'The Annapolis Book of Seamanship' is the de-facto sailing 'bible', in my opinion. 'Machinery's Handbook' is my choice for metalworking. 'Drive to Win' and th

'The Annapolis Book of Seamanship' is the de-facto sailing 'bible', in my opinion. 'Machinery's Handbook' is my choice for metalworking. 'Drive to Win' and the other Carrol Smith driving books ('Engineering to Win', 'Tuning to Win') are great for people that want to get into high performance driving. the 'U.S. Army Field Manual 3-05.70' is a fantastic introduction to survival bushcraft. GNU's 'Introduction to the Command Line' is good for beginning the life-long journey into *nix CLI expert-dom.