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Complete List of Books in the Appropriate Technology Library

COMPLETE LIST OF BOOKS BY SUBJECT
IN THE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY

Background Reading
General References
Local Self Reliance

The Workshop
Agriculture
Agricultural Tools and Impliments

Crop Drying, Preservation, and Storage
Forestry
Aquaculture
Water Supply: Backgound
Water Supply and Sanitation
Water Supply: Pumps
Water Supply: Tanks
Water Supply: Solid Wastes
Water Supply: Treatment
Energy: General
Energy: Improved Cookstoves and Charcoal Production

Energy: Wind    
Energy: Water    
Energy: Solar    
Energy: Biogas
Housing and Construction
Transportation
Health Care
Science Teaching
Nonformal Education and Training
Small Enterprises and Cooperatives
Local Communications
Beekeeping
Small Industries
Disaster Preparedness and Relief

Background Reading

Appropriate Technology for African Women

Appropriate Technology: Problems and Promises

The Barefoot Book

Coming Full Circle

Design for the Real World

Experiences in Appropriate Technology

High Impact Appropriate Technology Case Studies

Introduction to Appropriate Technology

Paper Heroes

Participatory Approaches to Agricultural Research and Development

Questioning Development

Radical Technology

Repairs Reuse Recycling

Rural Women

Sharing Smaller Pies

Strategies for Small Farmer Development Projects

Technology and Employment in Industry

Technology for the Masses in Invention Intelligence

Towards Global Action for Appropriate Technology

Village Technology in Eastern Africa

When Aid is No Help

The World of Appropriate Technology

General References

Appropriate Technology and Research Projects

Appropriate Technology Directory

Appropriate Technology for Rural Development

Appropriate Technology Institutions: A Directory

Appropriate Technology Institutions: A Review

Appropriate Technology: Directory of Machines Tools Plants Equipment Processes and Industries

Bibliography of Appropriate Technology Information for Developing Countries

The Book of the New Alchemists

China at Work

Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

Economically Appropriate Technologies for Developing Countries

Fichier Encyclopedique du Development Rural

Field Director's Handbook

Field Engineering

The Formula Manual

Foxfire Book 1

Foxfire Book 2

Foxfire Book 3

Foxfire Book 4

Foxfire Book 5

Foxfire Book 6

A Guide to Appropriate Technology Institutions

Guide to Convivial Tools

Guide to Technology Transfer in East Central and Southern Africa

How to Build Up a Simple Multidimensional Documentation System on Appropriate Technology

Intermediate Technology in Ghana

Introducing Family Planning in Your Neighborhood

The Journal of the New Alchemists Volume 1

The Journal of the New Alchemists Volume 3

The Journal of the New Alchemists Volume 4

The Journal of the New Alchemists Volume 5

Knots for Mountaineering: Camping Climbing Utility Rescue Etc.

Liklik Buk

The Mechanical Engineers' Pocket Book

Mini Technology II

Mini Technology

MINKA

More Other Homes and Garbage

NonAgricultural Choice of Technology

One Hundred Innovations for Development

People's Workbook

Pictorial Handbook of Technical Devices

RAINBOOK

Simple Technologies for Rural Women in Bangladesh

Simple Working Models of Historic Machines

Soft Tech

Teknologi Kampungan

Tinker Tailor Technical Change

Traditional Crafts of Persia

The Use of the Radio in Family Planning

Village Technology Handbook

Visual Aids Tracing Manual

World Neighbors in Action

Local Self-Reliance

Alternative Development Strategies and Appropriate Technology

Another Development: Approaches and Strategies

Appropriate Technology in Social Context

The Breakdown of Nations

A Landscape for Humans

Learning from China

Local Responses to Global Problems

Rural SmallScale Industry in the People's Republic of China

Rural University

Small Scale Cement Plants

Soft Technologies Hard Choices

Technologies for Basic Needs

Technology for Ujamaa Village Development in Tanzania

Towards Village Industry

4Wheel Band Saw

Inch Table Saw

Workshop

Amateur's Workshop

Basic Machines and How They Work

Bearing Design and Fitting

The Beginner's Workshop

Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing Welding and Soldering

A Blacksmith's Bellows

DeCristoforo's Book of Power Tools Both Stationary and Portable

Electric Motor Test and Repair

Electroplating for the Amateur

Equipment for Rural Workshops Fabricating Simple Structures in Agricultural Engineering1

Fabricating Simple Structures in Agricultural Engineering

Farm Shop and Equipment

Foundrywork for the Amateur

Gear Wheels and Gear Cutting

General Metal Work Sheet Metal Work and Hand Pump Maintenance

Handtool Handbook for Woodworking

Hardening and Tempering Engineers' Tools

Heavy Duty Drill Press

How to Make a Folding Machine for Sheet Metal Work

How to Make Planes Cramps and Vices

How to Make Twelve Woodworking Tools

How to Mill on a Drill Press

How to Use Metal Tubing

How to Work Sheet Metal

How to Work with Copper Piping

Lathe Sanders

LeJay Manual

LostWax Casting

The Making of Tools

A Manual on Sharpening Hand Woodworking Tools

Metal Bending Machine

Metal Turning Lathe Built from Stock Parts

Metallurgy

Metalworking Handbook

The Modern Blacksmith

Motorize Your Hacksaw

A Museum of Early American Tools

Oil Drum Forges

Practical Blacksmithing

The Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding

The Recycling Use and Repair of Tools

Scroll Saw

Sharpening Small Tools

Sheet Metal Brake

Sheet Metal Former

Shop Tactics

Small Scale Foundries for Developing Countries

Smelting Furnace

Spring Design and Calculation

Stocking Spare Parts for a Small Repair Shop

Technical Drawing

Technology Metal 1 Fundamental Skills

Three Welding Jigs

Tools and How to Use Them

Tools and Their Uses

Try Your Hand at Metal Spinning

TwoSpeed Bandsaw Cuts Wood and Metal

The Use of Hand Woodworking Tools

Welding Craft Practices

Wood Planer for $100

Workshop Exercises Metal Fundamental Skills

Agriculture

Agricultural Extension

Agricultural Extension: The Training and Visit System

AgroForestry Systems for the Humid Tropics East of the Andes

An Agromedical Approach to Pesticide Management

Alternative Agriculture

Animal Husbandry in the Tropics

Approved Practices in Soil Conservation

The Art of the Informal Agricultural Survey

As You Sow

Backyard Composting

The Basic Book of Organic Gardening

Basic Soil Improvement for Everyone

Better Farming Series #1 The Plant: The Living Plant The Root

Better Farming Series #2 The Plant: The Stems; The Buds; The Leaves

Better Farming Series #3 The Plant: The Flower

Better Farming Series #4 The Soil: How the Soil is Made Up

Better Farming Series #5 The Soil: How to Conserve the Soil

Better Farming Series #6 The Soil: How to Improve the Soil

Better Farming Series #7 Crop Farming

Better Farming Series #8 Animal Husbandry: Feeding and Care of Animals

Better Farming Series #9 Animal Husbandry: Animal Disease

Better Farming Series #10 The Farm Business Survey

Better Farming Series #11 Cattle Breeding

Better Farming Series #12 Sheep and Goat Breeding

Better Farming Series #13 Keeping Chickens

Better Farming Series #14 Farming with Animal Power

Better Farming Series #15 Cereals

Better Farming Series #16 Roots and Tubers

Better Farming Series #17 Groundnuts

Better Farming Series #18 Bananas

Better Farming Series #19 Market Gardening

Better Farming Series #20 Upland Rice

Better Farming Series #21 Wet Paddy or Swamp Rice

Better Farming Series #22 Cocoa

Better Farming Series #23 Coffee

Better Farming Series #24 The Oil Palm

Better Farming Series #25 The Rubber Tree

Better Farming Series #26 The Modern Farm Business

Better Farming Series # Freshwater Fish Farming

The Book of Geese

China: Recycling of Organic Wastes in Agriculture

Code of Practice for Safe Use of Pesticides

Composting for the Tropics

Composting in Tropical Agriculture

Composting: Sanitary Disposal and Reclamation of Organic Wastes

Conservation Farming for Small Farmers in the Humid Tropics

The Design and Optimization of Irrigation Distribution Networks

Environmentally Sound Small Scale Agricultural Projects

Farm Management Research for Small Farmer Development

The Farmer's Guide

A Farmer's Primer on Growing Rice

Fields and Pastures in Deserts

Friends of the Rice Farmer

Gardening for Better Nutrition

Gardening with the Seasons

Goat Health Handbook

Growing Garden Seeds

Guayule

Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and Subtropics

Guide for Small Holder Coffee Farmers

Guidelines for Watershed Management

Gully Control and Reclamation

Handbook of Tropical and Subtropical Horticulture

The Homesteader's Handbook for Raising Small Livestock

How to Grow More Vegetables

How to Make Fertilizer

How to Perform an Agricultural Experiment

Hydroponics

Illustrated Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Rice in Tropical Asia

Insights of Outstanding Farmers

Integrated Farm Management

Integrated Pest Management: A Catalogue of Training and Extension Materials

Integrated Pest Management

Intensive Gardening for Profit and Self Sufficiency

Intercropping in Tropical Smallholder Agriculture with Special Reference to Wes tAfrica

Introduction to Soil and Water Conservation Practices

Irrigation Principles and Practices

Jojoba and Its Uses

Jojoba Happenings

Jojoba: A Guide to the Literature

Keeping Livestock Healthy

Leucaena Based Farming

Lost Crops of the Incas

Managing Pests and Pesticides in Small Scale Agriculture

Manual for Calculation of Check Dams

More Water for Arid Lands

The Nursery Manual

Operation and Maintenance of Small Irrigation Schemes

Permaculture II

Pigs and Poultry in the South Pacific

A Planning Guide for SmallScale Livestock Projects

Practical Poultry Raising

The Rabbit as a Producer of Meat and Skins in Developing Countries

Rabbit Production

Raising Goats for Milk and Meat

Raising Healthy Cattle Under Primitive Conditions

Raising Healthy Goats Under Primitive Conditions

Raising Healthy Pigs Under Primitive Conditions

Raising Healthy Poultry Under Primitive Conditions

Raising Healthy Rabbits Under Primitive Conditions

Raising Poultry the Modern Way

Raising Rabbits

Raising the Home Duck Flock

The Samaka Guide to Homesite Farming

The self-sufficient Gardener

Sheep Health Handbook

Simple Assessment Techniques for Soil and Water

Small Farm Development

Small Farm Weed Control

Small Plastic Greenhouses

Small Scale Irrigation

Small Scale Pig Raising

Soil Conservation

Soil Tillage in the Tropics and Subtropics

Soils Crops and Fertilizer Use

Surface Irrigation

Technology Applications Gap

Test the Soil First

Training and Visit Extension

Tropical Feeds

Tropical Legumes

Tropical Vegetables

Try the Rabbit

Two Ears of Corn

Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value

Understanding Small Farmers

Understanding Traditional Agriculture

The UNICEF Home Gardens Handbook

Vegetable Production Under Arid and SemiArid Conditions in Tropical Africa

Vegetable Seeds for the Tropics

Vetiver Grass

The Water Buffalo

The Winged Bean

Agricultural Tools

Adjustable Width VDrag Ditcher/Bund Former

The Agribar Operator's Manual

Agricultural Technology for Developing Nations

American Farm Tools

Animal Power in Farming Systems

Animal Traction in Africa

Animal Traction

The Animal Drawn Wheeled Tool Carrier

Animal Drawn Wheeled Tool carriers: Perfected Yet Rejected

Appropriate Industrial Technology for Agricultural Machinery and Implements

Bell Alarms and Sack Hoists in Windmills

Carts

Cassava Grinder

Cereal Processing

Chain Link Fence Making Machine

Chitedze Ridgemaster Toolbar

Clod Crushers Two Designs

Dibble Sticks Donkeys and Diesels

The Draft Horse Primer

Eight Simple Surveying Levels

The Employment of Draught Animals in Agriculture

Farm Implements for Arid and Tropical Regions

A Feeder to Improve the Performance of a Hand Operated Groundnut Sheller

Foot Powered Thresher

Guide Book for Rural Cottage and Small and Medium Industries: Paddy Rice Cultivation

The Handcart Handbook

A Hand Operated Bar Mill for Decorticating Sunflower Seed

A Hand Operated Winnower

The Harness Maker's Illustrated Manual

Harnessing and Implements for Animal Traction

The Harnessing of Draught Animals

Harrows

Horse Drawn Farm Implements

How to Repair Briggs and Stratton Engines

IDC Weeding Attachment for EMCOT Plow

IDCBornu Groundnut Lifter and IT Groundnut Lifter

Introduction of Animal Powered Cereal Mills

IT Expandable Cultivator

IT Granule Applicator

IT High Clearance Rotary Hoe

Kabanyalo Toolbar

Lightweight Seeder/Spreader

Making Coir Rope

Mechanics in Agriculture

MultiAction Paddy Field Puddling Tool

Oil Extraction

Oil Soaked Wood Bearings

Old Farm Tools and Machinery

OxDrawn Tie Ridger/Weeder Implement

A Pedal Operated Grain Mill

The Potential for SmallScale Solar Powered Irrigation in Pakistan

Prototype multipurpose OxDrawn Tool

The "Rasulia" Bladed Roller Thresher

Repair and Maintenance of Stationary Diesel Engines

Rice: Postharvest Technology

Root Crop Processing

Rotary Corn (Sorghum) Thresher

Rotary Weeder for Row Planted Rice

Rural Africa Development Project

The Scythe Book

Seed Dressing Drum (Hand Operated)

Single Row and ThreeRow Rice Seeders

Sled Type Corrugator Irrigation Furrow Former

Small Farm Equipment for Developing Countries

Small Gas Engines

Small Scale Maize Milling

Small Scale Oil Extraction from Groundnuts and Copra

Small Scale Processing of Oilfruits and Oilseeds

SmallScale Solar Powered Irrigation Pumping Systems

Solar Photovoltaics for Irrigation Water Pumping

Solar Water Pumping: A Handbook

Tools for Agriculture

Tools for Homesteaders Gardeners and SmallScale Farmers

Treadle Operated Peanut Thresher

The Tropicultor's Manual: Field Operations

The Weeder Mulcher

The Winnower

Winnowing Fan

Crop Preservation

Appropriate Technology for Grain Storage

China: Grain Storage Structures

Construction of a Brick Hot Air Copra Dryer

Cookbook for Building a Solar Crop Dryer

Domestic Grain Storage Bins

Dry It You'll Like It

Drying and Processing Tree Fruits

Drying Equipment for Cereal Grains and Other Agricultural Produce

Evaluation of the Bissa

Fish Processing

Food Drying

Fruit and Vegetable Processing

Guide to the Manufacture of Metal Bins

Handling and Storage of Food Grains in Tropical and Subtropical Areas

Home Scale Processing and Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables

How to Build a Solar Crop Dryer

How to Dry Fruits and Vegetables

How to Make a Solar Cabinet Dryer for Agricultural Produce

How to Salt Fish

Manual on Improved Farm and VillageLevel Grain Storage Methods

Systems

Postharvest Food Losses in Developing Countries

Potential of Solar Agricultural Dryers in Developing Areas Preservation of Foods

Principles of Potato Storage

Rural Home Techniques: Food Preservation

Simple Grain Drier

Small Farm Grain Storage

Small-Scale Processing of Fish

Solar Drying: Practical Methods of Food Preservation

Solar Grain Drying

Stocking Up

Storage Management

Storage of Food Grain

Storing Vegetables and Fruits in Basements Cellars Outbuildings and Pits

Sun Dry Your Fruits and Vegetables

A Survey of Solar Agricultural Dryers

Forestry

Agroforestry Species: A Crop Sheets Manual

Barnacle Parp's Chain Saw Guide

The Chainsaw and the Lumbermaker

China: Forestry Support for Agriculture

Constructing and Operating a Small Solar Heated Lumber Dryer

Crosscut Saw Manual

Environmentally Sound SmallScale Forestry Projects

Firewood Crops

Forest Farming

A Forest Tree Seed Directory

Forestry Case Studies

Forestry for Local Community Development