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The SAS Survival Guide is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. This unrivalled guide from SAS legend John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s will cover Climate and Terrain and On the Move - the characteristics and climates of different regions and zones (including polar, arid, and tropical), how to plan a route, and where to travel.

Falling is a sobering, amusing, and often poetic meditation on the wonders and risks of working aloft. Rigger Brion Toss takes you into a world of masts, towers, stadiums, pure air, and adrenaline as he recounts more than 40 years worth of stories of things gone awry at altitude. From dropped tools to collapsed towers to near-fatal falls, the litany of accidents and near-accidents is long…and the sometimes miraculous outcomes are both instructive and thought-provoking.

This audiobook is a transcription and reproduction of the training course materials from Course #9, Avoiding Accidents. When all of your other long-term health issues are covered, then the biggest danger of dying becomes accidents. Since I’ve had so many premonition experiences I‘ve learned a lot about how they work and am confident we can all learn how to see the probability of the future ourselves.

One of the biggest issues making people unsafe is they don't believe it will happen to them. By assuming it will never happen to you, you reduce the chances of being prepared if it does. In this book, the author describes ways in which you can prepare yourself and your family to avoid potential victimization. Things such as vehicle safety, situational awareness, and teaching your children how to be safe are covered in simple-to-understand ways that won't cost a fortune.

For most people who find themselves dealing with a life or death situation, survival hinges on making it through the first 48 hours, and you will find plenty of ways to ensure you do just that in this book. Learn all about a wide variety of personal preparedness and survival basics, including putting together a safe, secure campsite; finding the food and water you will need to survive; treating injuries; and more.

When disaster strikes our whole world changes. Everything we have come to rely on is compromised, and we often find ourselves with only our wits to get us through. It pays for everyone to know and understand what happens in a disaster and the proper steps to take to ensure their own personal safety and that of those in their charge. With the knowledge contained in this guide, you and your family will be able to venture out confidently knowing that you have the best weapon for your defense - your own ingenuity.

The Tough Mama's Guide to Survival is a guide for the mama of the family, showing how to begin prepping, finding a safe spot, and how to pay for it with pennies on the dollar. Many topics are included that don't appear in other books, such as how you can get free education to learning how to build a survival garden, first aid, radiation, emergency first aid, medical, and more. Tough Mama shows you how to build your food store and items you need in your safe spot to ensure you not only survive, but thrive!

When I teach people about self-defense, I teach them about the ins and outs of handguns that are popular, how they work, and how to fix common issues. But how do you find out when the time comes if you will be able to pull the trigger? I want to prepare you mentally and physically, and I want you to know all the laws that may affect you - along with making you a master of concealed carry where you are comfortable, confident, and will know when and how to use it if the time ever comes.

It's never going to be you. Then one day you hear the clatter of automatic fire at the mall. You have been drawn into the chaos and terror of an active shooter event. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Be a Hero is the essential guide to terrorist attacks that will help you survive. Former Special Air Service terror expert John Geddes will explain how to cope with a life-threatening event.

A revised edition of the classic self-care guide, with new research on aging and updates throughout.

Going well beyond first aid, this manual describes medical secrets used by an experienced African mission doctor and former assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School. The tips are pragmatic, affordable, and useful for anyone from medics to laypersons but are particularly aimed at people who work and live in remote areas with scarce resources. The subjects cover antibiotic therapy, advanced care of complex wounds, laceration closure with glue, malaria, oral rehydration therapy, fecal transplantation, and more.

With aging, people's risk for falling increases because their senses dim and nervous systems tends to deteriorate. Elderly people often suffer from weakened vision and the balance mechanism in their ears becomes less accurate. The sedentary lifestyle of theirs may lead to muscle loss, thereby leading to falls. In seniors, even a minor fall may at times lead to fractured bones.

The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smartphones, new drugs, and thrill sports. Meanwhile we humans are as fragile as ever. In fact after a century of steady improvement, injuries and accidental deaths are on the rise. Steve Casner has devoted his career to studying the psychology of safety, and he knows there's not a safety warning we won't ignore or a foolproof device we can't turn into an implement of disaster.

Are you ready to experience the healing powers of medicinal herbs? Are you looking forward to creating a custom herbal first aid kit, and using your own, homemade herbal remedies? Then download today to learn how. I know first-hand the powers of medicinal herbs when treating cuts, scrapes, bruises, and a host of other first aid injuries and illnesses. As a practicing herbalist for over 15 years, I have embraced herbal remedies and made them an integral part of first aid treatment in my home, at work, while traveling, or even in the car.

What if you could dramatically improve your chances of survival after a big disaster? Imagine ensuring your children and other family members are safe, even after the "big earthquake" or hurricane? Imagine how you'll feel being the only one in the neighborhood with sufficient food and water? CERT (Civilian Emergency Response Team) trained and disaster recovery specialist Richard Lowe lays out how to make you, your family, and your friends for any disaster, large or small.

True self-defense and survival are about mastering subconscious understanding. Discover the open secret to self-defense! Thankfully most people go through life without becoming the victims of assaults or violent crimes. Unfortunately there are still scores of people who aren't so lucky.

A book for all instructors and students of self defense who strive for excellence in their teaching and training. This book details all the essential elements of teaching combatives the right way so that you can get the results your students are looking for.

These stories exude suffering at its worst - from the desperate cannibalism of the Donner Party to the brutal starvation and bitter cold endured by Ernest Shackleton's team. Tales of such suffering may be distressing to their listeners, but at the same time, they engage us, offering glimpses of our most fundamental needs.

Americans are afraid of their food. And for good reason. In 2011, the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in a century delivered killer listeria bacteria on innocuous cantaloupe never before suspected of carrying that pathogen. Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this year. Spoiled, doctored or infected food will send more than 100,000 people to the hospital. Three thousand will die. We expect, even assume, our government will protect our food, but how often do you think a major U.S. food farm get inspected by federal or state officials?

People say that "you can never be too prepared" for a disaster - and while that is true, there is such a thing as over-preparation. If preparing for a possible disaster in the future significantly impairs your family's quality of life today, you might need to reassess your priorities. Living in a constant state of terror and paranoia is not something I am particularly fond of. I'm not one of those people who has built such an incredible fortress for myself that I'm almost giddy about the idea of getting a chance to use it.