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Out of print.
The Next Whole Earth Catalog, edited by Stewart Brand. Published in 1980. (The Whole Earth Catalog is still going strong, and its latest edition, published in 1994, is The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Howard Rheingold. Here's their website.)
Out of print.
The Little Green Book: A Guide to Self-Reliant Living in the 80's, by John Lobell, published in 1981 by Shambhala, is an excellent book. (Another version of this book is titled The Little Green Book: An Owner's Manual to the Planet.)
Out of print.
Medical Self-Care: Access to Health Tools. Published back in 1980 by Tom Ferguson. Now out of print. Doc Tom has migrated to the web at Health World's Self-Care Central.
Out of print.
The Whole Again Resource Guide, 1986/87, edited by Tim Ryan, with Rae Jappinen. There is also a current online version of the Whole Again Resource Guide.
Out of print.
Vagabonding in the U.S.A.: A Guide for Independent Travelers and Foreign Visitors, by Ed Buryn. Published in 1980 and 1983. This fun, zestful countercultural book emphasizes low-cost, high-experience vagabonding instead of high-priced, pre-packaged tourism. It has a good but now out-of-date resource directory.
Out of print.
A Guide to Cooperative Alternatives: Community Participation, Social Change, Well-Being, Appropriate Technology, Networking, and almost anything else hopeful in America, edited by Communities, Journal of Cooperative Living (Paul Freundlich, Chris Collins, and Mikki Wenig). Published in 1979. Includes a directory of intentional communities. This resource manual was a precursor to the Communities Directory (also online) and Co-op America.