richard@sequent.UUCP (03/24/84)
The Anarchist Cookbook ISBN 0-8184-0003-X (hardcover) By William Powell, 1971 ISBM 0-8184-0004-8 (softcover) Lyle Stuart Inc., Publisher 120 Enterprise Avenue Twentieth Printing, 1980 Secaucus, NJ 07094 Price on softcover is $12.00 (9" x 11", 160 pp) I got my copy in October of 1982, so it should still be available. For those of you who have never heard of this curious book, this might be enlightening: Chapter 1: Drugs Pot, Peyote, Psilocybin, Bananas, Glue, Nalline, Nutmeg, Paregoric, Peanuts, Hydrangea leaves. Chapter 2: Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance Bugging, Bumper Beepers, Bug Detection, Jamming, Scamblers, Communications Sabotage Chapter 3: Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons Hand Weapons, Knives, Impromptu Weapons, Brass Knuckles, Cattle Prod, Garrote, Guerilla Training, Pistols, Rifles, Semi-auto and Automatic weapons, Shotguns, Grenade Launchers, Silencers (including how-tos), Bow & Arrow, Chemicals and Gases, Defense and treatment for gases Chapter 4: Expolisves and Booby Traps How to make Nitroglycerine, how to make Mercury Fulminate, How to make Blasting Gel, Formulas for the Dynamite series, Choride of Azode, Ammonium Nitrate compounds, Gelatin dynamites, TNT, black powder, smokeless powder, Nitro-Tri-Iodide, Household substitutes, Tamping, Placement of Charges, Bridges, Road Trap, Walk Trap, Detonators, Time delay devices, Bangalore Torpedo, Molotov Cocktail, Homemade Hand Grenade, Anti-Personnel grenade, Book Trap, Door-Handle Trap, Gate Trap, Chimney Trap, Lamp Trap, Car Trap, Pipe Trap, Pen Trap, Whistle Trap and other handy devices, Cacodyal Bibliography My favorite is the Pipe Trap. This refers to a smoking pipe, and the results are guarenteed to ...uh... prevent further smoking. It's really a fun book to read, as long as you believe in a *very* free press. There are things in here that might give some people aneurysms. I like to leave it on the coffee table and watch people that pick it up. A companion book for those more into uh... the profit motive: The Big Brother Game ISBN 0-8184-0240-7 (hardcover) by Scott French, 1975 ISBN 0-8184-0241-5 (softcover) Lyle Stuart, Inc., publisher (same address) Second Printing, 1976 Price on softcover is $7.95 (8.5" x 11", 236 pp) Chapter 1: Electronic Surveillance Chapter 2: Telephone Surveillance Chapter 3: General Detective Chapter 4: Private Espionage Chapter 5: Locks: and the opening thereof Chapter 6: Premise and Safe attack Chapter 7: Weaponry Chapter 8: Optics Chapter 9: Files, Files, and getting to them, Chapter 10: Credit: the good, the bad, and the re-newed Chapter 11: Suppliers Chapter 12: Circuit diagrams