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The ultimate guide to total preparedness and self-reliance, this work, written by one of the best-known survival experts, contains everything people need to know in order to prepare and protect themselves.

Documents the impacts of Hurricane Mitch on the coastal population, local marine resources, and tourism infrastructure.

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the...

"Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily when it comes to crisis management. She offers us a new framework to anticipate disasters, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and forward thinking we need to overcome them. She writes to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe."

"From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis"--