Ragnar’s Homemade Detonators: How to Make 'Em, How to Salvage 'Em, How to Detonate 'Em

Ragnar Benson

Simple and clear instructions for improvising various types of blasting caps “from scratch” in your home workshop. “CAUTION: The procedures and end product described herein are extremely dangerous!” Or, if you wanna spend $800, you could pull one of out an airbag. GR

Publisher: Paladin
Paperback: 64 pages
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Shortwave Clandestine Confidential

Gerry L. Dexter

DXers, in radio lingo, are armchair detectives bent on receiving “clandestine” signals from the most distant and forbidden shortwave stations: revolutionary stations, stations behind enemy lines in a war, stations run by the CIA or KGB, and so on. Tells the story of past clandestine stations: Radio Sandion (The Voice of the Sandinistas), Radio Liberation (Vietnam) and Radio Swan (an anti-Castro station, courtesy of the CIA). The book goes on to discuss currently popular DX listening targets in Libya, Chad, Ethiopia, Iran, China, Burma, Poland, Sri Lanka, Cuba and many other turbulent countries. The trick with DXing is getting proof of what you hear, an all-important “verification” letter proving the station actually exists—which is no piece of cake to obtain, wartime or not. GR

Publisher: Universal Electronics
Paperback: 84 pages
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So You Bought a Shortwave Radio: A Get-Acquainted Guide to the World of Shortwave

Gerry L. Dexter

A “get-acquainted guide to the wide world of shortwave,” or, as it might be called, the poor man’s internet. Eavesdrop on spies and smugglers; hear Chinese opera, Swiss polkas, and South Seas chants. Tells how shortwave radios work, where to find the stations you want, how to hook up with other Hams, and how to join the “DXers”—patient listeners (DX is radio lingo for “distance”) who prowl for the most distant frequencies possible, then send for station verifications, which then become “the stuff of collections.” Contains plenty of addresses for more specialized information. GR

Publisher: Tiare
Pamphlet: 74 pages
Illustrated

High-Tech Harassment: How to Get Even With Anyone, Anytime

Scott French

A big, nasty revenge book. “Can you really grab life and make it sit up and listen? Damn right you can! Unruly neighbors, barking dogs, trespassers, the local bank, corporate America and all those people who seem to feel their day will be special only if yours is ruined can be twisted, taught and made to toe the line with the creative use of cutting-edge equipment and expert ideas on how to bypass even the securest security measures!” Tricks range from clever to criminal, innocent to illegal. Why listen to “can’t we all just get along?” wimps like Rodney King. “Harness the forces of science and technology and exercise your God-given right to get even with anybody, anytime." GR

Publisher: Barricade
Paperback: 152 pages

Make’Em Pay: Ultimate Revenge Techniques From the Master Trickster

George Hayduke

“Eat a colorful portion of your meal,” then swallow one ounce or less of a vomit-inducer that contains the pharmaceutical ipecac. “In about ten minutes you will be wracked by projectile vomiting. Be creative and use all your acting ability here to get maximum splatter and audience effect . . . move erratically and quickly among the other diners as you appear to be headed toward the bathroom. Your real objective, of course, is to strafe as many people as possible with your vomitus.” And hundreds of other get-even tricks “to strike yet another blow for the little guy.” GR

Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Paperback: 209 pages

Righteous Revenge: Getting Down to Getting Even!

George Hayduke

"Random recipes for revenge from a known bully-buster and his prankish allies—Captain Video, The Razor, Dirk Smegma, Belzebubba, Magic Z, Biggus Piraphicus, The Gooch, Prairie Dog, et al. Learn to make vengeful use of common things like glue, trash, pornography, chicken parts, roadkill and graffiti. (Also learn how not to get caught). From Mayhem, under “Toilets”: “Your mark goes into the stall, slips down his or her pants, slacks, skirts, whatever . . . You stoop smartly down in front of the stall door and very quickly, briskly, and with great vigor, grab the skirt, pants or whatever and yank them toward you as fast and hard as you can. The immediate goal is to totally depants your mark. Hopefully, this will include the mark’s underwear as well. You then leave the bathroom area, keeping the garments, giving them to some needy soul outside, or tossing them in the nearest waste receptacle. “Meanwhile, what of the mark, sitting there with no pants, skirt, underwear, etc.? Yes, what of the mark? I know I’m laughing already.” GR

Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Paperback: 229 pages

Make My Day: Hayduke’s Best Revenge Techniques for the Punks In Your Life!

George Hayduke

“Random recipes for revenge from a known bully-buster and his prankish allies—Captain Video, The Razor, Dirk Smegma, Belzebubba, Magic Z, Biggus Piraphicus, The Gooch, Prairie Dog, et al. Learn to make vengeful use of common things like glue, trash, pornography, chicken parts, roadkill and graffiti. (Also learn how not to get caught). From Mayhem, under “Toilets”: “Your mark goes into the stall, slips down his or her pants, slacks, skirts, whatever . . . You stoop smartly down in front of the stall door and very quickly, briskly, and with great vigor, grab the skirt, pants or whatever and yank them toward you as fast and hard as you can. The immediate goal is to totally depants your mark. Hopefully, this will include the mark’s underwear as well. You then leave the bathroom area, keeping the garments, giving them to some needy soul outside, or tossing them in the nearest waste receptacle. “Meanwhile, what of the mark, sitting there with no pants, skirt, underwear, etc.? Yes, what of the mark? I know I’m laughing already.” GR

Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Paperback: 211 pages

Mayhem: More From the Master of Malice

George Hayduke

“Random recipes for revenge from a known bully-buster and his prankish allies—Captain Video, The Razor, Dirk Smegma, Belzebubba, Magic Z, Biggus Piraphicus, The Gooch, Prairie Dog, et al. Learn to make vengeful use of common things like glue, trash, pornography, chicken parts, roadkill and graffiti. (Also learn how not to get caught). From Mayhem, under “Toilets”: “Your mark goes into the stall, slips down his or her pants, slacks, skirts, whatever . . . You stoop smartly down in front of the stall door and very quickly, briskly, and with great vigor, grab the skirt, pants or whatever and yank them toward you as fast and hard as you can. The immediate goal is to totally depants your mark. Hopefully, this will include the mark’s underwear as well. You then leave the bathroom area, keeping the garments, giving them to some needy soul outside, or tossing them in the nearest waste receptacle. “Meanwhile, what of the mark, sitting there with no pants, skirt, underwear, etc.? Yes, what of the mark? I know I’m laughing already.” GR

Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Paperback: 185 pages

Howard Finster: Man of Visions

Howard Finster

A homemade scrapbook of writings and paintings by America’s Golden Arches of folk art: over 10,000 paintings sold! Reverend Finster got the call to preach when he was 13. “I was afraid, and said, ‘Lord I don’t have the education. I don’t even have any good clothes. Lord please let me go.”’ The Lord didn’t, and Finster pastored 10 Southern Baptist churches in a 45-year period. Then he was called to build his Paradise Garden. “I got the idea of that at the county dump… I saw beautiful things people threw away… like a pocketbook full of jewelry and nice gold watches. I started collecting them up… a Hula Hoop, ball equipment, dental tools… I said these things needed to be displayed… You hardly ever see a button spinner or wooden sack nails anymore… These things are previews of things we have now. That’s what the old Bible is… a preview… And the New Testament is a preview of what’s to come.” Finster’s prolific witness-the-Lord folk style has made him world famous. “I’m in a human body, and I’m existing on this planet, but I’m living in another world, and that world don’t have nothing to do with famous.” Includes a 1950 interview and color photos. GR

Publisher: Unknown
Paperback: 128 pages
Illustrated