records and online sources: • Criss-cross
directories, license bureaus, and phone records — to locate hard-to-find people • Biographical indexes, newspaper databases, profes-
sional and trade publications, and military and medical records — to
check out people’s backgrounds • Tax lien files, bankruptcy court
records, and bank account records — to collect credit and financial
information • Court records and case files — to research people and
companies • And much, much more.
1999,6 x 9,337pp, soft cover.
GET THE FACTS ON ANYONE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55091)
THE HOME WORKSHOP SPY
Spookware for the Serious Hobbyist
by Nick Chiaroscuro
The Briefcase Bug. The
Postage Stamp Bug. The
Sonarbug. The Optibug. Are
these a bevy of wild new cre-
ations from the screenplay of
the latest James Bond movie?
Nope. These are actual,
working spy toys that anyone
with a little knowledge, basic
fabrication skills, and a healthy
curiosity about the nearly for-
bidden science of electronic
surveillance can create in the
privacy of his or her home
workshop!
The Home Workshop
Spy: Spookware for the Seri-
ous Hobbyist provides all of
the circuit-board patterns,
parts lists, and construction pointers necessary to construct an aweinspiring array of bugs, taps, directional microphones, receivers, and other essential pieces of clandestine hardware for one’s education and/or amusement. You don’t need to be a “wire specialist” to appreciate the simplicity and practicality of these wonderfully sneaky designs.
The book contains 15 projects, each with parts list, schematic, and photograph. A Parts Sources section is included, as are complete References. This is easily the most informative and complete book ever written on this topic.
BE WARNED: Electronic surveillance is illegal! Individuals who break electronic surveillance laws will be relentlessly pursued and prosecuted by aggressive and unforgiving law enforcement agencies. The Home Workshop Spy: Spookware for the Serious Hobbyist is presented for academic study, entertainment, and informational purposes only!
1997,816x11,89 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE HOME WORKSHOP SPY: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55108)
PROTECTIVE SERVICES
US Army Military Police School
by the U.S. Army
The President of the United States is one of the most heavily- guarded persons on the planet. An army of protection professionals are assigned to him, including advance men, site security professionals and personal bodyguards, all backed by emergency response teams and local law enforcement. Yet President Reagan was shot by a wacked-out kid with a revolver.
This proves that no matter what precautions are taken or how many people are assigned to the task, the safety of any client is not guaranteed. The only thing a professional bodyguard can do is be as prepared as possible.
Protective Services is not some fictional account of the glamorous life of a bodyguard. This manual was prepared by the U.S. Army Military Police School as part of the training for police escorts. It contains information and techniques used by the Secret Service, State Department and U.S. Marshall Service in the protection of diplomats and other high-ranking officials.
The information presented here is designed to be used by one- person or small protective teams as well as large-scale, multi-unit efforts. Bodyguarding isn’t the easy or glamorous job you see on television. Your life and the life of your client are always on the line. Yet 99 out of 100 times everything goes smoothly. The best you can do is be prepared. One of the best manuals ever written on protective services is available to you.
1990,816x11,140 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PROTECTIVE SERVICES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55078)
THE OFFICIAL LICENSE PLATE BOOK 2002
A Complete Identification Resource
by Thomas C. Murray
Identifying license plates and their many codes is a skill valuable to any investigator. License plates have hidden meanings which can be recognized by law enforcement and motor vehicle authorities. This book explains how states and provinces code their plates, so you, like the authorities, will be able to look at a license plate and tell such things as: • In what county a vehicle is registered • Occupation of the owner • Special plates and what they mean • Age, weight and vehicle use restrictions • How to recognize a rented car • State, City, Federal Government, and Diplomatic codes • Indian tribes • First initial of the owner’s last name or birth month • and much more.
The The Official License Plate Book 2002 also tells you how to trace the name and address of a vehicle owner by the plate number. The police in every state know these codes, and use them daily. Now you can know and use them, too! AH you need is a copy of the The Official License Plate Book 2002, the one complete, authoritative guide to every code, in every state. An invaluable addition to the library of every investigator and researcher!
2002,516 x 816,136 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE OFFICIAL LICENSE PLATE BOOK 2002: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 61136)
LIP READING MADE EASY
by Edward B. Nitchie
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Be a creative snoop! • Learn important secrets! • Beat the TV censors! • “Listen” in on conversations you can’t hear! • Outsmart your friends —• and enemies!
Here’s a little-known James Bond type skill you will be interested in learning. Find out what deals are really being made over seemingly casual lunches. Eavesdrop to your heart’s content! Find out what people really think of you. Learn secrets — secretly! Now you can say “I heard it first,” even before you hear it!
Edward B. Nitchie taught literally thousands of people to read lips. His easy-to-use illustrated method enables you to become a creative spy in just a few short lessons.
Topics covered include: • Positions taken by the lips in enunciating the various English sounds — with complete illustrations • How to practice with your friends • How to use a mirror to practice • The “Dos” and “Don’ts” of lip reading • And much more.
Lip Reading Made Easy is a good addition to our series on spying, snooping, eavesdropping and undercover & clandestine operations.
1902,516 x 816,134 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
LIP READING MADE EASY: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55046)
HOW TO MAKE $100,000 A YEAR
AS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
by Edmund J. Pankau, CLi, CPPI, CFE
How would you like to be part of one of the fastest growing businesses of the 90s, with low overhead, no inventory, and profits directly related to your ability to do the job?
In this book — the first of its kind to focus on finding jobs and making money — Ed Pankau, a PI with more than 20 years’ experience, tells you what really works and what doesn’t. Which cities are gumshoe goldmines and which are investigative wastelands? Where should you advertise your services? (This answer will surprise you: for instance, successful Pls never advertise in the yellow pages.) What businesses, industries and governmental agencies are crying for “data detectives” to track down missing people, info and assets? What three essential tools must you master in order to succeed in today’s information age?
The answers to these questions, as well as other insider tricks of the trade, will help you start earning your way to the top.
1993,816 x 11,117pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE $100,000 A YEAR
AS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55093)
CRIME AND POLICE SCIENCE
Introduction
For cops and robbers everywhere...
Did you ever wonder how criminals commit crimes? Did you ever wonder how police investigate crimes and apprehend crooks? We’ve all wondered about things like that, haven’t we? And now you can learn the answers to your difficult questions on crime and police science — with the books in this Section!
COPS! MEDIA VS. REALITY
by Tony Lesee
Police officers are
ever-popular subjects in
the media. We see cop
shows on TV, including
both fictional detectives
and reality-based shows
such as Cops, in which TV
crews accompany police
officers on patrol, raids,
and other activities. Police
are also one of the hottest
news items in radio and
TV news programs. Each
year brings a new crop of
cop movies from Holly-
wood. Each year sees
many crime novels
appear, often written by
people with an incomplete
knowledge of their subject.
They know how to con-
struct a plot, but lack much
of the basic knowledge to
make their works factually
accurate.
Fiction is one thing: artistic license allows an author to weave a
plot for dramatic effect. However, news reporting and documentaries
are supposed to be straight facts. Often they’re not, because both
unconscious bias and editorial choices affect their accuracy. This is
why, at a time when crime rates are declining in this country, the news
media present the impression that we’re being assailed by an
unprecedented crime wave.
There are many differences in the way law enforcement appears
in the media, and the way it really is. This book will explore the rea-
sons why, and present a picture of the way law enforcement really
operates. It will highlight the contrasts between the way cops are por-
trayed on TV and in the movies, and the way they work in real life. It
will show why news reporting, which is supposed to be accurate and
factual, often is not.
2000,516 x 816,145 pp, soft cover.
COPS! MEDIA VS. REALITY: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58136)
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS,
I’LL TELL YOU NO LIES
How to Survive Being Interviewed, Interrogated,
Questioned, Quizzed, Sweated, Grilled...
by Jack Luger
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Ask Me No
Questions
rn Tell You No I As
Every day, innocent peo-
ple are grilled by cops,
attorneys, security guards,
employers, the media, and
a slew of government
agents. Even if you’ve done
nothing wrong, you can
cause yourself a world of
trouble by giving the wrong
answer.
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The police want to
talk to you about
your neighbor.
Should you cooper-
ate? -
The cash register is
short and you are
being blamed. Do
you know what your
rights are when
dealing with com-
pany security peo-
ple? -
A job application
asks if you’ve ever been convicted of a crime. How should you
respond if you’re an ex-con?
Ask Me No Questions, HI Tell You No Lies shows exactly how to
protect yourself. You will learn how to handle police interrogations,
how to respond in job interviews, how to answer questions in court,
how to beat the polygraph, and more. You will learn all the tricks inter-
rogators use to make you talk, and how to condition yourself against
them. You will learn how to provide answers that will satisfy your inter-
rogators without giving too much away.
If you’re accused, don’t be abused! Ask Me No Questions, I’ll
Tell You No Lies will teach you how to defend yourself.
1991,516 x 816,177 pp, indexed, soft cover.
ASK ME NO QUESTIONS,
I’LL TELL YOU NO LIES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58072)
THE COVERT CATALOG 2000
Surveillance, Covert Entry, and Investigative
Equipment Suppliers
by Lee Lapin
The Covert Catalog 2000 is the
latest up-to-date, hands-on supplier
and source guide for: Electronic sur-
veillance equipment; Covert video
cameras and transmitters; Counter
measures gear; Entry equipment;
Weapons and protection; Electronic
tracking systems; Computer surveil-
lance and remote viewing; And much
more. Original equipment manufactur-
ers, distributors, low markup dealers,
secret sources that want to sell prod-
ucts directly to you! You’ll find many
items of interest not available any-
where else. You will find bugs, taps,
receivers, code grabbers, exotic lock
defeaters, courses, sources, security stuff, protection and invasion ■—
with exact addresses, web sites, and ordering information for every
entry. Exactly where.to purchase a complete video transmitter for
$29.95, the world’s smallest pinhole video camera for $25.00,
newest/best/most inexpensive GPS tracking systems, scrambled
bugs, auto-telephone taps, digital recorders, sophisticated subcarrier
eavesdropping units, inexpensive Asian copies of world class surveil-
lance and counter surveillance units...
Have you ever wondered where to get a laser flashlight that will
stop any assailant in his tracks without injury? A GIA-designed tool
that opens locked doors like magic? The newest casual bulletproof
vest, straight from the manufacturer? The Covert Catalog 2000 is
the latest, most up-to-date, hands-on supplier and source guide for
exotic equipment and interesting stuff.
1999, B1/èx11,216 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE COVERT CATALOG 2000: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58125)
MORE SCAMS FROM THE GREAT BEYOND!
How to Make Even More Money Off
of Creationism, Evolution, Environmentalism,
Fringe Politics, Weird Science, the Occult,
and Other Strange Beliefs
by Peter Huston
mit SCAMS«
FROM
GREAT BE?^»
In Scams from the Great Beyond, author
and skeptic Peter Huston unmasked the
amazing array of paranormal con artists lit-
tering the fringes of society today. From
phony psychics to crop circle hoaxers to
New Age hucksters, Huston revealed
exactly how these otherworldly swindlers
get rich by fleecing the gullible and starry-
eyed among us.
In More Scams from the Great
Beyond!, Huston casts his critical eye fur-
ther afield, exposing the latest fraudulent
schemes and hard-to-believe scams being
perpetrated in areas where people, passion,
and profits converge. Huston shows how
skilled grifters are profiteering from such seemingly normal pursuits
as the environmental movement, politics, the world of science, and
evangelical Christianity. He also delves deep into some truly bizarre
subcultures and explores how slick operators manipulate believers in
UFOs, mythical beasts, angels, black magic, and the occult.
Whether you are already a card-carrying skeptic or simply a stu-
dent of fringe beliefs and weird behavior, you are guaranteed to be
entertained and informed by this twisted tour of hoaxes and hustles in
America today.
2002,51/i x 816, 280 pp, soft cover.
MORE SCAMS FROM THE GREAT BEYOND!: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40096)
COP TALK!
How to Listen in on Law Enforcement
Communications
by Laura Quarantiello
If you are interested in
eavesdropping on police
radio communications,
you need a copy of Cop
Talk! — the book that
takes the mystery out of
law enforcement jargon
and practically puts you in
the squad car! From Dis-
patch to Special Opera-
tions, Cop Talk! gives
you everything you need
to know — expert
answers from a law
enforcement insider and
a 17 year scanner moni-
toring veteran. This exciting new book shows you:
• How to choose a police
scanner • How to set it up
for the best results • How
to find local police radio
frequencies • How police
radio systems are organ-
ized • Understanding
police jargon • Figuring out radio code words • Verbal shorthand on
the air • Expert monitoring techniques • Police frequency ranges •
Sample “10” codes • Common abbreviations • Nationwide frequen-
cies • Undercover and emergency situations • Monitoring to aid law
enforcement • and much more.
Tune in on the fascinating world of police radio! Use your scanner
to “walk the beat” and ride “in the squad” with your local police! Here’s
everything you need to know — expert answers from a long-time
monitoring enthusiast and sheriff department volunteer. Turn the
tables on Big Brother and listen in on him!!!
1999,516 x 816, 112 pp, soft cover.
COP TALK!: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52062)
TECHNIQUES IN COUNTERSURVEILLANCE
The Fine Art of Bug Extermination
in the Real World of Intelligence Gathering
by Marinella Companies
Real-world espionage isn’t about poison pens, cars that double as submarines, and well-dressed superspies with a supermodei on each arm. It’s about gathering information on enemies by using existing technology — technology available to almost anyone.
Enter master countersurveillance expert Marinella Companies and his ground-breaking Techniques in Countersurveillance: The Fine Art of Bug Extermination in the Real World of Intelligence Gathering. This shocking book reveals the devious ways people spy on others to gather information that can, and often does, destroy their lives. Could your phone be bugged with more than one device? Could one of those bugs be a decoy? Could someone be listening to your conversations using an infrared beam aimed at your bedroom window? Could the telephone repairman have bugged your secretarial pool? Is It possible that a very miniature video camera is watching every move you make at work? Where do the best buggers plant their mics and cameras, and how can those devices be disguised? And most importantly, how can you thwart even the most devious spy?
All these questions and many more are answered in this practical, hard-hitting book. Now you can stop almost anyone from getting the goods on you and using that sensitive information against you in the most insidious and costly ways.
1999,516 x 816, 116 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TECHNIQUES IN COUNTERSURVEILLANCE: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55115)
BEATING THE CHECK
How to Eat Out Without Paying
by Mick Shaw
Pissed-off restaurant worker
Mick Shaw lets fly at the restau-
rant industry in this heart-felt
manual, and reveals all the tech-
niques for Beating the Check
he has learned in his years of
low-paying wage slavery. Here
are a few of the schemes and
scams he reveals to you: •
When and Where to Attack. The
best restaurants to use these
tricks against, and the best
times to use them. Which
restaurants you should never try
to scam. • The Simplest Scams.
How to complain and what to
complain about. Letter writing
and phone calling. How to scam
a restaurant you’ve never even
eaten at. • How to leave without
paying, and what to do if you are caught. • Penny Shaving and Playing “Accountant” with the bill. • How .to use children as pawns when you are eating for free. • The Missing Phone Number, The Fake Injury, Getting Kicked Out, and the Object in the Food: More difficult scams. • The three best weapons for restaurant scammers to use. • And much, much more.
Beating the Check is a book that can greatly reduce your food costs — plus, it’s fun, and you will have great stories to tell! So take a tip from Mick Shaw and devour this book today. Sold for entertainmentpurposes only.
2000,516 x 816, 72 pp, soft cover.
BEATING THE CHECK: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40090)
HOW TO SCREW THE POST OFFICE
by Mr. Unzip
The Post Office! Everybody
complains about it, but nobody
does anything about it — until
now, that is. Now, Mr. Unzip
reveals lots of ways you can
send First Class Mail for less —
sometimes even for free!
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How to fool the five billion
dollars worth of Optical Charac-
ter Readers and Bar Code
Sorters the Post Office has
Installed in most sorting opera-
tions in the U.S.A. • Finding the
weaknesses in the P.O.’s high
tech machines • How to send
First Class letters for only 2
cents each • How to reuse can-
celled stamps • How to literally
cut your postage rates in half •
Using “G forces” to mail letters
for less • How to mail First
Class letters with no postage at
all • How to place stamps on letters so they won’t be cancelled • Mailing letters for free using a postage meter • The ethics of screwing the
Post Office • What to do if you get caught • And More.
Each technique is illustrated with actual examples of how the
author saved money on First Class postage. A hilarious commentary
on the largest monopoly of our times, written in the form of a how-to-
do-it manual, How to Screw the Post Office is sold for informational
purposes only.
2000,516 x 816,63 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO SCREW THE POST OFFICE: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40089)
Espionage
An Encyclopedia of Spies and Secrets
by Richard M. Bennett
Foreword by James Bamford
With a Preface by David Shayler
Failure to defend against recent terrorist outrages has drawn unprecedented public attention to modern-day global espionage, from the U.S. government’s involvement in the politics of the Middle East, Europe and Africa, to the surveillance of their own citizens by governments throughout the western world. This compelling reference resource contains over 500 entries covering every aspect of modern- day intelligence gathering and counter-terrorism, along with a comprehensive overview of its history. Global in scope, Espionage focuses in particular on developments in the field of intelligence since the end of the Cold War.
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The U.S. government’s failure to foresee recent terrorist attacks against the U.S. • Counter-terrorism, including the growth in commercial terrorism • Electronic and communications surveillance • Illegal activities by the intelligence services from around the world, including assassination, smuggling and torture • Terminology and equipment explained.
With entries on individual spies, politicians and diplomats, from the players to the patsies, and profiles of the key historical events and scandals from the history of spying, Espionage is the ultimate guide for journalists, researchers and anyone with an interest in this highly topical, controversial and chilling subject.
2002,6x9,383 pp, Illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
ESPIONAGE: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58153)
MODERN FRAUDS AND CON GAMES
by Tony Lesce
Fraud is the fastest growing
industry in the world, which is
why it’s become a global tril-
lion-dollar problem. The main
reason is that it’s low-risk com-
pared to other crimes. Overall,
the apprehension rate is about
three percent and the convic-
tion rate is about one percent.
The simple fact is that new
and menacing techniques of
fraud spring up almost every
day.
This volume describes
dozens of frauds, many of
which are not even illegal, but
do involve deception for eco-
nomic gain. This book will shed
light on the new frauds and con
games, with an extensive
chapter on steps you can take
to reduce your vulnerability to
fraud. No book on fraud can be the final word, but this will help you protect yourself and your family.
Chapters include:
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Medical Fraud
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Internet Fraud
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Identity Theft
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Charity Fraud
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Airline Security Scams
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Possible Remedies
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and much, much more.
Get Modern Frauds and Con Games and start protecting yourself today.
2002,516 x 816,178 pp, soft cover.
MODERN FRAUDS AND CON GAMES: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58148)
CAREERS IN PRIVATE SECURITY
How to Get Started, How to Get Ahead
by Leigh Wade
In this straight-from-the-horse’s-
mouth guide to jobs in the private
security field, author Leigh Wade
shares what he’s learned during 30+
years of working all sorts of armed
and unarmed positions. With hon-
esty and humor, he describes the
hierarchy of private security jobs,
starting with unarmed fixed-post
positions and moving up through
armed guards, bouncers, correc-
tions officers, armed couriers, body-
guards, and the top of the field —
computer/information security
experts.
Wade, a Vietnam veteran who
served with Special Forces, tells
potential security personnel how to
find jobs, what kind of training to
expect, the pay scale and benefits, advancement potential, the good and bad points of each job, and what to expect during a typical workday. Let this knowledgeable guide help you avoid the pitfalls and advance to where you should be in the field of private security.
2002,516 x 816,168 pp, soft cover.
CAREERS IN PRIVATE SECURITY: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64257)
THE REAL WORK
Essential Sleight of Hand for Street Operators
by Paul Price
After becoming bored with
creating illusions at children’s
birthday parties, Paul Price wit-
nessed a game of Three Card
Monte on the wharves of San
Francisco. The following week-
end, armed with his magician’s
knowledge of sleight of hand,
our author threw away his
magician’s cloak and went to
work on the streets. His first
day at his new profession net-
ted him $200 in three hours. In
The Real Work, Paul Price
shows you how to run various
street scams, such as Three
Card Monte, the Three Shell
game, and other rip-offs. He
shows you how to do it, and
tells you how to get safely
away with your ill-gotten gains.
As the author reveals: Sleight of hand is more than just hiding objects
from plain view. It involves concealing the truth and controlling per-
ception. A good sleight-of-hand artist manipulates the minds of his
spectators as well as the physical objects that come into contact with
his hands.
This book presents two ways of running cons: One, play on the
sucker’s belief that he can get something for nothing, and two, use
the victim’s emotions and perception against him — tug on his heart
strings, exploit his conditioning. Remember that deep down, most
people want to be tricked. Show them a rainbow, and they’ll look for
the gold. Your manipulations create rainbows, their ignorance does
the rest. After reading The Real Work, you will no longer be among
the mindless mass of followers. You will have the power to profit from
the public’s simple-mindedness. Use it wisely. Sold for informational
and entertainment purposes only.
2001,516 x 816, 73 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE REAL WORK: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40093)
GANGS AND THEIR TATTOOS
Identifying Gangbangers
on the Street and in Prison
by Bill Valentine
Of all thé identifiers used to verify gang membership, tattoos are perhaps the most pervasive and reliable. Not only are they relatively permanent, but they convey a wealth of information about the wearer. Used extensively by gangbangers to announce gang affiliation, tattoos can also denote an individual’s rank in the particular gang, his criminal expertise, and, in some cases, specifics such as the number of hits he’s performed in service to the gang.
The culmination of countless hours Bill Valentine spent attending gang seminars and working face to face with prison inmates throughout his 20-year career as a correctional officer for the Nevada Department of Prisons, this groundbreaking work makes a substantial amount of previously classified information available to the general public for the first time. In addition to presenting the latest intel on white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and prison gangs, Valentine includes new information on groups such as the White Afrikaner Resistance movement and the Russian Mafiya, which add to the daunting challenge faced by those laboring to hold the line against the menace posed by gangs, hate groups, and organized crime. Gangs and Their Tattoos fills a void in the available literature and will serve as a valuable visual reference for law enforcement as well as attorneys, school teachers, hospital personnel (including those in the pathology labs), workplace supervisors, private security firms, antigang organizations,- and people from all different sectors who have an interest in identifying and tracking gangs and other organizations known for perpetrating violent crime and mayhem.
2000,816x11,171 pp, Illustrated, softcover.
GANGS AND THEIR TATTOOS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40092)
THE ART & SCIENCE OF MONEY LAUNDERING
Inside the Commerce of The International
Narcotics Traffickers
by Brett Woods
The first rule of crime detection is to
follow the money. Brett Woods shows
how to do it all over the world — and in
cyberspace. Laundering money has
always been something of an art form,
but in the electronic age it has also
become a science. No longer do drug
traffickers take briefcases stuffed with
$10s and $20s down to the local bank to
exchange them for larger denomina-
tions. Cybercurrency has given profes-
sional money movers the three critical
tools they need to evade fraud detec-
tors: speed, modern encryption tech-
nologies, and most important,
anonymity. As a result, the problems
confronting law enforcement agencies
and policymakers in the United States and around the world are
becoming more complex and evasive.
The Art & Science of Money Laundering is the most authorita-
tive and thorough treatment of the subject you’ll ever get your hands
on. The author is a certified fraud examiner, former U.S. Secret Service agent and the current inspector general for the state of New Mex-
ico. In this book, he uses his expertise to examine how money
laundering works around the world and explains the roles offshore
banks and tax havens play. He also includes a critique of the new and
proposed money-laundering countermeasures by the United Nations,
the U.S., and other countries. This is an essential reference for all law
enforcement professionals, private investigators, lawyers, adventur-
ers, and curious citizens who want to get inside the networks of
today’s professional money brokers.
1998,516 x 816,199 pp, soft cover.
THE ART & SCIENCE OF MONEY LAUNDERING: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 13087)
GETAWAY
Driving Techniques for Escape and Evasion
by Ronald George Eriksen 2
This exciting book covers everything you
need to know to be an expert wheelman.
Ronald George Eriksen 2 is a veteran dirt
track racer, and a graduate of the Bob Bon*
durant school of high performance driving in
Sonoma, California. In Getaway, he shares
his knowledge of driving techniques for
escape and evasion.
Covered are cornering, right angle turns,
S-turns, hairpin turns, the “bootlegger’s”
turn, the “moonshiner’s” turn, and more.
Ramming procedures for both single and
double vehicle blockades are shown in illus-
trated detail. Eriksen also covers how to run
another vehicle off the road, how to jump a curb, and how to handle chase situations.
Additional chapters cover vehicle security, vehicle modifications you can make, how to detect if you are being surveilled, and how to elude a tail. Everything there is to know about fast driving for escape and evasion is now revealed in one easy-to-read book, with illustrations! Gentlemen, start your engines...
1983,5M x 816, 39 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GETAWAY: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 16037)
HOW TO COLLECT ILLEGAL DEBTS
by Harold S. Long
If you are owed money for a drug or gambling debt, and the deadbeat won’t cough it up, who ya gonna call? In his latest book, veteran criminal Harold S. Long discusses everything you need to know to set up a business collecting illegal debts.
Contents include: • THE SYSTEM: Introductory impressions, clients and subject relationships, and methodology in collecting. • TYPING A SUBJECT: The personalities of subjects and types of debts, how they are incurred, etc. • VULNERABILITIES OF A SUBJECT: How to determine a subject’s weaknesses to apply as leverage to secure payment of debts. • FEAR AS A WEAPON: The integrity of fear as a tool in manipulating subjects. • LEVEL TWO CONDITIONING: The second stage of force and manipulation of subjects not cooperating with collection efforts. • LEVEL THREE CONDITIONING: The third and final stage of conditioning force in the collection process. • And more.
1990,516 x 816, 69 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO COLLECT ILLEGAL DEBTS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40067)
HOW TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL
CON ARTIST
by Dennis M. Mariock
A fool and his money are soon parted, so the saying goes. And if the job is done right, the fool doesn’t even realize it’s happened until the wily con artist has moved on to the next victim or the next town. In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Dennis M. Mariock, a retired cop and chairman of the board for the international law enforcement organization Professionals Against Confidence Crime, takes the reader into the mind and greedy heart of the con man. You will learn the mechanics behind famous swindles such as the pigeon drop, the Jamaican switch, bank-examiner schemes, three-card Monte, and even fortune-telling. You will find out why a good scam artist rarely gets caught and, if he does, how he gets away with the lightest punishment or no punishment at all. If you’ve ever read a news story about a sucker getting taken and wondered how he could have fallen for that, you need to read this book before an honest-faced stranger offers you a deal too good to pass up.
2001,516 x 816, 176 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL
CON ARTIST: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40094)
DON’T BE A VICTIM!
How to Protect Yourself from Hoaxes,
Scams, and Frauds
by Michael E. Chesbro
Hoaxes, scams, frauds... tens of thousands of people become victims of these crimes every year. But how can so many people be conned out of their life savings, be tricked into paying for products and services they will never receive, or even lose their complete identity to these criminals?
We have become so used to disclosing private information about our lives at every turn that when someone asks us for our Social Security number, bank account number, or the like, we don’t see these inquiries as the risk and intrusion into our lives that they are. Too often we answer these questions without the slightest thought about the damage that can be done with this information. We lock our front doors to keep a burglar from breaking in, but do nothing to prevent a criminal from stealing our personal and private information and maybe our complete identities.
In this book we will look at various different hoaxes, scams, and types of fraud. We will learn to recognize these crimes for what they are and we will look at things we can do to protect ourselves from becoming victims of these crimes. It is important to remember, however, that no book can identify every possible hoax, scam, or fraud or every variation on these crimes. There will always be some new twist, some new way that criminals find to take advantage of the unsuspecting.
What we can do is learn to recognize the most common of these crimes, and to recognize the underlying principles that make these crimes successful. With this awareness, and by taking certain common sense precautions, we can shield ourselves from these crimes, causing the criminals to move on to the many people who don’t take these threats seriously.
2002,516 x 816,143 pp, soft cover.
DON’T BE A VICTIM!: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40095)
BLACK COLLAR CRIMES
An Encyclopedia
of False Prophets
and Unholy Orders
by Michael Newton
What’s up with the clergy? Some of these supposedly God-fearing folks are flouting the law of the land! Murder... make that mass murder! And rape... including the statutory kind! Not to mention kidnapping, torture, conspiracy, slavery, prostitution, forgery, child pornography, terrorist bombings, sexual assault and/or battery, grand larceny, embezzlement, and lots more!
Author Michael Newton has catalogued a grim host of decidedly nonsanctimonious characters in Black Collar Crimes: An Encyclopedia of False Prophets and Unholy Orders. This lexicon of lawlessness is truly astounding! Mail fraud, indecent exposure, theft, perjury, arson, assault with intent to kill, sexual abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, bigamy, inciting a riot, public lewdness, manslaughter, sodomy, electronic eavesdropping, bankruptcy, fraud, obscenity, inflicting bodily harm, income tax evasion, child molestation... well, the list continues to astound pious readers!
You’ll never view the clergy in the same way you do now, once you’ve read Newton’s amazing exposé of religious misconduct! Slander, money laundering, DWI, immigration fraud, practicing medicine without a license, solicitation, impersonating a public official, genital or oral penetration by a foreign object, adultery, disorderly conduct, indecent exposure, assault and battery, weapons violations, barbarism... are there any lengths to which these depraved men (and women!) of God will not go?
Apparently not! Read Black Collar Crimes now, and prepare yourself for a harsh blast of secular reality!
1998,516 x 816,266 pp, soft cover.
BLACK COLLAR CRIMES: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34092)
DOCUMENT FRAUD
AND OTHER CRIMES OF DECEPTION
by Jesse M. Greenwald
Jesse M. Greenwald is an admittedly proud rebel with 22 felony convictions and five prison terms to his credit, who has been perpetrating document frauds of various types for over 20 years. Greenwald has garnered and squandered a fortune with his fiendishly clever scams during his life of crime. He stung the Bank of America via computer for over one million dollars in 1993! Currently incarcerated at a maximum security prison in Arizona, Greenwald wrote Document Fraud and Other Crimes of Deception with grim-faced prison guards literally looking over his shoulder! The result of his literary endeavors is the most succinct and informative work about modern techniques of document fraud ever penned!
Document Fraud and Other Crimes of Deception clearly explains:
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Computer equipment any forger needs, and alternative methods of acquiring it • Necessary software • How the forger gets the right paper • The notary stamp • How the forger fabricates checks, stock certificates, trust and quit claim deeds, vehicle titles, and bonded credit cards • Methods the forger employs to obtain alternative identification • Insurance fraud • How the forger makes his own credit cards • How the forger sets up a phony but convincing office as a front • Tenant and real estate scams the forger engages in • and much, much more!
Described by the authorities as “a classic career criminal,” “a sociopath,” “a serious repeat white-collar offender,” and “a one-man crime wave,” whose “rehabilitation appears to be remote at best,” Greenwald was once featured on America’s Most Wanted! He knows the shadowy world of the document forger as well as any man alive, and shares his expertise with interested readers in Document Fraud and Other Crimes of Deception!
1997,516 x 816,147 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DOCUMENT FRAUD
AND OTHER CRIMES OF DECEPTION: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 61152)
ECONOMIC SODOMY
How Modern Frauds Work
and How to Protect Yourself
by Victor Santoro
Whether it’s telemarketers jerking your chain, doctors doing surgery on your bank account, or lawyers performing a little modus up- your-end-i, people are getting screwed more than ever before. You need protection. And that’s where Victor Santoro comes in. Economic Sodomy is a catalog of modern frauds and cons that will leave you sore! Read about one U.S. city that got reamed so bad they declared it “Sucker’s Day,” and celebrate it every year! Here are some other scams sure to rub you the wrong way:
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How bankers and stockbrokers use your assets as collateral for their personal loans • Why you should never use doctors that have their own labs • Two easy medical frauds that are impossible to detect • A drycleaning scam that netted a con man a quick five grand • How to get a free rental car • New high-tech cons involving cellular phones, cash machines and credit cards • And much more, including “cappers,” “the rock box scam,” “cop freaks,” and “the dog con!”
The sad part about most of these scams is that they’re perfectly legal: they follow the letter of the law, while violating your sacred trust. But Victor Santoro provides you with intelligent advice on how to protect yourself. Learn to give your doctor an exam, give your lawyer the third degree, analyze your shrink. And if all else fails, Santoro shows you how to turn the tables and con the con men for revenge. Economic Sodomy is a probing exposé of modern cons with all the facts you need to shield yourself. Don’t get caught without it!
1994,516 x 8*6, 182 pp, soft cover.
ECONOMIC SODOMY: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40082)
CHEATERS ALWAYS PROSPER
50 Ways to Beat the System
Without Being Caught
by James Brazil
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Prosper
5 O Ways t o •
B©at tlie System
Wi tlioiit Beingf:
Caught •.
When author James Brazil was 16,
he applied for a caddie job at a swank
California country club. To his chagrin,
the club would not employ anyone
under 18. With the help of his mother’s
secretary, Brazil falsified his age and
got the job, learning at an early age that
rules were made to be broken. As Brazil
matured, he learned about under-the-
counter arrangements, payoffs, mutual
back scratching, and the out-and-out
rip-offs that are a part of our culture’s
social fabric.
Cheaters Always Prosper presents
a potpourri of Brazil’s maneuvers which
are designed to outwit the system,
including: • How to get free admission to
movies and concerts • How to dine for free at upscale restaurants •
How to get out of a speeding ticket • How to fly first class at coach
prices (and sometimes for free) • How to enjoy accommodations at a
deluxe hotel without renting a room and much, much more!
Brazil is not ashamed to admit that walking a crooked mile fre-
quently pays off. This collection of his experiences and scams will be
entertaining reading for those who take an interest in getting some-
thing for nothing. Sold for informational purposes only.
1996,516 x 816,123 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CHEATERS ALWAYS PROSPER: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58096)
DIRTY TRICKS COPS USE
(And Why They Use Them)
by Bart Rommel
They make Dirty Harry look
like Mr. Clean.
If you think Rodney King had it
rough, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Getta load of these Dirty Tricks
Cops Use to beat the “bad guys”:
• A cop plants drugs on a private
plane, then seizes the plane for
police department use.
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A cop sprays mace on a sus-
pect’s car seat. After a few min-
utes of driving, the suspect’s
crotch and rear burn like fire. -
Police leave blank tape at the
beginning of an illegal interroga-
tion, then go back and record
themselves reading the suspect
his rights. -
How cops use stunguns to tor-
ture suspects without leaving
marks. -
How vigilante cops conduct an “execution.”
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How cops add drugs to confiscated evidence to increase the charge from a misdemeanor to a felony.
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How cops start gang wars to thin out street toughs.
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And much more, inqluding illegal wiretaps, using snitches, getting search warrants without probable cause, and keeping confiscated drugs, guns, and cash to pay for dirty business!
These cops say the law is stacked in favor of the “bad guys,” and they’re just out to even the score. If you want to know how the “justice” system really works, you must read this shocking book.
1993,516 x 816,154 pp, indexed, soft cover.
DIRTY TRICKS COPS USE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58084)
SPECIALTY POLICE MUNITIONS
The Hottest New Specialty Ammunition,
Weapons Platforms, Devices, and
Chemical Agents for
Real-World Law Enforcement
by Tony L. Jones
In a real-world situation, the more tools and techniques a police officer has at his disposal, the higher his odds of surviving and protecting his fellow officers and those he is sworn to serve. The firearms he carries are generally issued to him by the department after a careful evaluation of reliability, stopping power, and legal considerations. Equal care should be used when selecting munitions, but, sadly, this is usually not the case. In Police Specialty Munitions, veteran SWAT officer and police trainer Tony L. Jones looks at the latest lethal and “less lethal” police specialty munitions and tools being fielded, tested, or researched by the major ammunition manufacturers.
• Specialty impact (less lethal) munitions — electrical stun devices, stun shields, Tasers, antiterrorist rounds
• Specialty lethal munitions — detonating tip, enhanced expanding, and frangible rounds; steel tacks, darts, and hooks; nested projectiles; explosive door cutters
• Chemical agent munitions — area devices, tactical aerosols devices, chemical agent launchers
• Distraction devices — distraction vs. diversionary munitions, rendering safe procedures, rules of engagement
• Specialty training munitions — marking ammo, blank rounds, nontoxic ammo, tracer rounds, reduced-recoil ammo, computer-simulated training programs.
Being a police officer is tough enough without having to worry about whether your munitions will perform in the line of fire or whether you will be reprimanded or slapped with a lawsuit for using the wrong weapon. Make sure that your department has the right tools for the job and that officers are trained to use them properly.
2000,816 x 11,216 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
SPECIALTY POLICE MUNITIONS: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25090)
21 ST CENTURY FRAUD
How to Protect Yourself in the New Millennium
Tony Lesce
What are your chances of
being murdered this year? We
have about 20,000 murders, a
year in the United States, a
country with almost 300 million
people, and this means that
your chances of escaping homi-
cide are very good. What are
your chances of being victim-
ized by fraud? Much greater, so
much greater that it’s almost
impossible to measure the risk.
Identity theft is only one type of
high-tech fraud, although it ties
in with other fraud schemes.
There are many other scams
operating, and the law enforce-
ment establishment simply
doesn’t have a handle on them.
21st Century Fraud: How
to Protect Yourself in the New
Millennium will show you the basics of fraud techniques, give you an
awareness of what the dangers are, and teach you how to protect
yourself against the possibility that a fraud artist might fleece you.
Included are: • Organized crime • Telephone Scams • Credit Card
Fraud • Computer and Internet Fraud • Retail Store Scams • Media
Scams • Fund Raising Organizations • Miscellaneous Scams • Pro-
tecting Yourself • And Much, Much More.
No one can guarantee you 100 percent protection. Fraud artists
are very imaginative and creative, with agile minds that adapt to the
changing scene. 21st Century Fraud will highlight the need for you to
be especially vigilant and to develop a paranoid attitude. It Is all right
to think that they are out to get you, because they are!
2000,516 x 816,155 pp, soft cover.
21st CENTURY FRAUD: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40091)
GANGBANGERS
Understanding the Deadly Minds
of America’s Street Gangs
by Loren W. Christensen
Many people in America think that gang violence is concentrated in New York, Los Angeles, and a few isolated big cities. They are mistaken. Gangs are everywhere — in the nation’s largest cities and smallest towns; in the suburbs and rural areas; on both coasts and throughout the Bible Belt. And gangs are equal-opportunity destroyers: there are white gangs, black gangs, Hispanic gangs, and Asian gangs. Gangs are everywhere, and they are here to stay. No matter how many government bucks are given to feel-good organizations to reach out and interface with them, gangs and gangbangers keep increasing like cockroaches in a shabby tenement. And gangs are getting nastier, too. Ten years ago, they fought with fists, clubs, and pistols. Now they have incredible firepower, they have lots of it, and they don’t think twice about using it. They aren’t intimidated by the police or the prospect of getting killed or going to prison.
Loren Christensen served as a gang-enforcement officer in the Portland, Oregon, police department for many years. He dealt with gangs on a daily basis, and he observed the number of lives lost and ruined by gang violence. Here, he lets gang members, former gang members, gang-enforcement officers, juvenile-detention officers, social workers, and school officials tell you in their own words about gangbangers and how they think, why they commit such senseless acts of violence, who they target and why, and what if anything can be done to curb the growth of gangs in America.
1999,516 x 816,195 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GANGBANGERS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34096)
HOW TO STEAL FOOD
FROM THE SUPERMARKET
by J. Andrew Anderson
\Ne live in a wonderful country, where
we get to pay taxes for farm subsidies so
that we can be overcharged for food at
the supermarket. A country where people
starve to death outside stores that sell
gourmet diet dog food. A country where
we can publish a book that tells you how
to steal food from the supermarket.
Written by a supermarket security
guard, How to Steal Food From the
Supermarket will teach you how to pur-
loin some sirloin, how to snatch a batch
of cookies, how to poach eggs. Here’s
the real skinny on getting fat: • The myth
of low profit margins for supermarkets •
Using coupons for stuff you didn’t buy •
Anderson’s Three Laws of Shoplifting • How to dress for shoplifting success • Do-it-yourself markdowns • How America’s food distribution system screws you — why you should steal food • Switching bar codes • What to do if a security guard sees you stealing • Scamming the Scanner «What to do if you are caught red-handed • And much more, including the one mistake that trips up most shoplifters and the one item you must bring shoplifting with you. This offer is not available in stores.
1993, 516 x 816, 63 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO STEAL FOOD FROM THE SUPERMARKET: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40079)
MAKING CRIME PAY
by Harold S. Long
What does it take to succeed at criminal activity — what does it take to make crime pay? In Making Crime Pay, an experienced criminal delves deeply into the realities of the criminal justice system, and offers many hard-won suggestions for successfully evading the system.
Topics covered include: • What “probable cause” really amounts to • How to handle encounters with the police — how to lie and get away with it • Preparedness for possible confrontations with police • The criminal process and attorneys — what you can expect a court- appointed attorney to do (and not to do) for you • Why a trial by jury is preferable to a trial by judge • What to do if your court-appointed attorney is fucking up your case • How your wife or girlfriend should act if the police come to the door and start questioning her • The seven most common mistakes made in crime — and how you can avoid them • The harsh realities of life in prison • And much, much more!
Written by a professional criminal, Making Crime Pay is must reading for all cops and robbers, and for anyone interested in crime in America. Highly recommended.
1988,516 x 816, 78 pp, soft cover.
MAKING CRIME PAY: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40050)
FRAUDS, RIP-OFFS AND CON GAMES
by Victor Santoro
Victor Santoro is back with another fine book on Frauds, Rip-Offs and Con Games.
Contents include: • The Dirty White Collar • Securities Swindles and Theft • The ‘Terrible Williamsons” • The Gypsies: Criminal Lifestyles • Restaurant Scams • Credit Cards: Cons and Catches • “Financial Planners” • Intellectual Fads: Selling Counterfeit Ideas • Coat-Tailing • Fraud Salad: An Assortment of Con Games • And much, much more.
The woods are full of wolves — don’t be a sheep! Leam all about Frauds, Rip-Offs and Con Games from this exciting book.
1988,516 x 816,201 pp, soft cover.
FRAUDS, RIP-OFFS AND CON GAMES: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 49021)
BODYGUARDING
A Complete Manual
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Burt Rapp andTonyLesce
Bodyguarding: A Complete
Manual, Revised and Expanded
Second Edition is an essential
how-to-do-it manual that covers
every aspect of protecting the life
of a client that a bodyguard needs
to be aware of, including: • Protec-
tive theory • Threat assessment •
Defending against kidnappers and
terrorists • Protection from assas-
sination • Guarding the client in
crowds • Security and access con-
trol systems * Dealing with bombs
and bomb threats • Selecting
appropriate weapons • Special-
purpose weapons and where to
get them • Body armor and bullet-
proof vehicles • Legal aspects, licensing and liability of bodyguards • Expanded information on bodyguard training schools • New material on chemical weapons and their impact »And much, much more!
Bodyguarding: A Complete Manual was used by the Detroit Police Department to train members of the Mayor’s personal bodyguarding unit.
S. W.A.T. magazine states that Bodyguarding: A Complete Manual offers “a very complete view of what really goes into bodyguard- ing’”
Police Marksman magazine says that Bodyguarding: A Complete Manual is “a timely informative work which examines both the need and the means of dignitary protection... both a good introduction for the novice or a review for the professional dignitary protection officer.”
If you are interested in learning what every bodyguard needs to know, read Bodyguarding: A Complete Manual. It’s the book the pros use.
1995,816x11,188 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BODYGUARDING: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55097)
THE RIP-OFF BOOK
The Complete Guide to Frauds,
Con Games, Swindles, and Rackets
by Victor Santoro
This is the single finest book ever written on the subject of frauds and con games. It goes into vast detail on what frauds are, how they work, and why we are vulnerable to them. And unlike other books, it even tells you how to strike back if you have been victimized by a rip- off.
Contents of this amazing book include: • Why crime pays for the fraud artist • How con men stay one step ahead of the law • Why police and prosecutors often will not bring charges against fraud artists • Where fraud overlaps legitimate business practices — where do you draw the line? • Six reasons why criminals choose frauds over other crimes • Anatomy of a fraud — six elements common to all con games • Frauds against small businesses — what to watch out for • Cons that can be worked on your relatives while you’re out of town • How con men can find out your unlisted telephone number • Mail fraud — more popular now than ever • How your stock broker can rip you off — legally • Frauds involving the telephone • And much, much more, including how to strike back if you have been victimized, a glossary of terms, and much more!
The Rip-Off Book is a virtual encyclopedia of frauds, con games, and swindles! Both law enforcement officers and private citizens will benefit from the rip-offs exposed by Santoro. Highly recommended.
1984,516 x 816,184 pp, soft cover.
THE RIP-OFF BOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40033)
PRISON
Introduction
Here in the “Land of the Free” we lock up more (and a higher percentage) of our own citizens than any other nation on Earth. Even the former Soviet Union and South Africa under apartheid never exceeded the incarceration rate of present-day America. And more prisons are being built all the time! The insane “War on Drugs,” idiotic mandatory minimum sentences for minor crimes, and misguided “Three Strikes” laws guarantee that our prison population will continue to grow.
THE CELLING OF AMERICA
An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry
Edited by Daniel Burton-Rose with Dan Pens
and Paul Wright
Introduction by William Greider
Listen to these powerful voices from America’s growing’ gulag! As William Grieder writes in The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry’s introduction, ‘The bookshelves are abundantly stocked with scholarly studies of the United States’ criminal justice system, but there are few, if any, like (this) book... It was mainly written by criminals. Their essays are sharply informative because they are grounded in reality, the clarifying experience of dwelling within the penal system. We should listen to them. We will learn from what they see and know. We may begin to think more clearly about all that must be changed.”
In The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry, prison journalists will kick open the doors of America’s prisons and take you on a hair-raising tour to teach you: How corporations such as Microsoft are raking in big bucks from slave prison labor; How the privatization of prisons leads to prisoners building their own cages; That over 3,000 men and women live under a death sentence in America, and 40% of them are black.
Read these heartfelt essays and gain a fuller understanding of today’s prisons, many of which are rapidly becoming slavelabor camps. The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry is divided into eight sections:
The New Politics of Crime,
The Distorted Lens (The Corporate Media Filter of Crime and Justice),
The Downward Spira! (Prisons Do Their Damnedest to Increase the Misery),
Workin’ for the Man (Prison Labor in the U.S.A.),
Money and Warm Bodies (The Prison-Industrial Complex in the United States),
Crimes of the Keepers (Racism, Corruption and Brutality), Permanent Lockdown (Control Unit Prisons and the Proliferation of the Isolation Model),
and Prisoner Struggles and Rebellions.
En masse, along with Greider’s cogent introduction, they offer a grim look at what’s going on behind bars in this country.
Remember... there’s a cell waiting for you!
1998,5x716, 263 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE CELLING OF AMERICA: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58115)
IMPROVISED WEAPONS IN AMERICAN PRISONS
by Jack Luger
The story of prison weapons is fascinating, because of the difficult conditions under which prison inmates must acquire them. In some of the most repressive, most controlled environments on Earth, prisoners still make and use weapons.
It would be unrealistic to romanticize this. The story of prisoners and their weapons is not evidence of the unquenchability of the human spirit against adversity, or anything like it. In reality, weapons made by prisoners are usually crude and made for sordid ends. The photographs in this book will make that point convincingly.
Improvised Weapons in American Prisons covers in vast detail the kinds of weapons used in prisons, how they are used, whom they are used against, and how they are made. Complete sections, with many rare photographs, cover knives, garottes, firebombs, blunt instruments, and even guns. The author also covers the hiding places in prison, prison smuggling, and escapes.
Highlighting the easy-to-read informative text are more than four dozen photographs of actual weapons, made and used by prisoners throughout the United States. Improvised Weapons in American Prisons is the most fascinating weapons book to be published in years! Be sure to order your copy now.
1985,516 x 816, 79 pp, photographs, soft cover.
IMPROVISED WEAPONS IN AMERICAN PRISONS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22023)
SURVIVING IN PRISON
by Harold S. Long
Convicts don’t live in prisons — they survive them. Harold S. Long has written a disturbing and deeply moving account of prison life. Long has been behind bars for over ten years. He describes how prisons are run: the penal code and the cellblock code. He takes you out to the yard and into the hole. He explains the complete failure of most “rehabilitation” programs. And he reveals what it is like to survive the isolation, humiliation, and brutality of prison life.
Chapters include: • Power Structures • The Prison Experience: Day One to Day Ninety • Isolation and Segregation Units • Programs and Recreation • The Internal Litigation Process • Interpersonal Aspects of Prison Life • Our Present, Our Future • And More.
Surviving in Prison is much more than the story of how prisons work and where they fail. It is the true account of one man’s struggle to preserve some shred of dignity that he can use to build a new life... if only he can survive.
1990,816x11,124 pp, soft cover.
SURVIVING IN PRISON: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40070)
LOCKDOWN AMERICA
Police and Prisons In the Age of Crisis
by Christian Parenti
Lockdown America docu-
ments the horrors and absurdities
of militarized policing, prisons, a
fortified border, and the war on
drugs. Its accessible and vivid
prose makes clear the links
between crime and politics in a
period of gathering economic cri-
sis. Parenti argues that beginning
in the late sixties, US capitalism hit
a dual social and economic crisis,
and it was in response to this crisis
that the criminal justice buildup of
today began. After a surge of
expansion in the late sixties the
growth of criminal justice
plateaued in the late seventies,
only to resume in earnest during
the early and mid eighties with
Reagan’s war on drugs. Since then we’ve been on a steady path toward ever more state repression and surveillance.
The first section of the book deals with the recent history of American political economy and the origins of the current criminal justice buildup. The second explores some important forms of policing, like New York-style zero tolerance, SWAT teams, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) war on immigrants. The third deals with prison: the politics of life inside (gangs, rape, and brutality) and incarceration’s role in reproducing the US economic and social order. Lockdown America is an important and frightening look at what is happening to the freedoms of Americans.
2000,6x9,304 pp, indexed, soft cover.
LOCKDOWN AMERICA: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58138)
THE TALLAHASSEE PROJECT
A Glimpse Inside the Shattered Lives of
100 Non-Violent Women Prisoners
of the War on Drugs
A Project of the Committee on Unjust Sentencing
These are the voices of one hundred
women prisoners of the War on Drugs.
Locked inside FCI Tallahassee under
unyielding federal drug sentencing guide-
lines, these women are held alongside
hardened criminals. Their crimes are non-
violent, and frequently victimless. They are
mothers, daughters, sisters, and victims.
These are their stories in their own words.
Things you should know about prisons
in the US: There are approximately two
million people in US prisons and jails
today, and 5.7 million people under state
supervision • The incarceration rate in the
United States is 725 for every 100,000 — the highest in the world •
One in 130 people will serve time at some point in their lives • The
number of women serving time in state and federal prisons has
increased 92% in the last 10 years • It costs more to send a person to
prison for a year than to Harvard University for a year • The prison
system is not filled with violent and dangerous people; the majority of
people are being sent to prison for drug charges and acts which
involve no violence whatsoever.
The Tallahassee Project is an unnerving portrait of the unfair
attack on America’s families by the contemptible War on Drugs. Read
these stories and decide for yourself who the War on Drugs is really
fighting and at what cost the battle is waged.
2001,7x 10,96pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE TALLAHASSEE PROJECT: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58145)
FEDERAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANT’S HANDBOOK
Negotiating the Long Lonely Road
from Arrest to Prison to Freedom
by Douglas J. Hill, J.D.
If the federal government is trying to put you, a family member or a friend in prison, or if they have already succeeded in doing so, Federal Criminal Defendant’s Handbook is the book you need. Written by Douglas J. Hill, J.D., a survivor of the federal prison system and a criminal defender, this book gives you the lowdown on what to ask, what to expect and how to act so that the prison years aren’t your last.
Written with insight and common sense, Federal Criminal Defendant’s Handbook helps you to: • Find the right attorney • Prepare for court, from bail proceedings through trial • Understand “Sentencing Guidelines” and “Mandatory Minimums” » Evaluate your legal position, in order to get the best possible deal • Prepare for prison, if you must go • Survive the system.
With his experience both representing defendants in federal court and as the target of a federal indictment, Hill gives you the real-life wisdom you need to negotiate the bumpy road from arrest to prison to freedom.
1999,816 x 11,204 pp, illustrated, sample forms, soft cover.
FEDERAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS HANDBOOK: $44.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76075)
PRISON KILLING TECHNIQUES
Blade, Bludgeon and Bomb
by Ralf Dean Omar
Anyone whose
lifestyle or job might
conceivably bring them
into contact with this
nation’s fast-growing
prisons — and the sub-
cultural survivalists
who hunt there — will
benefit from reading
this graphic and shocking book.
Consider the
unique demands of the
prison survival sce-
nario: Nowhere to run,
nowhere to hide.
In many ways,
prison is the ultimate
self-defense challenge.
You check your guns at
the door.
Here, you quickly
learn the difference
between training and
experience.’
You may have
trained for years to sur-
vive on foreign terrain. You may have trained 20 years in karate or some other martial art. You may be very well trained, but inside the confines of the Steel Nation, experience is what counts.
Here, no punches are pulled as they are in training.
Do you know where to find and how to use the environmental weapons provided by your surroundings?
Improvised weapons (and how to use them) included in this book include: • A mop is a spear waiting to happen • A sock filled with batteries is a “soap-on-a-rope” bludgeon • The cross-bar on a typewriter is an ice-pick • Caps can hide razors • Rolled-up magazines can turn into mushfake nunchakus • Can lids, appliances, broken light bulbs, and much, much more can be lethal— if you know how to use theml
Read Prison Killing Techniques and you will be shocked and amazed — and well-armed, to boot.
2001,516 x 816,122 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PRISON KILLING TECHNIQUES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58144)
PRISON-ESE
A Survivor’s Guide to Speaking Prison Slang
by Gary K. Farlow, J.D.
“If you loan me your car, I’ll put some gas
in it.” This statement sounds like a teenager
attempting to borrow a father’s car for a Sat-
urday night date. In prison, this statement
means, “If you’ll loan me your radio, I’ll put
some new batteries in it.” “Prison-ese” is fast
becoming a new dialect of the vast and growing subculture in our nation’s prisons and cor-
rectional facilities. With nearly two million
people currently incarcerated in the United
States, this guide to prison slang was devel-
oped to be a useful tool for staff, volunteers,
family members, and of course, the inmates
themselves.
All of the terms and phrases in this “dictionary” were collected by
the author over a period of ten years while incarcerated in the North
Carolina Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons. Attempts
have been made to define each term as accurately as possible.
Included along with each definition is an example of how the term
might be used in a sentence, in an effort to add clarity to the word’s
meaning and demonstrate its common usage. It should be noted that
many of the words and phrases are explicit, vulgar and graphic.
In addition to being a useful guide for the understanding of termi-
nology, Prison-ese offers insight into the criminal mind and the sub-
culture of our nation’s penal system. This book can be a useful tool for
correctional staff, but also offers valuable information for the sociolo-
gist, cultural anthropologist, and for the field of psychology. For exam-
ple, the number of terms or phrases used to refer to a specific
phenomenon is suggestive of that term’s importance within the prison
culture.
2002,516 x 816, 91 pp, soft cover.
PRISON-ESE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58150)
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YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON
by Jim Hogshire
There’s no doubt about it. You saw the flashing red lights, you found a good attorney, you
even begged for mercy. Now You Are Going to
Prison and there’s not a damn thing you can do
about it... except learn how to make the time go
easier.
Jim Hogshire guides you through the correc-
tional system, pointing out all the dangers and
scams, leading you toward the safest path. If you
or a loved one are about to be swallowed up by
the system, you need this information if you
hope to come out whole. Topics covered include:
-
Custody • Trial • Prison • Jailhouse Justice • Execution • And much
more.
You Are Going to Prison is the most accurate, no-bullshit guide
to prison life we have ever seen. You don’t want to read this book
unless you’re going to do time, because you won’t be able to get the
sickening images out of your head.
“Planning to embezzle a couple mil from your company’s pension
plan? Hold up a bank? Kill your wife’s lover? Chances are you’ll end
up doing time, and if Jim Hogshire’s You Are Going to Prison is any
indication, it won’t be a country club. (In fact, there are only two “coun-
try club” prisons, says Hogshire — Allenwood, Pennsylvania, the
other in Elgin, Florida.) Based on inside information from prisoners
who have endured long sentences in such ominous institutions as the
federal maximum security prison in Marion, Indiana, the book pro-
vides prospective inmates with a step-by-step guide to incarceration,
beginning with arrest and ending — at least in some unfortunate
cases — with the administration of the death penalty.” — Esquire,
January 1995 9
1999,516 x 816, 181 pp, indexed, soft cover.
YOU ARE GOING TO PRISON: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40083)
HOW TO SURVIVE FEDERAL PRISON CAMP
A Guidebook for Those Caught Up in the System
by Clive Sharp
Anyone who is headed for a federal
prison camp should read this book
today! Author Clive Sharp, a recent
graduate of the American federal
prison camp system, has compiled an
essential guidebook that is designed to
make a prisoner’s life bearable. You’re
entering into an unforgiving subculture
with its own code of ethics, as well as
its own rules and customs. Don’t be
unprepared! This book contains: • How
to handle the presentencing report •
How to get your life in order before
reporting to camp • Medical and dental
advice • What to bring and not bring
with you to camp • What to expect on
your first day • The realities of prison-
camp rape • Typical daily schedules • Preferable work assignments •
What the food will be like, and dining hall rules • What to expect from
prison-camp psychologists and chaplains • Explanations of visiting
privileges • Mail regulations and requirements • How to cope with
despair and the loss of personal space • How to maintain relation-
ships with your loved ones • How to do your own time and no one
else’s, and avoid snitches and setups • How to avoid being sent to
“the hole” • Day-by-day excerpts from prisoners’ journals • What to
expect upon release to a halfway house • How to deal with supervised
release • How to get a job after your release from prison camp • How
to restore your civil rights • And much, much more, including a fore-
word and afterword by Donald B. Parker, veteran of three federal
prison camps, as well as a heartfelt introduction by Claire Wolfe.
This book is absolutely indispensable reading for anyone who
must endure a stretch in a federal prison camp! Read it now... remem-
ber, the life you save may be your own!
1997,516 x 816,205pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOWTO SURVIVE FEDERAL PRISON CAMP: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58100)
RACE TO INCARCERATE
by Marc Mauer
As we enter the new century, Amer-
ica’s race to incarcerate continues virtu-
ally unabated. The 1.7 million Americans
locked in the nation’s prisons and jails in
1997 are now expected to increase to
over two million by the end of 2001. Fur-
ther, the United States has regained the
dubious distinction of being the world’s
leading incarcerator. Despite over-
crowded and unconstitutional conditions
in many American prisons, government
officials are hardly leading the call for a
reduction in the use of incarceration.
Nationally, more than half of prison-
ers are incarcerated for a nonviolent
offense, including nearly a half million
inmates in the nation’s prisons and jails either serving time or awaiting
jail for a drug offense. This latter figure is equal to the total number of
inmates for all offenses just twenty years ago.
Race to Incarcerate tells the chilling story of the unprecedented
expansion of the American prison population over the last two
decades, demonstrating how the dramatic increase in the number of
prisons and jails has failed to produce any substantial impact on
crime. The book critiques America’s war on drugs and shows how
those policies have emphasized rigid control — through police and
prisons — over legalization and economic development.
1999,5 Jé x 816, 222pp, indexed, soft cover.
RACE TO INCARCERATE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58142)
THE PERPETUAL PRISONER MACHINE
How America Profits from Crime
by Joel Dyer
Every thinking person in America
ought to read this book. In The Perpet-
ual Prisoner Machine, Joel Dyer takes
a critical look at the United States’ crim-
inal justice system as we enter the new
millennium. America has more than
tripled its prison population since 1980
even though crime rates have been
either flat or declining. The U.S. now
incarcerates nearly two million people
in its prisons and jails on any given day
and more than five million of its citizens
are currently under some form of jus-
tice department supervision. These
facts raise an obvious question: If crime
rates aren’t going up, then why is the
prison population? The Perpetual
Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question, and shockingly, it has little to do with crime or justice. The answer is “profit.”
From the 1990s on, through their mutual and pension funds, mil-
lions of American investors are now unwittingly profiting from crime.
As a result of America’s controversial push toward the privatization of
its justice system, a growing number of well-known and politically
influential U.S. corporations — and consequently their shareholders
— are now cashing in on a prison trade with a profit potential that is
tied directly to the growth of the prison population. A disturbing real-
ization, when you consider the influence that these same multina-
tional companies now have over our government’s policy-making
process by way of their lobbyists and their ability to fill campaign cof-
fers.
The Perpetual Prisoner Machine explains how the new prison-
industrial complex has capitalized upon the public’s fear of crime —
which has its origins in violent media content — to help bring about
the “tough on crime” policies that have led to our prison-filling, and
therefore profitable “war on crime.”
Dyer concludes that powerful, market-driven forces have manipu-
lated America into fighting a very real war against an imaginary foe.
“Unfortunately,” says Dyer, “real wars have real casualties. And in this
case the victims are America’s poor, particularly those segments of
our black and Hispanic populations who live in poverty and who now
comprise the vast majority of the new human commodity.”
Profound, thought-provoking, enraging, and meticulously
researched — don’t miss The Perpetual Prisoner Machine!
2000,6x9,330 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE PERPETUAL PRISONER MACHINE: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58129)
THE BIG HOUSE
How American Prisons Work
by Tony Lesce
Bursting at the seams, our
prison system is in a state of cri-
sis. Many prisons are under court
order to reduce overcrowding.
New drug laws and mandatory
sentencing requirements only add
to the problem. There’s no place
left to put criminals except back
on the street.
The solutions don’t come
easy. Who should be let out
early? Who should stay behind
bars? Will taxpayers foot the bill
for more jails? Will capital punish-
ment help solve overcrowding?
Thousands of lives and billions of
dollars wait on the answers. That’s why The Big House is so impor-
tant.
The Big House is not a collection of reform theories. Rather, it is
an incredibly detailed look at exactly how prisons work: how do you
house, feed, and control thousands of violent, angry people? The Big
House takes a gritty look at issues like capital punishment, psy-
chosurgery, riot control and dealing with the sexual needs of prison-
ers.
Tony Lesce understands the interplay between convicts and their
keepers. A frequent contributor to law enforcement publications, he is
also the author of Escape From Controlled Custody. In The Big
House, he examines the prison system from all perspectives: the
inmates, the guards, the politicians, and the taxpayers.
The crisis in criminal justice touches the lives of everyone. Those
concerned with how the prison system works — and how it can work
better should start with The Big House.
1991,816 x 11,184 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE BIG HOUSE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40071)
BREAKFAST WITH THE DEVIL
The story of a professional jail breaker
by L. Wayne Carlson
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No other person on this continent has
escaped from prison as many times as
Wayne Carlson. They called him “Houdini.”
Arrested for car theft as a teenager, Carl-
son embarrassed authorities 13 times with
daring jail breaks, only to be recaptured, his
sentences extended as punishment.
Escape was a survival strategy for Carlson
— helping to guard his mind and soul from
the erosive effects of so much time spent in
these hellish places. All of a sudden, 38
years had gone by.
Breakfast With the Devil is an aston-
ishing account of the life of one man in a
world scarred by loneliness, a world thriving on brutality and intimidation. Carlson casts light into dark places, giving us insight into the grim realities of the criminal justice system and the terrible effect jail time has on the human spirit.
Carlson’s memoir includes passages describing some of Canada’s most infamous criminals: serial killer Clifford Olson, an unremarkable man before prison made him a monster, and “square John” Colin Thatcher (Carlson’s bridge partner, for a time), guilty of murder but convicted with lies.
Above all, Breakfast With the Devil gives us a clear idea of what hope can mean to a man, driven by an overwhelming desire for freedom. z
2001,6x9,304 pp, soft cover, q
BREAKFAST WITH THE DEVIL: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58146)
LOCKS AND LOCKSMITHINQ
Have you ever wondered how lock mechanisms work?
Have you tried to find books about locksmithing and couldn’t?
We are proud to offer you the world’s finest books on locks,
locksmithing, and related subjects.
Through the ages, locksmiths were trained by apprentice-
ships, or by having a father who was a locksmith. Existing
knowledge was carefully guarded, and tricks of the trade were
seldom shared with anyone, even fellow locksmiths. Now you
can satisfy your desire for locksmithing knowledge from our
list of illustrated manuals. These manuals cover all the major
facets of locksmithing in an easily understood format. Instead
of expensive courses, you can now add to your existing
knowledge, or start from scratch, studying only what you need
or can afford.
Whether you are interested in locksmithing as a
hobby or as a profitable business, these manuals were
written for YOU!
INTRODUCTION
At Last You Can Learn About Locks
From These Illustrated Manuals!
HOW TO CIRCUMVENT A SECURITY ALARM
IN 10 SECONDS OR LESS
An Insider’s Guide to How It’s Done
and How to Prevent It
by B. Andy
This revealing book explains in nontechnical detail how anyone can bypass a security alarm system in seconds, leaving you and your loved ones vulnerable to burglary or worse. Industry insider B. Andy points out the glaring weaknesses of such popular devices as contact switches, motion detectors, pressure pads and glass-break sensors, as well as the “ultimate circumvention technique” that will render even the most sophisticated systems useless. He also gives you a shocking look inside the security business: how the alarms are installed, how they’re paid for, how they’re monitored and how they’re responded to. You may not like what you read.
Fortunately, Andy also provides plenty of advice and tricks on how to make your system more secure from violators, as well as the vital issues you should know and the questions you should ask when dealing with alarm installers, monitoring stations and local law enforcement. This valuable lesson in home and business security will help you identify and improve the vulnerable areas of your alarm system for maximum protection, safety and peace of mind.
1994,516 x 8M, 88 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO CIRCUMVENT A SECURITY ALARM
IN 10 SECONDS OR LESS: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52058)
HOW TO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING
by Desert Publications
This is the mark of a master locksmith. This manual will teach you all the skills necessary to fit keys to locks, without picking or removing the mechanism. Subjects covered include:
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Fitting bit keys
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Fitting flat steel keys
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Fitting lever tumbler keys
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Fitting disc tumbler keys
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Necessary tools
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Techniques of obtaining impressions
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and more.
Very well illustrated.
1975,516 x 816, 26 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOWTO FIT KEYS BY IMPRESSIONING: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52016)
Techniques of
safecracking
Wayne B. Yeager
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING
by Wayne B. Yeager
7 could not count the
number of times I've seen a
$200 fire-safe holding thou-
sands of dollars in cash, or
an 1890s safe expected to
withstand 1990s attacks.” —
Wayne B. Yeager
Techniques of Safe-
cracking reveals every
known method for breaking
into safes, vaults and safety
deposit boxes. It begins with
simple ways to guess combi-
nations — or steal them. In
illustrated detail, it shows
how to drill, punch and peel
a safe. And it shows how
high-tech hoods use torches
and explosives to get at your
goods.
Chapters include:
• Safe Mechanics and
Operations
• Guessing the Combination
• Manipulation Techniques
• Safe Drilling Methods
• Deterrence and Prevention
-
And much more, including a listing of manufacturers’ try-out com-
binations (combinations set by the manufacturers at the factory —
they are supposed to be changed by the new owners, but many
people do not do this, so these combinations will open a surprising
number of safes in operation today), and a listing of suppliers of
lock and safe opening equipment.
For the locksmith or police officer, for the private investigator or
store owner, for the security professional or the just plain curious,
Techniques of Safecracking is an eye-opening book written by a
working security professional. It is the single finest book of its kind
ever written, and we highly recommend it.
1990,516 x 816,88 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TECHNIQUES OF SAFECRACKING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52054)
HOW TO OPEN LOCKS
WITH IMPROVISED TOOLS
Practical, non-destructive ways
of getting back into just about everything
when you lose your keys
by Hans Conkel
Formerly titled Lock Bypass Methods, this is a newly revised and expanded edition. It will show non-destructive ways to open locks if you lose your keys. Since your resources are usually on the other side of the door when you’re locked out, it shows how to improvise tools from garbage and common, everyday items. Included in this edition are:
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Guidelines to Successful Lock Bypass
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Slipping the Latch
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Knob Removal
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Deadbolts
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Padlocks, Cabinets, U-Bolt Bicycle Locks
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Handcuffs
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Automobiles
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Tool Making
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Materials Needed
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How to Make a Pick Gun
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How to Make a Plug Spinner
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Locked Luggage
-
Warded Padlocks
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Safety Chain Opening
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And Much, Much More.
Multiple entrance options are provided in case of stubborn doors or limited materials. This is excellent practical knowledge to have if you ever need it.
2001,516 x 816,130 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO OPEN LOCKS
WITH IMPROVISED TOOLS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52060)
HOME SECURITY
How to Select Reliable Locks and Alarms
for Your Home, Office, or Car
by Carl Hammer
Burglary is no mere inconven-
ience. Not only is the shock of seeing your home destroyed and your
belongings stolen traumatizing, but
your chances of actually being killed
by a sociopathic (and frequently
drug-crazed) intruder are far too
high these days. No insurance set-
tlement will cover the feeling of vul-
nerability you’ll suffer if your
sanctuary is violated or family mem-
bers are injured or killed.
Too many people get lulled into
a false sense of security by silver-
tongued salesmen and install
expensive high-security systems
but do nothing about their vulnera-
ble doors, windows and locks.
Home Security reveals how bur-
glars actually target and break into buildings and then demonstrates
proven tactics and techniques for thwarting would-be intruders, from
neighborhood vandals to the most sophisticated art thieves and gov-
ernment agents. The advice includes dozens of low-tech, low-cost,
low-maintenance measures to safeguard your home inside and out.
An extensive section on alarms shows you the best way to install a
secure system based on your individual needs, as well as how even
the most expensive of these systems can be circumvented If you are
not careful. The last part of the book details reliable home safes, safe
gun storage solutions, vehicle alarms, specific problems for shop-
keepers and how they can be solved, and other special situations,
including how you can protect yourself and family members when you
are away from home. In the war against burglary, knowledge is your
best defense.
2001,516x816,269 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME SECURITY: $23.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52065)
OPENING COMBINATION PADLOCKS
No Tools, No Problem
by Carl Black
It is incredibly easy to forget
the combination to padlocks on
your own tool shed, gym locker,
or anyplace these common locks
are found. This handy, no-frills
guide teaches you one thing and
one thing only: how to open a
padlock whose combination is
forgotten, lost, or garbled.
Unsatisfied with existing
books on padlock manipulation,
whose shortcomings caused a
lot of useless and time-consuming effort, author Carl Black
devised this foolproof system
that allows quick entry into all
combination padlocks without
any guesswork or tools. He
explains the tricks of the trade
with clear instructions and illus-
trations and includes trou-
bleshooting tips for difficult locks. Apply this simple method and
determine the combination of any padlock in minutes. For information
purposes only.
2002,516 x 816,62 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
OPENING COMBINATION PADLOCKS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52068)
ADVANCED LOCK PICKING SECRETS
by Steven M. Hampton
What are the qualities of the
master lock picker? You must
have confidence that you have
the skills and knowledge to open
that lock, the ability to improvise
with or without proper tools, and
caution when it comes to breaching the security of unknown situa-
tions. Advance to the master level
with this illustrated guide, and
gain insight into modern lock picking methods.
Master locksmith Steven
Hampton describes the inner
workings of the new high-security
locks and includes templates for
making custom tools not available
on the commercial market.
Schematic diagrams for portable
electronic picks to open magnetic
key and card locks bring locksmithing into the electronic age. Tips on
enhancing finger sensitivity, increasing concentration power, con-
structing practice lock boxes and more will help you to develop the
practical experience that will enable you to enter that locked room,
car or safe.
1989,516 x 816, 50 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ADVANCED LOCK PICKING SECRETS: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52048)
CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT KEY CASTING MANUAL
How does a CIA agent get behind locked doors? One way is by casting a duplicate key from an original. This manual, a revised reprint of the classic CIA Key Casting Instruction Manual, will teach you how to make a duplicate key when you can keep the original only a short time. This step-by-step, self-checking guide takes you through the process of preparing the casting mold, making the key impression, and casting the key model, using a standard-issue or improvised clay-filled casting mold, low-melting-point casting metal and other readily available materials.
The straightforward text and clear illustrations of this updated manual give you the tools you need to create accurate keys to gain access to off-limits areas without special equipment.
1988,516 x 816, 48 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CIA FIELD-EXPEDIENT KEY CASTING MANUAL: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52045)
KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING TUBULAR LOCKS
by Desert Publications
For the first time — a manual
on the three popular tubular
locks that are used on: • Vending
machines • Laundromats • Coin
changers • Alarms, etc. The
locks covered are the regular 7
pin, the new Van Lock, and the
Nix Pix.
Subjects covered include: •
Internal construction • How to
disassemble and rekey • How to
open by drilling • How to open by
picking • How to open by Impres-
sioning • How to make some of
the necessary tools • And more.
1974,516 x 816,42 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING
TUBULAR LOCKS: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52020)
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING
by eddie the wire
The very best book ever
written on how to pick locks!
This complete illustrated
manual covers lock picking
techniques thoroughly, in an
easy-to-understand manner.
It is the most comprehensive
book ever written on the
subject. Over five years of
research went into its prepa-
ration!
Topics covered in-depth
include:
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Basic principles and
general rules -
How to mount prac-
tice locks -
Warded locks
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Disc tumbler locks
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Lever tumbler locks
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Pin tumbler locks
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Wafer tumbler locks
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Lock modifications to thwart tampering and how to overcome them
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Various other ways of bypassing locks and locking mechanisms
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And more.
The Complete Guide to Lock Picking is exactly that — the complete guide to picking all kinds of locks! This is the very best book ever written on lock picking, and we are proud to offer it to our customers. Highly recommended!
1981,516 x 816, 78 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LOCK PICKING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52032)
MODERN HIGH-SECURITY LOCKS
How to Open Them
by Steven Hampton
Master locksmith Steven Hampton
takes the art of picking locks one step
further with Modern High-Security
Locks. Here, he collects some of
today’s most popular pick-resistant locks
and sets out to see which ones live up to
their claims. Generally speaking, the
more complex a lock, the more secure it
is. However complex the lock gets,
though, it must be durable, dependable,
and user-friendly. It has to be tough
enough to endure physical attack, but it
can’t be machined too tight or it will jam
up with just a breath of dust. It must be
simple and easy to lock and unlock with
its key, or the customer will not pay the
higher price for it. It is this delicate balance between security and util-
ity that allows the locksmith to open this new generation of locks.
Hampton shows locksmiths how each lock is picked and how long
it will take. He details the tools of the trade and includes patterns and
instructions for making your own picks and tension wrenches. He
even includes ancient Tibetan Buddhist tantric visualization exercises
to help locksmiths learn to “see” the inner workings of the lock within
the mind’s eye. Veteran locksmiths or those new to the trade will find
Hampton’s latest book an invaluable sourcebook. For academic study
only.
2002,516 x 816,148 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
MODERN HIGH-SECURITY LOCKS: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52067)
REPOSSESSION: BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY
The Book the Banking Industry
Doesn’t Want You to Read!
by Mark A. Cheff
The information in this
book is based on the author’s
more than twenty years in the
auto repossession business,
featuring advice on “Both
Sides of the Story,” told in a
humorous and entertaining
way. Have you ever consid-
ered a career in the repos-
session business? Or have
you ever been behind on
your own car payments, and
wondered how to protect
yourself and your vehicle? In
either case, read this book!
Filled with inside advice,
information and little known
facts, this book levels the
playing field for anyone being
chased by the Repo Man, as
well as the aspiring take-
back artist.
Included are: Easy and
inexpensive ways of using
public records, available to anyone, to locate people like the pros; Protecting your vehicle from the “Repo Man;” A guide to how skip tracers work, and ways to protect your privacy; and various “war stories” and anecdotes from 20 years in the Repo Biz to give you an inside look at the trade. Read about: The bank/repossessor relationship; The vehicle repo agents hate to go after; Floaters; Keeping the adrenaline under control; Your rights; Proper identification; and more. 2001,516 x 816, 152 pp, soft cover.
REPOSSESSION: BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52066)
SECURITY SYSTEMS SIMPLIFIED
Protecting Your Home, Business, and Car
with State-of-the-Art Burglar Alarms
by Steve Hampton
Learn professional secrets
of protecting your valuables and
loved ones with this critical
analysis of modern intruder
alarms. Master locksmith and
security specialist Steve Hamp-
ton reveals:
•The difference between ama-
teur and experienced burglars
and the best ways to thwart
both — little-known tricks to
improve the security of the
locks on your doors and win-
dows.
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How to create a car security
system that will foil any thief.
•The pros and cons of infrared
detectors, perimeter systems,
microwave alarms, ultrasonic
devices, proximity detectors
and much more.
Avoid becoming a victim by discovering what security system is best for your needs.
1992,516 x 816, 128 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SECURITY SYSTEMS SIMPLIFIED: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52055)
TECHNIQUES OF BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING
by Wayne B. Yeager
Any alarm system can be beaten. Crimi-
nals have gotten past everything from junk-
yard dogs to heat-sensing museum alarms.
That doesn’t mean alarms are worthless. It
means anyone concerned with security needs
to know how vulnerable these systems really
are.
Techniques of Burglar Alarm Bypassing gives you that knowledge. This book con-
tains detailed descriptions of dozens of alarm
systems: how they work and how they can be
defeated. Alarms cpvered include: • Magnetic
Switches • Window Foil • Sound and Heat
Detectors • Photo-electric Devices • Guard Dogs • Central Station Systems • Closed-Circuit Television • And much, much morel
Residential, commercial and high-security systems are described in plain English, with plenty of helpful illustrations. Find out what you’re missing — before you’re missing everything. Get Techniques of Burglar Alarm Bypassing today!
1990,516 x 816, 106 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TECHNIQUES OF BURGLAR ALARM BYPASSING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52050)
THE B & E BOOK
Burglary Techniques and Investigation
A Complete Manual
by Burt Rapp
The B & E Book is an investigatory guide and practical manual designed for the police officer in charge of a burglary investigation and its follow-up. Topics covered include: • Types of burglars: the difference between professionals and amateurs. • What burglars look for in selecting a target. • Breaking and entering techniques — illustrated. • How burglars plan their getaway. • What a “crash car” is and how it is used in a burglary. • Fencing operations — the buying and selling of stolen property. • How to respond to a burglary in progress. • How to search a building when there are burglars inside. • How to effectively search a crime scene — and where the experts go wrong. • Gathering evidence at the crime scene — what to look for and how to preserve it. • Preventing burglaries — how police and civilians can cooperate to reduce and even eliminate breaking and entering. • The best tools and equipment to investigate burglaries with, and where to obtain them. • And much, much more.
There are more than 3 million burglaries reported in the United States every year — The B & E Book tells everything you need to know to investigate them effectively.
1989,516 x 816, 145 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE B & E BOOK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52047)
A REPOSSESSOR’S GUIDE TO AUTO LOCKS
Designed for on-the-job reference
with easy to read text, photos and diagrams
by Forward Progress
This handy reference tells auto repossessors all they need to know to “steal” most American-made GM, Ford, and Chrysler vehicles 1969 to present.
Chapters include: • Why fit keys to old locks? • Slim Jims • The slide lock tool • The Over/Under tool • Key files • Lock picks • Rocker picks • Picking locks • Pin tumbler cylinder locks • The sidebar lock • Air bag warning • General Motors Section • Ford Section • Replacing the ignition cylinder • Chrysler/Jeep Section • Tricks of the trade • And much, much more.
Includes many illustrations, key codes, a list of suppliers, and more. Sold for informational and professional use only.
1999,516 x 816,184 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
A REPOSSESSOR’S GUIDE TO AUTO LOCKS: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52064)
HOW TO OPEN HANDCUFFS WITHOUT KEYS
by Desert Publications
This book covers a selection of handcuffs in popular use today and discusses some of the features with which you should become familiar.
Chapters include:
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Background on Handcuffs • Identification of Handcuffs • Lockpicks & Shims • Materials, Tools & Equipment • Construction of Handcuff Picks • Shims • Lockpicking Techniques • Handcuff Keys
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And more.
With the knowledge in this book you will be able to manufacture your own “personalized” set of lockpicks and be able to open a wide variety of handcuffs with them.
1979,516 x 8te, 48 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO OPEN HANDCUFFS WITHOUT KEYS: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52056)
COMBINATION LOCK PRINCIPLES
by Desert Publications
An excellent student manual that will serve as a foundation for ail your studies on combination locks. This manual is written around the popular Master 1500 combination padlock. Both the older model and the new improved version of this lock are covered.
These subjects are covered: 0
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The construction and names of parts • How to determine the combination by using code books
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Reading an open lock • Drilling • Opening using a special fully explained method of manipulation •And more.
The book is well illustrated, with exploded views that fully explain how the mechanism works.
1974,51/i x 816, 25 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
COMBINATION LOCK PRINCIPLES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52019)
PICK GUNS
Lock Picking for Spies,
Cops and Locksmiths
by John Minnery
PÎCKGITNS
Cops, and Locksmiths
fohn Minnery i
The ability to open locks with-
out keys is one of the few awe-
inspiring skills left in a world where
electronic wonders are boringly
commonplace, yet it is a skill that is
no longer monopolized by lock-
smiths who jealously guard their
secrets. The pick gun has taken
the art of lock picking away from a
select few and democratized the
ability to open locks by mechanical
means.
This book gives an overview of
the mechanical principles of pick
guns, how they work and how to
use them, and traces the develop-
ment of the pick gun from its incep-
tion to today’s revolutionary
devices. Included are the original
patents by Epstein, Segal, Moore,
Cooke and others, as well as info on pick guns used by the FBI and
intelligence agencies. Photos depict improvised pick guns designed
by the author out of coat hangers and clothespins.
The pick gun has been a boon to professional locksmithing, law
enforcement and national security. Due to the potential for abuse,
however, this book is offered for informational purposes only.
1989,516 x 816,128 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PICK GUNS: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 52046)
HOME WORKSHOP
PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
by eddie the wire
HOME WORKSHOP
PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS
by eddie the wire
This amazing and useful book gives complete, illustrated instructions for making your own professional lock tools — lock tools that are of better-than-manufactured quality, and much cheaper! All the equipment and supplies described in this book are available from your local hardware or hobby shop, with no questions asked, eddie the wire (author of The Complete Guide to Lock Picking, and star of the video Personal Picks) is a pro who reveals the little-known tricks of his trade for you to use!
In step-by-step illustrated detail, eddie the wire tells you where to get the best materials to use for making your own professional lock picks — with no questions asked! Let eddie the wire show you:
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How to make your own pick gun, and open locks “automatically”
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A tool for opening vending machine locks you can make for under $5.00
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How to make a plug spinner — a tool that every lock picking expert should carry
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How to “touch code” your picks for nighttime use
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A tool for opening office equipment — make one easily from a piece of music wire
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And much, much more!
With this fantastic book, you will be on your way to becoming a lock pro! No other book covers this material — order your copy today. Let eddie the wire show you how to make your own Home Workshop Professional Lock Tools!
1996,816 x 11,117 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP
PROFESSIONAL LOCK TOOLS: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 52059)
SELF DEFENSE
Introduction
The right to self defense is the
right to life itself. But what good is
the “right” to defend yourself if you
lack the knowledge and training to
actually do it? Obviously, the gov-
ernment police cannot protect you.
You must therefore take care of
yourself.
This is our Self Defense Sec-
tion. In it you will find the world’s
finest books on such subjects as
techniques of unarmed combat,
vital striking points, etc. Many of
these books are unusual or even
shocking — that is because they pull no punches (and neither should you!)
THE MIND IN THE MARTIAL ARTS
A Key to Winning
by Thomas J. Nardi, Ph.D.
Here at Loompanics
Unlimited, we keep
telling you how important
your mind is. In street
fighting, your mental set
is even more important
than your physical training. Ail the techniques in
the world aren’t going to
help you if you fly into a
panic, or a reckless
rage, or otherwise lose
control of yourself men-
tally. The Mind in the
Martial Arts belongs
with Jeff Cooper’s Princi-
ples of Personal
Defense as a book that
should be read along
with books on self-
defense techniques.
From the introduction:
“The total martial
artist is one who has
successfully developed
and integrated the physi-
cal and the psychological aspects of combat. The physical aspects
are perhaps more easily understood and learned. These involve the
basic stances, the specific techniques, the body conditioning, etc. In
short, these are the behaviors of combat: the ‘how-to’ aspects of mar-
tial arts.
“Man is a thinking, feeling and behaving creature. Moreover, it is
man’s thinking which to a large extent determines his feelings (that is,
his emotions) and his behaviors. Thinking involves the conscious
mind and the subconscious mind. The martial artist can greatly
enhance his martial arts ability and also become an emotionally
healthier person by controlling and directing his thinking. This book
will teach you how to reprogram your thinking on a conscious and
subconscious level.”
1980,516 x 816, 88 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE MIND IN THE MARTIAL ARTS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19059)
A KEY TO WINNING
Thomas J. Nardi,
BLACK MEDICINE
Volume One: The Dark Art of Death
by N. Mashiro, Ph.D.
This book presents the most thorough and intriguing discussion of the human body’s vital points ever to appear in a single volume. Through strikingly realistic photographs and detailed line drawings, Mashiro illustrates over 150 parts of the human body where a minimum amount of force will produce a maximum impact on a person’s ability to fight. The study of these vital points is integral to ail branches of the martial arts, to the military combat specialist, and to everyone concerned with self-defense in a life-or-death encounter.
Highly recommended — buy now, so you will have the knowledge when you need it!
1978,516 x 816,92 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
BLACK MEDICINE: $17.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19019)
BLACK MEDICINE II
Weapons at Hand
by N. Mashiro, Ph.D.
Self-defense specialists take note: Here is a sequel to N. Mashiro’s infamous Black Medicine, Vol. 1: The Dark Art of Death. That book revealed the 150 parts of the human body most vulnerable in hand-to-hand combat. Black Medicine II: Weapons at Hand takes the opposite approach. It ffresents 112 parts of the body that are natural weapons, largely because they are very injury-resistant.
Following this is a section that lists for you more than 180 deadly makeshift weapons that can save your life in a crisis. The weapons are all improvised from such common everyday items as phonograph records, combs, hubcaps, and even your housecat! Over 50 action photos show the reader exactly how to use the “black medicine” techniques discussed in Black Medicine II: Weapons at Hand. Especially suited to the needs of bodyguards, security personnel, and martial artists, this book is also highly recommended for the average citizen.
1979,516 x 816, 88 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
BLACK MEDICINE II: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19026)
BLACK MEDICINE III
Low Blows
by N. Mashiro, Ph.D.
Long awaited by self-defense specialists around the globe, Low Blows is the third volume in N. Mashiro’s infamous Black Medicine Series. In Volume 3, Mashiro presents his favorite techniques for bringing the body’s natural weapons into violent and painful contact with an opponent’s vulnerable areas.
Low Blows reveals devastating responses to wrist holds, punches, chokes, rear attacks, bear hugs, and special defenses against knife and club attackers. Especially noteworthy is a chapter on fighting a standing opponent from the ground (this trick alone could save your life!). Mashiro goes on to critique many commonly taught self-defense methods that he feels are suicide.
Over 90 dramatic photos illustrate the holds and moves in Low Blows, making it substantially longer than the other two volumes in this series. An excellent self-study guide for beginners, and an eyeopening reference work for advanced students and instructors. Be warned: Low Blows is not for readers with weak stomachs. Buy it now, before you need to use these secrets on the streets...
1981,516 x 816,119 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
BLACK MEDICINE III: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19054)
THE DIRTY DOZEN
12 Nasty Fighting Techniques
for Any Self-Defense Situation
by Larry Jordan
U.S. Army Special Forces veteran
Larry Jordan was given a unique
assignment by his commanders —
come up with a truly down-and-dirty
hand-to-hand fighting system for his
fellow Green Berets and U.S. Army
Rangers. The goal of this system
was to give soldiers a handful of
hard-core techniques that could be
easily learned, easily mastered, and
effectively applied in any close-com-
bat situation. Jordan devised a set of
12 techniques that were surprisingly
simple, shockingly fast, and brutally
effective. He has now adapted this
military system for civilian self-
defense. He calls it “The Dirty
Dozen.”
The 12 self-defense lessons in this book are specifically designed
to provide the average citizen with a series of easily learned tech-
niques that will enable him or her to prevail in any violent situation.
Besides the ever-present threat of violent crime, the recent terrorist
attacks aboard commercial airliners show that people can no longer
rely on “somebody else” to protect them. It is the responsibility of
everyone to prepare themselves to resist and defeat evildoers. That’s
where The Dirty Dozen comes in.
2002,516 x 816,94 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE DIRTY DOZEN: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19231)
A BOUNCER’S GUIDE TO BARROOM BRAWLING
Dealing with the Sucker Puncher,
Streetfighter, and Ambusher
by Peyton Quinn
In a barroom brawl, where
your assailant doesn’t care how
pretty he looks when he blind
sides you and then stomps you
into a bloody mess, the formal
and flashy moves you practiced in
the dojo will be useless. Peyton
Quinn knows.
As a bouncer in a biker bar,
having been attacked by fists,
boots, pool cues and knives,
Quinn has learned a thing or two
about what goes down in a real
fight. As a black belt, he has also
learned that martial arts training is
useful, but it is no substitute for
experience. Quinn has separated
fighting fact from fantasy, and the
result is a unique guide that can
save your ass in places where the
brawling is quick, dirty and very violent.
Quinn reveals the psychology, strengths and weaknesses of a
sucker puncher; the characteristics of a real fight (you might be sur-
prised); and tips for dealing with aggressive people and ambushes.
He then presents two basic moves that can be applied to most every
attack, effective counterstrikes that he has used dozens of times to
defeat larger opponents, and secrets of grappling and escapes.
Accounts of his own battles illustrate key points about techniques and
concepts. Finally, he takes a critical and practical look at the most
popular martial arts in the U.S.
1990,516 x 816,264 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
A BOUNCER'S GUIDE TO BARROOM BRAWLING: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19173)
CAO DAI KUNG-FU
Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam
by Dr. Haha Lung
Dr. Haha Lung begins with an
overview of the land and charac-
teristics of the people, giving
readers the basis for an under-
standing of Vietnam’s history
and how this contributed to the
rise of the Cao Dai religion.
The author reminds us that
the word “martial” means “war.”
While there may be beauty in a
perfectly performed practice ses-
sion, this “art” aspect takes a
backseat to the “martial” in a life
and death struggle. The purpose
of martial arts, after all, is to
complement your war arsenal. In
a battlefield situation, unarmed
martial arts are what you use
between weapons. The purpose of Cao Dai Kung-Fu is to teach you
how to get that arsenal fully armed.
To this end the martial arts instructions in this book are written in
an easy to understand manner with helpful illustrations and diagrams,
so that even one uninitiated in the martial arts can find useful tips to
store away in preparation for self defense in general.
Contents include: • Can Qua: “Shield and Spear” • The Three
“Knows” • Long Nhan: The Way of the Cao Dai Warrior • Bihn Co:
“Strategy and Tactics” • Methods of Movement • Blocking • Striking •
Where to Strike • How to Strike • Grappling • Combat with Weapons •
The Five Kinds of Weapons • “The Eight Sounds” • Am Hiem: Sub-
terfuge and Stealth • Dac Vien: Special Agents; Special Skills • And
much, much more.
Dr. Haha Lung says to use whatever you can that works — head-
butting, kicking the side of the knee; there’s all kinds of useful infor-
mation you will be glad you have some day. For instance, “Modern
day street fighters often dip their fingers into bleach, hot sauce, or any
toxic substance that can then be thrust into an opposing fighter’s
eyes, nose and mouth during a no-holds-barred fight.” Or “Any time
your hand touches the ground fill it with something: dirt, a rock, a
stick, etc. Snowball is better than no ball.”
Anything on your body — your head, feet, elbows, knees, hands
— can be used to disable your opponent. Your options as to where
and how to strike Into your opponent will be limited only by your imag-
ination.
2002,816x11,200 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CAO DAI KUNG-FU: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19237)
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE
OF KNOCKOUT PUNCHING
by Leo Fong
Knockout punching is more than well developed muscles. Knockout punching involves many components. In order to develop the ability to punch with KO power, you must develop all these components.
Contents Include: • The Home Run of Fighting • The Knockout Accuracy • The Center Line • Timing • Penetration • The Power Line • The Gliding Step • Speed and Velocity • Training Programs • And much more!
Knockout punchers are made, not born. Their ability is acquired through the refinement of timing, techniques, speed, and the physics of power. The principles of power punching are discussed and illustrated in detail in this book. It is information that will aid any martial arts practitioner, regardless of style and system. The principles in The Theory and Practice of Knockout Punching will help you to improve your punching ability!
1984,516 x 816, 79 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE
OF KNOCKOUT PUNCHING: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19046)
DESPERATE MEASURES
Unarmed Self-Defense Against Guns,
Knives, and Clubs
by Michael Vassolo
If you were staring down the barrel of an attacker’s gun, would you be saying a prayer to save your soul or taking the decisive action that could save your life? It’s your choice, but if you think it’s a decision you can put off until an actual confrontation, you might as well start praying now.
In this brutally realistic manual, kenpo karate 7th-degree black belt Michael Vassolo details the selfdefense techniques you must know before you find yourself unarmed and at the mercy of a criminal wielding a handgun, knife, or club. As Vassolo teaches, anything less than total ruthlessness just gets in the way of effective, life-saving action.
With step-by-step photographs and clear instructions, you will learn to master the all-out, last-resort techniques that could keep you alive against seemingly impossible odds. Vassolo’s straightforward, easy-to-understand approach concentrates on keeping moves simple so when the time comes you will be calm, focused, and ready to strike. The violent maneuvers in this book won’t help you win a trophy in a ring, but they could save you from an early grave.
1999,5K x 8%, 176 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DESPERATE MEASURES: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91213)
COMBAT CONDITIONING
The Classic U.S. Marine Corps Physical Training
and Hand-to-Hand Combat Course
Foreword by Chuck Melson, Chief Historian,
U.S. Marine Corps
The U.S. Marine
Corps knows how to pre-
pare its men for the physi-
cal rigors of combat. Here
is the entire classic USMC
combat conditioning
course as taught at the
Officer Candidate School.
Besides the Marines’
demanding PT program, it
includes complete instruc-
tion on unarmed combat;
use of knives, clubs and
silent weapons; pistol dis-
arming; bayonet drills;
and more.
In the foreword, “Close
Combat: A U.S. Marine
Corps Legacy,” USMC
chief historian Charles
Melson gives an insider’s
history of the develop-
ment of Marine close-
combat programs from
the turn of the 20th cen-
tury to today. He provides little-known details on the contributions of
such well-known figures as A.J.D. Biddle, Fairbairn and Sykes, and
John Styers, as well as more obscure but equally important contribu-
tors Stephen Staver, Dermot O’Neil and “the Three Sams.” No library
on close combat is complete without this classic manual.
2001,5% x 816, 368 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
COMBAT CONDITIONING: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19236)
STREET E & E
Evading, Escaping, and Other Ways
to Save Your Ass When Things Get Ugly
by Marc “Animal” MacYoung
There is no moment of enlight-
enment more terrible, says Marc
“Animal” MacYoung, than when you
have the sickening realization that
you’re outflanked and outgunned.
You’ve brought a knife to a gunfight.
If you don’t have your shit together
when this happens, it could be the
last realization of your life. This
book is about what you can do to
survive just such a moment.
This book will show you that
there’s no dishonor in withdrawal.
Long-term survival isn’t a matter of
clashing head-on with every prob-
lem that comes along. It’s knowing
when to be hard and when to be
soft; when to run with the ferocity of
a wolf and then turn and strike
when you have the upper hand
again. Against a gang, the only thing one man can do in a head-on
conflict is get killed. But the person who knows how to apply hit-and-
run tactics, utilize the environment, and use his enemies’ weaknesses
against them can turn from a ghost to a tiger to a ghost again. That
person is a true martial artist, one who can survive the chaos of being
hunted and turn the game back on his hunters. Once you’ve taken in
the lessons of this book, you will be such a warrior.
1993,516 x 816, 190 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
STREET E & E: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19210)
REAL WORLD SELF-DEFENSE
A Guide to Staying Alive in Dangerous Times
by Jerry VanCook
For those who seek practical
solutions to the violence that per-
meates today’s society, Real
World Self-Defense offers savvy
advice for dealing with everything
from an unwarranted physical
attack to the often ironic legal
aftermath. As a former under-
cover police officer who has
devoted much of his life to studying martial arts and training with
weapons, author Jerry VanCook
knows from personal experience
what works — both on the street
and in the courthouse — and what
doesn’t.
Pulling no punches, VanCook
explains the need for every thinking man and woman to develop a
working personal defense system.
More importantly, he strives to instill the mind-set required to put that
system to work when violence strikes. His simple, streamlined
approach to self-defense keeps the focus on survival rather than
fancy techniques that are more suited to sport or art. Presenting tac-
tics and techniques that are basic, easy to learn, and proven effective
under the stress of combat, VanCook covers everything from
unarmed defense to improvised weapons to edged weapons and
firearms.
Entertaining, hard-hitting, and tactically on the mark, this is a book
that people from all walks of life can thoroughly enjoy and learn from.
1999,516 x 816,224 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
REAL WORLD SELF-DEFENSE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19215)
KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS
Secrets of the World’s Deadliest Night Fighters
by Dr. Haha Lung
To make sure you don’t go
bump in the night, you need the
secrets from the masters. Knights
of Darkness culls wisdom from
Japan’s ninjas, Korea’s hwarang,
the Soviet Union’s Spetsnaz, the
Vietcong, northern Europe’s wolf-
shirts, the US Navy Seals and
other experts on night fighting.
In this easy-to-understand vol-
ume, you’ll learn: • How.to train
your six senses • Mastering the
arts of stealth and movement •
Tools of the trade • Using shadows
for camouflage and deception •
How to look for a guard’s vulnera-
ble point • Intelligence gathering.
Whether you are a student of
martial arts learning how the old
masters fought, a police officer try-
ing to capture a clever cat burglar, a special operations pro preparing for combat, or just curious about how everything you thought you knew about fighting changes when the lights go out, you need to read this book.
“Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.” — Macbeth
1998,516 x 816,157 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19208)
CHAMPIONSHIP STREETFIGHTING
Boxing as a Martial Art
by Ned Beaumont
Why is it that most street fights
begin and end with punches? It’s
because making a fist ■— which is
the basis of all boxing technique —
is a natural reflex when it comes to
self-defense. And in street fights and
barroom brawls, it’s unlikely that one
or both of the combatants will try to
use a Hollywood-inspired kung-fu
kick or somersaulting flying-scissors
takedown. In spite of this, no one
has approached boxing as a martial
art until now! But in Championship
Streetfighting, author Ned Beau-
mont, a seasoned and savvy street
fighter who routinely takes out oppo-
nents who make the mistake of trying to use karate, jujitsu, tae kwon
do, and other Asian martial arts,
trains the willing reader in what has proven to be one of the most effective fighting arts ever unleashed on society: boxing!
This fascinating, hard-hitting manual is the first practical guide to debunk the many myths associated with what Beaumont shows to be painful, even fatal fighting philosophies and styles which are practiced by so many “strip-mall karatekas” and self-proclaimed martial-arts “masters,” and instead instruct the reader in how to employ boxing techniques as a superior martial art form!
Next time Mr. Karate Man tries to kick you in the leg, just punch him in the face and watch what happens. He’ll be on the pavement faster than you can say “intensive care.”
So, get ready to rumble — by reading Championship Streetfighting today!
1997,516 x 616,208 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CHAMPIONSHIP STREETFIGHTING: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19203)
BOXING’S DIRTY TRICKS
AND OUTLAW KILLER PUNCHES
by Jay C. “Champ”Thomas
Before there was “Ulti-
mate Fighting,” men like
Jay C. “Champ” Thomas
made their livings beating
each other senseless and
occasionally dying in the
ring. Thomas, author of
Boxing’s Dirty Tricks
and Outlaw Killer
Punches, is an American
fighting legend. Beginning
in 1923, Thomas’s career
as a boxer, wrestler and
boombattler spanned
nearly six decades! A vet-
eran of over 10,000 bouts,
Thomas successfully
defended himself against
some of the world’s
fiercest aggressors, and
killed his opponents on
several occasions. Now
he shares his secrets with
those who wish to study
the real manly arts!
Learn how to deter and overcome opponents by: • Using your
gloves’ laces as weapons • Thumbing and elbowing your way to vic-
tory • Breaking your victims’ feet • Dealing potent low blows • Destroying your adversaries with resin • Choking your foes.
Thomas used these tricks and punches only to defend himself
against unscrupulous fighters, and he cautions against employing
them recklessly. In order to defend oneself, it’s important to know all
of the distasteful options that can be brought into play. Now, for the
first time, they are discussed openly in Boxing’s Dirty Tricks and
Outlaw Killer Punches!
1997,516 x 816,174 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BOXING’S DIRTY TRICKS
AND OUTLAW KILLER PUNCHES: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19201)
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
The Intelligent Use of Deadly Force
by Denny Hansen
When can you legally shoot an intruder in your home?
This question is on every person’s mind when they hear a loud
bang in the middle of the night or a knock on the door at three a.m.
Many citizens exercise their constitutional right to keep firearms in
their home for self-defense. But what happens if you are compelled to
fire your weapon at a home invader? The editor of S.W.A.T. maga-
zine, retired Deputy Sheriff Denny Hansen, explains the answers to
these most-asked questions in great detail:
-
What legal and moral issues will you face?
-
What kind of weapon should you use when shooting indoors? A
shotgun? A revolver? A semi-auto pistol? -
Which weapon is best? What caliber?
-
What kind of ammo is best for indoor shooting?
-
What can you do to make your home more secure? What should
you do if you are carjacked?
This book gives you the ability to be one step ahead of some
scumbag who may someday threaten your property or possibly your
life. This is a “must read” for anyone who has a weapon in their home,
and wants to protect themselves and their family. You may have the
courage to shoot an intruder, but you must also have the knowledge
to deal with the aftermath, and this book provides it.
1996,51/4 x 8%, 116 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34082)
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HOW TO BE AN ASS-WHIPPING BOXER
by J.C.ifChamp” Thomas
When Champ Thomas was nearly sixty, he took on twenty challengers and beat them in less than fifteen minutes. This wasn’t even a light workout for him, he’d say; in his time, he’d taken on a hundred. After Champ Thomas had defeated the world-famous Bobo Brazil, an announcer said, “Thomas has been in the business of destroying athletic opponents for more than a quarter of a century. He’s a master performer, an unbeatable showman, a great promoter and a superior instructor. He’s a champion in all areas of his profession.”
Jay C. “Champ” Thomas has been an icon on the American boxing scene for decades. His books have been a step-by-step road map to success for countless boxers, whether they were beginners, amateurs, professionals or just someone who wanted to know more about boxing and the art of self-defense.
Champ himself saw his boxing manuals as a way for aspiring boxers and pros alike to become first-rate contenders without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on personal trainers or managers that may not deliver all that they promise. This volume is actually a compilation of some of Champ’s best work, and provides both an overview of what it takes to win and in-depth instruction in how to do it. What were originally published as individual manuals are presented as sections of this book, sections that deal with various aspects of boxing and the art of self-defense. The books are presented essentially as written, complete with introductions written by admirers and former students. They are also presented in the chronological order in which they were written and, as such, provide interesting insight to the careful reader as to how Champ’s writing skills, along with the refinement of the “Thomas Technique,” developed over the years. A brief editor’s note precedes each section, providing an overview of what is about to be read, along with the date of publication.
Contents include: • How to Create a Super Boxer • Boxing’s Stonewall Defense • How to Train and Condition Boxers • How to Develop Boxing’s Best Stance • How to Develop Boxing’s Best Footwork • How to Develop Boxing’s Best Left Jab • How to Develop Boxing’s Best Left Hook • How to Develop Boxing’s Best Knockout Punch • How to Develop Boxing’s Superior Strategy and Win • And much more.
Have fun with this volume; there’s a load of information in here if you follow Champ’s advice and read each section carefully, perhaps more than once. After all, his challenge to us is to practice excellence. “I’ve given perfect examples,” he writes. “Now it’s your job to surpass the perfection herein.”
Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to present Champ Thomas’ How to Be an Ass-Whipping Boxer. Listen and pay attention, now... Champ is expecting your best!
2000,816 x 11,165 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO BE AN ASS-WHIPPING BOXER: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19219)
THE BIGGER THEY ARE,
THE HARDER THEY FALL
How to Defeat a Larger and
Stronger Adversary in a Street Fight
by Sammy Franco
When you’re facing a thug on the
street and you have to look up to
stare into his eyes, you’re bound to
feel a pang of fear. But follow the
solid strategies and techniques pre-
sented by martial arts maverick and
innovator Sammy Franco, and the
fight will end with your attacker looking up at you in confusion as he
crashes to the ground in defeat.
The founder and creator of Con-
temporary Fighting Arts — a scientific
and practical combat system
designed to conquer both armed and
unarmed assailants — Franco was
concerned that no book on the mar-
ket successfully tackled the specific
problem of facing a larger, stronger
opponent. In The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall, he
addresses that all-important issue and delivers the solid information
you’ll need to survive a street fight when the odds seem stacked
against you.
In an easy-to-read question and answer format, Franco calls upon
his many years of expertise as an instructor to prepare you both men-
tally and physically for the fight of your life. There may very well come
a day when you will face an opponent who can dominate you through
sheer mass and strength. Read this book before that day comes.
2000,5K x 81/i, 175 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE BIGGER THEY ARE,
THE HARDER THEY FALL: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19222)
HOSTILE GROUND
Defusing and Restraining Violent Behavior
and Physical Assaults
by Edward Lewis
Our personal and professional
lives often put us in contact with peo-
ple who exhibit intimidating, menacing, and sometimes outright violent
behavior. Ed Lewis has faced more
than a thousand such confrontations
as part of a professional restraint
team at a mental health facility as
well as on the streets as a private
investigator, and in those environ-
ments he discovered the psychologi-
cal and physical secrets of defusing
subh hostile subjects or, if neces-
sary, restraining their attacks. In
Hostile Ground, he gives you a
graduate course in such topics as: •
Handling fear during a confrontation
• Recognizing different types of
aggressors • Identifying common
reasons for assaultive behavior • Reading body language for signs of impending violence • Defusing a hostile situation • Managing physical assaults if all else fails.
The book concludes with real-life accounts of how professionals and civilians alike have used Lewis’ techniques to handle potentially explosive situations. Whether your job puts you in harm’s way or you’re simply an ordinary citizen who interacts with the public on a daily basis, you will learn from this book.
2000,5!6 x 8M, 150 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOSTILE GROUND: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19218)
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Wrestling Skills for Streetfighting
by Ned Beaumont
Sure, you know how to punch and kick, but how well can you fight at shorter range? Can you defend yourself when the fight turns to grappling? When both you and your opponent are rolling around and wrestling on the barroom floor, are you confident that you can win the fight?
If you doubt your chances at close quarters, then you’re not prepared for the reality of streetfighting. That’s because, as author Ned Beaumont points out in Kill-as-Catch-Can: Wrestling Skills for Streetfighting, in the real world, fights frequently begin with or turn into bouts of wrestling, and the antagonist with the greater expertise in wrestling is most often the victor.
Kill-as-Catch-Can: Wrestling Skills for Streetfighting is a no- nonsense primer that can effectively guide the reader to an enhanced awareness of wrestling methodology, and provide streetfighters with the edge it takes to come out on top. The book includes sections on:
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The military and police experience
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The importance of practice
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Wrestling and restraint
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Wrestling around the world and through the centuries
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Pro wrestling: how fake is fake?
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The seven basic wrestling skills
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Lessons on stance, mobility, tie-ups, grips, distractions, and more
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Sizing up an adversary
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And much, much more!
The truly tough customer is the person who thoroughly conditions himself, diligently studies and practices wrestling holds and techniques, and then makes full use of them in rough-and-tumble situations. By reading Kill-as-Catch-Can: Wrestling Skills for Streetfighting and employing the methods it outlines, you can gain superiority in future altercations! Learn to prevail in the street!
1998, 516 x 816, 200 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
KILL-AS-CATCH-CAN: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19205)
STREET SMARTS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
by Jack Luger
Being street smart can mean
the difference between being safe
or becoming a victim in today’s
dangerous society. There are crimi-
nal elements and pitfalls in every-
day life that pose real risks for the
average citizen. In Street Smarts
for the New Millennium, author
Jack Luger sets forth the methods
and resources that can minimize
these threats to our physical safety
and life-style, and enable us to sur-
vive these dangerous times.
Street Smarts for the New Mil-
lennium explains how to: •
Develop a Street Smart Attitude
and Heightened Awareness •
Depend on Personal Resources
Instead of the Police • Avoid Dan-
gerous Situations • Protect Yourself, Your Family, Your Assets and Your Health • Enhance Your Personal Safety • Earn Untraceable Income • Improve Your Job Security • And much, much more!
So don’t fall prey to muggings, carjackings, rapes, and other street crimes! Don’t be bamboozled by tricksters and con artists! Learn to be self-reliant! Read this book and develop your Street Smarts for the New Millennium!
1996,516 x 816,134 pp, soft cover.
STREET SMARTS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19197)
HOW TO LIVE SAFELY
IN A DANGEROUS WORLD
by Loren W. Christiansen
The first — and only
— guide to combine the
most practical methods
of self-protection in a sin-
gle volume. Packed with
proven safety tech-
niques, expert tips, and
survival methods you
can use in everyday life.
For example...
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Burglary: How bur-
glars choose a home,
choosing an alarm
system, what to do if
a break-in occurs -
Walking the side-
walks safely: How to
dress, hold your
purse, and make eye
contact -
Street gangs: What to
do when they come
to your neighborhood -
Auto theft: Two things
you should never do -
Rape: The best way to handle a would-be rapist
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Carjacking: The most dangerous places and how you can prevent it.
Don’t be a victim of a crime you can avoid. Protect yourself and your family with the vital information in this book.
1996,516 x 816,218 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOW TO LIVE SAFELY
IN A DANGEROUS WORLD: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11110)
FIGHTING WITH STICKS
by Nick Evangelista</strong>
Errol Flynn, Bruce Lee and Sean Connery did It. So did Medieval swordsmen and African warriors who wielded their oars as weapons. It’s the ancient art of stick fighting, revered and explained'in the pages of this book.
You’ll learn the comprehensive history of the stick and all its forms: shepherd’s crook, wooden swords, canes and foils are just a few. Detailed lists provide places where you can locate special equipment and organizations. The step-by-step approach makes stick fighting safe and fun. In this book, you’ll find: • How to play variations of the singlestick game • The proper way to hold your body and your stick for games and real-life combat situations • How to make canes, walking sticks and singlesticks • Sportsmanship and attire for the stickfighting realm.
Why sticks? Because they’re handy, easy to operate, and don’t require ammunition or a license. And in the event of a societal breakdown or nuclear holocaust, you’d still be able to find a stick — and use it.
1998,516 x 816,158 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
FIGHTING WITH STICKS: $15.00 (ORDER NUMBER 19206)
DRAGON’S TOUCH</strong>
Weaknesses of the Human Anatomy by Master Hei Long
Drop your opponent in an instant with the deadly moves of the Dragon's Touch!
Learn how you can immobilize or destroy your foe with high- impact blows to his most vulnerable areas. Master Hei Long explains which pressure points are the most susceptible to Dragon strikes and which angles you should use in applying force. The body’s forty-three major target areas are explicitly illustrated, and 165 photographs show you how to attack each pressure point with the self-defense moves of Lian Shi Kung Fu.
The body’s weaknesses and psychological reactions can work in your favor in a combat situation. Sufficient force to specific target areas can cause pain, shock, paralysis, unconsciousness — even death. Each deadly set of movements can ensure that you are in control.
Be the survivor — not the victim. The techniques of the Dragon's Touch can keep you alive and achieve knockout results.
1983,516 x 816,184 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DRAGON’S TOUCH: $14.00 (ORDER NUMBER 34027)
FIGHTING POWER How to Develop Explosive Punches, Kicks, Blocks, and Grappling
by Loren Christensen
Lightning quick hands and feet are necessary in a fight, but that isn’t enough: developing speed without power will leave you quick and dead. In Fighting Power, Christensen turns his attention to power, and shows how to develop it by: • Examining the most up-to- date modern techniques as well as classic exercises — some of them thousands of years old — and instructing the practitioner in how to use both to increase flexibility and power. • Demonstrating how Bruce Lee knocked down opponents by using his unique one-inch punching technique — and how the reader can learn to do it too. • And, just in case one’s opponent is reading this book as well, teaching the martial arts enthusiast how to defend himself against someone with extraordinary power!
Maximize your fighting power by following this training regimen, and start seeing results immediately!
1996,516 x 816,243 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
FIGHTING POWER: $22.00 (ORDER NUMBER 19200)
GUGE GONGJI
Seven Primary Targets to Take Anyone Out of a Fight by Master Hei Long
Structurally disabling an opponent is like removing the bullets from his gun. It is unlikely that he can throw a punch at you with a broken wrist or elbow, and his ability to advance is substantially inhibited by a busted knee or ankle. That is the principle of guge gongji: stopping an attacker by breaking his instrument of danger. In unarmed combat, that means his ability to move and strike.
Guge Gongji is an alternative to killing, a second-to-last resort that should be used only when conventional self-defense tactics are likely to be ineffective. Master Hei Long’s precise instructions and illustrations show you how to use your opponent’s body as your weapon. Learn the seven primary targets guaranteed to take anyone out of a fight.
1991,516 x 816,188 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GUGE GONGJI: $16.00 (ORDER NUMBER 19180)
THE SAVAGE SCIENCE OF STREETFIGHTING Applying the Lessons of Championship Boxing to Serious Street Survival</strong> by Ned Beaumont
Most streetfights are decided not by fancy karate kicks or grappling holds, but by knockout blows to the head, contends Ned Beaumont. So here he takes an in-depth look at the “secret” punches of the champs — Kid McCoy’s Corkscrew Punch, Floyd Patterson’s Kangaroo Punch, Kid Gavilan’s Bolo Punch, Georges Carpentier’s Waltz Punch — and why they worked like magic in the ring. In addition, Beaumont examines the various elements of power-punching for knockouts, including range, follow-through, accuracy, timing, and speed. He also delves into the nuances of counterpunching, including rhythm, timing, and movement; advanced defensive skills such as guards and stances; and ways to use boxing against weapons, in a gang attack, or in enclosed spaces. Finally, because the hard work that makes up every boxer’s training is ideal for building the high level of fitness that may give you the edge on the street, Beaumont presents a program of advanced training and conditioning targeted specifically for the demands of a lightning fast, explosive, and violent streetfight. The Savage Science of Streetfighting is an entertaining yet pragmatic approach to surviving the all-out savagery of a streetfight.
2001,516x816,256 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE SAVAGE SCIENCE OF STREETFIGHTING: $22.00 (ORDER NUMBER 19223)
WAR WITH EMPTY HANDS Self-Defense Against Aggression</strong> by Lenox Cramer
This book is written by a leading expert in “Empty Hand” selfdefense. Lenox Cramer has put into words, photographs, and illustrations the science of his expertise, explaining in easy-to- understand terms how you can quickly learn and comprehend these proven methods!
When one of Lenox Cramer’s case officers in Vietnam was on a covert operation in Beirut, Lebanon, several Druse militia men tried to capture him inside his hotel room. They were armed with various weapons, including one firearm. This former US intelligence officer killed three of his attackers with his bare hands using the same selfdefense fighting techniques that are taught in this book!
Whether the fight is on the streets of Attackerville, USA, the brutal jungles of Southeast Asia, or the equally brutal jungles of South America, these self-defense methods have been used and tested under real battlefield conditions successfully. It is the true desire of the author, his warrior comrades, and the publisher that if you or your loved ones are ever confronted by a violent attacker, War With Empty Hands will give you the assurance that you are capable of protecting yourself and your loved ones in life-threatening situations.
1986,516 x 816,197pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
WAR WITH EMPTY HANDS: $16.95 (ORDER NUMBER 19150)
Revenge
Introduction
Ever been wronged by somebody you can’t strike back at? Being hassled by an obnoxious bureaucrat who has the law on his side, for example? The books in this Section will tell you a multitude of ways that you can get even with anybody and remain anonymous. The revenge and harassment techniques detailed in these amazing books range from harmless pranks to heavy-duty harassment methods designed to reduce your enemy to a mental basket case. We must warn our readers that all these books are sold for entertainment purposes only.
POISON PEN LETTERS
Using the Mails for Revenge
by Keith Wade
A unique treatise on the fine art
of revenge. This book contains
nearly 100 different examples of let-
ters you can use to get even with
someone you hate. Some of the let-
ters are sent to the mark, some are
sent to third parties and some are
“from” the mark. Everything you
need to know to get revenge from
the safety of a mailbox!
Who has pissed you off lately? A
discourteous waitress? Your mail-
man? A taxi or bus driver been
rude? How about a cop who has
hassled you? You will find Poison
Pen Letters to take care of all of
them.
Telephone operator give you
some crap? Car dealership sell you
a lemon? Pissed off at a manufacturing company? Or a department
store? Insurance company didn’t pay off a claim? This amazing book
has Poison Pen Letters to handle all of them, too.
And that’s just the beginning. Let’s don’t forget lawyers and doctors. And the fire department. See a lousy flick at a theatre and they wouldn’t give you your money back? Annoyed with a credit card company? Well, there are Poison Pen Letters for all of these, too, and plenty more. Also included are tips on using mail drops and obtaining necessary letterheads.
We must caution our readers that Poison Pen Letters is sold for informational purposes only.
1984,516 x 8te, 103 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
POISON PEN LETTERS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19106)
TAKE NO PRISONERS
Destroying Enemies with Dirty
and Malicious Tricks
by Mack Nasty
Wfc ftp
This is a no-holds-barred
guide to dirty tricks, far more
powerful and destructive than
those found in “Harassment”
and “Revenge” books. Milder
techniques will do for certain
annoying people, but sometimes
they don’t go far enough.
Let’s say someone has
caused you to lose your job, and
that the consequences have
been serious for you. Losing
your job also had the effect of
breaking up your family, or causing you to lose your home
because you couldn’t keep up
mortgage payments. This calls
for more than just a few dirty
tricks for revenge, but there’s no
other way to get back at him.
Assault, even if you beat the liv-
ing daylights out of him, will only land you in deeper trouble. You need
ways of hurting him back, ways that won’t land you in jail or put you in
a more difficult situation.
The techniques described in this book are heavy-duty. Some are
designed to harm or maim your target, or frame him for a serious
crime. Others will cause expensive property damage. Still others will
cost him large amounts of money, directly or indirectly. Sold for infor-
mational purposes only.
1990,5Vi x 8Vb, 118 pp, soft cover.
TAKE NO PRISONERS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19169)
GET EVEN
The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks by George Hayduke
George Hayduke, a veteran trickster who long ago decided he was “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore,” now brings you the latest word in do-it-yourself justice.
Get Even is a compilation of some of the most ingenious tricks ever cooked up by Hayduke and his merry band of tricksters. Remedies for such varied situations as computer misbillings, misplaced luggage, exorbitant legal fees, and day-to-day dealings with incompetent bureaucrats are all here. But Hayduke also goes after the small irritants of life: the neighbor’s chronically barking dog, the merciless landlord, the tyrannical boss, the roving lover, and more! The methods range from simple pranks to sophisticated techniques of devastation. When you’ve been cheated or wronged, and you’ve thrown up your hands in frustration, turn to Get Even. There is bound to be a cure for what ails you. George Hayduke doesn’t pull any punches, and when armed with this book, neither will you! Sold for entertainmentpurposes only.
1980,516 x 816,192 pp, hard cover.
GET EVEN: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19044)
GET EVEN 2
More Dirty Tricks from the Master of Revenge by George Hayduke
In the good old days, if somebody did you wrong, you asked him to step outside and settle the score with fists or guns. Today, it is not that simple. Our complex, law-ridden society has effectively stifled the spirit of revenge by lowering the legal boom on anyone using those old time-honored methods. But there are ways to strike out anonymously at those vexing individuals who make life miserable for you. Get even without resorting to violence, risking a prison stay, or even letting your target know you are the one chipping away at his sanity.
Now George Hayduke, master dirty trickster, has produced a sequel to his best-selling Get Even. Get Even 2 presents a wide range of all-new dirty tricks you can pull to get even with big business, lousy landlords, bureaucrats, and rip-off artists of all types. The little guys don’t have to take it anymore!
A few of the topics covered are: utility companies; sweethearts; lawyers; drugs; the military; mass transit; and dozens more! This is the real thing! Sold for entertainment purposes only.
1981,516 x 816,162 pp, hard cover.
GET EVEN 2: $19.95 (ORDER NUMBER 19058)
YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL
by Keith Wade
The Poison Pen strikes — ready to do battle with all the jerks out there who have screwed you over, yet seem to escape justice. Give ’em hell from the safety of your mail box! Let’s face it, there are people who just flat out need their ass kicked who, because of who they are, won’t ever have that happen. Enter the power of the Poison Pen. Your revenge is in the mail. The bigger the enemy, the harder he is to attack through other methods, but few are exempt from the power of the pen.
Your Revenge Is In the Mail presents more than 5 dozen different examples of letters you can use to get even with someone you hate. Some of the letters are sent to the mark, some are sent to third parties, and some are “from” the mark. Individual marks from insurance adjusters, bank tellers, interior decorators, funeral directors, bell hops, insurance salesmen, butchers, and many more are covered thoroughly. Then comes the really fun part: getting even with government officials!!! From tax collectors to the health department, from the DMV to vehicle inspectors, and much more — never again will you have to suffer in silence because some ferret-faced bureaucrat has given you some shit. Sold for informational purposes only!
1988,516 x 816,161 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL: $12.95 (ORDER NUMBER 19146)
GASLIGHTING How to Drive Your Enemies Crazy
by Victor Santoro
You know what’s wrong with the world? Too many assholes and not enough ways to get even! Now there’s a safe, effective way for you to get even without putting yourself in any danger. It’s called “gaslighting,” and it’s guaranteed to turn your target’s life upside down. “Gaslighting” means to drive someone crazy. It comes from the 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband convinces his wife she’s losing her mind. Gaslighting is the most potent form of psychological warfare you can use without a license.
In Gaslighting: How to Drive Your Enemies Crazy, Victor Santoro (The “Godfather of Harassment”) shows you how to destroy your target’s confidence, self-esteem and reputation. Through a series of small incidents, your target gets progressively more confused, until he’s “reduced to a shapeless mass of shivering, quivering jelly.” If you’ve been mistreated, you don’t have to take it and you don’t have to fight back. There is a third route — Gaslighting — WHERE YOU WATCH AS YOUR ENEMY SLOWLY SCREWS HIMSELF! Sold for entertainment purposes only.
1994,516 x 816,113 pp, soft cover.
GASLIGHTING: $14.95 (ORDER NUMBER 19193)
SCREW THE BITCH!
Divorce Tactics for Men by Dick Hart
You said “for better or worse,” but you never imagined it could get this bad. How bad? You come home from work to find your wife has left — and she’s taken every stick of furniture with her. Before leaving town, your wife drained your bank account, maxed-out your credit cards, and wrote a fistful of bad checks. Your wife wins custody of the kids and child support — by falsely accusing you of molesting the children.
Separation and divorce are always emotionally devastating. They can also be a financial disaster. The law is stacked in favor of wives, and you can bet “The Bitch” will be looking out for Number One. You’ve got to have a plan if you want to keep from doing something stupid, something that’s going to cost you for a long, long time. Screw the Bitch! will show you how to protect yourself — how to take charge and stay in control — how to get through a divorce without losing your assets, or your pride. Screw the Bitchl is a book that has been needed for quite some time. It can save you loads of money and heartaches.
1991,516 x 816,186 pp, soft cover.
SCREW THE BITCH!: $17.95 (ORDER NUMBER 19174)
BE YOUR OWN EQUALIZER How to Fight the System and Win
by Victor Santoro
Are the people who prosper in America any smarter than you? No, they just know more about working the angles and creating their own opportunities. Be Your Own Equalizer will show you how to make the system more equitable.
By following Santoro’s no-nonsense, step-by-step instructions, you’ll be able to stand up for your rights without being swatted down by rich and powerful interests who want to stay on top by keeping you on the bottom.
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Make yourself more employable by knowing what to put in a resume and what to leave out.
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Pass polygraphs with flying colors regardless of what you have to hide.
These and other guerrilla tactics revealed in Be Your Own Equalizer will help you take swift, silent aim at the vulnerable spots in the system and make your life more rewarding.
1990,516 x 816, 104 pp, soft cover,
BE YOUR OWN EQUALIZER: $14.00 (ORDER NUMBER 19168)
21 ST CENTURY REVENGE
Down and Dirty Tactics
for the Millennium
by Victor Santoro
The bad news: Technology has made some classic revenge tactics obsolete.
The good news: Technology has opened the door to a slew of modern revenge methods never before possible!
Master revenge writer Victor Santoro (author of Gaslighting, Techniques of Revenge, and Frauds, Rip-Offs and Con Games) explains how to turn technology to your advantage in the art of revenge. In 21st Century Revenge: Down and Dirty Tactics for the Millennium, you’ll learn:
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How to protect yourself from caller ID — and how to make it work for you
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How to turn political correctness into political chaos
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The “multiplier effect:” how to make others do the work for you
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The best ways to cover your tracks — physically and electronically
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Why your target’s garbage can be his undoing
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How the Internet is your world-wide resource for revenge.
This book not only shows you how to form the ultimate revenge plan, but also how to protect yourself from those seeking revenge on you!
You may think you’ll never need to take justice into your own hands, get back at a vicious boss or co-worker, or seek vengeance against someone who has wronged you or others. But this knowledge is power, and one day, your peace of mind may depend on it.
1999,516 x 816, 148 pp, soft cover.
21 st CENTURY REVENGE: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19212)
OUT OF BUSINESS
Force a Company, Business or Store
to Close Its Doors... for Good!
by Dennis Fiery
Sometimes playing by the rules isn’t good enough.
When filing a formal complaint, asking for your money back, and engaging in healthy competition just don’t do the trick, you need to take serious action.
Out of Business: Force a Company, Business, or Store to Close Its Doors... for Good! arms you with 101 ways to derail, deflate and destroy your target business. And if you want to protect your own business, this book is the best insurance policy you’ll ever buy.
Author Dennis Fiery (The Temp Worker’s Guide to Self-Fulfillment and How to Hide Things in Public Places) gives new meaning to the term “corporate downsizing” in this revenge treatise. Whether you’re looking to cripple an international conglomerate because of their offensive politics or shut down the mom-and-pop store that’s been ripping off people in your neighborhood, you’ll find the techniques you need in this book. No other revenge book has such wickedly clever ideas as how to:
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Start and circulate rumors that result in lost business and long-lasting prejudice
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Infiltrate and destroy from within
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Use a computer as a weapon
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Turn a trade show into a horror show
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Use office politics to your advantage
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Turn a company’s downfall into the competition’s windfall.
Don’t get mad.
Don’t get even.
Get revenge.
Sold for informational and entertainment purposes only.
1999,516 x 816, 290 pp, soft cover.
OUT OF BUSINESS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19209)
Guns are still saving lives
© 2003 by Robert Waters
Artwork © 2003 by Nick Bougas
On June 30, 2002, two Iowa youths escaped from a school for troubled teenagers. For twelve hours, they terrorized the Woods community, stealing four automobiles and managing to evade capture by police. According to the Rapid City Journal, Pete Paul Fast Horse and Jeremy Feltman were in a stolen Ford four-wheel-drive when they “sped through an intersection and crashed into an embankment.”
They then fled on foot from pursuing police and approached the house of Sena Lauritzen. When the 55-year-old grandmother saw the fugitives attempting to enter her house through a patio door, she grabbed a shotgun and held them until police arrived. “This is my little bit of heaven,” she said after the incident. “They had no right to invade it.”
The national media refuses
to report gun self-defense sto-
ries, stating that they’re not
newsworthy.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence claims such cases are “rare.” The national media refuses to report self-defense stories, stating that they’re not newsworthy. Politicians who wouldn’t be caught dead without gun-toting bodyguards routinely pass laws restricting gun ownership for the masses.
Politicians who wouldn’t be
caught dead without gun-toting bodyguards routinely
pass laws restricting gun
ownership for the masses.
Yet, even as the preponderance of elite opinion condemns the evil gun, each year tens of thousands of Americans use firearms to save themselves and others. In most cases, as in the incident described above, violent assaults are stopped without a shot
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being fired. In other instances, citizens use guns to incapacitate or kill criminals.
Even as the preponderance
of elite opinion condemns the
evil gun, each year tens of
thousands of Americans use
firearms to save themselves
and others.
In the summer of 2001, a 68-year-old wheel- chair-bound veteran in Flint, Michigan, killed an assailant inside his home. Clinton Bums had fought for his country during the Korean War and had been awarded a Purple Heart. On June 11, he heard an intruder breaking into his apartment. As the man entered his bedroom, Bums grabbed a .38- caliber revolver from the headrest of his wheelchair. Aiming it at the assailant, Bums pleaded with him to leave. Instead, the intruder attacked the homeowner. Bums had no choice but to shoot. The unidentified man died at the scene. Lt. Diane Garrison, commander of the Michigan state police, said, “A citizen has the right to protect themselves using up to and including deadly force.” The only report of the story was in a local newspaper.
In another case that the national media deemed “un-newsworthy,” South Carolina resident Conita Sims shot Reginald Dewayne Wheeler after he attacked her with a shotgun. Sims had filed a “domestic violence warrant” for the arrest of Wheeler after she had been the victim of several beatings and “terroristic threats” from her former boyfriend. On the afternoon that she obtained the warrant, he showed up at her home and used a shotgun to blast the knob off the front door. But as he entered, Sims herded her children behind her, pulled a handgun, and fired several shots. One bullet struck Wheeler in the chest, dropping him in his tracks. He survived but was later charged with numerous crimes. Sheriff Howard Sellers said, “Sims acted in a legal and responsible manner, and for that reason there will be no charges brought against her.”
And so it goes. “Rare” and “un-newsworthy” as they are, these cases seem to keep occurring.
On April 2, 2002, a Lebanon, Oregon, business owner shot and killed a robber. Kevin Skaggs was at the counter of the Quick Cash Payday Advance when a man wearing a Scream mask walked in.
The robber indicated that he had a gun and wanted money. Skaggs pulled his own gun and shot Jeffrey Gordon Duncan in the chest. The assailant fled, running down the railroad tracks near the store. He was found dead a few blocks away. “If there is one good thing that comes out of this,” Skaggs said, “it’s that people will know that we are not going to put up with this sort of thing.”
At 4:00 a.m., on March 9, 2002, Jason Chatham was asleep in his Wilkes County, North Carolina, mobile home when two men knocked on his front door. They stated that their car had broken down and asked to use the telephone. Since Chatham knew one of the men, he allowed them to enter the house. Once inside, they pulled guns on him, tied his hands in front of him with a telephone cord, and began to ransack the house. With his hands still tied, Chatham was able to retrieve a handgun he kept hidden in the couch. As Ted Marley Baker (one of the intruders) reached for his own weapon, the homeowner fired. The bullet struck Baker in the neck, killing him. His accomplice fled and was later arrested. Chatham was not charged with any crime.
A report in the Dallas Morning News on September 12,2002, described the ordeal of Dr. David Avery and his wife Patricia. As the couple backed their pickup truck into the driveway of their McKinney, Texas, home, a car pulled in front of them, blocking their way out. A masked man jumped from the car, stuck an AK-47 in David Avery’s face, and ordered him to lie on the ground. As Avery complied, Patricia Avery positioned herself behind the truck, pulled a .38-caliber revolver from her purse, and began firing at the assailant. He returned fire, his heavy slugs slamming into the truck. Undeterred, Patricia kept shooting. Finally, the woman’s firepower drove the assailant back to his car. He fled, but the abandoned car was later found by police. At the time the article was written, the assailant hadn’t been captured, but blood in a nearby field suggested that he had been wounded. David and Patricia Avery were unharmed, though shaken. “I told her she was a hero,” Dr. Avery said of his wife.
When police stopped a car south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a passenger, Derrick Middlebrooks, fled. He kicked down the door of a nearby apartment and ran inside, screaming. According to news reports, the resident awoke and “told Middle-
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brooks to leave and that he had a gun. Middlebrooks ran towards the bedroom where the homeowner was, still screaming, and the homeowner told Middlebrooks again to leave.” Finally, the resident fired, hitting the intruder in the shoulder. Middlebrooks ran back outside and was promptly arrested. The assailant had numerous warrants for domestic assault, aggravated burglary, and probation violation.
In Anchorage, Alaska, two men broke into the house of Normandy veteran Roy Lee Hendricks. During World War II, Hendricks, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, had parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day. On the night of August 11, 2002, the veteran awoke and saw two hooded men standing at his bedside. They demanded his billfold, and when he tried to get up, they pushed him down. As the men began beating Hendricks, he grabbed a .22-caliber Derringer from his dresser. The homeowner placed the barrel of the gun against the arm of one of his assailants and pulled the trigger. “They were burning the turf to get outta here once I started shooting,” Hendricks said. A neighbor heard the gunshots, grabbed a gun, and rushed to Hendricks’s aid. They held the wounded robber at gunpoint until police arrived. The second man pushed open a window and fled. During the fight, a bullet grazed the tip of the veteran’s pinkie finger. Hendricks, in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News, said, “I never ran in my life, and I don’t intend to now.”
After two home invaders in Memphis were killed by armed residents in a two-week period, an editorial published on August 30, 2002, in a local newspaper stated that “the shooting deaths may give some would-be home invaders second thoughts before they size up their next targets.” While most people would be deterred by the shootings, it’s unlikely they would have stopped one of the home invaders — he’d been arrested for the first time when he was ten years old and had committed a steady string of crimes since. Getting killed was probably the best thing that could have happened to him. It was certainly a good thing for the citizens of Memphis.
The 7,000 documented stories in my files would indicate that these cases are not “rare.”
But were these cases “rare”? The 7,000 documented stories in my files would indicate that they’re not.
On the night of September 17, 2002, two residents of Rochester, New York, killed home invaders in separate incidents. In each case, the intruders were violent career criminals. And in each case, homeowners with legally owned firearms refused to be intimidated and defended themselves and their families.
On August 24, 2002, Steven D. Robey, who had a Florida permit to carry a concealed weapon, was vacationing with his sixteen-year-old daughter in Fort Myers when two men forced their way into his motel room. One intruder, armed with a handgun, ordered Robey to lie on the bed while the second man forced his daughter into the bathroom. (Police surmised that he planned to rape the girl.) Robey pulled a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol from beneath his pillow and opened fire. Phillip Nelson was hit in the chest and died at the scene. Ernest Major was shot in the abdomen, arm, and leg. At last report, he was in intensive care in the Lee Memorial Hospital. The suspects were thought to be responsible for a string of armed robberies in the area. Neither Robey nor his daughter were injured, and Robey was not charged with any crime.
So let the folks at the Brady Campaign live in their fantasy world. Let the national media spike any story of armed self-defense. And let the politicians attempt to pass new restrictions on the evil firearm.
In the real world, Americans
will continue to use guns to
defend themselves and others.
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GUNS
Introduction
Guns are as American as Mom and Apple Pie!
This section has books on everything there is to know about guns, including how to shoot them, and even how to make them.
All right America: SHOW US YOUR GUNS!
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND
RESISTANCE, VOLUME III
The .22 Machine Pistol
by Bill Holmes
In this third volume of the Home
Workshop Guns For Defense and
Resistance series, master gun maker Bill
Holmes walks you through all the steps
necessary to build your own compact,
lightweight .22-caliber machine pistol.
Through precise photos, mechanical
illustrations, and nontechnical text,
Holmes shows you how to construct
either an open — or closed-bolt version of
the gun in semi or full automatic. All the
information to build the weapon from the
ground up is here — from the right tools and materials to exact construction details of the major components (barrel, upper and lower receiver, bolt, trigger assembly, grip, and sights) to assembly and adjustment, heat treatment, and finishing and bluing. It is useful and fascinating reading for those who like to make their own firearms or who simply want to learn how to do so from a man who’s been doing it for more than 50 years. Be warned; Actual construction of the weapons described in this book may be illegal under federal law. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms actively pursues and prosecutes anybody who violates firearm statutes. Therefore, this book is offered for academic study only.
1995,816x11,78 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND
RESISTANCE, Volume III: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25078)
FULL AUTO
Modification Manual
by J. Flores
This is a complete, illustrated manual on selective-fire conversions for the following weapons: Mini-14, AR-15, HK 91-93, MAC 10-11, arid the M1 Carbine. This newly updated edition now includes two full-auto modifications for the Mini-14, completed machinist’s drawings and building instructions for all auto-sears needed, plus three different methods to modify your MAC 10-11 to either full-auto or selective-fire capability.
With this edition, you can convert all five weapons into their fully-automatic configurations with ease, as all procedures are thoroughly explained in an easily understood, fully illustrated, step-by- step manner. Without a doubt, this is the finest conversion manual on the market.
1987,516 x 816,71 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
FULL AUTO: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25050)
IN THE GRAVEST EXTREME
The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection
by Massad F. Ayoob
This excellent book is not full of bullshit as
so many “gun fighting” books are these days; it
is written by a man who has used guns in
defense. In The Gravest Extreme was written
by a police officer for civilians who may need to
own or carry a gun to defend themselves. It is
packed full of sound advice on when, where
and how to use a gun to defend yourself. It is
one of the finest gunfighting books we have
seen.
Contents include: • Self-defense and lethal
force • What you should know about citizen’s
arrests • Women and guns • How and when to
use firearms in your store • How and when to use a gun in your home • How and when to use a gun in the street • How and when to use a gun in your car • The deterrent effect of defensive handguns • Common sense about carrying guns • The high price of “Handgun Machismo” • Choosing a gun for defense • Basic gunfighting technique • Gun safety • What to do after a gunfight • And more.
The single best book we have seen on handguns for self-defense, this excellent book is recommended highly to anyone who currently owns a gun, and to anyone who has ever considered buying a gun “just in case.” In The Gravest Extreme is a fine piece of work and deserves the widest possible distribution.
1980,516 x 816,130 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
IN THE GRAVEST EXTREME: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25034)
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS
FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE
Volume One: The Submachine Gun
by Bill Holmes
Finally, the average person can easily fabricate his own submachine gun — even from a truck axle — with a minimum of tools, equipment and materials. This non-technical book walks you through building the receiver, breech block, barrel, trigger assembly, stock, pistol grip, sights and magazine, as well as heat treating and finishing. This vital knowledge is a must for every citizen who is concerned about the direction of our increasingly restrictive government.
Warning: It is illegal to manufacture or possess the firearms described in this book without proper government authorization. Therefore, all BATF and local law enforcement rules apply. The procedures described in this book are for academic study only.
1977,816 X 516,152 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS
FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25079)
GUNS SAVE LIVES
True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives
With Firearms
by Robert A. Waters
Guns Save Lives is filled with
true stories of Americans who
altered the course of their lives
and others by their use of firearms.
They vastly improved their own
lives and those of their families by
staying alive. They saved the lives
of untold others from the violence
the assailants were trying to com-
mit. They changed the lives of the
thugs significantly, at least tem-
porarily, by sending them to jail, or
even more significantly, and per-
manently, by killing them outright.
A professor at Florida State
University believes hundreds of
thousands of assaults, robberies,
burglaries, rapes and murders are
stopped each year by armed citi-
zens. Yet most of these stories are
not given news coverage beyond a small article in the local paper. The media has been muzzled, not daring to print stories that the government and corporate interests do not want publicized. Robert Waters interviewed the citizen defenders in this book and makes their stories available in far greater detail than the local media dared.
Friendly police officers give talks to children in schools about the horrific damage guns do to well meaning (read bumbling) citizens who try to defend themselves. The anti-gun lobbyists continue to harp on violence in our society being the fault of guns. This is the pablum we are fed on the nightly news. The hidden side of the gun ownership story is seldom told. Robert Waters gives us the other side of citizen defenders in this country. Those ordinary Americans who successfully defended their lives, their families and their homes, and, in doing so, proved that our founding fathers knew what they were doing when they gave us the right to bear arms.
What they’ve been saying about Guns Save Lives:
“Vivid and gripping. I wish all the naive people who think we can ‘reason’ with attackers would read Guns Save Lives. ...this book amply demonstrates criminals either respect firearms or pay the consequences.” — Claire Wolfe, author of 101 Things to Do ’Til the Revolution, co-author of The State vs. The People
“Guns Save Lives is about guns; it’s about people. People who would be DEAD if they had followed the putrid and hateful doctrine of unilateral disarmament preached by Charles Schumer, Josh Sugar- mann, and Sarah Brady.” — Boston T. Party, author of Boston’s Gun Bible
“Robert Waters has superbly told the story the liberal national media won’t tell — how hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans use firearms each year to protect their lives and property.” — Steve Wampler, KCBC Radio Talk Show Host
“Guns Satie Lives places you squarely into more than a dozen victims’ nightmares! You see the attackers’ eyes, smell the victim’s fear, and feel his or her thudding heart. And, at the end of each story, the victim wins. Why? Because he or she had a gun and was willing to use it.” — Richard Stevens, author of Dial 911 and Die
“Robert Waters is teaching America an important lesson. It is that the right to keep and bear arms is about your right to defend yourself and your family — and that the Second Amendment saves lives every day. Guns Save Lives makes a profound contribution to the cause of peace and human freedom.” — U.S. Senator Larry E. Craig
“Send a copy of Guns Save Lives to every victim of gun-control propaganda on your Christmas list... and ask them to take note of how many times police arrived in time to save the intended victim, before she had to use her own gun. Because the answer is... ‘not even once.’” — Vin Suprynowicz, author of Send in the Waco Killers 2002,516 x 816, 184 pp, photographs, soft cover.
GUNS SAVE LIVES: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25098)
DIAL 911 AND DIE
The Shocking Truth About
the Police Protection Myth
by Richard W Stevens
From the Introduction by James Bovard:
“Richard Stevens has done a great job of defogging the law for average Americans. Dial 911 and Die is the perfect antidote for the belief that people don’t need guns because the police promise to protect them from everything from terrorists to.muggers to things that go bump in the night. Anyone who reads Stevens’ book will realize that their right to dial 911 when in imminent peril is often worth less than a plug quarter.... Dial 911 and Die goes to the heart of the debate raging over gun control. Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police’s abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals’ rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work — slow, inefficient, and unreliable. According to laws on the books in many states and cities, government has a specific, concrete obligation to disarm each citizen, but only an abstract obligation to defend the citizen....
“Some of the most shocking cases in this book involve police who wrongfully or maliciously attack private citizens. The fact that government can recklessly endanger people’s lives with little or no financial responsibility for the resulting deaths means that the further government control extends, the more citizens will be killed or injured. ... Stevens’ book is a reminder that there is no substitute for citizens’ owning the means to defend their own lives. Even the most advanced cellular phone is no substitute for a good .38 Special.”
1999,4x7,286 pp, soft cover.
DIAL 911 AND DIE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 26000)
DEATH BY “GUN CONTROL”
The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament
by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens
From the introduction by James Bovard:
“Not every firearms regulation leads inexorably to genocide. But, as this sweeping historical study shows, supposedly ‘reasonable measures,’ such as licensing and registration of gun owners have been followed too many times in recent history by government atrocities. The issue is not the supposed good intention of reformers who seek to reduce private gun ownership. The issue is the nature of political power.
“Aaron Zelman and Richard Stevens’s book vividly reviews and analyzes the slaughter of disarmed populaces from the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians to Stalin’s slaughter of the peasantry to the Guatemalan slaughter of Indians. The book goes in-depth into the bloodbath that was the Third Reich, as well as the Khmer Rouge urban renewal experiments, Mao’s depredations, and other atrocities. The book also recounts the abuse that Blacks suffered in the United States after laws were passed to disarm them — for the convenience of the Klan and other marauders.
“Governments around the world have stripped hundreds of millions of people of their right to own weapons and then left them to be robbed, raped, and slaughtered.”...
“Every restriction on citizens’ rights to acquire and carry firearms means increasing citizens’ subordination to government employees who are authorized to carry such weapons. Broad restrictions on private gun ownership produce one main result: The vast increase in the power of politicians. But political tyranny has destroyed far more lives in the last century than have abusive private gun owners. Unfortunately, gun control advocates offer no solution to the problem of political tyranny — almost as if the problem will disappear if we all pretend government is our friend.”
Death By “Gun Control” belongs in the library of every advocate of individual liberty.
2001,516 x 816,350 pp, soft cover.
DEATH BY “GUN CONTROL”: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25099)
CONCEALABLE POCKET PISTOLS
How to Choose and Use Small-Caliber Handguns
by Terence McLeod
Small-caliber handguns are
often maligned as too puny for seri-
ous self-defense, but millions of
Americans own and carry these
guns and have used them success-
fully io stop violent assaults. This is
the first book ever devoted to elimi-
nating the many misconceptions
about the usefulness of these popu-
lar guns.
“Pocket pistols” are small, easily
concealed, inexpensive semiauto-
matic handguns in .22, .25, .32, and
.380 calibers. Their small size and
hammerless design enable them to
be easily concealed and carried so
they are immediately accessible in
an emergency. Their purpose is not
to knock an assailant off his feet with fire-breathing power (which no handgun is capable of doing) but
simply to deter or stop his assault by putting firepower instantly in
your hands.
Concealable Pocket Pistols addresses every aspect of owning,
carrying, and shooting small-caliber handguns in a realistic manner. It
cuts right to the chase and recommends a handful of the best pistols
on the market today as well as the best ammunition for them. It then
gets into the real-world issues of how to carry a concealed pocket pis-
tol, how to shoot it under stress, and how to deal with malfunctions
quickly and efficiently.
In an emergency, a small-caliber pistol in the pocket is better than
the .357 Magnum left at home. Find out what millions of Americans
already know about these practical self-defense tools.
2001,516 x 816, 80 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
CONCEALABLE POCKET PISTOLS: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25097)
GUERRILLA GUNSMITHING
Quick and Dirty Methods for Fixing Firearms
in Desperate Times
by Ragnar Benson
Free people need guns, and they
need them in good working order no
matter what the circumstances. Rag-
nar Benson has had experience fixing
“junk” guns in some tough places
around the world, and here he shares
some innovative ways to patch up,
cobble together, and otherwise make
operational everything from antique
rifles still found in remote war zones to
modern firearms suffering from
appalling abuse. Drawing on lessons
and stories from backwoods experts
he’s worked with under desperate con-
ditions in Africa, the Philippines, Thai-
land, Pakistan, and beyond, Ragnar
tells how to employ last-resort but effective techniques to remove hopelessly stuck rounds, straighten bent barrels, replace lost parts, smooth out dented magazines, make repairs to some pretty hopeless stocks, scrounge up workable ammunition, and more.
These are last-ditch, do-it-yourself methods, but they may be all you’ll have to fall back on deep in the bush or with your back to the wall —- when the only things between you and the enemy are a rifle and the know-how to make it work.
2000,516 x 816,160 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GUERRILLA GUNSMITHING: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25092)
THE .50-CALIBER RIFLE
CONSTRUCTION MANUAL
With Easy-to-Follow Full-Scale Drawings
by Bill Holmes
Bill Holmes
takes you step-by-
step through the
process of designing and constructing your own
.50-caliber rifle eas-
ily and inexpen-
sively. Using
full-scale fold-out
drawings and pre-
cise dimensions,
the master gun
maker shows you
how to make your
own receiver, barrel
and accessories, bolt, trigger assembly, buttstock, scope mount,
bipod, and muzzle brake using commonly acquired materials. Once
you have made all the component parts, Bill then instructs you in the
right way to assemble and test-fire your new rifle.
This is the book that do-it-yourselfers anxious to try building their
own .50-caliber rifle have needed. It’s for those hands-on people who
prefer to have clear drawings and instructions to study and refer to
before beginning any project. With Bill Holmes as your guide, con-
struction of your own .50-caliber rifle is a snap.
Warning: It is your responsibility to make sure that you have com-
plied with all local, state, and federal laws with regard to the manufac-
ture of a firearm. The author, publisher, and distributor of this book
disclaim any liability for the use or misuse of information contained
herein. This book is for academic study only.
2002,11 x 816,67 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE .50-CALIBER RIFLE
CONSTRUCTION MANUAL: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 26001)
COWBOY ACTION PISTOL SHOOTING
Secrets of Fast and Accurate Gunplay
by Charles Stephens
The fast-growing sport of cowboy
action shooting is enjoyed in hundreds of
clubs across America and around the
world. These Old West aficionados —
members of organizations such as the
Single Action Shooting Society and the
National congress of Old West Shootists
— turn out in vintage duds to compete with
replicas of the single-action revolvers
used by the men who tamed the American
frontier. Cowboy Action Pistol Shooting:
Secrets of Fast and Accurate Gunplay
will not only prepare the novice interested
in taking up this sport but also provide
valuable insight and expert advice to the
intermediate and advanced shooter. Author Charles Stephens, himself the descendant of Old West gunfighter Wood Hite, shares wisdom gleaned from his 40 years of competitive pistol shooting to give cowboy action shooters the winning edge — from selecting the right pistols and gear to mastering the single-action revolver.
You will also hear true stories of the Old West, from how Billy the Kid died to why Jesse James was really murdered as well as the story behind one of the bloodiest and deadliest gunfights of the American West — the Tuttle dance hall massacre in Newton, Kansas. If you’ve ever longed to step back in time and relive the excitement of our Western heritage, this is the perfect guidebook.
2001,516 x 816,80 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
COWBOY ACTION PISTOL SHOOTING: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25093)
ARMED DEFENSE
Gunfight Survival For the Householder
and Businessman
by Burt Rapp
This book is for the person who has decided to use a gun for protection. If you feel that extra locks and alarms are all you need, don’t read any more. But if you want to teach yourself to shoot well enough to save your life in a variety of situations, Armed Defense is for you. You will learn techniques and tactics that work, not just reflections of somebody’s theories. This book also covers what you need to know about the legal and emotional aspects of surviving a gunfight.
1989,516 x 816, 205 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ARMED DEFENSE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25065)
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO
by Ronald B. Brown
How many “homemade gun” books have you read, only to discover that to make the thing work you needed a metal lathe or a milling machine? This book covers it all: legalities, concepts of. ballistics, a basic 12 gauge shotgun design from pipe, simple gunpowder recipes, primer material, reloading and much more — including designs for a homemade double barrel, a muzzleloader, pipe sizes for other calibers, and even more! This is one book that really delivers what it promises!
Even if you have no intentions of ever building a firearm, the information in this book is an insurance policy. No matter where you may live in the world or under what regime, the knowledge represented in this book offers you a chance to cope. It offers hope, not in nice wishes and goodwill, but in tangible fact and Step-by-step illustrated instructions.
1986,516 x 816, 182 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOMEMADE GUNS AND HOMEMADE AMMO: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25052)
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF
GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK
by Don McLean
Do you want to know how
to make your own gunpowder
from such easily accessible
items as dead cats, whiskey,
your living room ceiling,
manure, “Fool’s gold,” and
maple syrup? And do you want •
to know how to do it with sim-
ple hand tools and techniques
that have been used for cen-
turies? Well, now you can with
The Do-It-Yourself Gunpow-
der Cookbook, a practical and .
safe approach to making the
oldest propellant/explosive
known to man..
Gunpowder has many uses
and is all but essential for long-
term survival. This book covers
everything from old govern-
ment recipes for use by. its
espionage operatives to the author’s own tried-and-true methods i using common tools and equipment.
Don’t be a slave to available technology, because if it breaks down or otherwise becomes unavailable, only your stockpile of knowledge will get you through tough times. Sold for informational purposes only!
1992,516x816,80pp, Illustrated, softcover.
THE DO-IT-YOURSELF
GUNPOWDER COOKBOOK: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25071)
WORKBENCH SILENCERS
The Art of Improvised Designs
by George M. Hollenback
If you have any interest at all in improvised firearm-silencer manufacture, you’ll enjoy this collection of new and interesting designs. Using four types of couplings, author and part-time Inventor George Hollenback provides step-by-step details for constructing and attaching a number of innovative materials to the muzzle ends of a Ruger full-barrel .22 pistol, Colt .45 pistol, and SKS carbine. Besides variations on the tried-and-true aluminum can, Hollenback illustrates how plumbing devices, oil filters, PVC pipe and even lawn and garden gadgets can be adapted and employed to fabricate effective and unique firearm silencers. Most can be assembled in less than five minutes!
Warning: The manufacture or possession of firearm silencers is illegal without registration with the BATE Workbench Silencers is for academic study only, and is intended for the informational requirements of serious students of firearm-silencer lore.
1996,516 x 816, 80 pp, soft cover.
WORKBENCH SILENCERS: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25082)
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
A Complete Guide
Silencers for less than $3.00! Built without tools! Sounds incredi-
ble? Now you can silence any firearm using items found in any neigh-
borhood supermarket!
This detailed manual includes over 65 close-up photographs and
drawings to help anyone build disposable silencers that are just as
effective as “professional” models, but which can easily be con-
structed in minutes, without tools, using only inexpensive, readily-
avaiiable items.
Learn how to make silencers from:
-
Soft drink bottles
-
Window screen
-
Pop bottle caps
-
PVC pipe
-
and much more.
Warning: The manufacture or possession of firearm silencers is illegal without registration with the BATE
1984,516 x 816, 85 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 28026)
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
VOLUME: II
A Complete Illustrated Guide
The most complete, up-to-date manual on homemade silencers! This is a collection of silencer plans for the man short of time or money!
This fascinating sequel to the bestselling How To Make Disposable Silencers presents more sophisticated designs, all of which can be constructed with a minimum amount of time and money, without the need for expensive machinery or tools.
Now everyone will be able to silence weapons of any caliber (from .22 rimfires to .30-06 rifles) using such inexpensive items as automobile freeze plugs, hoses, washers, and many other easy-to-get parts. Step-by-step directions, illustrations, well over 100 close-up photographs and parts lists are included to make the job easy.
Warning: The manufacture or possession of firearm silencers is illegal without registration with the BATE
1985, 516 x 816,115 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO MAKE DISPOSABLE SILENCERS
Volume: II: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 28027)
HOMEMADE AMMO
How to Make It, How to Reload It, How to Cache It
by Duncan Long
Almost any handyman with
access to a drill press, a hacksaw,
and some files can produce a sub-
machine gun in a few weeks, and,
once made, guns can last forever.
Ammunition is another matter — a
realization that has not escaped the
gun-control activists. (You didn’t
really think that the gun grabbers
would keep their greedy paws off
your ammunition, did you?)
Most people don’t know the first
thing about the chemistry of making
smokeless powder. And even if you
do, where do you get the compo-
nents for your gunpowder? There
may come a time when you can’t just
walk into a drugstore or chemical
supply house and ask for it. What
about reloading cartridges — how much do you really know about it? What do you do if there are no bullets available? Do you know what brass can be reused safely and what can’t? What about primers? And why can’t you stock up while it’s still legal to buy and own cartridges?
Homemade Ammo answers all these questions and more. Duncan Long, who firmly believes that the most important tool for keeping yourself armed and ready to defend yourself is between your ears, provides all the technical know-how you need to manufacture your own rifle, pistol, or submachine gun ammunition from scratch. Sold for informational purposes only.
1995,51/b x 8K, 100 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOMEMADE AMMO: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25077)
HANDGUNNER’S GUIDE
Including the Art of the Quick Draw
and Combat Shooting
by Chic Gaylord
In his day Chic Gaylord was the “top gun” in the world of combat shooting. He enjoyed a reputation as one of the fastest and most accurate shooters around, and even today he is considered the premiere designer of modern concealment holsters. Described as having the “hand of a craftsman, the eye of an artist, and the mind of a research scientist,” Gaylord revolutionized the holster industry and, to a great extent, the way we view tactics and techniques to survive and win a gunfight. A wide variety of federal and local law enforcement personnel, as well as those from several European and Latin American countries, have carried his rigs, and many of his most successful designs were inspired by the tactical demands faced by these officers on a daily basis.
Chic Gaylord was also a gifted storyteller. He had a rapier wit and was equally clever when telling a story or giving a good account of himself in a variety of circumstances. Whether they involved his drinking cocktails with the President of the United States, training U.S. Secret Service officers in the art of speed shooting, or dating beautiful Hollywood stars, his stories always enthralled his audience.
This edition of Handgunner’s Guide is a faithful reproduction of his 1960 classic. Although many of the firearms discussed herein are no longer available and some of the combat tactics and techniques described might seem out of date, that does not mean that the information in it is not still relevant and tactically sound. This release will provide an accurate account of Chic Gaylord’s genius and his craft and perpetuate it for new generations of shooters, which will be the richer for having been exposed to it. The clear and colorful language and step-by-step presentation make this an enjoyable book to read and understand.
I960,816x11,182 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HANDGUNNER’S GUIDE: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25091)
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
A Novel
by John Ross
We very seldom offer fiction, but this two-fisted novel portrays well what the government has been doing to the gun culture (and other decent people) for decades now — and what the “unintended consequences” of these policies might be.
After the repeal of Prohibition, Congress passes an obscure federal gun law, written to promote massive noncompliance and thus give idled Prohibition agents something to do. Three decades later, a boy born into a well-to-do family becomes immersed in shooting sports, and firearms become his lifelong passion. An expert with rifle and pistol who gives free personal protection classes to women, Henry Bowman is just one of the millions of people who comprise America’s “gun culture.” Because of his upbringing, Henry is sensitized to government’s capacity to abuse its power. As years pass, Henry watches continued federal assaults on the gun culture with growing alarm. Concurrently, Henry’s adult life intersects with the lives of two very different people: Cindy, a woman whose instincts for self-preservation help her survive virtual slavery inside an organized crime syndicate, and Ray, a lawyer who left the U.S. in 1963 and returns thirty years later. Now near middle age, Henry is alone at a friend’s house one night. He uses his skills to thwart an armed break- in only to discover that the assault was not a burglary but a raid. Henry’s victims are not street criminals but federal agents, and with mounting horror he listens to the captive survivors describe the operation they were to carry out.
Despite the odds, Henry has no intention of becoming a martyr. Henry Bowman is a resourceful man with money, intelligence, and motivation, and he has history on his side.
1996,6x9,863 pp, hard cover.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: $28.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32063)
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
A Practical Guide to Concealed Handgun Carry
by Trey Bloodworth and Mike Raley
With random violence at an all-time high, more and more law- abiding citizens are choosing to carry concealed handguns for defense. Whether you are exploring concealed-carry options for the first time, or have been carrying for years, this updated, revised edition is one of the best resources available anywhere.
If you are concerned with how to exercise the privileges granted by a concealment permit comfortably,discreetly and safely, this book is an invaluable source of advice.
1998,51/b x 816,170 pp, appendix, soft cover.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25088)
THE POLICE SNIPER
A Complete Handbook
by Burt Rapp
This police manual covers all aspects of police sniper operations. Not just another rehash of military texts, The Police Sniper deals with the topic differently from any other book. Topics covered include: • Military Firefighters vs. Civilian Armed Encounters • The Urban Setting • Sniping in the Open Country • SWAT Tactics • The Police Sniper’s Role • Sniping Techniques • Barricaded Suspect Types • Night Operations and Tactics • Training and Maintaining • Weapons • Ammunition • Handloading • Sights and Scopes • Auxiliary Equipment • Appendix I: Ballistics: A Quick Primer • Appendix II: Glossary.
This book examines the police sniper’s role, since his duties will determine his equipment and tactics. Every phase of the police sniper’s mission, from selection and training to actually shooting people is explained in illustrated detail.
1988,516 x 816,189 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE POLICE SNIPER: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 55073)
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, VOLUME IV The 9mm Machine Pistol by Bill Holmes
Gunsmith and author Bill Holmes continues his popular Home Workshop Guns for Defense series with this fourth volume, which instructs the reader step-by-step in the construction of both closed- bolt and open-bolt versions of a 9mm machine pistol.
The completed pistol has an overall length of 16 inches (with a 6- inch barrel), a weight of 5 pounds, a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, and a two-stage trigger that eliminates the need for any switches or levers when changing the mode of tire. Holmes explains how to locate and use the parts and tools required, and pays special attention to the magazine, because the “Crime Bill" specifically prohibits the importation or manufacture of high-capacity magazines. Warning: Actual construction of the weapons described in this book may be illegal under federal, state, and local laws. The BATF actively pursues and prosecutes anyone who violates gun statutes. Therefore, this book is for academic study and information purposes only!
1996,816 x 11,96 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, Volume IV: $20.00 (ORDER NUMBER 25083)
A DO-IT-YOURSELF SUBMACHINE GUN by Gérard Métrai
It’s homemade, 9mm, lightweight, durable — and it will never be on any import ban lists! You’ll never have to worry about which submachine guns turn up on the banned-import list again. Now you can build your own simply by following the complete step-by-step plans and machinist’s drawings contained in this book. The gun you will turn out will be a 9mm, blowback, selective-fire design with a 32-round magazine. It’s just as powerful as an Uzi or HK MP5, but it’s lighter and handier, it has fewer parts, it can be clandestinely manufactured even in large numbers, and best of all, it has no paper trail!
The author, a reserve captain in the Swiss army who has spent years researching and designing “resistance” weapons, borrows the best design features from the CZ 25, Uzi, Suomi M1931, and STEN, but he adds his own innovations to make this weapon more effective, reliable, and quick to assemble. The increasingly restrictive and over regulated society in which we live calls for extraordinary measures. This homemade submachine gun fits the bill.
NOTE: The ownership of firearms is regulated by every government. All applicable laws and restrictions also apply to homebuilt models. This book is presented for academic study only.
1995,816 x 11,133 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
A DO-IT-YOURSELF SUBMACHINE GUN: $20.00 (ORDER NUMBER 25080)
<strong>HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, VOLUME V TheAR-15/M16
by Bill Holmes
If the prospect of learning how to build an AR-15/M16 in the privacy of your home workshop has always intrigued you, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for! As Home Workshop! Guns for Defense and Resistance, Volume V points out, finances need not impede the dedicated hobbyist, despite the so-called “Crime Bill” of 1994, which sent the price of lower receivers skyrocketing and effectively ended their manufacture. Realizing that the day may come when one will be compelled to know how to build such a firearm or remain defenseless, master gunsmith and author Bill Holmes has designed an alternative that allows the home craftsman to construct the entire gun from raw materials. Remember: Actual construction or possession of the weapon(s) described in Home Workshop Guns for Defense and Resistance, Volume V, may be illegal under federal, state, or local laws, so this information is presented for academic study only!
1997,816x11,120 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP GUNS FOR DEFENSE AND RESISTANCE, Volume V: $20.00 (ORDER NUMBER 25084)
THE HOME WORKSHOP .50-CALIBER SNIPER RIFLE ( VHS Video) with Bill Holmes
If you’re looking for the ultimate in do-it-yourself projects, this has got to be it. In this amazing original video, Bill Holmes, the undisputed master of home-built firearms, teaches you how to make a .50-caliber bolt-action sniper rifle in your home workshop. Bill takes you step-by- step through the entire fabrication process and shows you the secrets of transforming a surplus M-2 heavy machine gun barrel and an assortment of readily available raw materials into an awesome long- range precision rifle. Every aspect of the construction process is covered in meticulous detail, including the exact methods of fabricating the upper and lower receivers, trigger group, bolt and bolt locking lugs, firing pin, striker, and even the mounts for a telescopic sight. Because the proof is in the shooting, this video also includes dramatic footage of the test-firing of the finished gun. A .50-caliber rifle is the ultimate tool for the advanced shooter and a serious challenge for the gun-loving do-it-yourselfer. For information purposes only.
Videos are nonreturnable.
Damaged tapes will be replaced.
1999,60 minutes, color VHS video.
THE HOME WORKSHOP .50-CALIBER SNIPER RIFLE: $34.95 (ORDER NUMBER 28031 )
HOME WORKSHOP PROTOTYPE FIREARMS How To Design, Build, and Sell Your Own Small Arms
by Bill Holmes
Whether you’re a craftsman interested in innovative firearms design and fabrication or a concerned citizen alarmed with the growing governmental gun-grabbing trend, Home Workshop Prototype Firearms belongs in your library. In it, Bill Holmes, author of the classic Home Workshop Guns For Defense And Resistance volumes, shares with you what will and won’t work in designing and building rifles and shotguns from raw materials — not from surplus parts and “almost finished” stocks.
Even if you are not handy with tools, you may know somebody who is, and possessing this book will allow you to share this vital information should lawmakers someday further restrict access to commercial firearms.
1994,816x11,191 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME WORKSHOP PROTOTYPE FIREARMS: $30.00 (ORDER NUMBER 25076)
THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK Quick and Dirty Homemade Silencers
by George Hayduke
As a sideline to his revenge classics, George Hayduke, the Master of Malice, explores the shady borderlands of Haydukery— the construction and use of homemade silencers! These simple, effective silencer designs are your passport into the world of muffled mayhem. And best of all, they can be made right at your kitchen table with common items found around the house!
Be warned: George does not advocate the illegal construction or use of silenced weapons. In fact, he outlines explicit instructions on how to be sure you are legally registered before building, buying or otherwise acquiring a silencer. After all, he knows that a legally silenced firearm has certain legitimate applications that you couldn’t otherwise get away with in this increasingly restrictive and uptight world.
1989,516 x 816,80 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE HAYDUKE SILENCER BOOK: $14.00 (ORDER NUMBER 28029)
HOW TO BUILD PRACTICAL FIREARM
SUPPRESSORS
An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide
by Keith Anderson
Finally! Silencer designs that
will last a lifetime, but are as inex-
pensive and easy to build as most
“disposable” units! Over 76 close-
up photographs, easy-to-follow
instructions, detailed parts lists
and simplified designs make it
easy for just about anyone to build
a high-quality, effective suppres-
sor which will provide years of
trouble-free service. You can
adapt these designs to any type of
firearm and to different calibers.
Build a highly efficient suppressor
in a few hours — using only a few
basic tools you’ll probably find
around the house to finish your
project. All the materials you will
need are readily available in any
hardware or home improvement
store.
While designed to be cheap and very simple to build, the suppres-
sors presented here will also provide superior performance and long
lasting service. If you have ever experimented with homemade
silencers you know how it feels to spend a lot of time building one and
taking it to the range — and then having it work for only one or two
shots. Or, even worse, blow right off the gun on the first shot. The
suppressors in this book are designed to work! And work for a long
time.
1994,516 x 816, 105 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD PRACTICAL FIREARM
SUPPRESSORS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25089)
MORÉ GUNS, LESS CRIME
Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
by John R. Lott, Jr.
Does allowing people to own and
carry concealed weapons really deter
violent crime? Or does it simply cause
more citizens to harm each other? In this
important study, legal scholar John Lott
presents the most rigorously compre-
hensive study ever done on crime in
America. Lott meticulously analyzes the
effects of gun control laws on crime
rates. In what comes as a challenge to
conventional wisdom, he reaches a star-
tling conclusion: where there are more
guns, there is less crime.
You’ll discover these eye-opening
facts, among others, when you read
More Guns, Less Crime: • A passive
victim is much more likely to be seriously injured by a criminal than a victim who resists attacks with a gun. • Neither state waiting periods nor the federal Brady Law is associated with a reduction in crime rates. • The number of concealed handgun permits is not associated with either increased accidental deaths or suicides. • High-crime, urban areas and neighborhoods with large minority populations have the greatest reductions in violent crime when law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry concealed handguns.
An important look at guns and crime in our society, More Guns, Less Crime is required reading for anyone who wants to take an informed, intelligent position on the contentious and critical American debate over gun control.
1998,6x9,225 pp, indexed, soft cover.
MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25087)
BOSTON’S GUN BIBLE
by Boston T. Party
Boston’s books have
become known for their aston-
ishing practicality and street-
savvyness, and Boston's Gun
Bible is the most practical of
them all. In today’s perilous cli-
mate, the American gun owner
requires real-world information
on law, politics, market forces,
tactics, and technical matters.
No other title explains all these,
much less with such clarity. The
reader will learn what to choose
amongst the bewildering array of
guns and gear, how to buy and
sell, how to get quality training in
safety and tactics, how to avoid
BATF stings, how to defend the
2nd Amendment, what the gun
laws are in each state, what “gun
control” to expect and in what
sequence, and how to prepare for the eventual day of attempted gun
confiscation. Chapter 32 (“Letter to a Columbine Student”) is one of
the most concise and stirring rebuttals to “reasonable gun legislation”
ever written.
Why you should... go to a quality defensive shooting academy,
now!; consider not getting a concealed gun permit; not trust recent
“pro-gun” Supreme Court rulings.
Learn what... guns and gear will likely be outlawed next, and in
what order; inferior guns and gadgets not to risk your life on; guns to
own — city slicker or country folk, rich or poor.
Know exactly how to... spend within your budget, wisely and effi-
ciently; buy guns and gear without creating a record trail back to you;
hope and work for the best while preparing for the worst.
2000,516 x 816,848 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BOSTON’S GUN BIBLE: $28.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25096)
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
U.S. Senate Report
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erful case for gun rights.
This little-known U.S. Sen-
ate report is potent ammo
for all gun owners inter-
ested in the preservation of
our right to keep and bear
arms. It is direct proof that
the U.S. government itself
has studied the meaning of
the Second Amendment
from all perspectives and
concluded that every pri-
vate citizen has the individ-
ual right to own and carry
firearms.
The Right to Keep and
Bear Arms includes a
damning assessment of
Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) efforts to rack up gun confiscation
quotas (“constitutionally, legally, and practically reprehensible”) as
well as a scathing demolition of common arguments used to support
the prohibition of private firearm ownership. This entire easy-to-read
document is an inspiring tour de force of gun rights information.
1982,8'6x 11,160 pp, soft cover.
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 25094)
WEAPONS
Introduction
This breathtaking section contains books on various diabolical devices—man’s eternal quest to protect himself from his fellow man.
Look Out!
THE SCOURGE OF THE DARK CONTINENT
The Martial Use of the African Sjambok
by James Loriega
With a Foreword by James Keating
The Scourge of
the Dark Continent
The Martial Use of the
African Sjambok
by James Loriega
The sjambok is
one of the most ver-
satile and effective of
all flexible weapons,
having been used for
centuries in Africa.
The Scourge of the
Dark Continent: The
Martial Use of the
African Sjambok by
James Loriega is the
first book-length treat-
ment of the defensive
use of the sjambok.
Loriega, a well-known
and respected martial
arts expert, covers
every aspect of the
sjambok: Its history,
nomenclature, prop-
erties, how to prac-
tice, stances, strikes,
use with other
weapons, where to
obtain a sjambok and
how to modify it so it
is best for your per-
sonal use.
The sjambok can deliver non-fatal, disabling blows from short, medium, and long ranges, and with either hand. A psychologically intimidating weapon, as well as physically devastating, the sjambok's uses range from defending against a single attacker to crowd control. In illustrated detail, Loriega explains the basic combat stances, whipping methods, striking methods, and choking and strangling methods, as well as which targets are best for each method. The best ways to practice are covered, and the author tells you where to obtain a sjambok, and how to customize it. The Scourge of the Dark Continent: The Martial Use of the African Sjambok will be of interest to all students of flexible weapons systems, and anyone interested in self defense.
With a Foreword by James Keating
1999,516 x 816, 143 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE SCOURGE OF THE DARK CONTINENT: $16.95
(ORDERNUMBER19216)
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BUILD YOUR OWN LASER, PHASER,
ION RAY GUN, AND OTHER WORKING
SPACE-AGE PROJECTS
by Robert E. iannini
Want to build a hand-held ultrasonic pain
field generator? Or lots of other neat space-
age weapons and other high-tech projects?
Here is your chance to get involved in the
technologies of the future — to build several
different kinds of workable lasers, ultrasonic
devices, (including self-defense, pest and
insect control units), Tesla coils, ultra high fre-
quency power supplies, ion producing
devices, and sòme highly practical security
units such as an infrared viewer and a voice-
operated wireless phone transmitter!
This book contains the highly skilled do-it-yourself guidance that
makes it possible for you to build these amazing projects! And you
can be sure these projects will really function — each one has been
designed, built, and thoroughly tested by the author, an expert in the
field! (Robert lannini is an experienced electronics inventor. He holds
patents on such products as electronic insect control devices, ultra-
sonic pest controls, fogless mirrors, stay awake devices for drivers,
and more.)
1983,716 x 916,400 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BUILD YOUR OWN LASER, PHASER, ION RAY GUN, AND
OTHER WORKING SPACE-AGE PROJECTS: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19163)
POOR MAN’S RAY GUN
Deadly Rays
by David Gunn
You don’t have to be Luke Sky-
walker to own a ray gun. All you
need is a microwave oven, some
easily-obtainable parts, and this
book!
Ultra-strong rays, or masers,
can be used as a defensive or
offensive weapons system,
whether you’re concerned about
home protection or car theft. It’s
hard to believe that this little book
contains the recipe for one of the
most powerful weapons known to
man! And you thought microwave
ovens were only good for leftovers.
1996, 516x816, 24 pp,
photographs, soft cover.
POOR MAN’S RAY GUN: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19207)
COMBAT KNIFE THROWING
A New Approach to Knife Throwing
and Knife Fighting
by Ralph Thorn
Conven-
tional wisdom
among knife-
fighting experts
has it that knife
throwing is a
pursuit best left
to circus per-
formers) hillbilly
theme parks>
and hobbyists
and that it is
useless for
combat or other
survival pur-
poses. In this
ground-breaking new book,
Ralph Thorn
differentiates
between “cir-
cus” knife
throwing and
combat knife
throwing, and
reveals his
style of knife
throwing suit^
able for actual
combat and
knife fights.
The author, who has practiced his craft for decades, begins by
showing you how to balance a knife for throwing — and how to make
your own throwing knives out of readily available materials. He shows
you how to build targets (and what makes the best targets), and how
to practice the various combat throwing techniques, with an emphasis
on both safety and practicality. Ralph Thorn demonstrates the over-
hand, underhand, and sidearm throws, and discusses the situations
where each style works best.
“One way of expressing the essential difference between circus-
style and spear-style throwing is to say that in the former you try to
make every throw as similar as possible and in the latter you can and
should treat every throw differently. Circus throwers try to throw the
same knife, from the same distance, with the same release and the
same stance so that they can get a perfect rotation and consistently
stick the target. Since merely sticking the target is so easy when
throwing spear style it quickly becomes almost automatic. In spear-
style throwing you can effortlessly switch between differently shaped
and sized knives (I have two dozen and no two are identical), change
release points, velocities, stances, and arm angles in a split second,
throw off the wrong foot with a bad grip, throw while moving in any
direction, and so on. You can, in other words, make it up as you go
along. It’s a little like the difference between practicing shooting free
throws and actually playing basketball. Circus-style throwing is a
game of dexterity that requires a single, very specific skill; in this it is
much like bowling or billiards. Spear-style throwing can be like this if
you want to stand still and throw for accuracy alone, but it can also
become a freestyle sport, more like martial arts or skateboarding than
like circus throwing. And, of course, it can be used for self defense.”
The author also includes chapters on Psychological and Physical
Conditioning and Hunting and Recreational Skills. A truly path-breaking book, Combat Knife Throwing should be read by every sports-
man, knife aficionado, and anyone interested in self defense.
2002,516 x 816,114 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
COMBAT KNIFE THROWING: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22044)
7 CRAIG S. MEISSNER
DISGUISED
WEAPONS
. The Law Enforcement Guide to
Covert Guns, Knives, and Other Weapons
DISGUISED WEAPONS
The Law Enforcement Guide to Covert Guns,
Knives, and Other Weapons
by Craig S. Meissner
Concealed weapons are
nothing new. Many, such as
war fans and blowgun
flutes, have been around for
centuries, and police
recover new and ever more
devious devices on the
street almost daily. But after
September 11, 2001,
heightened vigilance
regarding hidden weapons
became a top priority for
law enforcement and secu-
rity personnel worldwide.
The events of 9/11, and
other security breaches that
followed, awakened the
public to the grave dangers
covert weapons — and
lackadaisical security
measures — pose to civil-
ians and police alike.
This book, written by
New York Police Officer
Craig Meissner, drives the point home. From guns disguised as beepers and cell phones to razor-sharp plastic knives shaped like credit cards to stun guns taking the form of pens and flashlights, the weapons described in this book are based on everyday objects that would not ordinarily arouse suspicion. Outwardly innocuous and strikingly simple, all of these items are extremely treacherous, and most are potentially lethal. In addition to insight into the kinds of weapons to be on the alert for, Meissner offers indispensable advice on search tactics and techniques that will ensure .their safe and efficient recovery.
Whether you are a police officer, border patrol or airport security agent, corrections officer, private security guard, member of the armed forces, or defense-minded civilian, this book provides an eyeopening — and potentially life-saving — glimpse into the world of covert weapons and the ingenuity of the criminal mind.
2002,516 x 816,221 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DISGUISED WEAPONS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19232)
BEYOND PEPPER SPRAY
The Complete Guide to Chemical Agents,
Delivery Systems, and Protective Masks
by Michael E. Conti
In Beyond Pepper Spray, veteran police officer and author Michael Conti presents an in-depth guide to chemical agents and equipment. In one comprehensive volume, readers can quickly and easily find pertinent information about modem chemical agents, how they are deployed, their effects, and state-of-the-art protective gear. It includes the most common modern-day chemical agent weapons (from OC spray to gas launchers to thermal fogging systems), specialty impact weapons (from blood and blister agents to deadly nerve agents), as well as a concise history of their development and use. This allows the reader to better understand the role these devices have played in the past and the role they may play in the coming years, both by law enforcement agencies and terrorist organizations.
Beyond Pepper Spray is a must-read for law enforcement, military, and security personnel, as well as for anyone with an interest in, or responsibility for, the use of chemical agents and protective masks. Especially timely now is the section on how to ensure personal safety in the event of a chemical attack.
2002,816x11,251 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BEYOND PEPPER SPRAY: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19229)
Th« Original
The Poor Man’s VOL. 1
JAMES BOND Kurt Saxon
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND
Volume 1
by Kurt Saxon
The thought of violence is
unpleasant to decent people.
Yet, if you want to survive the
worst, you must at least imagine
the worst. The worst would be
starving marauders pillaging
their way across the land with
insane abandon.
If you prepare to survive,
you deserve to survive. As gen-
tle as you may be, you cannot
be in favor of the improvident
looters surviving at the expense
of you and your friends and
family. Besides, their survival
would only be temporary, any-
way. They wouldn’t utilize your
methane converters, organic
gardens, tools or books. After destroying you they would vandalize your operation, grab up whatever food was handy and move on.
Your lack of resistance would contribute only to the loss of your knowledge to the next generation. But with the right amount of the right kind of resistance, you could pass on your ideas to future generations. The Poor Man's James Bond could be responsible for the country being named after you later on — at least you will be alive.
Besides, it is a fun book right now. It is the undisputed leader in the field of books on improvised weaponry. It is a digest of the best tricks of militants and guerrillas the world over. Economical, safe, crafty. You can rout enemies even without hurting them. And if you’re short of cash, there is even a section on counterfeiting. Get The Poor Man's James Bond and you will be as secure as anyone can be in the event of civilization’s collapse.
1991,816x11,477pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19035)
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND
Volume 2: Poor Man’s Armorer
by Kurt Saxon
Kurt Saxon strikes again!
Five great works in one volume!
This book includes the complete
Poor Man's Armorer, a unique
work with a whole arsenal of
Improvised weaponry not in any
other books. Homemade
bazookas, silencers, booby
traps, bolas, concealed
weaponry, mines, full auto plans,
caltrops, dart catapults, knife
throwing, water pipe shotgun,
smoke/gas grenades, zip guns,
takedown rocket launchers,
homemade missiles, and much
more! The Poor Man’s Armorer
is alone worth the price of Poor
Man's James Bond, Volume 2!
Also included in this mammoth volume are American JuJitsu (1942), a comprehensive course that has every move illustrated and described; Improvised Munitions Handbook, TM31-210, written by the US Army for the Special Forces; Chemicals in War (1937), a comprehensive collection which includes formulas for every poison gas in use at the time; and The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives(‘\943), the bible of all those who want to assure themselves a supply of explosives. Sold for informational purposes only!
1991,816x11,480 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE POOR MAN’S JAMES BOND: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19189)
THE BULLWHIP BOOK
by Andrew Conway
The glamour of the bullwhip — from Lash LaRue to Indiana Jones — has excited and fascinated audiences for centuries. Now, any performer or hobbyist can learn exactly how to accomplish those spectacular throws, cracks and stunts. You’ll learn how to choose and care for your bullwhip... then follow step-by-step explanations and illustrations which will guide you through everything from simple overhand cracks to dramatic wraps, throws, catches and tricks. If you’ve ever been thrilled by the sensuous beauty of the bullwhip, this is the book for you. Andrew Conway is a life member of the International Jugglers Association and founder of the Lodi Juggling Festival. An aficionado of the bullwhip as both a performing art and a personal hobby, he has taught whip workshops at the European Juggling Festival in Grenoble, as well as regular sessions at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts.
2000,6 x 9,108 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE BULLWHIP BOOK: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19235)
THE SLING
For Sport & Survival
by Cliff Savage
The weapon David used to kill Goliath is still useful today, and could be particularly valuable in survival situations. The sling may be an ancient weapon, but there are some powerful reasons for including it in any modern arsenal. It is silent and has multiple uses. It is powerful and has better range than a bow. It is accurate and easy to leam to use. It is easily improvised and highly portable. It can be readily concealed. Ammunition is available anywhere for fr6e, and it is inexpensive, and takes up little room. Sounds like a pretty good weapon, doesn’t it?
The sling can be used for hunting, agriculture, sport and survival. It is the ultimate lightweight weapon for wilderness survival. And in urban settings, where more powerful weapons are banned, knowing how to use a sling is a valuable and important skill.
The Sling is the complete manual on this little-known weapon. It tells how to make one, how to use one, and when and where to use one. The Sling is highly recommended for all survivalists and weapons enthusiasts.
1999,516 x 816,84 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE SLING: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19103)
BLOWGUNS
The Breath of Death
by Michael D. Janich
In the realm of exotic weapons, the blowgun holds a special status as an ancient and mysterious tool of silent death. Blowguns: The Breath Of Death is the first book to strip away the mystique of this immensely practical, remarkably effective, and easily accessible device.
The blowgun may be the perfect weapon, providing the capability for accurate and silent delivery of a variety of projectiles in a very inexpensive package. Author Michael Janich is a long-time fancier, collector and user of blowguns, and here he shares with you the many secrets of their capabilities and uses, including how to:
-
Acquire modern blowguns and projectiles, including names and addresses of mail order dealers • Make your own blowguns and darts (including “special” projectiles)
-
Shoot your blowgun powerfully and accurately • Devise custom targets • Customize, maintain and store your weapons • And more.
After reading this informative and entertaining book, you too will become a believer in the blowgun as a fascinating and serious weapon. Sold for informational purposes only
1993,516 x 816,81 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BLOWGUNS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19191)
COMBATIVES
FM21-150
This is the classic manual on how to fuck somebody up, big-time! US Army Field Manual FM 21-150 is as thorough a coverage of hand- to-hand combat as can be found in a single volume. A virtual encyclopedia of unarmed and hand-to-hand combat — not just a complete handbook, but a total training course for the deadly arena where second place is last!
This volume opens with thorough and revealing attention to the introduction and fundamentals, then goes on with detailed training in the following areas: • Vulnerable points • Falls • Basic throws and takedowns • Kicks • Blows • Holds • Escape from holds • Knife attacks • Rifle and pistol disarming • Knife disarming • Silencing sentries • Prisoner searching • Securing and gagging • Bayonet fighting • References • Assault courses • And much more!
The best book of its kind!
1992,816 x 11,236 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
COMBATIVES: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19224)
BUILD A CATAPULT IN YOUR BACKYARD
by Bill Wilson
Catapults are ancient weapons that are still quite capable of inflicting a tremendous amount of damage, but you can actually have a lot of fun with them and even put them to practical use. Got a field of rocks you want moved?
Author Bill Wilson puts his interest in catapults to work and the result is this handy how-to. Once you have followed the instructions in his book and built your own catapult, you’ll wonder how you managed to get along without one.
Contents Incu0e; • History and Introduction • Build a Catapult • Build a Ballista'•Ammunition and Other Ideas • and Resources.
Before you know it you’ll be entering competitions and talking shop with other ancient weapons enthusiasts. Contacts for these organizations are in the book also. Get Build a Catapult in Your Backyard today and start building yours tomorrow.
2001,516 x 816,35 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
BUILD A CATAPULT IN YOUR BACKYARD: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19228)
SEVILLIAN STEEL
The Traditional Knife-Fighting Arts of Spain
by James Loriega
Nowhere in Europe has the art of knife-fighting been so nurtured as in the countries of the Mediterranean, and the country with the richest knife culture of all is Spain. In Seville, as throughout many parts of Spain, one can find training halls where edged-weapons combat is practiced today as it was 300 years ago. Just such a place was discovered by American ninjutsu master James Loriega when he toured Spain several years ago to conduct training seminars and demonstrate his martial arts skills.
At the Sevillian School of Edged Weapons, situated on a cobblestone side street near Seville’s famed Plaza de España, he met Don Santiago Rivera, a master of arms who teaches the centuries-old art of traditional Spanish blade-handling. Loriega, already an expert in Japanese and Filipino knife-fighting disciplines, soon began learning the art of Sevillian Steel — the term used to identify the weapons and fighting systems that originated and evolved in Andalusian Spain.
Through step-by-step photos, rare historical illustrations, and colorful stories taken from seven summers at the Sevillian School, Loriega presents the strategies, tactics, techniques, and philosophies behind the three distinct styles of Sevillian Steel. Throughout the book, he offers the reader glimpses of exotic places not found in any guidebook — places where martial arts ranks have no meaning, and no one bows before closing with you. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in knives, knife-fighting, European martial arts, or Spanish culture.
1999,516 x 816,169 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
SEVILLIAN STEEL: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19227)
THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE
TO SWITCHBLADE KNIVES
An Illustrated Historical and Price Reference
by Rich Langston
It has been more than 20
years since a major work on
switchblades has been pub-
lished, and never has one show-
cased as many different types as
Rich Langston’s welcome new
book. The Collector's Guide to
Switchblade Knives contains a
history of the early cutlery indus-
try in America; a detailed exami-
nation of the evolution of
switchblades; and a user-friendly,
up-to-the-minute, illustrated refer-
ence section that helps collectors
and novices alike identify all
kinds of knives from museum-
quality antiques to Granddad’s
old folder that’s been hidden in
the attic for decades.
Langston, a life-long knife lover and collector, provides an honest appraisal of more than 160 autos based on maker, condition, mark- & ings, materials, functioning and availability. This handsome hardcover is for collectors, enthusiasts, historians, or anyone even considering buying or selling a switchblade knife.
2001,816x11,224 pp, photographs, hard cover.
THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE
TO SWITCHBLADE KNIVES: $49.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19226)
THE LOGIC OF STEEL
A Fighter’s View of Blade and Shank Encounters
by James LaFond
The Logic of Steel is not about
the art of knife fighting. Its sole
purpose is to illustrate the cold,
hard, logical nature and dynamics
of real-world edged-weapon
encounters as experienced by
author James LaFond and more
than 90 other people who have
found themselves suddenly caught
up in a knife fight.
The Logic of Steel offers a
comprehensive analysis of more
than 250 acts of violence that
involved the use of an edged
weapon, as told from the perspec-
tive of the attackers, eyewit-
nesses, and victims. The action is
broken down by weapon type
(razors, folders, butchers, bal-
isongs, switchblades, sickles,
swords, and improvised slasher/stabbers) and use patterns. The circumstances, motivation, and mechanics of real blade and shank fights are illuminated through the use of gripping (and often comical) first-person accounts, photographs, and hard statistics. Also discussed are the psychology, injury patterns, and legal ramifications of knife fighting, as well as invaluable tips on how to prevent clinches and floor fights from escalating into knife fights, how to survive unarmed against an armed assailant, how to dress for success against a knife fighter, and how to live to fight another day by successfully running away from an armed attacker.
If you want to be able to spot a knifer — and predict his behavior — before it’s too late, The Logic of Steel is a must read.
2001,516 x 816,245 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE LOGIC OF STEEL: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22043)
MASTER OF THE BLADE
Secrets of the Deadly Art of Knife Fighting
by Richard Ryan
MASTER
8HC1ÄRD RÏAW
This instructional manual on
the realistic use of the knife in
self-defense offers priceless
insights into a world shrouded in
mystery, hype, and mystique,
Master of the Blade presents
the stark realities of the deadly
art of knife fighting and dispels
common myths. Ryan discusses
the various types of blades and
how to choose one that’s right for
you, as well as offering cutting-
edge instruction on knife fighting
stances, grips, targets, striking
patterns, and types of cuts; the
basics of defense and counterat-
tack; blade tactics and strategies
against different types of
weapons and attackers; such
deadly mistakes as overcommit-
ment and hesitation; dealing with
fear and the importance of mind-set; carry methods and tactical con-
cealment; and realistic training methods. The old adage “don't bring a
knife to a gunfight” won't have the same meaning for you once you’ve
read Master of the Blade. For academic study only.
1999,7 x916, 171 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MASTER OF THE BLADE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22042)
KNIVES, KNIFE FIGHTING,
& RELATED HASSLES
How To Survive a Real Knife Fight
by Marc “Animal” MacYoung
Finding yourself in the
middle of a knife fight is no
time to discover that you
don’t know what you’re
doing. You can forget the
.useless crap you’ve seen
in the movies or learned in
the dojo: if you don’t, you’ll
probably end up in the
morgue.
Let Marc “Animal”
MacYoung show you the
down and dirty reality of
knife fighting. How do you
avoid a knife fight? How do
you deal with someone
who’s pulled a knife with-
out pulling your own knife?
How do you handle wit-
nesses? When does a
knife fight escalate into full
combat? Animal covers
these topics in detail, as
well as choosing a good
fighting knife; the best (and worst) grips, draws and stances; dealing
with the police; devious street tricks that people will use to slip a knife
into your kidney; and much more.
In a knife fight, you have to rely on your wits, mobility, speed and
knowledge in order to survive. This book shows just how serious and
complicated knife fighting can be and will provide you with the neces-
sary skills to come out on top.
1990,516 x 816,128 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
KNIVES, KNIFE FIGHTING,
& RELATED HASSLES: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 22041)
PERSONAL DEFENSE WEAPONS
by J. Randall
“A good defensive weapon should
protect you from criminals without making
you a criminal for carrying it,” says J.
Randall, a private detective and weapons
expert. Randall has tried just about every
weapon imaginable, from bullwhips to bo
staffs, yet he’s a surprisingly low-tech
guy. One of his favorite defensive
weapons is the cigarette lighter: “Five
inches of flame in the face is incredibly
frightening.”
That’s just a sample of the refreshing,
practical advice found in this book. Ran-
dall evaluates all kinds of weapons —
guns, knives, sticks, gas canisters, mar-
tial arts weapons, and many others by
asking some very interesting questions: • Is it too deadly to use? • Is it
illegal to carry it or brandish it? • Can it be concealed, yet reached
when needed? • Is it comfortable to carry at all times? • How much
skill and training does it take? • Will it gross you out to use it? • Is it
reliable? • Will it break or wear out?
Randall covers such topics as: What is a weapon?; The history,
evolution and background of personal defense weapons; Characteris-
tics of good weapons; and Choosing a weapon for personal defense.
He gives profiles, descriptions, and applications of the following spe-
cific weapons: • Blackjacks • Knives • Tear Gas • Bullwhips • Firearms
• Steel-Capped Shoes • Martial Arts Weapons • Garottes • Walking
Sticks, Nightsticks and Canes •Anymore, including your mind and
body as a weapon.
Randall’s common sense approach to personal defense is a
pleasure to read. Whatever your situation, Personal Defense
Weapons will help you find protection you can live with.
1992,516 x 816,97 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PERSONAL DEFENSE WEAPONS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19188)
HOW TO BUILD FLASH/STUN GRENADES
by George Dmitrleff
Since the beginning of human his-
tory, warriors have used blinding and
flashing methods to render their
opponents helpless. Whether the
“weapons” are highly polished
shields and mirrors, poison gasses or
modern lasers, one of the best ways
to overcome an enemy is to incapaci-
tate him. George Dmitrieff, noted
author of firearms and ammunitions
publications, takes you into the realm
of exotic defensive munitions with
this excellent treatise on the
flash/stun grenade. This book covers
all the basic fundamentals of the mili-
tary grenades. There are step-by-
step instructions for developing your own flash weapons, which include construction and mixtures for charging.
The format of this presentation features simple design, simple processes and common-language terms without sacrificing product performance. This is one of the most comprehensive texts on the subject to be released to the general public, including an entire chapter on how to safely construct, load and handle your grenades.
The author emphasizes that the processes described herein are dangerous due to the sensitive nature of materials used. Furthermore, construction of these devices is subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations requiring special licenses. A must for the enthusiast’s or technologist’s library! Sold for informational purposes only.
1998,81&x 11,117pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD FLASH/STUN GRENADES: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31049)
Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism
Introduction
Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism... Is this what the future holds for America? We hope not, but you never know...
From how to fight off an invading army to how to overthrow a banana republic, and more — here is a carefully selected group of books on guerrilla warfare, and terrorism.
NIGHT MOVEMENTS
(Translated From the Japanese)
Truly a collector’s item, this rare translation of the original (1913) Japanese military text is generally regarded as the finest study of night fighting ever written. The following topics are exhaustively covered: • Achieving silence in night movements • How to dress and develop your night vision • Training in hearing at night • Training in techniques for night firing • Night demolition • Secret techniques for night patrols • Silent movements • Use of weapons at night • Night fighting and battles • And much, much more.
The original Japanese manual was used to train snipers, scouts, and saboteurs in World War II. After the war, it became one of the classic manuals used by insurgents in many parts of the world. In the 1960s and 1970s, this became the basic night training manual for the Rhodesian and Australian SAS. Night Movements is essential for the study of counter-insurgency and clandestine activities.
1913,516 x 816,133 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
NIGHT MOVEMENTS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32039)
BAZOOKA
How to Build Your Own
by Anthony Lewis
If you get a bang out of the
flash and thud of an explosion and
are intrigued by the problems and
successes involved in the con-
struction of soft munitions, propel-
lants, and weapons, you might
wish to build your own bazooka. A
bazooka is not difficult to make —
after all, it is only a barrel with a
few essential items fastened into
place — and you can find all the
materials you need at your local
hardware store.
Here Anthony Lewis takes you
through the process he perfected,
from constructing the cartridge,
barrel, grip, and sights to mixing
the propellant and igniter to
assembling and loading the car-
tridge. Finally, he covers the fun part: test-firing and sighting.
Simply follow this procedure step-by-step, and before you know it you’ll be blasting away like Rambo on a good day. So, happy building and, as Lewis would say, “go forth, plink away, and be merry.” But do be careful. This book is for entertainment purposes only.
1993,516 x 816,60 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BAZOOKA: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19211)
COUP D’ETAT
A Practical Handbook
by Edward Luttwak
HERE IT IS — HOW
TO OVERTHROW A GOV-
ERNMENT!!!
This book has become
a classic in twenty-five
years. It is a step-by-step
manual on how to over-
throw a government.
No mere wishbook,
this; for over half the
nations on earth coup d’é-
tat is the normal means of
transferring power. For the
rest, only a minority (USA,
Canada, etc.) have never
experienced a successful
coup and every nation has
had to deal with an
attempted coup at some
time or another.
Coup d’état is the mod-
ern alternative to revolu-
tion. Coup d’état requires
no ideology, except the
ideology of power. Coup d’état takes no notice of who sits in what
bureau office, as long as the bureaucrat is willing to work for
whomever controls the state. Coup d’état always appeals to the mili-
tary, and once they are in on it, it usually succeeds. There are excep-
tions, and Luttwak looks at all the things that can and do go wrong
with coups. He carefully examines the secret police, the interior min-
istriés, the armed forces, and the Chief Executive; each is inspected
for strengths and weaknesses. (Consider that the drive for technically
minded people means that most nations must inevitably recruit their
own enemies into sensitive positions. You can screen out communists
from the FBI, but you can’t stop FBI agents from turning against the
President.)
All through the work, the author uses a first-person narrative,
assuming that you and he are going to kick over the old regime. It’s an
exhilarating read! From the first flush of conspiracy to the day you are
inaugurated, you enjoy and learn from every page.
Anyone who travels overseas should understand this book — it
could save your life! (Unless you fancy being held prisoner in the US
Embassy in some godforsaken savage country by a mob of “stu-
dents” old enough to have tenure.)
Remember: Coup d'état is more common and more successful
than free elections.
1979,516 x 816,215 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
COUP d’ETAT: $17.50
(ORDER NUMBER 32010)
BIOTERRORISM
How to Survive the 25 Most Dangerous
Biological Weapons
by Pamela Weintraub
In the event of a biological
attack, would you know what to do
to protect your family? This life-
saving, comprehensive survival
guide reveals all you need to know
about the top risks, their symp-
toms and treatments, how to avoid
the greatest dangers, where to go
for products and medications, and
how to keep your family safe — at
home, in the office, or at school —
from the most feared weapons of
biological warfare, including: •
Anthrax • Smallpox • Botulism •
Ebola • Q Fever • Plague •
Venezuelan Encephalitis •
Cholera • Yellow Fever • Tularemia
• and fifteen other deadly dis-
eases.
Bioterrorism contains the lat-
est up-to-date lifesaving information, advice from America’s foremost
experts, complete information on symptoms, risks, and treatments, a
guide to stocking your medicine cabinet, and specific tips for home,
school, and office. With a detailed, up-to-the-minute reference section
on medical sources, antibiotics, HEPA filter masks, and other crucial
information, this calm, clear, authoritative guide is an indispensable
resource for these uncertain times, when the first line of defense
against bioterrorism is knowledge.
2002,516 x 816,252pp, soft cover.
BIOTERRORISM: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32076)
LIFE AFTER TERRORISM
What You Need to Know to Survive
in Today’s World
by Bruce D. Clayton, Ph.D.
B -
Protecting your family from ter-
rorism in today’s world requires an
astonishing breadth of knowledge
on topics ranging from microbiol-
ogy and radiological defense to
proper waste storage, government
disaster response, and escape
routes to and from where you live
and work.
You don’t have this kind of
knowledge and experience? Few
people do, but one who does is Dr.
Bruce Clayton. In Life After Ter-
rorism Dr. Clayton takes a look at
today’s terrorist threats, assesses
their dangers realistically, and
explains in practical terms what
you can do to reduce your risks.
Hopefully, your family will never be
the victims of a terrorist attack, but
after September 11, do you want to bet on it? When your loved ones’
lives are at stake, you can’t afford to be naive or make mistakes.
Besides, the information in this book is useful for other kinds of emer-
gencies, from a natural disaster to an outbreak of an infectious dis-
ease to domestic upheaval.
Life After Terrorism will scare you, educate you, entertain you,
and make you think. Most Important, it will prepare you for life after
terrorism.
2002,516 x 816,192 pp, hard cover.
LIFE AFTER TERRORISM: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32080)
WHO BECOMES A TERRORIST AND WHY
The 1999 Government Report
on Profiling Terrorists
WHOBECOMES
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jr ON PROFILING TERRORISTS
“Two years before the Sept. 11
attacks, an analysis prepared for U.S.
intelligence warned that Osama bin
Laden's terrorists could hijack an air-
liner and fly it into government buildings like the Pentagon and the White
House.”—The Associated Press
“President Bush and his top
advisers were informed by the CIA
that terrorists associated with Osama
bin Laden had discussed the possibil-
ity of hijacking airplanes.” — The
Washington Post
Who Becomes a Terrorist and
Why is the shocking 1999 govern-
ment study that predicted who would
terrorize the United States and how
they would do it. It describes in detail
each of the leading terrorists and ter-
rorist groups around the world and proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the United States intelligence community and the President were fully aware of the specific kinds of risks that existed and still failed to take appropriate precautions. Here, for the first time, the American public can read what the government knew before September 11, 2001 and learn the details about who wants to harm the United States and the American people and why.
1999,4x7,255 pp, soft cover.
WHO BECOMES A TERRORIST AND WHY: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32084)
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PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST TERRORISM
by Tony Lesee
Terrorist actions are unpre-
dictable. In spite of your best
precautions, you may find your-
self in a terrorist-initiated situa-
tion.
How can you prepare your
home with a safe room for a
possible biological or gas
attack? Where can you buy gas
masks to protect your family?
And what should you know
about gas masks so that you
know what they will and won’t
do? Do you have a get-away kit
for yourself and members of
your family if it becomes neces-
sary for rapid flight in an evacu-
ation? If you get caught in a
hostage situation, what should
you know about SWAT team
rescues that might increase
your chance of survival? What
are the preparations you can
make that might save your life?
There are some surprisingly simple steps you can take, and oth-
ers that require some preparation but are still available to citizens to
make yourselves and your families more secure.
Chapters include: • Terrorism: The New Era • Terrorist Weapons •
How Terrorists Operate • Can Government Protect You? • Private
Security • Active Protection • And much, much more.
Tony Lesce answers those questions and gives you even more
information to Protect Yourself Against Terrorism. Don’t delay. Get
this book today.
2002,516 x 816, 174 pp, soft cover.
PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST TERRORISM: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19230)
GLOBAL TERRORISM
The Complete Reference Guide
by Harry Henderson
The proliferation and availability
of sophisticated weapons have
made the issue of terrorism more
urgent than ever. Terrorist groups
no longer rely solely on firepower to
make their message heard; as
bioterrorism becomes a possibility,
the range of victims affected can be
far greater than previously imag-
ined. Instead of attacking one spe-
cific target, cyberterrorists are
interested in destroying the elec-
tronic infrastructure of their ene-
mies, rendering them powerless by
damaging computer and informa-
tion systems. Global Terrorism is a
balanced examination of the com-
plex political and social issues sur-
rounding this phenomenon.
Coverage includes: • An extensive historical overview of terrorism and related issues • A survey of terrorism today, including the most recent attack on the World Trade Center • Terrorism-related laws, legal issues, and court cases • A chronological survey of major terrorist attacks, trials, and other relevant events • Brief biographies of leaders of terrorist groups, and academic and counterterrorism experts • A glossary of terms and acronyms • A guide to further research on terrorism • An extensive annotated bibliography • A list of organizations and agencies providing helpful resources on terrorism • Graphs and charts • And appendixes and an index.
2001,516 x 816, 300 pp, indexed, soft cover.
GLOBAL TERRORISM: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32078)
A PROFESSIONAL’S GUIDE TO PYROTECHNICS
Understanding and Making Exploding Fireworks
by John Donner
Despite attempts by citizen groups and various government bureaucrats to ban their manufacture and use, firecrackers and other exploding fireworks remain perennially popular, drawing crowds of Americans together, highlighting celebrations and festivities, and providing endless entertainment for pyrotechnic hobbyists. The simple fact is that fireworks are an American institution: they appeal to our sense of patriotism and conjure up that youthful wonder and excitement over things that go bang, and a substantial portion of the public continues to enjoy them. This book ensures that the knowledge to make these devices will always be available, whether or not fireworks themselves remain so over the years.
If you have an interest in homemade fireworks, A Professional’s Guide to Pyrotechnics provides a well-rounded selection of formulas for making the most popular exploding fireworks used in the United States and abroad during the past century, including the venerable M80s, cherry bombs, chasers, globe torpedoes, Knallkörpers, aerial bombs, ash cans, cracker balls, Flashcrackas, thunder flashes, triangle crackers, and more!
In addition to scores of recipes, author John Donner, an experienced pyrotechnist, provides ail the essential background information, including an explanation of basic fireworks theory, a brief history of firecrackers, lists of all the necessary tools, supplies, and chemicals for home manufacture, and important safety precautions for storage and use. Of course, the procedures described in A Professional’s Guide to Pyrotechnics and the resulting end products are extremely dangerous, and failure to strictly adhere to industry standards for experimentation and production of such products may result in harm to life and limb. Therefore, this book is intended for academic study only.
1997,516 x 816,136 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
A PROFESSIONAL'S GUIDE TO PYROTECHNICS: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 31048)
EXTREME ISLAM
Anti-American Propaganda
of Muslim Fundamentalism
by Adam Parfrey
Extreme Islam is the first and only book to compile the primary voices, both graphic and textual, of Muslim fundamentalism — fatwas, interviews, essays, political cartoons, paintings, poems and stories underscoring its beliefs, visions, history and plans.
Turning a blind eye to the substance of the messianic context of Islam, one that fervently prays for the destruction of all ideological enemies, is foolhardy, says editor Adam Parfrey.
We were asleep at the wheel; we didn’t have a clue. Our primary symbols of wealth and might were destroyed so spectacularly, so momentously, that Muslim fundamentalists believed it could only be Allah’s wrath. Celebrations quickly became fervent prayer for Allah to complete the job and annihilate ‘The Great Satan.”
Should we ignore the basics of this messianic religion? Ignore its code, its beliefs, its history, its visions, its plans? Extreme Islam explores the fundamentalist current, whose strict interpretations of the Holy Qur’an has led it to declare war against secular nations, and even members of its own religion whose lenient ideas are considered apostate, a sin punishable by death.
Explosive as the views it presents, Extreme Islam cuts to the chase, and allows the major voices of Islamic militancy to speak for themselves. A wide spectrum of interviews, essays, political cartoons, posters, poems and stories are collected together to confront the reader with important and rarely seen perspectives of a movement that opposes almost everything considered holy by America and Western civilization.
Ground zero of the showdown is Jerusalem, where fundamentalists from Christianity and Judaism are joining the fray, plotting to destroy al-Aqsa, one of Islam’s holiest shrines, to foment world war and Apocalypse.
No book could be more timely than Extreme Islam.
2002,516 x 816,327pp, illustrated, soft cover.
EXTREME ISLAM: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94354)
TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION
Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name
of National Security
by David Cole and James X. Dempsey
In a vivid and important critique of
our government’s response to terror-
ist threats, two leading constitutional
scholars warn that many anti-terror-
ism efforts needlessly sacrifice civil
liberties without effectively protecting
national security.
Cole and Dempsey contend that
in its response to the attacks of Sep-
tember 11, the Bush administration
has already repeated many of the
worst mistakes of the past, and is
unlikely to make Americans more
secure. By comparing recent anti-ter-
rorism legislation to previous law
enforcement abuses —- from anti-
Communist measures of the 1950s
to FBI spying on civil rights activists
in the 1960s, and the investigation and harassment of critics of U.S.
foreign policy in the 1980s and 1990s — the authors make a com-
pelling case that today’s anti-terrorism activity expands the powers of
the FBI and other agencies in ways that are neither necessary nor
desirable in a free society.
The book concludes with an extended, detailed blueprint that
shows how we can fight terrorism without relying on guilt by associa-
tion, secret proceedings, and unchecked intrusions on privacy, and
how we will be safe in the long run if we adhere to these basic consti-
tutional principles.
2002,5Mi x 816, 249 pp, soft cover.
TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32083)
9-11
by Noam Chomsky
In 9-11, Noam Chomsky dissects the root causes of the September 11th catastrophe, the historical precedents for it, and the possible outcomes as the world moves forward into the post-September 11 reality. As Chomsky writes, “In the past half century particularly, the U.S. resorted to force throughout much of the world... For the first time, the guns have been directed the other way. That is a dramatic change.” Chomsky believes that the attacks have been harmful in ways that extend far beyond the initial death toll and ongoing national emergency. For example, he believes they represent “a devastating blow” to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Most importantly and provocatively, Chomsky argues that in the world after 9-11, it is no longer possible to hold our enemies to one standard, ourselves to another.
As for why the attack happened, Chomsky writes that “This question is rarely raised in a serious way.” And he adds, ‘To refuse to face this question is to choose to increase significantly the probability of further crimes of this kind.” In 9-11, Noam Chomsky comments on the September 11th attacks, the new war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden, U.S. involvement with Afghanistan, media control, and the long-term implications of America’s military attacks abroad. Informed by his deep understanding of the gravity of these issues and the global stakes, 9-11 demonstrates Chomsky’s impeccable knowledge of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia, and sheds light on the rapidly shifting balance of world power. Speaking out against escalating violence, Chomsky critically examines the United States’ own foreign policy record and considers what international institutions might be employed against underground networks and national states accused of terrorism. ,
9-11 will set the tone of debate in the months to come, and will also be a measure of how well the media is able to serve its role of informing the citizenry, so crucial to our democracy in times of war.
2001,5x7,127pp, soft cover.
9-11: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32075)
PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE
How We Got To Be So Hated
by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is one of the world’s most astute critics of American foreign policy. This new book is his most incisive, provocative work ever. It includes Vidal’s essay on Timothy McVeigh that both Vanity Fair and The Nation were unwilling to publish because of its controversial nature. Through Vidal’s examination of his correspondence with McVeigh, shortly prior to the Oklahoma City bomber’s execution, the author finds an eerie similarity between the motives of far-right American terrorists and Al Qaeda, and more troubling, how extremist movements around the world have sprung up as a populist reaction to the destructive policies of the United States government.
Vidal reveals that since 1945, the US has been the aggressor in over two hundred attacks on countries around the world, using military force to attack peacetime governments. The book’s centerpiece offers a shocking look at how the United States may ultimately be responsible for the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Vidql puts today’s fundamentalist Islamic terrorism in historical context as well as offering a terrifying, Orwellian look at how the Bush regime has used the tragedy as an excuse to eviscerate the Constitution, and destroy what remains of Americans’ civil rights.
‘The awesome physical damage Osama and company did to us is nothing compared to the knock-out blow to our vanishing liberties: The Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996 combined with the recent request to Congress for additional special powers to wiretap without judicial order, to deport lawful permanent residents, visitors, and undocumented immigrants without due process.” Couid it be that the greatest victim of the September 11th terror attacks will be American liberty? “Once alienated,” Vidal writes, “an ‘unalienable right’ is apt to be forever lost.”
2002,5x7Vz, 160 pp, soft cover.
PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32074)
TERRORISM AND WAR
by Howard Zinn
Terrorism and War is based on a series of interviews with renowned historian Howard Zinn, conducted between September 2001 and January 2002. Here are some excerpts:
‘The continued expenditure of more than $300 billion for the military every year has absolutely no effect on the danger of terrorism. If we want real security, we will have to change our posture in the world — to stop being an intervening military power and to stop dominating the economies of other countries.”
“I think there is a simple test of what concerns bin Laden, whether it is our democracy and internal freedom or whether it’s our foreign policy. And that simple test is: What side was Osama bin Laden on before 1990? That is, before the United States stationed troops in Saudi Arabia, made war against Iraq, and began its sanctions against Iraq. We were just as democratic and libertarian internally before 1990 as we are today. But Osama bin Laden was not offended by that. He was on our side — and we were on his side — in the fight to take control of the government in Afghanistan. The turning point for Osama bin Laden is very clear. It has nothing to do with democracy and liberty. It has to do with U.S. foreign policy. And that turning point came in 1990 and 1991.”
“War has always diminished our freedom. When our freedom has expanded, it has not come as a result of war or of anything the government has done but as a result of what citizens have done. ...the government was always in support of the employers and the corporations. ...The freedom of working people ...has always depended on the struggles of people themselves against the government. So, if we look at it historically, we certainly cannot depend on government to maintain our liberties. We have to depend on our own organized efforts.”
Terrorism and War is the latest from the brilliant pen of Howard Zinn. If you want to understand what is going on all around us today, this book is must reading.
2002,5x7,156 pp, soft cover.
TERRORISM AND WAR: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32081)
WAGING WAR FROM CANADA
Why Canada is the perfect base
for organizing, supporting,
and conducting international insurgency
by Mike Pearson
Canada is a peaceful, polite country that experiences a mere fraction of the violent crime visited on its American neighbor. Furthermore, Canadian nationals, military personnel, and institutions are seldom the target of terrorist attacks. Yet, terrorist groups are present in Canada whose origins lie in virtually every significant regional, ethnic, and nationalist conflict there is in the world.
In Waging War From Canada, Mike Pearson reveals:
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Why Canada is an ideal base for terrorist activities
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The four basic methods terrorists might use to enter Canada
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Why claiming “Refugee” status is the best way for a terrorist to get into Canada
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10,000 refugee claimants disappear into Canadian society every year — never to be located by law enforcement
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How terrorists groups exploit Political Correctness and charges of “racism” to evade surveillance
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Five examples of the blundering incompetence of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) — and how this helps terrorists
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The two Canadian Army organizations that are effective terrorist deterrents
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Spying on the United States from Canada — who does it and how they get away with it
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Why Canada is perfectly suited to use as a base for terrorist fundraising
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How terrorist organizations use counterfeiting and credit card fraud to raise funds
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The top ten money-laundering methods terrorists use in Canada
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“Spoofing Citizenship”: The best way for a terrorist to acquire foolproof Canadian I.D.
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What suspects are able to do if arrested — and one thing that works against them
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Examples from real life terrorist organizations now operating in Canada
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And much, much more.
This shocking book provides background information on why Canada is an excellent place from which to organize and conduct fundraising, recruiting, propaganda, information-warfare, and military campaigns; explains how insurgents use the particularities and weaknesses of Canada to further their causes, using examples from successful organizations currently active in Canada; and points readers toward further resources and reliable sources of information. Waging War From Canada is a book whose time has come!
2001,5H x 816, 175 pp, soft cover.
WAGING WAR FROM CANADA: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32071)
BIOTERRORISM
Secrets for Surviving the Coming Terrorist
Germ Warfare Attacks on U.S. Cities
by Duncan Long
(co-authored by S. Spencer Jones)
Are you prepared to survive the coming terrorist biological (germ) warfare attacks on American cities?
U.S. Army Colonel David Franz has told Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson on ABC’s Prime Time, “The likelihood of a biological attack on the U.S. is high, probably in the next few years.“
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A complete list of 120 major U.S. cities in which the Clinton administration were quietly prepared to “clean up dead bodies” after terrorist germ warfare attacks were unleashed!
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Why you and your family can easily be killed, even if you don’t live anywhere near targeted cities.
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Completely do-able step-by-step instructions for turning any room in a home into a “safe room.”
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The very first protective step you need to make at the moment you hear of a terrorist biological attack.
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The little known survival secrets taught by the Israeli military to all Israeli citizens.
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The best types of food to store — and where to store them in your home for the safest access!
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Warning signs in the news that most people will miss — you’ll learn how to “read between the lines.”
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How to effectively decontaminate your home — room by room — using common household items.
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How to purify drinking water of infectious microorganisms.
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How to make food safe to eat, yes, even after it has been exposed to biological agents!
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A combination of three unconventional all-natural substances... Recently proven in lab tests at Weber State University to kill 99.96% of airborne pathogens — how to get it easily and inexpensively today!
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Secrets for quickly and effectively decontaminating your bodyot infectious biological agents.
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All this and much more is covered in this book, for your protection.
Your very life may depend upon the little known information and advance warnings revealed in this book.
2000,816x11,155 pp, soft cover.
BIOTERRORISM: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32073)
WIDE OPEN TO TERRORISM
by Tony Lesee
In case you haven’t noticed,
American society (and most of the
Western World) is Wide Open to
Terrorism! The World Trade Center
and Oklahoma City bombings, the
derailment of an Amtrak Sunset
Unlimited train, and numerous other
terrorist attacks in the recent past
are irrefutable evidence of this. And
in Wide Open to Terrorism, author
Tony Lesce aptly details the many
vulnerabilities which are innate in
our advanced technological civiliza-
tion.
Topics which are covered
include: • The Nature of Terrorism •
The History of Terrorism • Our
Appalling Vulnerabilities • Bombing
Scenarios • The Nuclear Threat •
Case Study: The Anti-Abortion
Movement • Case Study: The White House • Case Study: The
Unabomber • Chemical and Biological Threats • Disruption Tech-
niques • Computer Sabotage • Kidnapping • Assassination • Law
Enforcement Reactions • The Role of Private Security • Self-Protec-
tion • The Future of Terrorism • And much more, including a Bomb
Threat Checklist, emergency telephone numbers, a list of selected
reading and viewing suggestiohs, and an index, as well as illustrative
photographs.
So don’t be caught unprepared. Improve your chances to survive
today’s reign of violence by reading Wide Open to Terrorism.
1996,516 x 816,250 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
WIDE OPEN TO TERRORISM: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32059)
BIOWARFARE IN AMERICA
by Jim Keith
The era of chemical and bio-
logical megadeath is upon us,
and the potential of deadly
biowarfare attacks from govern-
ments, militant independent
groups, and even individuals is
far greater than it has been at
any time in the past. At this time,
more than twenty-five countries
are developing, or have stock-
piles of, chemical and biological
weapons, in many cases in suffi-
cient quantities to wipe out the
entire population of the world!
The danger of chemical and
biological aggression has been
little acknowledged, and at least
in America, little prepared for by
federal and local governments.
Most terrorist threats and
attacks are not reported. Infor-
mation about the proliferation of man-made diseases is carefully sup-
pressed by governments and the media. Those government officials
who should be warning the American people about the dangers of
chemical and biological terrorism, are instead doing their utmost to
keep the facts from us: facts that are vital for our survival. The infor-
mation contained in the pages of this book will not be measured or
calculated to reassure people that everything is fine, when reassur-
ance is the opposite of what is needed. You may even have night-
mares when you read the truth about the biowarfare threat to
America!
1999,516 x 816,138 pp, soft cover.
BIOWARFARE IN AMERICA: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58140)
BLACK BOOK OF ARSON
by Lyle Whitney
It has been a long
time since American mili-
tias have had to fight for
freedom. Hopefully, there
will never again be a
need. But just in case, a
book such as this one
could be an essential
tool. Fire has been a
powerful weapon ever
since humans learned to
produce and control it.
The Black Book of
Arson explains in detail:
• How to use fire to its
fullest effect • The best
ways to make Molotov
cocktails • Where to set
fires for maximum effect •
How to make waterproof
igniters from matchbooks
and balloons to be used in timer and booby-trap systems • How to
attack with smoke, poison gas, heat and flame • How to defend your-
self and others from fire.
From Chapter One: “Fire has often been compared to a living
creature: it eats, it breathes oxygen, it reproduces itself, behaves in
ways according to certain rules that could be considered a thought
process, it fights for life, and if deprived of its essential needs, it dies.
Living or not, it is a ferocious beast of tremendous power.
“Fire is often controlled and made to serve man, so either it or the
ability to give birth to it are almost always near at hand. Those who
know the beast and how it works carry with them a powerful device
that can be sent to destroy the enemy’s stores and destroy his
devices, and also by killing him.
“Fire has been used as a weapon of war from the stone age to
present, and it will continue to be used as such long into the future.”
1997,816x11,176 pp, photographs, soft cover.
BLACK BOOK OF ARSON: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32065)
COUNTER-TERRORISM EQUIPMENT
by Ian V. Hogg,
Illustrated by Ray Hutchins
This book contains expert analyses of the major counter-terrorism equipment in operation today, with a discussion of what the future will likely bring. Fully illustrated with photographs and technical drawings, Counter-Terrorism Equipment covers bomb detectors, specialized firearms, surveillance systems, robots, armored cars and more.
2001,816 x 6,146 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
COUNTER-TERRORISM EQUIPMENT: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32079)
CIVIL WAR TWO
The Coming Breakup of America
by Thomas W. Chittum
The Second Civil
War isn’t just a night-
mare anymore!
Social, political,
and economic forces
are pulling America
apart and driving her
toward a bloody war
that may fracture the
nation into several
different countries,
dividing along ethnic
lines! Riots... gangs...
militias... exploding
crime rates... mass
immigration... rising
unemployment...
declining wages:
these are all factors
that will fuel the fires
of internecine war!
Civil War Two:
The Coming
Breakup of America
is the book that states
what a lot of Ameri-
cans have been
thinking, wondering, and talking about! America is no longer a nation
at peace with itself. People realize that something has gone wrong in
a fundamental way, but most of us aren’t sure exactly what has gone
wrong or precisely where it is taking us.
Now, author and military analyst Thomas W. Chittum has provided
a gutsy, no-nonsense, factual look at what more and more people
have been thinking. He examines political, economic, and demo-
graphic trends, and concludes that America is headed towards either
becoming an imperialistic police state in which there is little or no free-
dom, or — more likely, in his astute opinion — collapsing into a sec-
ond civil war: Civil War Two. This impending civil war will break
America apart geographically, primarily along racial lines, within the
next 20 years!
Chittum doesn’t leave readers swimming in vague generaliza-
tions! He pinpoints the factors that are driving the coming breakup.
Chittum provides readers with detailed maps which depict how the
country will likely be split, and who will be controlling which parts.
Chittum examines the timetable for Civil War Two, explaining when it
is likely to happen, and where it will happen when it does. And he
gives his readers solid advice on what to do to prepare for such a war,
and how to avoid a personal tragedy in the coming troubles.
Chapters include:
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Urban Street Gangs • The Militias • Ethnic
Enclaves: Fortresses or Death Traps? • Mao’s
Rules for Revolution • Apocalypse in the North •
Revolution in the Black South • The Mexican
Reconquista of our Southwest • Our Police and
Military Divide and Clash • Our Military Bases
Fall to Siege • The Bloody Lessons of Tribal
Europe • Waco, Ruby Ridge and Oklahoma City
• The Establishment and Imperial Conversion •
The Vicious Nature of Civil War Two • America,
Empire or Nation? • Prepare Yourself.
Take an in-depth look at these dangerous trends, and learn why
America is headed for trouble, how this deadly struggle — already in
its infancy — is shaping up, and what you can do to protect yourself
and your family. Read this book now!
1996,5Mix 8te, 202 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CIVIL WAR TWO: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58106)
6 NIGHTMARES
Real Threats in a Dangerous World
and How America Can Meet Them
by Anthony Lake
Could this happen?
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Terrorists wielding biolog-
ical weapons cripple an
American city -
Hackers throw world
financial markets into
chaos -
An enemy nation attacks
anonymously and at a
distance, murdering inno-
cent U.S. citizens -
U.S. peacekeeping
troops become perma-
nently entangled in
another nation’s messy
domestic affairs -
We are obliged to use
foreign aid to support our
potential enemies -
Partisan politics produce ,
government gridlock — and effectively shut down
. Washington, D.C.
These are Anthony Lake’s 6 Nightmares — some of them have already happened.
2000,51/h x 8U,318 pp, indexed, soft cover.
6 NIGHTMARES: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 32072)
TO BREAK A TYRANT’S CHAINS
Neo-Guerrilla Techniques for Combat
by Duncan Long
This book is somewhat of an
insurance policy: it has been
created to help put tyrants —
and would-be tyrants — on
notice that a rag-tag band of
neo-guerrilla fighters can bring
the strongest of armies or police
states to their knees.
With this in mind, Duncan
Long reveals the secrets of how
to secure and create weapons
and the tactics to use them
when fighting almost anything
imaginable — from attack heli-
copters to tanks.
You will learn how to thwart
enemies equipped with night
vision equipment and how to
avoid being injured by deadly
chemical agents — even if you
don’t have á gas mask or other
protective equipment.
Long also shows how to deal with ruthless governments that retal-
iate against innocent citizens for actions that guerrillas take and how
to keep from getting caught when making a significant “blow against
the empire” — even if your rebel band consists of only a handful of
determined people. Included in the book is a tough assessment of the
effectiveness of various types of weapons, how to create fortified hiding places, how to wage a neo-guerrilla campaign both in urban as
well as rural areas, and much more. Whether you are interested in the
strategies and tactics of modern guerrilla movements or concerned
about a Big Brother takeover, this book belongs on your shelf.
1991,5% x 8M, 152 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TO BREAK A TYRANT’S CHAINS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 32051)
DON’T BE MISLED BY SO-CALLED
“BLACK BOOKS”
Because of a few unscrupulous publishers and dealers, there exists some confusion concerning authentic Black Books.
Some of the preliminary material for the Black Books program was published in 1969 by the military. This material was soon to be reproduced commercially and was known as TM31-210, Improvised Munitions Handbook. It sold for $3.00 to $10.00 a copy.
In 1976, Desert Publications obtained (with great difficulty and expense) a set (two volumes) of the original loose leaf Black Books and made reproductions available to book buyers. These were entitled Improvised Munitions Black Book, Volume 1 and 2.
By 1978, one parasite publisher chose to split TM31-210 into two volumes and printed each as a cheap, saddle-stitched booklet. To add to the confusion, these had black covers, and many unsuspecting buyers thought they were getting the geniune Black Books.
A year or so later, yet another parasite entered the picture. Obtaining Desert Publications’ Black Books, he proceeded to reproduce them into a cut-rate, one volume version. (Typically, stolen goods sell for less!)
Our main complaint with such rip-offs is the confusion caused to the book buyers.
Only Desert Publications has researched the Black Book program and maintains contact with ordnance experts involved. This has resulted in Volume 3, which contains all new, never before published material. Volume 3 is available in this catalog and will be available only from Loompanics Unlimited and other authorized Desert Publications dealers. ■
So — Don’t be misled by rip-offs!
BLACK BOOK, Volume 1
CIA and Special Forces
Improvised Munitions Handbook
These books were originally developed by the Frankford Arsenal for the CIA and Special Forces. They are the most detailed and comprehensive works ever done on the subject of improvised weapons. For years they have been the most sought after and secretive books ever published by the American military. These hard-to-find books are now available to you. Anyone who can foresee the troubled times ahead should not be without the knowledge contained in these books.
The originals were small and loose leaf bound because of the limited quantity printed. For this reprinting, the books have been camera enlarged to 514 x 814 for ease of reading and perfect bound in a soft black cover.
GUARANTEED COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC!!!
1978,5M x 81A, 145 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BLACK BOOK, Volume 1: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31014)
BLACK BOOK, VOLUME 2
CIA and Special Forces
“Improvised Munitions Handbook”
These books were originally developed by the Frankford Arsenal for the CIA and Special Forces. They are the most detailed and comprehensive works ever done on the subject of improvised weapons. For years they have been the most sought after and secretive books ever published by the American military.
These hard-to-find books are now available to you. Anyone who can foresee the troubled times ahead should not be without the knowledge contained in these books.
The originals were small and loose leaf bound because of the limited quantity printed. For this reprinting, the books have been camera enlarged to 51/2 x 814 for ease of reading and perfect bound in a soft black cover.
GUARANTEED COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC!!!
1981,516 x 8'6,138 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BLACK BOOK, Volume 2: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31015)
BLACK BOOK, VOLUME 3
Improvised Munitions
At last, the long awaited Improvised Munitions Black Book, Volume 3 is a reality! The 40 articles contained in this volume were a part of the research and development program which Frankford Arsenal carried out for the C.I.A. and Special Forces during the 1960s and early 1970s. However, the program was phased out before these articles could be prepared in finished form, printed and issued to the clandestine agents.
Although Volumes 1 & 2 were comparatively well known prior to their first commercial printing, and were eagerly sought after, the existence of the material in Volume 3 was known only to a handful of people in th.e intelligence community. Now, this material has been rescued from the dusty files of oblivion, professionally completed, and printed in an 8)4 x 11 format.
This large volume is a virtual encyclopedia of improvised explosives, weapons, incendiaries, detonators, and much, much more. Even direct and indirect methods of auto disablement are covered!!!
Remember, no other source can offer you this outstanding research on improvised weaponry!
1982,816x11,164 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BLACK BOOK, Volume 3: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31027)
Build potato cannons, paper
match rockets, Claciooati fire
William Gurateile
BACKYARD BALLISTICS
Build potato cannons, paper match rockets,
Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars,
and more dynamite devices
by William Gurstelle
What happens when you duct-
tape a couple of potato chip tubes
together, then add an energy
source, a tennis ball, and a
match? Well, not much — unless
you know the secret to building the
fabled tennis ball mortar.
This step-by-step guide
enables ordinary folks to construct
13 awesome ballistic devices
using inexpensive household or
hardware store materials. Clear
instructions, diagrams, and photo-
graphs show how to build projects
ranging from the simple — a
match-powered rocket — to the
more complex — a tabletop cata-
pult — to the classic — the infa-
mous potato cannon — to the
offbeat — a Cincinnati fire kite. With a strong emphasis on safety,
Backyard Ballistics also provides troubleshooting tips, explains the
physics behind each project, and profiles such scientists and extraor-
dinary experimenters as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac
Newton, among others. This book is indispensable for the legions of
backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every
day were the Fourth of July.
William Gurstelle is a professional engineer who has designed,
constructed, and collected ballistics experiments for over 20 years.
2001,7x 10,188pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BACKYARD BALLISTICS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 31050)
Food Drop Fiasco
by Russ Kick
© 2003 by Russ Kick
Artwork © 2002 by R.L. Crabb
Shortly after the U.S. attacked Afghanistan for supposedly sheltering Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, our TV screens were filled with images of planes dropping food rations into the bombarded country. The little yellow packets were shoved out of cargo holds by the thousands. You could almost hear the government patting itself on the back as it said, “See, we’re actually helping the starving people of Afghanistan.”
Trouble is, those food drops were a complete disaster. News reports mentioned some of the problems with the humanitarian effort, but there’s a lot they either didn’t tell us or got wrong. A nonprofit aid organization called Partners International Foundation decided to see what was going on. These guys aren’t granola-crunching flowerchildren — they used to be in Special Forces units of the U.S. military. And they didn’t content themselves to sit in an office interviewing people by phone. They went into Afghanistan during the heaviest part of the war to find out what was happening for themselves.
Here’s what they discovered:
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You know those little packets in vitamin bottles and clothes that are supposed to keep them fresh? Well, many of the little meal packs dropped on Afghanistan contained one of those packets (called a desiccant) to keep the food fresh. Unfortunately, the Afghans aren’t familiar with desiccants so they tore them open and ate the powder. Some thought it was medicine, so they noshed it straight. Others figured it was a funky American spice, so they sprinkled it on their beans, rice, or pasta. Lots of Afghans got sick, though we don’t know if any deaths occurred. In fact, it’s hard to say whether people got sick from chowing down on desiccant or because the food in the packets was usually spoiled.
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You see, these plastic-wrapped meals weren’t made to be dropped from 25,000 to 40,000 feet. As they freefall, the air pressure causes them to expand like balloons, and the cold at those altitudes makes the outer plastic brittle. If they haven’t already split during their plummet, they
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probably will when they hit the ground. Some burst wide open, while others got small tears, letting in water, dirt, and debris. Even in meals where the outer wrapping didn’t split, the wrapping of individual pieces of food inside the meal packet was often tom. In all, the team found that over 90% of the meal packets had been damaged and were contaminated by fungus or bacteria. “They emitted a gaseous odor and foul smell,” according to the report. But because the Afghans were so hungry, or because they thought that’s how American kibble is supposed to smell, they wolfed down the food anyway. When large numbers of people got sick, the Taliban said that the U.S. was poisoning them. The government countered that the Taliban must've been tainting the food packs to frame the U.S. Neither side was apparently right.
The food in the packets is usually spoiled. These plasticwrapped meals weren’t made to be dropped from 25,000 to 40,000 feet.
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Even if the food hadn’t gone rotten, it wasn’t appropriate for the Afghan culture. The locals eat rice, bread, and a little meat. Who knows what they made of the pasta, peanut butter, and pastries in the packets? It was kind of like serving goat meat, fried crickets, and unidentifiable glop to Americans. While any food is welcome in an emergency, that strange foreign grub wasn’t suitable for the goal of feeding people longterm.
Even if the food hadn’t gone rotten, it wasn’t appropriate for the Afghan culture. The locals eat rice, bread, and a little meat. Who knows what they made of the pasta, peanut butter, and pastries in the packets?
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Another problem is that the food was distributed haphazardly. Sometimes the packets wouldn’t be noticed for days or weeks, giving them plenty of time to go rotten. When dropped in remote locations, they were often hoarded or sold by the few people who happened to find them.
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Remember that urban legend about dropping a penny from the Empire State Building and killing someone on the sidewalk below? Same principal for the food drops. Each plane would dump 35,000 of these little projectiles, which reached speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. The team didn’t report on anyone hurt by plummeting packets, but they did see several huts with holes in their roofs caused by falling food.
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But even if an Afghan didn’t get conked on the head, they still had to be careful of packets on the ground. Why? Thanks to its war with the Soviet Union, Afghanistan is littered with unexploded mines and bombs. Go after a food packet in a field, and it may be the last thing you ever do. To make matters worse, some geniuses chose yellow plastic to wrap some of the meals. It just so happens that the bomblets from the U.S.’s cluster bombs are the same shade of yellow. Meal packets and unexploded bomblets look unbelievably similar. Thus, Afghanis were introduced to a new form of Russian roulette.
A bag of rice that can feed a family for a month costs $50, including delivery by land into Afghanistan. Using food drops, it cost over $145 to feed a family for a month.
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As lame as the attempts were, they must have had something going for them, right? At the very least, they must’ve been a cheap way to feed people. Wrong again. A bag of rice that can feed a family for a month costs $50, including delivery by land into Afghanistan. Using food drops, it cost over $145 to feed a family for a month.
That is, assuming the food packets didn’t give them a concussion, ptomaine, or send them into a minefield.«
Murder, Death & Torture
Introduction
This is our blood-and-guts Section. These books are on little-discussed areas of the political arts. They are the most gruesome and terrifying of any in our entire catalog. We carry them because information on these subjects is hard to find, and all “governments” (whether “public” like the U.S. Federal Government, or “private” like the Mafia) resort to murder and torture as extensions of their foreign and domestic policies. The stuff in this section is what government is really all about. (We thought you ought to know...)
DIM-MAK
Death Point Striking
by Erle Montaigue
Those who doubt that
t’ai chi ch’uan is the dead-
liest system of self-defense
ever invented don’t know
about dim-mak. What many
serious martial artists now
deride for its delicate,
dancelike movements or
dismiss as nothing but a
path to good health is
merely a smokescreen cre-
ated by the ancient Chinese
masters to conceal an art
comprised of deadly strikes
to vital acupuncture points.
That art was known as dim-
mak, or death-point striking
— the original name for t’ai
chi and the key to how the
art earned its title of
“supreme ultimate boxing.”
Today only a handful of
instructors know the points
and their hidden applica-
tions. Erle Montaigue, who can trace his lineage back to Yang
Luch’an, founder of the real Yang style, is one of them.
In this book, Montaigue, an internationally acclaimed leader in the
instruction of t’ai chi ch’uan, tells the full story of dim-mak for the first
time. Against the advice of some of his seniors, he reveals the most
dangerous points and describes both their martial and healing appli-
cations, then takes it a step further by presenting set-up points, multi-
ple point strikes, and neurological shutdown points. He does so
because he believes now is the time to educate people thoroughly on
the dangers of this powerful martial art. He has seen instructors use
bits and pieces of the art in demonstration and recognizes that too lit-
tle knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing indeed.
Dim-mak is a deadly serious system of self-defense to be used
only in life-or-death situations. It must not be treated lightly. This book
is for information purposes only.
1993,516 x 816, 240 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DIM-MAK: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34069)
ASSORTED NASTIES
by David Harber
Sure, Americans still harbor a fear of nuclear war. But a much more immediate threat these days is the very real possibility of chemical and biological warfare. The CIA commissioned a book on how to make these toxic cocktails in the 1950s, referred to as “the Devil’s Diary.”
No known copies of that book have survived. This effort, however, is the closest recreation of the recipes for those lethal brews. You’ll learn about blow guns, poison bullets and the nerve gas sarin, to name just a few. Some ingredients are readily available and can be mixed in the kitchen. Others are more complicated, requiring a complete laboratory set up. All are very dangerous, and must be treated with the utmost caution and respect. For informational purposes only.
1993,516 x 816,138 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ASSORTED NASTIES: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34091)
DEATH TOUCH
The Science Behind the Legend of Dim-Mak
by Michael Kelly, D.O.
The martial arts world is rife with
tales of ancient masters who could
cause instant or delayed death or illness
by attacking secret points on the human
body. Such tales are actually based on
an ancient martial art called dim-mak
(also known as kyusho jitsu), which is lit-
erally translated as “death touch.”
Although many martial artists have wit-
nessed the devastating effects of this
art, some remain skeptical because dim-
mak is usually explained using esoteric
concepts derived from acupuncture. To
the Western mind, the concept of attacking points on the body to disrupt the
internal energy of an opponent seems
like hocus-pocus. Thus, many Western-
ers dismiss dim-mak as nothing more than fictional nonsense.
However, if one can accept the idea that a dim-mak point is an
avenue for attacking the nervous system, it becomes easier to under-
stand just how dangerous this legendary art really is. In this book, Dr.
Michael Kelly, an osteopathic physician and experienced dim-mak
practitioner, explains dim-mak’s effects based on modern science. In
layman’s terms, Dr. Kelly reveals the physiological basis for what is
clearly a very real and dangerous method of fighting and, in the
process of unraveling the mystery of dim-mak, makes the true genius
of its founders brutally, and painfully, apparent.
2001,516 x 816,184 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
DEATH TOUCH: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34109)
EXECUTION
Tools and Techniques
by Bart Rommel
Execution is cere-
monial killing by a state
or government-like
group. This book is a
chilling examination of
capital punishment,
showing how the motives
and methods have
changed through the
centuries.
Execution contains
detailed descriptions of
all the techniques used
to officially extinguish
human life:
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Hanging
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Electrocution
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Beheading
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Shooting
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Gassing
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Lethal Injection
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And bizarre techniques
such as burning, drowning, entombment, draw-
ing & quartering, and death by torture
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There’s also a chapter on future technology.
Execution is not for those with weak stomachs. Killing people is
not pretty or clean. Yet government-sanctioned murder is performed
on a regular basis throùghout the world. For those who want the facts
on capital punishment, there is no other book like Execution.
1990,516 x 816, 119 pp, indexed, soft cover.
EXECUTION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34056)
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS
OF BYGONE DAYS
by Alice Morse Earle
Here’s a curious little number for you —
an illustrated book on torture and torment
inflicted by the Church and the State, first
published in 1896. Chapters include:
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The Bilboes
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The Ducking Stool .
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The Stocks
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The Pillory
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Punishments of Authors and Books
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The Whipping Post
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The Scarlet Letter
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Pranks and Gags
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Public Penance
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Military Punishments
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Branding and Maiming
• And more.
Each chapter is illustrated with a drawing of the punishment in action. Written by a well known colonial historian of her day, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days will be of interest to anyone interested in torture and torment, in crime and punishment, in guilt and justice, and in the never-ending saga of man’s inhumanity to man.
1896, 416 x 716, 149 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS: $10.00 (ORDER NUMBER 34035)
LAST SUPPERS
Famous Final Meals
from Death Row
by Ty Treadwell & Michelle Vernon
How’s this for a last meal:
24 tacos,
2 cheeseburgers,
2 whole onions,
5 jalapeno peppers,
6 enchiladas,
6 tostadas,
one quart of milk and
one chocolate milkshake?
That’s what David Castillo, convicted murderer packed in the night before Texas shot him up with a lethal injection. Or how about this: A dozen steamed mussels, a Burger King double cheeseburger with mustard, mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato, a can of Franco-American spaghetti with meatballs, a mango, half of a pumpkin pie with whipped cream, and a strawberry milkshake — all that went down the hatctrof killer Thomas Grasso on the eve of Oklahoma’s giving him the needle.
The United States remains one of the few “civilized” nations to utilize capital punishment as a crime-fighting tool. Execution rituals have always varied slightly from state to state, not only in the method of death but also in the care and treatment of the accused during his final hours. One ritual that remains constant throughout all 38 states which have the death penalty is the act of feeding the condemned man a special last meal before the execution. The quantity and quality of the food available to the inmate does vary, but each man or woman is always allowed to partake of one final feast before they shake hands with the Grim Reaper.
The ritual seems to be important not only to the inmate and to prison officials, but to the general public as well. Almost every newspaper article documenting an execution lists the condemned man’s last meal alongside his last words and the other details of the execution, making one wonder why this tidbit of information is sb greedily sought after. Do last meal menus somehow shed light on the inner psyche of the condemned man himself? Like a mystic reading tea leaves, do we hope to discover the reasoning behind a mad killer’s crimes by examining the gravy smears on his plate? Could a proven connection between cheesecake lovers and axe-murderers aid law enforcement officials in solving crimes? Regardless of the reasons, it can truly be said that criminals aren’t the only ones with an appetite for “last suppers.” So djg in and enjoy!
2001,516 x 816,146 pp, soft cover.
LAST SUPPERS: $14.95 (ORDER NUMBER 58143)
Order from our 2003 Main Catalog and receive our
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Holiday
Supplements when they come out.
INTERRORGATION
The CIA’s Secret Manual on Coercive Questioning
With an Introduction by Jon Elliston
“Resistant sources” can be
broken down with carefully cho-
sen, concentrated psychologi-
cal forces, according to
InTERRORgation, the CIA’s
1963 interrogation guidebook.
The KUBARK Counterintelli-
gence Interrogation manual,
declassified in January 1997
after the Baltimore Sun threat-
ened to launch a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit, offers
an inside view of the agency’s
hostile interrogation strategies
-r- methods for inducing physi-
cal and mental agony. Through-
out the manual, KUBARK —
the code word for the CIA —
cites its covertly funded mind
control research to explain the optimal means of making people talk.
From page 8: “Interrogations conducted under compulsion or duress are especially likely to involve illegality and to entail damaging consequences for [CIA]. Therefore prior Headquarters approval...must be obtained for the interrogation of any source against his will and under any of the following circumstances: • If bodily harm is to be inflicted • If medical, chemical or electrical methods or materials are to be used to induce acquiescence • [deleted]” “The manual’s description of coercive techniques, including the milder forms of torture... makes it a Cold War artifact of the first order,” wrote Tim Weiner of the New York Times. For students and critics of the CIA, this document is a must-read.
InTERRORgation puts government torture on the record.
1999,81A x 10%, 56 pp, indexed, soft cover.
INTERRORGATION: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34089)
ASSASSIN!
The Deadly Art of the Cult of The Assassins
by Dr. Haha Lung
From the shadows of the ancient
Middle East comes the terror known as
the hashishin, the professional assas-
sins of old who were responsible for
more changes in the course of history
from the pre-Middle Ages to the present
throughout the Middle East and Europe
than any other faction.
Dr. Haha Lung brings you the insidi-
ously effective techniques of the Cult of
the Assassins. From delivering graphic
threats, to boarding an enemy’s boat
without being detected, to inserting an
agent into the household staff of the
soon-to-be-victim and ambushing him
on the street after spending months
befriending him — the hashishin cultivated every method at their disposal to dispatch their enemies, and this astonishing book gives the reader every shred of information about their well-honed methods.
For the first time, the history and techniques of this feared cult are revealed in their entirety. Learn the shocking array of hand-to-hand fighting techniques that were developed thousands of years ago by professional killers and perfected by their modem-day descendants. Blade techniques, stealth and cunning, defensive methods, ancient weapons, assassination plots and treachery in general are all laid out in this gripping book. Sold for informational purposes only!
1997,5'6 x 816,191 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ASSASSIN!: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34083)
TRUE BLOOD
by Charles Gatewood and David Aaron Clark
Blood is more than just liq-
uid life. For some, it is ele-
vated to the status of a
thrilling elixir. In vivid photo-
graphs and compelling verse,
the authors depict the process
of piercing and bleeding, tast-
ing and manipulating the scar-
let stuff as deeply orgasmic
and highly ritualized.
This book explores the
ways people in this under-
ground culture bleed — either
by self-mutilation, or allowing
others to pierce their skin with
needles, knives, teeth and
other devices. You can call it a
macabre art book or call it just
plain sick. In any event,
there’s no denying that it’s
True Blood — and we’ve all
got it.
WARNING: Contains extremely graphic photographs, not
intended for minors or the squeamish.
1997,9 x 12,64 pp, photographs, soft cover.
TRUE BLOOD: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34087)
THE INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE
by Michael Kerrigan
A unique historical
reference guide com-
plete with 110 stun-
ning photographs and
etchings of the instru-
ments of torture
themselves.
Torture is associ-
ated most closely with
the absolute monar-
chies of history and
the totalitarian and
dictatorial regimes of
the more recent past
and present day. The
classical world
employed it widely
though by no means
indiscriminately, while
in the West it doesn’t
seem to have been
used systematically
until the medieval era.
After the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, western countries began banning it — though actual practice didn’t necessarily keep pace with official legislation. Even in the last few years, such democratic countries as Denmark, the UK, and the United States have at one time or another, it is claimed, strayed over the boundary between justifiably close and actually abusive questioning.
The Instruments of Torture looks at the techniques and tools used in torture, ranging from the earliest known historical instances of the practice right up to the present time and covering practices used throughout the world. The different methods of inflicting pain are grouped by type (stretching, for instance, having been used particularly in the European Renaissance as well as being still widespread in the Middle East), showing the grim parallels in torture as used in different cultures and contexts.
2001, 7x916,192 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34110)
BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERIES
Famous Unsolved Homicides
by Marilyn Morgan
Who among us doesn’t slow
down when driving by a traffic
accident, not just for safety rea-
sons, but because of an almost
universally felt macabre interest in
what just happened? That same
kind of curiosity is what impels us
to keep turning the pages of Baf-
fling Murder Mysteries. Some
involve well-known celebrities, like
“Superman” George Reeves, or
Bob “Hogan’s Heroes” Crane, and
ex-union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
Who can forget the Green River
Killer and his reign of terror in the
Pacific Northwest? Before serial
murders were even tagged as
such, famed “G-Man” Eliot Ness
was faced with the investigation of
such a murderer that was the
beginning of the end of his career.
Bully Kenneth McElroy both repels and intrigues us as we read of
an entire town he terrorized. The inhabitants finally stood their ground
against him in a broad daylight killing, “unseen,” in the middle of town.
We continue to be fascinated by these unsolved murders as we
look at the facts, and the questions of “Who did if and “How did they
get away with if continue to haunt us. Read Baffling Murder Mys-
teries and decide for yourself if they are all really unsolved.
2001,516 x 816,180 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BAFFLING MURDER MYSTERIES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34104)
BURIED ALIVE
The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
by Jan Bondeson
An engrossing and witty history
of the fear and the facts of being
buried alive. Readers of Edgar Allan
Poe’s tales — just think of The Pre-
mature Burial-— may comfort them-
selves with the notion that Poe must
have exaggerated: surely people of
the 1800s could not have been at
risk of being buried alive? But such
stories filled medical journals as well
as fiction, and fear in the populace
was high. It was speculated, from
the number of skeletons found in
horrific, contorted positions inside
their coffins, that ten out of every
one hundred people were buried
before they were dead.
With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine,
folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to
uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. Jan
Bondeson looks at legends from the Renaissance of thieves awaken-
ing supposedly deceased women when they try to steal the women’s
jewelry, as well as people awakening on the way to their funerals or
even later in the graveyard. He then looks at the bizarre nineteenth-
century security coffins with bell-ropes or escape hatches, and the
macabre waiting mortuaries for decaying corpses, as well as the writ-
ers who were inspired to use themes of premature burial in their work.
Finally, he questions whether our medical criteria today for determin-
ing if someone is dead are truly reliable.
2001,6x9,320 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
BURIED ALIVE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34103)
MUERTE!
Death in Mexican Popular Culture
Edited by Harvey Bennett Stafford
Warning! Extremely graphic! Death is the primary question. The way a culture faces death reveals the way it accepts life. Death, in America, is detached from reality and cleansed of its lessons. Too close a proximity to death remains taboo. In Mexican popular culture, death is treated far differently. Gore-laden tabloid publications like Alarma! and Peligro! together sell more than fifteen million copies a week. In the Oaxaca district, an entire holiday is devoted to the celebration of death and its charming ephemera.
Muertel pulls no punches in its exploration of the ways and means Mexican culture explores the stomach-churning verities of death. This singular volume came about as the result of gringo fine artist Harvey Stafford’s exploration of Mexican tabloid culture. For this volume, Stafford accompanied tabloid photographers on their visual quest for death scenes, purchasing publication rights to dozens of photographs from the photographers themselves. The way Mexican tabloids affected his thoughts about death and his attitude towards art is revealed in Stafford’s introductory text. Reproductions from tabloid magazines, translations of typical articles, and articles about tabloid publications from the notorious bilingual publication polyester are also found in Muertel, a book that we must warn you is extremely graphic.
2000,10 x 8,100 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MUERTE!: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34102)
THE DEADLIEST MEN
The World’s Deadliest Combatants
Throughout the Ages
by Paul Kirchner
This should be titled The Big
Book of Badasses. Who were the
greatest warriors of all time? This
book profiles 50, including
Myamoto Musashi, Jim Bowie
and Geronimo, who faced over-
whelming odds, survived terrible
wounds, pulled off hairbreadth
escapes and piled enemies in
heaps. Their stories read like fic-
tion, but are all the more riveting
because they are true.
2001,516 X 816,376pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
THE DEADLIEST MEN: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 19225)
100 YEARS OF LYNCHINGS
by Ralph Ginzburg
From distant parts of the United
States, reports of racial violence fill the
daily news. That Blacks are killed in
the streets of New York while being
beaten and harassed in the hills of
Georgia, should come as no surprise.
America has a long but seldom dis-
cussed history of violence against its
Black citizens. The typical American
response has been to ignore this his-
tory. Unfortunately, this further
obscures a historical problem which
can only be resolved through defen-
sive vigilance and an awareness of
the scope and nature of the problem.
First published in 1962, 100 Years
of Lynchings is as relevant today as
it was then. It presents the reader with
vivid newspaper accounts of a “red record of racial atrocities.” It is a simple and straightforward presentation. Lacking narration, the news articles speak for themselves. Through them we witness a history of racial atrocities that we cannot afford to forget. Ginzburg skillfully selected articles from a wide range of papers, large and small, radical and conservative, white and Black. Through them, he has created a documentary of lynchings. Few who read this book will remain unaffected. Out of print since 1972, 100 Years of Lynchings has been on the wanted list of many readers. This new reprinting assures continued access to this important work and to the tragic history it chronicles.
1962,5% x 8V2,270 pp, soft cover.
100 YEARS OF LYNCHINGS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34108)
KILLER KIDS
by Michael Newton
Kids who kill. Phenomena
manifesting only in these modern
times, or just how long has this
been going on? Michael Newton,
well known for his previous ency-
clopedic works on criminals, has
researched these minor murder-
ers and the results are in this, his
latest work, Killer Kids.
Within the pages of this book
you will discover that each year
up to 1,500 kids below the legal
age of 18 commit murders. And
the numbers are growing higher
each year. Who are these kids
and why are they doing this? Find
out more from Michael Newton: •
Do males commit more murders
than their female counterparts? •
Are more crimes committed by
kids with prior criminal records? •
What are the motivations for children to commit murder and mayhem? • Which age group is the most likely to kill? • Are most murders by kids committed while they are at school? • Just what weapons does a kid have access to? • What is “Intermittent Explosive Disorder” and how does it relate? • Do Killer Kids work alone or are they more likely to kill in packs? • Are they killing their own families or strangers?
J. Edgar Hoover, long dead director of the FBI, warned us of a new crime wave spawned from a juvenile jungle, an army of teenaged criminals. Not well known for his psychic abilities, perhaps he was more prescient than we knew. Read Killer Kids and perhaps you’ll agree.
2000,5M x 8V2,249 pp, soft cover.
KILLER KIDS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34097)
FINAL EXIT
The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and
Assisted Suicide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry
As the legal controversy con-
tinues — this completely revised
edition of the landmark bestseller
contains new, critically important
information for patients, loved
ones,, and medical personnel.
The original publication of
Final Exit stunned the nation by
offering people with terminal ill-
ness a choice on how — and
when — to end their suffering. It
helped thousands by giving clear
instructions to doctors, nurses,
and families on how to handle a
patient’s request for euthanasia.
In the wake of court cases and
legislative mandates, this revised
and updated second edition goes
far beyond the original to provide
new information about the legality
of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and a thoughtful examination of the personal issues involved. It has become the essential source to help loved ones and supportive doctors remain within existing laws and keep a person’s dying intimate, private, and dignified.
With deep compassion and sensitivity, it spells out why a living will may not be sufficient to have a person’s wishes carried out — and what document is a better alternative. It updates where to get proper drugs and exactly how to carry out the quickest, most peaceful way to make a final exit. Finally, it gently talks to a person considering selfdeliverance about alternatives, planning, and the means to make every death a “good death” at our time of greatest need.
1996,5x8,236 pp, indexed, soft cover.
FINAL EXIT: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34100)
FINAL EXIT (VHS VIDEO)
The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and
Assisted Suicide for the Dying
2000 Version
by Derek Humphry
It is proving difficult to enact laws permitting physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Where passed, such as in Oregon, they are under continual attack. Derek Humphry pledges to keep fighting for legislative reforms, for this is truly an idea whose time has come. Until the laws are changed, the dying who want relief now must look out for themselves. Taking one’s own life is not a crime, nor is it a felony for another to be present at the act. Therefore, this tape may be a dying person’s best guide to self-deliverance from unbearable suffering. Listen with great care.
Derek Humphry shows you which medicines are the best ones to use for self-deliverance, tells you the proper dosage, and shows you how to administer the medicine. He also covers much, else regarding the act of suicide, including the “plastic bag” method, and why you should not use a car to do it. Very informative.
2000,45 minutes, color VHS video.
FINAL EXIT (VHS Video): $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34095)
Videos are nonreturnable, damaged tapes will be replaced.
European Customers: All the videos we sell are American VHS format. We regret that this format is not compatible with European video players. Be sure to check your player before ordering video tapes.
STILL AT LARGE
A Casebook of 20th Century Serial Killers Who
Eluded Justice
by Michael Newton
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V»ho Ciudcd Justice
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Every year in America, more
than 5,000 killers elude police. And
most of the notorious murderers
who slip the grip of the law commit
the same crime again and again,
leaving the grisliest of signatures. In
Still at Large, master of the crime
encyclopedia . Michael Newton
(author of Hunting Humans, Bad
Girls Do It!, Holy Homicide, Cop
Killers, Killer Cops, and Black Collar
Crimes) recounts chilling tales of
unsolved serial murders. In this
book, you’ll meet:
-
’’Bible John,” who sweeps his
victims off their feet, literally.
After he meets young women
at a ballroom dancing parlor,
he takes them out and stran-
gles them with their own stock-
ings.
-
Belle Gunness, who, after poisoning her children and husbands,
eliminated a string of ranch hands and left their bodies to decom-
pose in burlap bags doused with lye. Some say Belle died, but
others claim they’ve seen her in a hospital and working as a
madam. -
The “Doodler,” a killer with a penchant for comic art who has left
14 gay men dead in his wake. -
The devil who chooses priests as his prey, mangling them with
brutal beatings. -
The “BTK” Strangler, whose m.o. is to bind them, torture them, kill
them. Frustrated by the lack of publicity, he taunted a local televi-
sion station with a note that read, “How many do I have to kill
before I get my name in the paper or some national attention?”
So you think you’ll never be the victim of a serial murderer? Don’t
be so sure. The killers in this book could be lurking in your neighbor-
hood, your office, even your home. Watch out, because they’re Still
at Large...
1999,516 x 816,309 pp, soft cover.
STILL AT LARGE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34093)
THE HISTORY OF TORTURE
by Brian Innes
Torture is undeniably a
crime against humanity, but it
was legal for at least 3,000
years and formed a part of
most legal codes in Europe and
the Far East. In Brian Innes’
The History of Torture, the
complete story of torture is told,
from its earliest uses to its
modern manifestations.
This book is a meticulously
researched account, its
detailed text enhanced by more
than 100 etchings, paintings
and photographs. It offers a
remarkable overview of man’s
inhumanity to man and the
abuse of power, both outside
and within the legal system.
1998,716 x 916,192 pp, illustrated, Indexed,
photographs, hard cover.
THE HISTORY OF TORTURE: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34090)
ADVANCED DIM-MAK
The Finer Points of Death-Point Striking
by Erle Montalgue
In this sequel to his
ground-breaking book
Dim-Mak: Death-Point
Striking, world-
renowned taiji master
Erle Mbntaigue reveals
more about the deadly
ancient Chinese fighting
system that earned taiji-
quan the name
“supreme ultimate box-
ing.” This advanced
study and training man-
ual presents areas of
training, points, revival
and healing not covered
in the first book. In addi-
tion to the more
advanced methods for
the serious martial
artist, Montaigue covers
basic street survival
techniques, including
knife defense, that uti-
lize the simplest of dim-
mak methods. He also
presents a chapter on knockout and controlling points that law
enforcement officers can learn in a matter of hours and apply when
facing violent criminals who do not respond to pain.
Finally, because the art relies on skill as opposed to strength and
is therefore ideal for those of smaller stature, he includes a chapter on
training children in basic methods of self defense using dim-mak. For
academic study only.
1994,516 x 816,328 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ADVANCED DIM-MAK: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34072)
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, ORDINARY PEOPLE
The Dynamics of Torture
by John Conroy
This book is a compelling investigation of three incidents of torture in the Western world and what they tell us about how ordinary people can become torturers, about the rationalizations societies adopt to justify torture, and about the potential in each of us for acting unspeakably.
Using firsthand interviews, official documents, and newspaper accounts, John Conroy examines interrogation practices in a Chicago police station, two raids conducted by the Israeli army, and the case of Northern Ireland’s “hooded men,” who were tortured by British forces. He takes us inside the experience of the victim, the mind of the torturer, and the seeming indifference of the bystander.
Conroy visits with former torturers, describes their training and family backgrounds, and examines the justifications they and their societies offer for the systematic abuse of men, women, and children. He interviews survivors of torture and learns of the coping mechanisms they deployed and the long-term effects of their ordeals. He draws on those meetings and on previous studies, to help us understand the dynamics of torture.
Recent events — particularly the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and well-publicized cases of police brutality in our own country — make it essential that we understand such acts of violence, as the first step in eradicating them. Lucid and unblinking, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People takes us further toward this goal than any book we have seen yet.
2000,6x9,322 pp, indexed, hard cover.
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS, ORDINARY PEOPLE: $26.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34101)
BAD GIRLS DO IT!
An Encyclopedia of Female Murderers
by Michael Newton
From the author of
Hunting Humans: An
Encyclopedia of Mod-
ern Serial Killers
comes the best book
on female multiple
murderers ever
assembled. How “bad”
are these girls? Every
one of the 182 women
profiled here didn’t just
kill — they killed again
and again! Every one
of them a multiple mur-
deress!
If you thought
Aileen Wournos was
the first female serial
killer, think again. It’s
true she popped six
men in a year-long
shooting spree, but
she’ll have to take a
number behind these death-dealing debs: • Charlene Gallego developed a taste for murder gnawing on the bodies of her sex-slave victims. She confessed to ten brutal slayings. • Judith Neeley, at age 18, became the youngest resident of Alabama’s death row. She’s still there today, waiting to be executed for kidnapping, sexual violence and murder. • Martha Beck started her career washing corpses for a funeral parlor in Florida and ended it making corpses in Michigan. • Elizabeth Bathory used pins, needles, branding irons, whips, pokers, scissors — even an iron maiden — to torture young girls to death. Charged with 80 murders, she is suspected of more than 300.
These are just a few of the Necrophilic Nurses, Baby Butchers, Black Widows, and Angels of Death chillingly catalogued in this grisly collection. Based on ten years of research, Bad Girls Do It! proves that the urge to kill is an equal opportunity affliction.
1993,816x11,199 pp, soft cover.
BAD GIRLS DO IT!: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34070)
HISTORY OF PUNISHMENT & TORTURE
A journey through the dark side of justice
by Karen Farrington
Killing, maiming and ritual humiliation were once part of everyday life — and all these dread acts were carried out in the name of the law via the politics of terror. Ingenious methods of perpetrating man’s inhumanity have been created and the burden on victims has been immense. The study of punishment and torture through history is both macabre and mesmerizing. In early times the authority of kings and noblemen was paramount and the penalty for criminal activity was death or serfdom. From the Middle Ages until the 19th century the aims of punishment were deterrence and retribution. Consequently, the number of offenses in Britain commanding the death penalty by the end of the 18th century amounted to more than 200. Little wonder that the criminal statutes were known collectively as “The Bloody Code.”
In Europe the law required a confession to make a conviction. Eager volunteers manned the gruesome torture chambers where admissions from wrong doers were exacted. Appalling abuses took place in the name of king and country and the human toll rose hand- in-hand with the increasing population. This book, exhaustively researched and graphically detailed, sheds light on a dark and hidden corner of history.
2000,9 x 12,192 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
HISTORY OF PUNISHMENT & TORTURE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34099)
Professional
Killers:
An Inside Look
Burt Rapp
—
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS
An Inside Look
by Burt Rapp
“Most hits are simple affairs.
The purpose is to cause certain
death as quickly as possible...”
You’ve seen them on TV and in
the movies: professional “hit
men” taking out victims with a
silent shot. Is that what it’s really
like? No, it isn’t, as you will find
out when you read this book.
In Professional Killers, Burt
Rapp takes you along as the hit
goes down. You will learn how
hired guns get their assign-
ments, find their targets, and
push the button. You will read
about super-killers from the
Soviet Union, Israel, and the
United States. You will learn
why silencers are only for the
movies, and how hit men can
make their handiwork look like
suicide.
Chapters include: • The Professional Killer in Fiction • Killing is
Easy • History • Today’s Hired Killers • Government Killers • Tools and
Techniques • Acquiring Weapons • Stalking the Target • The Approach
and Escape • Defeating Hired Killers • And much more, including an
Appendix on the identification of corpses.
Professional Killers is an inside look at a dark profession.
1999,516 x 816,157 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PROFESSIONAL KILLERS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34057)
BE YOUR OWN UNDERTAKER
How to Dispose of a Dead Body
byA.R. Bowman
Being forced to kill
somebody in justifiable
self-defense is a sad
reality of today’s violent
society. Unfortunately, it’s
also a sad reality that you
could be prosecuted for
your actions by a corrupt,
incompetent, misguided
“justice” system. So you
decide not to call the
police. Now you’re stuck
with a dead body! How
do you get yourself out of
this mess? A.R. Bowman
has the answers in this
outrageous study of the
dark art of freelance
corpse disposal. He
explores all of the deli-
cate options, as well as
the gruesome “how-to”
details of making sure
that it’s the thug’s body
rotting away in an
obscure pit or at the bot-
tom of Lake Nameless rather than your freedom rotting away unjustly in some prison cell.
You may consider this book disgusting, sacrilegious, and abominable (and it is), but you also may wish you had read it should you ever be faced with a most unpleasant situation someday.
1992,516 x 816,56 pp, soft cover.
BE YOUR OWN UNDERTAKER: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34065)
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIM-MAK
The Main Meridians
by Erle Montalgue and Wally Simpson
Based on the acupuncture
points and the energy channels of
the body, the ancient Chinese art
of dim-mak, or death-point strik-
ing, can be used to maim and kill
as well as to heal. But until now,
martial artists have had to rely on
acupuncture texts for information
on the points and how they work.
Unfortunately, this was inadequate
because the reference books nor-
mally covered only the healing
aspects of acupuncture, omitting
the martial side altogether.
Combining his own expertise
with that of Wally Simpson, one of
Australia’s foremost acupunctur-
ists and an instructor of traditional Chinese medicine for the World
Taiji Boxing Association, martial-arts expert Erle Montaigue (who, in
1985r became the first Westerner to achieve the degree of “Master” in
dim-mak and h’ao ch’uan [taijiquan]) set forth to remedy this dearth of
pertinent and accessible information. The result of the collaborative
effort of Montaigue and Simpson — the first of a two-volume set —
covers all of the points on the 12 main energy meridians of the body,
giving their exact location, the effect of striking them in all possible
directions, the set-up points one can use to enhance the effect of the
major point strikes, the antidote methods and the healing applica-
tions.
1997,816x11,432 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIM-MAK: $50.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34081)
KILLER COPS
An Encyclopedia of Lawless Lawmen
by Michael Newton
In America, citizens are killed by the
police every day of the year. We have
come to expect that harsh reality, and in
fact we like our lawmen rough and
ready, as long as they are blowing away
someone who apparently deserves it.
We entrust the police with our lives, and
in return we give law enforcement per-
sonnel the benefit of the doubt, assum-
ing that in most cases such deaths are
justified as self-defense.
Killer Cops: An Encyclopedia of
Lawless Lawmen is not about trigger-
happy “cowboys” who pursued their
duties with excessive zeal, nor does it
second-guess the officers whose han-
dling of violent suspects led to “acciden-
tal” deaths in custody. Instead, it lifts a different stone in order to
scrutinize America’s worst nightmare: sworn protectors of the law who
used their badges as hunting licenses, killing on a whim for profit, sex,
or personal revenge.
No rank or agency has been immune from shame in this regard.
The cases profiled in this book span the continent and run the gamut
of law enforcement’s social scale, from small-town police depart-
ments to the normally sacrosanct FBI. Patrolmen stand convicted
side-by-side with sergeants, chiefs, and county sheriffs. From the Old
West’s legendary Wyatt Earp to today’s Bad Lieutenants, the pattern
of homicidal lawlessness is clearly defined.
As Jack Webb, portraying the LAPD’s Joe Friday, once pointed
out, there will always be a few bad apples to be found among the
police “because we have to recruit from the human race.”
1997,516 x 816,209 pp, soft cover.
KILLER COPS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34084)
COP KILLERS
by Michael Newton
Cops. Some people love them.
Some people hate them. Some
people kill them.
Michael Newton, master of the
crime encyclopedia, has compiled
more than 100 cases in which leg-
endary gangs, religious mercenar-
ies, and reckless outlaws have
taken out law enforcers. The author
of Bad Girls Do It!; Hunting
Humans; Killer Cops; Black Collar
Crime, and Raising Hell gives the
goods on the likes of: • The Black
Liberation Army, whose members
made it their mission to rid the ghet-
tos of police. The killings were, for
them, victorious battles in a revolu-
tion for black freedom. • The
teenager driving a stolen car who
claimed that rap music persuaded him to kill the officer who pulled him over. • Con man Gerald Chapman, who developed fan clubs across the country after a string of robberies, jail breaks and murders. • The “neighbor from hell” Carl Drega, whose chronic complaints and simmering rage finally exploded, resulting in bloodshed and death.
In this book, you’ll get the complete truth behind the tales, and a closer look at the tragic way some cops ended their careers. This tribute seeks to preserve the memory and honor of those killed in the line of duty.
1998,516 x 816,346 pp, soft cover.
COP KILLERS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34088)
HOLY HOMICIDE
An Encyclopedia of Those Who Go
With Their God... and Kill!
by Michael Newton
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Go With TWGod... And Ä2K'
Michad Newton
Human beings kill one another for all
sorts of reasons, but none are stranger or
more incomprehensible than religion! Holy
Homicide: An Encyclopedia of Those
Who Go With Their God... and Kill! is a
lexicon of murders attributed to instructions
from deities, whether committed by unsta-
ble loners, organizations, or armies. As
demonstrated by the atrocities enumerated
within this book’s pages, religion is among
the oldest, most persistent motives for mur-
der throughout human history. Millions, per-
haps billions, of victims have suffered and
died throughout the ages, all in the name of
one god or another.
Murder maven Michael Newton, author of such books as Hunting
Humans, Bad Girls Do It! and Black Collar Crimes, has outdone him-
self in this grisly sampler of divinity-directed death.
These and many more persons and groups have demonstrated
that no atrocity is too heinous, no massacre is too outrageous... just
as long as the killing is directed by a force that is greater than the per-
petrator! Newton has included entries for cults (Aum Shinrikyo,
Heaven’s Gate, Order of the Solar Temple, “People’s Temple,” etc.),
historical overviews (Biblical Bloodshed, Capital Punishment, Cru-
sades, Human Sacrifice, Inquisition, Religious Wars, Terrorism),
organized religions and groups (including Ku Klux Klan, Mormons,
and Nation of Islam), and other dire classifications.
Maybe the Devil made ’em do it... or perhaps it was Jehovah!
Whatever the supernatural reasons were, they’re all here in the pages
of Holy Homicide: An Encyclopedia of Those Who Go With Their
God... and Kill!
1998,516 x 816,283 pp, soft cover.
HOLY HOMICIDE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 34086)
Survival
Introduction
Due to decades of short-sighted and self-serving economic and social policies on the part of this country’s and the world’s politicians and leaders, we face a variety
of potential disasters in the next few years — a worldwide depression, runaway inflation, terrorism, environmental catastrophes, nuclear war, and even an invasion by a foreign army are but a few of the horrifying possibilities.
Our survival books cover a wide range of possible disasters -—even including how to survive a nuclear war —and the get-down nitty gritty business of making tools and weapons out of sticks and stones. Our Survival Section includes the finest survival books ever written.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
by Gregory J. Davenport
During his intense training to
become a U.S. Air Force Survival
Instructor, Gregory Davenport
learned to adapt to adverse condi-
tions and survive in every global cli-
mate. His experience and education
are the foundation of this comprehen-
sive, well-organized, and user-
friendly guide to staying alive in the
backcountry. Using concise explana-
tions and detailed illustrations, Dav-
enport covers the five basic elements
of survival — personal protection, sig-
naling, procuring food and water,
travel, and health — providing the
reader with complete information on
how to stay calm and alive until the
arrival of rescue.
Gregory Davenport, a nine-year member of the USAF, is the cre-
ator of Simply Survival, an adventure-based program that focuses on
wilderness survival and self-improvement. A certified physicians
assistant and primary health provider, Davenport has trained military
personnel from around the world in survival techniques.
1998,516 x 816,192 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11125)
SURVIVAL WITH THE ATLATL
by Bill Tate
Twenty-thousand years ago, in what is now Europe, a Cro Magnon hunter fitted the concave end of a short spear or dart into a carved hook of antler. Holding the antler in his hand, steadying the dart with his fingers, he took careful aim at a large bison and with a throwing motion, released the dart with tremendous thrust to make his kill.
We will never know what genius first designed this device. The inventor of this amazing weapon is hidden, lost in time, a thousand generations ago. Thousands of years later in other parts of the world, similar spear throwers or spear slings were independently invented. Australian aborigines used them, and called them “woomeras,” Eskimo hunters used them, early Americans seven thousand years ago used them, and at the time of contact, the Spanish found Aztecs waging war with these “atlatls.” At I at I, pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable as in “Atlantic” is possibly the Toltec word for spear thrower. The later Aztecs adopted the weapon and its Toltec name, a name gaining acceptance by archeologists in America.
Survival With the Atlatl gives you illustrated, step-by-step directions for making your own inexpensive atlatl, and shows you how to use it with accuracy. Learn all about this Ice Age hunting weapon — learn how to make and use the atlatl.
1987,816 x 11,31 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SURVIVAL WITH THE ATLATL: $6.50
(ORDER NUMBER 19142)
MAN EATERS
True Tales of Animals Stalking, Mauling,
Killing, and Eating Human Prey
Edited by Lamar Underwood
On land and sea, in all corners of
the globe, human beings have had
fatal encounters with bears, sharks,
crocs, cougars, lions, tigers, poison-
ous snakes, rogue elephants and
other ferocious animals. As out-
doorsmen, we can learn a lot about
how to handle such dangerous con-
frontations by reading the frighten-
ing, fascinating stories of those who
have found themselves on the wrong
end of the tooth and claw.
Whether you are a hiker, back-
packer, hunter, fisherman or outdoor
photographer, like the rest of us you
probably assume it’s some other
poor guy who’s going to get it out in
the wild. You could be wrong — dead
wrong. Read, cringe, and learn.
2001,6x9,352 pp, hard cover.
MAN EATERS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 25095)
SURVIVAL BARTERING
by Duncan Long
If our shaky money system col-
lapses, you may need to barter to
keep your family and business oper-
ating. Duncan Long has written a fine
book on bartering, with emphasis on
survival situations, how you can get
started now, and how to profit from
bartering, even if there is never a
monetary crisis.
Topics covered include: • How
bartering can give you the edge you
need to survive • Bartering and self-
reliance • The three forms of bartering
—- when and how they are used •
How to get good deals by bartering •
Living in a bartering community •
Stockpiling items for future bartering
— what to store and how and where to store it • Protecting yourself
against criminals and rip-off artists • And much more, including
sources for more information on bartering and survival.
Survival Bartering tells you what you need to know to survive if
the banking system collapses, and more than that, how you can ben-
efit from bartering now. Highly recommended for anyone interested in
survival and the underground economy.
1986,516 x 816,56 pp, soft cover.
SURVIVAL BARTERING: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 13063)
THE EXTREME SURVIVAL ALMANAC
Everything You Need to Know to Live
Through a Shipwreck, Plane Crash,
or Any Outdoor Crisis Imaginable
by Reid Kincaid
The Extreme Survival Almanac is a major new book in the field of outdoor survival that is different from anything else on the market. It is written specifically for regular people who may be suddenly forced to survive in the wilderness without assistance, with no planning and with no specialized training or equipment.
This remote-area survival manual provides clear decision-making guidelines to walk you step-by-step from the first signs of trouble all the way through to the rescue. It outlines specific courses of action for every type of survival scenario imaginable, including thousands of useful tips, directions and suggestions that can be understood and followed by the panicked, possibly injured layman stranded in the woods, in a vehicle or at sea. Just some of the things you and your family will learn include:
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whether you should wait for rescue, and the right and wrong ways to do so
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how to make your own way to safety on land or sea, over all types of terrain and under all sorts of weather conditions
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how to provide emergency medical treatment deep in the backcountry or aboard a life raft, with no medical training whatsoever
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how to deal with children or frightened adults under desperate conditions
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how to scrounge usable survival equipment from a car, plane or boat as well as the natural environment
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plus tons of essential tricks such as finding the coolest place to He low in a desert, the best way to lead a group of people across featureless terrain, an easy way to determine how much daylight is left using only your hand, an effective method to deal with supply poaching in a group of survivors and much, much more.
The Extreme Survival Almanac is the most comprehensive, user-friendly survival guide ever written and is essential gear for every travel pack, car, camper, boat or plane.
2002,816x11,480 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE EXTREME SURVIVAL ALMANAC: $45.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11121)
CRISIS PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK
A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage
and Physical Survival
Updated Second Edition
by Jack A. Spigarelli
Will you be ready? \Ne
thought it couldn’t happen, but it
did. Now we know just how vul-
nerable we really are. What could
be next? • Biochemical terrorism
• Nuclear attack or accidents •
Earthquakes or other natural dis-
asters • Economic upheaval and
civil riots • Crop failures and
famine.
This handbook will help you
prepare for our uncertain times
by showing you how to: • Design
a basic food-storage plan that fits
your needs • Prepare your home
for earthquakes • Survive nuclear
attacks and accidents • Build
your own free radiation meter •
Put together a workable Emer-
gency Evacuation Kit • Select
appropriate firearms • Use communications so you’ll know what’s really going on • Take care of hygienic needs • Store fuel safely for the long term • And much, much more. This complete guide will help you prepare for crisis. Why wait?
2002,6x9,318 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
CRISIS PREPAREDNESS HANDBOOK: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11124)
KELLER’S OUTDOOR SURVIVAL GUIDE
How to Prevail When Lost, Stranded,
or Injured in the Wilderness
by William Keller, EMT
A survival guide that’s also a
good read! Even if you don’t
equip yourself with all the sur-
vival tools recommended in this
book, reading the compelling
accounts of actual life-and-death
situations will teach you, above
all, the importance of thinking
clearly and accurately assessing
your priorities when the unex-
pected happens. That alone
could save your life. Go the next
step and prepare yourself and
your pack according to the
author’s advice, and you can
consider yourself ready for just
about anything. This book
explains the most important fac-
tors in surviving an injury, getting lost, or being stranded while hiking, skiing, snowmobiling or hunting in a wilderness area, and demonstrates how to assess your situation and act appropriately.
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) William Keller draws from over 20 years of experience in search-and-rescue and emergency services in the Rocky Mountains, plus his own encounters with survival situations. He addresses finding water, using a map and compass, fire-starting, shelter, first aid, detectability, survival in a car, and more, explained clearly and simply. Real-life stories make it fascinating reading, and reinforce the author’s message that anything can happen to anyone at any time, and that the prepared mind is as important as the prepared pack.
2001,7 x 10,160 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
KELLER’S OUTDOOR SURVIVAL GUIDE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11123)
RAGNAR’S URBAN SURVIVAL
A Hard-times Guide to Staying Alive in the City
by Ragnar Benson
In this, his ultimate handbook on surviving in the city, Ragnar Benson, America’s leading survival author, debunks the myth that the only way to survive a crisis is to stock a retreat in the mountains and shows how properly prepared urban dwellers can make it through any emergency. He tells you how to find, purify, and store water in the city; trap wild game; butcher what you’ve caught or raised; use the abundant (and free) food sources common to almost every city; preserve food for lean times; position your retreat for maximum safety; avoid troops; and barter with other survivors. You’ll learn which weapons are absolute necessities and which aren’t worth having, and confront the all-important topic of survival nursing care for the ill and injured.
Gleaning advice from survivors who have lived through catastrophic events in Beirut, Berlin, and Karachi, Ragnar gives you the solid information you will need to make it if the worst-case scenario becomes a reality.
2000,516 x 816, 200 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
RAGNAR’S URBAN SURVIVAL: $20.Q0
(ORDER NUMBER 11116)
STAYING ALIVE
International Handbook of Survival Tactics
by Jerry Gill
Leam tactics for surviving hostile environments like desert, jungle, mountain, snowfield, sea, etc. Tactics for natural disasters and manmade dangers. Core skills like treating water, identifying edible plants, land navigation, dealing with dangerous animals and more, plus extreme tactics for when things really get bad. Hurricane, tsunami, tornado, flood, fire, earthquake, nuclear disaster, epidemic and much more.
Learn about air pollution • animal dangers • asteroid impacts • avalanches and landslides • emergency planning • evacuation and rescue • math for survival • post disaster • preventive medicine • shelter • signaling • supplies & equipment • volcanoes • and much, much more, including The Twelve Best Tactics For Staying Alive.
Staying Alive is a worthy addition to anyone’s survival bookshelf.
1999,516 x 816,304 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
STAYING ALIVE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11115)
ABOMAN’S GUIDE TO
WILDERNESS SCHOOLS
AND PRIMITIVE EVENTS
by J.A. Bigley
Earth Connection, Paleotechnics, Rabbitstick Rendezvous, Glass Buttes Knap-In. These are just a few of the schools and events where people from all walks of life awaken to the skills and lifeways of our primitive ancestors. This informative guide includes information about curricula, instructors’ backgrounds, and philosophy of each regional school, as well as descriptions, dates and costs of the primitive gatherings around the country. Attending one of these special events or schools gives one the feeling of the old tribal way of life and refreshes the spirit.
Author J.A. Bigley, retired navy officer, offers the point of interest in each region, giving helpful comments about the schools and sharing his belief that “Aboman lives within each of us. He surfaces whenever someone stops to study a track, picks wildflowers, goes hiking in the rain, or tells stories around a night fire. Whether one’s desire is to get back to nature on a full-time basis, or just enjoy a walk in the park, it is our own personal Aboman coming to the forefront, and leading us in that direction.”
2000,516 x 816,144 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
ABOMAN’S GUIDE TO WILDERNESS SCHOOLS
AND PRIMITIVE EVENTS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11118)
ABOMAN’S GUIDE TO SURVIVAL
AND SELF-RELIANCE
Practical Skills for Interesting Times
by J. A. Bigley
Civil emergencies, wilderness survival, home management, auto repair, food storage, and health — all of these are In your power to control. And the key to taking control when times get interesting lies in unlocking the inner aboriginal in each of us — the human spirit of resourcefulness that has allowed man to survive through the ages.
You will learn how to: Survive hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, and other natural disasters • Escape from a burning building «Assemble a 72-hour survival kit • Build your own home water filter • Troubleshoot for problems in your home and vehicle • Become self-reliant through the use of gardening, cooking, and money management • Take charge of your health by incorporating alternative medicine and herbal remedies • Build a wilderness shelter • Find food and water in the wild • And much more.
The wealth of information in this book provides the tools you need when survival is the name of the game.
2002,6x9,156 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
ABOMAN’S GUIDE TO SURVIVAL
AND SELF-RELIANCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11122)
DITCH MEDICINE
Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies
by Hugh L. Coffee
Whether it’s a war zone or a civil disaster site, in today’s dangerous world, traumatic injuries are likely to occur in remote, often unsanitary locations. However, as a rule, modern emergency medicine — including mobile hospitals and rapid evacuation to established trauma centers — fails to reach injured patients in the field. It is in just such a scenario — where physicians are not found, patient transport is measured in days instead of minutes, resources are limited and the environment is hostile — that the pre-hospital care provider is in his or her element.
This book covers advanced medical procedures in a field setting. Photographs, illustrations and real-life case studies provide lessons and step-by-step instructions for improvised care, from stitching a small wound to amputations to treating burns, anaphylactic shock and decompressing and draining a chest. These are the techniques that can tip the balance between life and death.
1993,516 x 816,216 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
DITCH MEDICINE: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11108)
SNOW CAVES
For Fun & Survival
by Ernest Wilkinson
In a harsh winter climate, snow can either kill you or save your life. This indispensable guide tells you all you need to know about how to use snow to your advantage by constructing snow caves, igloos and shelters. Whether you’re camping, hunting, lost or just fooling around, you’ll need to know about the insulating properties of snow that Eskimos, animals, birds, and other snow-dwellers use every day.
What’s more, chapters on winter safety, food, tools and gear serve as an indispensable reference guide.
Author Ernest Wilkinson says: “How many rabbits have you seen sitting by a fire to keep warm?
“This may sound like a silly question, but give it some thought. The human critter has become dependent upon fire for bodily comfort in a cold environment. Hunters, hikers and other outdoor people have perished because they could not get a fire started to help keep them warm in cold weather. They should have taken a lesson from rabbits and other wildlife that use the available materials of nature.”
Now you can learn those lessons too — lessons that could mean the difference between life and death.
1992,6x9,98 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
SNOW CAVES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14202)
GUIDE TO EMERGENCY SURVIVAL
COMMUNICATIONS
How to Build and Power Your System
by Dave Ingram
When an emergency wipes
out normal communication
methods, your cell phone is
about as useful as a dirty Band-
Aid. The Guide to Emergency
Survival Communications is
the first complete, up-to-date
book dealing with the most
important area of preparedness
— survival communications.
The ability to receive accurate
and timely information in times
of crisis can be lifesaving!
This new and informative
book covers in depth the many
types of communications sys-
tems that are available to any-
one in time of need. You’ll get
details about short-wave radio,
amateur radio, citizen’s band, general services, weather services,
overseas news services and other vital information sources.
The Guide to Emergency Survival Communications shows you
where to find and choose the necessary equipment to build your com-
munications system. It outlines ways to keep in touch with your
friends using simple radio equipment without having to take a radio
license test of any kind.
The Guide to Emergency Survival Communications helps you
build and set up your systems using emergency power sources,
solar-power systems, generators, and backup emergency battery
systems.
Will you be ready when the grid goes down? -
1997,814x11,182 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
GUIDE TO EMERGENCY SURVIVAL
COMMUNICATIONS: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11107)
DON’T GET CAUGHT
WITH YOUR PANTRY DOWN!
The Consumer’s Reference Guide to the
Preparedness Industry
by James Talmage Stevens
If and when civilization goes
berserk once and for all — grocery
stores are history, water supplies
become contaminated, and each
family must rely on their own
resources to survive — this behe-
moth volume provides the goods on
the goods you’ll need. Listings tell
you where to find: • Suppliers for
food, seeds and food-storage sys-
tems • Books on alternative energy
systems, first aid, survival and self-
sufficiency • Information about state
and federal emergency services •
Emergency electronics • Protective
and emergency clothing • Everything
you need to survive — including essentials you haven’t even thought of!
It’s embarrassing to be caught with your pantry down, and what’s more, it could be the deciding factor between life and death. Why risk It? This isn’t merely a book you’re buying. It’s an investment in your future.
1998,814x11,550 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
DON’T GET CAUGHT
WITH YOUR PANTRY DOWN!: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11109)
PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY
A Book of Earth Skills from
the Society of Primitive Technology
Edited by David Wescott
Have you ever longed to return to a past where humanity’s greatest concern was survival, when our hands created life’s necessities, when the land’s raw provisions were the materials with which we created warmth, shelter, food, and tools — a time before we lost our bond with the wilderness? Primitive Technology helps build a bridge between the ancient past and our modern lives, putting us in touch again with nature and ourselves. This volume portrays the history, philosophies, and personal journeys of authorities on primitive technology, imparting skills that built the success of mankind. From views on primitive technology and “new” archaeology to making fire and tools of bone, stone, and wood; from methods of binding fibers and producing projectiles to creating art and music — Primitive Technology is instructive and informative, enlightening the participant with skills of centuries past when mankind became divorced from the earth through the isolation and conveniences of modern life.
1999,814x11,232pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14204)
PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY II
— ANCESTRAL SKILLS
From the Society of Primitive Technology
Edited by David Wescott
Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills continues the tradition of preserving this heritage. Through this collection, assembled from the Bulletin of Primitive Technology, we step into the past to relearn old ways, and share them with the future. Learn to create stone tools that may be used to fabricate more complex technologies. Master the art of the bow and arrow, and the preparation of food. Build a shelter or fashion clothing from fibers or buckskin. Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills will guide you to a better understanding of the skills and crafts that bind us all into this great human family.
2001,814x11,248 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY II
— ANCESTRAL SKILLS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11120)
SURVIVAL SKILLS OF
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Second Edition
by Peter Goodchild
How did native North Americans solve the problems of daily living
with no metal tools, little settled agriculture, and a habitat that, for vast
stretches of the North American continent and much of the year, is
inhospitably cold, dry, ór hot? This comprehensive review of Native
American life skills describes how people harvested plants for food
and medicine and provides background, step-by-step instructions,
and detailed diagrams for crafting tools, shelter, clothing, and other
devices with the native materials and techniques.
Chapters include:
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Tools and toolmaking
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Bows and arrows
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Traps
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Fishing
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Shelter
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Clothing jOL
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Medicine SR1
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Transportation
• And more.
Survival Skills of the North American Indians is a book that
belongs in anyone’s survival library.
1999,7 x 10,253 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SURVIVAL SKILLS OF
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11114)
PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS LIVING
& SURVIVAL SKILLS
by John & Geri McPherson
“Naked into the Wilderness."
If you have been accustomed to
reading books on wilderness
skills that entertain you but fall
short of actually teaching you
how to accomplish the tasks
and skills at hand, you are in for
a pleasant surprise. Over 700
photographs and more than a
couple dozen line drawings
crammed into more than 400
pages presents for the first time
the “how-to” on primitive skills.
Each chapter was first written
as a complete book! The
authors know of what they write
— this is not a compilation of
other authors’ works nor a
rehashing or perpetuation of
myths. The McPhersons not
only know their stuff but also
how to present it.
Chapters include: • Brain Tan Buckskin • Primitive Fire & Cordage • Primitive Bow & Arrow • Obtaining Sustenance in Nature • Primitive Cooking Methods • Care of Game • Containers — Baskets, etc. • Containers — Primitive Pottery • Tools — Making & Using Semi-Per- manent Shelters • Plus several subtopics.
This is the best compilation of how-to on the subject that we have seen.
1993,516 x 816, 408 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS LIVING
& SURVIVAL SKILLS: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11100)
PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS SKILLS,
APPLIED & ADVANCED
by John & Geri McPherson
“Naked into the Wilderness - 2"
This is the second book in
John & Geri McPherson’s
Naked into the Wilderness
series, which has received
world-wide acclaim from both
novice outdoorsmen and pro-
fessional woodsmen alike.
Primitive Wilderness Skills,
Applied & Advanced presents
information and procedures
which were not contained in the
first volume, and is the ultimate
in “how-to” or “do-it -yourself”
books that attempt to teach
primitive skills to modern stu-
dents.
There are chapters on the
deadly hantavirus, nutrition for
the primitive, brain-tanning
robes and furs, making a
dugout canoe with stone tools,
and odds ‘n’ ends: several subchapters with information on flintknap-
ping, lighting fires, using bone needles, quick ax hafting and bowmak-
ing, utilizing water containers, primitive navigation, making two-piece
moccasins, and other handy information. There’s a three-day diary of
a jaunt into the wilderness, and “Storms,” a short story. Truly a useful
and unusual book.
1996,516 x 816, 296 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
PRIMITIVE WILDERNESS SKILLS,
APPLIED & ADVANCED: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11105)
SURVIVALIST’S MEDICINE CHEST
by Ragnar Benson
Now, a truly practical guide about using specialized medicines in a world without doctors, written especially for survivalists. Pneumonia, VD, plague and diarrhea — killers without modern drugs — can be licked with a little preparation and know-how.
From his years helping Third World natives with vet medicines, survivalist author Ragnar Benson brings you this handbook for doctoring humans with readily obtainable, cheaply priced vet medicines. In many cases, vet medicines are identical to those M.D.s recommend — at a fraction of the cost. And they can be bought without prescriptions and stored until an emergency demands their use.
Tetanus, typhoid and gun-wound infections will never again strike fear in the heart of survivalists who read this book. Pack this illustrated handbook in with your antibiotics, syringes, sulfa drugs, sewing needles and sutures, and you’ll save your group from the illnesses that would prove fatal without modern medicine.
1982, 6x4,80 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SURVIVALIST’S MEDICINE CHEST: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11082)
THE SENSE OF SURVIVAL
by J. Allan South
No matter who you are or where you live you may need to know: • what to do before, during, and after a natural disaster • how to find water and make it safe • why a “72-hour emergency kit” may not be enough and how to make it into a “14-day emergency kit” • how to select emergency equipment ° what food to store, how to store, and use it • how to insure proper nutrition in a crisis ° how to make a basic shelter • basic signaling and communications ° how to find wild edibles, grow, and use basic herbs ° proper emergency sanitation • what nuclear war or accident could bring and how you can prepare for it • basic First Aid • where to find additional information • and much, much more!
The Sense of Survival is as fine a one volume treatise on surviving as we have seen. Every home should have a copy.
1990,6x9,371 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE SENSE OF SURVIVAL: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11103)
CONTINGENCY CANNIBALISM
Superhardcore Survivalism’s Dirty Little Secret
by Shiguro Takada
Let’s cut the crap. Survivalism is not about niceties and polite topics. It’s about desperately fighting for your life in a hostile environment, where you are forced to make disturbing, dirty choices in order to live to see the next sunrise. And practicing cannibalism is the survivalist’s ultimate test of his will to live.
Contingency Cannibalism is a twisted, morbid, tongue-in-cheek, and hilarious look at cannibalism as a last-resort survival option.. Pulling no punches, it answers such pressing questions as: Does it taste like chicken? What will my friends and family say? Will I get a disease? What if I like it?
Author Shiguro Takada analyzes real-life case studies of determined survivors who bravely engaged in cannibalism to save their hides, including the infamous Donner party, the Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the Andes Mountains, and homicidal “mountain guide” Alfred Packer. He also dissects historical episodes of wide- scale cannibalism practiced in Scotland, Mexico, China, Russia, and Africa for vital lessons on how not to practice contingency cannibalism. Finally, Takada serves up the hard-core decisions and gruesome details one must know in order to partake in this grisly but sometimes necessary practice.
Doing exactly what it takes to survive in the worst of times is not for the squeamish, but the bottom line is it produces survivors. Read this book and find out if you have what it takes. Recipes included. For entertainment purposes only
1999,516 x 816,151 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CONTINGENCY CANNIBALISM: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11112)
SELF SUFFICIENCY
Introduction
Taking care of your own business is a good thing to do — in fact it is the only thing to do.
Not only will you live better and save money, but actually doing things will help you to develop a sense of efficacy and self confidence you will need in the “interesting” times to come.
TAN YOUR HIDE!
Home Tanning Leathers & Furs
by Phyllis Hobson
A fully illustrated step-by-
step guide to home tanning by
nine different methods —
included are methods of pro-
ducing washable furs (sheep-
skins), butter tanning, short-cut
tanning, dehairing for leathers,
making sole leather, buck-
skins, using snakeskins, dying
furs and leathers, practical
leather making how-to, and
more.
The author tells you
exactly:
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how to select the hide
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the steps for tanning leather
and furs -
how to test for tanning
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old time Indian tanning meth-
ods -
how to make your own dyes
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what qualities of leather to look for
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which tools you need for leather-working
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basic leatherworking techniques
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where to get tools and supplies
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and much more.
All tools and handworking methods are clearly illustrated in this unusually complete how-to-do-it book. With Tan Your Hide! you can now create and enjoy beautiful fur and leather products of your very own to sell, wear, or trade.
1977,6x9,135 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
TAN YOUR HIDE!: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14110)
THE $1.98 COOKBOOK
How to Eat Like a Gourmet
and Save $6,000 a Year
by Carl Japikse
Could you use an extra $6,000 a year? That’s how much a family can save by following the ideas and recipes in The $1.98 Cookbook. $1.98 is not the price of the book. It is the total amount of money you need to spend per day to fix the gourmet recipes in this book for one person.
If you are handing over hundreds of dollars every time you shop at the grocery store, this is the book for you. It will show you how total food cost for a family of four can be less than $56 a week. Each week. Every week. And you will eat better than you ever have before. Whether this is your first cookbook or your two hundredth, it is bound to become your favorite, because it gives you the key to eating like a gourmet on a soup kitchen budget. It’s the perfect cookbook for college students, newlyweds, families, and retirees.
And you won’t be eating hot dogs or canned tuna, either. Author Carl Japikse believes in eating well. You may not think you can afford eggs benedict, lobster soufflé, chocolate mousse, and other dishes usually associated with great expense, but you can. The $1.98 Cookbook shows you how.
1993,516 x 8M, 160 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE $1.98 COOKBOOK: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14145)
MAKING A CLOCK-ACCURATE SUNDIAL
Customized to Your Location
by Sam Muller
For amateur scientists, nature lovers, science teachers, students, astronomy clubs, gardeners, woodworkers, survivalists, and others!
An accurate sundial is simple to make and inexpensive. Sam Muller developed this modern method after ordering mass-produced sundials for a classroom science project, which didn’t work, much to everyone’s disappointment. His clear directions include diagrams for each step from construction, to set-up, and use. Sam Muller’s modern sundial is an amazing scientific tool. By its shadow you can read correct clock time, and also observe the effects of the earth’s tilt, rotation, and changing orbital speed. Then on a moonlit night from the shadow cast on your now “moondial,” you will notice the moon’s counterclockwise orbit of the earth shows a small loss of time hour after hour, explaining why a lunar month is more than a day shorter than a solar month.
1997,5V2 x 81/è, 63 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MAKING A CLOCK-ACCURATE SUNDIAL: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14212)
THE ART & SCIENCE OF DUMPSTER DIVING
by John Hoffman
With an Introduction by Jim Broadstreet
and Original Comix by Ace Backwords
The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving is an amazing manual that tells you exactly how to dive dumpsters for fun and profit. This is not a book for pathetic “homeless” people who belong in an institution — it’s a book for YOU: an able-bodied, clear-headed person who can profit from the stupendous amount of waste generated by consumerist American society. This book will show you how to get just about anything you want or need — food, clothing, furniture, building materials, entertainment, luxury goods, tools, toys — you name it — ABSOLUTELY FREE!
John Hoffman has been finding treasures in the trash all his life. His entire family was raised out of dumpsters — and they’re proud of it! Today, John has a college degree and a good job. He doesn’t have to dive dumpsters — he loves it. Dive into this book and you’ll understand why.
The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving takes you on a guided tour of America’s back alleys where amazing wealth is carelessly discarded. Hoffman will show you where to find the good stuff, how to rescue it and how to use it, including:
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step-by-step, illustrated dumpster diving techniques
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how to work your neighborhood dumpsters
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tips for,dumpster diving restaurants
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recipes for food salvaged from dumpsters
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how to convert trash to cash
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how to dress for dumpster-diving success
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how to handle run-ins with cops
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and much, much more!
As you learn the secrets of an extraordinary master diver, you will hear outrageous anecdotes collected from a lifetime of garbage picking. You will see the author eat from bloated cans. You will see Weird Willard’s pickup loaded like Santa’s sleigh. You will see a relentless information diver shut down an abortion clinic. And there’s more! All in all, it’s a counterculture extravaganza, a practical course in urban survival, and a rollicking good read. Get your copy today!
1993,816x11,152 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
THE ART & SCIENCE OF DUMPSTER DIVING: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14099)
DUMPSTER DIVING: THE ADVANCED COURSE
How to Turn Other People’s Trash into Money,
Publicity, and Power
by John Hoffman
It’s been ten years since the
publication of John Hoffman’s
cult classic of urban scaveng-
ing, The Art & Science of Dump-
ster Diving. Now the Garbage
Guru is back with an advanced
course in turning other people’s
trash into money, publicity, and
power! Be prepared to be chal-
lenged by this mind-bending
tutorial in the unconventional
economics of digging through
trash in pursuit of fun and profit.
Just some of the lessons you
will learn include:
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The “key” secret to deal-
ing with locked dump-
sters. -
How to dive for information (“dumpster dirt”) and use it to humiliate corporations, politicians, and other evildoers.
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The unusual profitability of diving for movie and celebrity castoffs — without ever having to visit Hollywood.
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The BIG BUCKS potential of industrial diving, including the top 10 most lucrative places to do it.
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How to sell your dumpster-dived wares through the greatest flea market of the 21st century — eBay!
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How to parlay “dumpster diving consciousness” into finding cheap property, supporting radical causes, even landing political office.
Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course is just as weird, ambitious, disturbing, and subversive as his first book. You’re gonna dig it!
2002,816x11,121 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
DUMPSTER DIVING: THE ADVANCED COURSE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64265)
THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK
A Guide to Composting Human Manure
by J.C. Jenkins
This fascinating and practical book is about gardening, composting, sustainability, waste reduction, resource recovery, public sanitation, and sewage treatment. I.t is an uncommon work that takes on the controversial topic of safely recycling human manure for agricultural purposes, doing so with boldness and humor. It focuses on composting urine and fecal material at the single family level and using the compost for gardening purposes, contending that all organic material is resource material. It covers the issue of recycling human excrement from historical, philosophical, and scientific perspectives. It explains how human excrement can be rendered hygienically safe and returned to the soil without the need for expensive equipment, high costs, or professional expertise.
Chapters include: • Crap Happens • Microhusbandry • Deep Shit • A Day in the Life of a Turd • Composting Toilets and Systems • Worms and Disease • The Tao of Compost • And more.
This unique illustrated book is written by a composting practitioner, providing hard to find information that is potentially important to any adult. It is essential reading for anyone who lives without electricity or running water either by choice, culture, or emergency situation. It is of interest to organic gardeners and farmers, survivalists, back-to- the-landers, recyclers, public health and sanitation people, and anyone who defecates.
1999, 7x9,302 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14169)
ONE ACRE & SECURITY
How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It
by Bradford Angier
\Ne are happy to see back in
print Bradford Angier’s classic
One Acre & Security: How to
, Live Off the Earth Without Ruin-
ing It. First published in 1972,
Angier was one of the preeminent
voices of the back-to-the-earth
movement. One Acre & Security
is a book for all those who have
dreamed of living close to the
earth — not in the wilderness, but
on land within easy driving dis-
tance of the city or suburbs. It
begins by explaining what sort of
land to look for, where to look and
how to acquire property. It goes
on to discuss organic gardening
on one acre; raising herbs for
money and bees for honey; grow-
ing grapes; making wine, juice
and jellies; and drying raisins. For the serious back-to-the-earther, there are sections on how to build a house; keep cows, goats, sheep, pigs and poultry; raise rabbits, earthworms, fish, frogs and turtles; and how to find the best hunting and fishing. Angier’s text is as useful and thorough today as it was 30 years ago, and deserves to be on the shelves of a new generation of back-to-earthers. This edition retains all of the text of the original version, plus a new introduction and extensive notes to provide up-to-date resource information and fascinating comparisons. .
1972,6 x 9,320 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ONE ACRE & SECURITY: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17100)
COUNTRY LIVING IS RISKY BUSINESS
by Nick and Anita Evangelista
Do you have your feet planted
in the city but find yourself living
more and more like you are in the
country? Authors Nick and Anita
Evangelista didn’t know it then, but
with the planting of a garden and
the raising of a few chickens and
rabbits and goats at their house (a
mere 10 minutes from downtown
Los Angeles) they’d taken their first
steps on a journey that would lead
them to a fixer farm in the Missouri
Ozarks.
In this, their latest book on the
logistics of making the move from
city to country life, the Evangelistas
tell their own story and give you
their honest appraisal of what kind
of “stuff” it takes to make that move
to the country, along with a liberal dose of laughs. You’ll find out what
kind of preparation and mind set it really takes to make that plunge
from city to country. You’ll discover how to keep going when every-
thing around you seems to conspire to tell you this move was a huge
mistake. Nick and Anita will give you invaluable advice about pur-
chasing and care of livestock when you are a raw recruit and new to
country life. This book shows you the underpinnings of living in the
country, along with a rain dance and the requisite Elvis story thrown in
just to make sure all the bases are covered.
This is the book that tells you how it happened for them. It can
happen for you, too. If you think country living may be the life for you,
get this book today, because Country Living Is Risky Business.
2000,516 x 816,226 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
COUNTRY LIVING IS RISKY BUSINESS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14214)
THE HOME WATER SUPPLY
How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It
by Stu Campbell
If you live in the country or
suburbs, you’ve had, are having,
or will have water problems.
What’s yours? Not enough
water? Too much? Tastes terri-
ble? The pump quits? The
water’s contaminated? No mat-
ter what it is, author Stu Camp-
bell addresses it in this book, and
offers down-to-earth solutions in
language understandable to all
of us who aren’t plumbers.
Campbell has coped with
water problems in both the East
and the West, from the many-
state shortages of the West to a
cantankerous pump in Vermont.
And he’s probed the minds of
experts — dowsers, well diggers,
plumbers, electricians, and those
who know about the flow of water
deep underground. In a friendly, knowledgeable manner, Campbell
discusses your difficulties. He provides concrete and money-saving
answers to questions that range from locating water to digging a pond
to hooking up the plumbing in your home. You will know when to try
something yourself, and when to call a plumber or other expert.
Topics covered include: • How to find water • How to move it • How
to purify it • How to store and distribute it in your hbme • and more.
The profuse illustrations take the mystery out of things such as the
underground flow of water and how pumps^ and other water-linked
equipment operate.
1983,816x11,240 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE HOME WATER SUPPLY: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14211)
BECOMING SELF-RELIANT
How to Become Less Dependent
on Society and the Government
by Ken Larson.
As we look at our world
today, our future seems uncer-
tain. We have indeed lost many
of the “basics” known and prac-
ticed by our forefathers. We
have become dependent on a
very fragile system which is
generally not operated in our
best interest. There is a need to
return to a respectful knowledge
of the land, learning self-reliant
skills, and to frugal practices of
storing consumable goods and
barter items. Now you can be
ready!
You will learn: • How and
where to store precious water •
How to store food before you
need it • Unusual meat sources
you can raise anywhere • How
to survive major storms and hur-
ricanes • How to use fish traps
for food and profit • The importance of bartering goods and food • Bulk
commodity storage and dehydrated foods • Nutrition facts and multi-
pliers • Drying foods at home • And much more.
1997,516 x 816,207pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
BECOMING SELF-RELIANT: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14220)
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
The title says it all! When Ragnar
Benson wrote the Survivalist's Med-
icine Chest in 1982, he changed the
way that people looked at survival
medicine. He opened their eyes to
the wonderful world of veterinary
medicines for treating people, and
how to use foreign pharmacies to
obtain over-the-counter prescription
drugs.
With this latest book, Benson
brings do-it-yourself medicine into
the 21st century. He explains how to
procure the very latest antibiotics,
painkillers, anesthetics, and other
drugs —as well as needles, IV kits,
splints, and other equipment — from
animal-health centers, foreign phar-
macies, military dispensaries, mail-
order suppliers, dentists, and other unconventional and inexpensive
sources, and provides references for detailed instructions for using
these supplies to treat cuts, burns, gunshot wounds, fevers, broken
bones, infections, and other maladies, as well as ways to circumvent
the impediments the government and medical community have
established to keep these medicines and supplies out of your hands.
If you want to learn how to assume responsibility for your own
medical care, avoid the medical bureaucracy, maintain a ready store
of medicine and know-how, and monitor the medical care you receive
from professionals, this is the book to read. For academic study only.
1997,514 x 814, 113 pp, soft cover.
DO-IT-YOURSELF MEDICINE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11106)
THE “HAVE-MORE” PLAN
A Little Land — A Lot of Living
by Ed and Carol Robinson
The original 1940s classic
on homesteading and country
life and work. This book illumi-
nated to millions of people the
allure and attractiveness of life
in the country. It was the
Robinsons’ contention that the
high human and material cost
of city living could be lowered
as people moved to live in
smaller communities. The
Robinsons advocated home
ownership, working the land
and community for the benefit
of both democracy and citizen-
ship.
Contents include: • Buy a
place in the country • Laying
out a homestead • Part-time
farm pays for itself • A good
garden with less work • Building a small barn • Earning money in the
country • Dwarf fruit trees and berries • Fish pond in your backyard •
Starting right with poultry, rabbits, bees, etc., etc. It’s no wonder The
“Have-More” Plan has been in constant demand since it was first
published!
1973,9 x 12, 70 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE “HAVE-MORE” PLAN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14213)
HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
— AND LIKE IT
by Anita Evangelista
There’s no need to remain
dependent on commercial elec-
trical systems for your home’s
comforts and security. How to
Live Without Electricity —
And Like It describes dozens
of alternative methods that can
help the independently inclined
individual become more self-
reliant and free from the utility
companies.
Author Anita Evangelista
explains how to: • Calculate
your actual power usage •
Employ alternate light sources,
including candles, oil-,
kerosene-, gas-, and solar-pow-
ered lamps • Obtain, pump and
store potable water • Cook with
gas, wood, and solar heat •
Heat and cool your home effec-
tively • Refrigerate food without
HOW TO LIVE
WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
AND OKIE IT
by Anita Evangelista
electricity • Maintain radio communications • Generate power and
recharge batteries • And much, much more!
Complete with numerous illustrations and photographs, as well as
listings for the best mail-order sources for the products depicted, this
is a complete source book for those who wish to both simplify and
improve thSir lives. Whether you’re preparing for a cataclysmic event
or taking steps to cope with the next annoying power blackout, How
to Live Without Electricity — And Like It contains vital information
that no one should be without!
1997,514 x 814, 158 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY — AND LIKE IT: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14187)
MORE POWER TO YOU!
A Proven Path to Electric Energy Independence
by H. Skip Thomsen
H. Skip Thomsen says, “In 1979 we moved to a beautiful 108 acres of forest in north central Oregon. The nearest power line was a little more than half a mile down the road. Even before the utility company quoted us $10,000 to run in power, we had pretty much decided to generate our own electricity. In the year before we moved, we paid a lot of attention to how the folks who would soon be our neighbors were dealing with their lack of ‘store-bought’ power. They relied on smelly, dangerous kerosene lamps for most of their lighting. They used small, gasoline-powered generators to run what few electrical gadgets they felt were necessary.
“We have lived with our full-featured, automatic, 24-hour-a-day system, running both our household and shop, long enough to work the bugs out. Our equipment includes a fine stereo system, TV & VCR, microwave, small and large appliances and a complete office with two computers, printers and a copier. The shop has an air compressor and both large and small power tools. We have had no blackouts, prown-outs, nor rate hikes in ten years. And operation of the entire system costs us about $25.00 per month.”
In easy-to-understand conversational language, More Power to Youl is intentionally as non-technical as possible, addressing the need for clear, concise, and complete instructions to a specific end result: an owner-built, owner-operated power system which will deliver all it promises, without the need for the owner to be an electrical engineer. This system has been proven with years of trouble-free service for far less money than public power would have cost. More Power to You! is required reading for anyone interested in freeing himself from the power monopolies.
1996,814x11,82 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
MORE POWER TO YOU!: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14119)
THE MODERN HOMESTEAD MANUAL
What it Really Takes to Succeed Beyond the
Sidewalks and Power Lines
Revised and Updated Second Edition
by Skip Thomsen and Cat Freshwater
Homesteaders represent the
antithesis of “consumers.” Home-
steaders by their nature, create,
nourish, and nurture. Homestead-
ers are worthy stewards of the
Earth. The modern homesteader
strives for autonomy, self-confi-
dence and self-sufficiency.
To some, self-sufficiency is
nothing less than raising all of
one’s food; creating buildings,
clothes and furniture from sal-
vaged materials; and living with-
out electricity. To others, the
meaning is far less strict, but no
less meaningful. The Modern
Homestead Manual is the prod-
uct of 15 years of hands-on home-
steading experience on the part of the authors. Chapters include: • Self reliance • Togetherness • Money Matters • The Year Before • The Destination • The Big Move • Country Neighbors « Homestead Kids • Buying a House • Building Your Own House • Alternative Electrical Systems • Our Own Electrical System • Water Systems on Alternative Power • Equipment • Vehicles • Getting the Most Out of Your Wood Stove • Earning Your Keep at Home • When Things Lool$ Hopeless • And more, including a Resource Guide.
The Modern Homestead Manual builds hope and confidence, dispels myths, and tells it like it is. The focus of The Modern Homestead Manual is on what it really takes to make it beyond the power lines and sidewalks.
1998,8Mx 11,217 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE MODERN HOMESTEAD MANUAL: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14168)
EAT WELL FOR 990 A MEAL
by Bill and Ruth Kaysing
Want more energy, more robust, vig-
orous health? Then you must eat food
that can impart these well-being charac-
teristics and this book will be your faith-
ful guide. As an important bonus, you
will learn how to save lots of money and
learn how to enjoy three homemade
meals for a cost of less than one dollar
per meal!
Chapters included in Part I are: •
How to shop on 990 a meal • What to
buy to stock your pantry • Where to
shop and how to do it • How to develop
your bargaining skills • Where to pick
fresh foods for free • Your kitchen is
your workshop • Food you can grow
yourself • How to preserve your perish-
ables • What you should know about sugar.
In Part II: • How to Cook on 990 a meal • The golden rule: Eat less, waste nothing • Sample 990 menus • The noble spud to your budget’s rescue • Soybeans: The moneysaving meat substitute • A checklist of health and moneysaving hints • Recommended reading, and much, much more.
Eat Well for 990 a Meal tells us how we can all live better, more healthful lives at a fraction of the cost we now spend on food. Want more energy? Want more robust, vigorous health? Get your copy today and Eat Well for 990 a Meal!
1996,5% x 814, 198 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
EAT WELL FOR 990 A MEAL: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14181)
WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR
A Village Health Care Book
by David Werner
This is more than a book on first aid. If covers a wide range of things that affect the health of the villager — from diarrhea to tuberculosis, from helpful and harmful home remedies to the cautions of certain modern medicines. Special importance is placed on cleanliness, a healthy diet, and vaccinations. The book also covers in detail both childbirth and family planning. Not only does it help the reader realize what he can do for himself, but it helps him recognize which problems need the attention of an experienced health worker.
THIS BOOK IS FOR:
The Villager who lives far from medical centers. It explains in simple words and drawings what he can do to prevent, recognize and treat many common sicknesses.
The Village Storekeeper or Pharmacist who sells medicine and health-care supplies. The book explains which medicines are most useful for specific sicknesses and warns against ones that are useless or dangerous. Risks and precautions are carefully explained.
The Village Health Worker, or anyone who is concerned about the health and well-being of those in his community. This English edition has a new introductory section for the village health worker, discussing ways to determine needs, share knowledge, and involve the community in activities that can better people’s health.
Mothers and Midwives will find useful the clear, easy-to-under- stand information for home birth, care of the mother, and child health.
Although written especially for villages in the Third World and developing nations, Where There Is No Doctor is extremely useful and relevant for anyone interested in survival and self-sufficiency.
1992,7 x 10,446 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR: $17.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11087) ,
ALL ABOUT HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS
How and Where They Work
Pump Water for Free!
The Hydraulic Ram Water Pump is a piece of Americana that is as useful today as ever. Utilizing a simple principle, the hydraulic ram can pump water above a source of flowing water with no other power required. A popular use for a ram pump system is the small homestead or remote homesite. A stream, spring or river is the water source; water running downhill provides the power for the ram, and water is pumped to a storage tank above the level of the house or garden, or to a small decorative or fish pond. A hydraulic ram pump should be able to maintain a 14 acre pond year round — in many climates this size pond can produce a significant aquaculture crop.
This booklet contains complete plans for building your own hydraulic ram pump, as well as sources for manufactured purtps.
1990,5M x 814, 40 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
ALL ABOUT HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14166)
WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST
by Murray Dickson
Where There Is No Dentist is a companion volume to the village health care handbook, Where There Is No Doctor. Together, the books encourage people to take the lead in caring for their own health. This approach to health care implies respect for the dignity of all persons, as well as confidence in their resourcefulness.
Village health workers can use this book to help people care for their teeth and gums. Health workers begin with the felt needs of the people — treating the dental problems they have. now. Then they work to prevent the same problems from recurring. Thus, Where There Is No Dentist shows how to diagnose and treat dental problems, and also suggests new ways to work for better dental health in the community.
1983,6x9,205pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 11088)
BLOOD-LUST CHICKENS
AND RENEGADE SHEEP
A First Timer’s Guide to Country Living
by Nick and Anita Evangelista
Wanna get out of the rat race?
Dreaming of making a move to the
country? Authors Nick and Anita
Evangelista moved from Los Ange-
les to the Missouri Ozark Moun-
tains in 1985, with that dream in
mind. This book shares their expe-
riences with the reader and offers
indispensable advice on moving
back to the land.
From the Introduction: “Our
goal in writing this book about the
hazards of farm and country was
not to be disparaging of the experi-
ence. We had, and have, no inten-
tion of scaring off potential
homesteaders with horrors of
blood-lusting chickens and rene-
gade sheep.”
Chapters include: • To Move or
Not to Move? • Preparing to Move • You’re There. Now What? • Systems, Dominos, and One-cow Economics • Protecting Yourself • Still Going? Some Things to Think About • And much, much more.
Blood-Lust Chickens and Renegade Sheep contains real stories, real experiences, real advice and real country lore from two veterans of country living. It is not a cheerleading gung-ho book full of false promises and pipe dreams. The Evangelistas give you the real lowdown on moving to the country. No one thinking of moving to the country should be without this book.
Anita Evangelista is the author of numerous books on country living, including: Backyard Meat Production, How to Develop a Low- Cost Family Food-Storage System, and How to Live Without Electricity — and Like it!
1999,516 x 816, 169 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BLOOD-LUST CHICKENS AND RENEGADE SHEEP: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14208)
GOURMET COOKING FOR FREE
Wild Game, Fish & Plants
— 300 Ways to Serve Them
by Bradford Angier
Get wild in the kitchen. We are happy
to see this classic back in print. First pub-
lished in 1970, Gourmet Cooking For
Free deserves a place on the kitchen
bookshelves of a new generation. Believ-
ing that no store can supply food as fresh
or nutritious as nature’s own wild bounty,
Angier gives unique and delicious recipes
for preparing wild game, fish, and wild
plants. Readers will learn and enjoy the
flavor, variety, and nutrition wild foods
have to offer.
Chapters include: Big Game (venison,
bear, moose, buffalo, caribou), Game
Birds (grouse, duck, partridge, quail,
pheasant, goose, turkey), Small Game (beaver, rabbit, squirrel), Fish (trout, Atlantic salmon, bass, pickerel, eels), Shellfish (clams, oysters, crabs, crayfish, mussels, turtle), Edible Wild Plants (wild rice, water cress, nettle, wild onion, mustard, dandelion, cattail, plantain, fiddle- heads), and Wild Fruit (blackberries, elderberries, currants, raspberries, cranberries). Anyone who savors new taste sensations in exceptional cuisine will want to take this carefully guided tour through nature’s cupboard.
1970,6x9,223 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
GOURMET COOKING FOR FREE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14219)
THE COMPOSTING TOILET SYSTEM BOOK
A Practical Guide to Choosing, Planning and
Maintaining Composting Toilet Systems, an
Alternative to Sewer and Septic Systems
by David Del Porto & Carol Steinfeld
Shift happens! Com-
posting toilet systems and
other ecological waste-
water management meth-
ods are emerging as viable
and cost-saving alterna-
tives to wastewater dis-
posal systems worldwide.
Find out why — and how to
choose, install and main-
tain them!
With this book, you will
learn about: Descriptions of
more than 50 systems —
both manufactured and
site-built —- and their
sources; Compatible toilet
stools and installing micro-
flush toilets; Tips on choos-
ing, planning, installing and
maintaining your composting toilet system; What you should know about graywater systems; Regulations and advice about getting your system approved; And much, much more.
The Composting Toilet System Book is a most valuable tool for anyone interested in self-reliant living and alternative energy sources.
1999,816 x 11,240 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE COMPOSTING TOILET SYSTEM BOOK: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14209)
WIND ENERGY BASICS
A Guide to Small and Micro Wind Systems
by Paul Gipe
Paul Gipe, one of the world’s
leading experts on wind power
has created an introductory
guide to wind energy systems.
This book gives an overview of
the burgeoning use of wind
energy around the globe,
describing and analyzing the
most affordable small wind gen-
erators, including the new gener-
ation of highly practical micro
turbines. The wind power indus-
try has been transformed in the
1990s by steady progress in effi-
ciency, economy, and adaptabil-
ity. Wind Energy Basics
includes detailed information on
planning, purchasing, siting, and
installing a wind system, and on integrating wind power with solar photovoltaics for more cost-effective and reliable off-the-grid applications.
Contents include:
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Fundamentals
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Estimating performance
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Wind turbine technology
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Off-the-grid applications
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Siting and safety
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and more.
In addition, Gipe describes how homeowners and businesses in many states can now sell their excess electricity back to the utility company.
1999,8 x 10,134 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
WIND ENERGY BASICS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14210)
HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES
Than You Ever Thought Possible
on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
6th Edition
by John Jeavons
If you have been looking
for the way to grow the most
food with the least land, water
and fertilizer — this is it.
Mother Earth News calls this
book “the best plain-language
explanation of
Biodynamic/French Intensive
gardening techniques we’ve
yet seen.”
And another reviewer
says, “perhaps the best kept
secret of the 20th century, in
working with the land, people
are more productive than
machinery... we may see food
gardens appearing... in win-
dow boxes, on rooftops, in
vacant lots, in parks, in now
blighted urban wastelands... a greening of the cities.”
With this method a backyard gardener could grow a year’s supply of soft fruits and vegetables in under two hundred square feet of soil per person, with about ten minutes a day required for upkeep. Here in one place is a complete guide to planning your garden, instructions on the unique Biodynamic/French Intensive techniques, information on sources for seeds, and compost recipes. By working “in harmony with the sun, air, rain, soil, moon, insects, plants and animals rather than attempting to dominate them” you can enjoy the most bountiful harvest of the year.
2002,8Mx 11,240 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14081)
MAKING THE BEST OF BASICS
Family Preparedness Handbook
Tenth Edition
by James Talmage Stevens «
In today’s world, you can’t afford to be unprepared. If you want the security of being able to live from your own personal resources for up to a year, regardless of external conditions, Making the Best of Basics will show you how.
With over 300,000 copies of earlier editions sold, Making the Best of Basics has long been a standard on in-home food storage and family preparedness. Now it has been expanded, revised, and updated with nearly 100 additional pages of charts, tables, recipes, and lists of private providers, as well as public and government resources. Making the Best of Basics is the most comprehensive single volume ever compiled on in-home storage, and contains:
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A plan for acquiring and maintaining your in-home food storage • Charts defining which foods and nonfoods to buy for your in-home storage • A “Family Factor” to determine quantities of foods and other items for your family • Resource directories listing suppliers of food storage and preparedness items • Chapters on storing and making the best use of water, wheat, drying fruits and vegetables, kitchen gardening and sprouting, energy and fuels, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and much, much more!
Peace of mind follows preparation. Provide your family with a measure of security in an uncertain world by letting Making the Best of Basics do for you what it has already done for more than a generation: make preparedness both possible and manageable.
1998,816x11,335pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
MAKING THE BEST OF BASICS: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14186)
PRACTICAL PHOTOVOLTAICS
Electricity from Solar Cells, Third Edition
by Richard J. Komp, Ph.D.
Written by physicist, lecturer, and solar home dweller Richard Komp, Practical Photovoltaics is a comprehensive guide to both the theory and the reality of photovoltaics: from the physics through the manufacture to the end use. Practical Photovoltaics offers a full treatment of the present status and future of the technology, including important information on the industry and new developments. It guides you through the installation of a working PV system and details maintenance procedures. In a unique feature, it offers well- illustrated, step-by-step instructions for constructing your own solar module: a creative and useful approach to demystifying the technology.
Chapters include: • The History of Solar-Generated Electricity • Solar Cells: What They Are and How They Work • How Solar Cells Are Made • Solar Cells and Modules • Using Photovoltaics • Batteries and Other Storage Systems • New Developments in Photovoltaic Technology • The Future of Photovoltaics • Assembling Your Own Modules • And more.
Presented in a clear, concise, and understandable style, Practical Photovoltaics has been called “the best single reference available,” “the easiest and most complete education on photovoltaics,” “one of the best basic books on PV,” and “the best of the books.” Kiss the centralized power monopolies goodbye!
2001,6x9,211 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PRACTICAL PHOTOVOLTAICS: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14179)
BACKYARD MEAT
PRODUCTION
How To Grow AD Th» MmI Too N«od
In Your Own Baakyard
Anita Evangelista
BACKYARD MEAT PRODUCTION
How to Grow All the Meat You Need
in Your Own Backyard
by Anita Evangelista
If you’re tired of paying skyrocketing
meat prices and worried about unhealthy
food additives and shoddy butchering tech-
niques, then you should start raising small
meat-producing animals at home! You need-
n’t live in the country, as most urban areas
allow for this practice. This book clearly
explains how to raise rabbits, chickens,
quail, ducks, mini-goats and -pigs for their
meat and byproducts, which can not only be
consumed but can also be sold or bartered
to specialized markets. Improve your diet
while saving money and becoming more
self-sufficient.
1997,516 x 816,128 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BACKYARD MEAT PRODUCTION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14193)
THE 990 A MEAL COOKBOOK
by Ruth and Bill Kaysing
Ruth and Bill Kaysing have compiled
these recipes with a basic thought in
mind: People don’t like over-processed
foods and they can save a lot of money
by taking things into their own hands.
These are practical recipes because they
advise the cook where to find the neces-
sary ingredients at low cost. And every
bit as important — the food that you
make will taste delicious! This is a com-
panion volume to Eat Well for 990 a
Meal.
1996, 516 x 816,268 pp,
indexed, soft cover.
THE 990 A MEAL
COOKBOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14183)
COOKING WITH THE SUN
How to Build and Use Solar Cookers
by Beth Halacy and Dan Halacy
Cooking With the Sun clearly
explains how to build solar cookers, how
to use them and what to cook in them —
offering 100 recipes. Before you start
chuckling at what appears to be a ‘60s
fringe group trying to brew tea in a bottle
in the back yard, consider this: Lasagna,
soft and supple, with no burned edges;
Thai chicken curry with aromatic rice;
Chocolate chip cookies, crisp on the bot-
tom. “Solar cooking is not a passing fad
but is a welcome switch to a superior
method,” says Dr. Robert Metcalf, Pro-
fessor of Biological Sciences, Sacra-
mento State University.
Cooking With the Sun is the only book available on how to harness the sun’s energy in preparing food. It presents detailed plans, liberally illustrated with 37 line drawings and 26 black and white photos, for building solar ovens that can cook a 12-pound turkey in three hours, and a solar reflector “hot plate” that perks coffee and cooks steak, bacon and eggs, hotcakes and other stove-top meals. And as a bonus, it gives directions on how to build a simple solar box cooker out of cardboard.
Cooking With the Sun is a must for campers who want to cook safely in wooded areas without the need for a fire — no smoke, no ashes, just clean, hot heat!
1992,7 x 10,128 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
COOKING WITH THE SUN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14139)
FUEL FROM WATER
Energy Independence with Hydrogen
10th Edition
by Michael A. Peavey
End our dependency on imported
oil and clean up the air with the most
plentiful element in the universe!
Hydrogen fuel may be the ultimate
solution to both air pollution and our
precarious dependency upon imported
energy. Hydrogen is the most plentiful
element in the universe. It can be used
as fuel for your car, heating and electri-
cal power for your house. When hydro-
gen burns, only water vapor is
produced.
Fuel From Water shows you how
to: • Build a hydrogen generator with
simple step-by-step instructions and
illustrations, including a parts list of readily available materials • Store
hydrogen safely in a hydride, liquid or pressurized gas storage • Con-
vert a gasoline-powered engine to run on hydrogen, or a combination
of hydrogen and gasoline.
Researchers from universities, private firms, and government
agencies have shown hydrogen to be a safe and efficient fuel. In Fuel
From Water, you will read how: • Several prominent universities have
shown that engine wear is less with hydrogen, air pollution is almost
nonexistent and combustion efficiency is greater, than with gasoline •
The US Postal Service converted Jeeps to run on hydrogen in daily
use • An entire homestead uses hydrogen fuel for autos, lawn trac-
tors, and a gas range • And much more.
Affordable, clean and safe energy is not some “pie in the sky” fan-
tasy. The technology is available today to clean up the air and elimi-
nate the need for military intervention to protect our energy supplies
overseas.
2002,816 x 11,256 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
FUEL FROM WATER: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14132)
SIMPLE LIVING INVESTMENTS
For a Truly Secure and Adventurous Old Age
by Michael Phillips
This short book explicitly discusses “simple living,” a concept that frightens many people who believe making a lot of money is the only way to live and that low income is synonymous with poverty, sadness, filth and depression. Do not read this if you are mentally ill, lazy, considered stupid by your friends or could in any way be tempted to quit a good paying, stable job by reading this booklet.
Summary: A realistic analysis of old age leads to an uncommon investment strategy for people with simple living values. The priority of investment choices are health, friends, skills, an austerity test, and for salaried people a rental house to be sold at age 55.
An old person is the same as a young person, but the body is different. Young bores become old bores, neat young people are neat when they grow old, and old lechers were once young lechers. Old age may mean less earning power and less money to live on. The best way to prepare for that situation, Michael Phillips says, is to learn, while young, how to live fully but simply, using the least possible resources to maintain a satisfying life. A person who knows the meaning of elegant frugality is better prepared for aging than one who has spent decades hustling money to stuff into bank accounts and property.
Very thought provoking, and well worth reading. The best investment book we know of, next to The Alpha Strategy!
1984,516 x 816, 58 pp, soft cover.
SIMPLE LIVING INVESTMENTS: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 82058)
LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING
Revised and Updated Edition
by Edward H. Romney
Living Well on Practi-
cally Nothing is for people
who need to live on a lot
less money. If you have
been fired, demoted,
retired, divorced, widowed,
bankrupted or swindled —
or you just want to quit your
job and remain financially
self-reliant — this book is
for you. In it you will find
hundreds of tips, secrets
and necessary skills for liv-
ing well on little money.
Chapters include:
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Save Up to $37,500
a year and live on
$12,000 a year -
Some Ways to Live
on No Money At All -
A New Career or Business for You
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Low-Cost Computers for Fun, Profit, and Eduction
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Whether, Where, and How to Relocate
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Save on Utilities or Do Without
-
Save on Education, Entertainment, and Vacations
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Protect Your Investments and Make Them Grow.
From cover to cover, this book is stocked with proven methods for saving money on shelter, food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, health care, and more.
The author left the “system” in 1969 and has worked for himself ever since. Let him show you how you, too, can live happily, comfortably, and with complete financial freedom.
2001,816x11,193 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
LIVING WELL ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING: $27.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14216)
THE COMPLETE MODERN BLACKSMITH
by Alexander G. Weygers
Now you can teach yourself
the lost arts of blacksmithing and
tool design and repair! Learn how
to design, forge, and fix your own
tools, hardware, and household
accessories by studying this
unique book, which combines the
three works of master craftsman
and gifted teacher Alexander G.
Weygers: The Making of Tools,
The Modern Blacksmith, and The
Recycling, Use, and Repair of
Tools. In The Complete Modern
Blacksmith, they are brought
together in their entirety for the
first time ever. All three books con-
tain clear, step-by-step instruc-
tions and hundreds of the author’s
own detailed drawings, bringing
scores of time-honored techniques to modern artisans — experienced craftsmen and beginners alike.
The Recycling, Use and Repair of Tools stresses the creative reuse of old materials, and features a wealth of easy-to-follow procedures for making, repairing, and maintaining a great variety of equipment and parts, from shovels and chisels to washers and bearings. Weygers leads the reader step-by-step through making everything from a water pump to cutting tools to candlesticks and Christmas decorations out of scrap metal, in these pages, artists and craftsmen will learn to exploit the modern abundance of scrap steel with creativity and skill.
This volume also contains “Hints on Using Power Tools and Other Admonitions,” which will be of great benefit to the truly modem blacksmith, and a helpful glossary. An exceptionally unique and unusual resource, The Complete Modern Blacksmith is an essential volume in any serious artist’s or craftsman’s library. Forge ahead — order this book today!
1997,7% x 11,304 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE COMPLETE MODERN BLACKSMITH: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14191)
THE HAGGLER’S HANDBOOK
One Hour to Negotiating Power
by Leonard Koren & Peter Goodman
The Haggler's Handbook is the
indispensable tool for the nineties,
when everything has become nego-
tiable and the art of haggling has
become the latest trend. It teaches
you the real art of the deal in only
one hour, with more than 100
proven negotiating tips, tactics and
strategies that work equally well in
a rug bazaar, a car showroom, a
lawyer’s office, or a corporate
boardroom. From soft sell to hard-
ball, from sweet persuasion to total
war, here are more than 125 power-
ful bargaining tactics to put you on
the winning side every time.
This book is designed for fast
reference and maximum utility, with
tactics keyed by graphics that indicate friendly, neutral, and hardball. It moves from overall negotiating psychology to maneuvers suited for short, protracted, stalled, and professional negotiations, to countering an opponent’s dirty tricks. The Haggler's Handbook is a book that, once used, will make you wonder how you ever got along without it.
1991,514 x 714,146 pp, soft cover.
THE HAGGLER’S HANDBOOK: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64141)
HOW TO DEVELOP A LOW-COST
FAMILY FOOD-STORAGE SYSTEM
by Anita Evangelista
If you want to reduce your family’s food expenses, increase your self-sufficiency and ready yourself in case of possible future food shortages, then you should read How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food-Storage System. Slash your food bill by over fifty percent, and increase your self-sufficiency at the same time through alternative ways of obtaining, processing and storing foodstuffs. Includes methods of freezing, canning, smoking, jerking, salting, pickling, krauting, drying, brandying and many other food-preservation procedures. Bad times may be a cornin’ —- or perhaps you just want to reduce your family’s food expenses. In either case, you’ll benefit greatly after you read How to Develop a Low-Cost Family Food- Storage Systeml
1995,514x814, 112pp, illustrated,
indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO DEVELOP A LOW-COST
FAMILY FOOD-STORAGE SYSTEM: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14176)
THE HYDROPONIC HOT HOUSE
Low-Cost, High-Yield
Greenhouse Gardening
by James B. DeKorne
An illustrated guide to alternative-energy greenhouse gardening. Includes directions for building several different greenhouses, practical advice on harnessing solar power, and many hard-earned suggestions for ¡mcreasing plant yield. This hard-core working manual for the greenhouse gardener is fully illustrated with diagrams, charts, and photographs.
1992,514 x 814,178 pp, illustrated,
indexed, soft cover.
THE HYDROPONIC HOT HOUSE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14133)
SELF-SUFFICIENCY GARDENING
Financial, Physical and Emotional Security
from Your Own Backyard
by Martin P. Waterman
A practical guide to organic gardening techniques that will enable anyone to grow vegetables, fruits, nuts, herbs, medicines, and other useful products, thereby increasing self-sufficiency and enhancing the quality of life. Includes sections on edible landscaping; greenhouses; hydroponics and computer gardening (including the Internet); seed saving and propagation; preserving and storing crops; and much more.
1995,814x11,121 pp, Illustrated,
indexed, soft cover.
SELF-SUFFICIENCY GARDENING: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14175)
THE WILD AND FREE COOKBOOK
With a Special Roadkill Section
by Tom Squier
Why pay top dollar for grocery-store food, when you can dine at no cost by foraging and hunting? Wild game, free of the steroids and additives found in commercial meat, is better for you, and many weeds and wild plants are more nutritious than the domestic fruits and vegetables found in the supermarket. Authored by a former Special Forces survival school instructor, this cookbook is chock-full of easy- to-read recipes that will enable you to turn wild and free food (including roadkill!) into gourmet meals.
1996, 7V* x 1114,297pp, illustrated,
indexed, soft cover.
THE WILD AND FREE COOKBOOK: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14178)
Head for the Hills
Introduction
If things get bad enough, you might want to give some thought to “retreating” from organized society and pursuing a lifestyle independent of looming disasters. In this special section, you will find books on retreatable places within the USA, foreign countries, the open sea, and more...
THE LAST FRONTIERS ON EARTH
Strange Places Where You Can Live Free
by Jon Fisher
If you think there are no more fron-
tiers on Earth — if you think govern-
ments have got all the territory sewed
up — if you think there is nowhere you
can go to be free of taxes, regulations
and restrictions — then The Last
Frontiers on Earth is the book for you!
Jon Fisher (author of Uninhabited
Ocean Islands and editor of Vonu) is
one of the world’s most original
thinkers when it comes to unusual
ways of living, and he takes you to
many strange places where the ‘Iron-
tier” is still as wide open as you want to
make it! Contents in this amazing
book include: • Antarctica • The Arctic
Icecap • Floating Icebergs • Sub-
Antarctic Islands • Floating Ocean
Platforms • Living aboard a boat • Living as a nomad • Deserted
Islands • Underwater Habitats • Submarines • Airships • Secret Cel-
lars • Ghost Towns • And much, much more!
Each fascinating idea is discussed in detail as to what it would
cost, the availability of food and shelter, climate and other pertinent
factors. Freedom of choice always exists for those who seek it — The
Last Frontiers on Earth is a book for freedom seekers.
1985,516 x $16, 136 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE LAST FRONTIERS ON EARTH: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17032)
THE MODERN SURVIVAL RETREAT
A New and Vital Approach to
Retreat Theory and Practice
by Ragnar Benson
The deadly actions at Ruby Ridge and Waco are but two of the more blatant examples of government use of overwhelming force against American citizens. Today people must contend with a host of regulators, bureaucrats and other officials who want to micromanage how we work, play, interact, and simply live. But make no mistake about it — if you attempt to defy these authorities in the open, you will be taken down, often at the point of a gun. You will lose your freedom and you could lose your life.
In the face of this new threat, Ragnar Benson revisits the factors that go into planning and using a survival retreat today. Besides discussing such nuts-and-bolts items as picking a retreat location and stocking it, he provides provocative answers to such vital issues as: • Identifying the enemy • Recognizing trip wire events • Finding likeminded retreaters • What to expect when the government goes hardcore against you... and a host of new ways to foil their threats.
A retreat is a place to go and live, not a place to be cornered and die. Find out how you can maximize your chances of survival in a retreat and live to enjoy a free world.
1998,516 x 816,106 pp, photographs, soft cover.
THE MODERN SURVIVAL RETREAT: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17094)
TRAVEL-TRAILER HOMESTEADING
UNDER $5,000
Revised and Expanded
Second Edition
by Brian Kei ling
Are you tired of
paying rent? Do you
yearn for the stability
and sense of security
that comes with own-
ing your own home?
And do you despair
when you consider the
high cost of buying or
constructing a decent
place in which to live?
Brian Kelling’s
Travel-Trailer Home-
steading Under
$5,000 explains how a
modest investment
can enable you to put
an inexpensive roof
over your head and
live a more independ-
ent and self-sufficient
life! By following the
author’s many inform-
ative tips, you will be
able to purchase a
suitable piece of land,
acquire a travel trailer
or mobile home that can be used as a serviceable shelter, and make
the necessary improvements to your property that will enable you to
live in comfort and style!
Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000 tells you how to:
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Break down your costs effectively
-
Choose the tools you will need
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Pick the proper piece of land
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Select an affordable travel trailer or RV
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Construct a septic system
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Provide a water supply
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Generate power, including installation of solar panels
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Arrange for efficient refrigeration
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Make the transition from a travel trailer to a mobile home.
Don’t keep throwing your money away on rent! Taste the sense of freedom that comes from owning your own home! Declare your own financial independence with this revised and expanded second edition of Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000.
1999,516 x 816,102 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
TRAVEL-TRAILER HOMESTEADING
UNDER $5,000: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14205)
CHOOSE MEXICO
Retirement Discoveries for Every Budget
7th Edition
by John Howells & Don Merwin
Here is the latest information on affordable living south of the border, down Mexico way. Housing, finances, health care, shopping, resources and contacts, and legal requirements are thoughtfully and thoroughly discussed. The best places to relocate from Baja to Oaxaca are described in detail.
Chapters include: • Why Mexico? • Living in a Foreign Country • Two Mexicos • Managing Your Money • Staying Healthy • Your Legal Status • Locating Housing • The Market • The Kitchen • Need to Know Spanish? • Getting Around Mexico • Where Americans Live • Guadalajara/Lake Chapala • Mexico City Vicinity • Baja, California • Oaxaca • the Yucatan • RV Travel in Mexico • and more.
No other book provides as much information on the practical details of living in Mexico, or covers as wide a range of retirement sites. It is recommended to anyone who inquires about retirement in Mexico by Mexican consulates throughout the USA, and is the most highly acclaimed guide to retirement and seasonal living in Mexico ever written!
2001,516 x 816, 219 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
CHOOSE MEXICO: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17070)
CHOOSE THE SOUTHWEST
Retirement Discoveries for Every Budget
3rd Edition
by John Howells
John Howells, author of numerous retirement books, is a leading authority on retirement sites in the United States and abroad. He has found that many prospective retirees, once they have narrowed their choices to a certain section of the country, need more detailed information before they are prepared to make their final decision. Others already know where they plan to retire and want to zero in on that particular area from the get-go. With those readers in mind, Howells has written a series Of regional retirement guides for the United States, including Choose the Southwest.
Howells strongly believes that the years of relaxation that follow a life of productive work should be the most rewarding of one’s life, and has made every effort to seek out locations that will make this possible for those who are planning to relocate in their Golden Years. So, before you follow the sun to America’s Southwest, read this book!
1999,516 x 816, 220 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CHOOSE THE SOUTHWEST: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17088)
WILDERNESS EVASION
A Guide to Hiding Out
and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas
by Michael Chesbro
You don’t have to be “on the run” to benefit from this unique survival book: it includes skills you can use every day in your real life. Whether you’re heading into the woods for evasion purposes or just to escape the pressures of the world and the gaze of Big Brother for a while, you should know what this manual can teach you about survival medicine, emergency caching, communications, food and water procurement and storage, counter-anti-tracking, and the psychological aspects of being alone in the back country, among other things.
The ability to remain alive, self-reliant and in control of your environment — even in the remotest of areas — is one that few people possess these days. Learning the skills taught in this book can keep you alive for as long as you need to be in the wilderness.
2002,516 x 816,167 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
WILDERNESS EVASION: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58160)
THE WORLD’S TOP RETIREMENT HAVENS
How to Relocate, Retire, and Increase Your
Standard of Living
Edited by Margaret J. Goldstein
Whether you want to find new experiences or a lower cost of living, culture or nature, the mountains or the beach — there are places all over the world that are ideal for dropouts. How about... • Ireland, with its beautiful landscape, healthful environment, and excellent tax breaks? • Canada, where outdoor enthusiasts can fish, hike, ski, hunt, canoe, and bird watch? • Argentina, which offers big city sophistication and small peaceful villages?
The 15 countries included all rank high on International Living’s index of the best places in the world to retire — an index based on a number of categories, including cost of living, health care, climate, culture, real estate, and safety. The World’s Top Retirement Havens gives you all the information you need to move to the land of your dreams: • Where to live • Culture and people • Renting versus buying • Banking • Medical care • Transportation • Leisure time activities • Taxes • And more. Plus: resources that will make relocating easy!
1999,6x9,311 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE WORLD’S TOP RETIREMENT HAVENS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17098)
BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE
How to Live on a Tropic Island
by Ross Norgrove
Ross Norgrove found land, built
a house, and lives quite contentedly
on a tropic island, and he tells you
how you can do it, too. In Blueprint
for Paradise he answers in detail
such tough questions as: • How can
you, from thousands of miles away,
select the island that matches your
needs and your hoped-for lifestyle?
• What barriers will the island gov-
ernment place in your path? • What
should you look for when you buy
property? • What should you con-
sider when you build a house? •
What are the upfront costs? • What
are the hidden costs? • What about
food? Water? Medical Care?
Norgrove guides you through the
initial choice of an island, the queries to the island government, the building and equipping of a new home, and the process of settling into a new and very different life. He tells about gardening in the tropics, building a dock, owning a boat, communicating with the outside world, clothing, medical care, education of children, hurricanes, owning your own island, taxes, costs, and custom fees. He provides addresses to write for specific information from all the major tropic island groups. There are hundreds of thousands of islands in the world’s tropic belt, and one of them could be your next home!
1989,5x716, 165 pp, illustrated, indexed, photographs, soft cover.
BLUEPRINT FOR PARADISE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17044)
THE LAST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN
The True Story of an Idaho Solitary
by Harold Peterson
This is the true story of Sylvan
Hart, who carved out his own pri-
vate Idaho on four acres at Five
Mile Bar on The River of No
Return.
As a young man, dismayed by
the destruction of the final fron-
tiers, Sylvan Hart recanted civiliza-
tion and marched off into the Idaho
wilderness armed with a few sta-
ples, an ax, a rifle, and a master’s
degree in engineering.
There in the last wilderness,
where one winter’s snows might
fall into another’s before a visitor
came, he became the Last of the
Mountain Men. He fashioned his
clothes of deerskin. He con-
structed adobe-covered buildings
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with hand-hewn timbers. He mined copper, smelted it, refined it, and
made utensils. He even made his own flintlock rifles, boring them on
an ingenious handmade machine, to “save the bother of store-
bought” ammunition. To pay for infrequent trips to the nearest town
(pop. 6, in winter 0), where he purchased only powder, books and
Darjeeling tea, he panned gold. This is the true story of this amazing
and unique individual, his life and his thoughts.
“My reaction to the Depression was to find a place with the natural
resources to defeat it. I could have found no better place than Salmon
River. I spent some $50 a year then for what little I needed to buy. I
always had a garden. It was easy to get fruit and I made moccasins
and clothing out of animal skins.”
1969, 6 x 9,160 pp, photographs, soft cover.
THE LAST OF THE MOUNTAIN MEN: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11094)
BEATING THE SYSTEM
The Next American Revolution
by Larry Roth
Larry Roth says: “Hate your job? Do something about it! My father used to tell me about a hound dog who was lying on his balls and howling. The dog was howling because he was in pain, but, at the same time, he was too lazy to do anything about his own situation!
“Well, I can’t help thinking about that hound dog when I hear Americans whining about how unhappy they are with their energysapping jobs. These are the same people I see out paying retail for the latest gewgaws they’ll be offering in their next garage sales a few months later. Most Americans seem to think their lives are like a TV show. There’ll be a happy ending, and they won’t even have to leave their easy chair. So they stay in their jobs, waste their money, and whine. Like the hound dog. And some of them will wind up retired, the walking wounded, after the years and the stress have taken their toll. Many others will wind up out the corporate door in their fifties, victims of downsizing and hard-to-prove age discrimination. These people will wonder where their happy endings went!
“Beating the System examines what is wrong with the modern American workplace, but it doesn’t stop there. It offers workers a way out with dignity. And I am living proof that the solution is not hypothetical. Beating the System provides its readers with the tools I used to leave Corporate America and discusses how, even if one ‘loves’ his or her job, one had better be prepared to live without it in these days of mergers and downsizing.”
Larry Roth is a Loompanics kind of guy — let him share what he has learned about Beating the System.
1995,516 x 716,317 pp, soft coven*
BEATING THE SYSTEM: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17083)
SURTHRIVAL GUIDE
FOR UNDER 18ERS
by Mark Feest
How to live on your own
before you are 18! Without
getting busted — without
having to go back to your
parents. Mark Feest pro-
vides practical information
and ideas on:
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Getting a place to stay
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Finding work
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Earning money & keep-
ing it -
Eluding detectives & ex-
lovers -
Keeping your privacy
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Getting around without
a car -
Learning skills — get-
ting education & training -
Dealing with authority
figures (police, parents,
bosses, teachers, land-
lords) -
Eating well & staying healthy
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And much more. Even while homeless or traveling!
The author says: “When I was in school my best friend lived on his
own from age 14 up. While living in California and Florida I crossed
paths with hundreds of kids on their own and making it. My learning,
listening, and writing carry their SurThrival secrets to your eyes.”
SurThrival Guide For Under 18ers is must reading for anyone
interested in independence.
2000,516 x 816,281 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover,
SURTHRIVAL GUIDE FOR UNDER 18ERS: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11117)
The human cougar
by Lloyd L. Morain
The Human Cougar is a fiercely independent person who might be encountered on waterfronts and highways, in rail yards, hobo jungles, orchards, cattle ranches, mines, logging camps, bars and coffee shops. The Human Cougar is an endangered species. Roaming about, free from regimentation, overlooked by bureaucrats, and largely outside of social welfare systems, he often escapes notice. Yet this outsider is very much a part of American life, and the West as we know it was largely created by this brand of working drifter.
Chapters include: • Sighting the Cougar • They’ve Long Been Around • What Cougars Aren’t • Five Cougars Speak for Themselves • Early Life and Escape • Work Habits and Experiences • Cougar Habitats: Jungles, Missions, Flophouses and Parks • Family Life and Marriage • Cougarish Personal Attitudes • Authority, The Enemy • Roaming and Goofing Off • And more.
Our heavily institutionalized modern society is inhospitable to the Human Cougar, but there are millions of individuals among us who have a latent Cougar strain. Those with a Cougar strain can better understand their own inner stirring by gaining knowledge of the independent hard-living breed now ebbing into extinction.
1976,516 x 816,175 pp, hard cover.
THE HUMAN COUGAR: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17053)
LIVING NAKED AND FRUGAL
A Handbook For Parsimonious Nudity
by Paul Penhallow with Marilyn Lovell
Author Paul Penhallow’s experience of living naked in a non- naked world spanned nearly ten years, and ranged from SunSpace, his 21st-floor high-rise apartment in downtown Syracuse, New York, to the many highways and parks of the Northern Atlantic states. Penhallow’s “Four Laws of Naturism” (“Accept Yourself,” “Respect Others,” “Live Simply,” and “Relax Daily”) comprise the springboard for this book, which also contains a comprehensive listing of nudist resorts throughout the United States. If you are considering becoming a nudist, or have already tried the lifestyle and enjoy it, this book provides the naked truth about living a life free of clothing, and how to do so in a thrifty manner.
1997,516 x 816,91 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
LIVING NAKED AND FRUGAL: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17091)
THE NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRATION GUIDE
by Adam Starchild
New Zealand is widely known as one of the most beautiful places on earth, and many long.to leave the cares and troubles of their native lands behind and settle there. This book provides a close look at New Zealand’s many features and attractions, and provides clear, concise information on the steps that must be taken to become a citizen. Complete with a resource guide, illustrated maps and photos, this is the best book ever written for the prospective immigrant to New Zealand.
1997,516 x 816,168 pp, soft cover.
THE NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRATION GUIDE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17092)
UNINHABITED OCEAN ISLANDS
by Jon Fisher
Why head for the hills when you can head for the sea? This engrossing tour of more than 180 exotic, unihabited islands includes detailed descriptions of each island’s history, size, climate, vegetation, animal life, water supplies, and much more. The exact locations of the uninhabited islands are shown in 84 precise maps. Whether you need a resting place, a temporary hideout, or a permanent home, this book is the ultimate guide.
1991,516 x 816,156 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
UNINHABITED OCEAN ISLANDS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17059)
I WALKED AWAY
An Expatriate’s Guide
to Living Cheaply in Thailand
by Michael Zieslng
Ready to take a permaneht vacation...
in Thailand? Michael Zieslng was, and he
chronicles his experience in this informa-
tive display of his thought processes and
day-to-day living tips. Ziesing discusses
how he came to his decision to leave the
United States, how he divested himself of
the many material objects that were hold-
ing him back, and how he chose his des-
tination.
This is the most explicit, helpful book
ever written for fledgling expatriates.
1996,516x816,140 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
I WALKED AWAY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17084)
FREEDOM ROAD
by Harold Hough
Have you dreamed about leaving the rat
race, but don’t know where to start? Harpld
Hough had a house, two cars, and a high-
paying, high-status job. On the surface, he
was living the American Dream. Underneath,
he was in trouble. Harold Hough was so far in
debt that even two incomes couldn’t cover
the bills. He had no time to spend with his
family. He was overweight. His life was falling
apart, fast, and it looked like there was no
way out.
Then Harold Hough found Freedom
Road. He made a plan, paid off his debts,
bought an RV and hit the road. Harold Hough
took control of his life away from his employer, his bank, his govern-
ment, and his community. With this book, you can learn to do the
same. This book will show you how to get out of the rat race and into
an RV. You’ll learn how to plan your escape, eliminate your debts and
buy an RV. You’ll learn how to make money with your hobbies. You’ll
learn how to live comfortably on a couple of dollars a day. The payoff
is big: An abundance of time to enjoy your family and friends; A
healthy lifestyle that costs little to maintain; The freedom to do what
you want, when you want, where you want. Why wait for retirement
when you can enjoy a low-work, high-travel lifestyle right now? Get on
Freedom Road!
1991,516 x 816,174 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
FREEDOM ROAD: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17056)
THE HITCHHIKER’S HANDBOOK
by James MacLaren
Hitchhiking is an American institution...
yet very few people know how to do it cor-
rectly and efficiently. Written in the streetwise
vernacular and style of America’s free-wheel-
ing road explorers, The Hitchhiker's Hand-
book provides well-crafted, informative
instructions on: How to dress for hitchhiking
success; Where to position yourself along-
side the road; Dealing with unforeseen occur-
rences; Advanced hitchhiking tips; and much
more. Whether you’re making an emergency
commute to work or planning a trip across
the country, this book serves as an invaluable
guide.
1995,516 X 816,141 pp, soft cover.
THE HITCHHIKER’S HANDBOOK: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17075)
SURVIVING
•N THE
STREETS
SURVIVING ON THE STREETS
How to Go DOWN Without Going OUT
by Ace Backwards
Street people! We see them frequently in our day-to-day travels, but we don’t have a clue as to how they survive on the streets. We may get brief glimpses into their world, the missions, the ragged individuals .asking for spare change, the soup kitchens, but Ace Back- words gives us our first real foray into daily life on the streets.
Intended to be written as a how-to for anyone contemplating or more likely thrust by circumstances into street life, it is an uncensored and candid look at an entirely different world that exists co-depend- ently with the one with which most of us are familiar.
Ace envisions this as a book that would have been of benefit to him at age seventeen, when he first hit an on-ramp with his thumb out 27 years ago. He has lived years on and sometimes off the streets, but seems to have settled into a life enmeshed in the street scene.
‘To some the streets are their worst nightmare, losing security, job, possessions, everything they cling to — a lost soul in a twilight world with nothing. To others it may be a cherished fantasy; to quit your job and hit the road like Kerouac. Nothing to tie you down. No responsibilities. Total freedom. A permanent vacation on the open road to adventure. Between these two poles lies the reality of life on the street.”
Within the pages of this book you’ll find chapters on:
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an overview of street life
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three things you must have
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where to sleep — and where not to
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how to deal with the cold and rain
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the 22 types of street people
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the cops
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how to find a stable “homeless home”
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the merchants
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the homeless activists
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food: eating for free
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making money on the street
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coping with “crazy” street people
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drugs and alcohol
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how to keep clean and stay healthy
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violence; how to avoid it and what to do when you can’t
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getting off the streets
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and tales of counterculture casualties.
Ace himself admits that no book can teach you to survive the countless turbulent pitfalls awaiting you on the street, for each street person’s situation is unique and individual. However, this book offers specific tips on street survival that worked and some that didn’t, which might be just as valuable for those who could learn from Ace’s mistakes. For those of us who will never live on the streets, this book gives a brutally honest peek into an alien world from the eyes of a native. Fascinating!
2001, 814x11,196 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
SURVIVING ON THE STREETS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 11119)
OVERSEAS AMERICANS
The Essential Guide to Living
and Working Abroad
by William Beaver
Moving to a foreign coun-
try can be exciting, but it can
also be scary, especially for
Americans. Overseas Amer-
icans — the essential hand-
book for US citizens living or
working abroad — includes
vital information and actual
documents from all the gov-
ernment agencies that you
will have to deal with: the
IRS, State Department,
Social Security Administra-
tion, Justice Department,
Customs, embassies, con-
sulates, and a host of others.
This invaluable guide gives
you everything you need to
know before you go, regard-
less of where you plan to live
or work, or for how long you plan on being out of the country:
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Must I pay US taxes?
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What travel documents, tfisas, or work permits will I need?
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How can I find out if a country is dangerous for Americans?
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What help can I expect if I get in trouble?
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How difficult is It to find a job overseas — without getting scammed?
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Can I lose my US citizenship by living abroad?
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Will my health insurance be good in a foreign country?
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Can I have my Social Security or retirement check sent overseas?
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Can I vote in US elections if I live abroad?
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And much more.
In addition to answers to these and other frequently asked questions, it provides an annotated, up-to-the-minute list of the most helpful Web sites for Americans abroad. And to make sure you always know the most recent news and information vital to Americans abroad, you will receive the password to a special Web site just for readers of Overseas Americans. If you plan on starting a life overseas, do it the smart way, without risking your money, your citizenship, your health, or your life. Don’t leave home without this book!
2001,816x11,167 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
OVERSEAS AMERICANS: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17101)
GIMME SHELTER
Low-cost, energy-efficient houses you can build yourself! Homes for the homeless — get a roof over your head now!
THE $50 & UP UNDERGROUND HOUSE BOOK
Sixth Edition
by Mike Oehler
It’s back! This extremely popu-
lar book shows you how to design
and build an underground house.
Now in its Sixth Edition, this book
is the bible of subterranean shel-
ter. Now you can learn how to: •
Design an Underground Home •
Get Plenty of Light, Air and Views
• Cut Material Costs up to 90% •
Build a Greenhouse into Your
Horpe • Build a Home from $50 to
$15,000 • Use Solar Energy •
Build into Hillsides • Solve
Drainage Problems • Deal With
Building Codes • And Much More.
Lavishly illustrated, with
dozens of drawings, plans, photo-
graphs — even color photos — this book is a clear, concise guide to
building a low-cost house underground. Recommended.
1997,816x11,115 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE $50 & UP UNDERGROUND HOUSE BOOK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14141)
ALTERNATIVE HOUSEBUILDING
by Mike McClintock
A giant, oversized, one-vol-
ume working encyclopedia! Why
are so many craftsmen turning
to alternative housing instead of
conventional home designs?
Mike McClintock thinks it is
because you get to “build some-
thing personal and something
special, and enjoy the trip as
much as the destination.”
This book is your guide
through the world of alternative
house construction. It shows
how to build with traditional sys-
tems now enjoying big revivals:
log buildings, timber frame
houses, structures made from
adobe, stone or cordwood. And
you also see how to build with
the newer systems: pole foundations, rammed-earth walls, earth sheltering. But this is much more than a look-and-dream book. You get complete information on the construction techniques, with hundreds of step-by-step photos and drawings. Contents include: • Log Buildings • Timber Frame • Pole • Cordwood, Stone, Earth Masonry • Earth Shelter.
If you are looking for alternatives to mass-produced housing, this is the most complete and authoritative guide in print.
1989,816x11,379pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
ALTERNATIVE HOUSEBUILDING: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14120)
HOW TO BUILD
A LOW-COST HOUSE OF STONE
by Lewis and Sharon Watson
Build a full-size 3-bedroom home for $2000? By yourself? With no experience? In one summer? The authors of this book did, and in it they show you how you can build your own low-cost house of stone.
Until recently, stone masonry skills have been the guarded province of a handful of professional masons. With the simple forming technique explained in this book, however, an amateur builder can now “pour” his own stone house — in one summer, with no previous masonry experience, and at a cost that will have mortgage bankers shaking their heads in disbelief.
How to Build a Low-Cost House of Stone clearly explains: • Where to find free stones • Which stones to use and why • How to site a stone house • How to pour stone wall footings • How to build simple wall forms • Building arrow-straight walls with forms • How to set windows and doors in stone • Working with stone mortar and concrete • Water-proofing stone walls • Insulating stone walls »And much, much more!
1978,816x11,96 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD
A LOW-COST HOUSE OF STONE: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14103)
HOW TO BUILD AND FURNISH A LOG CABIN
The Easy Natural Way Using Only Hand Tools and the Woods Around You
by W. Ben Hunt
This is the only step-by-step guide to building log cabins and log furniture — pioneer style. There are other manuals on building cabins, but W. Ben Hunt’s is the only one to show you how to build and furnish an authentic pioneer cabin — the easy, natural way, using only hand tools and the woods around you.
Our forefathers used logs and hand tools to build durable, dry, windproof, and protective dwellings; and they fashioned chairs, tables and beds out of split half-logs, twigs, branches, and bushes. In this day of power saws, lumber yards, and high prices, it’s good to know that you can build in the same way.
If you’re not ready to build an entire cabin, you can try your hand at some of the small furnishings such as lamps, fences, and candlesticks. There are really two books in one here: Building a Log Cabin, published in 1947, and Rustic Construction, published in 1939. These two out-of-print classics have been reproduced exactly as they first appeared, with the drawings and photographs that W. Ben Hunt selected and produced for the original editions.
Contents include:
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The Cabin and the Site • Logs and Other Materials • Tools • Foundations and Fireplaces • Walls • Roofs • Windows, Doors, and Shutters • Floors, Stairs, and Ceilings • Partitions, Additions, and Porches • Fixtures and Fireplace Equipment • Lighting and Heating • Reconditioning Old Log Cabins • Outdoor Fireplaces • Slab Furniture • Interior Fixtures and Equipment • Fences and Gates • Bridges • And more.
1939/1947,516 x 816,176 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD AND FURNISH A LOG CABIN: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14158)
EARTHSHIP: VOLUME I
How to Build Your Own
by Michael Reynolds
Can you build your own home
out of discarded automobile tires?
Hell, yes! says architect Michael
Reynolds, who shows in Earth-
ship how to produce an economi-
cally built, self-heating,
self-cooling unit that performs
even in the weather extremes of
the Rocky Mountains. The author
says, “We are in need of life sup-
porting systems that will ‘float’
independently without access to various archaic self-destructive systems upon which we have grown dependent. These systems include centralized energy systems which give us acid rain, radioactive waste and power lines lacing the earth like spider webs. We have heating and cooling systems for our living spaces that totally depend upon these centralized energy systems.
“Most housing today would be totally nonfunctional in terms of comfort, water, toilets, electricity, etc., without massive inputs of energy from centralized sources. There is also food, another basic living need, which also comes mostly from centralized production systems. The quality of this food is, at best, questionable, and it requires energy-consuming transportation systems for distribution. All of this is available only through money, which itself is another system between us and our sustenance. Due to-the fact that these systems have evolved within a certain narrowness of vision, they have begun to reach points where they do more harm than good.
“We need to evolve self-sufficient living units that are their own systems. These units must energize themselves, heat and cool themselves, grow food and deal with their own waste. The current concept of housing, in general, supported by massive centralized systems, is no longer appropriate, safe or reliable.”
1990,11 x 816, 237pp, illustrated, soft cover.
EARTHSHIP: Volume I: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14128)
EARTHSHIP: VOLUME II
System and Components
by Michael Reynolds
In Earthship, Volume I Michael Reynolds showed you how to build your own house out of discarded automobile tires. In Volume II, he covers the systems (solar electric, domestic water, waste water, hot water, and lighting) and components (adobe fireplaces, stairways, gravity skylights, doors and cabinets, bathtubs, showers and vanities, can domes and vaults) of the Earthship home. He also discusses landscaping and codes, permits, and financing.
The author says, “If our lifestyle can conform more to the patterns of the planet than to our socioeconomic system, we can reduce the stress on both ourselves and the planet. This is easier said than done due to the ‘reality’ and the ‘gravity’ of mortgage payments, utility bills and the generally high cost of eating and living. Most of us have no choice. We have to be places at certain times looking certain ways in order to make the money needed to make those payments. However, many people have built Earthships themselves and ended up with little or no mortgage payments. They also have little or no utility bills and their ability to grow food year-round inside the Earthship has greatly affected what they have to spend on packaged, processed foods.
“This is approaching the freedom this country was founded on. I do not think we are a hostile, aggressive virus on this planet. We have simply built a trap and now we are caught in it. Our efforts to survive in this trap make us appear ruthless, hostile and aggressive. The Earthship and the Earthship concepts can begin to free us from this trap. Then we will have the mental space to make choices.”
We highly recommend Michael Reynolds’ Earthship series to anyone interested in alternative housing, energy, and lifestyles.
1991,11 x 814, 275pp, illustrated, soft cover.
EARTHSHIP: Volume II: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14138)
EARTHSHIP: VOLUME III
Evolution Beyond Economics
by Michael Reynolds
Earthship: Volume III continues the visionary and practical designs and ideas Michael Reynolds outlined in the first two volumes. The Earthship is an independent home that provides the necessities for human existence: shelter, energy, food, water and air. Volume III covers structural evolutions such as concrete half blocks and rammed earth half blocks, leaning tire retaining walls and wing walls, round and arch windows, and more. Also covered are mechanical evolutions such as the water organizer module, power organizer module, and the indoor contained grey water absorbing tank.
Volume III also goes into new components and concepts such as the thermal mass refrigerator, the solar toilet, the straw bale temporary structure, and more.
Michael Reynolds says, “Politics, economics, and religion all present shallow solutions to a confused, disenchanted global populace. Politicians promise jobs. Economists analyze markets and play games. Meanwhile people are jobless, homeless, starving and dying, or if they are lucky, just unhappy and apathetic.
“Why make jobs? Why should our lives depend so much on a thing called the economy? Even religions which were founded on a spark of inspiration have now become dogmatic institutions that function with money. The all-encompassing economic dinosaur is too large to be changed or significantly influenced by anybody or anything and doesn’t even notice the people it is supposed to serve. It eats everything in its path and then leaves excrement so physically and emotionally vile to both people and planet that life itself is beginning to look questionable. What if we slowly abandoned this dinosaur?”
1993,11 x 814, 280 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
EARTHSHIP: Volume III: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14148)
BUILDING WITH EARTH
A Guide to Flexible-Form Earthbag Construction
by Paulina Wojciechowska
Building With Earth is the
first comprehensive guide to
describe the re-emergence of
earthen architecture in North
America, where adventurous
builders are combining time-
less forms such as arches,
vaults, and domes with mod-
ern materials and techniques.
Using inexpensive, recycled or
salvaged polypropylene tubing
or textile grain sacks, even rel-
atively inexperienced builders
can construct an essentially
tree-free building, from founda-
tion to curved roof.
This book will take you
“back to the future” of natural
building, which lies in the merger of ancient architectures with cutting- edge earth-based techniques now being researched fortheir potential in building durable dwellings in the Third World, off-the-grid dream homes in exotic locales, and even structures on the moon! You’ll leam how to: • Design and build rounded forms, including arches, vaults, domes, and apses, using inexpensive and locally available materials and tools • Build without relying on wood • Create and apply durable natural plaster finishes • Combine Earthbags with conventional and ecological building techniques • And much more.
Author Paulina Wojciechowska’s nonprofit trust “Earth, Hands & Houses” supports building projects that empower indigenous people around the world to build their own shelter from natural materials that are locally available.
2001,8 x 10,181 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BUILDING WITH EARTH: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14217)
HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE
by Malcolm Wells
Malcolm Wells is an
“underground” architect who
has been burrowing and
building for 25 years. The
author of three other books
on underground architecture,
he’s finally told us exactly
how to build an underground
house.
How to Build an Under-
ground House takes you
step-by-step through the
design and construction of a
passive solar, 1200 sq. ft.
house. It includes sugges-
tions for expanding the
house for those who want
more room. This house can
be built on a flat or sloping
site. Whatever the unique
characteristics of your site, the author helps you understand how to
build to take advantage of your surroundings.
You’ll find this book thoughtful, friendly, easy to use. Includes sev-
eral clever, casual drawings interlaced with technical illustrations and
designs. As you plan your underground house, you’ll find yourself
reading this helpful guide again and again.
1991,816x11,96 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14134)
BUILDING A LOG CABIN RETREAT
A Do-It-Yourself Guide
by Michael Mulligan
If you’ve ever dreamed of building a
rustic log cabin to use as a weekend
hideaway, hunting lodge, or even an
emergency retreat, this book tells you
how to make it a reality. Author Michael
Mulligan has built scores of log cabins
over the past three decades, and this
step-by-step guide is chock-full of tips
and advice culled from his years of expe-
rience.
Specializing in do-it-yourself projects
that use improvised materials and avoid
bureaucratic hassles, Mulligan begins by
sharing invaluable insight on finding the
right piece of land and negotiating the
shark-filled waters of real estate deals.
And then the real fun begins. In straight-
forward layman’s terms that even a novice can understand and follow easily, Mulligan walks you through the construction process, from selecting and preparing the logs and laying out the foundation to fabricating boxes for windows and doors and erecting and chinking the walls to building a roof and finishing the interior of the structure. In keeping with the goal of making your cabin a self-sufficient retreat suitable for use in a survival situation, he also includes a chapter on dispensing with public utilities in meeting your water, sewage, heating, cooking, lighting, power, and refrigeration needs. Finally, for the ambitious builder who wishes to tackle a scaled-up version of Mulligan’s basic design, he presents the formulas necessary for calculating the parameters and selecting the proper material.
Even in today’s high-tech world, the early American pioneer tradition of log cabin living has remained strong. Now, as we face an uncertain future wherein the bizarre and unanticipated are a matter of course, and “homeland security” no longer is, the back-to-basics simplicity of a log cabin retreat is more attractive than ever.
2002,516 x 816, 88 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BUILDING A LOG CABIN RETREAT: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17102)
THE COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK
You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home
by Becky Bee
of building guilds, the skill and
Europe over the last century. Si
Cobbing is a process best
described, as mud daubing.1
Earth, sand and straw >are
mixed together and massaged
onto the foundation of the struc-
ture to be cobbed, creating
thick, load-bearing wails. Cob-
bing is like hand-sculpting a
giant pot to live in. ?
There is evidence that cob
building began in Europe about
800 years ago. In England,
there are approximately 50,000
cob buildings still in .use today,
most of which vyere constructed
in the 18th and 19th centuries.
After the advent of fired brick
construction and the formation
t of cobbing airpost died out in
3 1980, this traditional craft has •
enjoyed a revival. Now, by reading The Cob Builders Handbook and •
following its simple instructions, you can make use of this fun, enlight-
ening way to connect with nature while building valuable structures ;
that will enhance your life!
A well-designed cob home can cost as little as $10 per square
foot, and save lots of money on energy bills. And anyone can work
with cob. It is a flexible and forgiving medium, which requires dediça- :
tion more than physical strength, and a willingness to experiment
rather than a high level of skill. Cob homes can last for centuries, and
don’t require much maintenance. :
Becky Bee, author of The Cob Builders Handbook, has built nat-
ural structures in countries around the world. Her company, Ground-
works, is at the forefront of the cob revival. Read this book now, and
discover a new world of cob construction that incorporates hands-on
artistic expression with practical frugality.
1997,816x11,173 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE COB BUILDERS HANDBOOK: $23.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14195)
MORTGAGE-FREE!
Radical Strategies for Home Ownership
by Rob Roy >
Here is a banker’s worst nightmare, a book that tells you how to ; live without being enslaved to financial institutions. Rob Roy offers a ' series of escape routes from indentured servitude, underscored by true stories of intrepid homeowners who have put their principles into \ action. There are three types of people who live without mortgages: the rich, the poor, and the smart. Rob Roy’s book will make you , smarter and richer.
For many Americans, the word mortgage-free takes on a dreamy • quality, and suggests the completion of a twenty-five or thirty-year economic trial, or, perhaps, winning the state lottery. Among the very ; rich, and paradoxically, many of the rural poor, the mortgage-free home is the status quo. Only the vast middle class seems to suffer. from the mortgage manacle. Housing costs, whether by way of rent or mortgage, are the single largest after-tax expenditure for most Americans. It needn’t be that way. Housing costs can be drastically reduced. Rental housing should only be considered as a short-term ; necessity in situations, for example, where an individual, couple, or family has just moved to a new area, and has not yet found ownership ' possibilities.
Chapters include: »The Mortgaged Home • The Grubstake • The . Land • The Temporary Shelter • The Low-Cost.Home • Our Own Story ! • Mortgage-Free People • and much more. . *
Get this book and be on your way to Mortgage-Free living!
1998,6x9,353 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
MORTGAGE-FREE!: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14198)
BUILDING TIPIS & YURTS
Authentic Designs for Circular Shelters
by Blue Evening Star
BUILDING
TlPl^VURTS
AmènntÎr Arçp'&r CtA-«far Skf&r,'
Tipis and yurts are extremely
efficient shelters, even by today’s
standards. Many principles used
in modern homes have their ori-
gins in these primitive dwellings.
Reflection of the sun during sum-
mer, absorption of available heat
in winter, blocking the force of the
wind, and providing ventilation for
fresh air and cooling have been
— and continue to be — impor-
tant challenges for home builders.
Many innovative solutions to
these problems are exemplified in
the simple engineering of tipis
and yurts. Compared to today’s
standard housing, tipis and yurts
are extremely economical and easy to build — and are portable. With
just a few basic tools and some readily available materials, anyone
can build either structure. And when you’ve finished the construction,
there’s nothing that matches the joy of sitting within the embrace of
your own circular shelter.
If you’ve ever considered changing your lifestyle, or if you just
want a unique portable shelter for outdoor camping, then this book is
for you. In it you’ll find clear instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams
describing how to construct a tipi similar to those inhabited by Ameri-
can Plains Indians and a yurt derived from the traditional Mongolian
design.
1995,816 x 10,128 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
BUILDING TIPIS & YURTS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14215)
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN LOG HOME
FOR LESS THAN $15,000
by Robert L. Williams
Why spend tens, even hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars on
the construction of your house,
when you can learn How to
Build Your Own Log Home for
Less Than $15,000! Author
Robert L. Williams and his family
did just that, after a tornado
destroyed their North Carolina
home. Even though they were
unfamiliar with chain-saw con-
struction techniques, the
Williams family built a new 4,300-
square-foot log home them-
selves, saving nearly half a
million dollars in the process —
and you can, too!
This book clearly explains: •
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN
LOG HOME
FOR LESS THAN $15,000
Basic considerations • Selecting the proper site and drawing plans •
The basics of chain-sawing and squaring logs • Tools and equipment
needed, and their usage • Building foundation wails, laying concrete
blocks, and pouring the basement floor • Sawing framing members,
installing subflooring, and framing the floor • Constructing log and
partition walls • Cutting and installing girders • Roof framing and
sheathing • Confidence-boosting projects • And much more!
Learn the time-tested techniques that will enable you to construct
your own log home for a fraction of the cost that contractors would
charge you! Read How to Build Your Own Log Home for Less Than
$15,000 today!
1996,816x11,216 pp, Illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN LOG HOME
FOR LESS THAN $15,000: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14185)
HOW TO BUILD THIS LOG CABIN FOR $3,000
by John McPherson
If it was good enough
for Abe Lincoln...
Who hasn’t dreamed
of building and living in a
log cabin? John McPher-
son’s simple, folksy
guide gives you the low-
down on what’s involved
in making a structure
from logs. How else can
you build a house for a
mere $3,000? For most
people, that’s less than a
year’s rent! You can use the cabin for storage, animals, an office, a
guest house... everyone needs extra space.
With detailed photographs and illuminating illustrations, this book
covers: how to select logs; removing bark; setting up a foundation;
how to lay logs so they’re straight and tight; building a roof; adding
doors and windows.
McPherson, author of Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills
and Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied and Advanced, used imagi-
nation, easily obtained materials, and rugged know-how to erect this
cabin. And so can you!
1999,9 x 6,140 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOW TO BUILD THIS LOG CABIN FOR $3,000: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14206)
THE RAMMED EARTH HOUSE
Discovering the Most Ancient Building Material
by David Easton
For more than ten thou-
sand years humans have
been using earth as a primary
building material. Rammed
earth, as practiced today,
involves mixing basic materi-
als on-site — earth, water,
and a little cement — then
tamping the mixture into
wooden forms to create thick,
sturdy masonry walls. This
method of building creates a
structure of timeless beauty
and Old World charm, a
home that offers its inhabi-
tants a powerful sense of
security and well-being.
Earthbuilt homes have a per-
manence and solidity altogether lacking in so many of today’s modular, pre-fab, stick-built houses. Rammed earth houses have other advantages, too, including: • Resource efficiency. A well-built earth house will last hundreds of years, which means that the natural materials needed for construction are used wisely and sustainably. • Energy efficiency. Massive earth masonry walls retain solar heat in winter and cooler nighttime temperatures in summer, making rammed earth homes both comfortable and economical year-round. • Design flexibility and aesthetics. Rammed earth walls allow for beautiful interior detailing. • Site-specific qualities. A rammed earth home is made of materials indigenous to the site and is appropriate for every part of the United States.
The Rammed Earth House offers clear and complete information for owner-builders, contractors, architects, and anyone interested in housing innovations that put into practice the philosophy of sustainability. Author David Easton is an experienced designer and builder of homes and commercial buildings, and one of the world’s leading authorities on rammed earth construction.
1996,8 x 10,272 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE RAMMED EARTH HOUSE: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 14184)
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES
by D. C. Beard
This fascinating book (“written for boys of all ages”) tells in step- by-step illustrated detail how to build any kind of shack, shelter or shanty you might ever need or want, including:* The half-cave • Fallen tree shelters • Indian shacks and shelters • Birch bark or tar paper shacks • Sawed-lumber shanties • Sod houses • Elevated shacks, shanties and shelters • Over-water shelters • Tree houses • Caches • Railroad tie shacks and barrel shacks • The Navajo hogan and Hornaday dugout • Pole houses • The Adirondack open log camp and one-room cabin • The Northland tilt and Indian log tent • The American log cabin • How to make a Wyoming olebo, a Hoko River olebo, a shake cabin, a Canadian mossback • And much more!
How to make any kind of shack, shelter, or shanty you might ever want or need! The emphasis is on do-it-yourself with simple tools like hatchets and axes. Everything from one-night camp shelters to log cabins designed to last for years. Every kind of terrain and condition!
D.C. Beard’s Shelters, Shacks And Shanties is one of the most useful (and fun!) books ever printed! Every camper, survivalist, hunter, and outdoorsman will want a copy — order yours today!
1914,5M x 8I/2,247pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17040)
HOME TREE HOME
Principles of Treehouse Construction
and Other Tall Tales
by Peter Nelson and Gerry Hadden
Remember the view from atop a tree? You could survey the landscape like a monarch, escape your parents’ watchful eye, and let your imagination run wild. Well, just because you’ve grown up, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the sense of liberation a tree provides. Here is the most comprehensive guide ever to building your own castle in the air, be it a simple child’s playhouse or an adult’s cozy retreat with all the modern conveniences, including electricity.
Peter Nelson, the
nation’s foremost authority on treehouses, tells you everything you need to know about designing and building the house that’s right for you and your family. He gives you information on site selection (why some trees provide better homes than others), safety issues, tree care, advice on styles and materials, and other essential rules of thumb that will save time and money.
Nelson walks you through the construction of four actual projects: a children’s playhouse, a vacation home, an office, and a full-time residence. Whether you’d like to build your children a safe and fun place to play and dream, or you’re contemplating your own retreat from the drudgeries of earthbound living, this practical, wildly fanciful guide will show you how to make your tree fantasies come true.
1997,7% x 9,190 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOME TREE HOME: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14196)
THE PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSE
Using Solar Design to Heat
and Cool Your Home
by James Kachadorian
What could be more reliable than the sun? The use of solar energy to heat and cool dwellings predates recorded history. Yet in recent years, decisions about design and materials for the home have been made as if there were an endless supply of fossil fuels. Not only have we forgotten about classic design principles, but we’ve lost countless opportunities to continue the age-old process of solar innovation.
When our national fossil-fuel supplies were disrupted in the early 1970s, it became extra important to reinvigorate solar design’s methodology. Entrepreneurs and inventors launched any number of businesses to supply the public demand for solar homes, in some cases building odd-looking, uncomfortable glass boxes.
This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors and do-it-yourselfers.
A formerly patented design for author James Kachadorian’s Solar Slab heat exchanger is now available for the use of anyone motivated by the desire to build a house that rarely, if ever, needs a backup furnace or air conditioner.
Whether you’re a young person dreaming of a first home, or an older person imagining a comfortable and easy to maintain (and resell) retirement home, The Passive Solar House will be your key to the home of a lifetime.
1997,8 x 10,211 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
THE PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14199)
THE COMPLETE BOOK
OF UNDERGROUND HOUSES
How to Build a Low-Cost Home
by Rob Roy
Instead of marring a grassy knoll or field with the construction of a conventional house, design and build a home in complete accord with nature — one that’s underground. Whether you dhodse to create an “earth-sheltered” house that blends into the world around it or one that is truly “underground,” with just this generously illustrated, practical book you will be able to bring your environmentally friendly dream house to fruition without spending a lot of money. Let an accomplished builder of alternative housing and one of the foremost leaders of the underground house movement — and the director of the acclaimed Earthwood Building School — help you choose a piece of property, and then show you how to excavate and build your home from top to bottom.
Basic design and construction of floors, walls, frameworks and a roof is followed by important information on waterproofing, insulation, drainage, backfilling, plumbing, electrical wiring, and everything else you need to know, including ideas on the shape of your house, room dividers, floor coverings, and the use of natural and artificial lighting. There are even tips on landscaping! Skeptical about living in a non- traditional home? Listen to people who live in underground houses sing their praises. Far from their being dingy caves, you will find natural light streaming in from above and the beauty of Mother Earth all around you.
1994,8 x 10,144 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE COMPLETE BOOK
OF UNDERGROUND HOUSES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14170)
HOUSES TO GO
How to Buy a Good Home Cheap
by Robert L. Williams
Now you can own that dream home that you’ve always yearned for — and at such an affordable price that you’ll be amazed! How? By following this book’s tried-and-true method of purchasing a perfectly livable house that is destined for demolition, and carefully moving it to a suitable parcel of land — all for a fraction of the amount such a home would normally cost! The author has done so several times, and shares his copious knowledge. Follow the process from selecting the proper house, through choosing a mover, to revamping the resettled house.
1997,814x11,145 pp, illustrated, photographs, soft cover.
HOUSES TO GO: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14192)
Paralegal Skills
Introduction
Lawyers, in their various incarnations as attorneys, judges and legislators, have got our legal system all screwed up, but in spite of that, there is an amazing amount of legal work that the average citizen can do himself. Not only will he save money, but often he will do a better job than a “professional” lawyer. These areas are covered in this Section. Contracts, lawsuits, bankruptcies, Small Claims court, and more — how-to-do-it guides for everyone! Even if you don’t do your own legal work, you can use these books to check up on your lawyer!
EVERYBODY’S GUIDE TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT
8th Edition
by Ralph Warner
A difficult legal problem is a disaster for most people. Lawyers are expensive and untrustworthy. Court procedures and language are difficult to understand and often frightening. The person with the legal problem (the client) is commonly denied the right to participate in his or her own dispute, except to pay and pay and pay.
In the midst of this unhappy picture there are several rays of light. One is Small Claims Court — a place where decisions are made cheaply, quickly and with the participation of the disputing parties. In this book Ralph Warner shows you how to use Small Claims Court to your best advantage. With the information given here and your own creativity and determination, there is much that you can do to liberate yourself from the oppression of lawyers, judges, and our established court system.
Subjects covered include: legal jargon; breach of contract cases; personal injury cases; stating your claim on your court papers; statute of limitations; how to settle your dispute; participation by attorneys; landlord-tenant cases; judgment and appeal; and much, much more.
This is the most complete guide to small claims court ever written. Highly recommended.
2000, 7x9,204 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
EVERYBODY’S GUIDE
TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76014)
LEGAL RESEARCH
How to Find and Understand the Law,
10th Edition
by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind
The central premise of this book is that every citizen should have easy access to the legal rules and procedures that are important to our lives. This simple idea is made complicated by the fact that most legal materials are organized in what amounts to a secret code that only lawyers can understand. Legal Research shows you exactly how to decipher the code of the law library. Recommended for investigators, paralegals, libertarian activists, legal secretaries, tax protestors, students, and everyone who wants to understand and use the law.
2002,816x11,314 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
LEGAL RESEARCH: $34.99
(ORDER NUMBER 76026)
ASSET PROTECTION SECRETS
by Arnold S. Goldstein, LL.M., Ph.D.
At last! You can achieve total financial protection. Asset Protection Secrets reveals all the little-known strategies guaranteed to safeguard your assets from any danger. Start today! Ensure yourself and your family a lifetime of financial security. Discover how to:
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Intelligently plan a foolproof asset-protection program • Legally side-step fraudulent transfer claims by creditors • Select and use little-known asset-protection trusts to your maximum advantage • Walk out of a divorce with your share of marital assets — plus • Keep your assets and lose your debts — with bankruptcy • Shape your corporation into a first-class asset protector • Block creditors from finding and seizing your assets • Use limited partnerships to shelter family wealth • Stop the IRS from plundering your assets • Safely bury your wealth in offshore havens • Protect your life savings from nursing home costs • Title your home so it’s always safe • And much, much more.
Dr. Arnold S. Goldstein is one of America’s foremost authorities on debt management and asset protection. He is an attorney, professor and author of over 50 books on finance and law. His strategies have helped thousands of people to shelter their assets successfully. Now, with Asset Protection Secrets you can shelter your property from any financial disasters that can wipe you out overnight!
1998,816x11,342 pp, indexed, soft cover.
ASSET PROTECTION SECRETS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73074)
REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT
How to Prepare & Try
a Winning Case
Third Edition
by Paul Bergman and Sara J. Berman-Barrett
Represent Yourself in Court explains how to handle a contested court case from start to finish without a lawyer. Step-by-step, it shows how to: • gather and analyze evidence • determine whether there is a valid case • choose a jury • question witnesses • introduce documentary evidence • cross-examine the opponent • and much, much more.
Represent Yourself in Court is the most thorough guide to contested court cases ever published for the non-lawyer. Good in all 50 states.
2000,816x11,350pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76048)
BUY THIS BOOK... OR WE’LL SUE YOU!
Outrageous Lawsuits, Outlandish Verdicts
by Laura B. Benko and Attila Benko
America's most bizarre lawsuits
— unbelievable... but all true! Ameri-
cans are taking each other to civil
court in record numbers — and win-
ning their cases with huge awards,
sometimes in the millions of dollars.
There are children suing parents, stu-
dents suing teachers, lawyers suing
lawyers, and just about everybody
suing corporations. Many of these
lawsuits stretch the boundaries of
legitimacy. And then there are those
that are just plain outrageous. Now,
in this entertaining, one-of-a-kind
book, you can read about dozens of
the most outlandish cases drawn
from actual court records, including:
• The Franciscan nun who was
sued for “negligently, carelessly, and recklessly” bowl-
ing over an opponent in a softball game • The fanatical
surfer who sued a fellow boarder for stealing his wave •
The prison inmate and convicted killer who sued two
guards for waking him up too early on the day of his
parole hearing • The woman who sued McDonald’s
after being burned by a hot pickle in her hamburger.
And many more stories that are way stranger, more absurd, and
funnier than fiction!
2001,516 x 8,365pp, soft cover.
BUY THIS BOOK... OR WE’LL SUE YOU!: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76071)
WORKING FOR YOURSELF
Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors,
Freelancers & Consultants
by Attorney Stephen Fishman
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Set competitive fees •
Stay out of tax trouble • Limit
personal liability • Draft solid
agreements • Avoid disputes
with clients • Get paid on time
• Everything you need to
know to succeed on your own
Working as an independ-
ent contractor, freelancer or
consultant is one thing —
doing it right is another. Do
you know what business form
offers you the best tax
results? What to charge for
your services? How to avoid
problems with the IRS? How
to make sure you’re paid for
your work in a timely fashion?
Working For Yourself
answers these questions and
more in plain English, providing all the information and step-by-step instructions you need to get started and avoid legal trouble.
Find out how to: • Determine if you qualify for IC tax treatment • Figure out what to charge your clients • Put important agreements in writing • Work at home or at an outside office • Make the most of your tax deductions • Keep accurate records in case you get audited • Make sure you’re paid in full and on time.
Whether you already work for yourself or are thinking about making the move, Working For Yourself will help make sure you do it right.
2002,816x11,357pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
WORKING FOR YOURSELF: $39.99
(ORDER NUMBER 64249)
THE LAWSUIT SURVIVAL GUIDE
A Client’s Companion to Litigation
by Attorney Joseph Matthews
If you’re involved in a lawsuit,
chances are you’re in the dark.
More often than not, the only
thing that litigants know is that
their “day in court” can take years
to come, drain bank accounts,
give rise to stress and anxiety,
and leave them feeling confused
and helpless.
Now you can bridge the gap
between yourself and the legal
system with The Lawsuit Sur-
vival Guide. Find concise expla-
nations of legal proceedings and
clear answers to your questions,
such as: • How do I find the right
lawyer? • How do attorney fees
work? • What is my lawyer doing, and why? • What does all this
legalese mean? • What’s taking so. long? • Can I cut costs by helping
my lawyer? • Can I get out of this lawsuit?
The Lawsuit Survival Guide takes you through the entire litiga-
tion process from start to finish, explaining every step along the way
in language that makes sense. It will save you and your lawyer time,
money and aggravation — and give you the information you need to
make smart lawsuit decisions.
This one-of-a-kind book makes life easier for both clients and their
lawyers. It’s also the perfect reference for business people, law stu-
dents, paralegals, writers and anyone else with an interest in civil
court cases.
2001,7x9,340 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE LAWSUIT SURVIVAL GUIDE: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76069)
THE CRIMINAL LAW HANDBOOK
4TH EDITION
Know Your Rights, Survive the System
by Attorneys Paul Bergman and Sara J. Berman-Barrett
The criminal justice system is a com-
plex maze of rules and procedures. The
police and criminal courts confuse and
intimidate people. And the media feature
plenty of conflicting images about what
to expect if you’re the victim of — or
accused of committing — a crime. For-
tunately, there’s one place to turn for
complete, no-holds-barred answers.
The Criminal Law Handbook provides
everything you’ve ever wanted to know
about how the system works and why
police, lawyers and judges do what they
do.
The Criminal Law Handbook covers: • talking to police • search
and seizure • drunk driving • arrests • booking • charges • bail • public
defenders • criminal defense lawyers • arraignment • lineups • crimi-
nal courts • grand jury proceedings • preliminary hearings • trials •
plea bargains • common defenses • evidence • sentencing • and
much more.
The Criminal Law Handbook includes a new chapter on prison-
ers’ rights, including paroles and pardons. It also includes information
about recent Supreme Court cases, covering police roadblocks, heat-
monitoring devices for searches, the legality of arrest for petty
offenses and more. This book is a clear and concise legal guide for: •
anyone accused of a crime • victims of crime • family and friends •
journalists & writers • interested spectators • and anyone interested in
criminal law in America. .
2002,7x9,618 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
THE CRIMINAL LAW HANDBOOK, 4th Edition: $34.99
(ORDER NUMBER 76073)
AN EDUCATED GUIDE TO SPEEDING TICKETS
How to Beat and Avoid Them
by Richard Wallace II
Do you speed? Are you afraid
of getting a speeding ticket?
Then rid yourself of motoring
fear! Read An Educated Guide
to Speeding Tickets: How to
Beat and Avoid Them, and let
the author, veteran police officer
Richard Wallace II, teach you: •
How unfairly the system treats
speeders. • That the main empha-
sis of issuing speeding tickets is
to raise revenue for the town, city
or state and the insurance compa-
nies! It is not done for the benefit
of public safety! • How you can
learn to speed and not get caught!
• All about various speed detec-
tion devices being used by law
enforcement today, and their
many flaws and weaknesses! •
What to say and do if you are stopped by the police for speeding (this
may get you out of a ticket). • How to challenge any speed detection
device-based ticket in court — and win! • That most of the information
contained in this book is applicable in all 50 states! • And much, much
more!
By using this information, one can expect to save hundreds of dol-
lars in fines and insurance charges, as well as keeping one’s opera-
tor’s license. The small price paid for this book will be saved over and
over! So hurry (but don’t speed!), and order this book today!
1996,6,x 9,106 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
AN EDUCATED GUIDE TO SPEEDING TICKETS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 73080)
BEAT THE BILL COLLECTOR
How to Obtain Freedom from Your Debt
by Max Edison
If you are currently in debt or
think you may be someday, you
had better be aware of the
dreaded debt collection agency.
Collection agencies make it
their business to hunt you down
at work or at home and hound
you until you promise to pay all
of the money you owe, even if
you can’t afford to! It can be a
humiliating and stressful experi-
ence... but it doesn’t have to be.
In Beat the Bill Collector:
How to Obtain Freedom from
Your Debt, former bill collector
Max Edison reveals what goes
on behind closed doors at col-
lection agencies, what makes
the typical bullying bill collector
tick, and the secret tactics and
outright lies he’ll employ to get
you to pay up. More importantly,
Edison tells you exactly how you can fight back with only one simple sentence, utilize an array of tricks which will put you beyond the reach of these financial snoops, or lay down a heavy barrage of legal firepower if they persist in harassing you and your family.
Know your rights! Know the facts! And shut those pocket-picking predators out of your life for good! Read this book now, and learn how to defy and defeat the bill collectors of the world.
1997,516 x 8M, 80 pp, soft cover.
BEAT THE BILL COLLECTOR: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 76061)
THE HOME TOWN ADVANTAGE
How to Defend Your Main Street Against Chain
Stores... and Why It Matters
by Stacy Mitchell
A Wal-Mart “supercenter” arrives. A
neighborhood pharmacy fails. Across
the U.S., cities and towns are grappling
with the proliferation of chain stores
and the loss of locally owned busi-
nesses. It is time to change the rules.
From local zoning ordinances to fed-
eral antitrust policy, The Home Town
Advantage provides a comprehensive
guide to reviving the homegrown econ-
omy.
Chapters include: • Trends are
Not Destiny • The Retail Sector
Consolidates • The Benefits of
Local Ownership • Reviving
Antitrust • Planning and Zoning
for Healthy Main Streets • Tax-
ing Chain Stores • Restoring Franchise Autonomy •
Expanding Cooperatives • And more.
“Anyone concerned about the preservation of locally owned small
businesses in America should read The Home Town Advantage. So
should those who lament the conversion of the American landscape
into blobs of sprawl. This concise, readable report is a real eye-
opener in explaining how public policies often favor absentee-owned
businesses over the local businesses that contribute so significantly
to a community’s civic life and distinctive character. Most important,
the report describes planning, zoning, and other strategies that Main
Street preservationists can use to enhance the quality of their towns.”
— Constance E. Beaumont, author of How Superstore Sprawl Can
Harm Communities
2000,516 x 8M, 109 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE HOME TOWN ADVANTAGE: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 76065)
THE OUTLAW’S BIBLE
How to Evade the System
Using Constitutional Strategy
by E.X. Boozhie
This extraordinary book brings together the merits of experience and sound legal scholarship, for an approach to the law that nobody else has dared to present — the perspective of the citizen-law- breaker.
While there is no such thing as complete security for someone who chooses to disobey the government, there is a zone of protection in which one can expect both privacy and a lower burden of punishment if one is caught. The Establishment doesn’t want us to know precisely where this zone is, or how to take advantage of it, because that would greatly diminish its level of control. That’s why this important information never appears in the media, the standard literature, or the teachings of Establishment institutions.
The Outlaw’s Bible is not just a book for lawbreakers. It is for all people who undertake to seriously learn about the legal rights supposedly available under the U.S. Constitution. The average person never thinks about rights and legalities. It is strange that there are absolutely no basic studies of law in any public school, yet the Law Library of Congress contains an amazing seven million books on law alone! You simply can’t get through a day without breaking some law or other.
As you read this excellent book, remember that someday, somehow, you may need to hide from the police or avoid prosecution. This book contains the only non-violent weapon you can arm yourself with. Use it; take it very seriously. If you break laws for pleasure, profit, or principle, you need The Outlaw’s Bible: How to Evade the System Using Constitutional Strategy.
1999,5M x 8M, 325 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE OUTLAW’S BIBLE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76041)
YOU & THE POLICE!
by Boston T. Party
Have you ever felt abused by
the police when merely going
about your lawful business? Have
you ever been intimidated by a
cop, and didn’t really know how to
handle it? Have you ever wanted
to reserve your rights, but weren’t
sure exactly how to do so? Well, if
you don’t know your rights, you
never really had any rights! You &
the Police! is the book for any
American citizen who wants to
know and defend his rights when
dealing with the police. This high-
spirited little manual covers every-
thing you need to know, including:
• How to talk your way out of a
ticket • What are the three kinds
of confrontations with the police? •
If you’re not under arrest, yet not
free to go — what’s going on? • What things should you never have on you? • You don't have to ID yourself unless arrested! • What do you say if the cops want to search your car? • Why is your car’s trunk so important? • When is a search not really a “search”? • When can the police search without a warrant? • How do you handle being rousted? • What behavior should you avoid at the airport? • What should you do after being arrested? • And much, much more.
You & the Police! is essential reading for any American concerned with his rights.
1996,51A x 8Vi, 125 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
YOU & THE POLICE!: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 76054)
U.S. IMMIGRATION MADE EASY
9th Edition
by Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel
Ready to move to the
U.S.A.? Here's the insider's
guide you need. If you want
to irhmigrate to the United
States, whether temporarily
or permanently, you need
to know your options. Job
training, schooling, setting
up a business, traveling —
any of these possibilities
could get you the permis-
sion you need. With U.S.
Immigration Made Easy,
you can decide which immi-
gration strategy makes the
most sense for you. Learn
how to qualify for visas,
green cards and citizen-
ship, how to fill out and file
the necessary forms and
how to present the strongest possible case to the Immigration & Nat-
uralization Service. Written by immigration attorneys who have
obtained visas and green cards for thousands of foreign nationals,
this book reveals the inside information that the U.S. government
doesn’t provide.
Thoroughly updated and revised, the 9th edition of U.S. Immigra-
tion Made Easy covers current topics, including visas and the new
law allowing immediate citizenship for certain adopted children. It also
provides more detailed information on understanding and tracking the
visa quota system, applying for political asylum and the permanent
bar against illegal entrants.
2002,816 x 11,530 pp, indexed, soft cover.
U.S. IMMIGRATION MADE EASY: $44.99
(ORDER NUMBER 61180)
BEAT YOUR TICKET
Go to Court and Win!
2nd Edition
by Attorney David Brown
\Ne’ve all received
one: a traffic ticket that
seems completely unfair,
the result of an officer’s
evening quota rather
than a serious moving
violation. But do you
have to pay the penalty
and watch your driving
record crash and burn?
Not if you choose to fight
back with this new guide-
book. Beat Your Ticket
simply and clearly lays
out the best strategies
for beating tickets in
court. The book explains
in plain English how to
use the law to fight an
unwarranted ticket, find
out what the police offi-
cer plans to say at your
trial, attack radar and other detection methods, pick a jury, present
your case and cross-examine the ticketing officer. It also discusses
plea-bargaining, traffic school, license suspensions and much more.
Packed with step-by-step instructions, tips and encouragement,
Beat Your Ticket covers a truck-load of moving violations, including: •
speeding • illegal turns • running red lights • ignoring stop signs • tail-
gating • unsafe lane changes. The book also has a unique 50-state
list of laws and court procedures, along with a series of “defense dos
and don’ts,” so that you can tailor a winning defense and make your
court appearance as effective as possible. Armed with Beat Your
Ticket, you have just what you need to steer clear of pedestrian
courtroom defenses and win your case like a pro.
2002,816x11,140 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BEAT YOUR TICKET: $19.99
(ORDER NUMBER 76076)
THE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT’S BIBLE
by Michael H. Brown
Michael Brown says: “The time to learn to use a firearm is not in the middle of a gunfight. The time to leam how to navigate through a swamp is not while a water moccasin is biting you in the butt. The time to learn how to defend yourself from a completely corrupt criminal justice system is not after you have been arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned.... Make no mistake about it. The American criminal justice system is a swamp. It doesn’t take above-average intelligence to recognize, once it has been pointed out to you, that the American criminal justice system benefits only those who administer it: judges, prosecutors, lawyers, law enforcement, and zoo keepers (prison guards). By sometime very early in the next century our prison population will exceed two million. By the middle of the twenty-first century, at present rates of incarceration, there will be only two classes of people in the United States: guards and prisoners. In the meantime, if you prefer to stay ‘on the street,’ you’re going to need to read, study, and be ready to apply the contents of this book."
Mike Brown has created a true “Bible,” which will teach you how the criminal justice system really works and what you have to do to represent yourself. It teaches you how to fight back on paper and win! This book is filled with details that cover every aspect of criminal legal proceedings and provides exhibits of actual motions and filings that are necessary for a successful defense. This book is a masterpiece that will prove invaluable in your quest for freedom and peace of mind.
1999,814x11,490 pp, soft cover.
THE CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS BIBLE: $49.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76063)
Sex
Introduction
Sex. Ah, yes, what can I say about sex? Well, I guess I’ll start by saying, Sex is great. Sex is good. Yea, sex!!! In these repressive times, bluenoses of all stripes are trying to inhibit open, honest discussion of sex with various “obsenity” and “pornography” laws, witch hunts, and trials. The books in this Section are carefully chosen to cover just about all aspects of sex and sexuality. Enjoy...
GAUNTLET #15
The Many Faces of S/M
Edited by Barry Hoffman
Those wild-minded folks
at Gauntlet are at it again,
this time exploring the
seductively dangerous
world of S/M. And it’s not
just for breakfast anymore’
The S/M image has
weaseled its way out of
dank basements into subur-
ban living rooms, embraced
by mainstream media and
fashionable yuppies. This
issue contains first-hand
accounts from those in the
business of sexual pain and
pleasure. Charlie Latour,
the Diva of Porn, explains
the world of the S/M under-
ground. You’ll go S/M club
hopping with Pearl Chavez,
and see the S/M culture
through the lens of Charles
Gatewood, “Photographer
of the Forbidden.”
Readers are treated to an interview with George Carlin and an
excerpt on politically correct language from his book, Braindroppings.
Emily Alward depicts how Female erotica wriggled through the thin
line between romance novels and raunchy skin mags, while Bobby
Lilly smears the division between erotica and porn. Peter Huston
gives an update on the Hit Man case, and pom star William Margold
wonders what the BIG deal was about Boogie Nights.
Gauntlet, a dominant force in the free-speech arena, isn’t bound
by convention. We know you’ll find this issue very pleasurable. Or
painful. Whichever you prefer.
1998,7x 10%, 136 pp, photographs, soft cover.
GAUNTLET #15: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94297)
HOW TO DATE YOUNG WOMEN
For Men Over 35
Revised Edition
by R. Don Steele
R Doo Steele
flow TO
DATE
YOUNG
WOMEN
For Men Over 35
For the man who refuses to buy or bull-
shit a young woman.
This book offers realistic methods and
sound advice from a 46-year-old man who
has dated young women for the past ten
years. Steele tells you bluntly who she is,
where she is, then how to meet, talk with
and date her. The principles are based
entirely on understanding a young woman
and her real motivation to date a man your
age. Leam why she wants and needs to be
your lover, then let it happen, not make it
happen.
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Understanding 18-24 year olds • Why
she’s afraid of you and how to overcome
her fears • Identifying which ones are inter-
ested in older men • How to act, dress and talk to interest and attract
her • Where and how to meet her so you can talk with her naturally •
What to always say — and what to never say • Courting when she
knows there’s no wedding in your future • Getting that tough first date
• How to behave on dates with her • Seducing her • Sustaining your
affair with her • How to pass her tests of your determination or sincer-
ity • How to spot a cockteaser, then use her to meet her girlfriends,
who may be interested in you • How to anticipate her manipulative
moves and counter them • Don’t wear any of the forbidden 54 acces-
sories • Her 18 inevitable questions — how to answer them without
lying, hustling, or bullshitting • How to understand your competition •
And much, much more.
How to Date Young Women is the single finest “meet women”
book we have ever seen. Playboy magazine calls it “Solid, realistic,
practical, entertaining.” Steele does not bullshit you — in a world full
of mealymouths, Steele’s honesty, straight talk, and real-world lan-
guage are refreshing.
1995,5% x 8%, 220 pp, indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO DATE YOUNG WOMEN: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85126)
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s
Collectors’ Edition: Book One
Remember back when if you
wanted to look at pictures of totally
naked human beings, your best
bet was the nudist magazines?
Well, now you can relive those
repressed times with Nudist Mag-
azines of the 50s & 60s!!! This
book contains the best of the early
classic publications such as Nude
Living, Sun Era, Sunshine Health,
Nude Look, and many others.
Nudist Magazines of the 50s
& 60s is a masterpiece of both
nostalgia and modern technology,
liberally illustrated with authentic
photos and articles appearing in
the very first unretouched nudist
magazines. It’s a collectors’ item!
It’s taken from negatives of the original magazines dating from the
earliest issues in the 1940s to the late 1960s.
See actual unretouched photos of nekkid men, women, and chil-
dren! See Nudist Magazines of the 50s & 60s!
1993,816x11,96 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85160)
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s,
BOOK #2
Collectors’ Edition
Böök»2’«^
1994,816x11,96 pp, illustrated,
photographs, soft cover.
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s &
60s, Book #2: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85378)
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF
THE 50s & 60s, BOOK #3
Collectors’ Edition
1995,816x11,96 pp, Illustrated,
photographs, soft cover.
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s, Book #3 : $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85379)
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF THE 50s & 60s,
BOOK #4
Collectors’ Edition
1996, B'A x 11,96 pp, Illustrated,
photographs, soft cover.
NUDIST MAGAZINES OF
THE 50s & 60s, Book #4 : $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85380)
HARMFUL TO MINORS
The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
by Judith Levine
Condemned by reactionaries as promoting pedophilia, Harmful to Minors is a controversial and badly needed book. Sex is a wonderful, crucial part of growing up, and children and teens can enjoy the pleasures of the body and be safe, too. In this important book, Judith Levine makes this argument and goes further, asserting that America’s attempts to protect children from sex are worse than ineffectual. It is the assumption of danger and the exclusive focus on protection — what Levine terms “the sexual politics of fear” — that are themselves harmful to minors.
Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today’s headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the way sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties (pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography) and sacred cows (abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws). Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids’ sex lives —* censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for “solutions” while inciting more fear.
Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well — that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves. Harmful to Minors should be read by everyone who is interested in the myths and taboos that lurk behind the curtain of mass media reality.
“A much needed contribution to the discussion about children’s sexuality, adult fears and irrationality about it, and the moral, political, and public health risks of failing to confront anxiety and ignorance about children’s erotic desires and needs. Levine makes a compelling case that respecting and celebrating such desires and needs are essential to this country’s historic project of promoting ’life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ for everyone who lives here — including those under 18... An exceptionally smart and readable book.”
— Debbie Nathan, coauthor of Satan’s Silence; Ritual Abuse and The Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
’’Sharp, extraordinarily informed, and wittily incisive... This is a major book, far and away the most wide-ranging, well informed, and judicious we have on the subject. Levine’s wisdom is compelling, and she offers the best kind of sophisticated and skeptical analysis. It’s a crusading book that is also kind, a very rare phenomenon, and it comes down always on the side of trusting not only our kids and their pleasures but our own.”
— James Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting
2002,6x9,337pp, indexed, hard cover.
HARMFUL TO MINORS: $25.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85389)
THE BIG BOOK OF BODILY FUNCTIONS
4500 words for bodily functions
and body parts
by Jonathan Green
If it comes out, then it’s in!
Vulgar, scatological and jaw-
droppingly puerile, The Big
Book of Bodily Functions
plunges the reader neck-deep
into a bog-bowl brimming with
effluent, ordure and bodily secre-
tions of every variety. Here at last
— wading its joyful and unsquea-
mish way through swamps of
shit, piss an:
occasionally 1
stained bedcc
d snot, pausing
to sniff at the
othes and skid-
marked underwear of the Eng-
lish-speaking world — is the
essential ha idbook for the
oth amateur and
coprologist, b
specialist.
The Big B ook of Bodily Functions includes essential terms for
every imaginable corporeal emission, whether solid, liquid or gaseous. Here
in a shameful scat-fest of salacious synonymies, are
hundreds of terms for the acts and products of defecation, urination,
ejaculation, belching, farting and barfing. These anal, genital and oral
functions are c rranged by orifice for the pleasure and convenience of
the reader. In addition to its uniquely generous coverage of bodily flu-
ids and functic i
an exhaustive !
ns, The Big Book of Bodily Functions also includes
survey of bodily ma/functions, including drunkenness,
disease and d Bpression. A helpful lexicon of body parts — arranged
on a roughly n
3rth-south basis —• completes the volume.
2001,4M x 6M, 350 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
THE
BIG BOOK OF BODILY FUNCTIONS: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99201)
MAXIMIZE YOUR VITALITY AND POTENCY
For Men Over 40
by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.
and Lane Lenard, Ph.D.
Forget about Viagra®... Never mind Proscar®... Natural Testos-
terone is the F ea! Thing!
Natural Testosterone and other natural remedies have been sci-
entifically shown to enhance sexuality, vitality, cardiovascular health,
and general h Proscai® and
i aalth. These treatments work better than Viagra® and
I have fewer side effects. If a man has other symptoms
of male mene pause,‘such as depression, insomnia, progressively
wasting muse
expanding wai
: es and bones, rising blood cholesterol levels, and an
listline, Viagra® won’t do him any good. If his prostate is
growing larger
or if his heart and blood vessels are beginning to show
signs of atherosclerotic disease, Viagra® won’t help a bit. In fact,
depending on what other drugs he may be taking to treat these other
manifestationi
be abletotako
This book < ual function w 1
of the male menopause syndrome, he may not even
Viagra®.
eveals better, safer, more natural ways to restore sex-
thout expensive or dangerous drugs by correcting the
underlying ce uses of male menopause. This book demonstrates
repeatedly ths t scientific research, clinical experience, and ordinary
common sense confirm that sexual dysfunction as well as virtually all
the other syrr ptoms of male menopause can be traced, at least in
part, to an ac e-related decline in testosterone. Replacing testos-
terone with natural testosterone (not some other preparation mas-
querading as 1
hormones wh a
botanical prodi
“testosterone”), as well as replacing other natural
in needed, and adding various nutritional, herbal, and
lucts, can be at least as effective, is almost always
safer, and invariably costs less than conventional pharmaceutical
solutions.
1999,5x8,256 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
MAXIMIZE YOUR VITALITY AND POTENCY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82113)
THE SMART GUIDE TO BETTER SEX
Supplements and herbs to fire up your sex life
by John Morgenthaler and Mia Simms
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Supplements end herbs to firë up yctir^ex life
This book offers a very practical
and scientific approach to improving
the reader’s sexual health. It covers
how and why sexual function tends to
drop off with age, what hormonal and
other biochemical changes occur (in
men and women) and how these
changes affect nearly every aspect of
one’s overall health.
Most of The Smart Guide to Bet-
ter Sex is made up of reviews of many
natural substances that can help
restore lost sexual function. Included
are substances that can enhance sex
drive, firmness and duration of erec-
tion, vaginal lubrication, intensity of
orgasm, stamina, and more. The
authors explain how each drug or
nutrient works, how it can be obtained, and how to use it. Treatments
for sexual difficulties such as premature ejaculation and impotence
are also discussed. The Smart Guide to Better Sex is easy to read,
nicely formatted and includes many helpful illustrations and truly
funny cartoons.
1999, 5M x 8M, 128 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE SMART GUIDE TO BETTER SEX: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85331)
John Morgen th a Ilf ,
Mia Simms
VIVA LA VULVA
Women’s Sex Organs Revealed
(VHS Video)
With Betty Dodson, Ph.D.
Join the amazing Betty Dodson
and ten other women to celebrate 25
years of her pioneering work to reveal
the beauty of women’s genitals. Betty
has sat alongside thousands of
women teaching them to appreciate
the unique design and function of their
vulvas. Positive genital imagery, she
believes, is a cornerstone of self-
acceptance and sexual growth.
Now observe this group of coura-
geous and lovely women, ages 25 to
68, gathered to honor women’s sex
organs with intimate images of their
own vulvas. Hear the women speak
about the relationship they have with
their genitals. Watch them trimming
and shaping their pubic hair in prepa-
ration for their pussy portraits, then the actual photo session, followed by their own artwork inspired by the photos. See the diagrams of the whole clitoris, and follow along as Betty guides the women through her ten suggested steps for genital self-massage. Become part of this joyful group in applauding the diversity of Mother Nature’s most exquisite work of art: the divine vulva.
For sale to adults only.
1998,51 minute, full color VHS video.
VIVA LA VULVA: $39.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85332)
Please Note: Videos are nonreturnable — damaged tapes will be replaced.
European Customers: All the video tapes we sell are American VHS format. We regret that this format is not compatible with European video players. Be sure to check your player before ordering video tapes.
BEST CAT HOUSES IN NEVADA
Everything You Want to Know About
Legal Prostitution in Nevada
by J.R. Schwartz
Today, prostitution is a thriving,
spirited, legal business in Nevada,
with 36 licensed cat houses operating
throughout the state. They stretch
from'the outskirts of Reno and Carson
City, east to Fallon on Highway 50, to
Wells on Interstate 80, south to the
outskirts of Las Vegas, and north on
Highway 95, through the deserts and
into the mountains.
The cat houses have such exotic
names as The Chicken Ranch, The
Cottontail, The Cherry Patch, Kitty’s
Guest Ranch, Mustang, and the New
Sagebrush Guest Ranch. Some
houses are as small as two room
shacks, others as big as hotels. The
women that work in them run the spec-
trum of age, race, color, and religious preference. Many are extremely religious; others denounced the Bible a long time ago.
This unusual book discusses all the legal houses of prostitution in Nevada today, giving the exact location, description of facilities, prices, and special services offered. Fascinating, clever, and well written •— a unique and entertaining, as well as useful book.
1998,416 x 7,182 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BEST CAT HOUSES IN NEVADA: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85091)
TURNING PRO
A Guide to Sex Work for the Ambitious
and the Intrigued
by Magdalene Meretrix
From dance hall girls to happy
hookers, the world has always been
fascinated with sex workers. Now, a
woman who’s done almost every kind
of sex work imaginable reveals the
actual details of sex work: how to get
a job, how to keep yourself safe, how
much you can expect to make, how
to plan your exit strategy, and more.
From the Foreword by Carol
Queen, Ed.D.: “The publication of this
book is a radical act. Whores and
exotic dancers, bar boys and porn
performers, all of us are supposed to
fall into sex work like we’re falling off
a cliff, because the circumstances of
our lives send us tumbling down a
slippery slope and we can’t stop our-
selves. We certainly aren’t supposed to choose to do it because we think we’d be good at or enjoy it. filming Pro represents a new level of legitimacy for sex workers — up until now we could pen apologia or memoirs, and more recently analyze the politics and power relations of our experience, but not invite others to join us in the sex trade. We certainly couldn’t inform our new colleagues how to do it right. The vast knowledge base of sex workers has largely existed in the twilight, inaccessible even to many of us.”
Chapters include: • Streetwalking • Live Girl Shows • Strip Bars • Escorting • Nevada Brothels • The Adult Movie and Modeling Industry • Fetish Work, Domination and Submission • Phone Sex • Safer Sex • Safer Sex Work • Marketing your Services • Busted • Sex Worker Burnout Syndrome • A Few Tips and Tricks of the Trade • Continuing Education Within the Field • Planning for the Future • And more.
2001,516 x 816,183 pp, soft cover.
TURNING PRO: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85383)
O Looking FbrYbur Very First Lover?
O Ready TbCet Married And Settle Down?
O Divorced And Eager Tb Enjoy Life?
O Feeling Lonely And Seeking The Comfort
Of A Lover Or A Friend?
52 UNIQUE & EXCITING WAYS
TO MEET YOUR LOVER
by Richard and Janet Reed
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Looking for your very first
lover? • Ready to get married
and settle down? • Divorced
and eager to enjoy life? • Feel-
ing lonely and seeking the com-
fort of a lover or a friend?
No matter how frustrating
your life has been up to now, no
matter how disappointing your
past relationships have been,
this book will help you find new
hope and new love. Learn how
to attract the love of your life.
Find out where the really eligi-
ble women and men are. By
using the easy-to-read and
easy-to-follow directions in 52
Unique & Exciting Ways to
Meet Your Lover, you can
enjoy the fantastic opportunities
for greater happiness and true
love which await you.
You don’t have to be handsome or rich. Your age doesn’t matter,
either. Whether you’re young, middle-aged, or long past retirement,
there is an interesting, exciting, fulfilling and, yes, an erotic life waiting
for you. This is the one book that tells you how, when and where you
will meet that lover of your dreams!
1988,516 x 816,271 pp, soft cover.
52 UNIQUE & EXCITING WAYS
TO MEET YOUR LOVER: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85123)
Unique & Exciting Ways
To Meet Your
By
Richard and Janet Reed
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WORLD GUIDE TO NUDE BEACHES
AND RESORTS
by Lee Baxandall
Frolicking on a nude
beach is (almost) the
most fun you can have
with your clothes off!
This definitive, full-color
guide gives you thou-
sands of choice sites
and contacts around the
globe — places where
the word naked doesn’t
need a translator. Each
entry gives accurate
directions and the
scoop on local customs.
An Internet directory
and witty lore collected
from the author’s 20
years and more of nude
beach resort hopping
make this an essential
resource, whether
you’re a veteran nudist
or are just thinking
about it.
This book exposes:
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France’s clothing-free city
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Nude cruises and resorts in the Caribbean
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California’s most elegant hideaways
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Nudist clubs across the country and around the world. 1998, 7x 10,270 pp, photographs, soft cover.
WORLD GUIDE TO NUDE BEACHES
AND RESORTS: $28.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85282)
CELTIC SEX MAGIC
For Couples, Groups and Solitary Practitioners
by Jon G. Hughes
Generations of Celtic Druids
have harnessed their sexual
energy to maximize the potency of
their magic. Working alone, in
pairs, or as a group, practitioners
engage in the ritualized prepara-
tion, focus, and release of the
immense natural energy produced
by orgasm in order to liberate their
consciousness from everyday real-
ity and potentize their spells.
The first written account of this
ancient path, from a practicing
Druid with more than forty years in
the tradition, Celtic Sex Magic
teaches you how to channel, inten-
sify, and project your sexual energy to access its full power and potential. Until now, the secrets of these Druidic practices have been passed down orally from generation to generation. The author himself received his knowledge from his grandfather and a Druidic priestess in the small village of the Welsh countryside where he grew up.
Described here are the nine stages of the sex magic ritual — Awakening, Augmentation, Intensification, Quickening, Orgasm and Projection, Continuance, Relaxation, Scattering, and Gift. Also included are authentic, accurate and illustrated instructions for the steps of preparation and closure of each ritual as well as for crafting the necessary tools and potions that accompany the rites. And while the techniques presented are steeped in an age-old heritage, the author also addresses the contemporary concerns of health and safety. Illustrated throughout with more than seventy color images, Celtic Sex Magic offers unique and contemporary access to an ancient path of empowerment.
2001,8 x 10,240 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CELTIC SEX MAGIC: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85381)
GENITOLOGY
Reading the Genitals
by Dr. Seymore KUtz and Dr. Ima Peeper
MEN: Do you have the cock that all women love?
WOMEN: Will your pussy please the men in your life?
Join the elite corps of Genitologists who can answer these questions and more. Find out how you “fit” with the opposite sex. Discover your genital type and the types you are most compatible with. With full illustrations and complete analysis, there is nothing left to the imagination.
In recent years a tremendous resurgence of interest has arisen in the genitals. With this arousal has come a reformation of ancient principles into the modern science of Genitology. It is based on ageless wisdom, nevertheless it has taken the thrust of modern research to truly bring together these ancient principles in a form that can be embraced by modern man.
Do not be fooled. This is the cream of research. What we have in Genitology is a compact manual of intensely useful material that will, in a few short hours, start you on the road to successfully reading anyone’s genitals. Be prepared to amaze your friends and confound your enemies with the information in this book.
In this amazing volume are revealed: • The History of Genitology • How to do a correct reading for males • How to do a correct reading for females • How to interpret the readings. All known varieties of both male and female genitalia are covered... er, uncovered. Find out things you never though you’d know about Genitology! We recommend this book very highly for anyone considering getting into the area of the genitals.
1983,516 x 816, 126 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GENITOLOGY: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85103)
THREESOME
How To Fulfill Your Favorite Fantasy
by Lori E. Gammon with Bill Strong
The threesome is the number one male fantasy and the number two most-mentioned female fantasy theme. Close your eyes and the imagination blurs with the pleasant possibilities of a ménage à trois. It is the most exciting of all sexual variations. Yet, while both sexes, married and single, list the threesome as their favorite fantasy, they also complain it is nearly impossible to attain. With so much demand, why is there so little supply? Because we were all wandering without a plan! Until now, no one has dared to explain how to arrange the most sensual of all pleasures. In this book one woman offers men and women, couples and singles, a map straight to sexual nirvana.
Threesome contains special sections explaining: • How any woman can create and enjoy any combination of attractive partners • How single men can meet and introduce “shy” women to each other • Why bisexual women are in such demand by both men and women • Why many “normal” women are bi-curious • How bi-curious women can find others who share their feminine desires • How men and women can explain their fantasies to their lovers • How couples can convince female friends to join their sensual fantasies • and much, much more.
Using her own erotic adventures as a guide, Lori Gammon teaches you all the tricks of her proven method to finally fulfill your favorite fantasy. Adults only
1997,516 x 816, 232 pp, soft cover.
THREESOME: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85261)
THE ETHICAL SLUT
A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
The authors say: “In most of
the world, ‘slut’ is a highly offen-
sive term, used to describe a
woman whose sexuality is vora-
cious, indiscriminate and shame-
ful. It’s interesting to note that the
analogous word ‘stud,’ used to
describe a highly sexual man, is
often a term of approval and
envy. If you ask about a man’s
morals, you will probably hear
about his honesty, loyalty,
integrity and high principles.
When you ask about a woman’s
morals, you are more likely to
hear about who she fucks and
under what conditions. We have
a problem with this.
“So we are proud to reclaim
the word ‘slut’ as a term of
approval, even endearment. To us, a slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you. A slut may choose to have sex with herself only, or with the Fifth Fleet. He may be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual, a radical activist or a peaceful suburbanite.
“As proud sluts, we believe that sex and sexual love are fundamental forces for good — activities with the potential to strengthen intimate bonds, enhance lives, create spiritual awareness, even change the world. And, furthermore, we believe that all consensual sexual choices have these potentials — that any sexual pathway, consciously chosen and mindfully followed, can be a positive, creative force in the lives of individuals and their communities.
“One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable. So, by breaking the rules, we both free and empower ourselves.”
1997, 6x9,279 pp, soft cover.
THE ETHICAL SLUT: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85258)
ORAL CARESS
A Comprehensive Illustrated Manual
on the Joyful Art of Cunnilingus
The Loving Guide to Exciting a Woman
by Robert W. Birch, Ph.D.
This book is explicit, both
in words and photographs,
and the naive reader who
might have believed this book
to be about cats, is likely to
find the material unsettling. If
you’re into raising felines and
not into eating pussy, close
this book immediately! The
material presented is intended
to whet the appetites of con-
senting adults only. It has
been suggested that those
who finish the book should be
given an “oral exam.” It is rec-
ommended, therefore, that
you keep your partner close,
so upon completion of your
reading, she can be put to a final “taste test.”
Contents include: • A Concise Dictionary of Oral Sex • But is Cunnilingus Normal? • Is Cunnilingus Immoral? • Is Cunnilingus Legal? • What About Rimming? • A Brief History of Cunnilingus • Isn’t This Stuff Pretty Dirty? • The Explorer’s Map • A Woman’s Sexual Response Cycle • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow • Remember to Look Before You Lick • Finger Licking Good • Side-By-Side 69 • Over-Under 69 • Sit on My Face, Please • Face Grinding • Finding the Right Spot • Three’s Company • Double Tonguing • Don’t Forget That Other “Oral Sex” • Never Eat and Run • Practice, Practice, Practice • It’s Time For Your Oral Exam • Recommended Reading • Recommended Resources • And much, much more. Wheel!! Adults Only!
1996,8 x 10,150 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ORAL CARESS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85232)
HOW TO CREATE
^OVEo
IN YOUR LIFE
A Guided Introduction To A Wonderful Kew You And The Lover You^e Been Walting For
Richard and Janet Reed
HOW TO CREATE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE
A Guided Introduction to A Wonderful New You
and The Lover You’ve Been Waiting For
by Richard and Janet Reed
HowTo Create Love In Your Life is
unlike any other of the “Finding A
Lover” types of literature. It offers a
unique step-by-step process for the
reader to transform himself or herself
while finding that once-in-a-lifetime love
relationship. This book is based on a
dynamic combination of revolutionary
human potential concepts and the most
ancient teachings of love as a state of
mind, a way of seeing, a perspective of
yourself and your relationship to others.
Easy to understand and easy to
accomplish, How To Create Love In
Your Life reveals a historically proven
yet wonderfully new secret of love: the
way to find the right person is to
become the right person... that within
yourself is hidden a love magnet more powerful than even the great-
est beauty and riches.
Others have found love and happiness using the unique love
secrets revealed by authors Richard and Janet Reed. Now, you can,
too!
1988,516 x 816, 160 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO CREATE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85214)
PANTIES DOWN! BEFORE MONEY DOWN!
An Erotic Travel Guide to the Philippines
by Mac Horn
Follow travel writer Mac Horn to the Philippines, the islands of love and romance. Whether you’re looking for a Filipina wife or just a romantic fling, Mac “The Asian Answer Man” Horn will teach you everything you need to know about travel and girl chasing in the Philippines.
This book is written for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not the intention of this book to promote or facilitate violations of either US or Philippine laws. This book simply reports to the reader what to expect during his travels so he can have a safe and pleasant stay in the Philippines. Let it be known that although the author himself is not a Philippine citizen, he is a resident of the Philippines; he therefore writes this book out of lové for the Philippine people, especially the women, of whom no other country can even come close in matching their sweetness, warmth, friendliness, playfulness, and overall beauty.
Warning: American citizens or permanent residents should note that it is illegal to travel to other countries with the “intent” of engaging in sex with persons under the age of sixteen. Although this book may contain information regarding girls under sixteen years of age, this book should not be misinterpreted as promoting or advocating travel for such purposes. This book reports such information because it happens to be the truth and, for better or for worse, because females in most Asian cultures are considered mature enough to decide with whom they want to have sex (for love or money) by the age of puberty. This book and the author will not impose American moral standards on people in other countries, particularly given the fact that the age of consent in some states is as low as fourteen (e.g., Hawaii) and many Western countries also set the age of consent at or around the age of puberty. (Holland, for instance, has a “consent” clause which prevents the police from prosecuting adults who have sex with minors ages twelve to sixteen if there is no complaint from the minor or his/her guardian.) All girls appearing nude or partially naked in this book are 18 years of age or older.
This guidebook includes travel to Manila, the sin city of Angeles, Subic, Cebu, La Union, Baguio, and Puerto Gallera. Maps, illustrations, and over 100 photos of naked Filipina girls! Adults only.
2000,816 x 11,212 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PANTIES DOWN! BEFORE MONEY DOWN!: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85352)
PORN 101
Eroticism, Pornography,
and the First Amendment
The book that caused a legislative investigation
of the Center for Sex Research
at California State University, Northridge
This wide-ranging collection of essays is based on papers delivered at a world conference on pornography held in Lo§ Angeles. Representatives of the legal and academic communities, including many internationally renowned scholars and First Amendment lawyers, and members of the adult entertainment industry join to discuss:
•The effects of pornography on its audience
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Censorship
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Gay and child pornography
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Phone sex
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Feminism and sexuality
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Erotic film and video as a genre
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The range and history, from classical antiquity to the present, of pornography in literature and the plastic arts
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And much, much more.
Behind-the-scenes stories by those working in the world of porn provide lively and unique insights into the industry. Also included is a valuable bibliography of major First Amendment court cases showing the current state of obscenity law in America. For Adults Only!!!
1999,6x9,616 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
PORN 101: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85323)
MASTURBATION MEMOIRS, VOL. I & II
An erotic guide to women’s self pleasuring
(VHS Video)
Produced by House O’ Chicks
This singularly erotic video compilation from House O’ Chicks stands out (like the rest of their excellent video work) from run-of-the- mill “pornography” in a way that nearly transcends sexuality. The segments featuring ousted U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders (to whom the tape is dedicated), who endorses masturbation as “normal,” serve to put the discussion and displays of female masturbation in the proper perspective. There is nothing shameful about masturbation for either sex, and this work extends sex education in a non- exploitive way and initiates a frank exploration of the meaning and message that this simple, natural act deserves, along with an interesting and informative dialogue.
Setting out to show the “real face of American masturbation,” and filmed in “Vulvascope,” Masturbation Memoirs features six women who are very much in tune with their bodies and female natures: Annie Sprinkle, Juliet Carr, Dome Lane, Scarlot Harlot, Anna Marti, and Guadalupe San Francisco. These uninhibited performers celebrate their feminine spirit, reminisce about their earliest masturbatory experiences, and passionately demonstrate their preferred techniques for self-gratification.
Sprinkle is particularly endearing when she explains her penchant for “medibation,” a combination of meditation and masturbation, and takes the viewer along on a steaming close-up adventure in medibation that has never been shown on film before.
This video compilation was made by women for women... and for men, too!
1996,70 minute, full color VHS video.
MASTURBATION MEMOIRS, VOL. I & II: $39.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85237)
Please Note: Videos are nonreturnable — damaged tapes will be replaced.
European Customers: All the video tapes we sell are American VHS format. We regret that this format is not compatible with European video players. Be sure to check your player before ordering video tapes.
THE MAGIC OF FEMALE EJACULATION
(VHS Video)
Produced by House O’Chicks
Female ejaculation! What is it? Where does it come from? This is a how-to. video for women and their 'lovers. Popular 20th century studies, including the Kinsey Report and Masters & Johnson deny that women ejaculate, despite the fact that a number of their own subjects did, in fact, ejaculate during orgasm. Doctors Ernest Grafenburg (of G-Spot fame) and Robert L. Dickinson both reported that their female subjects ejaculated.
The medical term for female ejaculation is Prostatic fluid. It does not look or smell like urine in any way. Most studies conclude that the fluid is produced by the paraurethral gland, ^vhich is surrounded by the urethral sponge. (An interesting note is tnat during fetal development, the urethral sponge in women becomes the prostate in men.)
This short video covers references to female ejaculation in literature and history, where exactly the fluid comes from, and what it is. Then, an attractive and comely young lady of the female sex masturbates on camera, climaxing with ejaculation. Fascinating!
Videos are nonreturnable. Damaged tapes will be replaced.
1996,15 minute, full color VHS video.
THE MAGIC OF FEMALE EJACULATION: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85149)
HOW TO FIND YOUR G-SPOT (VHS Video)
Produced by House O’Chicks
From the makers of The Magic of Female Ejaculation comes their new video, How to Find Your G-Spot. Recognizing the need for explicit, informative and entertaining sex information, House O’Chicks once again recruited the very lovely and charming Dorrie Lane as star to explain, demonstrate and demystify the erogenous pleasure zones of a woman.
How to Find Your G-Spot begins by introducing the Wondrous Vulva Puppet to explore step by step the erogenous zones of a woman’s sexual anatomy. The Wondrous Vulva Puppet invokes a child’s curiosity and playfulness. Dorrie Lane’s interaction with the puppet brings back memories of Shari Lewis and Lambchop! House O’Chicks shows more ingenuity in the video with the introduction of Maps to the Wondrous Vulva — creative and humorous guides you won’t see in any textbook. Here you find “points of interest” and advice from Dorrie on how to travel the many roads to a woman’s orgasm.
How to Find Your G-Spot concludes with live, instructional vulvas that show the changes that occur during arousal and the actual G- Spot that is exposed during ejaculation. Dorrie shares her own vulva with the audience and invites them to watch as she masturbates to an orgasm and ejaculation. Wheel
1996,30 minute, full color VHS video.
HOW TO FIND YOUR G-SPOT: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85185)
THROBBING MODEMS
How to Find Romance and Adventure
on Your Personal Computer
by Joshua Bagby
You too can have a throbbing modem! From the house next door to the farthest reaches of cyberspace, people everywhere are logging online for love and companionship. Why not you?
Whatever you’re looking for — global chit-chat, stimulating philos- . ophy, wild flirting, steamy cybersex, or deep intimacy with kindred spirits — you can dive into the largest pool of playmates in history!
Throbbing Modems is the superbly practical guide on how to make friends and lovers on-line. Filled with real-life examples, it fully prepares you with expert advice for creating romantic bliss and adventures in cyberspace, often cloaked in anonymity. This book covers: • Meeting by modem — what it is and what it’s not • Using different resources (the Internet, national online services, local Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes)) • Cyberdating and the incredible allure of communing with strangers • Logging-on tips for the novice in cyberspace • Attracting the right kind of attention with public message postings • Capturing someone’s attention with stimulating e-mail • Learning how to become the kind of person online people want to chat with • Enjoying cyberspace without going bankrupt —cost-effective BBSing • Developing online intimacy with the cybermate of your dreams • Dealing with the different environments men and women face online • Recognizing potential trouble online before it drags you down • Bringing cyberspace relationships successfully into face-to- face reality.
1996, 714x9,288 pp, soft cover.
THROBBING MODEMS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85292)
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THE MULTI-ORGASMIC MAN
Sexual Secrets Every Man Should know
by Mantak Chia and Douglas Abrams Arava
Over three thousand
years ago, the Chinese
recognized that men have
the capability of achieving
multiple orgasms by
delaying and even with-
holding ejaculation, and
that orgasm and ejacula-
tion are two distinct physi-
cal processes. The
Multi-Orgasmic Man
teaches the males of
today how to separate
those two processes in
their own bodies, allowing
them to transform the
momentary release of
ejaculation into countless
peaks of whole-body
orgasms! It also explains
how men can satisfy the
multi-orgasmic potential
of their sex partners.
Women who read this
book will learn secrets
about male sexuality that are seldom revealed. Couples who study it together will find they can reach levels of sexual ecstasy and satisfaction that they never imagined possible.
This book draws on both ancient Taoist practices and the most recent scientific discoveries to teach the reader how to separate orgasm from ejaculation, experience multiple orgasms, and improve one’s overall health. It is a practical, straightforward guide to transforming male sexuality. So get on up! Be a modern-day sex machine! Read this book, and become multi-orgasmic now!
1996,5% x 8,236 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE MULTI-ORGASMIC MAN: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85254)
THE JOY OF SOLO SEX
by Dr. Harold Litten
Are you enamored of peeling your carrot? Spanking your spud? Squeezing your squab? These and countless other euphemisms refer to the act of masturbation, a procedure that virtually every human being engages in at one time or another. But this simple biological process is far too often cloaked in the dark shroud of shame and embarrassment, hidden away and shyly concealed.
Until now, that is. Now, with Dr. Harold Litten’s third edition of The Joy of Solo Sex in hand (leaving the other free), you can celebrate the carnal delights of creative onanism. In this fascinating book, the reader will discover realms of pertinent information regarding sex toys, self-love objects, and creative touching techniques. The Joy of Solo Sex provides a wealth of provocative information and ideas about masturbation that will greatly enhance this simple pleasure.
Written for any and every man who would like to become a true connoisseur of sex, The Joy of Solo Sex helps the male of the species leam to focus the electro-chemical energy in his body in order to stimulate the parts of the brain which are involved with sexual response. Masturbation is an integral part of the human sexual experience, and as such should be developed and explored, not ignored and repressed. The Joy of Solo Sex helps make this heightened state of awareness possible, and in doing so makes it possible for the practitioner of autoeroticism to reach new heights of sexual ecstasy.
1993,514 x 814,193 pp, soft cover.
THE JOY OF SOLO SEX: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85269)
THE NEW GOOD VIBRATIONS GUIDE TO SEX
Tips and Techniques from America’s
Favorite Sex Toy Store
by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans
Tens of thousands of
men and women around
the world keep The Good
Vibrations Guide to Sex,
described by The Advo-
cate as “The best sex
manual ever written,” on
their bedside tables. This
updated edition adds new
tips; new toys, and new
anecdotes that could only
be told by two women with
over ten years of experi-
ence working at America’s
favorite sex-toy store!
Authors Cathy Winks and
Anne Semans have com-
piled a candid com-
pendium of in-depth
answers to the most pene-
trating questions posed by
their customers at Good Vibrations, and the result is a sex guide that has something for all readers — gay, straight, bi, young, old, novice, long-timer, single, partnered, multi-partnered, promiscuous, pregnant, disabled, transgendered, terminally hip, sexually jaded, whatever— The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex offers advice, instruction, definitions, and lots of personal accounts. It includes explicit advice on enhancing anyone’s sex life, including: • Hot Talk • Secrets of Romance • Sexual Desire • Techniques • Life Changes • Real Stories • Toys Galore • Safer Sex • Sex on the Net • Erotica • And much more, including illustrations, resource guide, bibliography, videography, and index!
This book is recommended by medical professionals and sex therapists for its comprehensive coverage of all aspects of sexuality. Order The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sextoday, and the key to a happier sex life will be in your hands!
1997,814x11,304 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE NEW GOOD VIBRATIONS GUIDE TO SEX: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85230)
HOW TO GET YOUR FILIPINA FIANCEE
TO THE U.S.
by Eric Dexter
Are you tired of the spoiled American women who boast they’re high maintenance? Here are the reasons the author wrote this book:
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REASON NUMBER ONE: To let all you guys out there know what incredible things are waiting for each and every one of you.
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REASON NUMBER TWO: To clear up a bunch of lies that the general public have been brainwashed to believe about third world countries (such as the Philippines) by television media, newspaper stories, and feminist movements.
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REASON NUMBER THREE: To teach all you guys everything I know about bringing your fiancee back to the U.S. with as few problems as possible. To share tips with you on how I was able to expedite the immigration of both my Filipina wives to this country.
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REASON NUMBER FOUR: To show you how the INS made me go through hell when I tried to bring back my fiancee — man, you wouldn’t believe the crap I went through.
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REASON NUMBER FIVE: To hopefully save you from the misery of dating American women, and giving you the opportunity of having a mate who is loving, caring, devoted, loving, dedicated, honest, affectionate, and loving.
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REASON NUMBER SIX: To stop wasting your money on dating services, 900 number dating lines and sex lines.
This large book contains step-by-step instructions on how to plan a safe and productive trip to the Philippines, travel tips on where to go, where to stay, what to do and what not to do while you’re in the Philippines, sample pages of forms you’re going to need to bring your fiancee to the United States.
Anyone interested in meeting/marrying a Filipina woman can find no better starting place than How to Get Your Filipina Fiancee to the U.S.
2000,816x11,202 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO GET YOUR FILIPINA FIANCEE
TO THE U.S.: $37.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85314)
SEXUAL SECRETS
The Alchemy of Ecstasy
Full-Color 20th Anniversary Edition
by Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger
With more than one million copies sold and translations in twenty languages, Sexual Secrets continues to be the definitive, all-encompassing text on sacred sexuality. The distillation of more than two thousand years of practical techniques for enhancing sexual awareness and achieving the transcendental experience of unity, Sexual Secrets explores the path of love and mysticism, making accessible the sexual mysteries of the East.
In India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Japan, sexuality has long been regarded as both an art and a science worthy of detailed study and practice. Virtually unknown to the Western world, a vast and potent body of ancient sacred writings on sexuality exists. The secrets for consciously inducing and maximizing the experience of ecstasy have remained sealed in the ancient texts and art of The East. Sexual Secrets makes available the essential core of this vast literature on sexual wisdom in a vital and practical form. It is meant to be experienced as well as read, for it is the sharing of ecstatic love that unlocks the sexual secrets.
The richest collection of erotic art ever assembled! More than six hundred color and black-and-white paintings and illustrations have been created and collected to enhance the experience of the text and to unfold these sacred mysteries. The illustrations and paintings in Sexual Secrets are the most comprehensive and diverse collection of images expressing the erotic sentiment ever assembled. Two hundred sexual postures are depicted, creating a complete illustrated Kama Sutra, Ananga Ranga, and the major Taoist love treatises. These works of art are unique in themselves and represent, as does the text, a gathering together of many streams, leading to the same source — the celebration of sacred sexuality. Sexual Secrets reveals the wisdom of the sages whose teachings on sexuality have stood the test of twenty centuries and, even today, show how physical love can become the pathway to liberation.
2000,816x11,352 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SEXUAL SECRETS: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85322)
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD
The Single Man’s Guide to Retiring in the Orient
by Mac Horn
This step-by-step guide cov-
ers everything you need to know
about retiring in the Orient. Retire
in Thailand in an ocean view
condo for $250 a month! Retire in
the Philippines in a two story, fur-
nished apartment, walking dis-
tance from 1,500 bar girls, for
only $200 a month. Yes, this book
shows you the true meaning of
not just affordable living, but hav-.
ing thousands of gorgeous
women at your doorstep.
. Living in the Orient has its
pros and cons. It’s not a perfect
world out here in Asia, but it’s a
hell of a lot better than what you
get in the United States. Bottom
line, it’s all about living dirt cheap, having loads of fun, making all kinds of friends, and scoring some incredible women at rock bottom priced. This book is divided into two main sections: the first section is on living in Thailand and the second section, on the Philippines. In the Appendix you will find some good comparison notes on Thailand, the Philippines, and a review of the sex industry in Cambodia. Also included are chapters on Culture Shock, and avoiding trouble.
2001,816x11,161 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85364)
BROTHEL
Mustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert
When Harvard Medical School
student Alexa Albert conducted a
public-health study at the Mustang
Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only
state in America where prostitution
is legal, neither she nor the women
of the brothel could have predicted
the result. Having worked with •
homeless prostitutes at a drop-in
center in New York City’s Times
Square, Albert was intimate with
the human devastation caused by
the sex trade and curious to see if
Nevada’s brothels offered a less
harmful model for a business that
will always be with us. Mustang
Ranch had never before let such
an outsider in, but after three years
of Albert’s persistent urging, it
finally relented and opened its
doors to her.
What Albert did not anticipate was that the women of the Mustang Ranch would be so hungry to confide in her, or that she would come to care about them so deeply. The prostitutes poured their stories out to Albert: how they came to be at Mustang Ranch, their surprisingly deep sense of craft and vocation, and how they reconciled their profession with the attitudes of their families and the outside world. Consequently, what began as a public-health project evolved into something more personal and ambitious — a six-year study of the brothel and its women. Albert went as far into this world as it is possible for an outsider to go (some will say too far), and the result is Brothel, a landmark work that puts a much-needed human face on America’s most marginalized and misunderstood group of women.
2001,6 x 9,271 pp, hard cover.
BROTHEL: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85361)
THE GOVERNMENT VS. EROTICA
The Seige of Adam & Eve
</strong> by Philip D. Harvey
Foreword by Nadine Strossen,
President, American Civil Liberties Union
In 1986, a small mail-order
company was invaded by 37
armed law enforcement
agents who instantly shut
down all operations, herded
the employees into a ware-
house, and systematically
interrogated everyone, allow-
ing them to leave only after
subpoenas were distributed.
Although this episode may
sound like a police action in
the former East Germany, it
was in fact implemented by
the US Department of Justice,
then headed by Edwin
Meese, against Adam & Eve,
a North Carolina business
that sells contraceptives, sex
toys, and adult videos. Now,
the company’s owner, Phil
Harvey, offers a firsthand
account of this David-and-Goliath battle. The Government vs. Erotica goes to the heart of our national debate over First Amendment freedom of expression versus government attempts to limit the availability of erotic materials.
Harvey’s personal memoir of an eight-year struggle — eventually victorious — against the strong-arm tactics of the Justice Department raises important questions about federal abuse of power, the slow erosion of First Amendment rights through government intimidation, the effects of pornography, the archaic laws that attempt to regulate sexuality between consenting adults, the class-war implications of this battle, and the relationship between sex and religion. The Government vs. Erotica provides a detailed account of the inner workings of the legal process and of the feisty owners and managers of a small company determined to stand up for their rights. This controlled, yet suspenseful and humorous story is a wake-up call for all who would be complacent about their First Amendment rights.
2001,6x9,296pp, Indexed, hard cover.
THE GOVERNMENT VS. EROTICA: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85360)
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SACRED SEXUALITY
From Aphrodisiacs and Ecstasy
to Yoni Worship and Zap-lam Yoga
by Rufus C. Camphausen
< This comprehensive book, lavishly illustrated and extensively cross-referenced, encompasses all eras and cultures in exploring the meaning of human sexuality. The Encyclopedia of Sacred Sexuality explains how to integrate body and mind, love and lust, and spiritual exercise and inner alchemical techniques in the practice of , sacked sexuality. It also contains the most recent scientific knowledge of the brain, mind, and body as it relates to the erotic and sexual.
Topics covered include:
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Individuals •
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Woman as Goddess, Demoness, and Cultural Heroine
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Man as God, Demon, and Cultural Hero
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Aphrodisiacs
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Festivals, Rituals, and Customs
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Ritual Promiscuity and Sacred Prostitution
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Erotic Symbology in Nature, Art, and Language
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Techniques, Exercises, and Positions
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Semen Retention — Concepts, Techniques, and Exercises
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Body, Brain, and Genitals
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Fountains of Love — Human Biochemical/Sexual Fluids and. Secretions
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Erotic Fields of Energy — Human Electromagnetic/Subtle Energy Fields, Centers, and Channels
; • Primary Literature — Sacred and/or Erotic
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Sacred Locations
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And more.
Extensive cross-references, quotations from sacred erotic scrip- . tures, Internet resources, and 28 indexes to related topics within the book take the reader on an odyssey from almost any point of departure to the farthest reaches of this fascinating subject.
1999,8 x 10,319 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SACRED SEXUALITY: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85329)
THE $51 FANTASY
Legal Prostitution for American Men
by Eric S. Moore
If you are interested in
paying for some hot sex, in
America your options are
rather limited. Prostitution is
illegal everywhere except for
a few counties in Nevada,
and even there, there are
certain things money can’t
buy, such as kissing or anal
sex. You could spend a for-
tune on “Escort Services,”
without even being sure of
what you are getting until
after you have paid your
hard-earned dough. You can
risk fungus of the bungus by
picking up street whores, and
you might wind up in jail!
Eric S. Moore has discov-
ered a beautiful secret: the
wonderful world of legal
prostitution for American
men. Hundreds of brothels
are located within walking distance of the US border in the Mexican
cities of Tijuana (near San Diego, California), Nogales (across the
border from Nogales, Arizona), Juárez (across the border from El
Paso, Texas), and Nuevo Laredo (across the border from Laredo,
Texas). In fact, over 10% of US men live within a four-hour drive of
one of these border towns in major southern cities such as Los Ange-
les, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, El Paso, Austin, San
Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth. Another amazing fact is that
prostitution is closely regulated in Mexico. Legal prostitutes are
required to register with the state and to undergo regular health
screenings.
This is a book which has been needed for years. The author says,
“I would encourage you to give the legal brothels of Mexico a try. My
exploring of this unique ‘hobby’ has resulted in memories (and a few
photos) that I will never forget.”
2000,51/$ x 81A, 152 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE $51 FANTASY: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85324)
TIJUANA BIBLES: VOLUME 1
America’s Forgotten Comic Strips
With an unabashed vim
• ‘n vigor that makes popular
gossip rags like The Star
and The National Enquirer
seem limp by comparison,
the underground smut-chain
of racy eight-pagers, collec-
tively consecrated Tijuana
Bibles, has been spreading
the “good news” about sex
and celebrity to horny
schoolboys, housewives,
and dirty ole men of all ages
from as far back as the wild
and wily days of Prohibition!
Taboo classics such as
“Tillie the Fire Woman,” “Air
Necking” and “Bellhop Kicks
Dog” have been kept under
wraps for decades —
hoarded on bookshelves,
slipped between mattresses,
and furiously pawed on play-
grounds and in men’s rooms nationwide — as timelessly titillating today as they have been for generations of filth fanciers. Each saucy strip is an education in wit and wantonness, and you’ll want to get to know every one of them a little better — in the biblical sense, of course!
1996,6 x 9,128 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TIJUANA BIBLES: Volume 1: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85356)
TIJUANA BIBLES: VOLUME 3
America’s Forgotten Comic' Strips
Times may certainly
change, but the quest for
nookie reigns eternal, as
powerfully attested to by
the Tijuana Bibles — racy,
raunchy strips dating from
the early days of comics.
Also known as “eight
pagers,” these bawdy
tales more than made up
for what they lacked in
length with tons of upfront
sex action and outrageous
humor. Satirizing pop cul-
ture icons — from famous
movie actors of the time to
comic strip legends like
Superman, Batwoman,
and Dagwood (to name a
few!) — no thing or person
was sacred to the anony-
mous creators of these
spicy short stories. Watch
the fluids fly as Dick Tracy
gets to the bottom of some “Official Business” — and see Charlie McCarthy learn “A Lesson in Love”! And you’ll savor if not swoon over such riotous sex-romps as “Kum To Me My Melancholy Baby” and “Nerts to You” — and wait ’til you see “Miss Jones Takes a Letter” (and takes a whole lot more!). Plus twelve more stories that bump, grind, and sizzle with their timeless mix of brazen sex and belly- laughs! This collection of rare, if not impossible to find strips is a must for collectors of classic and erotic comics alike — and if you’re not familiar with the Tijuana Bibles already, it’s the perfect place to start!
1998,6 x 9,128 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TIJUANA BIBLES: Volume 3 : $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85357)
TIJUANA BIBLES: VOLUME 4
America’s Forgotten Comic Strips
Relive the bawdy days
of yore with this XXX-
rated “strip show,” collect-
ing an astounding array of
twenty-five filthy funnies
from the Torrid Twenties,
Dirty Thirties, and beyond!
Nothing’s sacred in these
bluntly pornographic
satires, commonly known
as “eight pagers” due to
their “Wham-bam, thank
you ma’am” delivery and
naughty, .no-holes-barred
approach. They may have
come out in the Prohibi-
tion Era, but there are cer-
tainly NO inhibitions in
these saucy stories, many
involving stars of the silver
screen and the funny
pages. From salacious
takes on the classic travel-
ing salesman/delivery
man story — “The Radio Salesman,” “Roy the Sweeper Boy” and more (they service their clients in more ways than one!), to wildly irreverent glimpses at the private lives of Winston Churchill and Mae West, these stories more than make up for what they lack in length with tons of lewdness, lust, and laughs galore! And that’s not all — the true forte of the form were their torrid treatments of cartoon characters. From the amorous adventures of Flash Gordon, Orphan Annie, Olive Oyl, Popeye and more (including the rare, extra-length “Mae West and Popeye”), these tried and true blue tales will amaze and arouse fans of smut and classic comics alike!
1999,6x9,142 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TIJUANA BIBLES: Volume 4: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85358)
effects.
SEX DRUGS AND APHRODISIACS
by Adam Gottlieb
Sex Drugs and Aphro-
disiacs is the essential con-
noisseur’s guide to herbs
and potions traditionally
associated with enhanced
sensual pleasure. Through-
out history, men and women
have sought to increase their
sexual pleasure through the
use of a variety of sub-
stances. Sex Drugs and
Aphrodisiacs chronicles the
results of this eternal quest.
Includes discussions of:
• yohimbe
• fugu
• absinthe
•yage
-
and other exotic special-
ties; and includes a compre-
hensive history of sources,
preparation, uses and
Finally, this hard to obtain cult classic is once again available. Revised and updated.
1993,516 x 816,90 pp, soft cover.
SEX DRUGS AND APHRODISIACS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85367)
A MAN’S GUIDE TO ADVERTISING
FOR A WOMAN
How to Find the Woman of Your Dreams Using
the “Personals” Section of Newspapers,
Magazines, and the Internet
by Sebastian Phillips
“If you are reading this, the
thought of finding a companion
through the ‘Personals’ section of the
classified ads (in order to make your
life more enjoyable, exciting, fulfilling
or at the very least, tolerable) has
probably crossed your mind more
than once.
“There are more good reasons
for a man to place an ad for a partner
than there are excuses not to do so.
The classified ads are versatile, and
the only things that can limit your
success are your imagination, time
and budget. There are many ways to
use the classified ads and, therefore,
you should have no trouble reaching
your objective of finding exactly the
A Man's Guide to
Advertising
for a Woman
Htw to find the Woman ofyear Dream*
Using the “FerwtmbT Section of
Newspapers, MogarirjM and the Internet
Sgbaati&n Phillips
type of woman you desire.
“I have tried to provide the information needed for any man to for-
mulate easily a game plan based on his needs and desires, then exe-
cute it without wasting time and money, by avoiding common
mistakes. Life is much too short, and every man deserves to find the
ideal woman to share one’s life and fantasies.”
If you purchase this book, you too can find the woman of your
dreams by learning:
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Which are the worst possible words to use in your ad
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Which words practically guarantee positive results
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What motivates a woman to answer an ad
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Why romances begun through the classifieds tend to last
longer -
Why the odds are already heavily stacked in your favor
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Where, when’ and how to place your ad
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How to find out quickly if she is for real
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And much more, including real-life experiences, Internet dat-
ing and 75 cheesy pick-up lines that you will never have to
use!
1996,5M x 8te, 175 pp, soft cover.
A MAN’S GUIDE TO ADVERTISING FOR A WOMAN: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85225)
SEXUAL ENERGY ECSTASY
A Practical Guide to Lovemaking Secrets
of the East and West
by David Ramsdale and Ellen Dorfman
Sexual Energy Ecstasy reveals the complete secret of how to have your ultimate, intimate sexual experience.
After reading Sexual Energy Ecstasy, you will understand how to: • Prolong, intensify and deepen orgasm • Achieve or delay orgasm, easily • Experience the ecstasy of Total Relaxation Orgasm (TRO) — the total fusion climax mentioned in The Joy of Sex* Make love in the secret soft styles • Locate and stimulate your Love spot and Love gland (thymus) • Trigger the prostate point that enables a man to last and last • Climax without genital orgasm • Develop Non- Ejaculatory Male Orgasm (NEMO) • Multiply mutual pleasure with pompior (vaginal muscle power) • Stimulate aculoving points for more energy and pleasure. Reduce stress with special peaceful positions • Enjoy peace and love together with pair bonding and tuning exercises • Take charge of your love life with powerful sexercises • Use sexual energy for healing and rejuvenation • Recognize the signs of sexual and emotional compatibility • And much, much more.
1991,7x9,370pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SEXUAL ENERGY ECSTASY: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85059)
SEXUAL SOLUTIONS
A Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them
by Michael Castleman
“If this book were required reading in
high schools, this column would be out of
business.” — The Playboy Advisor
Sexual Solutions is the most sensi-
ble, supportive and practical guide ever
written for men about making love. At a
time when roughly half of all American
men experience some problems in their
lovemaking, Sexual Solutions provides
simple, clear, useful answers for virtually
every sexual situation. It shows how
slight shifts in attitude, technique, and
approach can often eliminate recurrent
problems and create successful and
exciting sex. Men who make the relatively
minor adjustments outlined in this candid
book will be well on their way to becoming the confident, accom-
plished and appreciated lovers they have always wanted to be.
Written in straightforward language, the book is solidly grounded
in current research from scientific sources. Comprehensive in scope,
the book combines simple do-it-yourself sex therapy suggestions with
the latest information on women’s lovemaking preferences, birth con-
trol, and genital self-health for men.
Here at last is a book that really helps, a book aimed not at clinical
therapists or “macho” men out to prove something — but at anybody
who wants to increase his skills in natural, pleasurable lovemaking.
Highly recommended!
1989,6x9,301 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SEXUAL SOLUTIONS: $13.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85100)
MALE SEXUAL ENDURANCE
A Man’s Book About Ejaculatory Control
by Robert W. Birch, Ph.D.
What’s the number one com-
plaint about sex, for both men
and women? Premature Ejacula-
tion, that’s what! So, if you or
your sex partner are tired of com-
ing too soon, Male Sexual
Endurance: A Man's Book
About Ejaculatory Control will
put that problem to rest!
This illustrated self-help
guide to prolonged pleasure was
written by Robert W. Birch,
Ph.D., a nationally known psy-
chologist and sexologist, who is
a certified sex therapist and has
spent years studying this com-
plex sexual problem. It offers
self-help instructions for men in relationships, as well as those who do not have sex partners. The book has clear and easy-to-understand descriptions of ail aspects of this fundamental concern, and contains explicit photo illustrations of coital positions which facilitate improved ejaculatory control. Written with humorous overtones, Male Sexual Endurance provides wisdom and practical suggestions for the premature ejaculator.
Complete with “homework assignments” for couples, and tips for the solo sexual practitioner, Male Sexual Endurance has everything needed for putting an end to premature ejaculation. So learn to perform like a long-distance stud where it counts — in bed! Read this book now, and discover what real sex is all about! You’ll never spoil your or your sex partner’s fun again, if you faithfully follow this book’s in-depth instructions!
1997,8 x 10,182 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
MALE SEXUAL ENDURANCE: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85265)
DEAREST PET
On Bestiality
</strong> by Midas Dekkers
Translated by Paul Vincent
Kinsey’s research showed that 8 percent of men and 3.5 percent of women had had sex with an animal, and that in rural areas the figure for men was closer to 50 percent! Yet, bestiality is almost universally condemned. While our love for animals is extolled as noble and “natural,” all erotic elements in the relationship between humans and other species are vilified and proscribed, thus consigning them to the realm of exotic pornography or crude innuendo.
Even so, something remains of physical love for animals. In different forms, sublimated or occasionally celebrated, its traces can be found throughout art and popular culture: in Leda and the Swan, Beauty and the Beast, or the Lorelei; in a lubricious menagerie of satyrs and centaurs, wolfmen and vampires, all the way through to King Kong and Fritz the Cat, or even advertisements for luxury cat foods.
Dearest Pet uncovers and explores those traces, illuminating the ambivalence of human attitudes to cross-species sexuality. Its author, the biologist and broadcaster Midas Dekkers, has analyzed bestiality in all its aspects — physical, psychological, and legal — and examined its representations in religion and mythology, art and literature, pornography and advertising. Beautifully — and sometimes bizarrely — illustrated, his book is neither drily academic nor pruriently trivial, but erudite, witty and challenging: the first history of the last taboo. A book for animal lovers, and for those who are just their good friends.
2000,7 x 10,216 pp, illustrated, indexed, photographs, soft cover.
DEAREST PET: $17.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85325)
THE BOOK OF THE PENIS
by Maggie Paley
The almighty penis (aka
dick, schlong, pecker, rod,
tool, Johnson, etc.) has long
been a major object of ado-
ration, revulsion, ridicule,
amazement, joy, pride, and
even frustration. But does
anyone fully understand the
penis? Novelist, playwright,
and journalist Maggie Paley
immersed herself in the
obsessive world of this most
forthright of organs, looking
for answers high and low.
She pored over scholarly
volumes, anthropology
texts, and sex-shop
glossies; interviewed sex
workers, transsexuals, and
phallus connoisseurs of all
stripes; attended male strip
shows and a Hindu lingam
ceremony; visited web sites
where men share masturba-
tion techniques; and even searched out the current location of Napoleon’s penis. And, yes, she objectively addresses the big question: “Does size matter?”Along the way, we encounter deliciously entertaining and highly informative chapters on penis worship, fellatio, and men who are famous for their dicks, as well as the penis in art, fashion, literature, films, and much more.
This handsomely designed bedside companion, delightfully illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier, virtually erupts with facts, fallacies, fantasies, and amazing adventures, and is the perfect gift for women and men, straight and gay. It is certain to develop classic stature.
1999,5x8,258 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE BOOK OF THE PENIS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85336)
The BIG BOOK OF FILTH
6500 sex slang words and phrases
</strong> With an Introduction by Jonathon Green
and cartoons by Kipper Williams
Immerse yourself
in the lex of sex...
Visceral, raw and
—; above all — utterly
filthy, The Big Book of
Filth is a guided tour
of wordscapes teem-
ing with genitalia and
sex acts. Work your
way through its thick
forests of pubic hair,
marvel at its salacious
topography of rounded
breasts, jutting but-
tocks and rock-hard
penises, and enjoy the
company of its sex-
mad population of
pimps, tarts, mastur-
bators, fellators, cun-
nilinctors and rutting
couples of all sexual
persuasions.
The Big Book of
Filth is the ideal companion for the lexically incorrect, and the perfect
gift for those who worry that their vocabulary of sexual vulgarism is
limited to such oft-used terms as cock, knob, tits and wanking. Here
are hundreds of words and phrases you didn’t know, some you prob-
ably didn’t want to know — and words and phrases for sexual prac-
tices you had no idea even existed.
1999,5x 6M, 288 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
THE BIG BOOK OF FILTH: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85335)
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS
by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, M.D.
This groundbreaking and unabridged classic from the founder of modern sexual pathology contains 238 case histories detailing every form of sexual perversion — with a new appendix of additional case histories unpublished for over one hundred years. Translated from the twelfth and final German edition, Psychopathia Sexualis is essential reading for students of sexual perversity, criminal psychology, and European fin-de-siecle art and literature.
First published in Germany in 1886, Krafft-Ebing’s book was extremely successful as both a classic reference volume for psychiatrists and as a new form of pornographic literature for the sexually transgressive and perverse. Printed in seven languages and twelve editions during the author’s lifetime, Psychopathia Sexualis was an influence on such notable figures as Sigmund Freud (a younger colleague of Krafft-Ebing’s at the University of Vienna), painters Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, writers Marcel Proust and Frank Wedekind, and philosopher Georges Bataille and the Surrealists.
“Through Krafft-Ebing’s hands, in consulting-room, clinic and law- court, passed a succession of the undersexed and the hypersexed, rapists, stranglers, rippers, stabbers, blood-sucking vampires and necrophiliacs, sadists who hurt their partners, masochists who thrilled at the sight of the whip, males in female clothes and females in male clothes, slaves of scatology, defilers of statues, despoilers of children and animals, frotteurs and voyeurs, reinfleurs and stercoraires, pageists and exhibitionists, pedophiles and gerotophiliacs, satyria- sists and nymphomaniacs, and again and again male-craving males and female-craving females, and the endless army of men who lusted after women in perverse ways, but had no desire for her vagina.” — Victor Robinson, M.D.
1886,6x7,729 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS: $16.50
(ORDER NUMBER 85311)
THE CLITORAL TRUTH
The Secret World at Your Fingertips
by Rebecca Chalker
Dismissed and misun-
derstood for hundreds of
years, the clitoris is the one
part of the female whose
sole purpose is pleasure.
The truth is out there, arid
internationally celebrated
sex educator Rebecca
Chalker has something to
say about it. In The Clitoral
Truth, Chalker offers the
only mainstream, in-depth
exploration devoted solely
to women’s genital
anatomy and sexual
response. Her highly
informative tour of the cli-
toris is a sexuality workshop in book form. Female readers will learn new routes to sexual pleasure and new ways to enhance their sexual response. Male readers will discover a world they never dreamed of.
The clitoris and the penis once were considered equal and equivalent in all respects. After the 18th century, however, this knowledge was gradually suppressed and forgotten, along with the idea of the clitoris as an extensive organ system. In the early 1970s, important work was done reviving awareness of the clitoris. In The Clitoral Truth, Chalker honors this work and continues it. Here she also includes the most recent available studies to show how the clitoris’s many parts work together to produce orgasms, and investigates the veracity of reports of female ejaculation.
The Clitoral Truth describes how women have begun to transform the deeply entrenched male-centered model of sexuality by emphasizing full-body pleasure, and the ways women are increasing their pleasure through masturbation, sex toys, videos, books, workshops, individual coaching sessions and through the wealth of information on the Internet. Here are vivid personal accounts, a savvy, in-depth survey of female sexuality resources, and bold illustrations. For people who want to expand their sexual horizons: discover The Clitoral Truth.
2000, 7x7,256 pp, Illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
THE CLITORAL TRUTH: $19.95
(OF^DER NUMBER 85348)
ETIQUETTE FOR Outlaws
by Rob Cohen & David Wollock
Rob Cohen and David Wollock,
the Emily Posts of badasses,
teach readers how to smoke,
drink, talk, rave, and ride a motor-
cycle in style. And what to do if
they end up in AA, jail, or just plain
homeless.
Leam how to: • Ride (and park)
your Harley • Sleep with a lead
singer • Find a bookie • Have the
best seat at a strip club • Survive a
jailyard fight • Get the coolest
piercing with the least pain • Dress
for a fetish ball • Greet the dawn at
a rave • Cope when life in the fast
lane leaves you in the gutter.
Tips on accessories — like
Harley-Davidsons and nipple
piercings — as well as insider info
from rock stars, porn stars, Hell’s
Angels, gangbangers, and graffiti artists are all told in this guide for “players.”
2001,6x9,315 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
ETIQUETTE FOR OUTLAWS: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 34105)
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SEXUAL POSITIONS
VHS Video
by Anthony A. Zaffuto, Ph.D.
The Complete Guide to Sexual
Positions, another example of Pacific
Media Entertainment’s Sexual Enrich-
ment Series, allows the viewer to
observe over 100 sexual positions in 16
categories. Fully indexed for easy refer-
ence, this is the most practical collection
of explicit examples of how couples can
expand and enhance their love-making
repertoire.
Experimenting with new and varied
sexual positions can add a spark of
excitement to a sex life that is becoming
repetitive, while helping to satisfy some
of the practitioners’ other physical
needs, such as deeper penetration,
greater stimulation of the clitoris, pro-
longed intercourse, advanced oral techniques and, of course, locating and titillating the G-Spot and inducing a system-shaking orgasm! Lovers can learn to pleasure each other in ways they’ve never before imagined by paying attention to this comprehensive, fact-filled encyclopedia of ecstasy!
The Complete Guide to Sexual Positions is the most allembracing guide to carnal acrobatics since the Kama Sutra — and it’s available for private viewing in the privacy of your home! Not to be believed! Adults only!
1995,60 minute, full color VHS video.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SEXUAL POSITIONS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85249)
Please Note: Videos are nonreturnable — damaged tapes will be replaced.
European Customers: All the video tapes we sell are American VHS format. We regret that this format is not compatible with European video players. Be sure to check your player before ordering video tapes.
THE SEXUAL CRIMINAL
a psychoanalytical study
Second edition
by J. Paul de River, M.D., F.A.C.S.
First published in 1949 as a criminology/sexology textbook for law enforcement personnel, The Sexual Criminal methodically and clinically examines the bizarre and illicit sexual behavior of Los Angeles in the 1930s and ’40s — a fascinating glimpse at the seedy underbelly of a city littered with innumerable true-life noir characters:
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An electrician who has sex with his pet collie
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An Italian immigrant who engages in clandestine necrophilia
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An inebriated hustler who strangles his homosexual lover
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A drug-addicted butcher who eviscerates his dance-hall girlfriend
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An adulterous housewife who puts rat poison in her husband’s coffee.
Authored by the controversial director of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Sex Offense Bureau, and graphically illustrated with mugshots of criminals and crime scene photographs of their victims, The Sexual Criminal is both a compelling sociological time capsule of a not-so-distant era in the history of Los Angeles and a voyeuristic examination of the explosive sex lives of its inhabitants.
1949,5M x 7,520 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE SEXUAL CRIMINAL: $18.50
(ORDER NUMBER 85371)
Drugs
Introduction
It should be apparent by now that the so-called “War on Drugs” is little more than a flimsy excuse for the Government to violate what remains of our civil liberties. We humans have been getting high on many different substances ever since we first set foot on this planet. There is more absurd, malicious, and downright wrong-headed crap written about drugs than any other subject. The books in this Section have been carefully chosen to give you the real dope on dope.
PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS OF THE WORLD
New Edition
by Paul Stamets
new to science, are presented in
Noted mycologist Paul
Stamets has authored the ultimate
identification guide to psilocybin
mushrooms! Psilocybin Mush-
rooms of the World is a unique
addition to the body of work on
mushrooms in general and psy-
choactive mushrooms in particu-
lar. Never before has such a
lovingly-crafted mass of accurate
information, both prosaic and
graphic, been assembled on psilo-
cybin mushrooms. The beautiful
color plates artfully display a
plethora of psilocybin mushrooms,
along with detailed information
about each species.
Many species of psilocybin
mushrooms from throughout the
world, including some which are this book. Anyone who has an interest in these fascinating psychoactive fungi — collector, scholar, or
potential imbiber — will find this to be an invaluable reference guide.
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World is absolutely the definitive
work to date on this subject.
1996,6x9,245 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS OF THE WORLD: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85242)
RECREATIONAL DRUGS
by Professor Buzz
The single finest book
ever written on the manu-
facture of recreational
drugs. Profusely illus-
trated, it covers the
equipment, techniques
and reagents used in the
clandestine manufacture
of illegal drugs.
Procedures for crys-
tallization, chromatogra-
phy, distillation and
reductions are given for
the following types of
drugs:
-
Amphetamines
-
Hallucinogens
•THC -
Analgesics
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Hypnotics, Sedatives
and Tranquilizers.
Detailed instructions are included for buying and making precur-
sors. The work area is discussed in illustrated detail, and sources of
additional information are given.
No one can be said to be informed on the subject of illegal drug
manufacture unless they have read Professor Buzz’s Recreational
Drugs. Sold for informational purposes only.
1989,816x11,160 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
RECREATIONAL DRUGS: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85102)
CLOSET CULTIVATOR
by Ed Rosenthal
The latest in marijuana growing techniques, specifically designed ,for a space as small as a closet! The Closet Cultivator covers the most advanced gardening techniques in plain English — not technical jargon. It shows how easy maintenance gardens are built out of simple low cost household items. And it details successful ideas for secrecy and privacy. The Closet Cultivator describes both soil and hydroponic gardens. This is the first book to fully explain the dutch “Sea of Green” method which produces more buds faster in less space.
1999,516 x 816,126 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CLOSET CULTIVATOR: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85145)
JOINT SMOKING RULES
by Simon Worman
“Simon Worman —
the Emily Post of Pot!”
— High Times maga-
zine
Simon Says: Spark
it up!
Originally self-pub-
lished by Simon Wor-
man, the Original
Unofficial Joint Smok-
ing Rules was sold in
parking lots, head
shops and record
stores across the
country. It also made
High Times magazine’s
The Hemp 100 list six
times, reaching as high
as #5. Now available to
the general public for
the first time, accom-
panied by 75 new illus-
trations and a glossary
of essential marijuana
terminology, this book addresses every aspect of joint smoking eti-
quette for any social situation that life may present.
Whether novice joint smokers or seasoned vets, this book is an
essential guide for marijuana enthusiasts and well-mannered hosts or
hostesses everywhere.
2001,514 x 714,171 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
JOINT SMOKING RULES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85386)
THE LITTLE BOOK OF KETAMINE
by Kit Kelly
Ketamine hydrochloride is known on the street as K, Ket, Kit-Kat, Special K, Super K, and Vitamin K. The FDA has approved Ketamine as a general anesthetic for use on humans, especially with delicate patients such as children and the elderly. But it is most commonly used by veterinarians and plastic surgeons who conduct operations in their offices. In recent years, it has become an increasingly popular recreational drug. Most of the Ketamine available on the street in the United States has been stolen from veterinary clinics and pharmaceutical supply houses. It has been estimated that up to 90 percent of the Ketamine bought on the street has been stolen from medical sources. Ketamine is available on the Internet from various countries, including Mexico and Thailand. In Mexico, Ketamine is an over-the- counter drug and available in various strengths from most pharmaceutical supply houses for veterinarians. It is easily purchased at border towns and smuggled into the US since guards are looking for more traditional drugs, like pot. Ketamine induces a dissociative state described as the separation of the mind or ego from the bodily existence and causes the mind to hallucinate other realities.
The Little Book of Ketamine describes the recreational and spiritual use of ketamine including: • What K is, how it is made, and how it is used • How K affects the brain • Hallucinations, near-death and out-of-body experiences • Dosages, administration and safety precautions • Accounts of K-Trips by experienced users • How it feels to go to K-Land • Ketamine and the law • And much more.
The Little Book of Ketamine reviews the history of Ketamine from its discovery to its use in night clubs and raves, as well as describing extraordinary stories of Ketamine’s effects while being mindful of what is myth and what is reality. Highly recommended as an addition to your drug library.
1999,514 x 814, 106 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF KETAMINE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85319)
INDOOR MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE
The Indoor Bible — All New
by Jorge Cervantes
Completely revised, the classic
“Indoor Bible” puts all the latest
information on indoor cultivation at
your fingertips. Learn how grow-
ers maximize yields, harvesting
more than a pound of connoisseur
bud per 1000w bulb every 60
days. Includes precise color draw-
ings and photos of numerous plant
problems, a troubleshooting chart,
four case studies, weekly check-
list, calendar, glossary and index.
Step-by-step guide to: • Setting up
grow rooms • Setting up light sys-
tems • Setting up light movers •
Setting up ventilation systems •
Planting ideal gardens • Growing
perfect clones • Flawless trans-
planting • Bountiful harvests •
Breeding & beyond • And much
more.
Extensive information on: Safety, security, lighting, soils & soilless
mixes, hydroponics, CO2, insect, spider mite, fungus & disease con-
trol, fertilizers, nutrient disorders, seeds & seedlings, seed compa-
nies, plant care, sea-of-green, mother plants, pruning & bending,
determining sex, odor control, drying, harvest & medicinal use, and
much more.
Jorge Cervantes traveled the world to collect this comprehensive
research, visiting grow rooms and untold growers in Australia,
Canada and Europe to bring you the inside story on marijuana culti-
vation today.
2002,5x8,383 pp, indexed, soft cover.
INDOOR MARIJUANA HORTICULTURE: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85374)
UR-INE TROUBLE
The Truth About Drug Tests: Why Drug Users
are Passing, and Non-Users are Failing
by Kent Holtorf, M.D.
What you ate for breakfast
could cost you your job.
In this book, drug-testing
expert Kent Holtorf, M.D.,
exposes the shocking truth about
drug testing. Backed with more
than 200 medical references, this
pioneering book uncovers the dis-
crimination and ethical issues
surrounding drug issues. If you’re
a woman, employers may be test-
ing you for pregnancy without
your knowledge. If you’re black,
you’re 30 to 50 more times likely
to be accused of doing drugs from
a hair test.
Concerned? Read on. You’ll
also learn: • What common foods
will cause a false positive drug
test • What household products
can cover drugs in the urine •
What else your employer can learn about you from your test • How long it takes certain drugs to show up — and disappear — from your system.
Dr. Dean Edell, nationally syndicated radio and TV medical journalist, said, “Ur-ine Trouble is going to blow the lid off drug testing in this country. After reading the book, even the most devout proponents of drug testing will be forced to reexamine their position on its widespread use. You need to protect yourself from falsely being labeled a drug user by inaccuracies of drug testing.”
1998,516 x 816,200pp, Indexed, soft cover.
UR-INE TROUBLE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85279)
THE LITTLE BOOK OF ACID
by Cam Cloud
LSD-25 — commonly
known as “acid” — is so
potent that it takes only a
microscopic amount to
cause a trip. Acid’s remark-
able effects on the mind
have made it the most con-
troversial drug of all time.
The Little Book of
Acid is a compact intro-
duction to LSD and related
psychoactive chemicals
that discusses: • the trip
experience • how acid was
discovered • bad trips •
effects on the body and
brain • the acid under-
ground • blotter, barrels,
liquid and window-pane •
legal penalties • and much
more.
The Little Book of
Acid offers a wealth of
unusual, hard-to-find infor-
mation about plant sources of LSD-like chemicals. It describes the psychedelic properties of these plants and how they were discovered. It explains how these plants are cultivated and how the harvested materials are prepared or extracted to bestow acid-like trips.
1999,516 x 816,88 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF ACID: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85302)
THE CANNABIBLE
by Jason King
with an Introduction by Robert Connell Clarke
“Cannabis grows in every
imaginable shade of color,
with infinite shapes, flavors,
aromas, and effects. I have
tasted more flavors in mari-
juana than in food. This amaz-
ing plant needed to be seen in
all its glory. I decided to dedi-
cate my life to properly docu-'
menting (and sampling) the
world’s finest Cannabis
strains...”
With camera equipment
always at hand, renowned pot
connoisseur and photogra-
pher Jason King set out bn a
five-year mission to research
and document marijuana
around the globe. In The Cannabible, King takes us on a visual and educational odyssey, showcasing over 250 carefully selected cannabis strains in all of their splendid glory. Through stunning photography and detailed tasting notes, King presents a unique appreciation for his favorite plant, including: Asian Fantasy, Blueberry, HP13, Haze, and many more. King also sheds light on such topics as microphotography, hybrid development, organic versus hydroponic growing, climate and environment considerations, and availability of strains. Essential for every cannabis enthusiast, The Cannabible presents one discriminating, opinionated expert’s insights, wisdom, and wit for enjoying this most revered plant to the fullest.
2001,10 x 10,200pp, Illustrated,
hundreds of full color photos, indexed, soft cover.
THE CANNABIBLE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85375)
LEGALIZE THIS!
The case for decriminalizing drugs
by Douglas Husak
Recreational drug users (other
than those who take harmful sub-
stances like alcohol and tobacco)
are regularly imprisoned. Nearly
half a million drug offenders are
incarcerated in U.S. jails, more
than the total number of prisoners
in 1980 and more than the entire
EU prison population. In some
states more is spent on maintain-
ing the prison system than on
education. Current drug policies
lead to immense personal suffer-
ing, as well as police corruption,
organized crime, and contempt
for the law, and make drugs more
dangerous because they are ille-
gal and thus not subject to proper
controls. Politicians from all sides
of the political spectrum are
beginning to ask: Is it worth it?
In arguing that criminalization is unjust, Douglas Husak explodes many of the myths that surround drug use. In some years, more than half of high school seniors take drugs, yet the U.S. is not overrun with drug-crazed addicts. Horror stones of the dangers of drug use abound, but the truth is more prosaic: Although recreational drugs are sometimes bad for users, there are between 80 and 90 million U.S. citizens who have used illicit drugs without ill effects.
2002,516 x 816,207pp, Indexed, soft cover.
LEGALIZE THIS!: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85387)
SALVIA DIVINORUM GROWER’S GUIDE
by the Sociedad para la Preservation
de las Plantas del Misterio
The latest rage among psyche-
delic-plant aficionados is one of the
most potent hallucinogens ever dis-
covered - yet is perfectly legal! This
guide tells you how to obtain and grow
your own Salvia divinorum —
“diviner’s sage.” You won’t be able to
buy the seeds anywhere. If you want it,
the authors say, you have to get it the
same way everyone else has for the
last 2,000 years.
Mazatec Indians used the plant in
medical, magical and divinatory cere-
monies for centuries. The authors, the
Sociedad para la Preservation de las
Plantas del Misterio, make it their work
to compile and disseminate informa-
tion about cultivating plants with
shamanic histones.
In this book you’ll find: • Optimum growing parameters • Several
ways to grow, including hydroponic methods and planting in soil • The
damage caused by pests such as spider mites, aphids, and white flies
and what you can do to stop it • Sources for cuttings and supplies.
Even though there are almost 1,000 species in the genus Salvia,
there are none quite like the “sage of seers.” Almost too good to be
legal!
1998,516 x 816,64 pp, soft cover.
SALVIA DIVINORUM GROWER’S GUIDE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85280)
STONED FREE
How to Get High Without Drugs
by Patrick Wells with Douglas Rushkoff
Now you can just say “No!” to
drugs... and get high anyway!
Patrick Wells and Douglas
Rushkoff explain how in Stoned
Free: How to Get High Without
Drugs their ground-breaking
treatise that is essential reading
for those psychic explorers
among us who want to avoid
incarceration, save money, and
skip the wear and tear on their
bodies... yet still yearn to cop a
buzz.
Stoned Free expounds on
this topic by enumerating several
consciousness-altering tech-
niques — some of which are
timeless in origin, while others
have been made possible by
recent technological and medical
advances that the ordinary citi-
zen can employ to attain states of awareness which transcend reality
as it is normally perceived... in other words, How to Get High With-
out Drugs!
Learn how to enhance your cognitive horizons through: • Medita-
tion • Breathing techniques • Musical and dance regimens • Depriva-
tion methods • Physical therapies • Visualizations •
Consciousness-raising programs • High tech highs • Communing with
nature • Sleep and dream manipulations • Concepts of synchronicity •
And much, much, more.
So read up, wise up, and get up... naturally! Stoned Free provides
the answers for those who want to learn How to Get High Without
Drugs!
1995,516 x 816,157 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
STONED FREE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85203)
OPIUM FOR THE MASSES
A Practical Guide to Growing Poppies
and Making Opium
by Jim Hogshire
Opium. Known as “the Mother of
Ail Analgesics,” it’s probably the
greatest pain killer ever discovered.
Opium is the parent of morphine,
heroin, laudanum, Darvocet, Dar-
von, and many other pain relievers.
Opium causes poets to rhapsodize
and nations to go to war. “Religion...
is the opium of the people,” said Karl
Marx, but some people insist on the
real thing.
In Opium for the Masses, Jim
Hogshire, author of Sell Yourself To
Science, tells you everything you
want to know about the beloved
poppy and its amazing properties,
including: • What does the opium
high feel like? • How addictive is
opium? How hard is it to kick? • The
stunning similarities between opium and your body’s natural endor-
phins. • What is the strongest drug in the world? • Morphine and its
derivatives, both pharmaceutical and street. • How to grow opium
poppies. • Where to get fertile poppy seeds. • How to harvest the
opium from the crop of poppies. • How to make poppy tea. • Other
ways of making and ingesting opium, including eating and smoking. •
And much more.
Opium for the Masses includes rare photographs and detailed
illustrations that bring this magnificent plant to life. Don’t miss this
humorous, informative and practical guide to the most popular pain
killer in the world.
1994,516 x 816,112 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
OPIUM FOR THE MASSES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85186)
ECSTASY
Dance, Trance & Transformation
by Nicholas Saunders with Rick Doblin
The banning in 1995 of the drug
MDMA — popularly known as Ecstasy —
has slammed the door on research into
its psychotherapeutic applications, and
virtually assured Ecstasy’s ongoing illicit
use as a recreational drug. The result
has been an explosion in the drug’s
underground popularity, the growth of
counterculture be-ins known as “raves,”
and a proliferation of adulterated sup-
plies.
Is Ecstasy a safe and benign trans-
forming drug, as its advocates contend?
Or is it likely to cause irreparable damage
to the brain’s serotonin processing, as
Ecstasy’s detractors have claimed for a
decade? For the answers, turn to Ecstasy: Dance, Trance & Trans-
formation, a book which contains everything you need to know about
the drug: • What is Ecstasy? • Is Ecstasy an aphrodisiac? • Is Ecstasy
addictive? • Does Ecstasy harm brain cells? • Is Ecstasy dangerous?
• How can Ecstasy be used more safely? • Does Ecstasy’s use lead to
other drug use? • How can you tell what’s in a pill? • Is Ecstasy really
the drug of the 90s? • How does Ecstasy affect its users’ lives? • Does
herbal Ecstasy work, and is it safe? • Are drug-induced mystical expe-
riences real?
These and many other pressing questions about Ecstasy are
answered in this book, which is sold for informational purposes only.
Read it today... you’ll be raving about it tomorrow!
1996, 516 x 816,287pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
ECSTASY: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85255)
THE HEROIN USER’S HANDBOOK
by Francis Moraes, Ph.D.
Heroin has traditionally been referred to as “The Hardest Drug.” There were soft drugs, hard drugs, and the hardest drug — heroin. Even amongst heavy drug users, heroin was often a taboo. “Any drug is worth trying — except heroin.”
But over the last three decades, things have changed. The purity of street-level heroin has increased twenty fold (20 times), allowing users to snort and smoke it, whereas they were previously forced to inject. As a result, more people are experimenting with heroin than ever before.
The larger number of heroin users has not translated into more knowledge about this drug, however. That is where The Heroin User's Handbook comes in. This book explains everything that a heroin user needs to know. It dispels the myths that surround heroin and replaces them with accurate and objective information.
The Heroin User's Handbook provides critical information that will save lives and allow users to avoid addiction. The book includes:
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Navigating the heroin subculture
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Avoiding addiction
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Safe injection techniques
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Smoking and snorting procedures
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Chemically purifying street heroin
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How to buy heroin — in any city
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Avoiding diseases associated with heroin
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Dealing with the legal system
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Social aspects of heroin use
-
Detoxing yourself
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And much, much more.
The author, Francis Moraes, is also the author of The Little Book of Heroin and The Little Book of Opium and the publisher of the Heroin Helper Website. He brings a unique outlook to the study of heroin — neither glorifying nor demonizing the drug, but just providing people with “the straight dope” on heroin.
2001,516 x 816,187 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE HEROIN USER’S HANDBOOK: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85351)
WEST COAST SMOKE
The Inside Story of the B.C. Pot Boom
by Drew Edwards
Welcome to ground zero in the world pot trade: scenic and staid Nelson, British Columbia, tucked away deep in the Canadian Rockies. The days of Maui Wowie and Thai stick are gone. No longer does high-octane pot need to enter North America from foreign shores. British Columbia now produces the finest weed in the world — six times as potent as most traditional marijuana — in highly scientific grow labs and operations where the latest techniques in horticultural engineering are employed. An hour from a sporadically protected border and surrounded on all sides by mountains, Nelson makes an ideal base for shipping “BC Bud” across North America.
But the growing and smuggling of amazing pot is only a small part of the story. Add to this strange world Nelson’s Holy Smoke Culture shop where weed is openly smoked by staff and customers — with the authorities unable to shut it down because of a judge that sides with the dopeheads over the cops — and you start to get a picture of the bizarre, idyllic area of the world where it seems just about everyone either smokes or grows or sells — and often all three.
Drew Edwards, managing editor of the Nelson Daily News, has been at ground zero for several years watching as “BC Bud” takes over as the pot of choice around the world and the local community growers and smugglers evade the efforts of small-town politicians and cops to shut them down. Edwards takes us behind the scenes for a look at a seldom seen and poorly understood outlaw phenomenon.
2000,6x9,206 pp, map, soft cover.
WEST COAST SMOKE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85353)
MARIJUANA MEDICINE
A World Tour of the Healing
and Visionary Powers of Cannabis
by Christian Ratsch
Marijuana Med-
icine, a complete
visual record of
cannabis culture,
explores the role of
hemp in medicinal
systems spanning
the globe. Cannabis
has accompanied
the development of
human culture from
its very beginnings
and can be found in
the healing tradi-
tions of cultures
through Africa, Asia,
Europe, and the
Americas. Even
today it is an impor-
tant part of many
Asian healing tradi-
tions: in Ayurveda
cannabis is praised
for its tonic and
aphrodisiac qualities, and in traditional Chinese medicine it is cited as a superb antidepressant. It also remains a significant part of the healing and visionary traditions of Latin American curanderos and Brazilian, Nepalese, and Indian folk medicine. Modern research has confirmed the effectiveness of marijuana’s application in treating such diseases as asthma and glaucoma. Christian Ratsch profiles the medicinal, historical, and cultural uses of cannabis in each of these societies and medical systems, providing remedies and recipes for those interested in how it can be used to treat specific conditions.
2001,8 x 10,224 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MARIJUANA MEDICINE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85354)
POT PUZZLE FUN BOOK
Marijuana Entertainment
Presented by Cannabis Culture
Now everyone can enjoy the
fun side of Cannabis Culture —
without having to score! Games,
puzzles, quizzes, and mazes, like
Match the Bud and Name the
Strain, are just some of the mari-
juana entertainment you will find
in the Pot Puzzle Fun Book.
-
Can you spot the nark in Pot-
head Park or solve Dealer Dave’s
Dilemma? -
Take the THC Quiz and tease
your brain with pot trivia tidbits -
Brave the Buds or Busted
Gameboard and master the Mari-
juana Maze!
Let the Pot Puzzling Begin!
2000,51/i x 81A, 61 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
POT PUZZLE FUN
BOOK: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85343)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUGS
From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age
by Antonio Escohotado
From remote antiq-
uity to the present era of
designer drugs and dra-
conian interdiction, drugs
have played a prominent
role in the cultural, spiri-
tual, and social develop-
ment of civilizations. A
Brief History of Drugs
shows how the story of
drugs illuminates the
story of humanity, explor-
ing the long relationship
between human beings
and mind-altering sub-
stances. Marijuana, for
example, has been used
in India since time imme-
morial to stimulate men-
tal agility and sexual
prowess, and a census
in 312 C.E. revealed
nearly 800 stores in the
city of Rome devoted to
selling opium. Similar
examples can be found
in cultures as diverse as the Celts, the ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs, and other peoples around the world.
Professor Escohotado also examines the present-day differences between drug-tolerant societies like the Netherlands and Switzerland and countries advocating complete repression of these substances. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the enormous social costs of the drug war that is coming under increasing fire from all corners of society. Ultimately, A Brief History of Drugs demonstrates that drugs have been used by all societies and the contribution they have made to humanity’s development has been enormous. The task we face today is to better understand them, instead of continuing to indiscriminately demonize them. “Just say no,” says Escohotado, is not an option. Just say “know” is.
1996,51A x 8V2,176 pp, indexed, soft cover.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUGS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85327)
CIDER HARD AND SWEET
History, Traditions, and Making Your Own
by Ben Watson
Drinking fresh, or “sweet”
cider in the fall is an Ameri-
can tradition. And recent
years have seen the resur-
gence of “hard” (alcoholic)
cider — once the drink of
choice in England and the
Americas — after decades of
obscurity. Now this delightful,
fizzy drink is turning up again
in American farmer’s markets
and in bars and restaurants
as a refreshing alternative to
handcrafted beer. And this
elegantly simple beverage is
so easy to make that produc-
ing good homemade cider,
both hard and sweet, is well
within the reach of any
enthusiast.
In this entertaining book,
Ben Watson explores the cul-
tural and historical roots of
cider. He introduces us to the different styles of cider — including
draft, farmhouse, French, New England, and sparkling, as well as
apple wine, applejack, and cider vinegar — and gives complete
instructions on how to make them at home with a minimum of time
and equipment. In addition, there are tips on evaluating homemade
ciders, instructions for hosting a cider tasting, and recipes for cooking
and baking with cider.
In this passionate treatise, Watson encourages us to reject the
“boring, denatured foods” of our supermarkets and to enjoy the “gen-
uine article — real cider made by a person who knows something
about apples and cares about quality.” Cider Hard and Sweet will
interest not only apple aficionados, but anyone who appreciates good
food and drink and the cultural traditions that surround and inform
them.
1999,5x8,239 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
CIDER HARD AND SWEET: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85318)
MARIJUANA LAW
by Richard Glen Boire
Over 400,000 people
are arrested for marijuana
possession each year! Mar-
ijuana Law will help read-
ers understand how people
reduce the probability of
arrest and defend them-
selves from prosecution if
arrested.
Readers will learn:
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When a police officer can
legally stop you -
When you can be
searched -
When you have to be read
your rights -
What to do if the cops
come to your home with a
search warrant -
How to counter many
police tactics simply by
knowing your rights.
Marijuana Law is the
most thorough book we
have seen on how to protect your rights! Richard Glen Boire is a defense attorney specializing in marijuana cases. This book is based on his many years of experience and research.
1992,516 x 816,171 pp, indexed, soft cover.
MARIJUANA LAW: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85167)
PSILOCYBIN
Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide
by O.T. Oss & O.N. Oeric
Psilocybin is a highly
visionary natural com-
pound (psilocybin mush-
rooms grow wild in the
Port Townsend area, and
in many other places
around the USA) with a
long tradition of shamanic
use and close similarity to
normal brain chemistry.
Psilocybin is the revised
and expanded edition of
the unsurpassed classic
manual on home cultiva-
tion of psilocybin mush-
rooms.
These 81 fact-filled
pages are all the informa-
tion you need to succeed
with the cultivation of
Stropharia cubensis (aka
Psilocybe cubensis), the
undisputed queen of the
psilocybin-containing
fungi. All the details of
locating, isolating, propagating and fruiting “the Golden Teacher" are here in addition to a provocative foreword by Terence McKenna, an expanded chronology of mushrooms in history, a technical glossary, and bibliography.
This is the book mushroom aficionados have been waiting for — the book that created the post-modern era of home cultivation that provides us with the visionary sacrament of Mazatecan shamanism. Order yours today!
1986,516 x 816,81 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PSILOCYBIN: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85144)
PSYCHEDELICS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Third Expanded Edition
by Peter Stafford
With a new foreword on recent developments and an appendix on Ecstasy, Psychedelics Encyclopedia is a mind expanding archive of the psychedelic age, chronicling the drugs that revolutionized a generation and changed the world.
Psychedelics Encyclopedia draws from scientific research, personal accounts and popular literature to document the properties attributed to psychedelic substances, their preparation and use, and the shifting social attitudes toward them over the past half-century. This is a remarkable source-book for anyone interested in the psychological, biological, physiological and cultural aspects of psychedelic drugs. A fascinating historical reference on psychedelia, from the LSD-25 of the sixties, to the memory and cognitive enhancers of today.
Topics that are covered include: botany and cultivation; effects and pharmachology; LSD, cannabis, peyote; mushrooms, cacti, mescaline and yage; Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock; Dylan and the Beatles; George Washington, Don Juan, Lenny Bruce, and Albert Hofmann.
Chapters include: • The LSD Family • Peyote, Mescaline and San Pedro • Marijuana and Hashish • Psilocybin Mushrooms • Ayahuasca, Yage and Harmaline • Iboga and Ibogaine • And much more.
Psychedelics Encyclopedia covers history, botany, pharmacology, physical effects, mental effects, forms, sources, and purity tests for each psychedelic substance discussed, and includes a great deal of information on Belladonna, Yohimbe, Kava-Kava, Ketamine, and Nitrous Oxide, as well as the substances listed above.
Peter Stafford’s Psychedelics Encyclopedia is the single finest book ever written on psychedelic substances and their use—just say know!
1992,6x9,420 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PSYCHEDELICS ENCYCLOPEDIA: $36.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85154)
PASS THE TEST
An Employee Guide to Drug Testing
</strong> by Beverly A. Potter, Ph.D.
and J. Sebastian Orfali, M.A.
Every year millions of people face
drug testing and thousands of com-
pletely innocent people test like they
are drug users. Even eating poppy
seed bagels or using certain cough
syrups can cause positive test
results. Pass the Test shows how to
avoid this humiliating experience and
what to do if it happens to you.
Whatever your profession, some-
day you may be tested. Pass the
Test takes the mystery out of a
process that can have devastating
consequences to you and your liveli-
hood. Pass the Test is every
employee’s comprehensive guide to
drug testing. Learn how tests work,
your legal rights as an employee,
and what you can do to make sure
your employer plays fair. Learn what over-the-counter medicines and foods can cause false positive results. Most importantly, learn what legal steps you can take to pass the test.
Pass the Test reveals: • Legal substances that can cause false positives • How long various drugs stay in the body • How to handle disclosure paperwork • How the American Disabilities Act affects drug testing • Your rights under the law — before, during, and after testing • How to defend yourself against positive results • Strategies to help you pass the test.
1999,514 x 814,152 pp, indexed, soft cover.
PASS THE TEST: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85305)
THE LITTLE BOOK OF HEROIN
by Francis Moraes, Ph.D.
Heroin — the hardest drug!
Fact? or Myth? Find out in The Lit-
tle Book of Heroin! The word —
heroin — calls forth strong emo-
tions — especially fear. It is much
like our fear of Satan — an active
agent that entices the young and
innocent with initial pleasures of
the flesh, but once ensnared they
face a life of slavery and misery —
a living hell! Such extreme reac-
tions exacerbate the problem.
Recreational drug adventurers
quickly dispel the myth, creating a
huge credibility gap. “Everything
they said was a lie. I can resist this
— if I want to!” Once hooked, or
heavily “chipping,” — also called
“pre-addicted” — the victim is no
longer innocent and hides in
shame, finding refuge with junkie outcasts — instead of seeking help.
The Little Book of Heroin is a straightforward look at heroin and who junkies really are. It covers history and the evolution from opium to morphine to heroin; how heroin is procured on the “street” and how it is chemically purified; ways heroin is used and diseases junkies get; methods of detox and the real danger of “sudden death” and much more. The Little Book of Heroin replaces myths with solid information useful to the user for reducing harm; and to concerned family, friends, and professionals who want to better understand.
2000,516 x 816,89 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF HEROIN: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85330)
THE VARIETIES OF PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE
The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD
on the Human Psyche
by Robert Masters, Ph.D. and Jean Houston, Ph.D.
The Varieties of Psyche-
delic Experience was first pub-
lished in 1966, just as thé first
legal restrictions on the use of
psychedelic substances were
being enacted. The authors’
pioneering work on the effects
of LSD on the human psyche,
which was viewed by its partici-
pants as possibly heralding a
revolution in the study of the
mind, was among the casual-
ties of this interdiction. As a
result, the promising results to
which their studies attested
were never fully explored. Nev-
ertheless, their fifteen years of
research represents a sober
and authoritative appraisal of
what remains one of the most
controversial developments in
the study of the human psyche.
Avoiding the wild excesses taken by both sides on this issue, this book is unique for the light it sheds on the possibilities and the limitations of psychedelic drugs, as well as on the techniques for working with them. With drug legalization an increasingly important issue, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience provides a welcome and much needed contrast to the current hysteria that surrounds this topic.
2000,5 x 8,336 pp, soft cover.
THE VARIETIES OF PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85333)
OPIUM POPPY
Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology
by L.D. Kapoor, Ph.D.
Here is a comprehensive
resource on the botany, chemistry
and pharmacology of poppy pro-
duction, from seed to alkaloid.
The author begins with an histori-
cal overview of the origin and use
of the opium poppy in the ancient
civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and
Mesopotamia. He continues
through plant and seed production
and crop improvement and
explores in detail the chemical
and pharmaceutical by-products
of the opium poppy. Kapoor dis-
cusses the botany, agronomy,
anatomy, physiology, and chemi-
cal aspects of major alkaloids,
their biosynthesis, the precursors
identified, and other intermediary
alkaloids. This book will serve as
a useful companion to students of
pharmacy, botany, and chemistry, providing an overall better understanding of the opium poppy.
Covered in depth are the developmental anatomy of the capsule with special reference to laticiferous vessels, and the repository of latex. The constitution of amphicribral bundles and their dissolution is depicted, and the chemistry of opium alkaloids and their biosynthesis is discussed. The site of synthesis and the role of alkaloids is covered, as is the evaluation of analgesic actions of morphine in various pain models in experiments.
L.D. Kapoor’s Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology is without a doubt the definitive treatise on this wonderful and useful plant. Sold for informational and academic purposes only.
1995,6 x 816,344 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
OPIUM POPPY: $37.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85334)
Th® Pleasures
of Cocaine
THE PLEASURES OF COCAINE
by Adam Gottlieb
If you are interested in
cocaine, this little book is indis-
pensable. The purpose of this
book is to convey the impartial
facts of the uses and abuses of
cocaine. Without bias, many dif-
ferent aspects are covered:
-
History • Effects • Uses •
Dangers • How to get the
most pleasure from
cocaine without suffering
abusive side effects •
Determining quality •
What substances are
used to cut coke • The
effects of these sub-
stances • Ways to test for
purity and removing
impurities • Improving
appearance • An inside
look at buying and deal-
ing • Cultivation of coca
plants • Coca leaf botany -
Storing cocaine • And much, much more.
A well-done book, which should be read by anyone interested in
the War on Drugs.
1976,4x7,155pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE PLEASURES OF COCAINE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85340)
HOW TO AVOID A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION
by Judge X
Unless you’ve been busted for
drunk driving lately, you probably
don’t realize how much the laws
have changed. Here are a few
sobering statistics: Under the .08
rule being adopted by many
states, two beers makes you a
drunk driver. For commercial driv-
ers — and that means anyone
required to drive as part of their
employment (truckers, cab driv-
ers, delivery persons, sales reps,
etc.) — one beer will cost you your
license and your job. And a drunk
driving conviction routinely means
lost driving privileges, jail time,
and thousands of dollars in fines,
fees and costs.
So if you over drink at ail, you
better find out what your rights are
and how the system works. And nobody knows better than Judge X. A state judge for over 20 years, Judge X has presided over thousands of drunk driving cases. In this book, he answers all your questions about drinking and driving: • How do you handle a traffic stop if you’ve been drinking? • Are you entitled to a lawyer before taking a breath test? • The one way to effectively mask your breath. • How to challenge breathalyzer results in court. • Should you waive the preliminary hearings? • How to “donate” a few thousand to get out of a jam.
If you ever enjoy a drink after work, at a friend’s house, at the ballpark, at a party, then you have a lot to lose. If you are preparing for a DUI trial, then you must get. this book. You need to know your rights. You need to know the ropes. You need to know Judge X. Don’t you think it’s time you got acquainted?
1993,51& x 816,154 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO AVOID A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85158)
FROM CHOCOLATE TO MORPHINE
Everything You Need to Know
About Mind-Altering Drugs
by Andrew Weil, M.D. and Winifred Rosen
The original edition of
From Chocolate to Mor-
phine was recognized
immediately as the defini-
tive guide to legal and ille-
gal drugs. Now this
popular book has been
updated for the 1990s.
Drugs remain perva-
sive, and parents and chil-
dren alike need complete,
unbiased information
about how drugs affect the
mind and the body. Dr.
Andrew Weil and co-
author Winifred Rosen
cover a wide range of
available substances, from
coffee to marijuana, from
antihistamines to psyche-
delics, from steroids to the new “smart drugs.”
Extensively illustrated, supplemented by helpful comments from drug users and nonusers, From Chocolate to Morphine is a unique resource. This clear-headed, authoritative book is now more valuable than ever.
1998, 716x9,256 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
FROM CHOCOLATE TO MORPHINE: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85172)
PSYCHEDELIC SHAMANISM
The Cultivation, Preparation and Shamanic Use
of Psychotropic Plants
by Jim De Ko rne
From the author of The Hydro-
ponic Hot House comes the boldest
exploration of psychedelic plants
since Terence McKenna’s Food of
the Gods. For the first time, theory
and practice are linked in one con-
sciousness-expanding book!
DeKorne is a “psychonaut,”
exploring the “imaginal realms”
through personal experimentation
and scholarly research. He guides
the reader through the history and
lore of psychotropic plants, with
advice on how to handle the eerie
“Entities” one encounters in “hyper-
space.”
A master gardener, DeKorne
explains how to cultivate many of these plants and how to extract
their powerful psychoactive alkaloids. He provides down-to-earth
information on dosages, typical reactions, length and intensity of
experience, dangerous combinations, traditional and ritual uses, and
much more. Plants and combinations covered include:
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Belladonna Alkaloids: Flying Ointments, Datura, Brugmansia, Devil’s Weed
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D-Lysergic Acid Amide: Morning Glories and Sleepy Grass
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Mescaline: Peyote and Sari Pedro
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Ayahuasca: Harmine, Harmaline, MAOs, DMT, Syrian
Rue, Phalaris Grass
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Smokable DMT from Plants: A new discovery that will revolutionize psychedelia!
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Psilocybin: Magic Mushrooms, including a potent “Mushroom Ayahuasca”
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Minor Psychedelics: Diviner’s Mint, Coleus, Calamus Root, Heimia, Calea Zachatechichi, Fly Agaric Mushroom, Iboga.
Psychedelic Shamanism is a lucid, captivating introduction to the shamanic hypothesis with ail the technical information needed to explore “inner space.”
1994,816x11,160 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PSYCHEDELIC SHAMANISM: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85182)
ACID TRIPS AND CHEMISTRY
by Cam Cloud
Acid — the chemical also known as LSD-25
— is among the most powerful mind-altering
substances known to science. An unprece-
dented tool for spiritual and psychological
exploration, acid takes effect after only a micro-
scopic amount is ingested. Yet most people
know very little about this influential molecule.
Exhaustively researched, Acid Trips and
Chemistry cuts through the confusion and
delivers the facts about: • Chemical formulas •
The causes of a bad trip • What factors influ-
ence a trip • Acid’s spiritual and creative effects
• Plant sources of LSD-like chemicals • The
myth of “bad” acid • The law and acid.
Acid Trips and Chemistry also tells about the ergot fungus that underground chemists use to manufacture acid, along with how scientists cultivate ergot, process it to extract chemicals, and transform the chemicals into LSD.
1999,516 x 816,143 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ACID TRIPS AND CHEMISTRY: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85307)
PRACTICAL LSD MANUFACTURE
Revised and Expanded Second Edition
by Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester has
done it again! The
underground master-
mind of psychedelic
cookery has come up
with even more ground-
breaking techniques for
those who study the
craft. Practical LSD
Manufacture provides
the most detailed, com-
prehensive and concise
description ever of sev-
eral of the methods
employed in the prepa-
ration of lysergic acid
diethylamide, or LSD,
from natural sources!
Uncle Fester also offers
a breakthrough in the
literature of psychedelic
chemistry: a simple
process for extracting
the hallucinogenic drug
TMA-2 from the com-
monly found and easily
grown calamus plant.
Practical LSD Manufacture contains:
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Natural sources of the lysergic amides, including harvesting procedures for ergot-infested rye and Spartina marsh grasses
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Methods of extraction and isolation of the lysergic acid amides
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An interpretation of LSD-progenitor Albert Hofmann’s patented “one-pot shot” method of LSD synthesis, plus purification and storage techniques
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A never-before-published presentation of “Method X,” wherein a propionic anhydride mixes with lysergic acid, allowing for a much-improved synthesis
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A section on solvent management, a crucial but often overlooked detail all chemists should be aware of
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New recipes which further enable the clandestine operator to lower his or her profile
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Cautionary notes on keeping out of trouble
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And much, much more.
Uncle Fester says: “I can think of no other area of organic chemistry which, to we common working pot-boilers, is shrouded in as much mystery, or is as thoroughly obfuscated as the production of LSD.
“The ‘underground publications’ covering this topic have done little to clean up the situation. They have merely regurgitated the original unintelligible works until they have become like mantras, repeatedly chanted and not understood.
“It is here that this book shall break new ground. Rather than presenting this field as a magic act, the sources of lysergic acid raw materials in nature shall be detailed, and their mystery removed. The processes required to isolate this raw material and move it on in pure form to LSD shall be expounded upon. Common threads shall be drawn between the various procedures to show what variations in technique are acceptable, and which produce the disappointing commercial product we are ail too often cursed with.”
Loompanics Unlimited is proud to offer our readers Uncle Fester’s complete, illustrated guide to this fascinating subject. Remember: Practical LSD Manufacture is sold for informational purposes only.
1997,516 x 816,125 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PRACTICAL LSD MANUFACTURE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85241)
SECRETS OF
METHAMPHETAMINE
MANUFACTURE
including Recipes for MDA, Ecstasy, ...
And Other Psychedelic Amph&Umlnes
Revised and Expanded
Sixth Edition
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE
MANUFACTURE
Including Recipes for MDA, Ecstasy,
and Other Psychedelic Amphetamines
Revised and Expanded Sixth Edition
by Uncle Fester
The classic text on clandestine chemistry just got even bigger and better! This Sixth Edition of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, Including Recipes for MDA, Ecstasy, and Other Psychedelic Amphetamines contains the wisdom and recipes from Uncle Fester you’ve come to know and trust, along with some totally new techniques you won’t find anywhere else! The “War on Drugs” is really a war on our civil liberties. Uncle Fester shows in excruciating detail exactly how underground chemists will always stay at least one step ahead^of pin-headed legislators and the DEA. Everyone interested in the crucial issue of drug legalization will benefit immensely from reading this eye-opening manual.
Only Uncle Fester can show you:
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A new way to turn over-the-counter pills into meth
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The innovative balloon technique
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How to make your own ephedrine, so you’ll never scrounge for pills again
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How to make crank and other psychedelics from cinnamon oil and other common flavorings
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The best chemicals to use to evade sales scrutiny
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Why the government can never win the “War on Drugs”.
Uncle Fester writes in the Introduction: “Beyond any doubt this is the best book ever written on the subject of clandestine chemistry, by anyone, anywhere, anytime, period! Your humble and gracious Uncle has been training champions for fifteen years now, and this tour de force of clandestine ingenuity is living testament to the fact that the game hasn’t passed me by.”
“Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture by Uncle Fester delivers the goods. Believe it or not, it was featured on CBS's 60 Minutes... Every single way of making methamphetamines is here.” — The Book Reader
“A lot of ‘underground manuals’... just don’t stack up. They offer common sense advice but hardly any hard-core instructions. This book is different. Uncle Fester gives detailed plans for making speed.... Fester makes sure to discuss the physical dangers of each chemical and the precautions you need to take to avoid getting busted.”— Outposts
2002,816x11,189 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
SECRETS OF METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE,
Sixth Edition: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85376)
PSYCHE DELICACIES
Coffee, chocolate, chiles, kava, and cannabis,
and why they’re good for you
by Chris Kilham
In Psyche Delicacies, globetrotting medicine hunter Chris Kilham presents passionate portraits of five widely used psychoactive plants that, he argues, have affected the course of human history. From the lush coffee orchards of Hawaii’s Kona Coast to the cannabis-covered hills of the Indian Himalayas, Kilham takes readers along on a world tour to meet the people and places that make coffee, chocolate, chiles, kava, and cannabis what they are to us today. Employing evocative and sometimes provocative prose to weave history, folklore, and science into a dazzling whole, Kilham presents a mindexpanding case for the enthusiastic, guilt-free use of these much-loved plants and their various preparations.
Few adults haven’t partaken of at least one of the featured psyche delicacies, and that’s the author’s point. Maintaining that we all can benefit from the reverie induced by consuming these mood-altering plants, Kilham presents clinical and academic evidence to handily dispatch the hotion that these agents of nature, taken in moderation, are somehow bad for us. Instead, he asserts that they refresh both body and mind, helping us to achieve the very highest order of healthfulness.
Whether you are an avid coffee drinker, a hot-chile devotee, a casual cannabis user, or just curious, you’ll be surprised and delighted by all you experience when you read Psyche Delicacies.
2001,6x9,240 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
PSYCHE DELICACIES: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85377)
IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS
The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine,
and Patent Medicines
by Barbara Hodgson
In the Arms of Mor-
pheus tells the story of how
a simple but bewitching sub-
stance extracted from
opium, the sap of the poppy,
was welcomed into the
homes of rich and poiSr alike
for medical use in the form of
laudanum, pure, undis-
guised morphine, and patent
medicines. Well-known writ-
ers and poets who used lau-
danum — a potent mixture
of wine, opium, saffron, and
cinnamon — included,
among many others, Wilkie
Collins,- Lord Byron, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, and
Thomas De Quincey.
After the alkaloid morphine was isolated from opium, around 1805, morphine use became astonishingly common; men and women of all economic levels began injecting the substance, and theatergoing matrons carried their syringes with them in elegant vials and cigarette cases. By the late nineteenth century, medical opium was cheaply and readily available in the form of patent medicines, which appealed to those at the bottom of the social heap. Among the most popular of these formulations were the soothing syrups that mothers lovingly administered to their infants. In the early twentieth century, however, governments drastically tightened the controls on this once universally available drug.
Thoroughly researched and lavishly illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, and covers from pulp magazines and dime novels, In the Arms of Morpheus provides a fascinating account of medical opium.
2001,6x716,162 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85385)
TOTAL SYNTHESIS II
by Strike
This is an excellent book on the under-
ground production of ecstasy and ampheta-
mines. The recipes in this book are a basic
and direct means by which ecstasy and
methamphetamine can be produced. Some
recipes are older, more well-known proce-
dures that Strike has explained in greater
detail and/or has added some new twists to
make them even better. Many recipes are
new applications that have never before
been published as ways to produce ecstasy
and amphetamines.
Rather than waiting around for all these
recipes to meet an eventual blockade by
governmental powers, Strike has included an expansive section on how the molecules and precursors used by today’s chemists can be easily made from basic, unwatched chemicals. If applied, these ground-up synthesis paths could render the war on amphetamine drugs futile.
WARNING! This book is intended for informational purposes only! It is currently illegal to attempt almost any procedure depicted in this book. Even if the chemistry were legal, Strike would hot advise anyone to try these procedures unless they have a thorough understanding of chemistry, chemical reactions and methodology Even the most basic chemical or reaction has the potential to do great harm.
This book is an illustration of the chemical methods by which underground chemists make amphetamines. It is illegal to use. the information in this book to make drugs. Strike insists you adhere to that.
1999,6 x 9,291 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TOTAL SYNTHESIS II: $35.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85312)
GOURMET CANNABIS COOKERY
The High Art of Marijuana Cuisine
by Dan D. Lyon
Why settle for the same old pot
brownies from a mix when you can
whip up an entire gourmet marijuana
meal — from starters to dessert — in
your own kitchen?
Author Dan D. Lyon makes cook-
ing with pot easy, fun, and delicious in
Gourmet Cannabis Cpokery: The
High Art of Marijuana Cuisine.
Step-by-step instructions explain how
to cultivate your pwn herb for recipes,
how to modify commercial mixes, and
how to serve up menus that will keep
your friends buzzing for hours.
This book is the only one where
you’ll find recipes for these (and
other) tantalizing dishes: • A ham and
cheese breakfast passerole that gets
the day off to a high-flying start •
Savory nachos that send you south of the border of reality • Rasta shrimp with fresh herbs that’ll curl your dreadlocks • A fresh bacon- laced spinach salad to leave you pop-eyed • Spaghetti that will get you sauced • Chili to keep you warm all over • A family favorite that puts the “pot” in pot roast • Cookies and desserts to sweeten your life • Drinks that quench the most discriminating thirsts.
Why eat rather than smoke? Dan D. Lyon tells readers that it’s more economical, healthier, and safer. “In the neo-totalitarian police state that we now live in, it makes sense to eat a few goodies in the relative privacy of one’s home and then venture out without being in possession of any evidence... Better to be a free Drug War resister than a jailed Drug War victim.”
1999,516 x 816,90 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
GOURMET CANNABIS COOKERY: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85299)
DIVINING ECSTASY
The Magical & Mystical Essence
of Salvia Divinorum
by Dr. Sean Shayan
For millennia, the secrets of this rare plant have been closely guarded by shamans, sorcerers, and healers high in the mountains of Mexico. Rumored to have magical healing properties, this plant and its extracts have recently been introduced to the West and are legal and readily available.
Salvia divinorum is the most powerful psychoactive substance in the world. Over 100 times the potency of LSD, this plant is being used by Mazatec shamans and laymen alike for divination, healing, meditation and the exploration of consciousness. In this book we take an insightful and provocative look at this ancient plant and its newly discovered properties. This is the first ever comprehensive look at the mystical essence of this magical plant.
Revelations in this amazing new book includes:
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Salvia divinorum cannot be detected by any current drug tests
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Where you can obtain Salvia divinorum, and how to grow it in your own home
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First person accounts of Salvia trips
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The pioneering work with Salvia done by Albert Hoffman, discoverer of LSD
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The best methods of ingesting Salvia divinorum
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And much, much more hard-to-find information on this wonderful plant ally.
Inventor of numerous exotic and ground breaking products including Herbal Ecstacy, Dr. Sean Shayan is an expert in the area of shamanic plants and their use by indigenous cultures as well as their use by modern day man. Dr. Shayan has written numerous articles and has been featured in over 2,000 newspapers and magazines worldwide including Details, Newsweek, The London Observer, The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and many others.
2001,516 x 816,67 pp, soft cover.
DIVINING ECSTASY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85362)
ANIMALS AND PSYCHEDELICS
The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter
Consciousness
by Giorgio Samorini
From caffeine-dependent goats to
nectar-addicted ants, wildlife offers
amazing examples of animals and
insects seeking out and consuming the
psychoactive substances in their envi-
ronments. Ethnobotanist Giorgio
Samorini explores this little-known
phenomenon and suggests that, far
from being confined to humans, the
desire to experience altered states of
consciousness is a natural drive
shared by all living things and that ani-
mals engage in these behaviors delib-
erately.
Rejecting the Western cultural
assumption that drug use is unnatural,
Samorini opens our eyes to the possi-
bility that beings who consume psy-
chedelics — whether humans or animals — contribute to the evolution of their species by creating entirely new patterns of behavior that eventually will be adopted by other members of that species.
The author’s fascinating accounts of mushroom-loving reindeer, intoxicated birds, and drunken elephants ensure that readers will never view the animal world in quite the same way again.
2002,516 x 816,111 pp, indexed, soft cover.
ANIMALS AND PSYCHEDELICS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85388)
INVISIBLE MARIJUANA
AND PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOM GARDENS
by Robert Bunch
This book is unlike other “grow” books, in that the emphasis is on how to keep your garden hidden. This book reveals the “High in the Sky” system, which the author has found to be foolproof!
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How to conceal an outdoor marijuana garden from Big Brother’s helicopters and other snoops!
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How to grow psychedelic mushrooms — without being detected!
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The single best way to foil drug-sniffing dogs!
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Rules for smuggling dope — and getting away with it!
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How to prevent both light and heat from escaping from an indoor grow room!
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How to cheaply obtain all the equipment you will need to start growing — without arousing suspicion!
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Eye-popping full-color photographs of bud and shrooms grown using the methods detailed in this book!
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And much, much more!
The author says, “People are going to grow and smoke dope, that is all there is to it. I am just providing an easier way to grow that also has the benefit of being risk-free. If you have an invisible marijuana garden, no one can see it. And as you well know, if there is no witness, there is no crime.”
So get this amazing book today! You will be very glad you did.
1998,816 x 11,139 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
INVISIBLE MARIJUANA
AND PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOM GARDENS: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85276)
HIGHLIGHTS
An Illustrated History of Cannabis
by Carol Sherman and Andrew Smith
with Erik Tanner
You can call it grass, weed, pot, tea, ganja, or marijuana. You can eat, wear, grow, or smoke it. But one thing is for sure: You can’t ignore itl Through much of history, a dense cloud of passionate beliefs and controversy has swirled around the subject of cannabis. A tall hardy weed, cannabis is the only plant on the planet that yields both a drug and a highly useful commercial fiber. French poets ate it and established clubs in its honor. Jazz musicians smoked it and “saw God.” Japanese artisans wove it into religious garments, and today lobbyists fight to use it medicinally.
It’s been a long, strange trip for cannabis, and along the way the wily weed has been deified and demonized to the point that it’s hard to know where the truth ends and the marijuana myth begins. It’s high time for Highlights, a book that looks at the cannabis carousel, and tries to figure out where we are and how we got here. From the grass roots beginnings to reefer madness in high society, Highlights traces the colorful 10,000-year journey of this illustrious weed.
Dozens of illustrations, paintings, and vintage and contemporary photographs enliven the account, helping to tell the story of the shifting social attitudes, popular movements, public outcries, media spectacles, and cultural inconography surrounding cannabis and its uses. In addition, you’ll find sidebars peppered throughout highlighting little- known facts and historical anecdotes, debunking cannabis myths, profiling famous tokers, and clearing the air about the health risks associated with marijuana smoking.
Highlights is as unbiased as possible in its presentation of the cannabis story. The result is as lively and informative as it is entertaining.
1999,8 x 1016, 160 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HIGHLIGHTS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85313)
RATIONAL RECOVERY
The Revolutionary Alternative
to Alcoholics Anonymous
The New Cure for Substance Addiction
by JackTrimpey
Are you, or is someone you know, havinci
a problem with substance abuse airid/or
addiction? Anyone can quit drinking or drugs
now—for good. And you don’t need any jive-
ass Twelve Step Programs!
When clinical social worker Jack Trimpey
founded Rational Recovery in 1986, he made
a major breakthrough in the field of addiction.
More than a philosophy or therapy — and not
dependent on spiritual beliefs or psychology
— Rational Recovery offers an unprece-
dented approach to alcoholism, problem
drinking, and drug addiction known as the
Addictive Voice Recognition Technique, or
AVRT. Now, for the first time, the keys to this proven recovery process are available in a practical, user-friendly instructional guide.
AVRT is an aggressive self-recovery program that shows you exactly how to take control of your addictive behavior now—and how to recover totally through planned abstinence. Rational Recovery refutes the concept of alcoholism as a disease and brings new hope to those who have been discouraged by traditional approaches to addiction. You will learn that within each substance abuser hides a “Beast” that craves its addiction. By following the simple logic of AVRT and putting into practice what you learn, you can defeat your Beast and remain sober — effortlessly — for the rest of your life. How long will it take to overcome your addiction? That’s up to you. But if you are ready to begin, Rational Recovery is your first giant step toward freedom.
1996,516 x 8,366 pp, soft cover.
RATIONAL RECOVERY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85308)
KETAMINE: DREAMS AND REALITIES
by Karl Jansen, M.D., Ph.D
Introduction by Emanuel Sferios,
Founder of DanceSafe
The human
desire to alter con-
sciousness through
the use of psy-
choactive drugs is
as old as recorded
history. Like music
and dance, the
ingestion of mind
altering substances
is a universal and
cross-cultural
human behavior.
The potential
benefits of psy-
choactive com-
pounds to the
individual and soci-
ety are recognized
by many. Indige-
nous cultures inte-
grated the use of
psychoactive plants
within their spiritual
and religious institu-
tions, and modern
users of psychedelic
or entheogenic
compounds often report spiritual, therapeutic^ and recreational bene-
fits from their use. The interdisciplinary field of “consciousness stud-
ies” also recognizes that the investigation of drug-induced altered
states allows for a better understanding of human consciousness.
At the same time, there is no doubt that psychoactive drugs can
be harmful. The wide availability and illicit marketing of drugs like
LSD, MDMA, and ketamine as “party drugs” to mostly young people
presents significant public health and drug policy challenges. Tragi-
cally, many young people are poorly informed about the real risks of
using these drugs, and of ways to minimize those risks. This is largely
the result of alarmist and one-sided “anti-drug” programs, which pass
for “drug education” in many schools across the United States.
This is why this book is so important. It provides the first authorita-
tive and comprehensive analysis of ketamine written in layperson’s
terms. As has been witnessed again and again, the people most likely
to be harmed by the use of psychoactive drugs are those who know
the least about them. In explaining both the potential benefits as well
as the risks of using the drugs, Dr. Jansen has made an important
and timely contribution to the nascent but urgent effort to understand
and develop a pragmatic public health approach to the ever-expand-
ing social phenomenon of psychoactive drug use. Not only does this
book contain a wealth of practical harm reduction information, it also
elucidates the mysterious reasons why many people do make a fully-
informed choice to use this drug.
Ketamine: Dreams and Realities will undoubtedly remain the
most relevant and influential book on ketamine for many years to
come.
2001,516 x 816, 354 pp, indexed, soft cover.
KETAMINE: DREAMS AND REALITIES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85370)
SHATTERED LIVES
Portraits from America’s Drug Wars
by Mikki Norris, Chris Conrad
and Virginia Resner
\Ne've all heard of the
innocent spouse or land-
lord left to rot in jail for
someone else’s crime.
Finally, we hear the true
stories and see the faces
of victims of America’s
drug war. Shattered
Lives takes an unflinching
look at the human rights
violations of U.S. Drug
Policy, based on the
award-winning photo
exhibit.
The collection of these
experiences reveals an
ugly truth about U.S. drug
policy: it tears apart fami-
lies, unfairly snatches
homes and property, and
often puts drug offenders
in jail longer than murderers and rapists.
You will meet dozens of people whose lives have been ruined by the drug war, including: • Amy Shutkin, arrested in California in 1994 for working a needle-exchange program • Glaucoma sufferer Elvy Musikka, arrested for smoking legal marijuana prescribed by her doctor • The Rev. Accelyne Williams, whose home was raided by Boston police looking for drugs and guns. As they chased him around the apartment, he died from a heart attack. It was later discovered they had raided the wrong apartment. • Bank manager Deborah Lynn Mendes, convicted of assisting investors in drug-related money laundering.
Yes, this book is unsettling and depressing. It will rn^ce you angry. It will give you even more reasons to despise the powers that be. But hopefully, it will inspire readers to help change the system so that a cruel, illogical government shatters no more lives.
1998,8 x 1014, 128 pp, indexed, photographs, soft cover.
SHATTERED LIVES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58121)
THE BOOK OF E
All About Ecstasy
by Push & Mireille Silcott
Ecstasy has made people dance
in fields. Ecstasy has sparked gang
wars. Ecstasy has topped the charts.
Ecstasy has caused uproar in parlia-
ment. Ecstasy has gone global.
Ecstasy has built the careers of
tabloid journalists. Ecstasy has got-
ten pop stars into trouble. Ecstasy
has been taken legally. Ecstasy has
made people happy. Ecstasy has
killed. Ecstasy has shaped a genera-
tion.
Through interviews, anecdotes,
extracts and analysis this book docu-
ments the massive cultural impact of
the drug Ecstasy. From maverick sci-
entists to millionaire club promoters,
from Texas discos to the Houses of
Parliament, The Book of E debunks the myths and cuts through the bullshit surrounding “the chemical generation” and their drug of choice.
2000, 6x9,253 pp, soft cover.
THE BOOK OF E: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85363)
PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS FOR THE MIND
Edited by Paul Krassner
Stories by and about
Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary,
Jphn Lennon, Abbie Hoff-
man, Ken Kesey, Robert
Anton Wilson, Groucho
Marx, Andrei Codrescu,
Susie Bright, Ivan Stang,
Michael Hollingshead,
Eldridge Cleaver, Steve
Hager, Ram Dass, John
Shirley, Dave Marsh, Lisa
Law, Michael Simmons, and
many others...
Stories about the
effect(s) LSD had on these
and many more people,
divided into the following
categories: • Countercultural
History • The Leary Papers •
Grateful Dead • Disneyland •
Bummers • Narrow Escapes
• Prisoners • Various Acid
Trips • Disco Doses • and
Two for the Road. Edited
and with an introduction by
Paul Krassner!
2001,5 x 81/4,198 pp, soft cover.
PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS FOR THE MIND: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85368)
ECSTASY: THE COMPLETE GUIDE
A Comprehensive Look at the Risks
and Benefits of MDMA
Edited by Julie Holland, M.D.
Not since the 1960s
has the world witnessed a
drug phenomenon like the
rapid and widespread
emergence of Ecstasy.
Described by enthusiasts
as the most intense eupho-
ria they know and by
detractors as a cause of
brain damage and even
death, Ecstasy has engen-
dered unprecedented lev-
els of interest — and
misinformation. While
Ecstasy is found across
America in living rooms
and dance clubs, reliable
information about the drug
is not. Now, Ecstasy: The
Complete Guide takes the
first unbiased look at the
risks and the benefits of
Ecstasy and the real drug
behind it, MDMA, offering
a critical resource for anyone seeking credible information.
From the world’s leading experts on MDMA, readers will learn the
science of how it works; the health risks associated with the drug; its
promises as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disor-
der, chronic pain, and other illnesses; and how to minimize the health
risks of illicit use. Whether you are a concerned parent, a professional
wanting the most recent reports on MDMA research, or a raver,
Ecstasy: The Complete Guide provides the answers you need.
2001, 6x9,454 pp, indexed, soft cover.
ECSTASY: THE COMPLETE GUIDE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85365)
With eonadbutior« by
Andrew Well.
Ralph Meaner. RirA Dobiin,
Dougtes Rushkaff;
Sasha & Ana Snuign
Rabbi ¿aljraa Schachlor,
and others
PLANTS OF THE GODS
Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
Revised and Expanded Edition
by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hoffmann
and Christian Hatch
REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
PLANTS of
the G0DS
Their Sacred, Healhuj, and
Hallucinogenic Powers
■ Richard Evans Schultes,
Albert Hofmann &• Christian Rätsch
“A visual, spiritual,
and intellectual feast,
Plants of the Gods is
the best book ever
written on hallucino-
genic plants” — Dr.
Mark Plotkin, Conser-
vation International
Three scientific
titans join forces to
completely revise thé
classic text on the rit-
ual uses of psychoac-
tive plants. They
provide a fascinating
testimony of these
“plants of the gods,”
tracing their uses
throughout the world
and their significance
in shaping culture ând
history. In the tradi-
tions of every culture,
plants have been
highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative proper-
ties. The most powerful of these plants, which are known to transport
the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have
always been regarded as sacred. The authors detail the uses of hal-
lucinogens in sacred shamanic rites while providing lucid explana-
tions of the biochemistry of these plants and the cultural prayers,
people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world’s
sacred psychoactive flora.
“Carefully researched, beautifully written, and abundantly illus-
trated, this book reminds us that the use of hallucinogenic plants has
been a fundamental part of the human experience for millennia.”—
Michael R. Aldrich, Ph.D., Curator, Fitz Hugh Ludlow Library
2001,7% x 10,208 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
PLANTS OF THE GODS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85382)
INTOXICATION
We Cannot Begin to Solve the Drug Problem
Until We Understand It
by Ronald K. Siegel, Ph.D.
It’s NATURAL to get high!!! The desire for intoxication is actually a fourth drive, as unstoppable as hunger, thirst, and sex.
Ronald Siegel’s Intoxication takes us on an amazing odyssey around the globe, in which the drug-using jungle beasts, savanna game, and household pets reveal the rules and reasons for this ancient habit. And in the lab, animals are trained to “describe” what they see while under the influence: It is the same artificial paradise reported by primitives and modem drug users.
The pursuit of drugs — whether caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, opium, marijuana, or cocaine — is universal and inescapable. It is to be found across time and species, and in the private lives of presidents and citizens alike. The struggle between this natural drive and societal law has become a deadly war that can never be won. But there is an answer: The lessons gleaned from animals show that we can make peace with the fourth drive, understand that drugs are a kind of medication needed to change how we feel, and use the technology and education that is our human distinction to design safe intoxicants.
Intoxication is sure to be one of the most controversial drug books ever printed!!! Highly recommended.
1989,x 81&, 397pp, indexed, soft cover.
INTOXICATION: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85109)
PSYCHEDELIC CHEMISTRY
by Michael Valentine Smith
The biggest, best and most
complete book ever written on
how to manufacture psychedelic
drugs!!!
Contents include: • Mari-
juana • THC and Analogs •
Magic Mushrooms and Other
indole Trips • Mescaline and
Friends • Harmaline and Other
Beta-Carbolines • Muscimole
and Other Isoxazoles • LSD •
Cocaine • Miscellaneous Psy-
chedelics • Literature and Chem-
ical Hints • Miscellany on
Underground Laboratories •
Role of the DEA Laboratories in
Drug Busts • And more!
1981,51¿x81¿, 194 pp,
illustrated, soft cover.
PSYCHEDELIC CHEMISTRY:
$19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85024)
GROWING THE HALLUCINOGENS
by Hudson Grubber
\Ne are glad to see this hard-to-
find classic back in print! Growing
the Hallucinogens presents the
techniques necessary for cultivat-
ing and harvesting the hallucino-
genic and psychoactive plants. It
shows how to obtain seeds and live
cuttings. This is a valuable book for
indoor and outdoor gardeners, writ-
ten in careful detail by an expert
horticulturaiist. Growing the Hallu-
cinogens will help to get and keep
you high, without hassles with the
law.
1991, SW x 8%, 86 pp, soft cover.
GROWING THE
HALLUCINOGENS: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85373)
PIHKAL
A Chemical Love Story
by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
From the Foreword: “This book
will be different things to different
people. There has never been a
work like it, and since recent leg-
islative acts in this country have
closed off the avenues of inquiry
that made this one possible we
may not... see another of its kind...
No library of psychedelic literature
will henceforth be complete with-
out a copy of PIHKAL,
“For nearly thirty years... Dr.
Alexander Shulgin... has been the
only person in the world to synthe-
size, then evaluate in himself, his
wife Ann, and in a dedicated group
of close friends nearly 200 never-
before-known chemical structures,
materials expected to have effects
in man similar to those of the
mind-altering psychedelic drugs mescaline, psilocybin and LSD. ...Others regard him variously as courageous, foolhardy, or downright dangerous, depending mostly on the political persuasion of the critic.”
The first half of the book is an autobidgraphical novel, detailing the individual life paths which led the two main characters to their fascination with psychedelics. The second half of the book is “an almost encyclopedic compendium of synthetic methods, dosages, durations of action, and commentaries for 179 différent chemical materials... Someday in the future, when it may again be acceptable to use chemical tools to study the mind, this book will be a treasure-house, a sort of sorcerer’s book of spells, to delight and enchant the psychiatrist/shaman of tomorrow.”
1991,6x9,1,008 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
PIHKAL: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85148)
TIHKAL
The Continuation
by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
With TIHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved), the legendary Shulgins continue the voyage they began with their best-selling PIHKAL. They say: “With this book, TIHKAL, we are making available a body of information concerning the conception, synthesis, definition, and appropriate use of certain consciousness-changing chemical compounds which we are convinced are valuable tools for the study of the human mind and psyche.
“At the present time, restrictive laws are in force in the United States and it is very difficult for researchers to abide by the regulations which govern efforts to obtain legal approval to do work with these compounds in human beings. Consequently there has been almost no clinical research conducted in this area for about thirty years. ...Over half of the recipes in ...TIHKAL have been taken from the chemical literature. Some of these have been published with Shulgin as an author. The remaining recipes appear here for the first time in print....
“We strongly urge that a continuing effort be made by those who care about freedom of inquiry and the search for knowledge to work toward changes in the present drug laws, particularly in the United States. Open inquiry and creative exploration of this important area of research must be not only allowed but encouraged. It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.
“There is much that we need to understand about the human psyche, and this book is dedicated to the pursuit of that understanding.”
1997,6x9,832pp, Indexed, soft cover.
TIHKAL: $24.50
(ORDER NUMBER 85277)
DRUG SMUGGLING
The Forbidden Book
by K. Hawkeye Gross
If danger, adventure and the promise of an out-of-this-world paycheck offer you an opportunity you can’t refuse in spite of the risks involved in fighting the drug war on the wrong side of the law, this book will give you the skinny on what to expect, what to do and how to do it right.
You won’t get this kind of realistic info from a criminal lawyer, flight instructor or investigative reporter. This is a how-to book on drug smuggling by someone who has been on the inside for 16 years and made most of the mistakes there are to make. K. Hawkeye Gross tells it like it is: how to get organized, including nailing down a source; procuring fake I.D. and shopping for equipment; how to deal with the money, including doling it out, storing it, moving it and setting up foreign accounts; plus how to prepare for the worst, including a detailed Appendix outlining current state and federal sentencing guidelines and the range of possible penalties for various weights and types of contraband.
The drug smuggler of the 1990s is fighting an uphill battle against a formidable adversary: The U.S. government devoted more than $11 billion to combat the illegal drug industry in fiscal 1992, and it has public opinion and the arsenal of the U.S. military on its side to boot. This book has nothing to do with weapons and shoot-outs; that kind of hype comes from Hollywood and Washington. It is about avoiding mistakes, knowing the opponent, and capitalizing on the one big advantage the smuggler has: surprise. Until now, nothing like this has been available in an industry where mistakes can cost not just dollars and market share, but years of your life. This book is sold for informational purposes only.
1992,51A x 816, 152 pp, soft cover.
DRUG SMUGGLING: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85153)
HASHISH!
by Robert Connell Clarke
Rob Clarke, author of
Marijuana Botany, illumi-
nates the world of
hashish from growing the
marijuana plant to col-
lecting its valuable resin
and making hashish, a
concentrated form of
marijuana’s active ingre-
dients. His serious study
demystifies hashish and
debunks long-held mis-
conceptions.
Clarke traces the his-
tory of hashish and sur-
veys both ancient and
contemporary hashish-
using cultures. In clear,
understandable terms,
he discusses the ingredi-
ents that make up
hashish and the bio-
chemistry of the psy-
choactive constituents and their actions in the human body. Readers learn the how-tos of informed purchase and consumption. Smoking techniques and cooking recipes emphasize healthful means of ingestion for recreational and medicinal users.
All the techniques shown for making hashish — from the traditional to the high-tech — are practical, non-chemical, and easily performed in your own kitchen.
Let this book become your bible as hashish becomes your first choice of smoke!
1998, 7x 10,387pp, illustrated, Indexed,photographs, softcover.
HASHISH!: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85288)
THE BIRTH OF HEROIN AND THE
DEMONIZATION OF THE DOPE FIEND
by Th. Metzger
in its obscene wake.
Ah, heroin! The
scourge of modern
American civilization!
The enslaver and
despoiler of all that is
good and pure! And
heroin’s ambassador,
the drug addict: a
craven, diseased,
desperate minion of
Morpheus who wal-
lows in a cesspool of
decadence and habit-
ual debasement! Yes,
fearsomely addictive
heroin and the
deranged dope fiends
who inject it have
somehow been
merged in the Ameri-
can public’s mind to
form a two-pronged
skewer that diaboli-
cally rips away at soci-
ety’s most vital
organs, leaving a trail
of despair and death
At least, that’s the way it’s portrayed today. But, as author Th. Metzger posits in The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend, it wasn’t always so. Like everything else, heroin has a history, and so does the societal archetype of heroin addict.
Metzger traces heroin back to its inceptual roots as opium, and explains the uses to which the latex of papaver somniferum has been put throughout Western history. He explains the evolution of opium into morphine, and the drug’s medical applications and inclusion in many patent medicines at the turn of the century. Metzger also provides an account of the discovery of heroin by British chemist C.R.A. Wright in 1874, and the subsequent shepherding of this astounding substance into worldwide usage, a process initially overseen by Carl Duisberg of Germany’s Bayer Company, and later by the I.G. Farben chemical cartel.
At first, heroin was widely used and hailed as a “triumph over pain.” But as the American cult of purity began to emerge, heroin was rapidly demonized. Through unprincipled and sensationalized media exhortations, it was tied to alien immigration from Asia, or “the Yellow Peril,” which was perceived by isolationists (such as newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst) as a threat to social order, and the stereotype of the diabolic Oriental drug fiend was soon fabricated and installed firmly within the American collective psyche.
In time, heroin came to be associated with defilement, sin, and disease, and the hypodermic needle became a potent symbol of moral and physical transgressions. The American temperance crusade and eugenics movement were other contributing factors in the process of heroin’s fall from grace and the dope fiend’s ultimate scapegoating as the lowest of the low. Seminal American antidrug czar Harry J. Anslinger furthered this cultural pogrom, adding to it an antipathy towards African and Hispanic Americans, and disingenuously linking those ethnic groups with heroin usage. Metzger also traces the activities of many other influential individuals who contributed to the public’s skewed perception of the drug and its devotees over the years.
Today, heroin and its users have become synonymous with devolution and degeneracy. How this came to be makes for a fascinating tale, and Th. Metzger tells it well in The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend.
1998,x 81/i, 222 pp, soft cover.
THE BIRTH OF HEROIN AND THE
DEMONIZATION OF THE DOPE FIEND: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85272)
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF CLANDESTINE
PSYCHEDELIC & AMPHETAMINE
MANUFACTURE
by Uncle Fester
Uncle Fester, America’s best-selling countercultural chemistauthor, has done it again! Now, you can add to the knowledge contained in his other works, such as Practical LSD Manufacture and Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture. Some highlights of this brand-new treasure trove of forbidden knowledge include:
-
The Fester Formula — The perfect stash-sized speed recipe!
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A convenient tabletop MDA recipe — This astounding process uses no exotic chemicals and is so stealthy that it can be done in a dorm room!
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Scams & schemes for obtaining chemicals — From a few grams to a few tons! Cover your ass & la Uncle Fester!
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Many new phenylacetone recipes — This awesome amphetamine precursor is now poised to make its comeback via the use of very mundane chemicals!
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Letters from Mr. X — Writing from within a federal penitentiary, Mr. X relates the stories of the outlaw methmakers he’s doing time with!
Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture has more than 170 pages of vital data and explanatory illustrations that Uncle Fester has crafted together in order to further his ongoing campaign to keep his readers well ahead of the fascist war-on-drugs repression sweeping across the land! Complete with an Introduction by Jim Hogshire (author of Opium for the Masses), this is the most incredible chemistry guidebook ever written! Sold for informational purposes only!
1998,516 x 8%, 187 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF CLANDESTINE
PSYCHEDELIC & AMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE: $27.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85283)
THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF
CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES
Second Edition
by Jack B. Nimble
This book describes in step-by-step
detail how to set up and run a clandes-
tine drug laboratory — without getting
caught. Motivated by a heart-felt desire
to dispel the abysmal ignorance of the
American people regarding “drugs,” the
author reveals every aspect of running
an illegal drug manufacturing lab.
Jack B. Nimble reveals how to select
a location for a clandestine drug labora-
tory, how to cover your tracks, safety pre-
cautions, and when and how to shut
down your operation to keep out of the
slammer.
One of the most important chapters is
Procurement of Suspicious Items,
because chemical companies often watch certain reagents and report orders to the DEA, and in fact, are required to do so on certain chemicals. Also, the DEA often runs “Sting” operations by setting up fake chemical companies which sell suspicious chemicals and then arrest their customers. So, knowing how to extract suspicious chemicals from everyday products sold in hardware, grocery, and auto supply stores is absolutely vital for the underground chemist!
Jack B. Nimble tells you how to extract safrole, the major ingredient needed to synthesize many methylenedioxy drugs such as MDA, MDMA, MMDA, “EVE,” etc., from sassafras oil, which is available over-the-counter in grocery stores and pharmacies; ephedrine and Other good precursors to amphetamines from “asthma medications”; high quality ether from “starting fluid”; chloroform from “spot remover”; and the usually difficult to find tetrahydrofuran from “PVC pipe cleaner.” In this chapter, the author also discusses how to find a “legitimate” use for chemicals you need, and how to order them from regular chemical supply houses.
The author also discusses how to manufacture your own glassware and other laboratory equipment from everyday items. Also covered are tablets, capsules, and other packaging methods for illegal drugs.
The clandestine laboratories described in this book don’t have to be used to make illegal psychoactive drugs — they could be used to manufacture medicines and useful chemicals in a war or survival situation. This book is sold for informational purposes only.
1994,5Mt x 8M, 124 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF
CLANDESTINE DRUG LABORATORIES: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85178)
SOURCES
An International Reference of Supply Houses
and Resources for the Chemist
by Strike
This extremely useful book is a compilation of chemical and supply retail sellers, with commentary on each one. Information such as if they will sell to individuals, or would it be better if you used a company name. Some DEA-front companies have been identified.
Contents include: • Who Watches the Watchmen? • Strategies • The Most Important Chapter in This Book • The Big Science Houses • Laboratory Supply Companies • Foreign Laboratory Supply • The Rogues’ Gallery • Glassware • Essential Oil Components • Spiceworld • Aromatherapy Companies • United States Essential Oils & Aromatic Chemicals Companies • International Essential Oils & Aromatic Chemicals Companies • Organizations • Import and Export • OTC • And more.
Sources is a book of interest to any amateur (or professional) chemist. Sold for informational purposes only.
1998,516 x 816, 226 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SOURCES: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 85297)
THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Steve Kubby
Steve Kubby says: ‘The War on Drugs is in reality a War on Freedom. It is a war that brings misery to millions of Americans — far out of proportion to any real threat from the drugs themselves. Through the misguided efforts to stem the rising tide of drug use, our government has created a lucrative industry for gangsters and violent criminals while generating the wider use of harder, even more addictive and violent drugs. Under the banner of the War on Drugs, we have subsidized criminal activities and created a new police state, with more people behind bars than any other country in the world. Over 400,000 people are arrested each year for marijuana possession. Right now, at least 600,000 of our fellow citizens are rotting in American jails for acts that would never have been considered crimes until sixty years ago. It is to these American POWs, these prisoners of the War on Freedom, that this book is dedicated.
“Yes, drugs can be dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as armed government agents who trash the Bill of Rights, kick down doors, seize private property and drag otherwise honest and decent citizens off to jail. Our Founding Fathers would never have allowed this War on Freedom and neither should we. It’s time for us to stop playing on people’s fears and come up with a saner policy on drugs.
“Drugs are dangerous, but those who tell you that drugs are Public Enemy Number One are creating a smoke screen to hide the real issues. The government that is now in power is in open violation of the Constitution. Police and government agents have suspended the Bill of Rights and now seize a billion dollars a year from helpless citizens. Americans, even those who do not use drugs, now live in fear of secret police from the IRS, FDA, DEA, FBI, CIA and ATF who can take away everything you own and not even charge you with a crime. DARE agents are paid $90,000 a year to urge school children to turn in their parents, friends, and family members who may be smoking pot at home.”
Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to offer our readers Steve Kubby’s The Politics Of Consciousness — a homemade “Patriot’ missile that strikes a winning blow for life, liberty, and the pursuit of inner happiness. It is fiercely patriotic and it’s like nothing you have read before.
1995,816 x 11,164 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85212)
THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES
The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis
and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana
Eleventh Edition
byJackHerer
We are ecstatic to
see this classic and
important book back
in print again, in a
completely revised,
updated and
expanded edition.
We consider this to
be one of the most
important books zwe
have ever sold.
From the Preface
by George Clayton
Johnson:
“Jack Herer has
done it. With incredi-
ble precision, backed
by voluminous
research, he has
placed his finger on
the point where all of
the trends that
threaten to over-
whelm the world
come together. And at the core of these complexities, he has found
hemp. The premise of Jack Herer’s book, The Emperor Wears No
Clothes, is fanciful in the extreme: That the diverse properties of the
scorned and condemned marijuana plant can provide sufficient cloth-
ing, oil, medicine, fuel, food, and shelter for ail the peoples of the
world, if completely legalized and commercialized; and that hemp will
prove to be the means of saving the planet (us) from acid rain, global
warming and the depletion of our precious forests and fossil fuels.
“Apparently Jack Herer has a dream — his future has hemp fully
integrated into the society such that the need — for fossil fuels and
synthetic fibers — for example, will have been replaced by natural
substances that are annually renewable and non-toxic. He sees our
intelligence raised and our health improved by the complete edistin
protein and the essential fatty acids, linolinic and linoleic, that are
found in abundance in the flesh and oil of the hempseed. He sees
how our shelter, food, clothing, medicines, fuels and mental state will
have been spiritually effected for the better because of hemp. He has
devoted his life to making this future become true. I can live in it.”
Chapters include:
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Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp • Brief
Summary of the Uses of Hemp • New Billion Dollar Crop -
The Last Days of Legal Cannabis • Marijuana Prohibi-
tion • Medical Literature on Cannabis Medicine • Thera-
peutic Use of Cannabis • Hempseed as the Basic World
Food • Economics: Energy & Environment • Myth,
Magic & Medicine • Prejudice: Marijuana and Jim Crow
Laws • And much, much more.
The Emperor Wears No Clothes is the single finest book on the
wonderful marijuana plant ever written. In this thoroughly researched,
scrupulously annotated and shockingly provocative book you will
learn how and why cannabis prohibition began and what that has
meant to America; all the uses of hemp as medicine, food, fuel, fiber,
paper, and as a plastic replacement; the straight dope on marijuana
smoking and its effect on the human body; who profits from the prohi-
bition and criminalization of cannabis; and what you can do to speed
up legalization and profit from the coming changes.
If you can read only one book this year, that book should be The
Emperor Wears No Clothes. We give this classic our highest possi-
ble recommendation.
1998,816x11,291 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85298)
DRINK AS MUCH AS YOU WANT
AND LIVE LONGER
The Intelligent Person’s Guide
to Healthy Drinking
by Frederick M. Beyerlein
Seems anything you do these days is an overture to trouble. Can’t smoke or your lungs become festering cancer depots. Can’t eat your favorite food or your arteries turn into solid lead. Can’t indulge in recreational drugs without some macho DEA officer banging down your door.
But there is one thing left. You can drink. Yes, booze. Hooch. Spirits. And you can drink as much of it as you want, whether you’re a happy-hour regular downing a few highballs, a beer-swigging frat boy, or a wine connoisseur who’s, been told to cut down or suffer the consequences.
With nutritionist Frederick M. Beyerlein’s system, you’ll never get a hangover again. While becoming a 21st Century Drinker, you’ll learn to protect your liver by eating the right foods and replacing the nutrients you lose every time you swallow an alcoholic beverage. Best of all, you’ll learn how to really enjoy the high that comes from drinking — without the sickly aftermath.
Reading this book is the best thing you can do for your body. Once you become a 21st Century Drinker, you’ll know:
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How to guide a loved one to drink healthier, without nagging
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Your mother was wrong; Why drinking on a full stomach is one of the worst things you can do
-
The best — and worst — foods to eat before, during, and after drinking
-
Why alcohol is good for you
-
How to prevent a beer belly without sacrificing a single frosty sip
-
Delicious drink recipes so you can keep the party at home.
Next time you belly up to the bar, don’t let doctor’s orders ruin your fun. Drink a toast to your health. Bottoms Up!
1999,516 x 816, 209 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
DRINK AS MUCH AS YOU WANT
AND LIVE LONGER: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85293)
HERBS OF THE NORTHERN SHAMAN
A Guide to Mind-Altering Plants
of the Northern Hemisphere
by Steve Andrews
Plants and fungi that affect the mental state of the consumer have been a part of cultures and subcultures of civilization since early man first noticed that some plants altered awareness of the physical world in an extraordinary way. The holy men and healers of the ancients used these psychoactive plants as a means of exploring non-physical realms to expand their abilities to minister to the clan. Healers found their abilities to treat physical ailments greatly increased, as many of these plants have sedative or palming effects and some are narcotic painkillers. Shamans, who frequently performed the function of both doctor and priest, also found the hallucinogenic or consciousness expanding qualities of plants to be useful tools in their spiritual ministering to their tribes. Today, we use these plants in much the same way, and also recreationally, to escape the pressures of our modem world.
In Herbs of the Northern Shaman, Steve Andrews describes in clear, understandable terms the plants, their active constituents, the dosages, and their effects on the human mind and body. Many photos and illustrations are included. You will find information on the expected plants such as Cannabis, Datura, and Peyote as well as the unexpected effects of such common garden favorites as Buttercup, Sassafras and Water Lily.
Author Steve Andrews, Member of the Council of British Druid orders, Quest Knight and Bard of the Loyal Arthurian War-band, Principal Bard of the Traveling Court of Camelot, Bard of the Free Gorsedd of Bards of Caer Abiri (Avebury), Affiliate Member of the Highway Poets Motorcycle Club, and Member of the British Killifish Association, has drawn upon his lifelong interest in plant culture, and has produced a most useful guide to mind-altering plants that have the potential for shamanic use and grow wild in the Northern Hemisphere.
Whether you are an explorer of alternate realities or a botany buff and consummate student, Herbs of the Northern Shaman: A Guide to Mind-Altering Plants of the Northern Hemisphere is an easily accessed reference that no serious student should be without.
2000,8^x11,110 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HERBS OF THE NORTHERN SHAMAN: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85346)
ASK ED: MARIJUANA LAW
Don’t Get Busted
by Ed Rosenthal and William Logan, Atty.
Like it or not, if you or some-
one close to you uses marijuana,
you are involved in the War on
Drugs. Ask Ed: Marijuana Law
— Don't Get Busted was written
to help you avoid becoming a vic-
tim in that war. Ask Ed: Mari-
juana Law combines wisdom
learned from legal cases and
real-life experiences to prepare
the reader with the appropriate
responses for possible interaction
with the law. Whether an occa-
sional smoker, a full-on closet cul-
tivator, or champion of civil
liberties, this crash course on
constitutional rights is an ideal
self-defense manual.
Detailed information is given
regarding searches, the right to
remain silent, forfeiture and a
host of other concerns including medical marijuana, drug testing, and
choosing a lawyer. Concise tips are highlighted for easy reference.
The damage control benefit of this book is incalculable. Ask Ed: Mar-
ijuana Law-— Don't Get Busted achieves what it sets out to do: min-
imize the damage done by laws which cause more injury than the
substance they were designed to eliminate.
2000,516 x 816, 180 pp, indexed, soft cover.
ASK ED: MARIJUANA LAW: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85347)
PILLS-A-GO-GO
A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing,
Art, History & Consumption
by Jim Hogshire
Pills-A-Go-Go savors the
American love affair with the little
gems, from Quaaludes to Prozac
and Desoxyn to Viagra. The
book is filled to the brim with
hundreds of remarkable photos
and illustrations, pill history
throughout the ages, acquisition
tips and eye-opening revelations
about pill marketing, consump-
tion and FDA cover-ups that will
forever change the way you look
at and consume pills.
The lavishly illustrated pages
of Pilis-A-Go-Go reveal: • Weird
pharmaceutical ads throughout
the 60s-90s • Contents of
celebrity medicine chests,
including photos of Kurt and
Courtney’s prescription bottles •
Pill reviews and road tests «And much, much more.
So here it is: a cultural study of pills. Not medicine per se nor
health nor pharmacology, just pills, all pills, any pills... pills that get
you stopped at the border, pills that associate you with the rich and
famous, and pills that link you to skid row.
“One small tablet embodies our history, our world view, our vision
of the future. It is the perfect, symbolic encapsulation of man's
progress — from the ancient Phoenicians to the Internet. Pills are
integrated into our very being, even more than the car, the firearm, the
written word... anything."— Jim Hogshire
1999, 7x 10,247pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PILLS-A-GO-GO: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85359)
THE JOINT ROLLING HANDBOOK
Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Expert Edition
by Richard Kemplay
TRIPS
How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain
by Cheryl Pellerin
Illustrated by R, Crumb and Ellen Seefelt
Are you dazed and con-
fused when it comes to twisting
up a fat one? Making a frugal
pinner, or perhaps a bulging
bomber? Preparing a spliff?
Concocting a blunt? Or just
plain rolling a joint?
Well, your problems are
solved! Now there’s a concise,
superbly illustrated manual that
provides detailed, step-by-step
rolling instructions for those
high-roller-wannabes who lack
the necessary skills! The Joint
Rolling Handbook contains
dozens of professional tips,
tricks, and techniques, along
with over 250 illustrations, dia-
grams and cartoons, all
designed to guide even the most fumble-thumbed aficionado through
the processes necessary to assemble the finest smoking tools and
craft state-of-the-art muggles/reefers/numbers/joints!
Read this book and learn how to roll the knee trembler, Saturday-
night special, magic carpet, secret agent, joker, crossroads, flaming
backflip, diamond, tulip, nose cone, windmill, and cannabis cigar!
Plus, study up on how to prepare the righteous mix, dispose of the
roaches, and choose the right rolling papers! There’s also health and
plant information, as well as a discussion of the smoke’s effects. The
legal and social implications of being caught are treated, and there’s
more! Check out this handy little tome, and keep on rollin’! Sold for
informational purposes only, of course!
1997,5% x 7%, 61 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE JOINT ROLLING HANDBOOK: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85266)
GOOD SPIRITS
A New Look at Ol’ Demon Alcohol
by Gene Logsdon
Not long after there was Homo Sapiens there was Homo Sippi- ens, or Man the Drinker. And yet despite the simplicity of its origins, alcohol has become one of the most tightly regulated commodities produced by human beings. Vilified from the pulpit, criminalized during Prohibition, and taxed to finance every war since the time of George Washington — alcohol is the focus of a complex love/hate relationship worldwide.
As Gene Logsdon says, “On the subject of alcohol, hypocrisy is the standard-bearer of public opinion.” Or expressed another say, “Isn’t it absurd that our own government will not allow us to combine grain grown on our own land, water that falls from the sky, and yeast that is everywhere in the air around us?” Instead, imagine a world where cottage farmers grow grain to make whiskey or fuel, feed grain residues to the livestock, then return the animals’ manure to the fields to make the crops flourish. It’s a vision distilled of common sense and tradition — a vision simple enough to actually work. Alas, the entrenched interests of our government with its taxes and business with its obsession for profits prevent this vision from becoming reality.
Chapters include: • Toward a Sane Use of Alcohol • The American History You Were Never Taught • My Father-in-Law, “The Old Moonshiner” • From Cider to Applejack • The Fruit Juice: A Moonshine Story from 1935 • Homemade Beer • The Backyard Winery • The Adventures of a Brandy & Liqueur Illiterate • The Midnight Fox: A Bootlegging Folktale • Wandering Wide-Eyed through the World of Whiskey • The “White Whiskey” Mixers & Other Popular Drinks • Fuel Alcohol: A Way to Make Uritaxed Spirits Legally • And more.
1999,6x9,231 pp, indexed, hard cover.
GOOD SPIRITS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85355)
TRIPS
How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain
by Cheryl Pellerin
Illustrated by R. Crumb and Ellen Seefelt
Paleolithic nomads brought
hallucinogen-based shamanism
to the New World, but the first
acid trip didn’t occur until 1943,
when Sandoz chemist Albert
Hofmann discovered the psy-
chedelic nature of LSD-25. From
1950 to 1966, hallucinogens
headed into the mainstream of
psychiatric therapy to treat, for
example, alcoholism and opiate
addiction.
After the CIA tested hallu-
cinogenics on hundreds of
unwitting soldiers and civilians,
recreational use reached critical
mass; The drugs were banned.
From this book, you’ll learn:
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The government’s role in drug manufacture and legalization —•
then and now -
Myths about psychedelics, and what the real problems are
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The various types of natural and synthetic hallucinogenics, and
how they work.
Not only does Trips offer a look at the social, historical, cultural
and scientific history of the psychedelic phenomenon, but it is also a
rare source of truthful information about drugs.
1998, 7x9,262 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
TRIPS: $23.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85287)
PEYOTE AND OTHER PSYCHOACTIVE CACTI
by Adam Gottlieb
Those who are fascinated
with peyote may feel a sense of
alarm upon learning that this
wild, treasured plant faces
extinction as a result of rampant
over-harvesting! In order to pre-
vent that, domestic cultivation is
in order. Peyote and Other Psy-
choactive Cacti is a concise
and readable guide to the art of
cultivating peyote, San Pedro,
and the .numerous other
entheogenic cacti. In light of the
possible extinction of wild pey-
ote, this book is a timely
resource for those who feel a
responsibility to preserve this
sacred medicine. This revised
underground classic (originally
published in 1977) describes: •
The various methods of using these cacti • Cultivating cacti from seed
or cutting • Extracting and increasing the yield of mescaline and other
mixed alkaloids • The current legal status of these entheogenic cacti •
and more, including a list of cacti/seed suppliers.
Remember: Extraction and other procedures involving solvents
are hazardous, potentially explosive or toxic, and should be per-
formed only in licensed labs by professional chemists. Some cacti
and contaminants are poisonous and may have the potential for caus-
ing illness or death. Extreme caution is required when identifying
cacti, including corroboration by a botanist trained in species identifi-
cation.
This book is sold for informational purposes only.
1997,516 x 816, 85 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PEYOTE AND OTHER PSYCHOACTIVE CACTI: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85267)
It’s Been 65 Years.
Why Are We Still Fighting the War on Drugs?
by Vin Suprynowicz
© 2003 by Vin Suprynowicz Artwork © 2003 by Craig Howell
Because it’s one of the nine states which since 1995 have legalized marijuana for medical use (along with Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon and Washington), because it has a 70-year laissez-faire tradition (first state in the 20th century to re-legalize casinos and prostitution), and because its two million population and mere half-million active voters make it a relatively inexpensive test market, Nevada was chosen by national legalization forces in 2002 to test a voter initiative to legalize up to three ounces of marijuana for private, home use.
No legalization of opium and cocaine, mind you. No proposal to open up hashish bars, a la Amsterdam. Just an up-or- down vote to allow adults to keep up to three ounces of smoking dope in the bedroom drawer, without fearing that deadly knock on the door.
But while the chances for that proposed state constitutional amendment had been rated 50-50 in the spring — and though legalization forces far outspent opponents (who were reduced to staging TV “photo opportunities” in which senior citizen volunteers laughed and joked while rolling up three ounces of parsley into cigarettes to see how many “joints” they could produce) — three ounces of legal pot went down to flaming defeat in Nevada on Nov. 5, 2002, by a landslide margin of 61-to-39.
Why? Why does the Drug War continue?
If about half of adult Americans have smoked pot themselves, and thus know from personal experience that all the “Reefer Madness” stories are so much hogwash — never having become drug addicts or committed mass murder — why do 61 percent of the voters in a state that allows prostitution and quickie divorce and invites grandmas dragging oxygen tanks behind them to chain-smoke while playing all
night slot machines — why did Nevadans vote to continue a Drug War which nationally sends 77,000 people to prison to be turned into anal rape victims and/or hardened criminals for merely possessing an ancient herb more medically and socially harmless than Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum?
Especially when the campaign against Nevada’s Question 9 boiled down to two memorized sound bites, parroted back to Nevadans by candidate after candidate of both major parties — namely “I wouldn’t want a school bus driver to be able to buy three ounces of pot and then go drive my kids” (school bus drivers who remain free to buy three gallons of vodka at Nevada’s 24-hour supermarkets, of course); and "Three ounces is just too much — that’s a lot of wacky” (from candidates who, on cross questioning, freely admitted they wouldn’t vote to legalize two ounces of pot, or one ounce, or even a gram).
“If you’re going to follow the money trail, it appears that there is a major industry in this country that is funded by the continued growth of the Drug War,” replies Paul Armentano, publications director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), in Washington, D.C.
“Years ago we talked about the military-industrial complex. Well, people today talk about a prison-industrial complex. I’d be hard pressed to find another branch of government that’s grown at such exponential levels — branches of the Justice Department that deal just with the Drug War that were funded at $1.5 billion per year in 1980 are now funded at $20 billion per year, and the bulk of that funding is going for enforcement.”
And that’s before we even start discussing the lucrative opportunities for budget-building represented by asset
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seizures which don’t even require a criminal charge or a guilty verdict, leaving many an undercover narcotics cop driving a new Ferrari or Lamborghini, these days.
The United States incarcerated 400,000 people for all causes in all state, federal and local lockups in the 1970s, Armentano points out. But today “We have more people incarcerated in this country just for drug crimes than we had back then for all crimes put together. This business that there’s no one in jail for simple possession is just so much nonsense ...there are quite a lot of people serving time for possession only.”
And even the statistics for those locked up for “trafficking” include simple users convicted of trafficking on the theory that “no one would have a pound just for personal use,” of course. (Imagine if we started busting alcohol users for “peddling booze without a permit” on the theory that “no one would have more than three quarts of liquor in a private home if they weren’t peddling the stuff.”)
And the average prison time is three years, five months, for possession only, according to the Bureau of Justice statistics.
It’s Got to Be More than the Money
But the question was why the Drug War — with all its injustices and unintended consequences; its doors broken down in the middle of the night; its innocent people jailed on the coerced testimony of snitches; the boundless snooping on our bank accounts to make sure we’re not “laundering drug profits” — the Drug War that sent “civilian” CIA employees vectoring Peruvian Air Force jets to shoot down a small, unarmed plane in the spring of 2002, murdering American missionary Veronica Bowers and her 7-month-old daughter Charity — why does this abomination still get a vote of confidence from the American people?
“I didn’t see anyone in Nevada voting to continue the Drug War to keep the prison guards in work,” I challenged Mr. Armentano of NORML. “I didn’t hear anyone say they were voting for the privilege of continuing to pay high taxes to keep supporting the DEA. I understand why drug prosecutors continue to build careers when they can get elected senator, like Dennis DeConcini, or governor, like Janet Napolitano. But there has to be something else going on to explain a 61-39 vote. People seem to want the Drug War.”
“The other side has made a very smart argument, from a Machiavellian perspective,” Armentano agrees. “If we’re to believe the government numbers on illicit drug use, from the household surveys, we’ve got 30 to 40 percent of adults who have had first-hand experience with marijuana. Whereas if you take the Time-CNN poll numbers that came out a few weeks ago, they put that number at 47 percent. ...I’ve always thought the household survey number was low; the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
“Now, most of the drug war is about marijuana. If you take out the marijuana arrests, the numbers will seem so low that people will scratch their heads and ask ‘Why are we spending all this money? The numbers don’t seem to justify it, it’s not that big a problem.’
“So government has to convince people that the experience of a kid trying marijuana today will somehow be different from their experience with marijuana. I mean, they never
went on to harder drugs; most of them don’t use marijuana any more.
“So the federal government has to somehow convince folks that their experience, which is the norm, does not apply. And it has succeeded. It has convinced even people who smoked marijuana that today it’s a totally different drug; they’ve convinced these people that what happened to them is not what will happen to their own kids. It’s made them in some ways dismissive of their own marijuana-using past.
“It’s the only thing that makes sense to me. How else can you explain people going to the polls and voting to keep a policy in place that says that they should have gone to jail? I just can’t find any other explanation why people would do that.”
In fact, in a May, 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post which was widely reprinted around the country, federal Drug Czar John Walters wrote, “After years of giggling at quaintly outdated marijuana scare stories like the 1936 movie Reefer Madness we’ve become almost conditioned to think that any warning about the true dangers of marijuana are overblown.” The nation’s top prison rape enabler then proceeded with unintended irony to give an overblown warning of his own about “The Myth of Harmless Marijuana,” pointing out to Baby-Boomer parents that “today’s marijuana is different from that of a generation ago, with potency levels 10 to 20 times stronger than the marijuana with which they were familiar.”
Nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page decided to respond to that particular piece of twaddle, and he did so with a statistical rapier.
“He doesn’t say where he gets that whopper and that’s too bad,” Page replied in the May 22, 2002 edition of the Chicago Tribune, “since it conflicts with a federally funded investigation of marijuana samples confiscated by law enforcement over the past two decades.”
That study, published in the January 2000 Journal of Forensic Science, found the THC content (the active ingredient that gets you high) had only doubled to 4.2 percent from about 2 percent from 1980 to 1997, “not undesirable potency levels when you are using it to relieve illness,” columnist Page noted.
“We allow adults to buy cigarettes and alcohol, even though both are highly addictive and kill thousands every year,” Page continued. Yet “both sides are hard-pressed to find anyone who has died of a marijuana overdose.
“Doctors treat the ill with numerous prescription drugs that are more dangerous and addictive than marijuana. But physicians are not allowed to treat the ill with marijuana. Instead, thousands of Americans unnecessarily have become criminals by purchasing marijuana for their ill loved ones rather than see them suffer.
“Yet Walters lambastes what he calls the ‘cynical campaign under way’ in the District of Columbia and elsewhere ‘to proclaim the virtues of medical marijuana,”’ Page noted. “In fact, those ‘cynical’ campaigners include the American Public Health Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and almost 80 other state and national health-care organizations that support legalizing patient access to marijuana for medicinal treatment....
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“Where referendums have been held, they have passed,” columnist Page concludes. “But, alas, Walters dismisses those initiatives as ‘based on pseudo-science.’ Maybe he did not read the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences. It confirmed the effectiveness of marijuana’s active components in treating pain, nausea and the anorexic-wasting syndrome associated with AIDS.”
“The drug czar has said we have de facto legalization in this country, that no one really goes to prison any more for drug use,” adds Armentano of NORML. “Think of how absurd that is — we have more people in jail for drug crimes in this country than the entire European Union has incarcerated for all charges combined. ...Anyone who can read the numbers can realize those statements are absurd.”
In fact, FBI Uniform Crime statistics show there were 200,46$ arrests for marijuana possession in the United States in 1991. But far from being “phased out,” arrests for marijuana possession rose steadily through the 1990s, reaching 646,042 in 2000. More than half of all federal inmates are now non-violent drug inmates.
And according to the government-funded National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 800,000 youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time in 1991. But in 2000, according to the same survey, 1.6 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time. “If arresting more people is supposed to stop kids from trying marijuana, it seems not to be working,” snorts Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.
The Fear of Change
Which is what leads me to believe we may be dealing with some kind of psychiatric aberration here, like the witch- burnings of the Middle Ages, or those incidents where thousands of people testify they’ve seen a glowing vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe reflected in a downtown store window.
We know people can ignore logic and the evidence of their own eyes and convince themselves of something they want to believe. But why do they want to believe that we continue to need the War on Drugs?
You point out to them that after 14 years of Prohibition President-elect Franklin Roosevelt called on Congress to relegalize alcohol in the winter of 1933 because he needed the tax revenues to cover the ballooning federal deficit — to relegalize our single most dangerous and addictive and costly drug — yet no one curses the memory of Franklin Roosevelt for “sending the wrong message to the children.” You point out to them that the drive-by Tommy gun shootings of the Roaring Twenties ended overnight when the Congress ended alcohol Prohibition, and ask them if today’s urban crime problems might not vanish just as quickly if we legalized drugs — if the problem might be not drugs at all, but drug prohibition.
And what do you get? You get a kind of blank-eyed stare — they start to look like trapped squirrels hunting for a way out of the cage. They disengage. They shout out some memorized sound bite about the Drug War being justified by the 13th Amendment because drug addiction is slavery (Do you know who told me that one? Federal Drug Czar John Walters
told me that one, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday morning, July 24, 2002) and then they scream, “You’re being ridiculous; there’s nothing more to talk about,” like some psychiatric patient being asked to confront the impossibility of his own fantasies.
“People have been conditioned to think the sky will fall if the law is changed,” Armentano agrees. “When Proposition 215 passed in California, legalizing medical marijuana, state Attorney General Dan Lundgren held a press conference and he said, ‘California has now legalized anarchy.’ Today, people in California realize not a whole lot has changed. But it was portrayed that if voters in California approved this change, it would be like opening up the doors to Sodom and Gomorrah. So the other side has used one tactic very well, and that tactic is fear.”
“It’s represented that you only have two options, either to defend the status quo, or else we’ll be in a situation where children would have complete, free access to drugs....”
In fact, there are multiple models for drug policy, Armentano points out, from the legal hashish bars of Amsterdam to Switzerland’s “Needle Park.” Great Britain has now decriminalized marijuana, and the Canadian Senate in the fall of 2002 voted to legalize marijuana outright, based on medical and economic findings that traffic accidents can actually be expected to go down when dope is re-legalized, since some folks who currently swill booze will instead switch to marijuana, which actually tends to make users drive more cautiously. (The final decision will be made by outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who would risk the ire of Washington but who has announced he is retiring in 2004, and may be ‘seeking a legacy.’)
Drug policy scholar Matthew Elrod summarizes: “Cognizant of societal fears and misconceptions about the effect of cannabis on driving, the [Canadian] Senate committee dedicated an entire chapter to the subject. In a nutshell, ‘Cannabis alone, particularly in low doses, has little effect on the skills involved in automobile driving. Cannabis leads to a more cautious style of driving....’
“Cannabis and alcohol are economic substitutes with cross-price elasticities,” Mr. Elrod continues. “When cannabis use goes up, alcohol use goes down, resulting in a net decrease in drug-related traffic accidents. Economists Frank Chaloupka and Adit Laixuthai, for example, estimate that cannabis decriminalization would reduce youth traffic fatalities by 5.5 percent, youth drinking rates by eight percent and binge drinking rates by five percent.”
(See http.7/http://www.parl.gc.ca/Common/Committee_SenRe-centReps.asp?Language=E&parl=37&Ses=l][www.parl.gc.ca/Common/Committee_SenRe- centReps.asp?Language=E&parl=37&Ses=l.)
“In the Netherlands, when you turn 16 you have legal access to marijuana, but their adolescents use marijuana at almost half the rate of American adolescents,” points out Paul Armentano of NORML. “But you’re not going to hear that debate in this country.”
Which brings us back to the 2002 campaign in Nevada, of course, where Billy Rogers of the euphemistically named “Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement” and his hired local consultant, pro-legalization State Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani, stuck with their focus-gfoup polling, which showed the only winning argument was to stress cost-
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benefit analysis — the hundreds of thousands of tax dollars wasted arresting and imprisoning pot users.
Doesn’t that argument throw away all the most persuasive moral and Constitutional arguments against the Drug War? If we were trying to convince the German people in 1942 not to send people away to the death camps, would the most persuasive argument really be, “They cost too much in tax money?”
Relying on the Focus Groups
“They totally used the fear message,” agrees Giunchigliani, the former schoolteacher and teachers union executive who has carried the torch for legalization in the state capital of Carson City, “the second-hand smoke argument, and the fear of DUIs. It was disingenuous and it was a hard one to counter; those who do not want to get into a substantive policy debate will grab an easy sound bite ...You don’t change policy like this overnight. These objections have to be reasoned with, and we couldn’t even get to those discussions.”
Giunchigliani pointed out to me, in our post-election conversation, that Time magazine currently estimates marijuana is a $15 billion crop in the U.S. — one of the nation’s 10 largest agricultural crops. So why not capture the tax revenue from that crop, using the model of state liquor stores in states like Utah and Virginia?
But the NRLE TV campaign for Question 9 didn’t talk about using state revenues from legal pot to help reduce other taxes— let alone horror stories of innocent people killed or having their lives ruined by the Drug War. Instead, it merely stressed the ever-so-soft slogan “In the privacy of a home, or with a doctor’s recommendation” ...opening proponents up to accusations they were trying to slip in full legalization for recreational use under the guise of medical marijuana.
“We focus-grouped all of that,” Giunchigliani explains. “The focus groups told us not to even try the other arguments. It was about police officers wasting their time writing a citation; we had some retired police in the focus groups and those were the arguments that played well.”
“One thing that the other side did better was to humanize the issue better than we did,” Armentano agrees. “When they roll out victims of drug abuse, like that editor of the Las Vegas Sun, a wife and mom who was rear-ended at a red light and killed by a driver who had marijuana in his system” (only a few months before the vote) “they put a human face on potential victims that could arise if this law was passed. And I don’t know that the (legalization) side did a good job of showing the human victims that are harmed by the drug laws.
“So the voters ask, ‘Well, why do we need to change the law; the law is not that harsh?’ One of the reasons medical marijuana initiatives are so successful is that in those cases we do a better job of putting a human face on those who could benefit from medical marijuana,” Armentano figures. “But in these legalization arguments we don’t do such a good job of putting a human face on those victimized by the Drug War.
“It’s harder in a campaign or a sound bite to educate people to that; I think that kind of groundwork has to be laid before you begin your campaign....
“Which state in this country has the most lenient drug laws?” Armentano asks, rhetorically. “If the arguments they use against legalization were valid we should be able to tell that, shouldn’t we? Child drug use should be up; there should be more traffic fatalities in that state due to drug use — that should be so obvious that the first thing that state’s Legislature should be rushing to do come January is to go toughen up those laws. But Drug Czar John Walters couldn’t even tell me which state had the most lenient drug laws when I asked him. It’s Ohio.
“In Ohio to possess up to three ounces of marijuana is punishable with a ticket with a maximum fine of $100. ...You can cultivate up to 10 plants in Ohio and that’s also a $100 maximum fine. But the drug use in Ohio is no higher than Oklahoma, where a judge can sentence a person to life in prison for a first-offense marijuana sale. So we know the illegality isn’t the reason people choose to use or not use marijuana.”
“It’s the kind of thing I would encounter in a class for discipline,” muses former schoolteacher Giunchigliani. “Everyone wants tough discipline unless it’s their own child, and then it’s a different story.”
Paul Grant, Colorado criminal defense attorney and former Libertarian activist, agrees. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen self-righteously unreasonable D.A.s suddenly get reasonable when they or a close friend or family member gets personally involved as a suspect in a criminal case,” Grant reports. “They suddenly get religion — the defense lawyer’s religion.
“It’s always us — the good guys — versus them, the evildoers. ...Most people just don’t get it until it hits home personally. Most people never get caught smoking a joint or snorting cocaine or driving drunk or slapping their spouse. ...They never get assaulted or mugged, so they’re not worried about gun control. Denying reality makes the world more pleasant for many people. ...Pretending that passing laws and criminalizing behavior will make the world safer helps some people sleep better at night, I guess, and relieves them of the responsibility of accepting risk in a dangerous world.”
Even if it means 77,000 pot smokers have to rot in jail.«
Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of the books Send in the Waco Killers and The Ballad of Carl Drega. For information on his books or his monthly newsletter, call 775- 348-8591; write 561 Keystone Ave., Suite 684, Reno, NV 89503; or visit Web site http://www.privacyalert.us.
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“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. ” — Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed —and thus clamorous to be led to safety —by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H.L. Mencken
Rock 'n' Roll
Introduction
We mean “ROCK ‘N’ ROLL” in the same sense that Ian Shoales means it: Pop Culture: It’s all Rock ‘n’ Roll to us. Comix, Americana, scandals, and weird goings on.
CIRCUS OF THE SCARS
The True Odyssey of
a Modern Circus Sideshow
by Jan T. Gregor with Tim Cridland
The art of the sideshow might have been lost altogether if it wasn’t
for the troupe comprising the Jim Rose Circus. A hundred years ago,
family entertainment often came in the form of human oddity and mar-
vels of the impossible. Modern distractions — movies, radio, televi-
sion — slowly eroded the sideshow’s audience, leaving the art all but
dead.
The Jim Rose Circus resurrected that art and toured the world,
featuring:
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The Amazing Mister Lifto, who chillingly hoisted irons
and other heavy objects from his ears and the most
painfully sensitive body parts -
The Torture King, to whom being assaulted with pins,
razors and swords was all in a day’s work -
The Enigma, a human tattoo-puzzle who ate swords for
dinner -
Matt “The Tube” Crowley, whose gag reflex was perma-
nently in the off position as he swallowed ordinary —
and extraordinary — household objects -
Dolly the Doll lady, the 3’2” circus veteran who served
as a kind of mother to them all.
This tale tells the fascinating story of their lives on the road and
behind the scenes, with shocking photographs and lavish illustrations
by Ashleigh Talbot. You’ll be equally horrified and amused. Most
important, you’ll gain full entry into a world that most people view with
the same creepy fascination as a gory accident.
1998,7x 10,383 pp, illustrated, indexed, photographs, hard cover.
CIRCUS OF THE SCARS: $26.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99167)
GAUNTLET #22
Edited by Barry Hoffman
This issue covers Indepen-
dent Films, including an interview
with John Landis, “Enlightened”
Cinema, A Tale of Indie Success:
Debbie Rochon, A Look at Micro-
Budget Filmmaking, an Interview
with Don Coscarelli, and much
more, including “Why Funda-
mentalists Hate Sex,” by Nina
Hartley, Russ Kick’s regular col-
umn, and book reviews. Gaunt-
let is always interesting and
entertaining!
2001, 7x10, 136 pp,
Illustrated, soft cover.
GAUNTLET #22: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99200)
SIDESHOW
My Life With Geeks, Freaks & Vagabonds
in the Carny Trade
by Howard Bone With Daniel Waldron
Howard Bone was a sideshow
magician virtually his whole work-
ing life. During a long, eventful,
and adventurous career he lived
every aspect of outdoor show
business in its golden era. Side
Show captures the flavor of those
boisterous times — the charac-
ters, the scenes, the scams, the
dodges, the joys and sorrows of
carny ways as only an insider
could know them. Chapters
include: • Geeks • Pickled Punks •
The Blade Box • Palisades Park •
Athletic Shows « Torture Acts • Girl
Shows • On the Road • Carnies •
Hey Rube! • “Crazy Cobra” • Love
Life • Winter Quarters • And more.
Even with gaffs and gimmicks
to help offset the risks, Howard
Bone took his life in his own hands every day in acts that were thrilling and sometimes brutally horrifying. Yet he was an authority on Chinese poetry and wrote with feeling and sensitivity. Only someone with Howard Bone’s power of observation and talent for recording events as he saw them, could have come up with this book.
2001,6x9,139 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SIDE SHOW: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99192)
HOW TO SNEAK INTO THE MOVIES
by Dan Zamudio
The price of this book ($8.00) is
exactly the price of a ticket for a first-
run movie in New York City — why let
Hollywood bigwigs, bad actors, and
cowardly studio executives rip you off
when, for the same price, you can rip
them off?
Contents include: • Sneaking In •
Recap of Steps to a Successful
Sneak-In • How to Sneak in With a
Date Without Her Thinking You’re
Cheap • What Happens and What to
Do When Caught • Other Ways to Beat
the High Cost of Movie Tickets • And
more. Sold for informational and enter-
tainment purposes only.
1995,516 x 816, 72 pp, illustrated, soft
cover.
HOW TO SNEAK INTO THE MOVIES: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40084)
LOOMPANICS’ GREATEST HITS
Articles and Features from
The Best Book Catalog in the World
Compiled and Edited by Michael Hoy
A collection of articles and essays, cartoons and rants, gleaned from the pages of the Loompanics Unlimited book catalog. For over a decade, the Loompanics Catalog has served as a kiosk for writers from the far left, the far right, and the far out— including Robert Anton Wilson, Bob Black, Kurt Saxon, Robert Shea and many, many others. A compendium of counterculture thought, this provocative book contains more than 75 features in all.
1990,816x11,300 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
LOOMPANICS’ GREATEST HITS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94146)
LOOMPANICS’ GOLDEN RECORDS
Articles and Features from
The Best Book Catalog in the World
Edited by Michael Hoy
This collection will blow your thinking wide open! Essays on anarchy, hemp, housing and more promise to entertain, educate and illuminate even the most jaded reader. It contains more than 40 of the best and most imaginative pieces Loompanics has ever published including work by Bob Black, Jim Hogshire, Michael Newton, James B. DeKorne, and many others. Loompanics’ Golden Records also features artwork by some of America’s most talented artists, such as Mark Zingarelli, Nick Bougas, and Ace Backwords.
1993,816x11,200 pp, illustrated, softcover.
LOOMPANICS’ GOLDEN RECORDS: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94207)
LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED LIVE! IN LAS VEGAS
Articles and Features from
The Best Book Catalog in the World
Edited by Michael Hoy
Every three years or so, Loompanics Unlimited lights up the desert landscape of American letters by compiling a collection of articles and stories, culled from the catalogs and supplements that we’ve published during that time. Since we’ve specialized in providing controversial and unusual works for over twenty years, it should come as no surprise to anyone that many of the selections in this book are both shocking and exhilarating.
The 45 works contained herein lend credence to that sobriquet. In addition to the many talented writers whose work we proudly present, several of today’s most renowned graphic artists are also featured. Peter Bagge, Joe Zabel, Mark Zingarelii, J.R. Williams, Joe Sacco, Spain, Renee French, Nick Bougas, Jim Siergey, Mats O. Stromberg, Jim Blanchard, Moby Theobald and others have contributed inspired artwork. The results are sometimes humorous or disturbing, but always thought-provoking.
1996,816x11,253 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED LIVE! IN LAS VEGAS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94268)
LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED CONQUERS
THE UNIVERSE
Articles and Features from
The Best Book Catalog in the World
Edited by Michael Hoy
Loompanics Unlimited is back once again, expanding our domain throughout the galaxies, sweeping all that lies before us into the ash- bin of interstellar history! We’ve collected 44 articles, stories, and essays from our catalogs and supplements into a mind-boggling compilation volume that will have every entity in space screaming in delight... whether anyone can hear them or not!
Some of the most gifted writers on Earth have contributed to this compendium of literary masterfulness: John Perry Barlow, Ned Beaumont, Sam Day, Paul and Shirley Eberle, Lynn Eccles, Dennis P. Eichhorn, Dennis Fiery, Alex Friedmann, Michael A. Hoffman II, Dan Kelly, Danny Mack, John Marr, Michael E. Marotta, Thom Metzger, Thomas Ingersoll More, Michael Newton, Adam Parfrey, Donald B. Parker, Dan Pens, August Salemi, Stephen Michael Schumacher, Clive Sharp, Ken Silverstein, Claire Wolfe, and many more.
And the artwork! We’ve enlisted the aid of some of the planet’s finest illustrators, including Rick Altergott who provided the inspired cover artwork and interior graphic work: Jim Blanchard, Ariel Bordeaux, Nick Bougas, Ivan Brunetti, David Collier, Bob Crabb, Gene Fama, Mary Fleener, Renée French, Steve Lafler, Mark Lang, Terry LaBan, Paul Ollswang, Jim Siergey, Colin Upton, Wayno, King VelVeeda, J.R. Williams, and Eric York. The force was definitely with this talented group of contributors.
1998,816x11,213 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED CONQUERS
THE UNIVERSE: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94293)
“I WATCHED A WILD HOG EAT MY BABY!”
A Colorful History of Tabloids
and Their Cultural Impact
by Bill Sloan
This lively, entertaining, and often funny history of America’s supermarket tabloids is the first book to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that have made it such a tremendously successful and influential force in today’s media. Perhaps no one is more qualified to give the complete insider’s account of the tabs than Bill Sloan, who helped guide the destinies of three major tabloids in their heyday. Sloan profiles the publishing eccentrics who conceived the first national tabloids, the greedy owners and screwball executives who called the shots, the ruthless underworld manipulators who fed off of the tabloids’ phenomenal success, and the money-driven journalists who did the dirty work. “I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby!” reveals the whole sometimes-sordid, often-silly, but always-amazing story behind the multibillion dollar industry these characters spawned.
Based on candid interviews, the fascinating personalities who created the tabloids explain in their own words how and why they built these notorious rags into powerful and often feared journalistic empires. Sloan traces the development of the tabs from their beginnings in sleazy, gore-filled sensationalism or soft-core smut and sex scandals, through the celebrity crazes of Jackie O. and Princess Di. He also discusses the widespread influence of the tabloids today on television journalism and the Internet, where the distinction between news and entertainment is quickly vanishing. This enjoyable, eyeopening account is must reading for anyone interested in the people and the trends that shape our popular culture.
2001,6x9,251 pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
“I WATCHED A WILD HOG EAT MY BABY!”: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99190)
THE WINNER OF THE SLOW BICYCLE RACE
The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner
by Paul Krassner
with a Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
For nearly half a cen-
tury now, Paul Krassner
has been one of our most
valuable resources: a two
fisted writer not afraid of
anything, with a sense of
humor like a rapier. The
Winner of the Slow
Bicycle Race collects 30
of his best and most out-
rageous pieces, includ-
ing: • Who Killed Jerry
Rubin • The Dirty Tricks
Convention • On the
200th Anniversary of the
First Amendment •
George Bush Sends a
Message to Saddam Hus-
sein • I Snorted Cocaine
with the Pope • Theologi-
cally Correct Condoms •
Murder at the Humor
Conference • I Just Got
Back from an Orgy • How
I Spent My First Acid Trip
• Confessions of a Guilty
Bystander • The First Negro President • and Sex Education for the Modern Catholic Child.
So be prepared to be enlightened and entertained by Paul Krass- ner’s The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race.
1996,5x8,350 pp, soft cover.
THE WINNER OF THE SLOW BICYCLE RACE: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99198)
EVERYTHING’S A RACKET
by Ned Beaumont
Everything's a Racket is cutthroat cultural criticism from the sometimes skewed viewpoint and in the savage style that characterizes Ned Beaumont. This book tells us clearly just what rackets are and why human nature seems to make them both omnipresent and inevitable.
At the root of these exposed rackets lies “the theory of rackets,” rackets being the schemes by which the lazy and the incompetent seek to gain something-for-nothing.
Ned Beaumont targets:
• the government, but only in relation to the banks and the money system
• big time sports
• computer culture
• and big media
His ammunition consists of a broad range of examples drawn from history, literature and the daily news, but his real aim is directed toward the reader’s mind. His target? Our collective funny bone. Through a veil of humor we are able to see through the self-importance of the racketeers and the silliness of their schemes for ourselves.
In the future we’ll be able to recognize the racketmongers and deal with them accordingly. Get Everything's a Racket and see for yourself. You won’t get fooled again.
2001,516 x 816, 223 pp, soft cover.
EVERYTHING’S A RACKET: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88225)
GRETA GARBAGE’S
OUTRAGEOUS BATHROOM BOOK
A bathroom book with attitude
— not the usual boring crap!
by Greta Garbage
Bizarre News! Hilarious
Humor! Lists Galore! Terrific
Trivia! Sex! Sports! Movies! TV!
Celebrities! Shocking Stories!
Fascinating Facts! A bathroom
book with attitude — not the usual
boring crap! Other bathroom
readers are written for consti-
pated old farts, but this outra-
geous bathroom book is easy to
read when you’re on the run.
You’ll be privy to everything from
the engrossing to the just plain
gross, including: • Who’s Hung in
Hollywood • Celebs from Hell •
Embarrassing Secrets of the
Stars • Presidential Penises •
Clone Your Dog or Cat • How to
Get Drunk Without Drinking • Tips
for Winning Radio Contests •
Famous Homosexuals • Presidents Who Were Wrestlers • How to Tell if Someone’s Lying • Weirdo Web Sites • Computer Porn • How to Save Yourself from Killer Bees, Sharks, and Bears • Celebrity Freaks • Most Often Stolen Items • What’s the Hymen Doing Down There? • Promiscuous Celebrities • How to Get Out of Jury Duty • Is Marijuana Worse for Dogs or Cats? • Farting and the Law • Pussy Fighting • How to Be a Movie Extra • And much, much more!
2001,6x9,279 pp, soft cover.
GRETA GARBAGE’S
OUTRAGEOUS BATHROOM BOOK: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99202)
THE NEW ROADSIDE AMERICA
The Modern Traveler’s Guide
to the Wild and Wonderful World
of America’s Tourist Attractions
by Mike Wilkins, Ken Smith, and Doug Kirby
• See rarb fainting goats at Dot Lin’s Exotic Animal Ranch in Plentywood, Montana
• Relax on the George Washington Memorial Stump in St. Mary’s, Georgia (It was known as the George Washington Memorial Tree before it died.)
• Have Scotty beam you to Riverside, Iowa, the Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk
• Learn the truth about food storage at the Tupperware Awareness Center in Kissimmee, Florida
• Hunt dinosaurs with miniature M-16 rifles at the Prehistoric Forest in Marblehead, Ohio
• Digest the secrets of everyone’s favorite mystery meat at the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota
• Relive a blast from the past at the underground Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona.
Yes, all these wonders can be yours, if you follow The New Roadside America!!!
More than 700 of America’s greatest roadside attractions are listed in the following categories: • Animals • Celebrities • Science, Medicine, and Beyond • Over There Over Here • History • Civic Pride • Earth • Made in America • Christianity • Meat and Nuts • Dreamers • and Meccas. Fun and useful, The New Roadside America is a dandy guide to the world’s greatest country: The United States of America!!!
1992, 6x9,288 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE NEW ROADSIDE AMERICA: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99179)
HITTING YOUR MARK
What Every Actor Really Needs to Know
on a Hollywood Set.
by Steve Carlson
“An absolute must for the
library of any beginning actor,
seasoned pro, or cinema buff.
Hitting Your Mark is the perfect
blend of humor, technical tips,
and insider information from a
real show-biz pro. You’ll laugh
and learn a great deal from this
book!’’— Sally Dennison, Cast-
ing Director, Close Encounters
of the Third Kind, The Accused,
The China Syndrome
Great film buffs ourselves,
we offer Hitting Your Mark as a
peek behind-the-scenes guide
to what actually happens on a
movie set. Reading this excel-
lent volume will greatly improve
your appreciation of the cinema
arts. Hitting Your Mark pro-
vides both beginning and vet-
eran actors who are new to film with techniques, tips, and tricks of the trade, designed to help the actor hit the film set running. Written with a realistic yet positive approach to show business, this book is an essential guide for any actor working in film or television today.
Contents include: • Camera, Set and Stage Basics • Technical Basics • Marks • General Camera Awareness — One Camera • General Camera Awareness — Three Cameras • Close-ups • Sharing the Camera • Acting for the Camera • Love Scenes • Editing • Teleprompter • Cue Cards • “Off Camera” • Lighting • Sound • Unique Situations and Positions • Auditioning on Camera • And more.
Hitting Your Mark is a must for anyone interested in film and the cinematic arts.
1998,6x9,214 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HITTING YOUR MARK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99178)
URBAN LEGENDS
The Truth Behind All Those Deliciously
Entertaining Myths That Are Absolutely,
Positively, 100% Not True!
by Richard Roeper
What is an Urban Legend? It’s a tale so deliciously tasty that you desperately want it to be true even though you suspect it’s just too good not to be false. Rumors used to move at the speed of sound, but our communications technology has hastened the spread of urban legends to the speed of light. You get them in faxes, in voice mail, in e-mail. You hear them on the radio. You read them in hundreds of gossip columns. There’s just one problem. They’re not true.
Have you heard about:
-
‘They’re stealing our kidneys!” • Prehistoric Barbie • Gang initiation rites • Tainted needles • The Gerber rebate • Y2K’s extra day • Secrets of fraternity and sorority rituals • The ghost in Three Men and a Baby • Disney secret messages • Snuff movies • Wedding quickies • The dark side of Oz • Is Tupac alive? • Nike shoe rebate • Blacks losing the right to vote • Richard Gere and the gerbil • Barbra Streisand’s porno film • Marilyn Manson’s Wonder Years • And more, and more, and more...
Urban Legends comes to the rescue. This new book by nationally syndicated columnist Richard Roeper is a comprehensive, enlightening, entertaining look at hundreds of stories that have no basis in fact — no matter how many people swear otherwise.
1999,6 x 9,287pp, indexed, hard cover.
URBAN LEGENDS: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88211)
PSYCHOTROPEDIA
A Guide to Publications on the Periphery
by Russ Kick
Russ Kick is one
of the most astute
and ingenious con-
noisseurs of “out-
law” literature and
publications. Psy-
chotropedia, his
huge compilation of
fringe media is an
invaluable guide for
anyone looking for
information and
opinions outside the
mainstream.
Russ says: “Why
this book? Because
more and more of
the world’s media
— including book
publishers — are in
the hands of fewer
and fewer gigantic
corporations.
Because bookstore
mega-chains now
have a direct say in
whether or not some books get published. Because independent pub-
lishers have a hard time getting their books reviewed. Because any-
one foolhardy enough to become a writer needs all the exposure they
can get for their books. Because Salman Rushdie has a price on his
head. Because a leading French intellectual was recently put on trial
and fined $40,000 for questioning the orthodox view of history.
Because one of the most courageous publishers of the time, Lyle Stu-
art, was sued out of business and into personal bankruptcy over a
book he published. Because the U.S.’s largest bookseller is facing
multiple felony charges because of some of the books it carries.
Because the World Health Organization suppressed a scientific
report showing that marijuana is less harmful than tobacco or alcohol.
Because reporters are still being murdered and dissidents are still
disappearing all over the world. Because information wants to be
free. Because censorship never sleeps. Because the forces of
oppression are so goddamn arrogant. Because I love books.
Because the middle of the road leads nowhere. Because you can’t
make informed decisions unless you know what’s going on. Because
we have to follow the evidence no matter where it leads... Because
every fact, opinion, and idea deserves to be heard and judged on its
own merits. Because wondering what new things I’ll learn gets me out
of bed every day.”
Psychotropedia is a massive survey of publications that exist
outside the mainstream, providing detailed reviews (and ordering
information) for a breath-taking cross-section of books, zines, cata-
logues, and other media. Get the inside stories on the Oklahoma City
Bombing, SM, sex work, cock-fights, the Men in Black, breast
implants, body modification, marijuana, Mother Teresa, Heaven’s
Gate, offshore money havens, suicide, free energy, juror nullification,
bestiality, enemas, secrets of famous magicians, and suppressed
treatments for cancer and AIDS. Discover the work of taboo-shatter-
ing artists and writers, including Andres Serrano, Richard Kern, Annie
Sprinkle, David Hamilton, Joel-Peter Witkin, Negativland, Diamanda
Galas, Hakim Bey, Mike Diana, David Britton, and Elissa Wald.
Unearth the scary facts about vaccines and fluoride, and learn what
it’s like to be a real-life vampire.
Psychotropedia covers these and hundreds of other touchy and
unorthodox topics. More importantly, it tells you exactly how you can
find out more for yourself.
1998,616 x 916,574 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PSYCHOTROPEDIA: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94310)
GAUNTLET #23
Exploring the Limits of Free Expression
This issue of Gauntlet is
devoted mostly to the “animal
rights” controversy, with arti-
cles such as: Terrorists or
Activists: The Debate About
Animal Rights; Animals,
Activism and Extremism: A
West Coast Education; Ani-
mal Rights Front (ALF):
Extremists or Patriots; Rights
for Whom?, and others.
Also included are
columns, features, and
reviews, including September
11: A Great Day for Censors.
Gauntlet is always worth
reading.
2002, 7 x 10,96 pp, illustrated,
soft cover.
GAUNTLET #23: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99209)
AMOK FIFTH DISPATCH
Sourcebook of the Extremes of Information
Edited by Stuart Swezey
The Amok Fifth
Dispatch is an exhaus-
tively researched,
entertainingly anno-
tated and provocatively
illustrated guide to over
two thousand of the
most bizarre, contro-
versial and thought-
provoking books
available from hun-
dreds of publishers
worldwide, complete
with ordering informa-
tion.
“The benchmark
sourcebook on deviant
literature.” — Vanity
Fair
“The index of all
that we hold obscure,
perverse, and dear.”—
Esquire
“A reading list from Hell that is a must for any serious oddball bib-
liophile John Waters
“An impressive collection, absolutely definitive in many ways —
one can almost say that there’s no need to read anything that isn’t in
this catalogue.”—J.G. Ballard
The Amok Fifth Dispatch is a book that belongs on your coffee
table!!!
1999,816x11,569 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
AMOK FIFTH DISPATCH: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99180)
INTELLIGENCE INCREASE
Introduction
How smart are you? Not smart enough, I bet. Not so smart you couldn’t afford to be smarter, huh? From actually increasing your “IQ” to methods and techniques for expanding your consciousness — these books are carefully selected to raise your consciousness and intelligence.
PLAGUES OF THE MIND
The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
by Bruce S. Thornton
Plagues of the Mind
explores the reasons why,
In this age of information,
we still are prey to idiotic
notions. The author focuses
not on the easy targets —
supermarket tabloids and
New Age fantasy — but on
the perceived wisdom of
today’s public intellectuals.
Part One traces the histori-
cal and cultural roots of
such ancient myths as the
Golden Age and the Noble
Savage and discusses the
present corruption of mind
wrought by those beliefs in
the media and education.
Part Two examines in detail
three popular specimens of
false knowledge: romantic
environmentalism, Noble-
Savage Indians and the Old
Europe Mother Goddess.
Should we care about nature for nature’s sake? Is species extinc-
tion always bad? Are the European settlers really the evil antagonists
in the story of the American West? God is — female? Thornton’s
answers to these and scores of other questions reveal — in addition
to a keen sense of humor — his deep commitment to the story told by
the evidence rather than to the ideological special interests holding
hostage America’s public discourse. Plagues of the Mind is sure to
offend all ax-grinders, sentimental humanitarians, and purveyors of
political correctness.
Mass literacy, mass communication, bloated university curricula,
the Internet — we have never had so much information available so
quickly, yet we are still prey to falsehoods. Plagues of the Mind, a
welcome antidote to the intellectual toxins of our day, reasserts the
intellectual’s role of speaking truth to power. This book is a page-turn-
ing chronicle of our time.
1999,6x9,303 pp, indexed, hard cover.
PLAGUES OF THE MIND: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91223)
WORD CONTROLLED HUMANS
by John Harland
The processes that turn indi-
vidual humans into monstrous
group organisms are the signifi-
cant aspects of history on which
this book focuses. “Civil” and
“religious” groups, growing into
powers by destruction of individ-
ual souls and control of individ-
ual will, receive the same
examination — with no glorified
generalities glossing over the
horror that sharp focus reveals.
Concerned primarily with the
word conditioning that now dom-
inates America and Europe, this
work highlights the need to first
remove the obstructions from
our own eyes — before trying to
correct the faults of others.
This is a book for those who
want to be individuals. There is
none of the usual summing up
that “we, as a group” should take some vague corrective action. Instead, a clear possibility for individuals to take effective action is spelled out in precise detail.
Every intelligent person is already highly concerned with the problem presented — and there is no intelligent person who will not have his mind stretched, and be stimulated to a sharper perception, by this book’s unusual perspective.
1981,516 x 816,123 pp, soft cover.
WORD CONTROLLED HUMANS: $7.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88160)
DUMBING US DOWN
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory government schooling has nothing to do with education, doing little but teaching young people to conform to the economy and the social order. Dumbing Us Down reveals the shocking reality of today’s school system and has become a beacon for parents seeking alternatives to it. Here are some excerpts:
“Mass education cannot work to produce a fair society because its daily practice is practice in rigged competition, suppression, and intimidation. The schools we’ve allowed to develop can’t work to teach nonmaterial values, the values which give meaning to everyone’s life, rich or poor, because the structure of schooling is held together by a Byzantine tapestry of reward and threat, of carrots and sticks. Official favors, grades, or other trinkets of subordination have no connection with education; they are the paraphernalia of servitude, not of freedom.
“Any reform in schooling has to deal with its absurdities.
“It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed, it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does.
“It is absurd and anti-life to move from cell to cell at the sound of a gong for every day of your natural youth in an institution that allows you no privacy and even follows you into the sanctuary of your home, demanding that you do its ‘homework.’
“Compulsory schooling in factory schools is a very recent, very Massachusetts/New York development. Remember, too, that until thirty odd years ago you could escape mass schooling afterschool; now it is much harder to escape because another form of mass schooling — television — has spread all over the place to blot up any attention spared by school. So what was merely grotesque in our national treatment of the young before 1960 has become tragic now that mass commercial entertainment, as addictive as any other hallucinogenic drug, has blocked the escape routes from mass schooling.”
With a new foreword, introduction, and afterword, this new edition is even more relevant in setting the agenda for a complete overhaul of how we educate our children — and for what.
2002,516 x 8%, 141 pp, soft cover.
DUMBING US DOWN: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88229)
THE ART OF CONTRARY THINKING
It pays to be contrary!
by Humphrey B. Neill
The author of this famous book says: “The art of contrary thinking may be stated simply: Thrust your thoughts out of the rut. In a word, be a nonconformist when using your mind. Sameness of thinking is a natural attribute. So you must expect to practice a little in order to get into the habit of throwing your mind into directions which are opposite to the obvious. Obvious thinking — or thinking the same way in which everyone else is thinking — commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. Let me give you an easily remembered epigram to sum up this thought: When everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong.
“From long study of mass movements and public psychology there is no question in this writer’s mind that if one trains his mind to think opposite to the herd he will be right more often than wrong. In other words, concerning most subjects it is pretty safe to say that ‘the crowd is usually wrong’ — at least, in its timing of events.
“What it comes down to in the final analysis is that a ‘crowd’ thinks with its heart (that is, is influenced by emotions) while an individual thinks with his brain.
“It may appear to some readers as though the theory of contrary opinion, or the art of contrary thinking, is a cynical one. I do not think it is at all. I believe it is merely a matter of getting into the habit of looking on both sides of all questions and then determining from your two- sided thinking which is more likely to be the correct version — which in turn leads to the correct conclusion.”
1954,516 x 816,201 pp, soft cover.
THE ART OF CONTRARY THINKING: $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88228)
CHAOS, CREATIVITY, AND COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham
Foreword by Jean Houston
Here is a vibrant discussion
between three of the most origi-
nal thinkers of our time as they
blend science, creativity, intellec-
tual curiosity, and traditional wis-
dom to explore and expand our
current views of reality. The late
psychedelic visionary and
shamanologist Terence
McKenna, acclaimed biologist
and originator of the morpho-
genetic fields theory Rupert Shel-
drake, and the mathematician
and chaos theory scientist Ralph
Abraham join forces to investi;
gate the relationships between
chaos and creativity and their
connection to cosmic conscious-
ness.
The authors challenge the
reader to the deepest levels of
thought with wide-ranging investigations of the ecology of inner and
outer space, the role of chaos in the dynamics of human creation, and
the resacralization of the world.
Among the questions raised are: Is Armageddon a self-fulfilling
prophecy? Are humans the imaginers or the imagined? Are the eter-
nal laws of nature still evolving? What is the connection between
physical light and the light of consciousness? Part ceremony, part
intellectual and spiritual discussion, these trialogues are an invitation
to a new understanding of what Jean Houston calls “the dreamscapes
of our everyday waking life.”
2001,6 x 9,207pp, illustrated, soft cover.
CHAOS, CREATIVITY,
AND COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91243)
BEARS’ GUIDE TO EARNING DEGREES
BY DISTANCE LEARNING
15th Edition
by John Bear, Ph.D.and Mariah Bear, M.A .
After 25 years, this
classic best-seller is
still the resource for
anyone looking to earn
a degree in a non-tra-
ditional way. Since the
last edition of Bears'
Guide, the Internet
has spawned hun-
dreds of new distance-
learning programs,
both legitimate and
phony. This new edi-
tion lists them all,
expanding its cover-
age to over 3,000
schools. An improved
subject index makes it
even easier to identify
which schools offer
programs in desired
fields. And for the first
time, the Bears include
an acceptability rating for every school’s degree, based on their
extensive survey of college registrars and admissions officers. The
best book on nontraditional education keeps getting better.
2003,816x 11,480 pp, soft cover.
BEARS’ GUIDE TO EARNING DEGREES
BY DISTANCE LEARNING: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88230)
COLLEGE DEGREES BY MAIL AND INTERNET
9th Edition
by the Editors of Degree.Net
With the rise
of Internet-based
education, dis-
tance learning
has never been
hotter, and more
and more people
are shedding the
traditional notion
that they’ve got to
bow down to the
ivory tower to get
the degree they
want. Through
distance-learning
schools, students
all over the world
are earning fully
accredited under-
graduate and
graduate degrees
without ever leav-
ing home. In this
guide, the editors
of Degree.Net
narrow down the
field to 100 of the best accredited distance-learning providers in the
world. Opinionated and controversial, College Degrees by Mail and
Internet sums up the latest trends and the best opportunities in the
fastest growing area of education today.
2003,816x11,208 pp, soft cover.
COLLEGE DEGREES BY MAIL AND INTERNET: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88231)
THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE
TO LEARNING LANGUAGES FAST
by A.G. Hawke
There are many reasons why you might need to learn a foreign language quickly — perhaps an unexpected business trip or a sudden travel opportunity. A. G. Hawke, a U.S. Army Green Beret, often travels to foreign countries on short notice and has to be able to work intimately with officials who do not speak English. Frequently, he needs to be able to communicate in a foreign language in a matter of days or weeks. He tried all types of schools, classes, books, and tapes, but none delivered what he needed when he needed it. So he developed his own method for learning languages. It proved so effective for him (he is certified by the military in seven languages) and his fellow Green Berets that he decided to share it with others who are struggling to learn a foreign language on the quick.
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Languages Fast is designed for people who have no interest in learning complicated rules of grammar. Hawke promises that his method will help anyone become functional in any language in as little as seven days and proficient in 30 days. How? Because he has trimmed the fat for you, freeing your time for what’s truly useful. Hawke provides a detailed day-by-day schedule, a hands-on workbook format, and secret tips to help you master the key elements of any new language. In true Special Forces style, this quick-and-dirty method contains no fluff; it’s all action so you can quickly get into the action yourself. If your mission is to learn a foreign language, why not learn how from the very best?
2000,516 x 816,175 pp, soft cover.
THE QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE
TO LEARNING LANGUAGES FAST: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88218)
THE HEALING BRAIN
Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain
Keeps Us Healthy
by Robert Ornstein and David Sobel
The mysterious uni-
verse of the human
brain has intrigued sci-
entists for centuries.
The authors of this
book go beyond looking
at the brain as a
thought center, bridging
the gap between mind
and body. When it
comes to overall health,
most of the chemical
action happens in the
brain, from making sure
we don’t walk into
walls, to healing
through the placebo
effect. Why does a per-
son’s immunity plum-
met when a loved one
dies? Why does a
shocking trauma kick
off cardiac arrest? It all
begins in the brain.
From the Preface:
“Rather than just pre-
senting a series of interesting findings which link psychological states
and health, we attempt, whenever possible, to highlight themes and
speculate on commonalties, even, at some moments, when the
research is not yet perfect. This is not, however, a final theory which
ties all the new observations together in one neat, simplified model,
but a new perspective about what the brain is doing and about what
determines health.”
1999,516 x 816,301 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE HEALING BRAIN: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88209)
THE CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER’S TOOLBOX
A Complete Course in the Art of Creating
Solutions to Problems of Any Kind
by Richard Fobes
This toolbox-in-a-book is packed with interesting real-life examples and clear explanations of more than 65 important, yet commonly neglected, thinking skills that enable you to create solutions to business, personal, and even global problems. Illustrations and cartoons provide clarity and visual appeal. The author is an experienced teacher of creative problem solving. The Creative Problem Solver’s Toolbox is a how-to book packed with examples, illustrations, insights, and tools for solving real-life problems.
Learn how to use creative thinking skills to solve any problem. More than 200 examples in areas such as inventing, business, dealing with neighbors, relationships, and raising children show how to use creative problem solving skills such as outlining alternatives, thinking visually, developing intuition, and changing negatively stated goals into positively stated goals. This excellent book includes suggestions for teaching creative problem solving skills.
1993,6x9,350 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER’S TOOLBOX: $23.75
(ORDER NUMBER 88190)
THE ART OF DECEPTION
by Nicholas Capaldi
Reviewed by Deborah Callahan
HOW TO: • Win An Argument • Defend A Case • Recognize A Fallacy • Persuade A Skeptic • Turn Defeat Into Victory
Fast-paced, yet very particular, this book should be considered a survival manual for communication.
Not only can you leam to spin a yarn no one else can resist, you’ll get hip to the other guy’s ballyhoo. Liars will present statistics and theoretical constructs while classifying and defining to suit their own ends. They will try to drive home conclusions using nonverbal devices. BUT YOU CAN BE PROTECTED!
Yes, you can even strike back! While subtly gauging audience reaction, you will refute all of the above ploys with bold strokes of your own. Learn how to attack a conclusion, quote out of context, defend a generalization, use red herrings and calls for perfection. You can appeal to self-interest, as well. And don’t forget: Two wrongs make a right.
A delightful book for those who like to argue and win as well as for those who like to shoot down fancy theories with zinging one-liners.
1987,5M x 8M, 222 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE ART OF DECEPTION: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88021)
HOW TO BE TWICE AS SMART
Boost Your Brain Power
and Unleash the Miracles of Your Mind
by Scott Witt
The super-performers of this world got where they are not because they are any “smarter” than the rest of us, but because they know how to multiply their brainpower. Now you can learn their secrets. This book spells out proven techniques that help you:
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Develop a total recall memory • Recall facts, dates and figures with the Data Linking method • Do mental calculations at the speed of a calculator • Become a speedreader and absorb more of what you read • Solve problems that stump others • Set higher goals for yourself and meet them easily • Use a new improved system of brainstorming to create unusual solutions to difficult problems • And much more.
Get smarter and achieve more in life. The keys are spelled out for you, step by step, in this remarkable book.
1983,6x9,276pp, indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO BE TWICE AS SMART: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88074)
DON’T LET THEM PSYCH YOU OUT!
by George Zgourides, Psy. D.
George Zgourides’ Don’t Let Them
Psych You Out! is one of the finest psy-
chological self-defense manuals we
have seen. Difficult people. \Ne all know
some. The noisy (or nosy) neighbor, the
overbearing boss, the relentless rela-
tive, the pushy salesperson. Manipula-
tive people. People who insist on having
everything their way. People who are
always trying to psych you out!
Vie all know them, but do we know
how to deal with them? Don’t Let Them
Psych You Out! can help. It teaches
psychological self-defense for handling
arguments, showdowns, ambushes,
and other difficult situations — like
these: • Your boss is insisting that you
do something that you really don’t want to. • Relatives are pushing you to attend a family function, and you don’t know how to tell them NO! • You’re angry about something your partner is doing, but you don’t want to get into a fight. • You bought some shoddy merchandise, but you dread having to deal with an obnoxious clerk when you try to return it.
Don’t Let Them Psych You Out! won’t make these conflicts go away. But it will give you practical skills for handling difficult people without losing your dignity or your cool. Don’t let them psych you out!!!!
1993,514 x 8%, 198 pp, soft cover.
DON’T LET THEM PSYCH YOU OUT!: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88173)
HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE
Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively,
Enjoyably and On Your Own
by Barry Farber
Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for 46 years and can speak in 25 tongues. The techniques he presents in this book will have readers speaking, reading, writing and enjoying any foreign language they want to learn or have to learn — in a surprisingly short time.
Without beating their heads against verb conjugations and noun declensions, readers will follow Farber’s principles and glide toward language proficiency. His method consists of four ground-breaking but simple concepts, hailed by language-teaching professionals who agree that previous approaches have failed to teach Americans foreign languages. They are:
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The Multi-Track Attack. Accelerate learning and eliminate boredom by using all at once an arsenal of the latest language tools, including cassettes, flash cards, dictionaries, grammar books, and more.
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Harnessing Hidden Moments. Turn free time, even fifteen seconds, into personal “mini-lessons.” No more standing in line or waiting for elevators with an inactive mind!
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The Magic Memory System. Commit dozens of words to memory, at a single sitting and with astounding retention, by using a fun and effective vocabulary-memory technique.
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Starting at the Top. Plunge in (just as a child does when learning to speak) and join conversation groups, read publications, and watch movies in the language you’re learning.
How to Learn Any Language is as entertaining as it is effective, and shows that aptitude is less important than appetite. This essential book explains all the tools, methods, and motivation necessary to learn any language.
1991,51A x 8M, 172 pp, soft cover.
HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88156)
1,001 EXCUSES!
How to Get Out of...
and Away with...
Anything!
by George Zgourides & Nancy Pickering
If you are one of those non-assertive, overly nice, easily manipulated people who find themselves continually being roped into working somebody else’s agenda, authors George Zgourides and Nancy Pickering have some proven techniques, methods, and strategies you can use to arm and protect yourself. Do you find yourself at a loss for words when you are approached by a manipulative person who wants you to perform a task you have neither the time nor the desire to do? Would you like to find that you have 1,001 excuses as an escape without having to search for the words?
George Zgourides and Nancy Pickering are “too nice” people who finally got fed up with doing everyone’s volunteer work and finally started paying attention to the excuses they heard being used with them. More than that — they wrote them down so anyone can have the benefit of a quick reply that gets them off the hook.
Contents include:
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You Don’t Have to Feel Like a Doormat Anymore!
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The Basic Problem: Manipulation
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Essentials of Reframing Life’s Troubles
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Ready Replies: Excuses for Nice, Shy People
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The Truth: The Simplest Excuse
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When You Need Extra Help: “Exaggerations” and “White Lies”
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Excuses for Work
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Excuses for Home
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Excuses for School
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Excuses for the Store
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Excuses for the Phone
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Excuses for Dating
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Excuses for Publishers
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How to Determine If You’re a Pushover: A Self-Test
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And much, much more.
You don’t have to yield to another’s wishes unless it’s something you want to do. You don’t need to be bullied by intimidating people. All it takes to be free of others’ burdens is to make a conscious choice to change your thinking and George Zgourides and Nancy Pickering give you the tools you need to make that change work. Get 1,001 Excuses! and regain control of your life today.
2000,516 x 816, 211 pp, soft cover.
1,001 EXCUSES!: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88216)
I AM RIGHT — YOU ARE WRONG
From This to the New Renaissance:
from Rock Logic to Water Logic
by Edward de Bono
“Sad to think how much harm
has been caused by the brutal arro-
gance of rock logic.” — Dudley Hor-
schbach, Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
1986
Edward de Bono is one of the
most brilliant thinkers currently writ-
ing. In / Am Right — You Are
Wrong, Dr. de Bono, who is well
known worldwide for his origination
of lateral thinking, puts forward a
direct challenge to what he calls the
rock logic of Western thinking. Rock
logic is based on rigid categories,
absolutes, argument and adversar-
ial point scoring.
Instead of rock logic, he pro-
poses the water logic of perception.
Drawing on our understanding of the brain as a self-organizing information system, Dr. de Bono shows that perception is the key to more constructive thinking and the serious creativity of design.
Edward de Bono expects his ideas to outrage conventional thinkers, yet time has been on his side, and the ideas that he first put forward twenty years ago in his book The Mechanism of Mind are now accepted mainstream thinking. Here, in this brilliantly argued assault on outmoded thought patterns, he calls for nothing less than a New Renaissance. Highly Recommended.
1990,5x8,313 pp, soft cover.
I AM RIGHT — YOU ARE WRONG: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88170)
VIRUS OF THE MIND
The New Science of the Meme
by Richard Brodie
Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of.memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society.
In Virus of the Mind, author and creative genius Richard Brodie carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives. But Brodie goes beyond science and dives into the meat of the issue: Is the emergence of this new science going to have an impact on our lives like the emergence of atomic physics did in the Cold War? Brodie would say the impact will be at least as great. While atomic bombs affect everybody’s life, viruses of the mind touch lives in a more personal and more pernicious way.
Mind viruses have already infected governments, educational systems, and inner cities, leading to some of the most pervasive and troublesome problems of society today: youth gangs, the welfare cycle, the deterioration of the public schools, and ever-growing government bureaucracy.
Viruses of the mind are not a future worry: they are here with us now and are evolving to become better and better at their job of infecting us. The recent explosion of mass media and the information superhighway have made the earth a prime breeding ground for viruses of the mind.
WARNING! This book contains a live mind virus. Do not read this book unless you are willing to be infected. The infection may affect the way you think in subtle or not-so-subtle ways, or even turn your current world view inside out.
Virus of the Mind is must reading for anyone who wants to understand what the hell is going on in the world today.
1996,6x9,253 pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
VIRUS OF THE MIND: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91137)
THINK FREE TO LIVE FREE
A political burnout’s guide to life,
activism and everything
by Claire Wolfe
This is a workbook for anyone who cares about principles and causes yet has become burned out and exhausted by their activism. It is for those who have reached the point where that nagging feeling, telling them their passions have been blighting their personal lives rather than enriching them, is their constant companion.
Chapters include:
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Burnouts of the World, Unite!
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The Raw Material of an Activist
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How Can It Feel So Wrong to Be Right?
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Are You Having Fun, Banging Your Head Against That Wall?
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What Are You Best At?
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What Do You Want to Do?
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Money, Family apd Other Immovable Objects
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Planning for Action
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Resources
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And more.
However noble the cause, be it working on political campaigns, or the PTA, whether trying to correct the injustices of the world by fighting against tyranny in whatever guise, or helping people to move against the powerful — if you have seen your passion and altruism turning to disillusionment and cynicism, this book was written for you.
Anyone who has acted on their desire for social change rather than just wished for it to happen and has seen their commitment pull apart everything that feeds their soul should read this book to find out how to get their lives refocused in the direction they want to be going.
Life-long activist Claire Wolfe has designed worksheets to help you pinpoint the activities you do that defeat your true purpose and help you discover what that true purpose is. These worksheets will help you determine what activities are useless time wasters, and how to focus on behaviors and habits that help you accomplish your true goals.
2001,8M x 11,124 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THINK FREE TO LIVE FREE: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88220)
THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY
The Betrayal of Liberty
on America’s Campuses
by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate
Universities once
believed themselves to
be sacred enclaves,
where students and
professors could
debate the issues of
the day and arrive at a
better understanding of
the human condition.
Today, sadly, this ideal
of the university is
being quietly betrayed
from within. Universi-
ties still set themselves
apart from American
society, but now they
do so by enforcing their
own politically correct
worldview through cen-
sorship, double stan-
dards, and a judicial
system without due
process. Faculty and
students who threaten
the prevailing norms
may be forced to
undergo “thought reform.” In a surreptitious about-face, universities
have become the enemy of a free society, and the time has come to
hold these institutions to account.
The Shadow University is a stinging indictment of the covert system of justice on college campuses, exposing the widespread reliance on kangaroo courts and arbitrary punishment to coerce students and faculty into conformity. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, staunch civil libertarians and active defenders of free inquiry on campus, lay bare the totalitarian mindset that undergirds speech codes, conduct codes, and “campus life” bureaucracies, through which a cadre of deans and counselors indoctrinate students and faculty in an ideology that favors group rights over individual rights, sacrificing free speech and academic freedom to spare the sensitivities of currently favored groups.
From Maine to California, at public and private universities alike, liberty and fairness are the first casualties as teachers and students find themselves in the dock, presumed guilty until proven innocent and often forbidden to cross-examine their accusers. Kors and Silver-
glate introduce us to many of those who have firsthand experience of the shadow university, including:
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The student at the center of the 1993 “Water Buffalo” case at the University of Pennsylvania, who was brought up on charges of racial harassment after calling a group of rowdy students “water buffalo” —- even though the term has no racial connotations.
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The Catholic residence advisor who was fired for refus-
ing, on grounds of religious conscience, to wear a symbol of gay and lesbian causes.
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The professor who was investigated for sexual harassment when he disagreed with campus feminists about curriculum issues.
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The student who was punished for laughing at a statement deemed offensive to others and who was ordered to undergo “sensitivity training” as a result.
The Shadow University unmasks a chilling reality for parents who entrust their sons and daughters to the authority of such institutions, for thinking people who recognize that vigorous debate is the only sure path to truth, and for all Americans who realize that when even one citizen is deprived of liberty, we are all diminished.
1998,6x9,427pp, Indexed, hard cover.
THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: $27.50
(ORDER NUMBER 58135)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
From the frontiers of modern physics and beyond, come the books in this section. You really should be aware of these things, since the Science of Now will determine the shape of the Future.
IF WE CAN KEEP A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE...
Discorporation and
U.S. Patent 4,666,425
by Chet Fleming
Think it won’t happen? It already has, in medical labs. Transplanted animal heads have lived for days, with sleep cycles independent of the host animal. And perfused isolated brains have been kept alive “almost indefinitely” by coupling their blood supply tubes to living support animals. Don’t believe it? Go to any medical library and look up Nature 202:339, Surgery 70:135, and Resuscitation 12:253 for starters. This isn’t tabloid trash; this is actual medical research, described by an engineer/patent attorney (graduate of Harvard Law School) who specializes in medical technology.
How long could a severed head remain conscious? Would it feel pain, or be numb below the neck? Why would drug researchers want to do it to lab animals? And what kinds of people might want this operation, if they were dying and had no other hope of survival, and if they could think and talk and operate computers and machinery, as nothing but a head on top of a blood-processing cabinet?
1988,6x9,495pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
IF WE CAN KEEP A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE...: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91076)
WEIRD SCIENCE
The Unexplained —
Explained by Science
by Michael White
Do poltergeists exist? What are the real chances of Earth being visited by aliens from outer space? In days of yore, humans believed that lightning bolts were evidence of the gods’ wrath; today, of course, we know they are actually a discharge of atmospheric electricity. Might there also be reasonable, rational, scientifically based explanations for phenomena we currently attribute to the supernatural? Yes, says Michael White, author of books on subjects ranging from Stephen Hawking to genetic research to Isaac Asimov, as well as hundreds of articles on cutting-edge science issues. As both a science expert and someone who has had first-hand experience with the paranormal, White is uniquely qualified to discuss the strange and bizarre — to explain the seemingly unexplainable.
With wit, humor and a lucidity of language that makes even the most convoluted subjects accessible to the layperson, White tackles two dozen of the hottest — and most controversial — “inexplicable” phenomena, providing answers to intriguing questions. Probing into the possible scientific underpinnings of everything from psychic spoonbending to interstellar travel to multiple dimensions, Michael White looks at the weird world of the paranormal, and shows how unbelievable things can remain within the limits of accepted science. Weird Science proves that truth certainly is stranger than fiction — and often much more interesting, too.
1999,5x8,431 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
WEIRD SCIENCE: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91179)
SECRETS OF COLD WAR TECHNOLOGY
Project HAARP and Beyond
by Gerry Vassllatos
The death knell has struck
for traditional wave radio. How
have 70 years of military
research succeeded in pro-
ducing a completely new and
superior communications
technology? The history of
radio will prove to be far
stranger than even the most
paranoid of theorists could
envision! While American citi-
zens were passively watching
TV, military research was cre-
ating an amazing new radia-
tion technology that is far in
advance of any known sys-
tem. Currently (and routinely)
being utilized by the military, it
has remained a well-guarded
“open secret” for decades. The
patents and relevant research
papers which prove this have
just recently been obtained.
Secrets of Cold War Technology: Project HAARP and Beyond explains what has happened. Read this astonishing book and
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Discover what became of the early beam weapons of Grindell-Matthews, Ulivi, Turpain and others, which were successfully tested by the British military during World War I. Learn about John Hettinger, and how his early beam power devices were modified through radar technology into ray-beam weapons.
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Learn about Project Argus, Project Teak, and Project Orange. Discover how the ionsphere was successfully disturbed by a steady series of atomic detonations in 1962. Find out about the frightful characteristics of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) phenomena, and how these characteristics were employed in the fabrication of a strange and deadly technology. Discover which different kinds of EMP weaponry were deployed throughout the 1980s. Learn why a High Command request to use EMP weaponry in the Gulf War was denied.
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Come to understand that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) is not a weapon, psychotronics system, or weather modifier, nor is it the program which so many have claimed. Learn why the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) will never achieve the objectives cited by a few authors. Discover the real motivations which are powerfully at work amongst conspiracy writers, and why these scribes are ill-equipped to crack the secrets of HAARP. Find out why the Eastland patents are not relevant to HAARP, and why Raytheon has continued to collect every HAARP-relevant patent for years. Leam about the “merchandise” that HAARP promises to yield.
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Learn why X-rays were used to detect underground movements, and how gamma rays were routinely used in communications between submarines and command headquarters via military satellites.
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And much, much more.
If you want the answers to some of modem life’s most puzzling mysteries, then read this technical history of military projects, which fully traces the development of every relevant scientific undertaking preceding and following HAARP. This book contains only facts, not hysteria, and includes communications and weapons patent citations. It will change your view of world events and technology forever!
1996,5K x 816, 324 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SECRETS OF COLD WAR TECHNOLOGY: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91152)
THE LOW-CARB ANTI-AGING DIET
Slow Aging and Lose Weight with
this Insulin-Smart Anti-Aging Lifestyle
by John Morgen thaler and Mia Simms
Improve your health and lose
weight while eating more fat! By now
everyone has heard that a low-carb
diet can cause dramatic weight loss.
But the authors of this book point out
that this weight loss is really just a
side effect of a much deeper, more
significant, biochemical change —
reduced insulin levels.
As we age, insulin levels tend to
rise. But higher insulin is also, in turn,
a cause of further aging. In particular,
insulin has been implicated in heart
disease and most other “diseases of
aging.” By controlling insulin, through
a program of low-carb eating, exer-
cise, and nutritional supplementation,
we can encourage many positive
health effects, including: fat loss,
increased energy, enhanced mental clarity, lower blood pressure and
cholesterol, and slowed aging.
“Carbohydrates are the real dietary culprit, not fat. Carbohydrates
lead to increased insulin, causing weight gain and a wide array of
health problems.’’— Ward Dean, M.D.
2000,5x8,133 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE LOW-CARB ANTI-AGING DIET: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82114)
ICONS OF EVOLUTION
Science or Myth?
Why much of what we teach
about evolution is wrong
by Jonathan Wells
In this shocking book, Berkeley-educated doctor of biology Jonathan Wells lets you in on scientific discoveries you won’t learn about from college and high school textbooks — and reveals a dirty little secret known only to some of his fellow biologists. The best known “icons” of evolution — from pictures of apes evolving into humans, to comparisons of fish and human embryos, to moths on tree trunks — are false or misleading. For decades, biology students have been taught things about evolution that are simply untrue. These icons of evolution appear even in the most recent textbooks, although the scientific literature is full of evidence that they are false. Apparently, dogmatic promoters of Darwinian evolution fear that without these icons public faith in their claims will disappear, so they knowingly misinform their students and suppress scientific evidence.
In Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells reveals:
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How the textbook version of the origin of life assumes the exact opposite of what scientists now believe was the environment on the early Earth
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How scientists have long known that drawings supposedly showing similarities between fish and human embryos were faked, yet continue to use them as evidence for evolution
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How the alleged role of mutations in evolution is illustrated with artificially-engineered fruit flies that show the opposite of what evolutionary theory requires.
Icons of Evolution is both an eye-opening tour of discoveries in contemporary biology and a stirring call for professional and educational honesty. It reveals that Darwinian evolution is a theory in crisis that distorts the truth to maintain its influence over science education. And it is a policeman’s whistle, calling upon scientists to clean house and rid their textbooks of lies.
2000,6x9,352 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
ICONS OF EVOLUTION: $27.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91222)
LOST SCIENCE
by Gerry Vassilatos
Rediscover the legendary names of a suppressed scientific revolution: remarkable lives, astounding discoveries, and incredible inventions which would have produced a world of wonder had they not been suppressed! Lost Science is the first book in a forthcoming series of biographical collections you will not want to ignore.
The microscopes and virus-destroying ray machines of Dr. Royal Rife provided the solution for every world-threatening disease. Why did the FDA and AMA together condemn this great man to federal prison? The static crashes heard over telephone lines enabled Dr. T. Henry Moray to discover the reality of radiant space energy. Was the mysterious “Swedish stone,” the powerful mineral which Dr. Moray discovered, the very first historical instance in which stellar power was recognized and secured on earth? Why did the U.S. Air Force initially fund the gravitational warp research and warp-cloaking devices of T.T. Brown, and then reject them? When the controlled fusion devices of Philo Farnsworth achieved the “break-even” point in 1967, the FUSOR project was abruptly cancelled by ITT. What were the twisted intrigues which surrounded these deliberate convolutions of history? Each chapter is a biographical treasure.
Ours is a world which is hundreds of years behind its potential level of scientific development! Only a complete knowledge of Lost Science can serve as the key to recapturing this wondrous technol- ogy!
1998,5M x 81/i, 347pp, soft cover.
LOST SCIENCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91151)
QUACK!
Tales of Medical Fraud from the
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
by Bob McCoy
A smorgasbord of medical
lunacy! The curator of the
Museum of Questionable
Medical Devices shares his
collection of the hilarious, hor-
rifying, and preposterous
medical devices that have
been foisted upon the public in
their quest for good health.
This profusely (and hilari-
ously) illustrated book con-
tains chapters on:
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Common questions
and their answers -
Simple machines to set
you straight -
The curative magic of
magnets -
Flipping the switch to
good health -
Albert Abrams, Ruth Drown, and the miracle of vibra-
tions -
Radium
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Rays
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Psychology — the bumpy history of Phrenology
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Devices to clear your head
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Beauty — from Quack Straps to Nip & Tuck
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and Sex.
From the Prostate Gland Warmer to the Recto Rotor, from the
Nose Straightener to the Wonder Electric Generator, these imple-
ments reveal the desperate measures taken by the public in their
search for magic cures. With period advertisements, promotional liter-
ature, photos, illustrations, and gadget instructions, this book offers a
wealth of past — and present — medical quackery.
2000,816x11,238 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
QUACK!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91181)
BODY BAZAAR
The Market for Human Tissue
in the Biotechnology Age
by Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin
Body parts are useful to
researchers and entrepreneurs,
insurers and employers, law-
enforcement authorities and immi-
gration officials. And they are more
easily available than most people
suspect. Nearly all of us have
blood and tissue on file. Whenever
you have a blood test, a biopsy, or
surgery, that tissue is potentially
available without your consent.
Genetic testing is mandatory in
many contexts, and our DNA may
become our primary identification
— the Social Security number of
the future.
Human tissue is crucial to
health care, but it has also become
a medium for artists who have
found ways to sculpt in blood and to plastinate skin. Interior decorators buy human skulls in body boutiques. DNA can even be used to run computers, since its replications provide more memory than the binary code. As the body market expands, people have been dismayed to discover that their eggs have been given to other women without their consent and that scientists and biotech companies are making huge profits by secretly patenting their cell lines and genes.
Andrews and Nelkin illuminate the business of bodies, telling individual stories to show the profound psychological, social, and financial impacts of the commercialization of human tissue. They explore the problems of privacy and social control that arise with the extraction of information from the body, and the provocative questions of profit and property that follow the creation of marketable products from human bodies. Their findings are shocking — revealing the existence of a $17 billion body business in a true story that reads like science fiction.
2001,5Mx81,6f 254 pp, indexed, hard cover.
BODY BAZAAR: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91225)
REMARKABLE LUMINOUS PHENOMENA
IN NATURE
A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies
Compiled by William R. Corliss
The primary sensory channel for detecting unusual natural phenomena will always be the human eye. Nothing catches the attention faster than a mysterious light. Who hasn’t jumped at a nearby flash of lightning or pondered a far-off light moving through the night sky? Was it just an airplane or some phenomenon unknown to science? Most strange lights of course turn out to have prosaic scientific explanations; but this volume will demonstrate that some luminous phenomena still tax the ability of today’s science to account for them. The. lights described here are self-luminous; like a light bulb they shine through the release of internal energy rather than the reflection of light from the sun, moon, or other external source. These include lightning, the auroras, meteors, marine bioluminescence, and other luminous displays that manufacture their own light. The earth’s atmosphere absorbs sunlight and streams of subatomic particles spewed out by the sun. This influx of solar energy fuels many of our terrestrial luminous phenomena. Genuine mysteries surround many of the luminous phenomena described in this volume. This rich lode of luminous phenomena provides a fertile ground of scientific exploration. Unfortunately, the controversial aspects of many of the phenomena and the highly subjective nature of many of the reports make this a risky field for mainstream scientists to tackle.
2001, 7x 10,425 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
REMARKABLE LUMINOUS PHENOMENA IN NATURE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91234)
101 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT SCIENCE
AND NO ONE ELSE DOES EITHER
by James Trefil
This book is the perfect
guide for the armchair scientist
or anyone else curious about
our world. Covering science
theories, physical science,
technology, biology, astron-
omy, medicine, and evolution,
each three-page summary
explores questions you’ve
always pondered, or didn’t
even think to ask. In doing so,
author James Trefil predicts
the course of future break-
throughs and examines cur-
rent research.
Have you ever wondered...
•Why is there some-
thing instead of noth-
ing?
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About time travel?
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How old the universe
is? -
Where are all the
black holes? -
What will follow the pill?
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How virtual your reality is?
The author is a physics professor at George Mason University, a
science commentator on National Public Radio, and a regular contrib-
utor to Smithsonian magazine.
Buy this book: Feed your brain!
1996,5x 814,355pp, indexed, soft cover.
101 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT SCIENCE
AND NO ONE ELSE DOES EITHER: $13.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91168)
OWNING THE FUTURE
Inside the Battles to Control the New Assets
— Genes, Software, Databases,
and Technological Know-How
— That Make Up the Lifeblood
of the New Economy
by Seth Shulman
What does it mean to live in the new global economy of ideas? Owning the Future warns that freely shared knowledge is fast becoming an endangered species. As knowledge becomes a valuable commodity, we face impending threats to innovation and new monopolies that concentrate vital information in the hands of the few.
Veteran science journalist Seth Shulman takes us on a shocking journey through today’s battles for control over the intangible new assets — genes, software, databases, and scientific information — that make up the lifeblood of the new economy. We meet doctors who sue colleagues for using new medical procedures they claim to own. We find university researchers thrown in jail for “stealing” their own ideas; software firms holding the entire industry for ransom over basic, widely used programming techniques; and life-saving cancer treatments kept from dying patients by legal wrangles over the underlying technology.
While we comfort ourselves with lofty rhetoric about the free exchange of information, essential knowledge is being hoarded, fought over, and controlled as never before. In vivid detail, Owning the Future shows that, in the rush to stake claims in the knowledge economy, we risk auctioning off our technological and cultural heritage. With insight and vision, Shulman provides the vital tools and necessary perspective to address the problem before it is too late.
1999,6x9,256 pp, Indexed, hard cover.
OWNING THE FUTURE: $25.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91174)
MAN-MADE UFOS 1944-1994
50 Years of Suppression
by Renato Vesco and David Hatcher Childress
This is a comprehen-
sive and in-depth look at
the early “flying saucer
technology” of Nazi Ger-
many and the genesis of
early man-made UFOs
from the captured German
scientists to escaped bat-
talions of Germans to
secret communities in
South America and Antarc-
tica to today’s state-of-the-
art “Dreamland” flying
machines. Heavily illus-
trated, this astonishing
book blows the lid off the
“Government UFO conspir-
acy” and explains with
technical diagrams the
technology involved.
Examined in detail are:
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Secret underground air-
fields and factories -
German secret weapons
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“Suction” aircraft
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The origin of NASA
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Gyroscopic stabilizers and engines and the secret Marconi aircraft factory in South America.
The secret Marconi base in South America, and other secret societies, both ancient and modern, that have kept this craft a secret are also discussed. Man-Made UFOS is required reading for students of technology suppression, UFOs, anti-gravity, free-energy conspiracy and World War II. This astounding book is packed with photos and diagrams.
1994,6x9,530 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MAN-MADE UFOS 1944-1994: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91132)
AGAINST THE GRAIN
Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover
of Your Food
by Marc Lappe, Ph.D. and Britt Bailey
Do genetically engineered food crops really offer the “risk-free” breadbasket for the world promised by biotechnology companies like Monsanto? Or are there serious risks to human health and the eco- sphere hidden in this silent revolution?
Against the Grain slashes through biotechnology’s propaganda, revealing the science and politics behind “transgenic” foods to show how biotech companies increasingly engineer what you eat to be compatible with their chemicals — but not necessarily good for human health. In this impassioned report, the authors reveal how companies like Monsanto, DuPont, Rhone-Poulenc and Dow Chemical have been feathering their own nests, introducing genes more to promote pesticides and build monopolies than to feed the world. In the words of the African delegation to the United Nations, biotechnology companies have exploited the image of the poor and hungry “to push a technology that is neither safe, environmentally friendly nor economically beneficial to us.”
Against the Grain will forever alter your walk down the supermarket isles. Fortunately, Lappe and Bailey are breaking the silence cloaking the massive changes being made to the world’s diet, giving consumers the information they need to decide for themselves.
1998,6x9,175pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
AGAINST THE GRAIN: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91167)
ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE
Challenging the Myths of
the Scientific Establishment
by Richard Milton
Cold fusion. Telepathy. Psÿchokinesis. Bioenergy. Alternative medicine. Science banishes these fields of research to the world of superstition, and everywhere scientists lose their jobs, funding, and respect for merely conducting research in these fields. Yet in this compelling tour of the scientific frontier, Richard Milton makes clear what the scientific establishment takes such pains to deny: a growing body of hard experimental evidence already exists to support these and other areas of alternative science.
Milton reveals the surprising results of this suppressed research and takes these results a step further: he shows that the surge of fundamentalism in the West has infected the scientific community as well; that we are living in a time of growing academic intolerance. Human progress has been powered by the paradigm-shattering inventions of brilliant iconoclasts, yet just as the scientific community dismissed Edison’s lamp, Roentgen’s X-rays, and even the Wrights’ airplane, today’s “Paradigm Police” do a better job of preserving an outdated mode of thought than of nurturing invention and discovery. Alternative Science introduces the individuals who are bucking this conservative trend, and makes the case that the alternative science of the present is destined to be the hard science of the future.
The author states: “...scientific fundamentalism... is found today not merely in remote provincial pockets of conservatism, but at the very top of the mainstream management of science on both sides of the Atlantic, as examples in later chapters show.
“Every age of license is followed by an age of authoritarianism. The open, experimental, libertarian décades of the 1960s and 1970s have been succeeded by the cynical 1980s and 1990s. During these cycles of changing social attitudes, academic liberty — freedom of thought — ebbs and flows on the tide of intolerance.
“In times such as these, some academics appoint themselves vigilantes to guard the gates of science against troublemakers with new ideas and new discoveries. Yet science has a two-thousand-year record of success not because it has been guarded by an Inquisition but because it is self-regulating. It has succeeded because bad science is driven out by good: an ounce of open-minded experiment is worth any amount of authoritative opinion by self-styled scientific rationalists.
“We are again living in a time of rising academic intolerance in which important new discoveries in physics, medicine, and biology are being ridiculed and rejected for reasons that are not scientific.”
1996,6x9,270 pp, indexed, soft cover.
ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91131)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS I
Compiled by William R. Corliss
The Sourcebook Project of William R. Corliss is dedicated to cataloging scientific anomalies: observations that are not explainable by current scientific theories. Biological Anomalies: Humans I is the first of three volumes devoted to human anomalies. All of the anomalies are taken from scientific literature.
' Phenomena in this volume include: Human Asymmetry; The Apparent Physical Degeneration of Humans; Human Physical Degeneration and Genius; Variability of External Appearance; Discordances in the Appearances of Identical Twins; Physical Stature; Weight; Sex; Human Sexual Dimorphism; And much, much more.
It will be quickly seen that all the Sourcebook volumes traffic in heresy on one hand and simple curiosities and trivia on the other. Some phenomena recorded here strike at the core hypothesis of biology; evolution. Others can be shrugged off as merely minor “unex- plaineds.” Enjoy.
1992,7 x 10%,304 pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS I: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91069)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS II
A Catalog of Biological Anomalies
Compiled by William R. Corliss
William R. Corliss’ second volume of human biological anomalies focuses upon the “internal” machinery of the body: (1) Its major organs; (2) Its support structure (the skeleton); (3) Its vital subsystems (the central nervous system and the immune system).
Typical subjects covered include^ • Enigma of the fetal graft • Phantom limbs • Anomalous human combustion • Bone shredders • “Perfection” of the eye • Dearth of memory traces • Health and the weather • Periodicity of epidemics • Extreme longevity • AIDS anomalies • Cancer anomalies • Human limb regeneration • Voluntary suspended animation • Male menstruation • And much, much more.
Biological Anomalies: Humans II is, like all of Corliss’ compilations, fascinating and impossible to put down.
1993, 7x 10%, 297pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS II: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91079)
SCIENCE FRONTIERS
Some Anomalies and Curiosities of Nature
Compiled by William R. Corliss
William R. Corliss should be declared a national resource. For nearly 25 years, he has combed the pages of scientific periodicals looking for anomalies: items and events not explainable by currently accepted scientific paradigms. Science Frontiers is his latest collection, a fascinating, indexed compilation of scientific anomalies and curiosities reported during the period 1976-1993. Based mainly upon a continuing survey of some 100 scientific journals and magazines, the book contains over 1500 news items, 417 illustrations, and 1663 references.
Contents include: • ARCHEOLOGY (Ancient Engineering Works • Small Artifacts • Epigraphy and Art • Bones and Footprints • Diffusion and Culture); ASTRONOMY (Planets and Moons • Solar System Debris • Stars • Galaxies and Quasars • Cosmology); • BIOLOGY (Humans • Other Mammals • Birds • Reptiles and Amphibians • Fish • Arthropods • Invertebrates • Plants and Fungi • Microorganisms • Genetics • Origin of Life • Evolution); GEOLOGY (Topography • Geological Anomalies • Stratigraphy • Inner Earth); GEOPHYSICS (Luminous Phenomena • Hydrological Phenomena • Earthquakes • Anomalous Sounds • Atmospheric Optics); PSYCHOLOGY (Dissociation Phenomena • Hallucinations • Mind-Body Phenomena • Hidden Knowledge • Reincarnation • Information Processing • Psychokinesis); CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, MATH, ESOTERICA (Chemistry • Physics • Mathematics • Esoterica).. Science Frontiers is a most valuable guide to current controversies and difficult-to-explain discoveries on the forward skirmish lines of science.
1994,8% x 11,366 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SCIENCE FRONTIERS: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91090)
ANGELS DON’T PLAY THIS HAARP
Advances in Tesla Technology
by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning
Has our government declared
environmental warfare on the
earth? The authors of this book
take a close look at HAARP
(High-frequency Active Auroral
Research Project) and conclude
that the U.S. government has
developed a new ground-based
“Star Wars” weapon which is
being tested in the remote bush
country of Alaska. This new sys-
tem manipulates the environment
in a way which can: • Disrupt
human mental processes • Jam
all global communications sys-
tems • Change weather patterns
over large areas • Interfere with
wildlife migration patterns • Nega-
tively affect human health •
Unnaturally impact the earth’s
upper atmosphere.
The U.S. military has targeted the electrojet — a river of electricity that flows thousands of miles through the sky and down into the polar icecap — for use as a vibrating antenna that can send electromagnetic radiation raining down on the earth, enabling the military to “x- ray” the earth and communicate with submarines. This book reveals this plot and much more.
1995,5% x 8%, 224 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ANGELS DON’T PLAY THIS HAARP: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91138)
FREE ENERGY PIONEER:
John Worrell Keely
by Theo Paijmans
More than a century ago, a
man in Philadelphia made the
most important discovery of all
time: a mysterious source of
free, unlimited energy. He
experimented with the sub-
stance, building a staggering
2,000 machines and devices
that ran on this esoteric force.
His eccentric vision led him
to experiment with anti-gravity
and the disintegration of solid
matter. Numerous people wit-
nessed his demonstrations and
his work was well known to
Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison
and Jules Verne. The occult
underground was inescapably
drawn to him, and early science
fiction still owes him a debt of
gratitude.
The name of this enigmatic inventor: John Worrell Keely. He was one of the world’s first and foremost free-energy pioneers.
In a dazzling and extremely detailed tour de force, European author and researcher Theo Paijmans takes us on a unique journey through the very underground of free-energy research, exploring the depths of numerous secret societies and their incredible ideas — including the ultimate evolution of humans through free energy. Paijmans clearly demonstrates that Keely and these inventors did not work in isolation, but in the confines of a very secret and silent tradition: the tradition of occult technology.
1998,6x9,472 pp, indexed, photographs, soft cover.
FREE ENERGY PIONEER: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91162)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS III
Compiled by William R. Corliss
The astounding work of William R. Corliss continues, with this third and final volume of human biological anomalies, which deals with human evolution as inferred from the fossil record and genetics. Other chapters review the case to be made for the present existence of unrecognized hominids, and also inquire into some of the fascinating interfaces existing between humans and other life forms, such as the other mammals and parasites.
Topics covered include:
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Absence of transitional fossils • Abrupt changes in hominid morphology • Hominid evolutionary stasis • Hominid devolution • The sudden demise of the Neanderthals • Taxon variability or “fuzz” • Hominid gracilization • Giant hominid skeletons • Very small hominid skeletons • Some hominid skeletal curiosities • Hominid fossil sequence anomalies • Anomalous distribution of hominid skeletal material • Hominid skeletal material in ancient geological formations • African mtDNA . variability • Human-ape comparisons • North American hominids • Giant Arctic hominids • American pygmies • South American “submen” • Asian subhumans • The Yeti or “Abominable Snowman” • The Yeren or Chinese wildman • Sri Lanka dwarf hominids • A human-fish phenomenon • The human-Gaia interface • and much, much more!
Corliss’ vast cataloging project shows no sign of diminishing, and this volume is one of his most compelling to date. Truly unique in the world’s scientific literature!
1994, 7x10,206 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: HUMANS III: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91122)
SHATTERING THE MYTHS OF DARWINISM
by Richard Milton
Shattering the Myths of Dar-
winism exposes the gaping holes
in an ideology that has reigned
unchallenged over the scientific
world for a century. Darwinism is
considered to be hard fact, the
only acceptable explanation for
the formation of life on Earth. With
keen insight and objectivity
Richard Milton reveals that this
theory totters atop a shambles of
outdated and circumstantial evi-
dence, which in any less contro-
versial field would have been
questioned long ago.
Milton shows that modern
methods of dating the earth indi-
cate that there has not been
enough time for complex lifeforms
to have evolved from single-celled organisms, and reveals the embar-
rassing fact that is becoming more and more difficult for Darwinists to
ignore — that there are more “missing links” in every evolutionary
line, human and otherwise, than there are fossils, and that no transi-
tional species showing evolution in progress between two stages has
ever been found. Sticking to the facts at hand and tackling a vast
array of topics, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism offers com-
pelling evidence that the theory of evolution has become an act of
faith rather than a functioning science. As such it is extremely danger-
ous. Not until the scientific method is applied to Darwinism will it be
exposed, and only then will the right questions be asked about the
mystery of life on Earth.
1997,6x9,320 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
SHATTERING THE MYTHS OF DARWINISM: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91148)
THE FREE-ENERGY DEVICE HANDBOOK
A Compilation of Patents & Reports
Compiled by David Hatcher Childress
Do free-engine motors exist that will supplant combustion engines and nuclear power? Famed new-science researcher David Hatcher Childress believes they do, and The Free-Energy Device Handbook, his astounding compilation of various patents, articles, papers, and diagrams for free-ehergy devices, is an invaluable visual tool for experimenters and researchers into magnetic motors and other “overunity” devices. From the earliest conceptualizations of free-energy to the work of genius Nikola Tesla and modern-day inventors, The Free- Energy Device Handbook presents the reader with the reality of “free-energy” devices. It’s packed with patents, illustrations, and detailed descriptions of various devices, and is a reference and research tool that no modern scientist can ignore!
This book contains: • An explanation of why the concept of “over- unity” magnetic motors is scientifically correct • Profiles of the Adams Pulsed Magnetic Motor and the “N” Field Machine • Articles on Joseph Newman’s Free-Energy Motor • Various patents from all over the world • Descriptions of the efforts of various scientists in the aiter- native-energy field • Guidelines on how to power your own electric car or spacecraft with one of these electric generators • And much more!
It’s all contained in this mind-boggling collection, gathered at science’s outermost cutting edge! This knowledge has been suppressed and ignored for far too long, and is now available for the first time ever in one complete, authoritative package.
1995, 7 x 10,306 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE FREE-ENERGY DEVICE HANDBOOK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91149)
THE FANTASTIC INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA
by Nikola Tesla,
with additional material by David Hatcher Childress
There are several books
about Nikola Tesla, but none bet-
ter than this one. It is a readable
and affordable virtual com-
pendium of patents, diagrams,
photos and explanations of the
many incredible inventions of the
originator of the modern era of
electrification. Highly illustrated,
this astounding book explains
and demonstrates this electron-
ics genius’s work in his own
words! Included are:
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Tesla’s plan to transmit
free electricity into the
atmosphere. -
How electrical devices
would merely have small
antennas to receive power. -
Why unlimited power could be utilized anywhere on earth.
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How Tesla’s inventions could utilize this free energy In the atmosphere.
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How anti-gravity airships could draw power from the transmitters Tesla was building.
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How radio and radar technology can be used as death-ray weapons in today’s “Star Wars.”
This book contains rare material pertaining to Nazi bases in Antarctica and South America, and a secret city built in South America by one of Tesla’s students, Guglielmo Marconi, whose clandestine scientific group claims to have built flying saucers in the 1940s and traveled to Mars in the 1950s! Includes an appendix of U.S. Supreme Court documents pertaining to the dismantling of Tesla’s free-energy towers. Also has great material on Tesla’s death rays, ozone generators, and more!
1993, 6 x 9,357pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE FANTASTIC INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91143)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: MAMMALS I
A Catalog of Biological Anomalies
Edited by William R. Corliss
The amazing William R. Corliss continues his compilation of facts unexplained by current science — all culled from the pages of respectable mainstream scientific journals! Biological Anomalies: Mammals I focuses on external attributes: physical appearance; behavior; talents and faculties.
Typical subjects covered include: • Mammal-marsupial parallelisms • Zebra stripe reversals • Marching teeth • Lunar effect on activity • Mammalian art and music • Rat and squirrel “kings” • Cetacean mass strandings • Mummified Antarctic seals • Navigation and homing • Soaring and parachuting • Mammalian engineering works • Deep-diving capabilities • Unusual vocalizations • Intelligence over-shoot • And more.
You will find that non-human mammals, in their physiology, their behavior, and their surprising talents, pose many challenges to the evolutionists, the behaviorists, and the zoologists.
1995,7x 1014,296pp, Illustrated, indexed, hard qover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: MAMMALS I: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91133)
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: MAMMALS II
Compiled by William R. Corliss
This volume completes the “mammal” section of the Catalog of Anomalies, William R. Corliss’ astounding compilation of biological oddities culled from mainstream scientific publications! It focuses on internal anatomy, genetics, bodily functions, the fossil record, unrecognized species, interactions with other life forms, etc. Subjects covered include: • Population cycles • Exotic, entombed, cold-blooded, and sleepless mammals • Survival of Steller’s sea cow • Explosive radiations in mammalian evolution • Unexplained extinctions • Pleistocene dwarfing of some mammals • Electrosensitivity in mammals • Limb regeneration in mammals • Male lactation • Sea-serpents • and more, so much more that you will be completely amazed at the depth of Corliss’ research.
Truly an encyclopedian endeavor in a neo-Fortean mode, Corliss’ masterful collection of seldom-encountered biological anomalies continues its fascinating progress.
1996,7x 1014, 326 pp, Illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
BIOLOGICAL ANOMALIES: MAMMALS II: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91142)
THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR
The Making of Tomorrow’s Science
by Marcus Chown
The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door, science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of reason — but that, according to eminent scientists, might just be crazy enough to be true.
Could time run backwards? Does quantum theory promise immortality? Was our universe created by super-intelligent beings from another universe? Is there evidence of extraterrestrial life lying right beneath our feet? The Universe Next Door ponders these and many other thought-provoking questions. You may not agree with all the answers, but your head will be spinning by the time you reach the last page.
2002,6x9,205pp, indexed, hard cover.
THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR: $26.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91239)
SELL YOURSELF TO SCIENCE
The Complete Guide
to Selling Your Organs,
Body Fluids, and Being a Human Guinea Pig
by Jim Hogshire
When an organ donor dies, more than a million dollars worth of medical procedures are set in motion. Doctors collect huge fees, hospitals rake in the dough, and lucky organ recipients get a new lease on life. Everybody profits from organ donation except the donor. But that’s about to change.
In Sell Yourself to Science, Jim Hogshire blows the lid off the body parts business. The author reveals exactly what your body is worth and how to sell it, in whole or in part. A kidney fetches up to $50,000 — and it’s legal to sell one in many countries. A drug developed from one man’s spleen earned him millions. Your body might hold the billion dollar cure to cancer. Are you going to give it away?
Sell Yourself to Science is the first book that shows how to really tap your human potential. You can legally sell your blood, milk, sperm, hair and other renewable resources — this book tells how. You can also make a living as a human guinea pig, renting your body to drug companies. It pays up to $100 a day, and this book lists over 150 test sites throughout the U.S.A.
1992,516 x 816,164 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SELL YOURSELF TO SCIENCE: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64129)
THE STRUCTURE
OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
Third Edition
by Thomas S. Kuhn
We are proud to include the Third Edition of Kuhn’s famous and influential book on science in the Loompanics Catalog. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions discusses how scientific paradigms are created and how they struggle with and eventually supplant established paradigms.
Contrary to what many Establishment scientists like to tell the public, the science of today is no more “true” than the science of the Middle Ages. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is not an easy book to read, but it is well worth the necessary effort. To whatever extent you live differently from an animal, you owe the difference to science and technology. The more you understand about what science actually is, the better able you will be to harness modern and future technology for your own personal benefit. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a challenging and profound book, which we highly recommend to all our readers interested in science.
1996,5x6,212 pp, soft cover.
THE STRUCTURE
OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91011)
HOW TO SAVE YOUR TEETH
Toxic-Free Preventive Dentistry
by David Kennedy, D.D.S.
Gum disease and tooth decay
are the major causes of tooth loss.
Both result from bacterial infections
and poor nutrition and are entirely
preventable. This book gives a step*
by-step approach for restoring teeth
and healthy gums and maintaining
them, with a major emphasis on pre-
vention. Prevention is the only practi-
cal and cost-effective way to keep
your teeth all your life. This year,
Americans will spend over $37 billion
on dental care. Sixty percent of all
15-year-olds and ninety percent of
adults over age 35 will have some
degree of progressive gum disease.
Some 12 percent of American chil-
dren will be receiving orthodontics to
correct the effects of an underformed dental arch. Tooth decay is still a major problem, especially among less educated, lower income groups. And, contrary to popular belief, there is no scientific proof that fluoride can be credited with decreasing tooth decay.
This book also deals in detail with three of the major controversies facing the dental consumer today: “silver” fillings, non-surgical treatment for gum disease and fluoride. An environmentalist viewpoint is emphasized throughout: materials used in dentistry should not contribute to the proliferation of toxic chemicals in the environment — especially in the very intimate environment of your mouth!
1993,6x9,192 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO SAVE YOUR TEETH: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 82095)
THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST
Measuring the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg
The Skeptical Environ-
mentalist challenges widely
held beliefs that the environ-
mental situation is getting
worse and worse. The author,
himself a former member of
Greenpeace, is critical of the
way in which many environmen-
tal organizations make selective
and misleading use of scientific
evidence. Using the best avail-
able statistical information from
internationally recognized
research institutes, Bjorn Lom-
borg systematically examines a
range of major environmental
problems that feature promi-
nently in headline news across
the world. His arguments are
presented in non-technical,
accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2,900 notes allowing readers to check sources for themselves. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, Bjorn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritization of resources to tackle real, not imagined, problems.
The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favored by campaign groups and the media. It is essential reading for anybody with a serious interest in current environmental debates.
2001, 7 x 10,539 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST: $28.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91245)
PRODIGAL GENIUS
The Life of Nikola Tesla
by John J. O’Neill
Nikola Tesla: inventor extraor-
dinary. Spectacular as all his
inventions seemed, they were
only offshoots of his truly monu-
mental discoveries in the basic
principles of electricity. Today,
dozens of his patents are in use
in his adopted country, America,
while in his native Serbia he is
revered as a national hero.
His brilliant eccentric person-
ality gives to Tesla’s life story the
quality of the strangest romance.
He made his first million dollars
before he was forty, yet gave up
the royalties on his most prof-
itable invention as a gesture of
friendship, and died almost in
poverty. Handsome, magnetic
and elegant, he was the “catch”
in New York society, yet no
woman could win him from his dedication to science. He refused to accept the Nobel Prize; and when others claimed credit for the revolutionary ideas his extraordinary mind threw forth like showers of sparks, he did not contest them.
In this penetrating study of the life and mind of a scientific superman, Nikola Tesla is revealed as a figure of genius whose influence upon the world around us is incalculable, and whose shadow stretches far into the future.
1994,516 x 8%, 339 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PRODIGAL GENIUS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91242)
THE CHELATION WAY
The Complete Book of Chelation Therapy
How to Use Chelation Therapy to Reverse
Hardening of the Arteries and
Prevent Degenerative Diseases
by Dr. Morton Walker
Chelation therapy is a safe,
effective non-surgical treatment
that has successfully been used
to prevent and treat hardening
of the arteries for over forty
years in the United States.
New evidence indicates that
it may also help to control and,
in some cases, reverse the
effects of arthritis, cancer,
stroke, osteoporosis, glaucoma,
metal toxicity, irregular heart-
beat, senility, and gangrene, as
well as a host of other degener-
ative illnesses.
As more studies show the
many benefits of chelation ther-
apy, the number of physicians
utilizing it continues to grow.
In this important new book,
Dr. Morton Walker explains how
chelation works, documents the evidence of its effects, and discusses its oral and intravenous use. Since intravenous treatment is not always necessary, Dr. Walker also tells the reader about over-the- counter oral chelating agents — what they are, where to find them, and what dosage to take.
1990,6x9,319 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE CHELATION WAY: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82092)
Computers
Introduction
Computers. They’re all over, like horseshit. The books in this section take you beyond the horseshit and into little known areas of Cyberspace. Just say Know.
A COMPLETE H@CKER’S HANDBOOK
Everything You Need to Know About Hacking
in the Age of the Web
byDr.K
No area of computing has gener-
ated as much mythology, speculation
and sheer fascination as hacking.
From Hollywood’s perception of hack-
ers as sinister, threatening
cyber-wizards to the computer
trades’ claim that such people are
nothing more than criminal nerds,
misunderstandings abound. A Com-
plete H@cker’s Handbook looks at
the phenomenon of hacking from its
beginnings in the computer networks
of the early 1980s, through some of
the legendary hackers and their
exploits, to the basic tools that hack-
ers use today.
Contents include:
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Introduction to Hacking
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Newbie Corner
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Hacker History, Publications and Groups
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The Hacker’s Tool-box
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First Principles and Basic Techniques
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The Direct Approach
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Hacking the Web
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Tips for Specific Systems
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Phone Phreaking in the US & UK
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Viruses
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The Elements of Cracking
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Maximizing Security
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and Learning More.
This book will tell you everything you need to know about informa-
tion retrieval. Use it to improve your computer security and learn how
to guard against hackers.
2000,516 x 816,192 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
A COMPLETE H@CKER’S HANDBOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91224)
THE HAPPY HACKER
4TH EDITION
by Carolyn P. Memel
Are you a newbie at hacking? If all you know today is how to get on the Internet, within just hours you will be able to perform feats of hacking that will amaze your friends. Better yet, if you already know how to use a Unix shell account, within hours you can propel yourself into the upper ranks of hacking. How? Read this book.
Happy Hacker can be your gateway into the world of hacking. Author Carolyn P. Meinel makes hacking easy and “phun” in this crash course that turns your mild-mannered Windows 95 program into a slick invader, impervious to the flimsy protections instituted by software manufacturers.
It won’t take long to hack like a pro with the Happy Hacker, keeping in mind the Golden Rule, “If you are about to do something you would not like to have done to you, forget it.” One of the first lessons, is “How to Break into Windows 95/98 Computers” — the most common operating system in the world and a primer for other, more advanced systems. Section 2 shows you how to get serious about hacking. In Section 3 you will learn the kinds of programming that are most important for hacking: Unix shell programming and C, and Section 4 is the war portion of the book. You, too, may become one of the good guys fighting to save the Internet from spammers, computer criminals and information warfare attack. Section 5 covers hacker culture, shows you how to meet other hackers, and plan a career strategy that can catapult you to the pinnacle of the hacker world. You will learn the basics of what is legal, what will put you behind bars, and where to get help if you should be arrested. Knowledge and responsibility go hand in hand. By picking up this book, you’ve chosen knowledge over ignorance. Choose to use that knowledge responsibly.
2001,7x9%, 450pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE HAPPY HACKER: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91238)
BYTE WARS
The Impact of September 11
on Information Technology
by Edward Yourdon
How 9/11 is transforming IT — and how to survive the new “decade of security”!
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are transforming information technology, leading to profound and permanent changes. In this book, Ed Yourdon — legendary software engineering expert and author of Decline and Fall of the American Programmer— focuses on the immediate changes IT professionals are already encountering and the long-term changes they must prepare for. Yourdon addresses 9/11’s impact on IT at every level: strategic, national, corporate, and personal. Coverage includes: • “Thinking the unthinkable”: Identifying and managing risks you've never considered • New “decade of security” that is following the '90s “decade of productivity” and the '80s “decade of quality” • Privacy landscape changed forever: What it means to your organization and to you • New threats, new paradigms, new counter measures • “Death March,” security, disaster recovery, and contingency planning projects • The new balance of security vs. functionality • Increasing the resilience of your IT infrastructure • Grassroots, peer-to-peer collaboration: Responding to tomorrow’s unpredictable, chaotic crises.
Yourdon doesn’t just present problems; he outlines specific strategy options designed to lead to more effective decision-making — for IT professionals, project managers and senior corporate executives, government leaders, and citizens alike.
2002,6x9,336pp, hard cover.
BYTE WARS: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91241)
VIRUSES REVEALED
Understand and Counter Malicious Software
by David Harley, Robert Slade, and Urs E. Gattiker
The definitive guide to under-
standing and protecting against
computer viruses. With the grow-
ing number of computer virus
infections today — and the billions
of dollars spent on clean-up efforts
— virus protection has become
everybody’s business. This
detailed guide offers full-scale cov-
erage and analyses of the origin,
structure, and technology behind
the expanding array of computer
viruses, and addresses current
methods of detection and preven-
tion. By learning exactly how
viruses do what they do, you’ll bet-
ter understand how anti-malware technology works — and be able to evaluate and implement practical solutions to protect your system. You’ll get insight into the various types of malicious software — including Trojan horses, macro viruses, and worms — and also leam about virus hoaxes. Real-world case studies provide you with a firsthand look at viruses in action and the damage they can cause. Thorough, insightful, and lucid, this up-to-date reference is essential reading for everyone — from network professionals and administrators involved in virus protection to the everyday computer user.
This guide will help you: • Learn about the anatomy of viruses — including worms and Trojans • Examine different virus types and infection mechanisms — macro and script viruses, stealth viruses, and others • Get an historical overview of the emergence and evolution of computer viruses • Understand the specifics of virus activity and operation • Identify good sources for virus information and risk assessment • Implement corporate defensive strategies and systems • Gain insight into social and legal aspects of data protection • Discover how to practice safer computing • And much, much more.
2001,7x9,719pp, indexed, soft cover.
VIRUSES REVEALED: $39.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91237)
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK
OF EMAIL VIRUSES
by Mark Allen Ludwig
Computer viruses are no longer just written by teenage technograffiti artists and disgruntled programmers. They’re fast becoming the province of terrorists and warring governments. A computer virus can spread through the Internet and wipe out millions of computers in just hours — faster than an antivirus company can analyze it and faster than the news networks can warn people.
The solution? You cannot afford to rely solely on the canned technology of an antivirus program to protect yourself against viruses anymore. The only sure protection is knowledge. In this book, long time virus expert Dr. Mark A. Ludwig roils up his sleeves in a no-holds- barred look at modem computer viruses. Contents include:
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What You’ll Need to Use This Book
-
Computer Virus Basics
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Early Macro Viruses
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File-Based Reproduction
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Email-Based Reproduction
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VBScript and Viruses
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Logic Bombs
-
Antivirus Technology
-
Defeating Antivirus Software
-
The Evolutionary Challenge
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Deployment
-
Exploits
-
Good Viruses
-
What The Future Holds
-
And more.
Here you can gain the first hand knowledge you need to have a fighting chance... while exploring the fascinating and sometimes frightening possibilities for digital life!
2002,5% x 8%, 229pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK
OF EMAIL VIRUSES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91246)
ÜBERHACKER!
How to Break Into Computers
by Carolyn Meinel
From the Foreword by Pat S. Arnaud: “What do politicians, businessmen and hackers have in common? All are driven by a quest for power. In the end, power becomes everything. In the Information Age, knowledge IS power.
“From the day Niccolo Machiavelli first published The Prince in 1513, it has been called a devious road map to power. Yet, many scholars do not share this view, instead seeing in The Prince an instruction manual for ordinary citizens to recognize and prevent political seduction and manipulation. Machiavelli, recently imprisoned and tortured by the ruling Medici family, had to disguise the true meaning of his words or risk his life.
“Consider the level of propaganda in today’s media. Have a look at all the unsubstantiated allegations and fear mongering presented out of ignorance at ‘Technology News.’ A modern version of The Prince may be needed now more than ever. This book takes a step in the right direction.
“Author and security consultant, Carolyn Meinel, is one of the most colorful and controversial personages of cyberspace. Many things have been said and written about her — both slander and truth — but no one could ever accuse her of hypocrisy. Carolyn means what she says, never fearing to disclose her objectives on call.
“Her book is a close cousin to The Prince: How it is used will define its nature. You could take the information herein to hack your way into servers and workstations — as long as you’re also aware that in the end, jail time may be the price to pay.
“On the other hand, you could also use it to follow the old maxim ‘Know Your Enemy.’ Computer security is an issue that will dog us for decades to come: We all must gain at least some knowledge of hacking self-defense, or watch from the sideline as our computers become sitting ducks in a shooting gallery.
“Her no-nonsense and humorous style easily establishes a solid foundation of knowledge on which to build your network home, and with so many unscrupulous security ‘experts’ around, provides enough data to separate the wiz from the quacks.
‘There you go: Either a one-stop school for computer criminals or a solid piece of work on crime prevention. The fact is, would-be hackers can gather this data piecemeal from many online sources. Probably, most have already done so.” Contents Include: • The Basics of Setting up Your Hacker Laboratory • How to Break Into Computers: The Foundation • How to Set up a Windows 95/98 ME Hacker Lab • How to Get Windows95/98, Windows NT, and Linux on One Computer • Your Linux Attack Computer • How to Build Your Windows Attack Computer • Your Shell Server: Friendship Central • How to Set Up a Hacker Lab With Many Operating Systems • Exploration • Basic Exploration Concepts • How to Explore the Internet • How to Learn Anything — About Anyone or Anything »And much, much more.
Carolyn Meinel’s Uberhacker! How to Break Into Computers is the single finest computer hacking book ever written. Get your copy now!
2000,8% x 11,248pp, Illustrated, CD-Rom included, soft cover.
UBERHACKER!: $36.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91217)
THE HACKER DIARIES
Confessions of Teenage Hackers
by Dan Verton
They could’ve been anybody’s
kids. Friends and neighbors were
shocked to learn that the skinny, dark-
haired, 14-year-old boy next door who
loved playing basketball — almost as
much as he loved computers — would
cause millions of dollars worth of dam-
age on the Internet and capture the
attention of the online world — and the
federal government. He was known
online as “Mafiaboy” and, to the FBI,
as the most notorious teenage hacker
of all time. He did it all from his bed-
room PC. And he’s not alone. Com-
puter hacking and Web site
defacement has become a national
pastime for America’s teenagers, and
according to the stories you’ll read about in The Hacker Diaries, it is
only the beginning.
Who exactly are these kids and what motivates a hacker to strike?
Why do average teenagers get involved in hacking in the first place?
This compelling and revealing book sets out to answer these ques-
tions — and some of the answers will surprise you. Through fascinat-
ing interviews with FBI agents, criminal psychologists,
law-enforcement officials — as well as current and former hackers —
you’ll get a glimpse inside the mind of today’s teenage hacker. Learn
how they think, find out what it was like for them growing up, and
understand the internal and external pressures that pushed them
deeper and deeper into the hacker underground.
Every hacker has a life and story of his or her own. One
teenager’s insatiable curiosity as to how the family’s VCR worked was
enough to trigger a career of cracking into computer systems. These
are remarkable stories of technological wizardry, creativity, dedica-
tion, youthful angst, frustration, disconnection from society, boredom,
anger, and jail time. Teenage hackers are not all indifferent punks.
They’re just like every kid and some of them probably live in your
neighborhood. They’re there. All you have to do is look.
2002,6x9,239 pp, Illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
THE HACKER DIARIES: $24.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91244)
SECRET SOFTWARE
Making the Most of Computer Resources
for Data Protection, Information Recovery,
Forensic Examination, Crime Investigation,
and More
by Norbert Zaenglein
Now the software secrets that have been the exclusive domain of hackers and other computer-sawy surfers of the Information Superhighway are out of the bag. With this book, Norbert Zaenglein takes these insider secrets mainstream, offering invaluable information on an amazing array of computer resources available for the downloading. In straightforward, nontechnical terms, you’ll get the low-down on: • electronic document shredders • covert computer surveillance and monitoring • a new electronic truth serum that rivals the polygraph • detection and identification of electronic intruders • professional forensics software to assist in law enforcement investigations • file viewers that provide instant access to files that can’t be opened • software that searches the internet to uncover what is being said about you, and where • image enhancement software to aid in criminal investigations • all-in-one computer security programs • and much, much more.
Whether you want to protect confidential material from prying eyes or you’re the one doing the prying, Zaenglein presents you with the latest high-tech tools available for getting the job done.
2000,5% x 8%, 127 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SECRET SOFTWARE: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91218)
FREEWARE ENCRYPTION
AND SECURITY PROGRAMS
Protecting Your Computer and Your Privacy
by Michael Chesbro
\Ne are fast approaching a time when all our private communications will be monitored as a matter of course — just in case we might have some criminal intent, politically incorrect thought or uncommon belief. The files we store on our home or work computers and the messages we send over the Internet are fair game for those who would snoop into and record our private lives. The only way most of us can reclaim a modicum of privacy is through file encryption and security programs designed to keep prying eyes away from our secrets. Fortunately, there are many programs that are not only incredibly effective in guarding our privacy but are available absolutely free of charge. In this book, Michael Chesbro outlines some of the most popular freeware encryption and security programs available. You will learn how to determine which programs are best for you, how to securely destroy files and the advantages of file sharing. The cost of using these programs is zero. But if you don’t learn to use them, it could cost you your privacy or even your freedom.
2001,51A x 8te, 96 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
FREEWARE ENCRYPTION
AND SECURITY PROGRAMS: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91182)
WEB HACKING
Attacks and Defense
</strong> by Stuart McClure, Saumil Shah,
and Shreeraj Shah
Whether it’s petty
defacing or full-scale
cyber-robbery, hackers
are moving to the web,
along with everything
else. Organizations
using web-based busi-
ness applications are
increasingly at risk. Web
Hacking is a powerful
guide to the latest in web
attacks and defense.
Security experts Stuart
McClure, Saumil Shah,
and Shreeraj Shah pres-
ent a broad range of web
attacks and defenses.
Both novice and more
seasoned readers will
come away with an
increased understanding
of how web attacking
occurs, as well as enhanced skill at developing defenses against web attacks. Technologies covered include web languages and protocols, web and database servers, payment systems and shopping carts, and important vulnerabilities associated with URLs.
Features include: • Overview of the web and what hackers go after • Complete web application security methodologies • Detailed analysis of hacking techniques • Countermeasures • New case studies and eye-opening attack scenarios • Advanced web hacking concepts, methodologies and tools.
“How Do They Do It?” sections show how and why different attacks succeed, including: • Cyber graffiti and web site defacement • E-Shoplifting • Database access and web applications • Java application servers; how to harden your Java web server • Impersonation and session hijacking • Buffer overflows, the most wicked of attacks • Automated attack tools, worms, and how hackers defeat the IDS. Appendices include a listing of common web ports, cheat sheets for remote command execution, and source code disclosure techniques.
2002,7x9,512 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
WEB HACKING: $49.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91240)
HACKERS BEWARE
Defending Your Network from the Wiley Hacker
by Eric Cole
A good defense starts
with a thorough understand-
ing of your opponent’s
offense. Hackers Beware
teaches you how hackers
think, what tools they use,
and the techniques they uti-
lize to compromise a
machine. Eric Cole, a lead-
ing expert in information
security, shows you not only
how to detect these attacks,
but what you can do to pro-
tect yourself against them.
Learn how to:
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Protect you site from
attackers by under-
standing what an exploit
is and how it can be
used against you -
Examine the tools that are used to compromise systems in order to create better defense measures
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Identify the common attacks that account for the majority of systems attacks
-
Leam how to avoid buffer overflow attacks by error checking the scripts that your server runs
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Avoid session hijacking by implementing additional user authentication procedures during a user session
-
Discover techniques to avoid IP and web spoofing, popular ways for an attacker to acquire information or gain access.
2002,7x9, 795 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HACKERS BEWARE: $45.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91235)
BUILD, UPGRADE, AND REPAIR YOUR COMPUTER
by Mike and Tony Harris
If you think you have to be a genius to understand the inner workings of a computer, think again. Computer experts Mike and Tony Harris insist that if you can operate a Phillips-head screwdriver and follow instructions, you can build the most complicated PC — a simple assertion that could revolutionize the way people look at computers.
Building instead of buying will save you hundreds — perhaps thousands — of dollars. Plus, the experience will enable you to repair your PC and successfully upgrade it to keep it current, which will save you even more money. This book uses photos and easy-to-under- stand instructions to demonstrate that regardless of which processor or system speed you choose, the actual assembly is exactly the same. The only variables are the number and configuration of optional add-on ‘components. The Harrises guide you through the process of determining what kind of computer you want, purchasing and successfully assembling the hardware, and installing the software. When you finish you will have the right system and hundreds of extra dollars in your pocket.
This book also covers upgrades for improved performance on older machines in easy-to-read language, plus tips and basic troubleshooting techniques used by experts to repair and tune up computers and peripherals. This is truly the how-to book for the computer age.
2002,8M x 11,166 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BUILD, UPGRADE, AND REPAIR
YOUR COMPUTER: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91247)
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO E-SECURITY
Using the Internet and E-Mail
Without Losing Your Privacy
by Michael Chesbro
Want to take advantage of the
latest technology without being
taken advantage of? In this eye-
opening guide, Michael Chesbro
shows how the average Ameri-
can’s personal and business e-
mail can be read in more than a
dozen places between the time
it’s sent and the time it’s received,
how marketers and other snoops
can find out which Web sites you
visit (not to mention such private
information as your IP address, e-
mail address, geographical loca-
tion, and the type of computer
you’re using), and how the gov-
ernment is working toward limit-
ing your right to use encryption.
Chesbro then tells you everything
you need to know about safely
and anonymously surfing the Internet, setting up encrypted e-mail easily, creating an uncrackable password, understanding unbreakable encryption programs such as PGP, sending e-mail through remailer services to disguise the source and securely deleting or hiding files on your home computer to safeguard your private records from seizure.
2000,x 816, 160 pp, soft cover.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO E-SECURITY: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91220)
STEAL THIS COMPUTER BOOK 2
What They Won’t Tell You About the Internet
by Wallace Wang
WARNING: This book
is not to be used for
hacking into government
computers, shutting
down AOL, cracking soft-
ware, phone phreaking,
spreading viruses, or any
other illegal activity.
is your computer safe
from computer viruses
and malicious hackers?
No matter how secure
your computer is, it is still
vulnerable to a variety of
attacks that can ruin your
files or hoodwink you out
of thousands of dollars.
This thoroughly revised
second edition of the
best-selling Steal This
Computer Book will
help you protect yourself.
You will discover: • How hackers write and spread computer viruses • How hackers hide their identities and shred their files • How to crack into computers or steal software • How to fight back against spammers • How to tell when your machine is being attacked and confront your attacker.
The book includes a CD-ROM (for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux): Nearly 300 programs (freeware, shareware, and trialware), including encryption tools, virus scanners, firewalls, computer forensics tools, a free operating system, and much more.
2001,7x9,480 pp, illustrated, Indexed, CD included, soft cover.
STEAL THIS COMPUTER BOOK 2: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91221)
THE GIANT BLACK BOOK
OF COMPUTER VIRUSES
by Mark Ludwig
WARNING: This book contains complete source code for live computer viruses which could be extremely dangerous in the hands of incompetent persons. You can be held legally Hable for the misuse of these viruses. Do not attempt to execute any of the code in this book unless you are well versed in systems programming for personal computers, and you are working on a carefully controlled and isolated computer system. Do not put these viruses on any computer without the owner’s consent.
Without a doubt, this is the best technical reference on computer viruses available anywhere at any price! This book gives you a complete course on computer viruses which starts out with a simple 44- byte virus, and goes on to cover every aspect of modem computer viruses.
In the first part of the book, you’ll explore replication techniques. You will start out with simple overwriting viruses and companion and memory viruses, and go on to discuss parasitic viruses for COM and EXE files and memory resident viruses, including viruses which use advanced memory control structure manipulation.
The second part of the book will give you a solid introduction to the battle between viruses and anti-virus programs. It will teach you how virus detectors work and what techniques they use. You’ll get a detailed introduction to stealth techniques used by both boot sector viruses and file infecting viruses, including protected mode techniques. Next, there is a tour of retaliating viruses which attack antivirus programs, and polymorphic viruses.
The third part of the book deals with common payloads for viruses. It includes a thorough discussion of destructive logic bombs, as well as how to break the security of Unix and set up an account with super user privileges. This book is packed with detailed explanations of how all these viruses work and full source code for 37 different viruses and 4 anti-virus programs. It also contains exercises designed to make you as proficient as the author in this subject. Nothing is held back! GET THIS BOOK BEFORE IT GETS YOU!!!
1998,516 x 816,672pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE GIANT BLACK BOOK
OF COMPUTER VIRUSES: $39.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91130)
HACKER’S CHALLENGE
Test Your Incident Response Skills
Using 20 Scenarios
by Mike Schiffman
“A solve-it-yourself mystery that will draw you in with entertaining, yet realistic scenarios that both challenge and inform you"— Tim Newsham, security research scientist
Malicious hackers are everywhere these days, so how do you keep them out of your networks? This unique volume challenges your forensics and incident response skills with 20 real-world hacks presented by upper-echelon security experts. Important topics are covered, including Denial of Service, wireless technologies, Web attacks and malicious code. Each challenge includes a detailed explanation of the incident — how the break-in was detected, evidence and possible clues, technical background such as log files and network maps, and a series of questions for you to solve. Then, in Part II, you get a detailed analysis of how the experts solved each incident.
“It is not good enough to defend against current attacks — by utilizing the information in Hacker’s Challenge, we can defeat future attacks before they even exist. — Peiter Mudge Zatko, Chief scientist and VP of R & D,
2001,7x9,382 pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
HACKER’S CHALLENGE: $29.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91236)
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SECRETS OF A SUPER HACKER
by The Knightmare
The Knightmare is the sort of Super Hacker who keeps security guards from sleeping at night. He’s not motivated by money or malice. He’s in it for the hack. If your computer has any link whatsoever to the outside world, there is no question The Knightmare can break in; the only question is whether he wants to.
Secrets of a Super Hacker is an extraordinary manual on the methods of hacking. Here are some of the techniques covered in this data-devouring dossier:
• Brute Force Attacks: Hurling passwords at a system until it cracks
• Social Engineering and Reverse Social Engineering: Seducing Legitimate Users into revealing their passwords
• Spoofing: Designing dummy screens; delivering fake e-mail
• Superuser Abuser: How to get system managers to do your dirty work for you!
• Screen Stealing: How to secretly record every image that appears on a computer screen
• Stair Stepping: How to use a low-level account to gain ever-higher levels of access
• And Much More! Including a brief history of hacking, lists of likely passwords, and a summary of computer crime laws and a glossary.
In precise step-by-step detail, The Knightmare guides you through what you should know before the hack, and how to research your target. Then he guides you through the hack, including public access computers and terminals, onsite hacking (the trespasser-hacker) and hacking at home, as well as computer bulletin boards, and what to do once you are inside.
Perhaps the most important chapter of all is Hacker Security: How to Keep from Getting Caught. Here, The Knightmare reveals how to keep from getting caught in researching, how to keep from getting caught in social engineering, dialing in, laptop hints, your on-the-road kit, system tiptoeing, BBS protection, other on-line security tips, security logs, and much, much more.
No system can withstand the ingenious, unrelenting assaults of The Knightmare. And no person concerned with computers and computer security should miss this amazing manual of electronic mayhem.
Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to offer our readers The Knightmare’s Secrets of a Super Hacker.
1994,816x11,211 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SECRETS OF A SUPER HACKER: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91085)
THE ULTIMATE INTERNET TERRORIST
How Hackers, Geeks, and Phreaks Can Ruin Your
Trip on the Information Superhighway...
and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
by Robert Merkle
This is an owner’s
manual to the “Darkside”
of the Web. The manual
that nobody talks about
and that never came with
your computer. It is the
most complete collection
of methods, hints, and
dirty tricks used by hack-
ers, geeks, and phreaks
you will ever find.
This book will open
your eyes to the hard real-
ities of the Highway,
including what your e-mail
address reveals to cyber-
terrorists, how electronic
stalkers can find you and
make your life hell, the
dangers of chat rooms, the
methods used by “cyber-
gangs” and “codeslingers,”
the art and science of
downloading information
off the ’Net, and the
intrigue of black archives and forbidden files from the Darkside. Once you know just how ugly it can get, you’ll learn the extreme countermeasures to employ if you plan to survive in this electronic war zone. Soon you will be surfing the ’Net with the baddest of badboy hackers to find information on anyone — or stop someone from doing it to you! For academic study only.
1998,51/2 x 816,152 pp, soft cover.
THE ULTIMATE INTERNET TERRORIST: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 91160)
CYBERSHOCK
Surviving Hackers, Phreakers,
Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists
and Weapons of Mass Disruption
by Winn Schwartau
Cybershock, by Winn Schwartau, author of the classic Information Warfare, is the first book to guide the average Internet user through the perils of hackers, phreakers, identity thieves and Internet terrorists, offering answers and solutions in common-sense language to make our online lives safer and more secure. Today, you don’t have to be an underground hacker or a professional computer engineer to be affected by Cybershock. Folklore and rumor about the Internet is at an all-time high. The media makes it sound like the world is collapsing around us because of these punkster hackers who mess with banks and telephones and government computers.
The Internet is here and trouble has started. The rules change daily. New hacks occur by the hundred or thousand every month. The power of technology doubles every 9-18 months and its march forward sees no end. Cybershock is a non-technical manual for coping with these changes. The links and references included for your use contain vast amounts of information — more than you could ever digest in a lifetime — and still that information is incomplete. Cybershock will show you just how bad a neighborhood the Internet can be, and what you can do to protect your family and business from fraud, identity theft, online predators, and much more.
This is your chance to really learn what is going on... out there... virtually and really... in Cyberspace... the Internet. Cybershock. It affects you.
2000,6x9,498 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
CYBERSHOCK: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91226)
FORBIDDEN SECRETS OF
THE LEGION OF DOOM HACKERS
A Handbook of Condemned Programs
and Techniques
by “Salacious Crumb”
In 1990, the Secret Service shut down hundreds of underground BBSs, including those considered most influential and important by hackers, such as the now-famous “Legion of Doom.” The Legion of Doom may no longer exist, but the valuable knowledge, programs, and techniques they and many other hacker pioneers left behind does — forbidden and condemned though they are. The problem is that this material has not been readily available to novices and others interested in hacking. That is, until nowl
This large 222-page book is a unique collection of information from the former Legion of Doom’s underground BBS. It is presented as it appeared there — in a special limited edition. A rare opportunity to access this dynamic material for your own reference and information. Contents include:
Hacking: • A Novice’s Guide to Hacking • An Introduction of Hacking TOPS-20s • A Hacker’s Guide to UUCP • Introduction to the Iris Operating System • A Guide to the PpiMOS Operating System • Hacking IBM’s VM/CMS Operating System Part A • The Networked UNIX: TCP-IP • A Discreet UNIX Password Hacker • Unix Password Hacker: Courtesy of USENET
Phreaking: • The AT&T BILLDATS Collector • Step-by-Switching Notes • Coin Service, The Central Office and You • An Overview of the Teledyne 4 Tel System (O)
Miscellaneous: • Building Your Own Blue Box • Identifying, Attacking, Defeating, and Bypassing Physical Security and Intrusion Detection • The Trasher’s Handbook to B.M.O.S.S. • The Radar Guidebook • Intelligence and Interrogation Processes.
This book is sold for informational purposes only.
1994,86x11,222 pp, soft cover.
FORBIDDEN SECRETS OF
THE LEGION OF DOOM HACKERS: $20.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91096)
THE ULTIMATE INTERNET OUTLAW
How Surfers Steal Sex, Software, CDs, Games,
and More Top-Secret Stuff
on the Information Superhighway
by Robert Merkle
In this no-holds-barred hand-
book of cybercrime, Robert
Merkle, a regular on thé Darkside
of the Web and author of The
Ultimate Internet Terrorist, takes
you on the wildest ride through
cyberspace yet. The Ultimate
Internet Outlaw opens the door
to an electronic underworld brim-
ming with hacks, cracks, and for-
bidden files. Find out how those
in the know steal CD-quality
music off the ’Net, amassing
huge libraries of top-chart songs;
how adult “pay-only” Web sites
are broken into routinely by
everyday Joes without degrees
in rocket science; how savvy
Darkside surfers download treas-
ure troves of software, all of the
classic arcade games, and more
off the ’Net — without paying a penny; and how hackers and others
surf the Web without their Internet provider (or anyone else) knowing
what they’re up to. And that’s just for starters! It’s all here — the hard-
core stuff experienced surfers have zealously guarded... until now!
1999,56 x 86,90 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE ULTIMATE INTERNET OUTLAW: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 40087)
BYTE ME!
Hayduke’s Guide to
Computer-Generated Revenge
by George Hayduke
How do you get even in
the computer age? Just say
Byte Mel Plug in to the wild
wired world of cyberrevenge
and turn your mark into road-
kill on the Information Super-
highway with this hilarious
guide from revenge master
George Hayduke, the man
who put the URL in HURL!
Log in to a place where the
unwitting object of your ire
finds his own computers, fax
machines, and phones
turned against him. From
sneaky little annoyances to
major meltdowns, Byte Me!
has dozens of tried and true
(and evilly entertaining) ways
to even the score, all culled
from the files of Hayduke’s
devious legion of friends and
accomplices.
George gives you the lowdown on covering your electronic tracks and supplies you with the Web site addresses of all the cybersources you’ll need to pull off your humorous haydukery. Show your enemies that when revenge is computer-generated, the mouse Is mightier than the rat! For entertainment purposes only!
2000,56 x 86,160 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
BYTE ME!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 19221)
THE INTERNET PREDATOR
by Karl Schwartz
THE
INTERNET
PREDATOR
There is no warning
label on your computer or
on the home page that
appears when you log
onto the Internet. Maybe
there should be, because
the minute you log on, you
could be the next prey of
the “Ted Bundy of the
Internet!” This book pres-
ents an in-depth portrait of
the Internet predator and
what could happen to you
as an average user. The
author brings to this vol-
ume all the weapons and
tools you will need to beat
the predator at his own
game. He reveals practical
techniques that you can
implement immediately to
protect your computer and
all of the data that is
stored there.
You will learn your way around the dark side of the Cyberworld.
You will discover the vulnerable areas of electronic mail, newsgroups
and chat rooms and how to use them to your advantage. This book is
presented for educational purposes and for the protection of the users
of the Internet and should not be considered as a manual for may-
hem.
1999,56 x 86,135 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE INTERNET PREDATOR: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 40088)
APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY
Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
by Bruce Schneier
In Applied Cryptography,
data security expert Bruce
Schneier details how program-
mers can use cryptography —
the technique of enciphering
messages — to maintain the
privacy of computer data. Cov-
ering the latest developments
in practical cryptographic tech-
niques, the book shows pro-
grammers who design
computer applications, net-
works, and storage systems
how security can be built into
the computer software and
systems we use everyday.
Along with more than 100
pages of actual C source code
of working cryptographic algorithms, this practical handbook:
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Explains data encryption protocols and techniques currently in use and likely to be used in the future.
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Offers numerous present day applications — from secure correspondence to anonymous messaging.
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Includes numerous source code fragments and shows how to incorporate them into larger programs.
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Discusses related issues like patents, export laws, and legal rulings.
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And much more!
1994,x 9%, 618 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY: $44.95
(ORDER NUMBER 10062)
HACKING EXPOSED
Network Security Secrets & Solutions,
Third Edition
by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, and George Kurtz
“If this book doesn’t scare
and motivate you to take security
seriously, nothing will” — Ale-
phOne, Bugtraq Moderator
In today’s round-the-clock,
hyper-connected, all-digital
economy, computer security is
everyone’s business. Hacking
Exposed: Network Security
Secrets & Solutions, 3rd Edi-
tion brings even more in-depth
insight Into how hackers infiltrate
e-business and how they can be
stopped. Security insiders Joel
Scambray, Stuart McClure, and
George Kurtz present more than
220 all-new pages of technical
detail and case studies in an easy-to-follow style. The world of Inter-
net security moves even faster than the digital economy, and all of the
brand-new tools and techniques that have surfaced since the publica-
tion of the first edition are covered here. Use the real-world counter-
measures in this one-of-a-kind volume to plug the holes in your
network today — before they end up in the headlines tomorrow.
Chapters include: Footprinting; Scanning; Enumeration; Hacking
Windows 95/98 and ME; Hacking Windows NT; Hacking Windows
2000; Novell NetWare Hacking; Hacking Unix; Dial-Up, PBX, Voice-
mail, and VPN Hacking; Web Hacking; Hacking the Internet User; and
much, much more, including a CD-rom.
2001,7% x 9, 706 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
HACKING EXPOSED: $39.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91233)
INFORMATION WARFARE
How to Survive Cyber Attacks
by Michael Erbschloe
In today’s electronic age, the threat of
cyber attacks is great. For any organiza-
tion with information-based assets, the
deadliest weapons can come in the form of
a keyboard, mouse, or personal computer.
With hacking attacks and computer-based
crimes increasing both in frequency and
degree of seriousness, it’s clear that infor-
mation warfare is. real and companies
must protect themselves in order to sur-
vive. But how do you avoid getting caught
in the crossfire of these attacks and how
do you prepare when the electronic future
is uncertain? The answers can be found
inside Information Warfare.
This revealing book explores the impact of information warfare
and the disruption and damage it can cause to governments, corpo-
rations, and commercial Web sites. Is it possible for a small number
of people to cause millions of dollars worth of economic destruction
from a computer? Through the use of scenarios and profiles of the
cyber-terrorist subculture, you’ll learn practical defense strategies for
protecting your company or e-Commerce site from cyber attacks. The
book also examines the steps that governments around the world
need to take in order to combat the advanced skill levels of some of
the most dangerous cyber-criminals today. Whether you’re responsi-
ble for making technology decisions fhat affect your company’s
future, or interested in computer security in general, you won’t find a
more accurate and up-to-date book covering the emerging field of
information warfare.
2001,6% x 9%, 316 pp, Indexed, hard cover.
INFORMATION WARFARE: $29.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91231)
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
Design, Deployment & Operations
</strong> by Christopher M. King, Curtis E. Dalton,
and E. Ertem Osmanoglu
Design a secure solution from start to
finish and learn the principles needed for
developing solid network architecture
using this authoritative guide. You’ll find
hands-on coverage for deploying a wide
range of solutions, including network par-
titioning, platform hardening, application
security, and more.
This book will show you how to:
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Develop an information classification
and access control plan -
Use the appropriate security policies
and technology to best meet your
security requirements -
Comprehend security infrastructure design principles
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Utilize appropriate security technology in the most secure method
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Ensure complete network security across multiple systems, appli-
cations, hosts, and devices -
Fully understand the tradeoffs between usability and liability
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Develop and apply policies, assess risks, and understand require-
ments for running security-specific technology -
Work with and configure IDS, VPNs, PKI, and firewalls
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And much, much more.
Written by recognized experts and endorsed by RSA Security Inc.,
the most trusted name in e-security, this comprehensive and practical
security guide is your essential tool for planning and implementing a
safe and reliable enterprise network.
2001, 7Mx 9,488 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE: $49.99
(ORDER NUMBER 91232)
HERESY/WEIRD IDEAS
Introduction
heresy • any opinion (in philosophy politics, etc.) opposed to official or established views or doctrines.
— Webster's New World Dictionary
While some might brand our whole catalog as Heresy, this is our “Hot Potato” section, with something to offend practically everybody. Religion, politics, science, and much more — all are kicked around and blasphemed here. Nothing is sacred, not even skepticism and self-reliance!
“Everything you know is wrong.”
— The Firesign Theater
SATAN SPEAKS!
by Anton LaVey
“Never let it be said that I
gave my life for any cause,
but rather that I took advan-
tage of my impending
death,” wrote Anton LaVey.
Though the world’s most
famous Satanist has been
prancing through Hell since
his 1997 death, he left
behind this compendium of
dark wit and tripod-sharp
observations. His writings
touch on the frequency of
bathing, to high heels, to
panty-pissing fetishes, to
one-line philosophies.
With a forward from pop
underworld’s Marilyn Man-
son and introduction from
Blanche Barton, LaVey’s
biographer, LaVey’s dark
and terrible world is illumi-
nated just enough to make
us howl with laughter or sink
into deep contemplation.
“Anton LaVey was the most righteous man I’ve ever known. He
honored his immortality, and had more faith in his peculiar axioms
than any armchair Christian vacantly reciting John 3:16 ever pos-
sessed. Yet, despite his cynicism and apocalyptic view of society, he
often hoped for a better world, or at least one in which intelligence
and creativity were applauded. I find more respect for humanity In his
blackest humor than in the passionless zealotry that perpetuates all
other conventional religions. Even if I had never agreed with a word he
said, it would be irresponsible not to appreciate the sheer brilliance
with which it was spoken — not to mention his having the balls to
move out and speak it.
“I’ve come to realize that the truth is most often unwanted or
believed to be a lie. In a world so full of shit, Anton LaVey cut through
it with the best of them.”— Marilyn Manson
Hell-ariousl
1998,516 x 816, 179 pp, soft cover.
SATAN SPEAKS!: $13.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94303)
ECCENTRIC LIVES
AND PECULIAR NOTIONS
by John Michell
Eccentric Lives
and Peculiar Notions
takes us into the
bizarre and often
humorous lives of such
people as Lady Blount,
who was sure that the
earth is flat; Cyrus
Teed, who believed
that the earth is a hol-
low shell with us on the
inside; Edward Hine,
who believed that the
British are the lost
Tribes of Israel; and
Baron de Gulden-
stubbe, who was sure
that statues wrote him
letters.
British writer and
housewife Nesta Web-
ster devoted her life to
exposing international
conspiracies, and
Father O’Callaghan
devoted his to oppos-
ing interest on loans. The extraordinary characters in this book were — and in some cases still are — wholehearted enthusiasts for the various causes and outrageous notions they adopted, and John Michell describes their adventures with spirit and compassion. Some of them prospered and lived happily with their obsessions, while others failed dismally. We read, for example, of the hapless inventor of a giant battleship made of ice who died alone and neglected, and of the London couple who achieved peace and prosperity by drilling holes in their heads. Other chapters cover the Last of the Welsh Druids; Congressman Ignatius Donnelly, the Great Heretic and Atlantis; Shakespearean Decoders and the Baconian Treasure Hunt; Early Ufologists; Jerusalem in Scotland; Bibliomaniacs; and more.
1984,6x9,240 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
ECCENTRIC LIVES
AND PECULIAR NOTIONS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 9918Í)
THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and
Uncontrolled Free Trade
are Sinking American Living Standards
by Alan Tonelson
With the end of the 1990s eco-
nomic boom, The Race to the Bot-
tom deftly explores how the United
States has entered a no-win global
competition in which the countries
with the lowest wages, weakest
workplace safety laws, and toughest
repression of unions gain investment
from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson
analyzes how the entry of such pop-
ulation giants as China, India, and
Mexico into the global market has
accelerated the erosion of wages
and labor standards around the
world. And he describes how an
ever-larger share of this low-wage
competition is hitting not just sectors
like apparel and toys, but also many
of America’s highest wage industries like aerospace and software. Tonelson explains why the re-education and retraining programs touted by many political leaders offer little hope to most U.S. workers. He outlines the real decisions Washington needs to make to ensure long-term prosperity for the U.S. and the rest of the world.
“Amidst America’s growing infatuation with globalization, Alan Tonelson is one of the few articulate voices asking the hard questions and pointing out the pitfalls.’’ — Business Week magazine
2002,5Vz x 81A>,246 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM: $17.50
(ORDER NUMBER 58154)
THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING EDUCATED
And Other Essays
by Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) was never a household name even in his own lifetime. He was not a reformer and found offensive any society with a “monstrous itch for changing people.” He had “a great horror of every attempt to change anybody; or I should rather say, every wish to change anybody; for that is the important thing.” Whenever one “wishes to change anybody, one becomes like the socialists, vegetarians, prohibitionists; and this, as Rabelais says, Is a terrible thing to think upon.’” The only thing we can do to improve society, he declared, “is to present society with one improved unit.’’ Nock knew very well that he was rowing against the tide and that his words would have no immediate effect on the course of human events but since his devotion was to the truth, he worried not at all about being out of step with his times.
This volume collects 17 of Nock’s essays:
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The Disadvantages of Being Educated
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Life, Liberty, and...
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A Study in Manners
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Earning Immortality
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The Value of Useless Knowledge
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Toadstools
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A Word to Women
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Fountains of Joy
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On Making Low People Interesting
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Literature of Escape
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Free Speech & Plain Language
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New York’s Jeffersonian Mayor
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Business Dodges the Truth
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and The Gods’ Lookout.
1996,5x8,221 pp, soft cover.
THE DISADVANTAGES
OF BEING EDUCATED: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99208)
UNCIVIL WARS
The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery
by David Horowitz
The idea that taxpayers should pay reparations to African-Americans for the damages of slavery and segregation has won the backing of important black politicians like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), distinguished black intellectuals like Henry Louis Gates, and activists like Randall Robinson, who led the successful boycott movement against South Africa a decade ago. Reparations played a central role in the fractious United Nations Conference on Racism in the fall of 2001.
In Uncivil Wars, David Horowitz carefully analyzes the case for reparations for slavery and concludes that it is “morally questionable and racially incendiary.” He notes that only a tiny minority of Americans ever owned slaves and that most Americans living today (white and otherwise) are descended from post-Civil War immigrants who have no lineal connection to slavery at all. More intriguingly, he also points out that the GNP of black America is so large that it makes the African-American community the tenth most prosperous “nation” in the world. “Since American blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes 20 to 50 times those of blacks living in the African nations from which their ancestors were seized,” he writes, “should the descendants of slaves pay themselves for benefiting from the fruits of their ancestors’ servitude?” In answering this and other questions, Horowitz looks deeply into the question of race and the American enterprise and provides a stirring defense of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and other of our national heroes whom the partisans of reparations demean as mere slave-masters and hypocrites.
In addition to providing a casebook on an idea — a bad idea, in Horowitz’s opinion — whose time seems to have come, Uncivil Wars also reveals a crisis of free speech on our college campuses, where support for the reparations movement is centered. In the hope of initiating a true dialogue on this issue, Horowitz tried to air his arguments against reparations for slavery by placing advertisements in a series of college newspapers in the spring of 2001. He tells how some of the editors who accepted the ad were forced to denounce themselves Chinese Communist-style in the furor that followed. Others simply rejected the ad altogether and joined other student radicals in indicting him as a “racist” and a “fascist.” Horowitz then traveled to campuses all over the country on a “freedom tour” to challenge this censorship, and encountered such menace from radicals and their supporters in faculties and administrations that he was eventually forced to hire personal guards to guarantee his safety.
Uncivil Wars, therefore, is two stories at once: an intellectual journey into the guilt and redemption of American history, and a personal journey into the havens of intolerance inside our centers of higher learning that threaten their integrity and vitality.
It is impossible to travel with David Horowitz and not return both shaken and enlightened.
2002,6x9,155 pp, indexed, hard cover.
UNCIVIL WARS: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94358)
DEMONS OF THE MODERN WORLD
by Malcolm McGrath
Demons of the Modern World is an illuminating and entertaining history of demonology in Western civilization. Malcolm McGrath contends that “the illusion of a world of demons lurking behind our day-to- day reality is built right into the structure of modern Western culture.” Drawing on fascinating historical cases such as Rebecca Nurse, hanged for witchcraft in 1692, and Michelle Smith, who as an adult accused her mother of offering her to Satan at the age of five in 1954- 55, McGrath explains how and why the widespread belief in demonology and Satanism in modern Western culture was bom and developed from more primitive times to the present.
He illustrates how the recovered memory movement, the false memory machine, and Multiple Personality Disorder theories operated to create bogus allegations of satanic ritual abuse like those leveled at the owners and faculty of the McMartin Preschool in 1984.
What is ultimately at stake, in McGrath’s view, is where we draw the line between fantasy and reality. In drawing such a line we create a split between the physical world of natural laws and the symbolic world of thoughts and ideas. When the line between reality and fantasy is blurred, witch-hunts and Satanism scares emerge.
Citing the fact that some of the most famous horror stories, such as Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are the products of their authors’ dreams, McGrath maintains that certain pervasive beliefs never leave us; they reside in the back of our minds, making us susceptible to believing in demons, witches, and aliens.
Throughout this intriguing and innovative book, McGrath explains our fascination with horror stories and films, and bizarre crazes such as witch-hunts, Satanism scares, and claims of alien abduction. The research offered in Demons of the Modern World is free of complicated social scientific jargon and is packed with illuminating historical examples. This is a fascinating tour along the fringes of modern Western cultural history.
Little more than three hundred years ago, the public was convinced that the Western world was overrun with witches, demons, and spirits, and as a result, thousands of innocent people were killed. In the 1980s, many people were wrongfully accused and tried for alleged satanic ritual abuse crimes against children. The next example of societal obsession with demons may happen sooner than we think. We need to be ready, and the best defense is a clear understanding of how these instances of mass psychological excess ever could have been allowed to happen.
2002,6x9,323 pp, indexed, hard cover.
DEMONS OF THE MODERN WORLD: $32.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88226)
RUNNING ON EMPTINESS
The Pathology of Civilization
by John Zerzan
John Zerzan, anarcho-primitivist philosopher, ideological friend to the Unabomber, and mentor to the anti-Globalist anarchists who set the world aflame in Seattle and Europe, is back with Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization.
From the Introduction by Theresa Kintz: “This collection of essays from civilization’s most cogent living critic demands consideration. Consideration of the indisputable fact that no matter where you’re from, ten thousand years ago your ancestors were stone-age anarchists. Consideration of the significance of how for 99 percent of human history people walked gently on the earth, lived free in harmony with wild nature and each other, accomplishing everything they needed to accomplish in their daily lives using a stone, bone, wood tool technology. It demands we consider why all artifacts have politics and how when we use tools they use us back. It requires we consider how human nature was originally one and part of a whole...
“It is in this context that we are then forced to consider the following questions: What are the origins of our estrangement? Why do we ignore the nature of our own bodies and minds? Who decided we needed mechanization, electricity, nuclear power, automobiles or computer technology? Has one single man-made item been a necessary improvement on the earth? Why do we put the survival of all species on the planet in peril for our exclusive comfort and gratification? How did we come to dedicate our lives to maintaining this mad tangle of supply and demand that we call civilization? And finally, what will it take for us to give up the artificiality of our grim modern lives and cleave instead to what is natural?”
John Zerzan’s anti-technology writings are widely considered the most radical tonic to the crisis of our time.
2002,5M x 8M, 232 pp, soft cover.
RUNNING ON EMPTINESS: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99205)
SHIT MAGNET
One Man’s Miraculous Ability to Absorb
the World’s Guilt
by Jim Goad
From the Author: “Few writers have seen
their words blamed for obscenity trials, White
House Shootings, and triple suicides, but fuck
all you other writers — I’m a unique case.
“I get into more trouble than anyone I’ve
ever met. So as I sat for nearly two-and-a-half
years locked in a cell, I put pencil to paper and
tried to figure out why.
“Shit Magnet, written entirely while incar-
cerated, is a full-length forensic investigation
into why so much shit flies my way. It examines
what happens when two worlds — Jim Goad
and Planet Earth — collide. The book’s central
theme is GUILT: how it’s a uniquely human idea, and whether this raises us higher or drags us lower than other animals; how guilt is disabling and why individuals and societies tend to scapegoat; how the act of blaming the enemy and slaying him is history’s propulsive force; and my miraculous ability to redeem others by absorbing guilt from them.
“This is not an autobiography, although I use vignettes from my personal life to illustrate its theme. I go all the way back to my mischief-ridden childhood and how the idea that I’m ‘evil’ was imprinted upon me at an early age. I Cover ail the violence in my life, both domestic and with complete strangers; all my major literary scandals; the situation that led to my imprisonment; and the fun ‘n’ glory of prison life. Through it all, I look for reasons why I get into so much trouble and why the shit always sticks to me. The ones who get blamed are often not the guiltiest. And despite outward appearances, I just might be the nicest guy on earth.”
2002,516 x 816, 216 pp, soft cover.
SHIT MAGNET: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99206)
MILK
The Deadly Poison
by Robert Cohen
Got milk? Sure you
do. But with every sip
you also get pus, blood,
feces, allergenic pro-
teins, growth hormones,
the fat equivalent to three
slices of bacon, pesti-
cides, viruses and bacte-
ria.
Author Robert Cohen
shakes up the milk indus-
try in this startling
exposé. He reveals the
illnesses, such as can-
cer, allergies and diges-
tive disorders linked to
milk, while illuminating
the expensive, often
unhealthy, lengths Ameri-
cans will go to combat
the effects.
Even America’s
favorite doctor, Benjamin
Spock, said, “Cow’s milk
in the past has always been oversold as the perfect food... but the
government really shouldn’t promote it as such.”
Shave off that milk moustache, America, it could save your life.
1997,6x9,317pp, indexed, hard cover.
MILK: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 62107)
ODD GODS
New Religions and the Cult Controversy
Edited by James R. Lewis
Emphasizing the complex nature of new religions and the wide variety of “cult” phenomena, this encyclopedic study reviews the history and major tenets of many diverse religious sects across the whole spectrum of belief. With contributions from over three dozen specialists in the area of alternative religions, this is a uniquely authoritative source of information on one of the most important public issues of our time.
Editor James R. Lewis points out at the start that the negative public perception of cults is often an inaccurate and unfair stereotyping which turns nonconformists into scapegoats for repressed public fears. Although there are certainly dangerous or socially pathological cult groups, there are also many unorthodox religious sects consisting of harmless people merely exercising their right to religious freedom. Distinguishing the harmful from the harmless groups has generated much controversy, with outsiders often accusing cult followers of brainwashing and violation of generally accepted mores, and insiders defending their lifestyles on religious libertarian grounds.
Lewis analyzes the characteristics of truly dangerous groups compared to those of the merely unusual but innocuous, and he discusses what people find attractive about membership in minority religions, as well as community suspicions and media hype that lead to misunderstandings. The bulk of the book is devoted to a broadbased survey of unusual religious groups. Included are minority sects stemming from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh tradition, as well as unrelated groups such as the “Moonies,” Wic- cans, Satanists, Spiritualists, Channelers, Scientologists, the Heaven’s Gate cult, a host of New Age and UFO groups, and many others. This is the definitive sourcebook for understanding and researching the crazy-quilt landscape of free religious expression in America.
2001,6x9,395 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
ODD GODS: $33.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94351)
THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS
by Jean Raspai!
“...one of the most disturbing novels of the late twentieth century...” — The Atlantic Monthly
Originally published in France, The Camp of Saints has been described as the 1984 of the late twentieth century. This gripping novel envisions the overrunning of European civilization by burgeoning Third World populations.
“This book is a French entry in the fiction disaster stakes... Its scale is apocalyptic and its implications awesome... predicated on the supposition that the population time-bomb ticking away in India and elsewhere in the Third World will reach explosive force around the beginning of the 21st century... Raspail has painted a fictional but depressingly convincing picture of the human catastrophe which conceivably could occur. This novel sounds a startling tocsin, and whether you accept Raspail’s nightmare or not, his premises are sound... This is a story to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest, especially by those under 40."— John Barkham Reviews
1973,6x9,316 pp, soft cover.
THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99199)
THE CHURCH OF SATAN
A History of the World’s Most Notorious Religion
by Blanche Barton
Do you have to sell your soul to
Satan and sign a pact in blood?
Twenty-five years ago, on April
30, Walpurgisnacht, 1966, Anton
Szandor LaVey shaved his head
and declared the beginning of the
Age of Satan. From that moment
on both the famous and the infa-
mous have found their ways
through the doors of the Church of
Satan, with LaVey as its diabolical
“Black Pope.”
Blanche Barton, Anton LaVey’s
authorized biographer, gives a
straight-from-the-shoulder
account of the many strange and
sensational events (some heavily
documented by a media blitz, oth-
ers related for the first time any-
where) that surrounded LaVey
and his thousands of followers as they ushered in a new era of indulgence and carnality, based on pleasure instead of self-denial. Barton details the evenings spent with LaVey’s Magic Circle, peopled with artists, writers and filmmakers whose names will be familiar, and points out defacto Satanists throughout history, such as Benjamin Franklin, who would, LaVey is sure, have been in favor of a “United Satanic America!”
In addition, Barton outlines the direction this ever-growing organization is taking today, in her chapter “Satan’s Master Plan.”. And she lays it on the line with what every reader will want to know: “How To Perform Satanic Rituals.”
1990,5% x 816, 192 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE CHURCH OF SATAN: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94168)
YOUR OWN PERFECT MEDICINE
The Incredible Proven Natural Miracle Cure That
Medical Science Has Never Revealed!
by Martha M. Christy
You’ve heard the expression
“Eat shit and die!” Well, how about
“Drink piss and live!”?
Autouropathy (drinking one’s
own urine for therapeutic purposes)
is the most astounding proven natu-
ral cure that medical science has
ever discovered, claims author
Martha M. Christy, yet none of the
incredible research findings on this
incomparable natural medicine
have ever been revealed to the
general public! Now, for the first
time ever, you can learn to use this
simple method and read about the
startling and amazing medical
cures that prestigious researchers
and doctors themselves have witnessed in their clinical use of this inexpensive, incredibly effective yet virtually unknown natural medicine.
This book traces the history of autouropathy, and discusses in detail the case studies and research evidence that demonstrate urine’s beneficial impact on the drinker. It explains how to use the therapy at home, provides an alkaline and acid food list, contains suggested reading and references, plus much, much more!
Read this book... and drink up! You’ll be glad you did.
1996,8% x 10%, 230pp, soft cover.
YOUR OWN PERFECT MEDICINE: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 82102)
THE SATANIC BIBLE
by Anton Szandor LaVey
“WANTED: God, dead or
alive.
“It is the popular misconcep-
tion that the Satanist does not
believe in God. The concept of
‘God’ as interpreted by man, has
been so varied throughout the
ages that the Satanist simply
accepts the definition which suits
him best. Man has always cre-
ated his gods, rather than his
gods creating him...
“Anyone who thinks of Satan
as evil should consider all the
men, women, children and ani-
mals who have died because it
was "God’s will.’” — from The
Satanic Bible.
Here, you’ll find, among other
things:
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Surprising information about
Satanic sex — it isn’t what you thought
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The truth about vampires
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Ingredients for magic and rituals
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The role of sacrifices — human and otherwise.
This handbook of rituals, beliefs and history is the ultimate authority on Satanism. Whether you’re a student of theology or practicing Pagan, no religious library is complete without this volume.
1969,4x7,272 pp, soft cover.
THE SATANIC BIBLE: $7.99
(ORD5R NUMBER 94298)
LUCIFER’S LEXICON
by L.A. Rollins
Here are a few samples of
definitions from Lucifer’s Lexi-
con:
•Agriculture, n. The cultivation
of legislators to raise subsidies;
pillage in the name of tillage.
•Anti-Semite, n. 1. One who
hates Jews. 2. One who is
hated by Jews.
•Government of Laws, n. k
government of lawyers.
•Individualism, n. k doctrine
antithetical to individuality,
though it is the least unrealistic
form of collectivism.
•Intellectual Ammunition, n.
Verbal bullets for Objectivists
who want to shoot their mouths
off. Blank-out cartridges.
•Limited Government, n. Lim-
ited robbery, limited slavery, and limited murder. Partialitarianism. Aynarchy.
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Objective, adj. In accord with the subjective feelings, opinions, or prejudices of an Objectivist.
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Single-Taxer, n. One who advocates one tax too many.
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Total Depravity, n. In Calvinism, the tendency of human nature to turn away from Calvinism.
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War on Drugs, n. A war to make the world safe for alcoholism.
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Yahweh, n. Not my way.
An excellent satirical work, highly recommended!
1987, 516 x 8Jé, 135 pp, soft cover.
LUCIFER’S LEXICON: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94104)
SEX, DRUGS, & THE TWINKIE MURDERS
by Paul Krassner
“Father of the Under-
ground Press” — People
“The Dean of Countercul-
tural Journalism” — High
Times
“The FBI was right; this
man is dangerous — and
funny, and necessary.” —
George Carlin
The “Zen Bastard” rides
again! In this brand-new col-
lection of satirical pieces,
Paul Krassner, America’s
sharpest and funniest social
commentator lets fly at every-
thing from sex and drugs to
the Twinkie murders. More
than 40 pieces are included,
all of them demonstrating why
Paul Krassner ought to be
declared a National
Resource.
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The Persecution of Lenny Bruce
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John Lennon and the FBI
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Wavy Gravy’s Rainbow Bridge
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The Zen Bastard Goes to Ecuador
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Abbie Hoffman’s Forehead
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Further Weirdness with Terence McKenna
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The Missing Episode of Seinfeld
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The Memoirs of Monica Lewinsky • President Clinton’s Private Confession • Psychedelic Relics at the Cannabis Cup • Predictions for 2000
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And much, much more.
So fasten your seatbelts, and get ready to laugh and learn, be enlightened and entertained, and just plain be thankful to be sharing this goofy planet with a mind like Paul Krassner’s.
2000,516 x 616,368 pp, soft cover.
SEX, DRUGS, & THE TWINKIE MURDERS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94317)
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect,
and Inhumane Treatment Inside
the U.S. Meat Industry
by Gail A. Eisnitz
Did you know that meat and poultry covered with abscesses, tumors, feces, hair, feathers and maggots passes inspection — or goes completely undetected — as it is prepared for human consumption? Or that smelly spoiled meat in cockroach-infested plants is ground up into baby food? Or that condemned meat is routinely taken out of trash barrels and hung back on the production lines?
Award-winning author Gail A. Eisnitz’s highly critical and devastating tour through some of America’s major slaughterhouses focuses on her desperate battle to investigate and expose the repulsive conduct behind the meat industry. With powerful descriptions, Slaughterhouse takes a frightening look at where our beef, pork, and poultry are mass produced on disassembly lines that run 24 hours a day, while the US Department of Agriculture inspectors ignore federal regulations, accept bribes and turn a blind eye to the horrors that occur.
Read this modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and you’ll think twice before biting into a burger that could cost you your life.
1997,67t x 974,310 pp, illustrated, Indexed,
photographs, hard cover.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 82108)
THE TURNER DIARIES
by Andrew MacDonald
This not-so-good novel is considered to be one of the most inflammatory books ever written. It allegedly inspired “The Order,” a gang of right wing racists who plotted the violent overthrow of the US Government, pulled armed robberies, assassinated a radio talk show host, and committed various other crimes, all gleefully reported in the mainstream press several years ago.
The FBI has labeled The Turner Diaries as a “manual of hatred.” Liberals in the news media likewise have condemned it and called it “the bible of right-wing extremists.” The Turner Diaries is one of the most controversial books in America. If the government had the power to ban books, The Turner Diaries would be near the top of the list.
The plot goes like this: Earl Turner and his fellow patriots are forced underground when the US Government bans the private possession of firearms and stages the mass Gun Raids to round up suspected gun owners. The hated Equality Police begin hunting them down, but the patriots begin to fight back with a campaign of sabotage and assassination. An all-out race war occurs as the struggle escalates. Turner and his comrades suffer terribly, but their ingenuity and boldness in devising and executing new methods of guerrilla warfare lead to a victory of cataclysmic intensity and worldwide scope. The Turner Diaries is a book unlike any you’ve ever read!
1980,6x9,211 pp, soft cover.
THE TURNER DIARIES: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94316)
THE PSYCHOPATH’S BIBLE
by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
Throughout history,
throughout most of the world,
psychopaths have gotten a
bad rap. That is quite under-
standable, of course, since
almost all of the world’s reli-
gious and social philosophies
have little use for the individual
except as a tool to be placed in
service to their notion of some-
thing else: “God,” or the “col-
lective,” or the “higher good” or
some other equally undefin-
able term. Only rarely, such as
in Zen, some aspects of Hin-
duism and Tibetan Buddhism,
and some schools of Existen-
tialism, is the individual consid-
ered primal. Here, finally, is a
book which celebrates,
encourages, and educates the
best part of ourselves — the
Psychopath.
For years the market has been flooded with books filled with “sweetness and light.” This is not one of them. Most people will characterize this book as evil, malevolent, unprincipled, wicked and pessimistic. It is all of that — and worse. It is an “evil” book with “evil” ideas. This is necessarily so because this book tells the truth. Truth is always characterized as “evil.” In some ways this is a book of social philosophy, in other ways it is a book of technique. Which it is for you may depend more on your attitude than anything else. The average person will not even finish the Introduction. After a page or two most will put it down and return to the mush of the TV set. We recommend that you do so. This book is toxic!
This book was written to applaud, encourage and counsel the best among this wretched, sheeplike species called “man.” It pulls no punches, it makes no apologies, it minces no words. It applauds the rare individual who writes his own song, plays his own tune, and lives his own life.
2000,516 x 816,108 pp, soft cover.
THE PSYCHOPATH’S BIBLE: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94315)
100 BANNED BOOKS
Censorship Histories of World Literature
by Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald
and Dawn B. Sova
Throughout history,
tyrants, totalitarian states,
church institutions and demo-
cratic governments alike
have banned books that chal-
lenged their assumptions or
questioned their authority.
Even today, attempts by
school boards, local govern-
ments, and religious fanatics
continue to restrict our free-
dom to read. 100 Banned
Books is divided into four
sections, each covering
twenty-five well-known, often
classic works with significant
censorship histories: • Litera-
ture suppressed on political
grounds • Literature sup-
pressed on religious grounds
• Literature suppressed on
sexual grounds • Literature
suppressed on social grounds. Among the banned books discussed are: • The Hoax of the Twentieth Century • The Satanic Verses • Slaughterhouse-Five • Lolita • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Fahrenheit 451 • and Black Like Me.
Each entry includes a summary of the work, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. 100 Banned Books is for all readers with an interest in censorship and its effect on specific works throughout the ages.
1999,5M x 8%, 432pp, indexed, soft cover.
100 BANNED BOOKS: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94337)
APOCALYPSE CULTURE II
The Sequel to Adam Parfrey’s
Underground Phenomenon
Adam Parfrey
Underground publisher Adam Parfrey presents a second coming of America’s darkest shadow side in Apocalypse Culture IL With over 62 new articles and more than 200 photos and illustrations, Apocalypse Culture II delineates further regions of the Forbidden Zone, the psychic maelstrom that everyone knows exists but fearfully avoids.
Subject matter includes: the biological resurrection of Jesus Christ via modern cloning technology; interviews with a convicted murderer and cannibal turned celebrity; recipes for cooking babies; homunculi; pedophilia; a re-enactment of the 914 deaths that occurred at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978; a report and interview with Bobby Beau- soleil and his prison sex life; the farthest-out conspiracy and reasons to take it absolutely seriously. Also provided are letters sent to Anton LeVey’s Church of Satan; a sample necrocard for those who wish to donate their body to necrophiliac experimentation, steps in overcoming masturbation, the replacement of human mates with expensive masturbatory devices, fecal black magic, mind control via advertising, and dozens of other compelling examples of our own Apocalypse Culture.
Observing that society has been infantilized by being told at every opportunity how to think and what to believe, editor Parfrey refuses to provide easy moral lessons in Apocalypse Culture II, though he supplies pertinent information before and after many articles to assist the interpretation of thoughtful readers. The contents will be quite shocking to some, for this is an examination of sociological truths that speak of the culture that both created and ignores them.
2000,6x9,468 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
APOCALYPSE CULTURE II: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99184)
WHY ATHEISM?
by George H. Smith
Why Atheism? Why would
anyone question the existence of
a supernatural deity? George H.
Smith reviews the historical roots
of unbelief dating back to the
ancient Greeks, argues that phi-
losophy can serve as an impor-
tant alternative to religion, and
defends reason as the most reli-
able method we humans have for
establishing truth and conducting
our lives. Why A theism? tackles
a wide range of subjects, some
of which have never been thor-
oughly analyzed' from an atheis-
tic point of view. Beginning with
the problem of atheism’s credibil-
ity, Smith points out the various
ways in which religious oppo-
nents have sought to exclude
atheism from serious consideration. He also analyzes a number of classical philosophical issues, such as the nature of knowledge and belief, concluding that modern atheism is largely an unintended consequence of the religious diversity brought about by the Protestant Reformation.
Smith’s lucidity, analytical rigor, and piercing wit make Why Atheism? an accessible and enjoyable guide to living a positive life without belief in a supreme being.
2000,6x9,250 pp, indexed, soft cover.
WHY ATHEISM?: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94336)
THE ALMOST UNPUBLISHED LENNY BRUCE
From the Private Collection of Kitty Bruce
Here for the first
time, Lenny Bruce’s
daughter opens the
heart and mind of a
genius who created
a whole new genre of
comedy.
From the Fore-
word by Kitty Bruce:
“In retrospect, my
father had so much
effect on so many
that it is difficult to
put him in perspec-
tive when thinking
about him. His efforts
to fight for his own
beliefs, or maybe just
against the quizzical
idea of being told ’no’
— I can’t be sure
which — caused a
restless fire to burn
within the man’s very
soul. But what I am sure of is that as a ‘whole man,’ father, son, hus-
band, and friend, he believed, loved, cared, and fought within himself
for what he thought was just. I hope these pages and pieces of his life
and works you are about to discover will lend a different side of
‘Lenny1 to the ones who know him. And to the ones who don’t, you are
now being lovingly introduced to the unpublished Lenny Bruce.”
More than 40 pieces appear in these pages — enjoy.
1984,8Mx 11,128 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE ALMOST UNPUBLISHED LENNY BRUCE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99186)
THE WATCHDOGS
A close look at
Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups
by Laird Wilcox
This badly-needed book exposes the hypocrisies of various vociferous “Anti-Racist” “Watchdog” groups, such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for Democratic Renewal, and Political Research Associates.
From the author’s Foreword:
“[A] problem with the ‘anti-racist’ movement is its utility as a Trojan horse to hawk a hidden agenda. ‘Anti-racism’ is viewed as a response to an existing evil and by itself avoids the kind of scrutiny that more formal ideologies experience. Marxism-Leninism, for example, can be attacked on multiple grounds. For the casual mind, the only basis for attacking ‘anti-racism’ is racism and no further examination is required. However, many (but not all) radical ‘anti-racists’ today believe that in order to combat racism our social system must be overthrown and replaced with something more congenial to their ends, and this involves issues of property, privacy, censorship, persecution of dissidents, and intolerance of any opposition.
“‘Anti-racism’ is particularly problematic because it’s one of those terms that sets off ‘feel good’ emotions among sympathetic individuals. It’s like rescuing puppies, feeding the starving, protecting children, or helping old people across the street. It overflows with ‘better than’ messages and invokes images of fairness, decency, caring, altruism, and moral superiority — this last a commodity in high demand among individuals who need to define themselves in terms of their goodness and humanitarianism in contrast to the badness and selfishness of others.
“A great many sins disappear when one becomes an ‘anti-racist’ activist. Lives that would ordinarily be insignificant become important; hostility, contempt and hatred become reframed as moral outrage; and one has a delicious repertoire of epithets to use against critics and skeptics. As an ‘anti-racist’ crusader, one can do things and say things to other human beings that would be out of the question otherwise and not only get away with them, but receive praise for them as well.
“How did this happen?... [One] reason is the growing culture of victimhood. Being a victim means one has a grievance, and to have a grievance elevates one above the crowd. To be sure, there are bona fide victims with bona fide grievances, but what we have seen in recent years is the development of a cult of victimization — victimization as ideology, identity, and quasi-religion all in one.
“[Another] reason is undoubtedly economic. The simple fact is there’s money to be made. The classic case of this is Morris Dees’ Southern Poverty Law Center which now (1998) has reserves approaching 100 million dollars squeezed from donors. Even smaller ‘anti-racist’ groups often find themselves awash in donations,, government and private grants, in June 1998, for example, Leonard Zeskind, President of his self-created ‘Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights’ was the recipient of a $295,000 award from the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation...
“There is a humanist anti-racism that focuses on reconciliation and healing, that works to bring people together, that functions openly and honestly without the use of dossiers, spies, specious lawsuits, disinformation, and that recognizes the rights of individuals whether they agree or not. This I support and always have. On the other hand there is a vindictive and corrupt ‘anti-racism’ that focuses on paybacks and punishment, that demonizes and degrades its critics, that attempts to carve out special rights for its constituency, that opposes free and open discussion of ideas, that attempts to silence, censor and stifle its opposition through intimidation and harassment, and sics law enforcement on opponents purely because of their alleged values, opinions and beliefs. This kind of anti-racism is more dangerous than the problem it purports to remedy, and this is the anti-racism of the Watchdog organizations. This I oppose.”
A brilliant and long-overdue work, Laird Wilcox’s The Watchdogs is required reading for any student of contemporary American culture.
1998,8Mx11,103 pp, soft cover.
THE WATCHDOGS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99171)
Against Civilisation
Rending» and Refleetfom
John Zerxani, Editor
AGAINST CIVILIZATION
Readings and Reflections
Edited by John Zerzan
John Zerzan,
described by The
Wall Street Journal
as “a writer of books
and essays who
thinks humanity’s
best hope lies in
smashing civilization
back to the days of
hunters and gather-
ers,” has put together
a shocking and
thought-provoking
collection of essays,
Against Civilization.
He says in his Intro-
duction:
“Discontent with
civilization has been
with us all along, but
is coming on now
with a new freshness
and insistence, as if it
were a new thing. To
assail civilization
itself would be scan-
dalous, but for the conclusion, occurring to more and more people,
that it may be civilization that is the fundamental scandal....
“It is impossible to scan a newspaper and miss the malignancy of
daily life. See the multiple homicides, the 600 percent increase in teen
suicide over the past thirty years; count the ways to be heavily
drugged against reality; ponder what is behind the movement away
from literacy. One could go on almost endlessly charting the bore-
dom, depression, immiseration.
“The concept of progress has been in trouble for a few decades,
but the general crisis is deepening now at a quickening pace. From
this palpable extremity it is clear that something is profoundly wrong.
How far back did this virus originate? How much must change for us
to turn away from the cultural death march we are on?”
To take on Civilization itself! A worthy foe! Against Civilization
contains more than fifty pieces, divided into five sections:
-
Before Civilization
-
The Coming of Civilization
-
The Nature of Civilization
-
The Pathology of Civilization
-
and The Resistance to Civilization.
Challenge yourself and consider the arguments Against Civiliza-
tion!
1999,5x8,227pp, soft cover.
AGAINST CIVILIZATION: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91178)
STRANGE CREATIONS
Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from
Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes
by Donna Kossy
There is nothing so odd and
perverse as the folklore of human
origins. Donna Kossy’s Strange
Creations presents aberrant fan-
tasies and myths created before
and after Charles Darwin — the
imaginative creations of dreamers,
cult leaders, amateur scientists,
racists and rogues.
-
According to Oscar Kiss
Maerth in his book The Begin-
ning Was The End, humans
have unnaturally based their
“evolution” on the consumption
of brains by cannibals. These
peculiar ideas were seized
upon by the creators of the pop
band DEVO • An eccentric Eng-
lish lord believes that men are a cross between extraterrestrials and their Martian servants • A successful television journalist maintains that humans evolved from “aquatic apes” t A UFO investigator is convinced that humans were bred as pets for brilliant dinosaurs.
These and dozens more bizarre explanations for our species’ origins are detailed,in this funny and thought-provoking book. A must for anyone interested in beyond-the-pale thought.
2001,6x9,264 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
STRANGE CREATIONS: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99196)
UNDERWATER AND UNDERGROUND BASES
by Richard Sauder, Ph.D.
Dr. Richard Sauder’s brand new
Underwater and Underground Bases is
an explosive, eye-opening sequel to his
best-selling Underground Bases and Tun-
nels: What Is the Government Trying to
Hide? Dr. Sauder lays out the amazing evi-
dence and government paper trail for con-
structing huge, manned bases offshore, in
mid-ocean, deep beneath the sea floor!
Bases big enough to secretly dock sub-
marines! Official United States Navy docu-
ments and other hard evidence raise many
questions about what really lies 20,000
leagues beneath the sea. Many UFOs
have been seen coming and going from the
world’s oceans, seas and lakes, implying the existence of secret underwater bases. Hold on to your hats: Jules Verne may not have been so far from the truth after all!
Dr. Sauder also adds to his incredible database of underground bases onshore. New, breakthrough material reveals the existence of additional clandestine underground facilities as well as the surprising location of one of the CIA’s own underground bases. Using rare information obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, Dr. Sauder reveals the methods used by the United States government to detect secret underground installations in other countries, and methods that readers can use to scout for secret underground bases closer to home. Plus, new information on tunneling and cutting-edge, high speed rail magnetic-levitation (MagLev) technology. There are many rumors of secret, underground tunnels with MagLev trains hurtling through them. Is there truth behind the rumors? Underwater and Underground Bases carefully examines the evidence and comes to a thought-provoking conclusion!
2001,5te x 8M, 257pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
UNDERWATER AND UNDERGROUND BASES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58141)
SEX, DRUGS, VIOLENCE AND THE BIBLE
by Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen
Foreword by Richard Cowan
Everything you
ever wanted to know
about the Bible but
were afraid to ask.
The Holy Bible is by
far the most influential
book in the history of
the Western World
and its texts held to
be the Gospel truth
by over a billion
believers around the
globe. Even nonbe-
lievers cannot help
but be affected by its
doctrines and adher-
ents. But what are the
real origins of this
vastly influential reli-
gious text? Like all
people, the compilers
of the Bible were
strongly influenced by
humanity’s basic
struggle for survival,
striving for fertility and
searching for meaning. Of the many influences that contributed to the theological development of the Bible — and religion in general in the ancient world—the most profound were without a doubt, Sex, Drugs, and Violence.
As humanity comprehended that sex ensured their continued propagation, the sex act became sacred, and was thought to magically affect all sorts of areas of life, even the actions of the gods themselves. The Old Testament is rife with references to such religio-erotic practices taking place, not only amongst foreign cults like the Canaanites, but even amongst the Israelites themselves. Erotic activities that later, according to the New Testament and other sources, filtered into early Christianity.
Second only to sex, drugs — as in psychoactive substances — play a pivotal role in the development of religious thought and experience, and the Judaeo-Christian traditions are no exception. What will be surprising to most modern readers is the frequent use of intoxicants, like wine, strong drink, and mandrake in the Bible. Perhaps even harder to accept will be the copious use of cannabis (Hebrew kaneh-bosm) by both the Hebrew Priests and Kings for shamanistic purposes... a tradition that was continued by both Jesus and his followers. Moreover, the history of the Bible and the people who have preached its words are histories of violence. This fact should not be at all surprising when one considers the endless atrocities that fill the pages of the so-called “Good Book.” Indeed, if members of today’s “Moral Majority” ever took the time to analytically read the book, which they continually point to as the pillar of morality, they would be horrified to find a book filled with sex, drugs, and violence!
2001,6x9,522pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SEX, DRUGS, VIOLENCE AND THE BIBLE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94352)
VAMPIRES OR GODS?
The True Stories of the Ancient Immortals
by William Meyers
Vampires
living
thousands of years, commanding legions of human worshippers. The stuff of horror novels? No, these vampires are right out of ancient history books. Every major ancient civilization was associated with an immortal claiming to be a god. Egypt had Osiris, who rose from the dead after his body was hacked to pieces and buried in separate places. He reigned for 3000 years.
Asia Minor had Cybele, whose followers fed her their blood. She was thousands of years old when she
RÿiWîlUain-Meyerv;.:
saved Rome from Hannibal’s army in 204 B.C. Greece had Dionysus
and Hercules, both of whom rose from the dead and then walked the
earth for centuries. India had Krishna. China had the Taoists. Quet-
zalcoatl ruled Mexico for a thousand years, sometimes demanding
the living, beating hearts of his victims, sometimes content with sacri-
fices of butterflies. Rome had Quirinus, and the list goes on.
Were these ancient immortals gods, as they and their followers
claim, or merely vampires, evil beings who simply lived much longer
than ordinary mortals? Decide for yourself after reading their histories
in Vampires or Gods? — one of the strangest books we have ever
sold, with illustrations and extensive quotations from the ancient his-
torians.
1993,816 x 11,192 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
VAMPIRES OR GODS?: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99100)
GAUNTLET #19
Edited by Barry Hoffman
This issue of the contro-
versial Gauntlet contains an
excellent article on the Comic
Book Legal Defense Fund,
and its never-ending battle
against censors, who in the
name of “protecting children”
are trying to make sure that
you can’t read any comic you
want — all over the country
adults selling adult comics to
adults are being prosecuted
and persecuted — and you
don’t read anything about it in
your daily newspapers, nor
does your television set
inform you of these outrages.
Also included are many other
articles and reviews, including
“Columbine High vs. Violence
in the Media,” and “Bombs
and Bongs! Books Are Burn-
ing.” Gauntlet is recommended reading for all who are interested in free speech in America.
2000, 7 x 10,96 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GAUNTLET #19: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94343)
GAUNTLET #7
Exploring the Limits of Free Expression
Edited by Barry Hoffman
The theme of Gauntlet #7 is “In
Defense of Prostitution.” The world of pros-
titution is laid bare from the perspective of
those most involved — prostitutes them-
selves. Gauntlet #7 opens the door to
prostitution for a free-wheeling debate
whether prostitution should be decriminal-
ized, legalized or remain forbidden fruit —
told by the women who walk the streets,
call girls, independents, brothel workers,
madams and strippers, as well as those
who call for its abolition. This subculture is
not glamorized. Rape, police harassment,
and deplorable working conditions are dis-
cussed, as well as the choice many prostitutes have consciously made to enter and stay in the profession.
Gauntlet #7 also includes other features, such as A Black Lawyer
Defends the KKK, and NAMBLA Teacher Under Attack in the Big
Apple.
1994,6x9,176 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
GAUNTLET #7: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94247)
PRANKS!
Dazzling deceptions and provocative put-ons
from some of the most outrageous
artists and personalities today
by Re/Search
The most hilarious, witty
book of all time! Sponta-
neous, improvised craziness
from the Underground in New
York, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Paris, and points in
between. This book opens up
a whole new territory of fun
and pleasure.
Although not here-to-fore
regarded as poetic or artistic
acts, pranks constitute an art
form and genre in them-
selves. Pranksters such as
Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoff-
man, Paul Krassner, Mark
Pauline, Karen Finley, Boyd
Rice, Jello Biafra, Bruce Con-
nor, John Waters, John
Giorno, Jeffrey Valance, Earth
First!, Henry Rollins, and many more tell in their own words anecdotes of prankish subversion. Their stories challenge the sovereign authority of words, images, and behavioral convention.
A prank connotes fun, laughter, jest, satire, lampooning, making a fool of someone—all light-hearted activities. Thus do pranks camouflage the sting of deeper, more critical denotations, such as their direct challenge to all verbal and behavioral routines, and their undermining of the sovereign authority of words, language, visual images, and social conventions in general. Regardless of specific manifestation, a prank is always an evasion of reality. Pranks are the deadly enemy of reality. And “reality” — its description and limitation — has always been the supreme control trick used by a society to subdue the lust for freedom latent in its citizens.
This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony... and may perhaps inspire others to tread similar paths of illuminated lunacy and rebellion. Includes essays, interviews, quotations, bibliography, filmography, index, and photos.
1987,816x11,233 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PRANKS!: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94122)
Outlaw History
Introduction
History... is, indeed, little
more than the register of the
crimes, follies, and misfortunes
of mankind.—Gibbon
History that should be a left
hand to us, as of a violinist, we
bind up with prejudice, wrap-
ping it to suit our fears as Chi-
nese women do their feet. —
William Carlos Williams
What is history but a fable agreed upon?— Napoleon
We must consider how very little history there is; I rnean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend on as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy of history is conjecture. —Johnson
What are most of the histories of the world but lies? Lies immortalized, and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and a flaw upon posterity. — South
THE CIA’S GREATEST HITS
6th Printing — The Real Story Series
by Mark Zepezauer
In crisply written chapters, this
book tells you how the CIA: • hired
very high-ranking Nazi war crimi-
nals, shielding them from justice
and learned (and used) their tech-
niques • was involved in the bomb-
ing of Pan Am flight 103, the
massacre at Jonestown, the BCCI
scandal, the Bay of Pigs invasion,
rigged elections in Italy, Watergate,
Iran/contra and drug trafficking in
Laos, Afghanistan and Central
America • participated in the
assassination of JFK, RFK, MLK,
many foreign politicians and liter-
ally millions of ordinary people in
Indonesia, Guatemala, El Sal-
vador, Vietnam, East Timor and
many other countries • orches-
trates the media — one CIA officer
liked to call it “the mighty Wurlitzer”
— and places its agents inside newspapers, magazines and book
publishers • and much, much more.
1994,4x7,95 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE GIA’S GREATEST HITS: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 55100)
HUMAN HISTORY
Viewed as Sovereign Individuals versus
Manipulated Masses
from The Valorian Society
This strange little book describes how word-manipulated humans are the biggest danger now facing the Earth.
“The two forms of brainwashing — emptying people’s minds, or filling them so full that there is no room for their innate perception to surface — appear equally effective as methods for mass manipulation. Both systems result in preventing the individual from relating objective perception to the aboriginal creative consciousness within — as a basis for viewing total reality in clear perspective. Direct relationship between the individual and total reality must be destroyed before the individual can accept a relationship with the group-entity as having top priority. Which system can give worldwide control by most effectively ‘accomplishing’ this is the only concern of the manipulators who now pit against each other the Oriental and Western systems of brainwashing.”
Give this one a try — you might be surprised.
1986,5M x 81/è, 111 pp, soft cover.
HUMAN HISTORY: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94111)
HOW WAL*MART IS DESTROYING AMERICA
(AND THE WORLD)
And What You Can Do About It
Revised & Updated
by Bill Quinn
After cruelly carving up
the once lovingly cared-for
downtowns of Small Town
America, Wal-Mart began
to sink its claws into Amer-
ica’s urban areas (racking
up more than 12,000 law-
suits in the process). Now,
with the recent acquisition
of England’s third largest
supermarket chain, the
retail Goliath is stretching
its tentacles beyond U.S.
borders, launching a. frontal
assault on small towns,
mom-and-pop businesses,
and local traditions all over
the world.
In this updated and
expanded edition of How
Wal-Mart Is Destroying
America, intrepid Texas
newspaperman Bill Quinn
continues the fight with
detailed accounts of Wal-
Mart’s questionable business practices. Quinn shows why Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. is arguably the most feared and despised corporation in
America — and now the world.
Whether you’re a customer fed up with Wal-Mart’s false claims, a
vendor squeezed by strong-arm tactics, a worker pushed to increase
the Walton’s bottom line, or a concerned citizen trying to save your
hometown — this book will show you how to get Wal-Mart off your
back and out of your back yard.
2000,5x8,197pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW WAL*MART IS DESTROYING AMERICA
(and the World): $10.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99162)
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT THE MID EAST AND OIL
by James M. Day
An irreverent, factual
analysis of Middle East
politics and oil. This guide
to the mysterious history
and politics of the Middle
East will help Americans
decipher the latest diplo-
matic delusions of their
President, Congress and
the U.S. State Depart-
ment, untangle the ration-
ale for Palestinian
terrorists bombs in the
West Bank and Israeli jets
strafing civilians in
Lebanon, and explain why
your sons and daughters
may have to return to the
region so you can have
enough oil.
The Western colonial
powers created the
boundaries in the Middle
East, without regard to the
religion, culture or ethnic
background of the people,
for selfish reasons after World War I: power and oil. America has failed to wield its influence in the region because of its political leaders’ myopic support of Israel and failure to understand and/or refusal to admit to the complex regional issues. As a result, America is now part of the problem rather than offering an equitable solution and is in danger of losing its superpower leverage.
Suddam Hussein scoffs at America’s impotent threats, Iran sneers at the Great Satan’s sanctions and Saudi Arabia has no faith in our promises. Will tiny Palestine and oil be America’s downfall? Machiavellian perceptive, irreverently witty and an enjoyable read, the book provides invaluable insights into the volatile Mid East and world oil for the serious student as well as the host or hostess at their next cocktail party... including why gasoline will cost over $3.00 a gallon in ten years.
1998,516 x 816,298 pp, soft cover.
WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT THE MID EAST AND OIL: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94363)
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1492 — PRESENT
by Howard Zinn
This is a decent attempt at a history of the USA from a radical, rather than a ruling class, perspective. Many little known incidents and atrocities are revealed in an entertaining style.
Manifest Destiny, get out of the way! From the opening pages, an account of “the European invasion of the Indian settlements in the Americas,” there is a reversal of perspective through a reshuffling of heroes and villains. The book bears the same relation to traditional histories as a photographic negative does to a print: the areas of darkness and light have been reversed.
Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and there are vivid descriptions of events usually ignored, such as the great railroad strike of 1877 and the brutal suppression of the Philippine independence movement at the turn of this century.
Open-minded readers will profit from A People's History of the United States, and historians may well view it as a step toward a coherent new version of American History.
1995,5X8,683 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY
OF THE UNITED STATES, 1492 — Present: $18.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94081)
A QUICK & DIRTY GUIDE TO WAR
Briefings on Present and Potential Wars
by James F. Dunnigan & Austin Bay
The tools for under-
standing the Persian
Gulf, South Africa,
Ethiopia, Yugoslavia,
the Middle East, India,
Pakistan, the demise of
Russian military power,
Burma, China, the Drug
Wars, and other hot
spots can be found in A
Quick & Dirty Guide to
War. When the first edi-
tion was published in
1985, it was lauded for
its dead-on accuracy
and economical and illu-
minating examination of
the world’s conflicts,
insurgencies, and flash
points. This new edition,
completely revised and
updated, guides us
through the hot spots
facing us in the 1990s
— the Persian Gulf, the
Philippines, South
America, China, the Middle East — and includes provocative and
timely looks at the demise of Russian military power and the highly
charged South American drug wars.
While the previous edition dealt with the many little wars growing
out of the now defunct East-West confrontation, this new edition is
nothing less than a window on the crisis of a post-Cold War world
coming to grips with the enormous political changes resulting from the
collapse of communism in the late 1980s. Renowned military analysts
James F. Dunnigan and Austin Bay have an uncanny track record of
85 percent accuracy in their predictions on the outcomes of the wars
of the 80s. Now, anyone who wants to know how the 1990s will turn
out, with respect to the dozens of present and potential wars around
the world, need only read this book. It will forever change your per-
spectives on past — and future — world conflict.
1991,6x9,639 pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
A QUICK & DIRTY GUIDE TO WAR: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 58126)
THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Before Lexington and Concord
by Ray Raphael
Using thé wide-angle lens of
a people’s historian, Ray
Raphael’s The First American
Revolution tells a surprising
new story of America’s revolu-
tionary struggle. In the years
before the battle of Lexington
and Concord, local people took
control over their own destinies,
overturning British authority and
declaring themselves free from
colonial oppression, with acts of
rebellion that long predated the
Boston Tea Party. In rural towns
such as Worcester, Massachu-
setts, local democracy set down
roots well before the Boston
patriots made their moves in the
fight for independence. Until
now, few of these true founding
fathers have made it into the
historical record.
Much more than a simple debunking of national myths, The First American Revolution takes a major new look at the history of revolutionary ferment in the eighteenth-century American colonies. Richly documented, The First American Revolution recaptures in vivid detail the grass-roots activism that propelled the colonies toward a break with Britain.
2002,516 x 816,288 pp, with two maps, indexed, hard cover.
THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94359)
GHOST ARMY OF WW II
by Jack Kneece
A secret American Army unit
made up of actors, writers, artists,
and set designers and relying on
dummy equipment played a key
role in the defeat of Nazi Germany
in World War II. Known as the
Ghost Army and trained in the art of
military deception, the Twenty-third
Headquarters Special Troops
launched its unique mission in
France shortly after the Normandy
invasion. Its goal: to confuse, mis-
lead, and deceive the German
Army.
Using top-secret government
files declassified in 1996 and exten-
sive interviews with many of the
participants, author Jack Kneece
recounts in these pages this
remarkable story of military boldness and ingenuity — all carried out under the strictest secrecy. A contingent of only 1,100 men, the Twenty-third regularly assumed the identities of much larger, more heavily armed units in its effort to confound the enemy by simulating large concentrations of men and materiel. It did so by using dummy tanks, trucks, and artillery, fake aircraft, and even cast-iron paratroopers. Phony radio traffic and convincing sound effects added to the illusion.
German soldiers referred to the unit as “the Phantom Army,” noting that at one moment it might be poised in front of them, and minutes later it could be attacking from the flank or the rear. It was, in a word, deception — skillful, calculated deception on a grand military scale.
2001,6x9,280 pp, photographs, hard cover.
GHOST ARMY OF WWII: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99193)
THE JESUS PUZZLE
Did Christianity Begin With a Mythical Christ?
Challenging the existence of an historical Jesus
by Earl Doherty
WHY are the events of
the Gospel story, and its
central character Jesus of
Nazareth, not found in the
New Testament epistles?
WHY does Paul’s
divine Christ seem to
have no connection to the
Gospel Jesus, but closely
resembles the many
pagan savior gods of the
time who lived only in
myth?
WHY, given the spread
of Christianity across the
Roman Empire in the first
century, did only one
Christian community com-
pose a story of Jesus’ life
and death — the Gospel
of Mark — while every
other Gospel simply
copied and reworked the
first one?
WHY is every detail in
the Gospel story of Jesus’ trial and crucifixion drawn from passages in
the Old Testament?
The answers to these and other questions surrounding the New
Testament will come as a shock to those who imagine that the origins
of Christianity and the figure of Jesus are securely represented by
Christian tradition and the Gospels. With the arrival of the third millen-
nium, the time has come to face the stunning realization that for the
last 1900 years, Christianity has revered a founder and icon of the
faith who probably never existed.
1999,516 x 816,388 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE JESUS PUZZLE: $14.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94356)
THE PSYCHEDELIC SACRAMENT
Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience
by Dan Merkur
In The Psychedelic Sacrament religious historian Dan Merkur reveals the secret teachings from the Judeo-Christian traditions that promote the use of psychedelic substances to enhance religious transcendence. Merkur elucidates a body of Jewish and Christian writings especially devoted to this tradition of visionary mysticism. He discusses the specific teachings of Philo of Alexander, Rabbi Moses Maimonides, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux that refer to special meditations designed to be performed while partaking of the “psychedelic sacrament.” These meditations combine the revelatory power of psychedelics with the rational exercise of the mind, enabling the seeker to achieve a qualitatively enhanced state of religious transcendence.
In his earlier work The Mystery of Manna, a companion to The Psychedelic Sacrament, Merkur provided compelling evidence that the miraculous bread that God fed the Israelites in the wilderness was psychedelic, made from bread containing ergot — the psychoactive fungus that contains the same chemicals from which LSD is made. Many religious authorities over the centuries have secretly known the identity and experience of manna and have left a rich record of their involvement with this sacred substance. Building on this earlier research, The Psychedelic Sacrament sheds new light on the use of psychedelics in the Western mystery tradition and deepens our understanding of the human desire for divine union.
2001,516 x 816,130 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE PSYCHEDELIC SACRAMENT: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 85366)
REVISIONIST VIEWPOINTS
Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition
by James J. Martin
From the “Dean of American
Revisionists” comes this collection
of documented examinations of
themes related to the World War
Two era which come to conclusions
not in accord with establishment
accounts. Among the subjects are:
-
A Look at Conscription, Then
and Now • The Unresolved
Question of Fascism • The
Return of the “War Crimes” —
“War Criminals” Issue • Ameri-
can Mass Media and Stalinism,
1941-1947 • Revisionism and
the Cold War, 1946-1966 • And
more.
The essays in this collection
deal with several matters during
this great global conflict which have
never been resolved. All of them
challenge official narratives and conventionally oriented accounts.
Must reading for anyone interested in “Outlaw History.”
1971,516 x 816,250 pp, soft cover.
REVISIONIST VIEWPOINTS: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94305)
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST
AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
A chronicle of war*crimes and atrocities
against people judged less than human
by the U.S. government and media
by Michael Hoffman and Moshe Lieberman
This book documents the hor-
rendous atrocities which the Israeli
state has visited upon the Palestini-
ans. The authors bring you a
dossier of Israeli war crimes in
Palestine, profusely illustrated with
harrowing photos of the death and
destruction, which the Zionist war
machine, among the mightiest on
earth, has administered as collec-
tive punishment upon the entire
Palestinian nation.
Contents include:
-
Israeli genocide in Palestine:
documented -
Exposing the media fantasy of
Israel as “The only democracy in
the Middle East” -
Israeli troops shoot rights
activists: documented
The Israeli Holocaust
Against the Palestinians
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Israeli war crimes in Palestinian cities: documented
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The Jenin death camp: documented
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Bush and Sharon: birds of a feather
-
“Israel has nothing to hide” — the calculated Zionist policy of
shooting and obstructing reporters -
How Israel forbids war crimes investigations
-
The history of Israeli state terrorism.
The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians is one of the
most explosive indictments of Israel ever published. Illustrated with
suppressed photos of massive carnage and war crimes. The rare
photos alone are worth the price of this stunning book.
2002,6x9,110 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE ISRAELI HOLOCAUST
AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94361)
LIES ACROSS AMERICA
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by James W. Loewen
Lies Across America
looks at more than one hun-
dred sites where history is told
on the landscape, including
historical markers, monu-
ments, outdoor museums, his-
toric houses, forts, and ships.
Loewen uses his investigation
of these public versions of his-
tory, often literally written in
stone, to correct historical
interpretations that are pro-
foundly wrong, to tell neg-
lected but important stories
about the American past, and,
most importantly, to raise
questions about what we as a
nation choose to commemo-
rate and how.
Lies Across America
offers startling revelations
about sites we think we know:
Valley Forge, Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin, the Intrepid. It also tells of
new sites, events, and individuals that should be commemorated on
the landscape but aren’t: a tombstone with a story to tell in Missis-
sippi, a spy in the Confederate White House, the unforeseen fallout
from the first nuclear missile test, the reverse underground railway, a
modern “sundown” town (blacks can work there, but they’d better
leave before the sun sets).
This book asks why, across our landscape, Indians are consis-
tently “savage,” tribal names are wrong and derogatory, whites “dis-
cover” everything, and the term massacre is a one-way street; why
war museums have selective memories, guides at FDR’s family man-
sion in Hyde Park are “specifically forbidden” to talk about Roo-
sevelt’s mistresses, and James Buchanan’s house denies that he
was gay. Lies Across America is a reality check for anyone who has
ever sought to learn about America through our public sites and mark-
ers.
1999,6 x 9,480 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
LIES ACROSS AMERICA: $26.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94332)
MIND CONTROL, WORLD CONTROL
by Jim Keith
At last, a virtual encyclopedia of mind control! Mind control is a little-known and highly controversial topic today, but veteran author and investigator Jim Keith has uncovered a surprising amount of information on the technology, experimentation, and implementation of mindcontrol technology, and he presents it in Mind Control, World Control, his complacency-shattering work!
Various chapters in this shocking book are concerned with early CIA experiments, such as Project MONARCH and R.H.I.C.E.D.O.M.; the methodology and technology of implants; mind-control assassins and couriers; and various famous “mind-control” victims such as Sirhan Sirhan, Patty Hearst, and Candy Jones. Other chapters are about mind-control cults, berserkers, death rays, HAARP, and how mind-control technology may be linked to some UFO activity and “UFO abductions.”
Read Mind Control, World Control and learn about: • Lodge Brothers and Little Hitlers • OSS Origins • Brave New World Order • Center for Violence • Future Shock & the JFK Hit • “RFK Must Die” • Hum Jobs & Balls of Fire • World Brain • and much, much more!
It’s an all-out war for the control of your mind, and only the intrepid and astute will survive! Count yourself among that number, and read Mind Control, World Control now... before it’s too late!
1997,6 x 9,311 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MIND CONTROL, WORLD CONTROL: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58112)
THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY
Reflections on the Exploitation
of Jewish Suffering
by Norman G. Finkelstein
In an iconoclastic and
controversial new study, Nor-
man G. Finkelstein moves
from an interrogation of the
place the Holocaust has
come to occupy in American
culture to a disturbing exami-
nation of recent Holocaust
compensation agreements.
It was not until the Arab-
Israeli War of 1967, when
Israel’s evident strength
brought it into line with US
foreign policy, that memory
of the Holocaust began to
acquire the exceptional
prominence it enjoys today.
Leaders of America’s Jewish
community were delighted
that Israel was now deemed
a major strategic asset and,
Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this new- found status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters.
Recalling Holocaust hoaxers such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.
The author states: ‘This book is both an anatomy and an indictment of the Holocaust industry. In the pages that follow, I will argue that ‘The Holocaust’ is an ideological representation of the Nazi holocaust. Like most ideologies, it bears a connection, if tenuous, with reality. The Holocaust is not an arbitrary but rather an internally coherent construct. Its central dogmas sustain significant political and class interests. Indeed, The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world’s most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a ‘victim’ state, and the most successful ethnic group in the United States has likewise acquired victim status. Considerable dividends accrue from this specious victimhood — in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified. Those enjoying this immunity, I might add, have not escaped the moral corruptions that typically attend it. From this perspective, Elie Wiesel’s performance as official interpreter of The Holocaust is not happenstance. Plainly he did not come to this position on account of his humanitarian commitments or literary talents. Rather, Wiesel plays this leading role because he unerringly articulates the dogmas of, and accordingly sustains the interests underpinning, The Holocaust.”
The first question is why we even have a federally mandated and funded Holocaust museum in the nation’s capitol. Its presence on the Washington Mall is particularly incongruous in the absence of a museum commemorating crimes in the course of American history. Imagine the wailing accusations of hypocrisy here were Germany to build a national museum in Berlin to commemorate not the Nazi genocide but American slavery or the extermination of the Native Americans.”
Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.
2000,5% x 7%, 154 pp, hard cover.
THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: $23.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94327)
PEDOPHILES ON PARADE
Volume 1: The Monster in the Media
Volume 2: The Popular Imagery of Moral Hysteria
by David Sonenschein
Pedophiles on Parade is the finest analysis of Child Molester Hysteria that we have seen. The author fearlessly reveals how adult villains, child victims, and heroic authority figures are invented and reinforced by the government, the media, and special interest groups with repressive social agendas. These volumes represent exactly the kind of thinking necessary to counteract the constant barrage of propaganda being fired at our brains.
Volume 1, The Monster in the Media, uses data collected over a decade to document popular ideas of adult-youth sexual relations from the mid-1970s into the 1990s, a period now known as the child sexual abuse hysteria. Looking critically at both fiction (including film) and journalism, core elements of villains, victims, and heroes are drawn out and shown to be interconnected. Sources widely distributed as well as those inaccessible to others are examined and tied to a variety of products and processes of American culture to yield the most complete and in-depth study yet available of this crucial period and issue.
During the 1980s, conceptions of the child molester and the child victim were based on simplistic or incorrect assumptions, incomplete or skewed data, and distorted by personal and institutional biases. The result has been an irrational panic extracting high costs financially, personally, and socially
From the Introduction: “Central to the language of the period are the labels ‘pedophile’ and ‘pedophilia.’ Like the words ‘homosexual,’ ‘heterosexual,’ or ‘pornography,’ these are not empirical terms that describe stable, eternal, inherent, and universal forms or contents. They are the names of culturally grounded Western 19th century anxieties and aspirations for power, disturbances that still distort thinking and behavior well past the point of buffoonery.... Despite all of the near-fanatical efforts to instill an idea of ‘The Pedophile,’ the concept remains specious. Since the objectivist or categorical approach has proven to be as embarrassing as it is destructive (it is ludicrous to try to speak of ‘The heterosexual’ or of any of the other old homogeneous simplicities as a unified and distinct configuration of motives and behaviors), the continued forced use of such language is based in other concerns, usually psychological, economic, or political.”
Volume 2: The Popular Imagery of Moral Hysteria, uses the child sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s as a reference point for a far-ranging cultural historical survey of the ways sexual villains, victims, and heroes have been constructed and used in America. Including an extensive and unique chapter on The Sexual Child” — one of the most avoided and undocumented subjects in history, social science, and policy research —- a varied number of contemporary and historical influences are brought together for the first time around the subject of adult-youth sexual relations.
Flawed from the beginning, images of sexual actors and events have remained so because America’s use of them has traditionally been for entertainment and for the advancement of particularistic political agendas, rather than for the empirically based rational and humane guidance of public policy and personal conduct.
From Chapter 9: To fully appreciate the decade, we would have to consider the 1980s not through dramaturgy, as it was for 1960s critics; nbt through situationism, as it was for the 1970s politically astute; but rather as a cartoon: figures and landscapes drawn with heavy outlines around primary colors on a flat surface, made to move and speak by agencies not their own, all the while maintaining dignified poses while falling flat on their faces. The apocalyptic pronouncement, meant to be solemnly intoned with authority and finality, came out only as a repetitious chattering and stuttering, sweat beads bursting visible from excitement, frustration, anger, and fear. ‘The End Is Near’ became ‘Th-th-that’s all, folks!”’
Pedophiles on Parade is one of the finest exposés we have seen on how “reality” is created, and is must reading for all thinking people.
1998,6x9,2 volume set,
570 combined pp, Illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
PEDOPHILES ON PARADE: $40.00
. (ORDER NUMBER 85338)
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF THE VIETNAM WAR
Military Information
You’re Not Supposed To Know
by James F. Dunnigan & Albert A. Nofi
Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear, concise manner. Containing more than two hundred examinations of different aspects of the war, this book questions why the American military ignored the lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes the use of group think and mind control by the North Vietnamese; and explores the role technology played in shaping the way the war was fought. Of course, the book also reveals the “dirty little secrets,” the truth behind such aspects of the conflict as the rise of the Montagnard mercenaries — the most feared group of soldiers participating in the secret war in Laos — and the details of the hidden struggle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
With its unique and perceptive examination of the conflict, Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War offers a critical addition to the library of Vietnam War history.
1999,6x9,396 pp, indexed, soft cover.
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF THE VIETNAM WAR: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94334)
THE REDNECK MANIFESTO
America’s Scapegoats: How We Got That Way
and Why We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
by Jim Goad
In a book that is des-
tined to be praised,
reviled, cited,
denounced, loved and
hated — perhaps by the
same reader (much like
his now-defurict zine,
Answer Me!} — journal-
istic maverick Jim Goad
presents a thoroughly
reasoned, darkly funny,
and rampagingly angry
defense of America’s
most maligned social
group: the cultural clan
variously referred to as
rednecks, hillbillies,
white trash, crackers,
and trailer trash (pro-
vided they’re white
trailer trash, of course).
As The Redneck
Manifesto boldly points
out and brilliantly
demonstrates, Amer-
ica’s dirty little secret
isn’t racism, but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial
themes, most major media are silent about America’s widening class
rifts, a problem which negatively affects more people of all colors than
does racism. In a nation obsessed with race, this book switches the
focus firmly back towards the issue of class, and it warns in a voice
loud and clear that America will never learn the true meaning of toler-
ance until it learns to embrace the redneck!
Until the advent of this book, no one had fully explained why white
trash exists in America!
The Redneck Manifesto is destined to prick the conscience of a
nation which enjoys feeling guilty, but doesn’t like to do anything
about it! You’ll laugh, and then you’ll hate yourself for laughing. Your
mind will be cranked open by the masterful hands of Jim Goad, liter-
ary gynecologist — but it’ll only hurt for a little while!
1997,x 816, 274 pp, soft cover.
THE REDNECK MANIFESTO: $11.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94288)
SECRET AND SUPPRESSED
Banned Ideas & Hidden History
Edited by Jim Keith
There are two ways of
looking at the world.
You can take the morning
paper at face value and
believe the world oscillates
between the dumb-show of
“left-wing” and “right-wing.” Or
you can begin to question this
national hypnosis.
A guidebook to alternative
views of contemporary events
and world history, Secret and
Suppressed confronts the
reader with disquieting revela-
tions on mind control, secret
societies, media disinforma-
tion, cults, and elite cabals.
The hard evidence supplied
by many of these articles is
startling. Other entries veer
into the twilight realm of para-
noia, speculation, and horror.
If you believe that igno-
rance is bliss, Secret and
Suppressed Is sure to make you very unhappy. The editor of Secret and Suppressed believes that historical truth is a commodity written to reinforce the convictions of those in power. As such, opposing points of view are often driven underground to the disreputable arena of “conspiracy theory.” Though he does not agree with the premises or conclusions of some material in his anthology, Jim Keith believes that its inclusion serves as a pedagogical tool, to induce the curious to think for themselves and not merely parrot received opinion as fact.
1993,516 x 816, 309 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
SECRET AND SUPPRESSED: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94233)
HISTORY OF SHIT
by Dominique Laporte
Here is an uncommon book about the most common but least commented upon object that humans produce: shit. Has the philosophy of shit ever been written? Yes! Welcome to Dominique Laporte’s History of Shit. This publication is not a joke, but is not without humor. In fact, it has been called the first cultural history of this universal but little discussed .subject, and the most elegant literary treatment ever devoted to excrement. It has been described as “a brilliant essay that lays bare the fundament of civilization.”
History of Shit presents the complex network of relations between excrement and civilization. Laporte uses “shit” to mean not only excrement, but also as a metaphor for the unwanted. Shit is more of a concept regarding objects, ideas and practices that have been dubbed undesirable by a given society, and Laporte provides interesting documentation of the ways shit has been managed and used, sometimes frighteningly, by various cultures. If you want a real change of pace in your reading, try Dominique Laporte’s History of Shit.
2000,6 x 816, 172 pp, Illustrated, hard cover.
HISTORY OF SHIT: $20.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99187)
THE CHRIST MYTH
by Arthur Drews
Reacting against the “roman-
tic cult of Jesus,” which, he said,
was undermining intellectual
truthfulness, eminent German
philosopher Arthur Drews (1865-
1935) exposed the Jesus of the
gospels as a mythical character.
When first published in 1910, this
classic work drew violent criticism
from theologians, the press, and
the public, and even led to mass
demonstrations as well as per-
sonal threats against the author. •
Drawing on the late-eigh-
teenth-century French
philosophes and the more con-
temporary studies of Sir James
Frazer and other cultural anthro-
pologists, Drews argues that no
basis exists for seeking a histori-
cal figure behind the Christ myth. Indeed, if anyone may be called the “great personality” of Christianity, that person is Paul, who gave it the strength to conquer rival religions. Through an exhaustive comparative study of ancient religions, Drews shows that Christianity is a syncretism of various pagan and Jewish beliefs, and that a strong pre-Christian cult of Jesus as son of God and messiah existed. Boldly rebutting the sentimentalizing Christologies of Drews’s own day and ours, The Christ Myth is a valuable sourcebook for students of religion, historians, and all those interested in examining the origins of Christianity.
1910,6x9,304 pp, indexed, hard cover.
THE CHRIST MYTH: $38.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94346)
DID JESUS EXIST?
Revised Edition
by G.A. Wells
Professor Wells argues that
there was no historical Jesus,
and in thus arguing he deals
with the many recent writers
who have interpreted the histor-
ical Jesus as some kind of polit-
ical figure in the struggle
against Rome, and calls in evi-
dence the many contemporary
theologians who agree with
some of his arguments about
early Christianity. The question
at issue is what all the evidence
adds up to. Does it establish
that Jesus did or did not exist?
Professor Wells concludes that
the latter is the more likely
hypothesis.
This challenge to received
thinking by both Christians and
non-Christians is supported by
much documentary evidence,
and Professor Wells carefully
examines all the relevant problems and answers all the relevant questions. He deliberately avoids polemic and speculation, and sticks so far as possible to the known facts and to rational inferences from the facts. This edition has been brought up to date to take account of developments during the past decade, and makes an essential companion to The Historical Evidence for Jesus.
1986,516 x 816,256 pp, indexed, soft cover.
DID JESUS EXIST?: $24.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94348)
THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR JESUS
by G. A. Wells
In this thoroughly
researched study, G.A. Wells
has squarely faced the question
of whether a man named Jesus
lived, preached, healed, and
died in Palestine during the
early years of the first century of
the Christian era — or indeed at
any time. Building on the biblical
studies of Christian theologians,
Dr. Wells soberly demonstrates
that we have no reliable eyewit-
nesses to the events depicted in
the New Testament. He publi-
cizes a fact known to theological
scholars but little-known in the
average Christian congregation:
that the order of books of the
New Testament is not an accu-
rate chronological arrangement;
indeed that Paul, who never saw
Jesus, wrote his epistles to early Christian congregations before the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John were written.
It may come as a great surprise to Christians and other monotheists, to agnostics, atheists, and humanists alike, that “the earliest references to the historical Jesus are so vague that it is not necessary to hold that he ever existed; the rise of Christianity can, from the undoubtedly historical antecedents, be explained quite well without him; and reasons can be given to show why, from about A.D. 80 or 90, Christians began to suppose that he had lived in Palestine about fifty years earlier.”
The Historical Evidence for Jesus is not a frontal attack on Christians per se; rather it is an easily understood but scholarly examination of the evidence for many long-accepted notions about the “biography” of the man called Jesus. This book takes up and quotes extensively from the Epistles and the Gospels of the New Testament, thus letting the evidence speak for itself in words familiar to every Bible reader. For example, Wells closely compares what Paul said about Jesus with what the author of Matthew, who lived later, wrote of him. Then he explains why these discrepancies apparently exist. Startling indeed is his proof that “earlier writers sometimes make statements which positively exclude the idea that Jesus worked miracles, delivered certain teachings, or suffered under Pilate.” There is also interesting material on the topics of Jesus’ supposed family, the so-called Shroud of Turin, and the myth-making that even today surrounds the figure of Jesus.
1988,6x9,277pp, Indexed, soft cover.
THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR JESUS: $27.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94347)
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
We are very happy to see this classic back in print again! First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages, and a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania over the centuries. Included are accounts of classic scams, grandiose madnesses and deceptions such as the Mississippi Scheme that swept France in 1720; the South Sea Bubble that ruined thousands in England about the same time; and the Tulipmania of Holland, where fortunes were made and lost over the exchange of a single tulip bulb! Time and again, we can avoid disastrous pitfalls and leam to profit by studying history’s anomalies and how it repeats itself. Fascinating, compelling, strikingly strange and amazingly shrewd, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds will never be forgotten and cannot be ignored!
1841,5r6 x 816, 740 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88223)
DECONSTRUCTING JESUS
by Robert M. Price
In Deconstructing
Jesus, Robert M. Price
argues that liberal Protes-
tant scholars who produce
reconstructions of the
“historical Jesus” are cre-
ating their own Jesus
icons to authorize a liberal
religious agenda. Christ-
ian faith, whether funda-
mentalist or theologically
liberal, invariably tends to
produce a Jesus capable
of playing the role of a reli-
gious figurehead.
In this way, “Jesus
Christ” functions as a
symbolic cloak for several
hidden agendas. This is
no surprise, Price demon-
strates, since the Jesus
Christ of the gospels is
very likely a fictional amal-
gam of several first-cen-
tury prophets and messiahs, as well as of purely mythic Mystery Cult redeemers and Gnostic Aions. To show this, Price follows the noted scholar Burton Mack’s outline of a range of “Jesus movements” and “Christ cults,” showing the Origins of each one’s Jesus figures and how they may have finally merged into the patchwork savior of Christian dogma.
Finally, Price argues that there is good reason to believe that Jesus never existed as a historical figure, and that responsible historians must remain agnostic about a “historical Jesus” and what he stood for.
2000,6x9,284 pp, indexed, hard cover.
DECONSTRUCTING JESUS: $32.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94341)
HOW HITLER COULD HAVE WON
WORLD WAR II
The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat
by Bevin Alexander
With an acute eye for detail and his use of clear prose, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander goes beyond counterfactual “What if?" history and explores for the first time just how close the Allies were to losing the war. Using beautifully detailed, newly designed maps, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II exquisitely illustrates the important battles and how certain key movements and mistakes by Germany were crucial in determining the war’s outcome. Alexander’s harrowing study shows how only minor tactical changes in Hitler’s military approach could have changed the world we live in today. This book untangles some of the war’s most confounding strategic questions, such as: • Why didn’t the Nazis concentrate their enormous military power on the only three beaches upon which the Allies could launch their attack into Europe? • Why did the terrifying German panzers, on the brink of driving the British army into the sea in May of 1940, halt their advance and allow the British to regroup and evacuate at Dunkirk? • With the chance to cut off the Soviet lifeline of oil, and therefore any hope of Allied victory from the east, why did Hitler insist on dividing and weakening his army, which ultimately led to the horrible battle of Stalingrad?
Ultimately, Alexander probes deeply into the crucial intersection between Hitler’s psyche and military strategy and how his paranoia fatally overwhelmed his acute political shrewdness to answer the terrifying question: Just how close were the Nazis to victory?
2000,6x9,352 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
HOW HITLER COULD HAVE WON
WORLD WAR II: $25.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94340)
VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS
Race, Sex, Class, and Justice
in the Origins of America
by Thomas G. West
From the Preface: “This book will show that America’s Founders well deserve the respect that citizens and school children still pay them, but which has long been out of fashion among America’s elites. The Founders wrote and approved a Declaration of Independence whose central proposition was that ‘all men are created equal.’ They set up a government that did what no democracy had ever done before: It combined majority rule with effective protection for minority rights. It enabled a larger number of men and women to live in prosperity and liberty than any other nation has ever done. In spite of this undeniable success, many of our leading sophisticates today would rather talk about the Founders’ failures. Instead of the victories they won on behalf of freedom, we hear loud complaints about their supposed racism, sexism, and elitism. The Founding Fathers, we are told, did not really believe that ‘all men (and women) are created equal.’ Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. Women and the poor were excluded from voting. So how can we take seriously the Founders’ supposed belief in human equality? These arguments are well entrenched in the conventional wisdom of our time. They are repeated endlessly in the media and in popular books, by professors and politicians...
“It is surprisingly easy to show that these claims are false. We will see that the Founders believed that members of these supposedly ‘excluded groups’ really are ‘created equal.’ ...We will see that George Washington was correct to call his political convictions ‘liberal.’ We will see that the Founders were sincere in their professions of the rights of humanity and their commitment to popular government. We will also see that their actions were consistent with their opinions. The Revolution clearly improved conditions for blacks, women, and the poor.”
Thomas G. West’s Vindicating The Founders is the perfect antidote to political correctness — every American should read this book.
1997,6x9,235 pp, indexed, soft cover.
VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99188)
ANCIENT STRUCTURES
Remarkable Pyramids, Forts,
Towers, Stone Chambers,
Cities, Complexes
Compiled by William R. Corliss
The remarkable William R. Corliss continues his Catalog of Anomalies. This volume focuses on the various buildings and other structures erected by ancient cultures for purposes of habitation, worship, defense, bdrial, storage, astronomical observations, and so on. The properties of these structures which claim the attention of anomalists are:
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High degrees of innovation, as in early Sub-Saharan iron smelting
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Precocious use of technology and science, as in the acoustical engineering in some passage graves
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Apparent lack of purpose, as in the intricately carved stones at Tiahuanaco
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Unknown identities of builders, as at the Gungywamp complex.
But such properties usually warrant only modest anomaly ratings for they do not directly challenge deeply entrenched dogmas. However, anomaly ratings ascend dramatically when structures imply that:
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The Vikings ventured well beyond Newfoundland
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There were extensive pre-Columbian contacts between the Old and New Worlds
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Vastly superior civilizations preceded our own
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There were advanced cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa.
2001,6x9,331 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
ANCIENT STRUCTURES: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99189)
WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD
New Edition
by David C. Korten
This is a vital and challenging book
that reveals the consequences of
allowing artificially created entities
(“corporations”) to have more rights
than real live individual people.
From the author’s Prologue:
“With regard to political values, I
remain a traditional conservative in
the sense that i retain a deep distrust
of large institutions and their concen-
trations of unaccountable power. I
also continue to believe in the impor-
tance of the market and private own-
ership. I have no more love for big
business than I have for big govern-
ment. Nor do I believe that possession
of wealth should convey special politi-
cal privilege. *
“I share the liberal’s compassion for the disenfranchised, commit-
ment to equity, and concern for the environment and believe that
there are essential roles for government and limits to the rights of pri-
vate property. I believe, however, that big government can be as
unaccountable and destructive of societal values as can big business.
Indeed, I have a distrust of any organization that accumulates and
concentrates massive power beyond the bounds of accountability. In
short, I align with those who are defining a new path that is more
pragmatic than ideological and who cannot be easily pigeonholed
within the conventional conservative-liberal spectrum of political
choice.”
“The problem is not business or the market per se but a badly cor-
rupted global economic system that is gyrating far beyond human
control. The dynamics of this system have become so powerful and
perverse that it is becoming increasingly difficult for corporate man-
agers to manage in the public interest, no matter how strong their
moral values and commitment.
“Driven by the imperative to replicate money, the system treats
people as a source of inefficiency and is rapidly shedding them at all
system levels. As the first industrial revolution reduced dependence
on human muscle, the information revolution is reducing dependence
on our eyes, ears, and brains. The first industrial revolution dealt with
the resulting unemployment by colonizing weaker peoples and send-
ing surplus populations off as migrants to less populated lands. Peo-
ple in colonized countries fell back on traditional social structures to
sustain themselves. With the world’s physical frontiers largely
exhausted and social economies greatly weakened by market intru-
sion, few such safety valves remain. Consequently, the redundant
now end up as victims of starvation and violence, homeless beggars,
welfare recipients, or residents of refugee camps. Continuing on our
present course will almost certainly lead to accelerating social and
environmental disintegration.
“It is within our means, however, to reclaim the power that we
have yielded to the institutions of money and re-create societies that
nurture cultural and biological diversity — thus opening vast new
opportunities for social, intellectual, and spiritual advancement
beyond our present imagination. Millions of people the world over are
already acting to reclaim this power and to rebuild their communities
and heal the earth.”...
“Please read what follows actively and critically. Bring your own
perspectives and insights to bear. Question. Challenge. Consider the
implications for the way you want to live your life. Discuss it with
friends. Tell them where you agree, where you disagree, what new
insights you gained, where you find it incomplete. Get their thoughts.
Explore new avenues together. Take the conversation to a new level.
And act,” David C. Korten’s When Corporations Rule the World is
one of the most penetrating and thought-provoking books we have
ever sold. Highly recommended.
2001,6x9,384 pp, indexed, soft cover.
WHEN CORPORATIONS
RULE THE WORLD: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58110)
BLACK CONFEDERATES AND AFRO-YANKEES
IN CIVIL WAR VIRGINIA
by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.
On the eve of the Civil War, more African-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state — 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks — and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the first comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but also in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate Army.
“Jordan is the first scholar to understand and to explain slaves who fought for the Confederacy, and his portrayal of those who fought for freedom is equally compelling. Written with grace and empathy, this book will become a landmark in Civil War scholarship.”— John Y. Simon, Ulysses S. Grant Association, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
“Based on remarkably thorough'research, Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees In Civil War Virginia deserves a wide readership. It represents a significant step forward in writing a racially inclusive history of our Civil War. We owe Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. our thanks.”— Reid Mitchell, Lincoln Prize winner
“This book will be important not only because it tells us more than we knew before about the black experience but also because it explores topics rarely or never treated in previous scholarships. Jordan’s thorough and sensitive examination of the collaboration of black Virginians with both sides in the Civil War is path-breaking and will become a landmark in the literature.”— Paul D. Escott, Wake Forest University
1995,6x9,470 pp, indexed, photographs, soft cover.
BLACK CONFEDERATES AND AFRO-YANKEES
IN CIVIL WAR VIRGINIA: $19.50
(ORDER NUMBER 99177)
DARK ALLIANCE
The CIA, The Contras, and
the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb
It took a year of research for inves-
tigative journalist Gary Webb to prove the
link between a Bay Area drug ring, street
gangs and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan
Contras. The resulting series of articles
in the San Jose Mercury News led to an
aftermath of controversy, outcry, and for-
mal requests for investigation from Cali-
fornia’s senators.
Armed with once-secret files from the
CIA, DEA, FBI, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department and Iran-Contra investiga-
tion documents, Webb drew the aston-
ishing conclusions that: • The Los
Angeles crack market flourished through
a breathtaking combination of govern-
ment negligence, greed and criminal conduct • The US-govemment
agencies, including the CIA, DEA, and FBI, were aware of the activi-
ties of the drug network and did nothing about it • The Justice Depart-
ment, CIA, and National Security Council unit run by Oliver North took
extraordinary steps to protect the ring from public exposure.
The price for telling and standing by his story didn’t come cheap.
His peers across the country blamed him for the implications of the
exposé and he landed on the wrong side of the government agencies.
The biggest victims of the cocaine conspiracy, however, were the
people in mostly poor communities ravaged by a “drug war" with no
winners or heroes.
“Absolute garbage.”— Lt. Col. Oliver North
1998,6x9,548 pp, indexed, photographs, hard cover.
DARK ALLIANCE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58122)
WHITE SLAVES, AFRICAN MASTERS
An Anthology of American Barbary
Captivity Narratives
Edited and with an Introduction by Paul Baepler
People have done terrible
things to each other overtime.
Slavery spans the color spec-
trupn, as the accounts from this
book show. Even as recently as
1994, North African skyjackers
have preyed upon white resi-
dents of North America.
From the Introduction: “It is
largely neglected history despite
its continuing importance and a
lost story that is still being recov-
ered. The nine complete and
excerpted narratives in this
anthology can only begin to
delineate this formerly well-
known abduction tale of primarily
white slaves in Africa. The major-
ity of the captives likely never
recorded their experiences, or, if
they did, they wrote about them in journals, letters, newspaper articles, or perhaps unpublished manuscripts. ...Still others were illiterate and made their accounts known orally; many died in captivity, and perhaps others chose to stay in Africa. ...While the full story of African captivity remains incomplete, this book begins the recovery of that story by presenting the most popular published versions of this once- familiar tale.”
1999,6x9,310 pp, soft cover.
WHITE SLAVES, AFRICAN MASTERS: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99174)
THE CONSPIRACY READER
From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to
Government-Sponsored Alien Cover-ups
Compiled by Al Hidell and Joan D’Arc
Pssst. Yeah, you. Come
closer. Wanna uncover
some conspiracies? They’re
all here... who killed JFK,
UFOs, secret societies,
espionage, mind control,
suspicious deaths, hidden
history.
In these exclusive arti-
cles culled from Paranoia
magazine, the world’s most
popular conspiracy journal,
you’ll get the real story on:
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JFK and the second Lee
Harvey Oswald -
Who killed John Lennon?
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The true nature of UFOs
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Drugs and the CIA
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Advertising’s mind
manipulators -
Allegations of satanic ritual abuse.
For anyone who has ever been tantalized by mainstream media
coverage of conspiracy theories, but always suspected there was
much more they weren’t being told, The Conspiracy Reader is a
must-read.
1999,6x9,354 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE CONSPIRACY READER: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91173)
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF WORLD WAR II
Military Information No One Told You About
the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History
by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Noil
Dirty Little Secrets of World War II exposes the dark, irreverent, misunderstood, and often tragicomic aspects of military operations during World War II, many of them virtually unknown even to military buffs. Dunnigan and’Nofi’s new book vividly brings to life all theaters and participants of the war. Revelations include:
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The real death count for the war, and why it has never been previously released
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The “new age” general who refused to smoke or drink, who lived on a vitamin-enriched diet, who opposed animal experimentation, and who regularly consulted his astrologer
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How equipment developed for the war led to such modem high- tech innovations as “smart bombs,” electronic warfare, and nuclear missiles
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The lackadaisical relationship between Germany and Japan throughout the war
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Tricky bits of information about the lingering effects of the war — such as the thousands of live shells and mines that are still buried in Europe and off the East Coast of America.
After reading Dirty Little Secrets of World War II, no one will ever look at the conflict the same way again.
1994,6x9,416 pp, indexed, soft cover.
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF WORLD WAR II: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94296)
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS
Military Information You’re Not Supposed
to Know
by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofl
Fearlessly taking aim at the
seemingly impressive façade of
modern military power, Dirty Little
Secrets is an unusual, entertain-
ing, and thought-provoking look at
the myths, mysteries, arcana, and
boondoggles unknown to the rest
of us. Did you know that:
• There are an estimated 40 mil-
lion AK-47 assault rifles in the
world?
-
The United States Air Force
estimates that collisions
between aircraft and birds,
about two thousand a year, cost
$100 million annually — and
about twenty injured or dead
airmen? -
As the ultimate defense against
electronic warfare, the Swiss Army maintains twenty thousand carrier pigeons for combat service?
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The space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 crippled the U.S. Intelligence satellite network between 1986 and 1990 and would have left the U.S. military almost blind in the event of a major conflict?
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Most helicopters on combat ships cannot be used more than twenty to forty hours a month?
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For over twenty years, the U.S. Navy has been successfully using sea lions, dolphins, and whales to guard its ships from enemy divers?
In addition to recounting everything from the merely trivial to the truly terrible, the authors help readers to look at the big picture, reminding us that ignorance is not bliss where the military is concerned.
1990,6x9,464 pp, indexed, soft cover.
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94309)
THE INCREDIBLE INTERNET GUIDE
TO SCANDALS & CONSPIRACIES
by Peter J. Weber
View the evidence •
Discover theories, cover-
ups & exposés • Get the
scoop on celebrities, cults,
crime & hot news storiesl
Inside the covers of The
Incredible Internet Guide
To Scandals & Conspira-
cies are over 2,000 web
sites that will excite, anger,
disturb, entertain and
intrigue you — already
scouted and categorized.
• Infamous People:
Tabloid headline faves Jon-
Benet Ramsey, Di, Amy
Fisher, OJ Simpson, Tonya
Harding, Lorena Bobbitt —
even Elian • That’s Enter-
tainment: Check out the
best-kept secrets and real lives of your favorites — Marilyn, Elvis, Sinatra, Royalty and more • Politics in the Spotlight: From the infamous day in Dallas to Clintongate, and all the government abuses and misuses in-between • Legends on Earth, and Not on Earth: Explore the truth or myth behind places and legends from “Nessie” to Bigfoot to the afterlife to UFOs • Something to Talk About: Get up-to- date access to gossip, rumors, news, weird happenings—the Web is a giant “online tabloid.”
Get into the Under-World Wide Web and quickly find the answers to the most “scandalous” questions out there... sometimes way out there.
2000,716 x 9M, 502pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE INCREDIBLE INTERNET GUIDE
TO SCANDALS & CONSPIRACIES: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94333)
THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin
Where does money
come from? Where
does it go? Who makes
it? The money magi-
cian’s secrets are
unveiled. We get a
close look at their mir-
rors and smoke
machines, the pulleys,
cogs, and wheels that
create the grand illu-
sion called money. A
dry and boring subject?
Just wait! You will be
hooked five minutes
into the book. It reads
like a detective story —
which it really is. But it’s
all true.
The Federal
Reserve System
should be abolished for
the following reasons: It
is incapable of accom-
plishing its stated
objectives. • It is a car-
tel operating against the public interest. • It is the supreme instrument
of usury. • It generates our most unfair tax. • It encourages war. • It
destabilizes the economy. • It is an instrument of totalitarianism.
This is a story about limitless money and hidden global power. The
good news is that it is as fascinating as any work of fiction could be.
The bad news is that every detail is true.
1998,6x9,614 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND: $19.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94331)
BIBLE OF BIBLES
Or: Twenty-seven Divine Revelations
by Kersey Graves
The author of The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors describes 27 bibles, and exposes two thousand Biblical errors in science, history, morals, religion, and general events. He also delineates the characters of the principal personages of the Christian Bible and examines their doctrines.
Partial contents include:
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Jehovah hot our God
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Twenty-seven bibles described
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The Hindoo Bibles
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The Egyptian Bible
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The Persian Bibles
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The Chinese Bibles
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Seven other Oriental Bibles
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The Mahomedan’s Bible
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The Jews’ Bible
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Superior features of the heathen Bibles
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The infidels’Bible
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Two thousand Bible errors
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. Evils of the belief in an angry God
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Atonement for sin an immoral doctrine
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A personal God impossible
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The Bible sanctions every species of crime
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Character of the Christians’ God
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And much, much more.
Kersey Graves’ Bible of Bibles belongs in the library of every freethinker.
1863,716 x 10,440 pp, soft cover.
BIBLE OF BIBLES: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94324)
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY
A Documented Record of the Foundations
of the Christian Religion
by Joseph Wheless
Joseph Wheless proves, from unimpeachable texts and historical records, and by authoritative clerical confessions, that the Bible, in its every Book, and in the strictest legal and moral sense, is a huge forgery, that every Book of the New Testament is a forgery of the Christian Church, and that the Church was founded upon, and through the Dark Ages of Faith has battened on monumental and petty forgeries and pious frauds, possible only because of its own shameless mendacity and through the crass ignorance and superstition of the sodden masses of its deluded votaries, purposely kept in that base condition for purposes of ecclesiastical graft and aggrandizement through conscious and most unconscionable imposture.
Chapters include:
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Pagan Frauds — Christian Precedents
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Hebrew Holy Forgeries
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Christian “Scripture” Forgeries
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The Saintly “Fathers” of the Faith
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The “Gospel” Forgeries
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The Church Forgery Mill
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and The “Triumph” of Christianity.
Joseph Wheless’ Forgery In Christianity is a freethought classic, must reading for everyone interested in the evolution of belief systems.
1930,8 x 10,463pp, indexed, soft cover.
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY: $30.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94326)
THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT!
by James Ronald Kennedy
and Walter Donald Kennedy
Not for the weak-at-heart The South Was Right! is an authoritative and documented study of the mythology behind Civil War history and its lasting effects on contemporary society. The authors exhibit evidence that the South was an independent country invaded, captured, and still occupied by a vicious aggressor. The needless bloodshed of the War for Southern Independence now contrasts with many of the present-day secessions without bloodshed throughout the world.
Much of Civil War history is untrue. Like most history it is written by . the victor. The story told is that millions of Southern men went to war over an issue that only affected 6 percent of the population. Such absurdity is readily seen. The deception must not continue.
Read this book and learn the truth. There was no shining Northern force fighting a moral battle for the sake of ending slavery. There was no oppressive Southern force fighting to preserve it, either. After the South declared its independence, the Union ruthlessly invaded, leaving Southerners no choice but to defend themselves. Unfortunately, they lost that struggle and have suffered for nearly a century and a half because of it.
The South has become an economic colony of the North, used and exploited like colonies throughout the world. Politically, thé North still controls the government and continues to impose its social agenda on the rest of the country at the expense of individual liberty. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, the first federal department to infringe upon the rights of sovereign states, continues to suppress any efforts to reclaim liberty for the individual from the federal government.
Today, as a result of the war in which the South lost its right to be a free country, Northern politics still reign with an iron fist. The Southern people are second-class citizens in a despotic society where fraudulent political maneuvers, oppressive acts, and unfair legislation continue as acts of ethnic cleansing to obliterate all symbols of their history and heritage.
Sure to be one of the most controversial books of the decade, The South Was Right! is an attempt to set the record straight. The South Was Right! is sure to raise eyebrows and questions and draw fire from a number of special-interest groups. But the authors maintain, through rigorous research, how the South had a legal precedent to secede and a right to defend its borders. Even today it has just as much reason to reclaim its liberty as the people of Poland, the Baltic states, Palestine, and the states and provinces of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have done for themselves. Southerners should read this book with a sense of urgency and obligation to the past. Others should read it with open minds. Leave this book out on your coffee table and watch your guests turn pale.
1994,6x9,448 pp, indexed, photographs, hard cover.
THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT!: $22.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94245)
TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE
by Mark Zepezauer
and Arthur Naiman
Another in Odonian Press’s veil-rending The Real Story Series, Take the Rich Off Welfare doesn’t disappoint! It’s a pointed look at the modem phenomenon of “wealthfare,” or the $448 billion (at least) of taxpayers’ money that is given gratis to corporations and wealthy individuals every year! It’s a fascinating boondoggle that dwarfs so- called “welfare fraud,” and everyone should be aware of it.
As Noam Chomsky states, “This concise and clear account of how the government transfers public funds to the wealthy and privileged could hardly be more timely. It should serve as a very useful tool for those who are appalled by the vindictive attack on the needy and defenseless, and who hope to turn the country to a more civilized course.” So read all about the real welfare scandal, and get agitated! Today!
1996,414 x 7,191 pp, soft cover.
TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99140)
THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES
The Untold History of the Enslavement
of Whites in Early America
by Michael A. Hoffman II
The history of slavery in America as portrayed in the tunnel vision of the corporate media has focused exclusively on the enslavement of blacks. The impression is given that only whites bear responsibility for enslaving blacks and only blacks were slaves. In fact, blacks in Africa as well as American Indian tribes such as the Choctaw and Cherokee engaged in extensive enslavement of blacks. White slaves were actually owned by blàcks and Indians in the South in the 1600s. Except for a few extremely brief asides under the euphemism “indentured servitude;” no school textbooks or mass media presentations have studied in depth the history of the massive enslavement of white people in North America.
This well-researched little book reveals little known facts of American history, including:
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A Holocaust Against the White Poor • Poor Whites and the Southern Confederacy • Whites Were the First Slaves in America • Irish Slaves • Protestant Slaves • Legal Basis and Definitions • Political Prisoners Sold into Slavery • Slave-Hunting in Britain • Press Gangs • Stolen White Children • Indentures: An Organized Racket • White Slaves in the American Revolution • White Slave Rébellions • Torture and Murder of White Slaves • Redlegs, Rednecks and Hillbillies • And more.
Hoffman documents well the fact that conditions were no better and often worse for white “servants” than the conditions for black “slaves.” Blacks and whites alike (and Indians, too) were oppressed by the powerful and wealthy governments and businesses of the time. The capacity to enslave is not a function of race, it is a function of power. You can really learn a lot from They Were White and They Were Slaves.
1991,6x9,137pp, soft cover, bibliography.
THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94170)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL
Henry Tufts, Foreword by Neal Keating
The Autobiography of a Crimi-
nal is the narrative of Henry Tufts:
horse thief, bigamist, burglar, adul-
terer, con man, scoundrel, counter-
feiter, deserter and common
criminal. He roamed the American
colonies in the late 1700s, visiting
several jails and escaping from most
of them, before writing his autobiog-
raphy.
From the Foreword by Neal
Keating: “One doesn’t generally
think of the late eighteenth century
in New England as an epoch that
spawned a lot of criminal transgres-
sion. The pious colonists, like their
Puritan forebears, are mostly just
and eminently reasonable. Or so the
hegemonic theme goes. Nothing
could be further from reality.
“Henry Tufts was a land pirate. There were many such land pirates
throughout the thirteen colonies. Many were like Henry, more or less
operating on their own. Others formed gangs. Yet both operated
within a loose network of illicit exchange that stretched from Maine to
Florida.
‘The land pirate network was a small scale operation. Its historical
importance is that It demystifies the origin of the U.S.A. The structure
of the U.S.A, was forged in a milieu of theft, counterfeit, coercion and
piracy. This book is an index of that milieu.”
1993,514 x814,306 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94202)
THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER
by Alpine Enterprises
This little masterpiece is the best exposition of conspiracy theory we have seen. It is The Prince for 20th Century America. Written in the form of the Initiation of the Son of a Finance Capitalist into the Arcane Secrets of Economic and Political Power, it gives detailed instructions for achieving and maintaining power over a whole society.
Included are lectures on: The role of fraud in nature; Occult knowledge as the key to power; The economics of central banking; The function of the central bank in the mature finance capitalist system; Social and business legislation and policy; The role of public education; Prestigious associations and secret societies; Covert operations and intelligence; Pius an excellent bibliography, and more.
We should point out here that the word “Occult” as used in the title means hidden or secret, and does not pertain to magic or the supernatural.
You will never look at the news and current events in quite the same way, once you have read The Occult Technology of Power. An excellent work — highly recommended.
1974,516 x 816,62 pp, soft cover.
THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94027)
CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
by S. Baring-Gould
Look at all the crap we are bombarded with that just plain isn’t true: Drug hysteria, child abuse hysteria, hate crime hysteria, anti-gun hysteria, and on and on and on. Well, people have always loved myths, and in this book, S. Baring-Gould discusses some of the more curious myths that were popular during the Middle Ages.
Contents include:
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The Wandering Jew • Prester John • The Divining Rod
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Seven Sleepers of Ephesus • William Tell • The Dog Gellert • Tailed Men • Antichrist and Pope Joan • The Man in the Moon • The Mountain of Venus • Fatality of Numbers • and The Terrestrial Paradise.
Interesting reading for fans of myths, hoaxes, urban legends, and general baloney.
1867,716 x 10,259 pp, soft cover.
CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94325)
TIME ON THE CROSS
The Economics of American Negro Slavery
by Robert William Fogel
and Stanley L Engerman
the traditional ideas about
slavery in the South.
Among the revelations
are:
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Slave agriculture was
not inefficient compared
with free agriculture.
Economies of large-
scale operation, effec-
tive management, and
intensive utilization of
labor and capital made
southern slave agricul-
ture 35 percent more
efficient than the north-
ern system of family
farming. -
The typical slave field
hand was not lazy, inept,
and unproductive. On
average he was harder-
working and more effi-
cient than his white
counterpart. -
The belief that slave-
breeding, sexual
exploitation, and promiscuity destroyed the black family is a myth.
The family was the basic unit of social organization under slavery.
It was to the economic interest of planters to encourage the stabil-
ity of slave families and most of them did so. Most slave sales
were either of whole families or individuals who were at an age
when it would have been normal for them to have left the family.
“With one stroke (the book) turned around a whole field of inter-
pretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science"—
New York Times Book Review
1974,516 x 816,306 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
TIME ON THE CROSS: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94266)
ANCIENT MAN: A HANDBOOK
OF PUZZLING ARTIFACTS
Compiled by William R. Corliss
You have probably seen the many popular books on ancient astronauts and mysterious ancient civilizations. Weil, the professional archeological literature is far more exciting and thought-provoking. To select the best and most fascinating accounts of enigmatic artifacts, the complete files of several archeological journals have been scrutinized in detail, including American Anthropologist, American Antiquarian, American Antiquity, Antiquity, Current Anthropology, and Man. This lengthy research has yielded almost 400 articles and excerpts describing worldwide megalithic structures, examples of precocious ancient technology, inscriptions in unexpected places, and such controversial data as human footprints in ancient rocks.
Contents include: «Ancient Florida canals • Olmec compass • Maltese “cart tracks” • California rock basins • Stone circles everywhere • Stone alignments «Ancient coins in America • Fossil human footprints • Egyptian “model airplane” • Greek computer • Ancient astronomical observatories • Galilee glass slab • Inscription and tablets in unexpected places • Indian pictures of the mammoth • Mysterious old walls • Mayan causeways • Ancient battery • Crystal lenses • Pigmies and giants • Great Wall of Peru • Pacific megalithic remains • And much more.
1978,616x916,786pp, illustrated, Indexed, hardcover.
ANCIENT MAN: A HANDBOOK
OF PUZZLING ARTIFACTS: $23.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94017)
THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY
The Greatest Story Ever Sold
by Acharya S
Contrary to popular belief, there
was no single man at the genesis of
Christianity, but many characters
rolled into one. The majority of these
characters were personifications of
the ubiquitous solar myth, whose
adventures were well known, as
reflected in the stories of such popu-
lar deities as Mithra, Hercules,
Dionysus and many others through-
out the Roman Empire and beyond.
In reality, the story of Jesus as por-
trayed in the Gospels is nearly iden-
tical to that of the earlier savior-gods
Krishna and Horus. These redeemer
tales are similar not because they
reflect the actual exploits of a variety
of men who did and said identical
things, but because they represent
the same extremely ancient core of knowledge that revolved around the celestial bodies and natural forces.
Chapters Include: • The Quest for Jesus Christ • The Holy Forgery Mill • Biblical Sources • Non-Biblical Sources • Further Evidence of a Fraud • Physical Evidence • Astrology and the Bible • The Son of God Is the Sun of God • The Disciples Are the Signs of the Zodiac • The Gospel Story • Other Elements and Symbols of the Christian Essenes, Zealots and Zadokites • Alexandria: Crucible of Christianity • The Making of a Myth • Out of Egypt or India? • And Much More.
In this highly controversial and explosive book, Archaeologist, historian, mythologist, and linguist Acharya S marshals an enormous amount of startling evidence to demonstrate that Christianity and the story of Jesus Christ were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion. In making such a fabrication, this multinational cabal drew upon a multitude of myths and rituals that already existed long before the Christian era, and reworked them for centuries into the story and religion passed down today.
1999,6x9,437pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94314)
THE RAPE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
by Chuck Shiver
We used to be a free nation... before
The Rape of the American Constitution!
In one of the most scathing diatribes ever
penned, author Chuck Shiver describes
the systematic deflowering of the Ameri-
can Constitution’s most fundamental prin-
ciples. Shiver traces the history and
pattern of the improper U.S. Supreme
Court decisions, uninformed legislation
and executive improprieties which have
resulted in a complete undermining of the
beliefs and ideals upon which the United
States of America was founded.
Is the American Constitution a worth-
less piece of paper? That’s what it has
become, according to Shiver. He details the conditions that led to the crafting of the American Constitution, quite possibly the most amazing document in modern history. Then Shiver describes, by examining examples of its abuse, The Rape of the American Constitution.
You won’t soon forget this caustic commentary on the decline and fall of our American rights and freedoms that has resulted in The Rape of the American Constitution!
1995,5% x 816, 371 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE RAPE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58090)
CONSPIRANOIA!
The Mother of All Conspiracy Theories
by Devon Jackson
An encyclopedic road map
and a compendium of conspir-
acy theories and paranoia,
Conspiranoia! lays it all out:
who has been washing whose
back and who has been stab-
bing whom in the back, who
owns what and whom not to
trust, and how they all connect,
from the Freemasons and the
Illuminati to Nixon and
Kissinger, from The Catcher in
the Rye and the Vatican to The
Manchurian Candidate, plus
fluoridation and the Mormons,
River Phoenix and AIDS, Scien-
tologists and Cybernetics,
Aleister Crowley and Aldous
Huxley, Charles Manson, Mari-
lyn Manson, Marilyn Monroe,
and much, much more.
It’s all here to vex and dazzle you: • The Master Plan • The Dark Knights Conspiracy • The Freemalluminati Conspiracy • The Zionist Anti-Zionist Conspiracy • The Master Race Conspiracy • The Ameryan Conspiracy • The Socialist Register Conspiracy • The Church-22 Conspiracy • The Reactioneers Conspiracy • The Manchurian In the Rye Conspiracy • The Schizodelic Conspiracy • The KKK Conspiracy • The Golden Alliance Conspiracy • The Culture Club Conspiracy • The Nefarious Aquarians Conspiracy » The Religion Is Fundamental Conspiracy • The Curious George Conspiracy • The Carcinonet Conspiracy • The Right Is Left Left Is Right Jews Are Christians Christians Are Jews Media Conspiracy • The World Class Conspiracy • The DNAIien Conspiracy • And more.
Watch out!!!
1999,6x9,364 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
CONSPIRANOIA!: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94321)
ANCIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Remarkable Roads, Mines, Walls,
Mounds, Stone Circles
A Catalog of Archeological Anomalies
Compiled by William R. Corliss
William R. Corliss is a national treasure. Combing the scientific literature, he keeps his eyes peeled for anomalous observations — phenomena that cannot be explained by today’s ruling scientific paradigms. The focus of this volume is the infrastructure constructed by ancient humans to support their various, diverse cultures. The properties of structures he has sought out include:
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High degrees of innovation
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Precocious use of technology and science
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Apparent lack of purpose
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and Unknown identity of the builders.
Contents include:
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Remarkable Ancient Aqueducts and Water-Delivery Systems • La Cumbre: Peru’s Intervalley Canal • Subterranean Tunnel-Well Systems • Water-Condensing Structures • Three Notable Ancient Irrigation Systems • Curious Old Dams • Unusual Water-Containment Structures • Notable Ancient Ship Canals • and Artificial Harbors. ..
Illustrated with charts, photographs and drawings, Ancient Infrastructure is a must for everyone’s scientific bookshelf.
1999,7x 1016,410 pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
ANCIENT INFRASTRUCTURE: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91180)
HONOR AMONG THIEVES
Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the
Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean
by Jan Rogozinskl
Saint Mary’s Island, history’s only true pirate island, is located east of Africa and just off Madagascar. For more than thirty years from the late 1680s, ships from Saint Mary’s scoured the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and waters as far east as Burma. The most successful criminals in human history, their crews returned with immensely valuable booty.
These rich hunting grounds tempted hundreds of adventurers. Many more who wanted to come were frightened off by the long and daunting voyage to the Indian Ocean. To reach Saint Mary’s, American raiders had to sail across some 15,000 miles of open ocean in a voyage that might last for six months. Often, on the way east, so many crewmen died of disease that the ships literally could not man their cannon.
The men reaching Saint Mary’s were adopted by the native peoples, who themselves were descended from Polynesian seafarers. A proud and warlike people, the Malagasy beat off Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French attempts to establish colonies. The differing fates of the colonists and the pirates reflects their divergent attitudes toward the native peoples: Would-be colonists wanted to convert them into slaves, while the pirates accepted the Malagasy as they were.
The Saint Mary’s pirates lived in harmony with the Malagasy and they kept on good terms with colonial governors both in North America and in the Indian Ocean. They also got along remarkably well with each other, forming what may well be the most democratic and egalitarian society in human history. Pirate crews elected and fired their officers even while at sea. The ship’s articles became a sacred covenant and each crewman received an equal share of the booty.
The history of Saint Mary’s Island lifts the curtain of mystery that has veiled Captain William Kidd’s famous voyage. There is no question that Kidd committed piracy, but it is also clear that he failed as a leader of men. Given his authoritarian personality, Kidd totally lacked the political skills needed to function in a society as radically democratic as Saint Mary’s.
The Saint Mary’s raiders do not fit into any of the stereotypes pirate fiction and films have conditioned us to expect. Piracy was a young man’s game. On average, men enlisted in their early twenties and retired a decade later after making their fortunes. Not all were sailors. Some were skilled craftsmen; at least one was a nobleman. Whatever their origins, once aboard ship, they grew into a closely knit community bound together by lasting friendships.
In removing the thick patina of falsehood from their collective portrait, Honor Among Thieves simply wants to give the men of Saint Mary’s their due. They were neither fiends, heroes, nor clowns. Truly they were criminals. But they were grand and not petty thieves whose adventures merit our attention.
2000,6x9,320 pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard cover.
HONOR AMONG THIEVES: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94329)
THE WORLD’S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS
or, Christianity Before Christ
by Kersey Graves
Originally published in 1875, this freethought classic will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the origin of belief systems. It is a study of preChristian gods, whose similarity to the life of Jesus is remarkable. The following characteristics belonged to many of these gods: born of a virgin; bom on December 25th; performance of miracles; crucifixion for the sins of the world; rising from the dead after three days; and much more. The similarities to the Jesus myth are obvious, and Graves goes into vast detail to demonstrate the pagan origins of Christianity. Kersey Graves’ The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours is a classic work, highly recommended!
1875, TA x 101A, 436 pp, soft cover.
THE WORLD’S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94322)
BANDITS
Revised with a new Introduction by the author
Eric Hobsbawm
First published in 1969, this
now-classic book inspired a
whole new field of historical
study and brought its author
popular acclaim. Bandits tran-
scend the label of criminals;
they are robbers and outlaws
elevated to the status of
avengers and champions of
social justice. Some, like
Robin Hood, Rob Roy, and
Jesse James, are famous
throughout the world, the stuff
of story and myth. Others, like
Balkan haiduks, Indian
dacoits, and Brazilian conga-
ceiros, are known only to their
own countrymen.
In his celebrated study of
these fascinating figures, Eric
Hobsbawm, one of the few
genuinely great historians of
our century, spans four hun-
dred years and four continents, setting these historical figures against
the ballads, legends, and films they have inspired. The result is a daz-
zling historical squib, fizzing with ideas and strange stories.
For this new edition Hobsbawm has substantially extended and
revised his original text. It appears at a time when the disintegration of
state power is once again introducing fertile conditions for banditry to
flourish in many parts of the world.
“For sheer intelligence Eric Hobsbawm has no superior in the his-
torical profession ”— Sir Keith Thomas
2000,51A x 816,240 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
BANDITS: $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94328)
BIBLE MYTHS AND THEIR PARALLELLS
IN OTHER RELIGIONS
byT.W. Doane
Doane’s Bible Myths is a classic in comparative religion. First published in 1882, it traces the development of the myths in the Christian Bible, from the flood to the crucifixion, from the creation to the resurrection and shows how these myths had their origins in religions which predate Christianity.
Specific myths covered include:
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the creation and fall of man
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the trial of Abraham’s faith
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Jonah and the whale
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the birth day of Jesus
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the trinity
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the virgin mother
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and much more.
This huge scholarly work is justifiably regarded as a classic in its field. In addition to the coverage given to specific Bible myths, Doane goes on to discuss paganism in Christianity, why Christianity prospered, and much more.
Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions is actually too big to sit down and read through all at once, unless you have an overriding interest in the subject, but the excellent 20-page index makes it easy to look up any specific myth or topic you are interested in. A 13-page bibliography of books written before 1882 in the fields of religious mythology and comparative religion is also included.
Doane’s Bible Myths should be in the library of every free-thinking person.
1882, TA x 1016, 612 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
BIBLE MYTHS AND THEIR PARALLELLS
IN OTHER RELIGIONS: $29.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94323)
CONFESSIONS OF A HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST, PART I
by Bradley R. Smith
In 1979, playwright, author, publisher, and bookseller Bradley R. Smith stumbled across an incredibly bizarre idea: What if the stories of Hitler exterminating six million Jews in gas chambers were not true?
“Alleged”extermination? The implications of the qualifier “alleged” appear to be beyond belief for the majority of people. It is at this point precisely that Smith begins his story about how he discovered that something is profoundly wrong with the gas chamber stories, with many of the atrocity accusations against Germans, and finally with the Holocaust story itself.
The primary interest of the author, however, is not in what happened in Europe 45 years ago. Smith is interested in how the distortion of history, and historic lies, affect the lives of individuals living today. Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, Parti is the record of a man attempting to integrate into his consciousness and his daily life what for him was a momentous discovery, one that inwardly brought about an almost geologic shifting of perspective and belief.
Smith reports on his discovery of Revisionist writings about the Holocaust, as well as their suppression by what he terms the Holocaust Lobby. He reveals the dimensions of the taboo surrounding the orthodox history of the Holocaust, using stories of his encounters with others: a Jewish student returning home from Harvard on summer vacation; the new husband of his ex; an elderly survivor on a radio talk show; Irv Rubin, national director of the Jewish Defense League — even his own mother. Smith carefully dissects the Dachau gas chamber hoax, the testimony of one of the eyewitness survivors in the 91/2-hour documentary film Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust, and reprints a seminal article on the Auschwitz gas chamber story by French historian Robert Faprisson.
Smith reports again and again on how the fear of being labeled anti-Jewish is the greatest hurdle he has had to overcome in his efforts to determine what is true and what is false in the Revisionist critique of Holocaust orthodoxy. He writes of his growing awareness of how the Holocaust Lobby manipulates charges of anti-Jewishness , for the specific purpose of discouraging open inquiry into the Holocaust story, and for compromising the reputations of those who persist in it.
1988,51/i x 8%, 111 pp, soft cover.
CONFESSIONS OF A HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST, PART I: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94149)
LIES MY Teacher told me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
WARNING: This book . contains startling truths about the myths and misinformation of American history!
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James W. Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. Now, in ten powerful chapters, Lies My Teachers Told Me reveals that:
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The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietnam as it dropped in all theaters of World War II combined, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
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Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to search for the mythical Fountain of Youth!
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President Woodrow Wilson, generally regarded as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality contained in the original Covenant of the League of Nations!
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The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia, but Massachusetts!
1995,6x9,383 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME: $15.00 (ORDER NUMBER 94287)
YOU CAN’T WIN
by Jack Black Introduction by William S. Burroughs Afterword by Michael Disend
You Can't Win is one of the more legendary cult books ever published in America, a true lost classic. Jack Black’s autobiography was a bestseller in 1926 and went through five printings. It’s led a mostly underground existence since then but it’s time this country got wise to this book, which is itself both very wise apd a ripping true saga. It’s an amazing journey into a hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West at the end of the century, becoming a member of the “yegg” (criminal) brotherhood and a highwayman, learning the outlaw philosophy from Foot-and-a-half George and the Sanctimonious Kid, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, sometimes with the assistance of ever-corrupt cops and judges, hobo jungles, hop joints and penitentiaries. This is a chunk of American history entirely left out of the history books that have been rendered bland and trite in schools across the land — it’s a lot richer and stranger than the official version.
This new edition includes an afterword by Michael Disend that tells some of what became of Black after he wore out the outlaw life and washed up in San Francisco, wrote this book, and reinvented himself. A true American classic.
1926,6x9,340 pp, soft cover.
YOU CAN’T WIN: $16.00 (ORDER NUMBER 94330)
Anarchism & Egoism
Introduction
From the far reaches of the human mind, come these tales of unrestrained anti-authoritarianism. No government, no leaders, no authority, no rules, and complete freedom of action! Egoism, solipsism, anarchism, and other heresies — now revealed to corrupt your mind!!!
AGAINST METHOD
Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
by Paul Feyerabend
Modern philosophy of science has
paid great attention to an understand-
ing of scientific practice, in contrast to
the earlier concentration on “scientific
method.” The work of Karl Popper,
Thomas Kuhn and Imre Lakatos has
provided varying accounts of what this
practice is. Paul Feyerabend goes
beyond this position: he argues that
the most successful scientific inquiries
have never proceeded according to a
rational method at all. He examines in
detail the arguments which Galileo
used to defend the Copernican revolu-
tion in physics, and shows that his suc-
cess depended not on rational
arguments but on a mixture of sub-
terfuge, rhetoric and propaganda.
Claiming that anarchism must now replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge, Feyerabend argues that intellectual progress can only be achieved by stressing the creativity and wishes of the scientist rather than the method and authority of science. In the latter half of the book he examines Popper’s “critical rationalism,” and the attempt by Lakatos to construct a methodology which allows the scientist his freedom without threatening scientific “law and order.” Rejecting both attempts to shore up rationalism he looks forward to the “withering away of reason” and maintains that “the only principle which does not inhibit progress is anything goes"
I am sure we have all met “anarchists” who claim to reject the authority of the state, but who offer up blind unswerving devotion to the ideology of rationalism. Paul Feyerabend has the right idea: anything goes! Against Method is an important book for liberating your mind. This revised edition includes material originally published in Science in a Free Society and additional chapters on the trial of Galileo and the problem of the comparative reality of gods and atoms.
1993,516 x 816,293 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
AGAINST METHOD: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94237)
MEN AGAINST TH ESTATE
The Expositors of Individualist
Anarchism in America 1827-1908
by James J. Martin
This classic history of anarchism in the United States is the starting point for anyone.concerned with the antecedents of libertarianism in the United States. This book brought back into view a tradition which almost disappeared between the beginning of the First World War and the end of the Second — the philosophy and deeds of antistatist libertarian voluntarism in the United States during the three generations which flourished between 1825 and 1910, in a style which a London commentator described as a “model of readable scholarship.”
Among the individualist anarchists covered are Josiah Warren, Ezra Heywood, William B. Greene, J.K. Ingalls, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Lysander Spooner, and Benjamin Tucker.
Must reading for all interested in individualism and anarchism.
1970,516 x 816,331 pp, soft cover,
MEN AGAINST THE STATE: $4.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94080)
CAMP 38
Current Model
of Northern European Lifestyle
Before Christianity
by Jill von Konen
This strange little book is well worth reading — it presents a blueprint for a “Northern European Lifestyle” society in the form of a novel. The events of Camp 38 are set in the present world at the present time, but radically different values require the people to have no social relationship with those “outside.”
It is interesting to read the author’s presentation of why the “Northern European Lifestyle Before Christianity” is better than our own, and in what ways. If you have enjoyed Human History viewed as Sovereign Individuals versus Manipulated Masses, you will probably enjoy Camp 38 as well.
1984,516 x 816,203 pp, soft cover.
CAMP 38: $8.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94156)
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY
by Karl Hess
With an Introduction by Carol Moore
Adams-Mofgan is a sev-
enty-block neighborhood in the
center of Washington, D.C. For
five years Karl Hess worked
with hundreds of people in this
neighborhood striving to make
it self-sufficient. There were fish
in basements, vegetables
growing in once vacant lots and
on rooftops, self-contained bac-
teriological toilets to unhook the
community from conventional
sewer systems, a newsletter,
plans for a methanol plant to
convert local garbage into fuel,
and a shopping cart to handle
most heavy moving chores.
Most important were the weekly
town meetings: “After tasting a
participatory democracy,” Hess
says, “I would never want to
trade it for a merely representative one.”
Even though several thousand people were finally involved in some part of all this community technology, it didn’t thrive. Community Technology's the story of what these people did, how they did it, and why it didn’t work. It is also an explanation of how any neighborhood can achieve self-sufficiency now, using what Karl Hess and Adams-Morgan learned. Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to offer our readers Karl Hess’s Community Technoldgy.
1979,516 x 816, 114 pp, soft cover.
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14177)
THE BREAKDOWN OF NATIONS
by Leopold Kohr
In The Breakdown of
Nations, Leopold Kohr shows
that throughout history, people
who have lived in small states
are happier, more peaceful,
more creative and more pros-
perous. He argues that virtually
all our political and social prob-
lems would be greatly dimin-
ished if the world’s major
countries were to dissolve back
into the small states from which
they sprang. Rather than mak-
ing ever larger political unions,
in the mistaken belief that this
will bring peace and security,
we should minimize the aggre-
gation of power by returning to
a patchwork of small, relatively
powerless states, where lead-
ers are accessible to and
responsive to the people.
“Little states produce greater wisdom in their policies because
they are weak. Their leaders could not get away with stupidity, not
even in the short run. It is not by accident that the politically and
socially most advanced countries of the world today are small states.
Large powers, on the other hand, can get away with stupidity for pro-
longed periods. But who amongst us, if he feels that he can get away
with stupidity, which can be had so effortlessly, will ever take the trou-
ble and pains of being wise?” — Leopold Kohr
1986,6% x 916,256 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
THE BREAKDOWN OF NATIONS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 14218)
STEALTH JUROR
The Ultimate Defense Against Bad Laws
and Government Tyranny
This may be one of the most impor-
tant books on freedom ever published.
A stealth juror is an ordinary citizen
serving on a jury who understands and
is not afraid to exercise his right to
judge not only the evidence in a case
but the very law upon which the prose-
cution is based (sometimes referred to
as “jury nullification”). If the law itself is
bad or unfair, he secretly works to
acquit any defendant being persecuted
for a nonviolent, victimless crime. He
must remain undercover because he
represents a direct threat to the power
of judges and prosecutors. He is the
last champion of justice in the American
courtroom.
It took the United States more than two centuries to reach a prison population of one million but less than two decades to put two million of today’s citizens behind bars. Whether this is a case of overzealous law enforcement or a darker conspiracy in the halls of “Justice,” stealth jurors are our last hope to stop our country from becoming a police state.
This book will tell you how to get yourself seated on a jury where you can do the most good for just causes (from preserving gun rights to opposing the War .on Drugs), recognize and avoid the games that lawyers and judges use to manipulate the outcome of a case, secretly win over your fellow jurors in the deliberation room, and work to reestablish the power of the ordinary citizen in an out-of-contrpl U.S. court system.
2002,516 x 816,120 pp, soft cover.
STEALTH JUROR: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 76074)
MUROER
Ilie
CONSPIRACY
CONVENTION
And Other American Absurdities
MURDER AT THE CONSPIRACY CONVENTION
And Other American Absurdities
by Paul Krassner
Paul Krassner has been
making countercultural history
for more than forty years. He
was a cofounder of the Youth
International Party, the Yippies.
A former Merry Prankster, he
has counted among his friends
Ken Kesey, Lenny Bruce, Grou-
cho Marx (who took LSD with the
author), Abbie Hoffman, Jerry
Rubin, Bob Dylan, the Grateful
Dead, John Lennon, and Larry
Flynt. Founder/editor of the jour-
nal The Realist, Krassner is per-
haps the most outrageous
cultural critic of his era.
Writings collected in this vol-
ume include recent articles from
the Los Angeles Times, the LA
Weekly, George, High Times
and In These Times. From John
Lennon to JonBenet Ramsey, from Charles Manson to Monica Lewin-
sky, from Timothy McVeigh to America’s New War on terrorism,
Krassner once again proves that he is one of the smartest, funniest,
and most incisive political and cultural critics writing today. The intro-
duction by George Carlin, a long-time Krassner fan, brilliantly puts the
importance of Krassner’s work in perspective.
2002,6x9,361 pp, soft cover.
MURDER AT THE CONSPIRACY CONVENTION: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99214)
THE BALLAD OF CARL DREGA
Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1994 to 2001
by Vin Suprynowicz
Vin Suprynowicz is the most intelligent and uncompromising libertarian writer currently working. His unflinching defense of the rights of the individual versus the State are both stirring and thought-provoking, as he delves into real- life, abuses of liberty happening all around us today.
Who was Carl Drega and why did he die? In a free country, individuals have almost limitless rights — to travel as they please, carry private arrns, consume any plant or drug, keep what they earn, raise their kids as they see fit... all without showing any license or permit. Bureaucrats have few powers, specifically listed. But that hardly describes America today, where the default settings fast approach those of a slave state. Carl Drega fought back... and died. Peter McWilliams fought back... and died. Garry Watson fought back... and died. Donald Scott fought back... and died... Not all their desperate acts were wise or admirable. But libertarian columnist Vin Suprynowicz insists we should at least start cataloguing and honoring the names of those who have given their lives in this War On Freedom, beihg Waged against us from the lowliest government classroom and “pqde-enforcement office” to the loftiest temples of Washington. Because we’re next. Eight died on that bridge at Lexington, back in 1775.' How many will it take this time?
Contents include: • Live Free Or Die: How Many More Carl Dregas? • Death by Levy: The Tyranny of Taxation • The War For the Western Lands « Mean Greens: Environmentalism as a State Religion • Sept 11, 2001 • Afraid of Competence, Afraid of Freedom... Afraid of Guns • Ara the Gun-Rights Lobbyists Being De-Clawed? • In Which the Author Answers Further Queries on Firearms • Greatest Hits from the Mail Bag: Widdle Stephanie and the Princess of Rutgers • We’re From the Government; We’re Here to Take’Your Kids • A Whisper They Can Ignore: Sacrificing Children to the Government Vaccination Machine * Burn the Schools • The Drug War Murders • The Regulatory State: Castrating a People Who Said ‘Can Do’ • Practical Politics: Don’t Look Here for Help • Postscript: Why We’re Losing the War for Freedom • And two Appendices.
Don’t miss the latest from Vin Suprynowicz!
2002,516 x 816, 700 pp, soft cover.
THE BALLAD OF CARL DREGA: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 58152)
ANARCHIC HARMONY
The Spirituality of Social Disobedience
by William J Murray
In the tradition of Principle Dis-
cordia, The Right To Be Greedy, and
The World Power Foundation,
Loompanics Unlimited proudly pres-
ents one of the most interesting and
challenging books you will ever
read: William J Murray’s Anarchic
Harmony.
From the Text by William J Mur-
ray:
“What I found by turning my back
on our society-generated mythology
was so profound that I had to share
it — presumptuous or not —
because it indicts the social struc-
ture of mankind and demands social
disobedience, or living according to
our inner, heroic nature and not
according to the intimidation and
demands of society’s ineffective ideology.”
“Rediscovering your designed purpose by stripping away the Jalse programming of society, abandoning the aberrant belief systems, and embarking upon a path of honest observation and self discovery is what is meant by social disobedience”
A welcome addition to the literature of radical anarchism!
1992,516 x 816, 127 pp, soft cover.
ANARCHIC HARMONY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94187)
UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM
Social Revolution through
Individual Empowerment
by William J Murray
In Anarchic Harmony,
William J Murray shattered
the myths of the New Age
and the old, showing us
hpw to find our Inner
Dynamic and use it as our
only barometer of right and
wrong.
Now, in Unconditional
Freedom, Murray teaches
us how to manipulate reality
to gain unlimited freedom.
This mind-bending behe-
moth of a book shows how
to “bring the Angels down,”
how to harness “The IDiot
Within,” how to move
toward “Zenine Society.”
Murray devastates the
crumbling institutions of
government, law, school,
medicine, science, religion,
work — even time, space
and matter! “We’re going to
knock down the walls and rip up the floorboards that keep us imprisoned in the hellish box of ‘normal life’ and consensus reality,” says the author. That’s something worth reading, don’t you think?
HERE IS WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT WILLIAM J MURRAY’S PREVIOUS BOOK: ANARCHIC HARMONY:
“William J Murray Joins Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleister Crowley as one of the true Revolutionaries” — Robert Anton Wilson
1993,516 x 816,258 pp, soft cover.
UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94222)
STEAL THIS BOOK
by Abbie Hoffman
First time in trade paperback! A
classic of the counterculture and one
of the most controversial documents
of all time, Abbie Hoffman’s “outlaw
handbook” is as meaningful today as
the day it hit the streets in 1970. An
alternative guide to life, covering
everything from shoplifting and grow-
ing marijuana to effective demonstrat-
ing and defending yourself in a court of
law — and in a brawl — Steal This
Book has educated and inspired
young activists around the world for
more than three decades. Conceived
as an instruction manual for radical
social change, Steal This Book is
divided into three sections — Survive!
Fight! And Liberate! Ever wonder how to start a guerrilla radio station? Or maybe you want to brush up on your shoplifting techniques. Perhaps you’re just looking for the best free entertainment. Packed with information, advice, and Abbie’s unique outlaw wisdom (“Avoid all needle drugs — the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”), Steal This Book is a timeless reminder that, no matter what the struggle, freedom is always worth fighting for.
This beautiful new trade paperback edition features introductions by Lisa Fithian and Al Giordano, both of whom worked with Abbie during the 1980s. They provide historical context and personal anecdotes that bring new readers up to speed on Hoffman’s unique brand of political wit and humor, his inimitable sense of theater, and his legacy as a voice pf spirited defiance in a time of great uncertainty. For those who lived through the sixties and for those today who are facing off against global conglomerates and government bureaucracies, Abbie’s timeless call to arms will provide fresh inspiration.
2002,516 x 816, 348pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
STEAL THIS BOOK: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99203)
NATIVE AMERICAN ANARCHISM
by Eunice Minette Schuster
Anarchism has exploded
back into the forefront of
today’s political movements.
While modern radicals have
shied away from broad social
systems to narrow, issue-ori-
ented groups, the doctrine of
anarchism has surfaced in all
of them. One increasingly
hears about “anarcho-femi-
nists,” non-government alternative communities, and direct-action environmentalists. Now comes a book to help them find their roots, in the strong tradition of American anarchism.
Anarcho-pacifists protested the War of 1812 and the Civil War, while demanding freedom for slaves. Women’s rights, birth control, sexual and moral freedom were championed by Frances Wright, Voltairine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman and other anarchists. Alternative communities such as New Harmony, Utopia and Modern Times were formed around anarchist principles. Environmental activists and labor organizers can still learn much from the anarchists who preferred “direct action” to idle words.
Native American Anarchism is not only an important historical book for contemporary radicals — it’s also enjoyable and exciting reading.
Native American Anarchism is by far the best book ever published on the history of anarchism in the United States. Don’t miss this timely classic, finally back in print, explaining the roots of American radicalism!
1932,516 x 816,202 pp, indexed, soft cover.
NATIVE AMERICAN ANARCHISM: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94068)
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM
With Justine, Eugenie de Fravnel,
and other writings
by the Marquis de Sade
Described by some as “the most absolute writer who ever lived,” the Marquis de Sade is perhaps the most maligned figure in all history. Reading his works, one can see why. The extreme egoism and resistance to authority he advocated (and practiced!) are enough to stir up controversy and opposition even today, nearly 200 years after his death.
Sade’s best work by far is Philosophy in the Bedroom. In it, a shapely teenybopper is instructed in the sexual arts by several horny amoral adults of various sexes. It is hardcore porno, capable of appealing to your prurient interests even today. In between the sex scenes, the characters rest up by discussing morality and philosophy (the other half of the dolly’s education). These passages alone are worth the price of the book. Sade not only predates, but goes even beyond Nietzsche and Stirner in his advocacy of the absolute supremacy of the individual’s will.
No wonder they kept him locked up. No wonder they made his very name a dirty work. His writings are stark and absolute, utterly free of hypocrisy. You will find your self both gasping with astonishment and roaring with laughter.
This edition of Philosophy in the Bedroom is bound with some other of Sade’s writings (most of which are boring — they don’t have quite the flair of Philosophy in the Bedroom). Also included are several well-done essays on Sade and his writings, biographical material, and a chronology of the bad dude’s life. So, if you want to read a mixture of hardcore porno and hardcore egoism, as well as take a little glimpse into the mind of the most outrageous figure in human history, give Philosophy in the Bedroom a try. We bet you will be glad you did!
1795,5Kx8H, 775pp, softcover.
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM: $18.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94173)
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NATURAL LAW
Or Don’t Put a Rubber on Your Willy
by Robert Anton Wilson
WARNING: The Attorney
General has determined that
this book may be hazardous to
your dogma.
More on “Natural Rights”!
Robert Anton Wilson — novel-
ist, poet, playwright, lecturer,
stand-up comic, Futurist and
psychologist — lets fly at Mur-
ray Rothbard, George Smith,
Samuel Edward Konkin III, and
other purveyors of the “claim
that some sort of metaphysical
entity called a ‘right’ resides in a
human being like a ‘ghost’
residing in a haunted house.”
Chapters include: • Political
Myth and Self-Hypnosis • “Law”
in Science and Theology • Faith
and Deep Belief • Metaphysics
Without “God” • Natural Law as
Ventriloquism • What is “Against
Nature”? • Why Not “Violate” Nature? • The Individual vs the Abstract
• Sleepwalking and Hypnotism • And much more.
Funny, scientific, well thought-out, entertaining and informative,
Robert Anton Wilson’s Natural Law is a book that should be read by
anyone who has ever been attracted to any ideology. Highly recom-
mended as the best writing yet on the subject.
1987,516 x 816,68 pp, soft cover.
NATURAL LAW: $7.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94101)
RESIST NOT EVIL
by Clarence S. Darrow
Clarence Darrow is best
known today for defending the
right to teach evolution in “the
Scopes trial.” Not so well-known
is his lifetime of service on
behalf of labor dissidents and
other victims of government per-
secution. In Resist Not Evil,
Darrow presents a convincing
case for abolishing the criminal
justice system.
Darrow on the State: “...the
state does nothing except to
assist the strong to despoil the
weak.”
Darrow on Crime: “To violate
the law is often the highest, most
sacred duty that can devolve
upon the citizen...”
Darrow on Punishment: “If
punishment has no effect to
diminish or prevent crime, then no danger would be incurred to dismiss our jailers and jurors and close our prison doors.”
This reprint of Darrow’s controversial book could not be more timely. Everywhere, one hears the call for more prisons, more severe punishment. Darrow argues for a radical new approach; his ideas have lost none of their fire or relevance. This new- reprinting of this hard-to-find classic includes a brand new Introduction by Carol Moore.
1902,516 x 816, 188 pp, indexed, soft cover.
RESIST NOT EVIL: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99099)
GOD AND THE STATE
by Michael Bakunin
called Nihilist branch of the anarchists.
Among the 19th cen-
tury founders of modern
philosophical anarchism,
none is more important
than Michael Bakunin
(1814-1876). Bom into the
Russian nobility, he
renounced his hereditary
rank in protest against
Czarist oppression, and
fled to Western Europe,
where he remained (apart
from an episode in
Siberia). He took part (with
Wagner) in the abortive
1848 rebellion in Dresden;
was a leader and chief
opponent to Marx in the
first International; and
director of insurrections in
France and Spain. For
most of his life he was the
pater diabolicus of the so-
A colorful, charismatic personality, violent, ebullient, and ener-
getic, Bakunin was one of the two poles between which 19th and
early 20th century anarchism was formed. All threads of one chain of
anarchism lead back to Bakunin, and everyone in the movement
either built upon or reacted to his ideas. Yet Bakunin, despite the
power of his ideas, was primarily a man of action, and he wrote little.
His only major work, God and the State, remained unfinished,
although it is the torso of a giant.
1970,516 x 816, 89 pp, soft cover.
GOD AND THE STATE: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94258)
ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST
Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement
by Carlotta R. Anderson
The story of Detroit’s
controversial individual-
ist anarchist and labor
leader at the height of
urban industrialization
comes to life in Carlotta
R. Anderson’s thorough
biography.
The author has
painstakingly recreated
Joseph A. Labadie’s
career, one that spanned
radicalism, American
socialism, the Knights of
Labor and Libertarian-
ism.
“Carlotta Anderson
presents a candidly
human being, romanti-
cally idealistic, whose
passionate convictions
carried him beyond con-
ventional social limits
and involved him in
many controversies,
both in his labor activities and in his career as a social agitator. The
‘Gentle Anarchist’ was by no means always pacifistic or measured in
speech and writing; his hyperboles and misjudgments are noted with
Anderson’s objective eye and a relish of humor.”— Edward C. Weber,
University of Michigan Library
1998,616 x 916, 328 pp, hard cover.
ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94300)
IT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND
A Libertarian Odyssey
by Jerome Tuccille
Welcome to the wonderful, wacky world of libertarianism!!! It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand is a highly subjective account of the author’s involvement with the libertarian movement in its early days, from the late fifties through the late sixties — you know, before the Party. Tuccille’s touch is so irreverent that when this book was first published, one libertarian “leader” wrote that he would have prevented its publication, if he had the power.
Here’s what Library Journal said about this book: “Tuccille has got to be everyone’s favorite right-wing anarchist libertarian. It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand is a charming and lively account of his disillusioned journey from Ayn Rand’s ‘objectivist’ philosophy through his attempt to build a radical Left-Right, moderate, anarchist coalition. For Tuccille it was a pilgrim’s progress; for us it is a fascinating, lively, and hilarious tour through the Byzantine circles of the kooky Right. Lest anyone think that the spirit of the Marx brothers exists only on the Yippie Left, Tuccille’s escapades with the ideologues and crazies of the right should set that notion to rest. Compared to Ayn Rand, Karl Hess, or Murray Rothbard, Abbie Hoffman has been the very model of decorum.
“Despite the political fun and games, Tuccille’s work has a serious side to it. ...he believes that the U.S. ‘has moved to a point roughly seventy-five percent along the scale toward dictatorship’ and that this is the result of ‘state capitalism.’ He argues that the solution lies in an anarchism which looks to decentralized, organic, and free individuals and groups. For him, a radical stance follows naturally from the compatible ideas of anarchism and liberty. The book is a pertinent and engaging reminder that anarchism is again becoming a serious outlook on both the Right and Left.”
1971,516 x 816, 217 pp, soft cover.
IT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 91159)
LYSANDER SPOONER READER
With an Introduction by George H. Smith
This reference-packed volume includes the full texts of Lysander Spooner’s essays Natural Law, Vices Are Not Crimes, No Treason, Letter to Thomas F. Bayard, and Trial by Jury. Just those writings alone help illuminate the eloquent voice and powerful thinking of Lysander Spooner: the libertarian’s libertarian. An introduction by George H. Smith recounts the rise and fall of Spooner’s popularity, and tells the story of the man who so fervently believed in individual rights that he devoted his life to the cause.
From the Introduction: “Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was one of the greatest libertarian theorists of the nineteenth (or any other) century and a founding father of the modern movement. He was radical to the bone, a nonconformist among nonconformists who refused to toe any party line.
“Trained as a lawyer, Spooner often wrote like a lawyer, citing precedents, statutes, and legal authorities. This legalistic style enshrouds some of his work with a dry, forbidding appearance. But, huddled among his legal arguments are passages of literary and philosophic brilliance.
“Spooner was no ordinary lawyer. He cited the Constitution when he believed it conformed with natural law; this led him to assert the unconstitutionality of chartered banks, a monopolistic post office, legal tender laws, slavery and other offenses against liberty. In the final analysis, however, Spooner condemned the Constitution as possessing ‘no authority,’ and this distinguished him from many radicals of his day. He espoused individualist-anarchism (in substance if not in name), a radical no-government philosophy with roots deep in American history — Native American Anarchism, as Eunice Schuster had calledit.
“For Spooner, natural law and its corollary, natural rights, are the foundation of a free and just society. He was an unterrified Jeffersonian who refused to compromise the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence. If the people have a right to resist usurpations and the right to overthrow tyrannical governments, then these rights may be enforced against the American government. If such principles make it difficult for governments to function, then, as Spooner saw the matter, so much the better. Government is a standing threat to liberty, peace, prosperity and social order.”
1992,6x9,343 pp, indexed, soft cover.
LYSANDER SPOONER READER: $14.95
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THE MYTH OF NATURAL RIGHTS
by LA. Rollins
h/otvro/
Rights
I. R. Ro//ins
No, it won’t stop bullets. It
won’t keep people from ripping-
off your property. It won’t even
stop the government from put-
ting you in a concentration
camp, or executing you. About
the only thing a “natural right”
will stop is enlightened thinking
on the ethics of liberty. Once
you’ve read The Myth of Nat-
ural Rights, you’ll be able to
put those imaginary protectors
of freedom back in the muse-
ums where they came from.
Libertarian scholars have
had a difficult time being taken
seriously in intellectual circles.
There’s a good reason for this.
While they have gained recog-
nition and acclaim for their
staunch defense of the free
market, compelling advocacy of
civil liberties and devastating condemnation of interventionism, their stubborn reliance on the ancient myth of natural rights leaves them in philosophical disrepute. The doctrine of natural rights has persisted among libertarians, because there has never been a systematic and thorough critique of all it implies. Until now.
In one compact work, L.A. Rollins shatters the myth of natural rights, while exposing the “bleeding-heart libertarians” that promote it. With careful research and ample documentation, he shows that thinkers like Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Tibor Machan and Samuel Konkin not only violate reason and logic in their defense of natural rights, but also violate the standards they set for themselves.
1983,x 816,52 pp, soft cover, bibliography.
THE MYTH OF NATURAL RIGHTS: $7.95
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ANARCHISM
Arguments For And Against
by Albert Meltzer
Everything you wanted to
know about anarchism but
were afraid to ask. A new
revised and updated edition
of the definitive pocket
primer. From the historical
background and justification
of anarchism, to the class
struggle, organization and
the role of an anarchist in an
authoritarian society, this
slim volume walks the
reader through the salient
points, theory, and practice
of this much-maligned phi-
losophy. From workers’ self-
defense to the myth of
taxation, the second half of
the book runs through the
gamut of objections and
queries from Marxist-Lenin-
ists, liberal-democrats, fas-
cists and the average
person. If you’re constantly
wishing you were better informed, or just mildly curious, this is the
place to start.
1996,4M x 6te, 91 pp, soft cover.
ANARCHISM: $5.95
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL ANARCHY
by Kathlyn Gay and Martin K. Gay
Black-hatted, his coat con-
cealing a deadly bomb, the
anarchist skulks through his-
tory. In truth, anarchists are as
diverse as anarcha-feminists,
ecoanarchists, Emma Gold-
man, Thomas Paine, Sacco
and Vanzetti, and Emiliano
Zapata. The Encyclopedia of
Political Anarchy charts his-
tory’s most misunderstood
social movement. Covering
political anarchy worldwide for
the past 300 years, this book
examines the ancient roots of
the movement, spotlights key
individuals, and explores
important organizations,
events, laws, court cases, and
theories. Easy to read and
understand, this work is: • The
one and only encyclopedia on the subject «An excellent first-stop reference guide • A reliable starting place for pursuing further research • An easily accessible resource for quick, accurate information on anarchists, their thoughts, and their deeds.
The Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy answers such questions as:
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What were the early catalysts of anarchy? • Who are the recent key players in anarchist circles? • What are their core concepts, beliefs, and terminologies? • Is there an anarchist orthodoxy?
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What organizations played important roles in furthering anarchist ideals?
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What is the relationship between communism and anarchy?
More than just a reference source, this encyclopedia tells the interesting story of sophisticated and complex social and philosophical forces that left their mark on the world — from the thirteenth-century Free Spirit movement against the oppressive power of the church in France to the present-day Zapatista National Liberation Army in Mexico. An invaluable addition to your anarchist library!
1999,7x 10,256pp, indexed, hard cover.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL ANARCHY: $75.00
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OUR ENEMY, THE STATE
by Albert Jay Nock
Back in print again!!!
“The Police, Army, Navy, and Highway Patrol... most regulations help one class of people, while leading to higher costs for everyone else.”
We are proud to offer our readers this classic anti-authoritarian book. The prevailing ideology of the twentieth century, especially strong among intellectuals, but infecting all other ranks as well, is faith in political panaceas for economic and social woes. Ideologues quarrel among themselves. Sectarian differences divide communists from nazis, socialists from fascists, new dealers from welfare staters, and so on. Statists vary in plummage and program, but on one thing they all agree; one and all they demand a centralized State with virtually unlimited authority to oversee every aspect of life. They do not examine the State itself to determine whether it is within the State’s competence to achieve the tasks they would thrust upon it—which is why their allegedly good intentions invariably lead to contrary, and sometimes disastrous, results. Nock understands the nature of the State, and so will the reader who follows his analysis.
One of the finest anti-authoritarian works ever written.
1935,5Vi x 81/i, 172 pp, soft cover.
OUR ENEMY, THE STATE: $14.95
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CRYPTO ANARCHY, CYBERSTATES,
AND PIRATE UTOPIAS
Edited by Peter Ludlow
This time the subject is the
emergence of governance struc-
tures within online communities
and the visions of political sover-
eignty shaping some of those
communities. Ludlow views virtual
communities as laboratories for
conducting experiments in the
construction of new societies and
governance structures. While
many online experiments will fail,
Ludlow argues that given the syn-
ergy of the online world, new and
superior governance structures
may emerge. Indeed, utopian
visions are not out of place, pro-
vided that we understand the new
utopias to be fleeting localized
“islands in the Net” and not perma-
nent institutions.
This book is organized in five sections. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of “Crypto Anarchy” — essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation-states and other traditional powers. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nation-states are obsolete. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace.
This is a collection of writings that reflect the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity.
2001,6x9,499 pp, indexed, soft cover.
CRYPTO ANARCHY, CYBERSTATES,
AND PIRATE UTOPIAS: $24.95
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SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE
by Pierre Clastres
IVe are glad to welcome this anarchist classic back into print.
Pierre Clastres asks and boldly answers a question which has haunted Western culture from its inception: Is a society possible in which people are not divided into oppressors and oppressed? Can a society flourish without the coercive institution of the state and privileged hierarchies?
He tells us that societies of this kind existed: we need not take refuge in imaginary utopias. Basing himself on the rich annals of the 16th and 17th century explorers and missionaries in South America, Clastres reconstructs for us the life of archaic Indian societies that populated areas of Brazil, Venezuela, and Paraguay. He also draws on the abundant history of North American Indians to complete his panoramic view.
In these societies, there were no permanent chiefs or leaders surrounded by the trappings of office and wealth, nor were such offices vested in particular families or groups. No individual attempted to force his political and social will on other men. The members of these “archaic societies” lived in free association.
Ciastres denies strongly the widespread error that these were impoverished societies in which men fought divisively for scarce subsistence and goods. Hobbes’ notion of “Primitive Man’s” state as a “war of all against all” is proven false. These societies were as “affluent” as our own, and of a far greater density of population than previously thought, yet they were more humane.
Loompanics Unlimited is very proud to offer its readers an anarchist classic: Pierre Clastres’ Society Against The State.
1974,6x9,218 pp, soft cover.
SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE: $16.00
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THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE HANDBOOK
A Brief History and Practical Advice
for the Politically Disenchanted
Edited by James Tracy
Non-violent civil disobedience is an American tradition, an essential element of a working democracy. From the Bill of Rights and Henry David Thoreau’s classic 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience to contemporary direct action tactics utilized by the Ruckus Society and other non-violent groups, this handbook outlines a brief history of social protest. Helpful resources and handy information for people interested in continuing this important process for political change are included, as well as tips on everything from getting arrested to manipulating the media.
Contents include:
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Planning • Affinity Groups • To Get a Permit? • Appoint Police Monitors and Police Liaisons • Jail Support • You Have the Right To Remain Silent — Use It! • HIV and Other Medical Considerations • Voluntary and Informed Risk • The Race Question • Legal Issues • Warning or Command • Arrest • Processing and Booking • First Date in Court • The Trial • Verdict and Sentencing • Federal Government/Property • And much, much more.
2002,516 x 816, 95 pp, soft cover.
THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE HANDBOOK: $10.00
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101 THINGS TO DO ’TIL THE REVOLUTION
Ideas and resources for self-liberation,
monkey wrenching and preparedness
by Claire Wolfe
As Wolfe states in her Dedication: “This book is based upon the premise that, when governments turn bad, the best people ultimately become criminals. The people don’t change; the laws do. Initiative, dissent, individual pleasures, and exercise of one’s basic rights become ‘crimes.’ Obscure regulations and technical paperwork violations are used to destroy people who dare to speak their minds.
“The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrant’s greatest enemies.
“Before their thunder roars, there is a period of anticipation, in which more occurs than the literal-minded tyrant can ever understand. A few overt acts of sedition shatter the heavy peace. But the greater force, unrecognized, rolls forward in near silence, as millions of individuals quietly withdraw their consent from the state. The pundits call it apathy. They could not be more wrong.
“That time is now. And we are those people.
“This book is dedicated to you, the Enemy of the State.”
With that in mind, Wolfe offers 101 suggestions to help grease the wheels as we roll towards the government’s inevitable collapse. “Kill your TV... Join a gun-rights group... Fly the Gadsden flag... Buy and carry the Citizen’s Rule Book... Join the tax protesters on April 15... Bury gold, guns, and goodies...” Wolfe’s list is lengthy and thoughtprovoking, as she elaborates on each piece of advice. From generalities to precise instructions, her 101 helpful hints cannot be ignored or disregarded, if one is truly serious about becoming more self-sufficient in preparation for a major societal change.
For the concerned citizen who wishes to keep a low profile, protest his or her rights and survive in the “interesting times” which are sure to come, Claire Wolfe’s 101 Things To Do ’TH The Revolution: Ideas and resources for self-liberation, monkey wrenching and preparedness is essential reading.
1996,516 x 816, 196 pp, soft cover.
101 THINGS TO DO ’TIL THE REVOLUTION: $15.95
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THE AYN RAND CULT
by Jeff Walker
Despised by the intellectual
establishment, Ayn Rand continues
to attract many thousands of
devoted followers. Her “Objectivist”
movement preaches an uncompro-
mising hard line on politics, art,
sex, and psychological health.
Though much has been written
about Rand, The Ayn Rand Cult is
the first book to explain the true ori-
gin of her ideas and to show how
they were shaped into a new, athe-
istic religion.
From the author’s Preface: “Ayn
Rand (1905-1982) was a remark-
able phenomenon in American cul-
tural life. She wrote two popular
novels which not only became
bestsellers, but continue to sell
decades later. She attracted adherents to some ideas which had been unduly neglected and which would later come into their own again. She stimulated many young people to think about important issues, and unlike some modern writers who have attracted a devoted following, she did not try to impress with mystifying terminology: Whatever you may think of Rand’s arguments, they are always clearly and forcefully expressed. She helped to break down the barrier between pop culture and serious intellectual debate.
“There are many books and articles which expound Raqd’s ideas, either to advocate them or to criticize them, and there will be many more. This book doesn’t compete with those works: It is not primarily an examination of the doctrinal content of Objectivism. It would be missing the point of The Ayn Rand CultXo see it as primarily an attempt to refute Rand’s theories. There are points where I agree with Rand and points where I disagree with her, but I am mainly concerned with the fact that Rand’s movement became a cult, that it functioned like a typical cult, and that this caused considerable unnecessary unhappiness for many people. The identification of the organized Objectivist movement as a cult has been made repeatedly over the years by a great many individuals who consider themselves Objectivists in ail essentials, and who hold a much higher estimation of Rand’s attainment as a thinker than I do. The cultishness of a cult is not changed by the correctness or incorrectness of some of its teachings, or even of all of them...
“In identifying Objectivism as a cult, I do not intend to be wholly negative. Cults can have bad effects on people’s lives, but they can also perform useful services. For many, experience in a cult can serve as a valuable agency of change, providing some stepping stones toward life goals chosen independently of the cult. The cult’s doctrines offer the acolyte a structured system of beliefs which makes sense of the world, and which may well afford insights not easily available to mainstream thought. One should not compound the downside of cultism by a display of anti-cult fanaticism; excesses of enmity can sometimes be as harmful within mainstream thinking, with its kneejerk hostility to all cults, as among the cults themselves.”
The Ayn Rand Cult shatters many myths about Rand, exposing Objectivism as a classic cult, unusual because of its overt emphasis on self-interest, rationality, and atheism, but typical of cults in its guruworship, thought control, trial and excommunication of deviants, and hostility to existing society. This is a fascinating book, especially for anyone who was ever influenced by Ayn Rand. Of particular interest is the revealing of writers who almost certainly were heavily influential on Rand’s thinking (albeit unacknowledged by her), such as the “Nineteenth-Century Ayn Rand,” Harriet Martineau, and the 1920s Business Theory writers.
Also fascinating, and covered in no other book, is the Jewish influence on Ayn Rand (Walker lists 17 different “Jewish Influences in Objectivism”). The Ayn Rand Cult is must reading for anyone who has ever read a single word of Ayn Rand.
1999,6x9,404 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE AYN RAND CULT: $19.95
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BLOODY BILL ANDERSON
The Short, Savage Life
of a Civil War Guerrilla
by Albert Castel
and Thomas Goodrich
■ From two of the foremost historians of the Civil War in the West comes this first-ever full-lehgth account of Bloody Bill Anderson’s gnjèsome career. Drawing extensively from heretofore unknown primary; sources, the authors track the rise and reign of Anderson’s terror from 1862 to 1865. They explore the source of his blunt vengeance in his increasingly violent raids, including the infamous sadk of Lawrence, Kansas. Here, Sergeant Tom Goodman’s account of the Centralia Massacre and his subsequent captivity becomes all the more engrossing in light of Anderson’s known policy of never taking prisoners. Even after Anderson’s death, the momentum of his desperate crusade continued through the work of his allies. The people lament, “Whilé the man is dead, yet the spirit of Bill Anderson lives.”
The story of Bloody Bill is one in which the anger and bitterness of wàr contorts souls to a savage state. It is an unforgettable story of a man driven by personal demons and the circumstances of war to commit ever greater atrocities in an already bloodstained land.
1998,6x9,180pp, illustrated, indexed, hard cover. .
BLOODY BILL ANDERSON: $24.95
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DON’T SHOOT THE BASTARDS (YET)
101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom
by Claire Wolfe
The clodhoppers of Tyranny stomp on the toes of innocent people every day, from flat-out prohibitions of peaceful activities, to flagrant invasions of privacy, to the not-so-subtle erosion of Constitutional freedoms.
, But it’s still not time to take down the scoundrels. Not yet. Author Claire Wolfe has come up with another batch of ideas to counteract the abuses government and private agencies so routinely practice. In this follow-up to her wildly popular 101 Things to Do ’Til the Revolution, she provides more ways to monkey wrench a system that keeps citizens in a stranglehold. She teaches how to prepare for a truly independent lifestyle, and Imparts further insight on how to liberate people from the Powers that Be.
How would you fare In the Frog Bolling Challenge? How can you stay out of snoopy databases? What should you do when you’ve got an itch to write another useless letter to your congresscritter? How can you acquire firearms without ending up on a government list? Is there any way to tell if a supposed friend is really a government snitch? You’ll find all that and more in Don’t Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom.
Freedom fighter Boston T. Party writes in the introduction, “I think she’s on to something. She has grasped the current stage of our struggle: firm mental defiance coupled with the beginning of real action,”
You can wax on about freedom. You can whine about government rules. But the only way to change the way things are is to take action against the Tyranny traipsing all over American lives. This book is the best place to start.
1999,5M x 8%, 239 pp, soft cover.
DON’T SHOOT THE BASTARDS (YET): $15.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94304)
SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS
Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998
by Vin Suprynowicz
Your right to a trial by a ran-
domly selected jury — not one
stacked with jurors* who swear to
convict in advance — is gone.
The IRS can now seize your
bank account, paycheck, and
house — without so much as a
judge’s order. Your banker will
help them.
Vietnam veterans and their
wives, and 68-year-old engineers,
are in federal prisons on “drug”
charges — despite the fact they
never sold, touched, or even saw
a single gram of cocaine or mari-
juana.
The Founders guaranteed
Americans the right to keep and
bear arms for defense against
their own government. But the
meager legal arms of the Branch Davidians were no match against government tanks and helicopters at Waco. National gun registration led to confiscation in once-free England and Australia. And national gun registration began in the U. S. on December 1,1998.
How did we get to this point? Is there any peaceful way back from the toboggan ride to tyranny? The answers are in Send in the Waco Killers, by America’s syndicated libertarian columnist, Vjn Suprynowicz.
From the author’s Introduction:
“What are the ‘unconsidered’ routes through which to goad the monster of the omnipotent in its lair?...
“What if people could be made to understand the role the public schools play in their own dumbing down? What if they could be convinced to withhold their children from this form of human sacrifice and teach them the true principles of liberty at home or in private academies, starving the government schools of victims till they stand abandoned and in ruins, scorned by a newly literate nation?
“What if the average American could be taught hbw one of the major safeguards of ail our liberties, our inherited thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon system of trial by jury, has been corrupted and castrated by government lawyers and judges working in concert to stack juries sworn in advance to convict? It only takes one juror in twelve to hang every jury from here till doomsday. What if every one of the 90 percent of suspects arrested for victimless crimes started to walk free, until the cops just gave up, left us in peace in our homes and cars, and went back to staking out real burglars and armed robbers?
“What if Americans could be made to realize there’s no need to legalize drugs — that all drug use is protected under the Ninth Amendment, that all drug laws are already hull and void, that all they need to do is wait for inviolate citizen juries to laugh them out of court?
“What If only six percent of Americans — the same fraction that fought the War for Independence — could be made to understand the importance of proudly owning and bearing military-style arms, not because we hope for war, but because (with the same logic through which the United States won the Cold War) we understand the value of superior force as a deterrent to would-be tyrants?
“What if books with such subversive ideas — this one and others like it — could be slipped into the hands of 20,000 Americans, and then 40,000, and then 60,000, who would each see to it that they found two more readers, and then four, and then eight?
“That would be a brave new journey toward freedom and away from the paralysis of fear. And like every journey, it begins with a single step.”
Vin Suprynowicz’s Send in the Waco Killers is an excellent example of the kind of fearless, hard-hitting writing America is sorely lacking today.
1999,5K x 8M, 520 pp, soft cover.
SEND IN THE WACO KILLERS: $21.95
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HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY
Revised Second Edition!
by Erwin S. Strauss
HOW TO START
YOUR OWN
COUNTRY
Who among us has not dreamed
of a “new” country, free of all the
taxes, bureaucrats, regulations, and
idiocy that often make life all but
unbearable in today’s established
nations? Political reform is impossible
— so why not start your own country?
This daring approach to freedom
has actually been tried many times in
recent years, with varying degrees of
success. This fascinating book covers
the histories of these new country
projects, and discusses what went
wrong (or right) and why, with sugges-
tions and alternatives available to
you.
Contents include:
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Case Histories of dozens of “new
country” projects, most of them since 1960!
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The five approaches to starting a new country that have the best
chances of working today. -
Obtaining sovereignty — the single greatest obstacle to new
countries — three alternatives. -
Diplomacy and national defense for new countries.
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Ships under flags of convenience — as good as a “new” country?
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Internal organization of the new country — what is best for you?
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How to recruit settlers — and pitfalls to avoid.
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How to raise funds for a new country project.
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How to deal with the Superpowers, such as Russia and the U.S.A.
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Advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to estab-
lishing a new country. -
The inside story on Sealand, Operation Atlantis, Minerva, and
other recent new countries. -
And much, much more, including a lengthy Access chapter with
names and addresses of current “new” countries!
Illustrated with dozens of rare photographs, How to Start Your
Own Country is a book sure to create interest and controversy. A
book that will be invaluable to anyone considering unusual
approaches to personal freedom. Highly recommended!
1999,516 x 816, 167 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17028)
SELECTIONS FROM FREE AMERICA
And Other Works
by Bolton Hall
“One of the most curious of delusions is the belief that widespread and deep-rooted evils can be cured by trifling remedies. Having its roots thus deep in the rotten soil of ignorance and violation of economic laws, it is easy to see that the efforts of ‘Good Government Clubs,’ ‘Municipal Reform Leagues,’ and similar organizations of well- meaning citizens must fail to accomplish the ends for which they are working. So long as law-created conditions prevent the masses from acquiring intelligence or using their intelligence for useful purposes, so long will it be impossible to have clean politics.”
Bolton Hall wrote those words in 1904. This book collects more than 20 of his essays from four of his books: Free America, A Little Land And A Living, Who Pays Your Taxes?, and Things As They Are. A pioneer of alternative economics, Bolton Hall rubbed elbows with the radicals of his day, from Benjamin Tucker to Emma Goldman.
We are proud to offer you this collection of his writing, with an introduction by Mark Sullivan, “Bolton Hall & The ‘Third Tradition.’”
1987,516 x 816, 199 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
Selections From FREE AMERICA: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94105)
HARD CORE
Marginalized by Choice
by Peter J. Nebergall
C0%E
Marginalized by CHOICE
Throughout recorded history,
there has been a steady stream of
youthful rebellion and unrest. With
the advent of the 20th century and
rapid advances in communication
techniques, youth culture has exem-
plified itself in ways never seen
before. Beatniks, Hippies, Punks...
Western civilization has given birth
to several rebellious subcultures in
the last few decades. Hard Core:
Marginalized by Choice is a photo-
journalistic odyssey into the punk
world that permeates our current
intercultural milieu.
Author/photographer Peter J.
Nebergall has placed the modern
Punk phenomenon in its proper his-
torical perspective by conducting
hundreds of interviews and photo shoots with rebellious and disen-
chanted youngsters in both Great Britain and the United States. His
text and photographs provide a penetrating glimpse into the philo-
sophical musings and neotribal disfiguration fashion trends of today’s
disenfranchised youth.
Nebergall and his camera went where many mainstream citizens
are unable to venture, and he returned with insightful commentary
and artful photographs that aptly chronicle Punk alienation.
As Nebergall points out, there is no reason to fear the unstruc-
tured nihilism that often seems to emanate from the Punks we
encounter. Understanding the youth of today is a permanent concern,
and to this end Hard Core: Marginalized by Choice is a stunning
achievement!
1997,516 x 816, 98 pp, photographs, soft cover.
HARD CORE: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94283)
THE EGO AND ITS OWN
The Case of the Individual Against Authority
by Max Stirner
The Ego and Its Own throws down a challenge to thousands of years of religious, philosophical and political depreciation of the individual: Away with every concern that is not altogether my concern! You think that at least the ‘good cause’must be my concern? What’s good, what’s bad? Why, I myself am my concern, and I am neither good nor bad. Neither has meaning for me. The divine is God’s concern; the human, man’s. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but is — unique, as I am. Nothing is more to me than myself.
Stirner mercilessly criticizes all doctrines and beliefs that demand the interests of the individual be subordinated to those of State, Humanity, Society, or some other fiction. He exposes the bondage of the individual to fixed ideas. He declares his hostility to every creed that would crush or deny individuality. Stirner’s affirmation of an amoralistic egoism, his celebration of the unique individual, has provoked cries of horror from moralists of Right and Left, religious and secular. They have denounced him as a nihilist par excellence, and have held him up as an awful example to those who would live beyond good and evil.
Our contemporary political saviors are not restrained for one moment by the moralities they profess from eliminating those individuals who step out of line and threaten the success of their schemes for redeeming the world. Indeed, those who claim to love humanity are usually sentimental butchers.
This book, described as the most revolutionary ever written, is at once a historical document and a timeless classic. Highly recommended.
1845,516 x 816,386 pp, soft cover.
THE EGO AND ITS OWN: $18.50
(ORDER NUMBER 94227)
Work
Introduction
Work hurts.
Works scars.
Work wounds
and marks...
Work is what
they try to get
you to do in
order to be able
to buy what they try to prevent you from obtaining other-
wise.
Work. Work. Fuck work.
WORK LESS & PLAY MORE
by Steve Catlin
Tired of slaving away for your boss? Being held hostage to a mortgage and credit card payments? Grinding away the day only to do it all over again tomorrow?
So was author Steve Catlin. When he decided to wake up from the American Dream, he found freedom and better control over his personal life.
When you read Work Less & Play More, you’ll learn, among other things:
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Why purchasing a house is a major mistake
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That having a child is the rough equivalent of a $100,000 debt
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What few possessions are worth keeping
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How to become financially fluid.
‘The major hurdle to overcome in this process is learning to distinguish between needs and frivolous wants; this book offers guidance in that direction without insisting the fun be taken out of life"— Booklist
1997,516 x 816,191 pp, illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
WORK LESS & PLAY MORE: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 17096)
FINANCIAL FREEDOM NOW
How to Work Less and Live More
by Max Edison
You may not know it, but at this
very moment your bank, your insur-
ance company, your credit card
issuer, and. other financial big boys
are slowly, secretly driving you into
debt with a slew of hidden fees,
seemingly inconsequential charges,
and highway-robbery interest rates.
This nickel-and-dime approach to
siphoning money out of your pocket
is the number one reason why you
may struggle to make ends meet
month to month. Now, Max Edison
puts the microscope on these eco-
nomic parasites, exposes their sleazy
fountain-pen banditry, and shows you
exactly how to beat them at their own
game. By following the directions in
this book and starting to think carefully about your money, you can and will save hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year — dollars that you were formerly throwing away. In plain language, Edison will show you how to:
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maximize your savings whenever you have to deal with banks, credit card companies, utilities, and even the IRS
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get essential products and services like insurance and utilities for as little dough as possible
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start making interest work for you rather than against you
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recognize and avoid scammy products and services that appear to be legitimate but are really rotten deals.
Sick of being a slave to debt? Then read this book and take charge of your money and your life right now!
1999,516 x 816,96 pp, soft cover.
FINANCIAL FREEDOM NOW: $15.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64236)
UN-JOBBING
The Adult Liberation Handbook
Second Edition with revised,
updated and expanded Appendix
by Michael Fogler
This remarkable book can
change your life overnight! It can
provide the ideas, information,
and inspiration to free yourself
from a life that revolves around
merely earning a paycheck, in
order to reclaim a liberated life
that is in complete alignment with
your carefully considered and
deeply cherished personal val-
ues. If you truly want to make
such a radical change, you’ll need
the proper tools, if you hope to
achieve a life that enables you to
do what you really want to do, and
still make ends meet. This book
contains those tools, which are
primarily ways to change one’s
mental viewpoint regarding work.
Fogler is not suggesting that
you commit economic suicide by dropping out of the workforce. He merely helps the reader ask what he or she really wants out of life, and then points out possibilities and options that can lead to a new outlook and perception that makes such a life possible.
1999,516 x 816,116 pp, soft cover.
UN-JOBBING: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 64207)
THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN
The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B. Schor
Work. Work. Fuck work. This
pathbreaking book explains why,
contrary to all expectations, Ameri-
cans are working harder than ever.
Juliet Schor presents the astonish-
ing news that over the past twenty
years our working hours have
increased by the equivalent of one
month per year — a dramatic spurt
that has hit everybody: men and
women, professionals as well as
low-paid workers. Why are we —
unlike every other industrialized
Western nation — repeatedly
“choosing” money over time? And
what can we do to get off the tread-
mill?
The author says, “One of capi-
talism’s most durable myths is that
it has reduced human toil. This
myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit — but rarely articulated — assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries. The comparison conjures up the dreary life of medieval peasants, toiling steadily from dawn to dusk.
“These images are backward projections of modern work patterns. And they are false. Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their income, it also took away their time.”
Schor cuts through consumerist propaganda about how “rich” we Americans are and shows just how much of our lives are wasted in wage and debt slavery. The Overworked American is an important book that should be read by everyone who values freedom.
1991,5x8,269 pp, indexed, hard cover.
THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN: $16.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94216)
THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN
by George P. Brockway
George Brockway’s The End of Economic Man renders a good swift kick in the seat of the pants to apologists for corporate capitalism. Economic man, who is the model for most schools of economics, is greed incarnate. As a result, the schools celebrate things — the wealth of nations, the gross national product, the bottom line, an impersonal equilibrium. In each case, the doctrine is, as Carlyle said, a dismal science.
The End of Economic Man explores the principles of an economics based on the free activity of responsible men and women. It is a special activity in that it concerns money. (Woody Allen was right when he said that economics is about money and why it is good.) The consequences are startling and stimulating, as these samples suggest:
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Without money, the employment relationship is at best sharecropping and at worst slavery. • A bull market is an economic disaster. • The market can rise only by sucking in more and more money, which is thereby denied to the producing economy. • Credit amounts to nothing unless you use it. Credit becomes money by becoming debt. • Property is what you can do with it. It is not a datum but an idea. • Labor is not the source of value, it is the source of right. • The law of supply and demand works backwards. Price is the independent variable on which supply and demand depend. • Capital gains are realized only when an investment is withdrawn and ceases.
1995,5 x 8,333 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94215)
The
Temp Worker's
Guide
To
Self-Fulfillment
How to Oit, achieve yow
dreams. and get paid for it!
by Dennis Fiery
THE TEMP WORKER’S GUIDE
TO SELF-FULFILLMENT
How to slack off, achieve your dreams,
and get paid for it!
by Dennis Fiery
Temporary employment, or “temp
work,” can be a treasure trove of
opportunity for the dedicated practi-
tioner. Rather than being a series of
dead-end or meaningless short-term
jobs, temp work offers numerous
advantages. Author Dennis Fiery,
who has temped in many industries,
including ad agencies, book publish-
ers, magazines, retail shops, fashion
studios, financial companies,
telecommunications and technology
firms, educational institutions, and
government offices, has learned
how to effectively exploit and under-
mine the temp system. The Temp
Worker’s Guide to Self-Fulfill-
ment: How to Slack Off, Achieve
Your Dreams, and Get Paid For It! contains: • Does Temping Really
Suck? • I Wrote This On The Job • Conspiracy Theories • Into The
Easy Jobs • Winning The Temp Game • Overcoming Executive Dis-
crimination • Beating The Skills Tests • Landing Cushy Jobs • Holding
On • Retaining Your Higher Powers • Covering Your Ass • Going Temp
To Perm • The Unofficial Temp Employee Benefit Plan • Sneaking In
Personal Activities • Pursuing Your Dreams • Free Stuff • Temping As
Dating Service • Enjoy Your Freedom! • and much more!
This invaluable book contains all the information needed to suc-
cessfully obtain steady, good-paying work as a temp, while effectively
satisfying the requirements of the employers who are seeking compe-
tent temp workers and fulfilling your own special needs. Don’t let the
vagaries of the American work force get you down! Read The Temp
Worker’s Guide to Self-Fulfillment: How to Slack Off, Achieve
Your Dreams, and Get Paid For It! today — and you’ll never look at
temporary employment as “work” again!
1997,5te x 8%, 156 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE TEMP WORKER’S GUIDE
TO SELF-FULFILLMENT: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 64210)
FREEDOM FROM WORK
Our Obsession With Work: Is There a Way Out?
by Jack Fecker, Recovering Workaholic
Why do we put our standard of living ahead of our quality of life? Why do we have more stress about our jobs than ever before? Why do four out of ten American workers never take a vacation? Why do we consider work to be a measurement of our individual worth?
Contents include:
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Why Work? • Non-Attachment to Work • Work Addiction • Do I Work to Live or Live to Work? • Work and Relationships • Moving from a -“Working” Person to a “Learning” Person • Values vs. Job Security • Worry About Work — the Line Between Fearless and Fear • A New Word For “Work” • Seven Kinds of Work • Soul Work • Play • Scheduling No Work • Work as an Excuse • How Can I Support Myself? • Vacation From Work • And much, much more.
Freedom From Work is a compelling and inspiring presentation from someone who has run the gamut of the working experience, from corporate CEO to struggling entrepreneur, and encountered both success and failure along the way. Through the information and insights Jack Fecker shares, readers can examine their own attitudes toward work and learn how to make discovery, creativity, and pleasure an integral part of their working life.
1997,514 x 814, 205 pp, soft cover.
FREEDOM FROM WORK: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 17097)
Mass Media
Introduction
Ah, yes, the world according to blow-dried news actors paid by huge international corporations to paraphrase government press releases and corporate self-promotion puff pieces... Film at eleven...
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS Thought Control in Democratic Societies
by Noam Chomsky
What role do the media play in a capitalist democracy? Necessary Illusions argues that, far from performing a watchdog role, the “free press” serves the needs of those in power. With this book, Chomsky rips away the mask of propaganda that portrays the media as advocates of free speech and democracy.
“...the major media are corporations ‘selling’ privileged audiences to other businesses... Media concentration is high, and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media... belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations, and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well. Journalists entering the system are unlikely to make their way unless they conform to these ideological pressures, generally by internalizing the values... Those who fail to conform will be weeded out...”
— Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions
This book applies the propaganda model Chomsky has developed with Edward Herman to media coverage of the diplomatic process in Central America and the Middle East, human rights issues, terrorism, and other topics, revealing the crucial function of the media and educated elites in limiting democracy in the United States. Rigorously documented, Necessary Illusions is an invaluable tool for understanding thought control in the United States.
1989,516 x 816, 430pp, indexed, soft cover.
NECESSARY ILLUSIONS: $22.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94192)
INTO THE BUZZSAW Leading Journalists Expose The Myth of a Free Press
Edited by Kristina Borjesson
Here almost two dozen award-winning print and TV journalists have collaborated to produce a book of devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today. Written in riveting, often gut-wrenching detail about their personal experiences with the “buzzsaw” — concerted corporate and/or government efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers — the contributors to Into the Buzzsaw reveal the awesome depth and breadth of censorship in America today. Their essays portray a press corps that regularly engages in self-censorship and attacks reporters who come under fire for not doing so. They describe a Fourth Estate that has largely relinquished its watchdog role and that has been co-opted by corporate and government powers. The bigger picture is that of a press actively contributing to the demise of democracy in America.
Collectively, these essays paint a picture that is as vivid and shocking as it is utterly credible. Riveting first-person accounts detail what these investigative reporters risked and what they uncovered about the government’s investigation into the crash of Flight 800; the CIA’s involvement in the War on Drugs; the U.S. military’s efforts to cover up the massacre of hundreds of civilians during the Korean War, and the conspiracy to court-martial a returning POW from Vietnam; the writing on the wall foreshadowing the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001; and much, much more.
If you want to know what’s really going on in our nation’s corridors of power, 6r if you read or watch the news on a regular basis, this book is indispensable. One thing is certain: After finishing Into the Buzzsaw, you will never again see or hear the news in the same way.
2002,6x9,392 pp, Illustrated, indexed, hard cover.
INTO THE BUZZSAW: $26.00 (ORDER NUMBER 88227)
Against Empire
A Brilliant Exposé of the Brutal Realities of U.S. Global Domination by Michael Parenti
Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy. As much of the world suffers unspeakable misery and the Third-Worldization of the United States accelerates, civil society is impoverished by policies that benefit rich and powerful transnational * corporations and the national security state. Hard-won gains made by ordinary people are swept away.
Topics covered include:
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The dynamics of capital expansion • Myths of underdevelopment • Artificially converted to poverty • Market inequality • Debt domination • Foreign aid as a weapon • Globalization by GATT • Inventing enemies • The myth of popular imperialism • Cultural Imperialism • Exporting jobs • Empire against environment • Unexamined assumptions • The hunt for red menace • Arms for profit • Drugs, lies, and video wars.
Michael Parenti’s Against Empire is a brilliant analysis of the situation we now find ourselves in — the situation that everybody in the world is now in. Anyone who wants to be informed should read this book.
1995,516 x 816, 225pp, indexed, soft cover.
AGAINST EMPIRE: $12.95 (ORDER NUMBER 94265) *
THE CROWD A Study of the Popular Mind
by Gustave Le Bon
The Crowd is a book that continues to be discovered by those who wish to better understand how mass psychology effects investment and money management strategies. When individuals are gathered together in a crowd for purposes of action, observation proves that, from the mere fact of being assembled, there result certain new psychological characteristics. Among these characteristics are impulsiveness, the incapacity to reason, and the absence of judgment. The Crowd is recognized as a classic in the study of mass psychology and has proven to be of special interest to investors.
Chapters include:
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General Characteristics of Crowds — Psychological Law of Their Mental Unity • The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds • The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds • A Religious Shape Assumed by all the Convictions of Crowds • Remote Factors of the Opinions and Beliefs of Crowds • The Immediate Factors of the Opinions of Crowds • The Leaders of Crowds and Their Means of Persuasion • Limitations of the Variability of the Beliefs and Opinions of Crowds • The Classification of Crowds • Crowds Termed Criminal Crowds • Criminal Juries • Electoral Crowds • and Parliamentary Assemblies.
1897,516 x 816,240pp, soft cover.
THE CROWD: $15.00 (ORDER NUMBER 88183)
YOU ARE BEING LIED TO
The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion,
Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths
Edited by Russ Kick
Do you believe any of the following?
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Alcoholics Anonymous is effective.
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Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation.
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There’s a hidden code in the Bible.
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The Big Bang is an airtight fact.
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Thousands of species have become extinct because of deforestation.
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Licking certain toads will get you high.
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Most terrorists are Middle Eastern.
WAKE UP! You are being lied to.
This vital and amazing book acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment and others who want to keep the truth from us. An unprecedented group of researchers — investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics and rogue scholars — paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.
You will discover that a human being has already been cloned; Joseph McCarthy was not paranoid; museums refuse to display artifacts that conflict with the theory of evolution; the CIA has admitted to involvement in the drug trade; parents don’t affect who their children become; plus further revelations involving Columbine, WW II, textbooks, and much more. Revealed: News as propaganda and media as big business; John McCain’s efforts to conceal information on POW/MIAs; liars in the media; the realities of human nature; tainted blood; missing evidence in important cases; environmental myths; “atrocities” in Kosovo; “the information arms race”; the gutless corporate media; and much, much more.
This is an amazing book — one that literally everybody should read. Dispensing with speculation and theorizing, You Are Being Lied To cuts right to the bone with fact after substantiated fact. Think we’re being told the truth? We’re not... and this book proves it.
2001,9 x 12,399 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
YOU ARE BEING LIED TO: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94345)
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YOU KNOW IS
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EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies
Edited by Russ Kick
Hot on the heels
of thé amazingly suc-
cessful You Are Being
Lied To, the amazing
Russ Kick returns with
another huge compila-
tion of peeks behind
the curtain: Every-
thing You Know Is
Wrong. Nonfiction col-
lections typically are
either academic or
alternative, leftist or
rightist, atheistic or reli-
gious, or otherwise
unified in some similar
way. Everything You
Know Is Wrong
rejects this intellectual
balkanization, and, in
doing so, brings
together contributors
who ordinarily wouldn’t be appearing together in the same book.
Some of the contributors were aware of only a handful of others who
would be appearing, while most of them didn’t know who else would
be sharing pages with them. So you shouldn’t make the assumption
— which is quite easy to unknowingly make with most nonfiction
anthologies — that every contributor agrees with or thinks favorably
of every other contributor — no contributor necessarily endorses the
message of any other contributor. Here is a partial table of contents of
this mind-boggling collection:
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Drug Companies: Sell Hard, Sell Fast...and Count the Bodies Later, by Arianna Huffington • The Vatican Bank, by Jonathan Levy • The Antitrust and Monopoly Myth, by Dominick T. Armentano • Dirty Money and Global Banking Secrecy, by Lucy Komisar • Globalization for the Good of All, by Noreena Hertz • Olympic Industry Mythology: A Consumer’s Guide, by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj • The European Union Unmasked: Dictatorship Revealed, by Lindsay Jenkins • Witnesses to a Massacre: Other Participants in Columbine, by Russ Kick* Charlie Manson’s Image, by Paul Krassner• When Cops Become the Gangsters, by Joseph D. McNamara • Bovine Bioterrorism and the Perfect Pathogen: Mad Cow Disease Is Sweeping the World — Including the US, by Gabe Kirchhéimer • Mental Illness: Psychiatry’s Phlogiston, by Thomas Szasz • Psychiatric Drugging of Children for Behavioral Control, by Peter Breggin, M.D. • The Whole Truth About Domestic Violence, by Philip W. Cook • Toxic TV Syndrome, by Kalle Lasn • Treatment or Jail: Is This Really a Choice?, by Pteston Peet • How to Rid the World of Good, by Nick Mamatas • Fission Stories: Nuclear Power’s Secrets, by David Lochbaum • Leaders Against the Drug War, by Russ Kick • Votescam 2000, by Jonathan Vankin • Untouchables in the Twenty-first Century: The Plight of Dalits in India, by Dr. K. Jamanadas • Scenes from a Secret War: The Importance of Peru’s Complicity in Plan Columbia and How It Has Been Assured, by Peter Gorman • The Accidental Operative: Former CIA Director’s Afghan Niece Leads Corps of Taliban Reps, by Camelia Fard and James Ridgeway • A Canticle for Osama Bin Laden, by Alex Burns • Battle Boring: Why Real Security Can’t Be Cordoned Off, by Naomi Klein • September 11, 2001: No Surprise, by Russ Kick • And much, much more, including short takes on 35 subjects, and a look at 35 nonmainstream books.
Everything You Know Is Wrong is must reading in this age of insanity!
2002,9 x 12,350 pp, soft cover.
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: $24.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99204)
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SELF-PUBLISHING
Introduction
The press is free —for he who owns it!
In this section, Loompanics Unlimited is proud to offer our readers the world’s finest books on doing your own publishing—from books and pamphlets to pirate radio, to ultra-cheap film-making.
If you have controversial or unusual or “crackpot” ideas, don’t be discouraged by rejections from the mainstream press. What you need to know to start your own is right here.
The tyrant’s foe, the peoples'friend...
FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES
How to Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit,
and Promote a Feature-Length Movie
for Less Than $15,000
by Rick Schmidt
For the price of a used car—about $12,000 — you can make a feature film if you have the right know-how. In Feature Filmmaking At Used-Car Prices, Award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt provides that know-how. He shows you:
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How to select and write a story that can be produced on a tight budget • How to rally a filmmaking team through creative contracts • How to shoot and edit with an original style • Where to find markets for your finished film • How to deal with agents • How to make a collaborative feature.
This fully updated edition also contains extensive new material on digital video (DV) technology and what it offers low-budget and no-budget filmmakers; and making the most of the Internet as an information resource. With step-by-step instructions and summary checklists, and without the complicated technical details that only add to the cost, Feature Filmmaking At Used-Car Prices will support you spiritually, psychologically, factually, and technically as you take the bus and make your film.
2000,516 x 816,464pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES: $16.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70062)
THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL
How to Write, Print & Sell Your Book
by Dan Poynter
The book that has launched a thousand books is back! Expanded to 415 pages, The Self-Publishing Manual has been packed with new figures, crammed with new publishing ideas and stuffed with new sales leads. Bigger and better than ever! It’s simply the best book on self-publishing!
This well-written manual is a welcome addition to our Self-Publishing Section. The author is the seif-publisher of 12 books in the last 9 years, and has experienced every phase of the writer/pub- lisher operation by running a one-person publishing company. Contents include: • You, An Author/Publisher • Writing Your Book • Starting Your Own Publishing Company • Printing Your Book • Announcing Your New Book • Promoting Your New Book • Who Will Buy Your Book? • Selling Your Book • Distribution, including a bibliography of books on self-publishing, resources, and more.
1999,514 x 816,458pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE SELF-PUBLISHING MANUAL: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70011)
ACCESS TO THE AIRWAVES
My Fight for Free Radio
</strong> by Allan H. Weiner
As told to Anita Louise McCormick
Allan H. Weiner
has always believed
that the airwaves
are free, and that
they rightfully
belong to the peo-
ple. Ever since his
childhood, this
gifted radio enthusi-
ast has devoted his
time and energy to
the development of
“pirate” radio broad-
casting. The trials
and tribulations that
Weiner endured to
bring Radio New
York International
and other pirate
radio stations into
being are leg-
endary. The FCC’s
illegal seizure of
Weiner’s radio ship
the M/V Sarah in
1987 made headline
news around the
world. The film
ume appeared to be loosely based on Weiner’s teenage adventures, but failed to capture even a fraction of the dedication and intensity that this heroic free-speech advocate has brought to his endeavors throughout his life.
Weiner’s story is both a heart-warming tale of an electronics genius at work and a chilling indictment of governmental disregard for personal liberties and free speech.
Access to the Airwaves: My Fight for Free Radio, Weiner’s autobiographical account as told to Anita Louise McCormick, is a powerful rendition that should be read by all who believe that speech should be unfettered, and that fighting the powers-that-be is an often- unheralded necessity. Allan H. Weiner is an inspiration to free-speech advocates in every corner of the globe, and his story deserves to be heard.
1997,516 x 816,254 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
ACCESS TO THE AIRWAVES: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70051)
SEIZING THE AIRWAVES
A Free Radio Handbook
Edited by Ron Sakolsky and Stephen Dunifer
Seizing the Air-
waves is what you get
when a stampede of wild
voices disrupts the
ordered bureaucracy of
authority. No one can
own the air, and contribu-
tors to this book prove it
in their essays on free
speech and free radio.
Editor Ron Sakolsky
writes about those who
have successfully
grabbed the abundant
radio rhizomes. Robert
W. McChesney exam-
ines the politics behind
radio, and D.J. Tashtego
tells the story of Steal
This Radio’s birth and
growth due to the New
York squatters’ move-
ment.
Other essays and
interviews give deep
insight, humor and the real story about pirate radio that you won’t get from the Powers that Be. Contributors include: Lee Ballinger, Jon Bekken, Carol Denney, Ricardo Omar Elizalde, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Charles Fairchild, Paul W. Griffin, Mbanna Kantako, Jerry M. Landay, Kiilu Nyasha, Sheila Nopper, Meme Sabon, Sal Salerno and Napoleon Williams.
1997,6x9,211 pp, photographs, soft cover.
SEIZING THE AIRWAVES: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70056)
MAKE A ZINE!
A guide to self-publishing disguised
as a book on how to produce a zine
by Bill Brent
This is a guide to self-publishing
disguised as a book on how to pro-
duce a zine, ’cause that’s where the
action is! It’s your complete guide on
how to produce and distribute a zine,
and in the process provides an eye-
opening introduction to the under-
ground press of the ’90s.
Discover how easy it is to: • Save
time and money! Get yourself into
print quickly and economically by
avoiding common traps. • Reach
readers and sellers who are looking
for your material. • Enjoy a growing
yet still little-known hobby.
A virtually endless supply of hints
and leads makes this your user-
friendly guide to self-publishing,
whether you’re producing a zine,
book, chapbook, or newsletter. Everyone from student journalists to activists to zine editors will find this a useful, comprehensive guide to the small press. It’s written in a down-to-earth, engaging style. Even if you don’t plan to self-publish, this informative book will entertain and educate you.
Author Bill Brent publishes The Black Book and the long-running zine Black Sheets, which he started in 1993. He has written about zines for P.O.V. and contributes regularly to many zines.
This book can be your constant reference and guidebook to creating and selling zines. Whether you already have a zine or plan to publish one soon, you will refer to this book time and time again.
1997,516 x 816,192 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MAKE A ZINE!: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70053)
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JAMMING THE MEDIA
A Citizen’s Guide
Reclaiming Tools of Communication
by Gareth Branwyn
Who says you need con-
nections and money to get
your message across?
Jamming the Media is a
comprehensive guide to do-
it-yourself communications.
Whether you want to pro-
duce your own CDs, videos
and films, distribute a zine,
weave your concept across
the Web, or surf pirate radio
waves, you’ll find all you
need to know in this book.
The section on pranks
(e.g., altering Barbie’s voice
box to say “Eat lead,
Cobral,” adding a neon
“Dead yet?” to Joe Camel
billboards, unleashing a drunken mob of 100 Santas to the horror of
New York’s holiday shoppers) provides divine inspiration on how to
piggyback on corporate America’s megabucks. Other sections come
with sage words of advice from those who have tried and succeeded
— or failed. Resource lists give you all you need to know about sup-
pliers, distributors, and services for your project.
Jamming the Media brings class, hilarity and organization to
monkey wrenching. If it’s not in this book, it can’t be done.
1997,8x9,355 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
JAMMING THE MEDIA: $18.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70055)
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING
A Step-by-Step Handbook to Prepare,
Print, Distribute & Promote Your Own Book,
Third Edition
byMarkOrtman
What do Walt Whitman, William
Blake, Benjamin Franklin, Gertrude
Stein, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and
Mark Twain all have in common? They
once self-published. Throughout history
it has been difficult to find a commercial
publisher to finance and distribute a
book, and today is no different. But all is
not lost. Self-publishing has become one
of the fastest growing segments in the
publishing industry today. With a com-
puter, desktop software (such as Page-
maker, Publisher or QuarkXPress) and a
laser printer, anyone can publish a book
based on a story, expertise, or inspira-
tion.
A Simple Guide to Self-Publishing is a concise, step-by-step handbook to prepare, print, distribute and promote your own book. Complete with all the references and resources you will need, including: • The easiest way to get started • Where to apply for a copyright and ISBN number • Ways to publish your manuscript on-line • Where to print your book economically • How to promote and distribute on the Internet • and More.
Whether you print hundreds or thousands of copies, and sell them locally or nationally, this book will save you time and money.
2000,516 x 816,62 pp, indexed, soft cover.
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING: $9.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70060)
PIRATE RADIO OPERATIONS
</strong> by Andrew Yoder and Earl T. Gray
Pirate radio is one
of the Communication
Age’s most fascinating
developments! Now,
for those hobbyists
who yearn to learn the
ins and outs of clan-
destine radio broad-
casting, there’s a
wealth of knowledge
available in Andrew
Yoder’s Pirate Radio
Operations. For the
first time, there’s a
hands-on manual that
fully explains the intri-
cacies of this burgeon-
ing pastime. Yoder has
devoted his energies to
pirate radio for years,
and now he shares his
practical expertise with
the world, including: • A
full and complete
explanation of pirate
radio • How to outfit a
pirate-radio studio —
cheap!9 Studio techniques and production • Public relations • How to
build transmitters and antennas • When and how to broadcast • Best
pirate-radio frequencies • The FCC and pirate radio • Unobtrusive-
ness • Safety issues • and much, much more!
Complete with numerous photographs and illustrations that pro-
vide workable designs and schematics for ail pirate radio buffs, Pirate
Radio Operations is the finest book ever published on this subject.
Anyone who wants to honestly examine the realities of actually put-
ting a pirate-radio broadcast together should read Pirate Radio
Operations... today!
1997,516 x 816, 364 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PIRATE RADIO OPERATIONS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70050)
HOW YOU CAN MANIPULATE THE MEDIA
Guerrilla Methods to Get Your Story Covered
by TV, Radio, and Newspapers
by David Alexander
The Mass Media — television, radio, and newspapers — wield enormous power over public opinion and sentiment, so if you have a favorite cause or vitally important message, you must know how to use the media to get your story covered with the right “spin” that will all but guarantee a sympathetic worldwide audience.
Now, experienced media insider David Alexander reveals clever, cagey, and creative guerrilla methods that will not only virtually force reporters to beat a path to your door, but get them to cover the story the way you want it to be. Read and leam: • how TV, radio, and newspapers really choose which stories get coverage and which don’t • the most influential media executives to contact with your story, and who to avoid • why an article in one of three top newspapers always gains the attention of network TV • how to write enticing news releases, and why dumping your story right into the newsroom via direct satellite feed is a good idea • how to exploit busy, competitive reporters, plus how to win the one-on-one interview game • how the world’s best media manipulators have successfully used dramatic guerrilla methods to get their messages plastered across the world stage.
Think of the media as your free “gateway” to the public, and use the tactics in this book to wage your own crafty campaign that will put a favorable spin on your pet issue and further your cause.
1993,516 x 816, 112 pp, soft cover.
HOW YOU CAN MANIPULATE THE MEDIA: $14.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70Q40)
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING
Everything you need to know to write, publish,
promote and sell your own book
Fourth Edition
Completely Revised and Updated
by Tom & Marilyn Ross
Whether you’re an author, a professional, an entrepreneur, even a newcomer to the writing world, you certainly want to shape your publishing destiny. And you can — with the help of this book.
You’ll find this completely updated edition to be a resource of tremendous value. The book penetrates publishing’s mystique; empowers you by revealing, in layman’s terms, the range of self-publishing possibilities open to you — touching on novels and poetry as well as nonfiction; and validates your belief that selling information in book form is an ideal business because you have a unique copyrighted product. Better yet, you can self-publish no matter where you live. ■
Authors Tom and Marilyn Ross explain how to publish your own work. And minimize risks. And maximize profits. You’ll discover:
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Extensively updated, significantly expanded advice (woven throughout) on how to use your computer to save time and money.
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A new discussion of electronic marketing and how to handle electronic subsidiary rights.
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Up-to-date case studies and examples of how other publishers have successfully handled challenging situations.
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Production tips that can cut your design and printing costs in half.
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Complete step-by-step guidance covering every aspect of publishing and marketing your own book.
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Fifty-seven actual samples of proven sales letters, cover designs, catalog sheets, forms everything you’ll need to be successful.
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Dozens of tips for publishing and selling books in Canada, plus a valuable Canadian resource section.
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Information-packed appendices that list marketing contacts, government help, vendors — hard-to-find names and addresses.
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Proven marketing strategies to get free publicity, reach nontradi- tional buyers and sell books!
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Scores of examples of what works — and what doesn’t.
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An inrdepth discussion of exclusive distributors — plus coverage of the increasing role of superstores and other changes in bookselling.
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Thirty creative ideas for generating capital to launch a publishing company. And much, much more!
Read The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing and take control. After all, it’s your writing and publishing career!
2002,6x9,521 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING: $19.99
(ORDER NUMBER 70052)
BEFORE YOU SHOOT
A Guide to Low-Budget Film
and Video Production
by Helen Garvy
Making clear, sensible decisions and planning a well-organized shoot are essential components for the success of any film, but are often overlooked because many filmmakers concentrate primarily on artistic and technical challenges. Author Helen Garvy, a film producer, writer, and editor, is a partner in an independent production company and has produced everything from a feature film to award-winning films for TV and schools. This book, which is based on the classes that she has taught for many years, is a clear and complete manual for the production side of filmmaking — from the idea stage to distribution. Simple enough for students to understand, it is also comprehensive enough to benefit professional filmmakers.
This is a practical, down-to-earth book that will be an invaluable resource to all filmmakers.
1995,516 x 816,297pp, illustrated, soft cover.
BEFORE YOU SHOOT: $12.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70048)
REBELS ON THE AIR
An Alternative History of Radio in America
by Jesse Walker
Many of us think of NPR or
WBAI as “alternative” radio — and
it is, inasmuch, as it is an “alterna-
tive” to commercial radio. But
Jesse Walker introduces us to an
entirely different world of radio,
from the unlicensed amateurs who
invented broadcasting to the com-
munity radio movement of the 60s
and 70s, from the early days of FM
to today’s micro radio movement
and the pirate broadcasters who
shook up radio in the 90s. This is
the real, hidden history of broad-
casting.
What do we think of when we
think of mainstream radio now?
Boring DJs who never shut up and
who don’t even pick their own
records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull? Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived.
Rebels on the Air explores the overlooked chapters of American radio, revealing the legal barriers established broadcasters have erected to ensure their dominance. Using lively anecdotes drawn from firsthand interviews, Walker chronicles the story of the unsung heroes of American radio who, despite those barriers, carved out spaces for themselves in the spectrum, sometimes legally and sometimes not. Walker’s engaging, meticulous account is the first comprehensive history of alternative radio in the United States.
2001,6x9,312 pp, soft cover.
REBELS ON THE AIR: $26.00
(ORDER NUMBER 70065)
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings,
Music, Art & More
by Attorney Stephen Fishman
Even though grade-school teach-
ers have told us otherwise for years,
writers arid artists can copy other
people’s work and get away with it.
How? By dipping into the public
domain — where everything is free
for the taking. The first book of its
kind, The Public Domain is the
definitive guide to creative works in
the public domain — works that are
not protected by copyright and can
be copied without permission or fees.
This book explains step-by-step how
to recognize whether or not a work is
in the public domain, with specific
chapters on • writings • music • art •
architecture • maps • choreography • photography • film & video •
software & databases • and more.
The Public Domain is indispensable for anyone who deals with
creative works, including publishers, Web designers, writers, musi-
cians and composers, artists, librarians, photographers and filmmak-
ers. Includes hundreds of resources — such as web sites, libraries &
archives — you can search to find public domain works.
2001, 7x9,463 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: $34.95
(ORDER NUMBER 76068)
TAPE OP
The Book About Creative Music Recording
Edited by Larry Crane
Tape Op opens up the door to the minds and techniques of the most-interesting recording engineers, producers and artists. Creativity, ingenuity and using whatever facilities are available are the keys — from amazing albums recorded bn 4-track cassette by the likes of Guided By Voices or Elliott Smith, to big studio productions from Mitchell Froom, Don Dixon or Steve Albini. Inside, there’s a wealth of practical information for the home-recordist, musician, record producer, or the curious on how to get the most out of any recording scenario.
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Tips on recording stellar albums in your apartment or home computer
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Recording on a budget
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How to build your own microphone preamp
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Hands-on reviews of microphones
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Chats with successful small studio owners
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Real knowledge about tubes and capacitors
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Artful ways of getting the most out of 4 or 8 tracks
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Candid interviews with artists such as Pavement, The Chilis, Papas Fritas, and Apples in Stereo
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And more.
Tape Op contains a wealth of practical information for the homerecordist, musician, record producer or alternative music fan.
2000,814x11,216 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
TAPE OP: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70064)
REALITY CREATION
Introduction
“Objective” reality may be outside you, but your experience of it is in your mind. Your mind creates the world you live in. Your perceptions, your attitudes, your willingness to experiment and take chances — of such is “reality” made. And it is all under your control. If you take the time to understand and apply what you will learn from these amazing books, you will be much more in control of your personal reality.
“Libertarianism” starts with you! Liberate yourself first!
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
If you’re a stranger and
afraid in a world you never
made, then you should
read The Social Con-
struction Of Reality. No
one lives in a world he
never made — we all cre-
ate our own realities. We
all live in worlds we made
ourselves, and can change
and modify them to suit our
purposes. This book is a
good follow-up to How
Real Is Real?, and in fact
was recommended highly
in that book.
A profound, complex
and challenging book, The
Social Construction of
Reality covers the follow-
ing topics: The problem of
the sociology of knowl-
edge; The foundations of
knowledge in everyday life;
The reality of everyday life;
Social Interaction in everyday life; Language and knowledge in every-
day life; Society as objective reality; Institutionalization. Highly recom-
mended for those Interested in our “inner space” books.
1966,5x8,229 pp, indexed, soft cover.
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88028)
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
by Malaclypse the Younger
and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst
PRINCIPIA
DISCORDIA
t feund Oxfttas
Is It a Joke dis-
guised as a religion or
a religion disguised as
a joke? What is Dis-
cordianism???
Principia Discor-
dia is the official bible
of the most relevant
religion ever con-
ceived. A legendary
underground classic,
it truly contains
“Absolutely Every-
thing Worth Knowing
About Absolutely Any-
thing.” Herein is
revealed The Law of
Fives, The Gospel
According to Fred,
The Epistle to the
Paranoids, The Five
Apostles of Eris —
Who They Be, The
Sacred Chao, The
Book of Uterus, and
more... All the secret
knowledge of Discor-
dianism is revealed at last for your enlightenment, confusion and
entertainment.
“We look at thè world through windows on which have been
drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different
grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids.
Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on
our grids, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the
GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.” — The Sacred Chao
Godeiian, non-Aristotelian, holistic and hilarious, Discordianism is the religion for these screwed-up times. Loompanics Unlimited proudly presents one of the great books of our time: Principia Dis- cordia.
1980,516 x 816, 95 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA: $10.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88025)
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF
IN EVERYDAY LIFE
by Erving Goffman
“All the world's a stage, and everybody plays a part... “
Erving Goffman is widely regarded as the most original new force in modern sociology. The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life, considered his central work, is a valuable companion to How Real Is Real?, The Social Construction of Reality, and some of our other “reality” books.
Using the metaphor of the stage as a frame of reference, Dr. Goffman deals with the important theme of human interaction in social situations. Role-playing is now recognized as not merely the province of the stage performer and the maladjusted neurotic, but an integral and necessary function of daily living for all of us.
Stating his case clearly, Goffman explores the concept of self in the relation of actor to audience. Social techniques of self-presentation are illuminated by examples taken from detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions and a variety of occupational levels. One of the most interesting aspects of this book is its revelation of the many roles that must be assumed by everyone engaged in even the simplest life situations. In the course of any day one may easily play a half-dozen parts: with the boss, fellow workers, with friends, with one’s spouse, and so on.
Goffman’s perceptive analogy details exactly how “acting” techniques are used in the most common everyday circumstances; it bares the mainsprings of manipulation that keeps society moving. Fascinating! lt
1959,5 x 8,260pp, Indexed, soft cover.
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF
IN EVERYDAY LIFE: $11.95
(ORDER NUMBER 88119)
CORPORATE PREDATORS
The Hunt for Mega-Profits
and the Attack on Democracy
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Fifty-one of the world’s
biggest 100 economies
are corporations, not
countries. As the most
powerful institution of our
time, the multinational cor-
poration dominates not
only global economics, but
politics and culture as
well. Yet the mechanisms
of corporate control have
remained largely hidden
from public perception —
until now. Mainstream
media laud Wall Street’s
record profits while big
business cheerfully
wrecks lives — what’s a
citizen to do? Never fear
— investigative journalists
Russell Mokhiber and
Robert Weissman are
here to name names and
answer the real questions:
Where is this “profit” coming from? If working Americans’ incomes
have plummeted since 1980, while salaries of corporate CEOs have
risen 500 percent, is the “economy” really “booming”?
From union-busting to food irradiation, from faulty air bags that kill
but are kept on the market anyway to judges who take bribes, from
the IMF to oil companies — wherever corporate crime strikes,
Mokhiber and Weissman are there, reporting from a relentlessly
human perspective, sounding the alarm and calling people to action.
1999,5 x 7M, 222pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
CORPORATE PREDATORS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94311)
ABRACADABRA!
Secret Methods Magicians
& Others Use to Deceive Their Audience
by Nathaniel Schiff man
Foreword by Henry Gordon
Magicians use more than just mirrors, string, and sleight-of-hand to deceive their audiences. Those practitioners of prestidigitation who are masters of this craft have developed an arsenal of techniques that they use to manipulate the attention of those who are observing them. Every action and utterance on stage and off is precisely planned to achieve a specific effect.
Abracadabra! Secret Methods Magicians & Others Use to Deceive Their Audience is an insider’s look at what goes on at a magic show, behind the scenes, and in the mind of the magician. Author Nathaniel Schiffman, a long-time devotee of legerdemain, explains the principles of deception, exposing the innocent-seeming motions that are designed to conceal vital actions from onlookers. He demonstrates how the conjurer employs misdirection of space and time and simple optical illusions to fool an entire audience. If you’ve ever asked, “How does he do it?” after seeing an effective magic trick, you’ll want to learn what to look for during a performance... and this book tells all!
Also explored in detail is the world of off-stage magic: that is, the various techniques used by such “magicians” as advertisers, politicians, spies, con artists, movie directors, faith healers, psychics and others to deceive and influence you. These professionals use many of the same crafty methods as on-stage magicians to make you buy their products, believe in their causes, or lend them your support.
Lighthearted and informal, Abracadabra! Secret Methods Magicians & Others Use to Deceive Their Audience will fascinate not only aspiring magicians but anyone interested in knowing how one person can control the observations of many, included are hands-on experiments, magic tricks, and reader-participation segments. You’ll soon see that magicians don’t just manipulate playing cards and animals; they manipulate you!
“Nathaniel Schiffman has come as close as one can to touching all the bases on the subject of conjuring. The many examples and explanations of the art of misdirection are among the highlights of the book. They’re an excellent primer for the beginner and a memory jogger for the more experienced. The chapter on magical stagecraft is something any magician can benefit from...”
1997,61A x 9%, 441 pp, illustrated, Indexed, hard coven
ABRACADABRA!: $28.00
(ORDER NUMBER 99158)
HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS
by Darrell Huff
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.
From the Iptroduction:
‘The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical methods and statistical terms are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, ‘opinion’ polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the results can only be semantic nonsense.”
“This book is a sort of primer in ways to use statistics to deceive. It may seem altogether too much like a manual for swindlers. Perhaps I can justify it in the manner of the retired burglar whose published reminiscences amounted to a graduate course in how to pick a lock and muffle a footfall: Thè crooks already khow these tricks; honest men must learn in self-defense.”
1954,516 x 816, 142 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS: $11.00
(ORDER NUMBER 88184)
Miscellaneous
Introduction
MODCON
The Secret World of Extreme Body Modification by Shannon Larratt
As the new millennium gets under way we are seeing the maturity of a second renaissance in the world of body modification and its offshoots. MODCON: The Secret World of Extreme Body Modification is the culmination of several years of work by Shannon Larratt. It documents an annual event that took place three years running beginning in 1999 that was held at an undisclosed location with the strictest of guest lists; only those who hâd been heavily modified (e.g., large scale tattooing, amputation, scarification, nullification, castration, etc.) would be allowed to attend and of them only 60 would be invited (though thousands would apply). At the door they were met with a friendly face and a non-disclosure/model release giving one media outlet exclusive rights to the images and events that would take place inside.
Shannon Larratt has endeavored to bring the truth of body modification to us all. It has cost him dearly over the years that he has been bringing out the images, the stories, the facts, the contacts, and the “big picture.” This labor of love has begun to pay off, and with the publication of this new book he has certainly set himself amongst the great heroes of body modification history. He has brought together the greats of the bodmod world. This book is not an end in itself, it rather marks the beginning.
Filled with dozens of shocking graphic photographs of the most extreme forms of body modification, MODCON is a book you will not soon forget.
2002,816x11,127 pp, photographs, soft cover.
MODCON: $29.99
(ORDER NUMBER 99212)
THE WORLD OF CHICK?
The History of the World According to Jack T. Chick
by Robert B. Fowler
Whether you are atheist or fundamentalist, Catholic or Protestant, white or black or yellow, right wing or left, young or old, get ready to be insulted and offended by Jack T. Chick, the no-punches-pulled prophet of the Last Days. Since 1961, Chick Publications in southern California has produced and marketed hardcore fundamentalist religious materials: tracts, books, posters, comics, audiotapes, newspapers, and other reading matter. Chick materials are not like other Bored Again Christian reading matter. The illustrations are incredible and the hard-hitting stories, which spare no one’s feelings, have earned Chick a certain underground notoriety.
Best known are the little comics (resembling “Tijuana Bibles,” actually), which are permeated with an almost prehuman level of paranoia, hatred and malice. This book is a scholarly study of Chick Publications, and includes several actual Jack Chick tracts for your edification. The World of Chick? has been described as “Truly insane, obsessive & informative,” “An amazing job,” “A marvelous, informative, in-depth work,” and “An important docurhent.”
2001,11 x 816, 100 pp, Illustrated, soft cover.
THE WORLD OF CHICK?: $16.95 (ORDER NUMBER 99194)
LEVER ACTION
Essays on Liberty
by L. Neil Smith
Noted science fiction
novelist L Neil Smith has
released his first ever col-
lection of nonfiction essays.
Smith is an uncompromis-
ing, two-fisted advocate of
individual liberty, and his
words ring loud and true in
this era of repression. Here
are a couple of examples:
“The claim today is that
weapons are evil, that any-
one dumb enough to try
protecting himself will come
to a bad end, that violence
is always wrong, that nonvi-
olence is always and
unquestionably right. Never
was the persecution of a
minority more persistent
than that of gun owners, nor
more hypocritical. Like any
other law, gun control is
enforced at gunpoint. Those preaching nonviolence are lobbying to license thugs for the purpose of imposing their views on others, unleashing against innocent people the deadliest weapon ever devised: government.”
“The so-called ‘War on drugs1 is simply Prohibition dressed up for the ’90s. It can’t stop people from making, selling, or using drugs any more than the Volstead Act stopped them from making, selling, or using alcohol. It has succeeded in boosting the price of drugs from pennies a pound to hundreds of dollars an ounce. It’s driven weak competition from the market and created not just a livelihood where there wasn’t one before, but a monopoly for the most violent and ruthless among them — and, not incidentally, for millions of bureaucrats, politicians, and cops, both honest and corrupt. Worst of all, it’s given bureaucrats and politicians another excuse, acceptable to the media and the public, to raise taxes exponentially and stamp ‘CANCELLED’ across the Bill of Rights.”
In Lever Action, Smith demonstrates that he’s one of the strongest voices putting pressure on the Archimedes lever that will eventually lift the world to freedom — and the stars.
2001,516 x 816,469 pp, soft cover.
LEVER ACTION: $21.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94342)
THE GAS
A Novel of Sex and Violence
by Charles Platt
Not For Sale To Minors.
Pick any author, from Terry
Southern to Samuel Beckett, and
you're likely to find an erotic novel
lurking somewhere in his past. From
the 1950s through to the 1970s,
dozens of novelists were tempted to
write erotica in a spirit of playful
rebellion. Most of their work was
commissioned by Maurice Girodias
of Olympia Press, the man who
gave the world Vladimir Nabokov,
William Burroughs, and a huge
number of less distinguished luck-
books.” Most of these novels were
published under pseudonyms, and
most of them disappeared without a
trace. The Gas by Charles Platt is a
rarity: it appeared under the
author’s real name and has refused to die.
Described by Platt as “slapstick sadomasochism,” The Gas is a bizarre mixture of deadpan humor and blood-soaked depravity. Published originally by Girodias, it went through several printings in the United States before Olympia Press ceased operations. A new edition of The Gas appeared in England in 1980, was seized by the Director of Public Prosecutions and was used as evidence in a trial which put the publisher behind bars for three months. Now Loompanics presents an entirely new, revised edition of this classic which has remained unavailable in the United States for twenty years.
In unflinching detail, this book describes the comic and horrific consequences when a cloud of toxic gas is accidentally released from a biological warfare laboratory and wafts across southern England. The gas has two effects: it relaxes inhibitions and accelerates hormone production in men and women. Within a matter of hours, “British reserve” becomes a thing of the past. Businessmen, housewives, farmers, priests, shopkeepers, and teenagers are soon ripping off each others’ clothes and partying in the street.
1995,516 x 816,192 pp, soft cover.
THE GAS: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94262)
MILABS
Military Mind Control & Alien Abduction
by Dr. Helmut Lammer
& Marion Lammer
The first book to document the amazing evidence of covert military mind control in the alien abduction mystery! In this well-documented book, the authors review former top secret mind control projects ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA, and utilize little-known formerly classified documentation, photos, x-rays, illustrations and first-hand testimony to expose the shocking story behind the abduction phenomenon.
The authors take an in-depth look at:
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Documented history of secret mind and behavior control experiments • Alleged kidnappings of alien abductees by covert military/intelligence personnel • Activities of black helicopters in connection with alien abductees • Otherworldly journeys and military underground facilities • Toward a controlled society: implants and their application to MILABS and future warfare • The genetic aspects of MILABS • And much more.
If you think you know the truth about “alien abductions” — think again! MILABS will open your eyes to the sinister connections between mind control and the abduction phenomenon!
1999,516 x 816,168 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
MILABS: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99176)
MODERN PAGANS
An Investigation of Contemporary
Pagan Practices
Interviews by V. Vale and John Sulak
Paganism is
the perfect reli-
gion for anar-
chists. It also
suits feminists,
environmental-
ists, futurists,
artists, surreal-
ists — all who
dream of social
change, live for
creativity not the
profit motive,
and hate dogma
and authoritari-
anism. In
Paganism,
humor is sacred,
diversity wel-
comed, hierar-
chy deprecated,
activism encour-
aged, the body
honored, and
Mother Earth
and every living entity revered. Here there are no rigid beliefs, Holy
Bibles or Original Sin, only continuous social experimentation toward
the goals of ecstatic illumination, meaningful ritual, long-term commu-
nity, and harmony with the universe. The next stage of Modern
Paganism will involve decentralized “institution” building: more Pagan
extended families, land-owning, festivals, archives and libraries, char-
ter schools, foundations, non-profits and legal churches.
Modern Pagans is a multi-faceted view of Modem Paganism as it
is practiced today. Represented are Reclaiming, Gardnerians, Druids,
Santeria, Shamans, Goddess historians, Technopagans, activist
Pagans, Radical Faeries, Military Paganism, ex-Catholic Pagans,
Spiral Dance, Earth Spirit, Pagan piercers, Pagan child-raising, sec-
ond- and third-generation pagans, sacred sex, artists, musicians,
orgies, and morel in this book, fifty individuals tell why Paganism is
the anti-hierarchical philosophy and religion of the future, offering
wonder, joy, and celebration of all that makes us both human and
divine.
2001,8 x 10,208pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
MODERN PAGANS: $19.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99210)
THAT’S DISGUSTING
An Adult Guide to What’s Gross,
Tasteless, Rude, Crude, and Lewd
by Greta Garbage
What’s in this
book is disgusting,
disturbing and
totally fascinating.
Most other books
leave out the dark
and dirty parts;
here, nothing is
held back. Whether
it’s kinky sex or fart-
ing facts or toilet
discussions or
celebrity penises or
perverse perform-
ances or shitting in
space or freaks or
sexual asphyxia or
vaginal juices or
fartleberries or
smegma, you’ll find
it among the 1,000
plus stories here.
• Famous Farters
• Celebrity Pukers
• Penises of
Famous People
• Kinky Sex
• Bizarre Sex with
Dogs, Horses & Unusual Animals
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Body Parts of Famous People
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Bizarre Objects Up the Ass
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Breasts
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Dangers of Blow Jobs
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Shit
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Smegma
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Toilets "
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Farting Facts
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Freaks
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Masturbation
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Urine
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Penis Accidents
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Penis Size
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Body Boogers & Disgusting Parts
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Semen & Female Fluids
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Castration or Bobbitization
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Sootikens, Fartleberries & Dingleberries
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Playing Tricks with the Vagina
•Circumcision -
Dismemberment
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Sex with Ducks
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Enemas & High Colonics
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Yeast Infections
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Menstruation
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Peeing in Public
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Death During Sex
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Sexual Asphyxia or Ritual Masturbation
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And much more!
Never have tidbits been so titillating. Secrets so sick. History so
horrific. News so nauseating. Crimes so crass. Facts so fulsome. And
never before has one book included so much of this shocking stuff in
one place. True, some of the stories are repelling —- but most of them
are so compelling that you won’t be able to stop reading.
1999,6x9,191 pp, Indexed, soft cover.
THAT’S DISGUSTING: $8.95
(ORDER NUMBER $9182)
GAUNTLET #16
Bad Boys (And Girl) of Erotic Photography:
The Furor Over Nude Youth in Art
Edited by Barry Hoffman
When does art turn to porn? You
won’t find the answer in this issue of
Gauntlet, but you will find a lot of
information that might help you make
up your mind.
Guest editor Russ Kick gives a
complete timeline from the ancient
Greeks (when it was more common
than not to show naked youths), to the
1920s, when one in four American
homes had a Maxfield Parrish print of
his topless young daughter and
another woman, to this decade of
political correctness when kneejerk
censors can’t tell the difference
between a nude youth and kiddy porn.
Wrap your mind around this com-
plex issue with in-depth articles about photographers Jock Sturges, David Hamilton, Sally Mann, and others; the legal precedents; and what the models themselves have to say.
In addition, a special section on the First Amendment and the Internet cites the mounting struggle for free speech in an ungovernable medium. Particularly under fire are web sites dealing with sex and the speech we love to hate.
Rounding out this issue is an interview with the godfather of the First Amendment, Nat Hentoff; why some Florida street musicians are singing the blues; words from horror writer R.C. Matheson; a Truman Capote interview with novelist Poppy Z. Bright; haunting fiction; and detailed book reviews.
1998, 7 x 10,118pp, softcover.
GAUNTLET #16: $6.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99164)
MICRORADIO & DEMOCRACY
(Low) Power to the People
by Greg Ruggiero
A stunning transformation has overwhelmed and reconstructed US radio broadcasting in the past few years. Since 1996 nearly one- half of the 11,000 commercial radio stations have been sold, almost always by smaller firms to medium sized firms, by medium sized firms to larger firms, and by large chains to a few massive powers that own hundreds of stations. At the top of the heap these few giants control some one-third of the market. With companies permitted to own up to eight stations in a single market, most US communities find that their numerous radio stations are in fact owned predominantly by two or three firms.
Which brings us to microradio broadcasting. This is an extraordinary and extremely inexpensive technology that offers the promise of opening up a whole new sector of community broadcasting, for people who are not billionaires and whose goal is not to simply turn listeners upside down and shake all the money out of their pockets. This is a rare opportunity to provide a truly democratic layer of broadcasting, without interfering with the signals of any of the existing broadcasters. Yet the commercial broadcasters oppose microradio broadcasting, because they fear competition. And bureaucrats tend to fear microradio broadcasting, unless they can use it to build up political capital.
But microradio is here, and it can no longer be repressed. Microradio is not “the answer” to all of our media problems, but it can be an important first step in the process of making our media accountable to Main Street, rather than to Wail Street and Madison Avenue. Read this pamphlet, share it with your friends, and get active. If popular support for noncommercial, community-based microradio emerges, this is a fight we can and will win.
1999,4 x 7,64 pp, soft cover.
MICRORADIO & DEMOCRACY: $5.95
(ORDER NUMBER 70063)
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SHOCKED AND AMAZED!
On and Off the Midway
by James Taylor
and Kathleen Kotcher
Sideshows
have titillated,
attracted, enter-
tained, shocked
and amazed
people for cen-
turies. Now it’s
your chance to
step right up and
catch the show!
Shocked and
Amazed! is
chock-full of car-
nival and circus
midway mad-
ness ahd may-
hem. Hear the
truth behind this
uniquely Ameri-
can art form from
the lips of the
human marvels
themselves!
Shocked and
Amazed! invites
you to explore
and satisfy your
curiosity for the
strange, thé weird, the bizarre, the odd and the unusual.
Witness never-before-seen photographs from the personal collec-
tions of sideshow superstars from yesteryear! Marvel at the sideshow
stories presented personally for your pleasure by sideshow perform-
ers! Thrill to these titillating tales of laughter and woe on the sawdust
trail! Shocked and Amazed! will leave you shocked and amazed!
2002,7x 10,283pp, Illustrated, Indexed, soft cover.
SHOCKED AND AMAZED!: $14.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99215)
SIDESHOW U.S.A.
Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
by Rachel Adams
A staple of American
popular culture during the
nineteenth and early twenti-
eth centuries, the freak
show seemed to vanish
after the Second World War.
But as Rachel Adams
reveals in Sideshow U.S.A.
images of the freak show,
with its combination of the
grotesque, the horrific, and
the amusing, stubbornly
reappeared in literature and
the arts. Freak shows, she
contends, have survived
because of their capacity for
reinvention. Empty of any
inherent meaning, < the
freak’s body becomes a
stage for playing out some
of the twentieth century’s
most pressing social and
political concerns, from
debates about race, empire, and immigration, to anxiety about gender and controversies over taste and public standards of decency.
2001,516 x 816,301 pp, illustrated, indexed, soft cover.
SIDESHOW U.S.A.: $19.00
(ORDER NUMBER 94353)
POLITICAL TRASHING
by Victor Santoro
Let’s face it — politics
sucks. No matter who ypu
vote for, the government
gets elected. Now Victor
Santoro, “The Godfather
of Harassment,” has
devised dozens and
dozens of ways that you
can strike back against
the political establishment
— by “trashing” elections!
Political Trashing out-
lines the themes and
techniques of political
trashing. With a little fore-
thought, planning, and
discretion, it is possible to
destroy any political cam-
paign without getting
charged with any felonies
— Santoro not only tells
you what to do, but more
importantly, how to get
away with it! With correct
planning, you can trash
any politician’s election campaign with minimal effort and resources (Santoro even tells how to get the politician himself to pay for his own “trashing”).
With the material in this book, you should be able to plan and carry out a program to disrupt a politician’s campaign. If you’re alone, so be it. Good luck, and make the most of your opportunities. One person can do a lot. If you have an organization to back you up, it’s almost a certain victory. If you have a large budget, you should be able to hang any politician out to dry.
1987,516 x 816,168 pp, illustrated, soft cover.
POLITICAL TRASHING: $12.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94106)
A NATION OF VICTIMS
The Decay of the American Character
by Charles J. Sykes
Something extraordi-
nary is happening in
American society. Criss-
crossed by invisible trip
wires of emotional,
racial, sexual, and psy-
chological grievance,
American life is increas-
ingly characterized by
the plaintive insistence, I
am a victim. The victim-
ization of America is
remarkably egalitarian.
From the addicts of the
South Bronx to the self-
styled emotional road-
kills of Manhattan’s
Upper East Side, the
mantra of the victims is
the same: I am not
respqnsible; it’s not my
fault.
Paradoxically, this
don’t-blame-^me permis-
siveness is applied only
to the self, not to others;
it is compatible with an ideological Puritanism that is notable for its shrill demands of psychological, political, and linguistic correctness. The ethos of victimization has an endless capacity not only for exculpating one’s self from blame, washing away responsibility in a torrent of explanation — racist, sexism, rotten parents, addiction, and illness — but also for projecting guilt onto others.
If previous movements of liberation may have been characterized as Revolutions of Rising Expectations, this society is in the grips of a Revolution of Rising Sensitivities, in which grievance begets grievance. In the society of victims, individuals compete not only for rights or economic advantage but also for points on the “sensitivity” index, where “feelings” rather than reason are what count. This ethos is fueled by a hypersensitivity so delicately calibrated that it can detect racism in the inflection of a voice, discover sexism in a classroom’s seating pattern, and uncover patriarchal oppression in a mascara stick or a Shakespeare sonnet.
The new culture reflects a readiness not merely to feel sorry for oneself but to wield one’s resentments as weapons of social advantage and to regard deficiencies as entitlements to society’s deference. Even the privileged have found that being oppressed has its advantages. On the campuses of elite universities, students quickly learn the grammar and protocols of power — that the route to moral superiority and premier griping rights can be gained most efficiently through being a victim.
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Fired for consistently showing up late for work, a former school district employee sues, claiming he is a victim of “chronic lateness syndrome.”
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Videotaped puffing on a pipe filled with crack cocaine, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry claims he is a victim of racism.
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In 1960, fewer than 100,000 lawsuits were filed in federal courts; in 1990, more than 250,000 were filed.
One of the most talked-about book? in years, A Nation of Victims established Charles Sykes as a persuasive, witty, and controversial commentator on American life and society. The plaint of the victim — It’s not my fault — has become the loudest and most influential voice in America, an instrument of personal and lasting political change. In this incisive, pugnacious, frequently hilarious book, Charles Sykes examines the erosion of our society and offers hope in the prospect of a culture of renewed character.
1992,6x9,305pp, indexed, soft cover.
A NATION OF VICTIMS: $13.95
(ORDER NUMBER 94357)
ASSHOLE NO MORE
A Self-Help Guide for Recovering Assholes
— and Their Victims
by Xavier Crement, M.D.
If you can't think of at least 12 people to
give this book to, then don't buy it. (Some-
one else will probably give it to you.)
Until recently, it was almost impossible
to find anyone in the healing profession
who would take the disease of assholism
seriously. Compulsively rude treatment of
others was viewed only as a character
flaw, not as an addiction over which the
asshole had no real control. We believed
that assholes were assholes because they
didn’t know any better.
All of this is rapidly changing, thanks to
the ground-breaking work of Dr. Xavier
Crement, as told in this brilliant overview,
Asshole No More. Dr. Crement had already established his reputa-
tion in proctology when he came to the realization that he was an ass-
hole. He sought help to overcome his affliction, but could not find any.
Now, as a recovering asshole, he has switched to the practice of psy-
chiatry and devoted his life to helping other assholes find help and a
new life.
Chapters include: • Defining Assholism • The Essence of
Assholism • The Run-of-the-Mill Asshole • The Three-Piece Asshole •
The Litigious Asshole • When Society Becomes an Asshole • Read-
ing, Writing and Assholism • Assholism in the Media • The True Epi-
demic • Living With Assholes • Working With Assholes • The Born
Asshole • Adult Children bf Asshole Parents • The Road to Recovery
• And much, much more:
1990,516 x 816,190 pp, soft cover.
ASSHOLE NO MORE: $13.99
(ORDER NUMBER 99116)
ASSHOLES FOREVER
How to spot ’em
How to stop ’em
by X. Crement, M.D.
Dr. Xavier Crement has presented
breakthrough evidence that assholism is
not just rude behavior — it is a contagious
disease that can be cured through proper
medical treatment. Thousands of people
have been helped by Dr. Crement’s tech-
niques.
Now Dr. Crement adds to his brilliant
work on assholism. If the disease is
allowed to advance too far, he states, it
may get to the point where it becomes
resistant to all efforts to treat it. Certain
people, in other words, are just total ass-
holes. The effort to cure them may actually
make them worse. They will be assholes forever.
In Assholes Forever, Dr. Crement discusses the following incur-
able assholes: • The Bully Asshole • The Know-lt-AII-Asshole • The
Mule Asshole • The Whining Asshole • The Sucking Asshole • The
Petty Asshole • The Slimy Asshole • The Festering Asshole • The Vic-
tim Asshole • The Politically Correct Asshole • The Green Asshole •
Rotten Assholes • Assholes Who Hate Too Much • The Free Lunch
Asshole • And more.
Instead of trying to reform these people, we must learn to deal
with them as they are: flaming, incorrigible assholes. Dr. Crement
devotes this brilliant new book to teaching us how to spot them and
how to stop them from sucking us in. He describes their favorite tricks
— from whining and festering to bullying and sliming — and what it
means to “put a plug in it.”
1992,516 x 816,191 pp, soft cover.
ASSHOLES FOREVER: $13.99
(ORDER NUMBER 99080)
THE ASSHOLE CONSPIRACY
Is there time to stop it?
by X. Crement, M.D.
Our right to a sane, sensi-
ble society is being stolen
from us, right under our own
noses. Can you smell it? It is
The Asshole Conspiracy.
The good doôtor X. Cre-
ment continues to wage his
battle against the creeping
tide of assholism. In this new
book, thé third in the series,
he makes his greatest revela-
tion of all: that the spread of
assholism during the last cen-
tury has been orchestrated as
part of a secret, international
conspiracy!
Until now, the experts have
believed that the problems of
society could be blamed on
poverty, ignorance, exploita-
tion, racism, sexism, or the
devil. But they were wrong.
These problems were created by well-placed assholes — in the media, government, education, and religion — who have kept society stirred up and confused with their little brown tricks. This insight has led Dr. Crement to devise a new theory of social evolution which out- dates Darwin, Freud, and Marx. It sheds new light on human history and has inspired Dr. Crement to call for a worldwide revolution — a social enema to purge assholes and assholism forever!
Chapters include: • What Assholes Want • Spotting Assholes • Asshole Bonding • Opiate of the Asses • Assholes, Then and Now • In the Beginning, There were Assholes • Assholes at Work • The Need for a Social Enema »And much, much more.
1994,516 x 816,175 pp, soft cover.
THE ASSHOLE CONSPIRACY: $13.99
(ORDER NUMBER 99113)
INSULTING ENGLISH
by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea
At last, a compendium of
ingeniously insulting words
for every occasion. These
are not curse or swear
words — they are little-
known and much-needed
words, such as:
• Gubbertush, Buck-
toothed person
• Hogminny, A
depraved young
woman
• Nihilarian, Person
with a meaningless
job
• Pursy, Fat and short
of breath
• Scombroid, Resem-
bling a mackerel
• Tumbrel, A person
who is drunk to the
point of vomiting
These and many other gems from our colorful mother tongue are
collected in these pages. Now every gink, knipperdollin, and grizely
dunderwhelp can be called by his rightful name.
2001,5x7,172 pp, illustrated, hard cover.
INSULTING ENGLISH: $17.95
(ORDER NUMBER 99211)
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