The Transition Primer is a comprehensive document (Click to Download - 1.5 mb PDF) about embarking on a transition journey. This constantly updated document is 50 pages in length, jampacked with sparkling nuggets of plagiarised brilliance and one exceedingly boring (but necessary) section.
Some of the contents of the primer are:

• Why Transition initiatives are necessary
• More about Peak Oil
• Taking action: the big picture - initiatives at global, national and local levels
• The Transition Model – what exactly is it?
• Kinsale 2021 – an Energy Descent Action Plan
• Transition Town Totnes
• Setting up your Transition Initiative – criteria
• Setting up your Transition Initiative – different types
• Setting up your Transition Initiative – formal structures and constitutions (boredom alert!!)
• Starting a Transition Initiative – 7 “buts”
• The 12 steps to Transition, including energy descent planning
• The wider context of Transition
• Questions of leadership and structure
• The role of local government
• Getting businesses involved

The Transition Handbook

In his magnum opus, Rob Hopkins weaves his hallmark magical weft, intertwining the three threads - practical, emotional and logical - of Transition, blending in his typical frequent sparkles of humour.
The result is a cloth of the finest quality, and one we might all try on for size.
It is exceedingly needed in a world that'll find itself in great stress if we don't start acting immediately to reduce carbon emissions and increase resilience dramatically. And this book will tell you how. It's heavy content but light reading.

The download version (click to download, 1mb PDF) does not have all the detail and diagrams, but has the main text