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Disaster Preparedness

The Fire Smart Home Handbook: Preparing for and Surviving the Threat of Wildfire
by Clyde Soles

Learn how wildfires begin and behave, how to evaluate your property, what essential tools you'll need and what they will cost, how to prepare your land and home--including tips on how to avoid insurance nightmares--when to stay and fight, when it's time to evacuate, how to clean up after a fire event, and more.
First Aid Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Everyone
by Gina M. Piazza

Showing how to treat over 100 medical conditions and injuries, whether a minor burn or a heart attack, the latest edition of the first aid manual from the American College of Emergency Physicians gives readers the knowledge they need instantly if someone becomes ill or hurt.
Prepare Your Family for Survival: How to Be Ready for Any Emergency or Disaster Situation
by Linda Loosli

The founder of the prepping blog Food Storage Moms counsels everyday readers on how to safeguard a family in the face of emergency situations including natural disasters, power failures and food shortages, sharing coverage of everything from 72-hour survival kits to evacuations.
The Survival Savvy Family
by Julie Sczerbinski

Outlines procedures for preparing for emergencies, from power outages to natural disasters, and helping family members stay safe at home, at school, in the neighborhood, and online.
Everyday Survival Kits: Exactly What You Need for Constant Preparedness
by Mark Puhaly

Everyday Survival Kits contains clearly outlined packing lists for what you need for specific survival situations.
The Self-Sufficient Home: How to Provide for Your Family and Prepare for the Unexpected
by Nancy Hoffman

Explains how to transition to a self-sufficient lifestyle, including tips and advice for everyday life, disaster preparedness, and building a sustainable home.
The Family Preparedness Buyer's Guide
by Living Ready

Applying this information to your survival plans will ensure your loved ones will be provided with adequate shelter, water, food and then some in a variety of emergency situations.
The Complete Guide to Medical Skills, Tactics, and Techniques
by Jay Mccullough

Within these pages, you'll find first-aid techniques for hundreds of different kinds of wounds, medical procedures necessary for properly treating animal bites and stings, proper procedures to follow when dealing with toxic environments, and thousands more essential medical tips.
The Ultimate Survival Manual
by Richard Johnson

Collects practical advice and first-person stories in a guide to surviving a range of life-threatening scenarios, from natural disasters and terrorist attacks to random acts of violence and animal confrontations.
The Emergency Survival Manual
by Joseph Pred

A guide to surviving all manner of situations and disasters discusses such topics as pregnancy problems, first aid, poisoning, fires, floods, and terrorism.
Extreme Weather Survival Guide
by Thomas Kostigen

Accompanied by first-hand accounts from survivors, this must-have resource helps readers plan ahead and prepare, respond to emergencies and survive the worst-case scenarios during extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires and tornadoes.
The Practical Preppers Complete Guide to Disaster Preparedness
by Scott Hunt

A complete guide to disaster preparedness from Scott Hunt, CEO of Practical Preppers and a nationally recognized preparedness expert.
Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide: Food, Shelter, Security, Off-the-Grid Power and More Life-Saving Strategies for Self-Sufficient Living
by Jim Cobb

Offers step-by-step long-term survival information, including how to collect safe drinking water, first aid, and how to fortify and defend your home.
Tools for Survival: What You Need to Survive When You're On Your Own
by James Wesley Rawles

Rawles covers tools for every aspect of self sufficient living, including food preservation and cooking, welding and blacksmithing, timber, firewood, and lumber, and firefighting.
Urban Emergency Survival Plan: Readiness Strategies for the City & Suburbs
by Jim Cobb

Presents preparedness tips and guidelines for city dwellers in case of a widespread emergency, including emergency kit packing lists, limited space food storage information, and tips on security options.
The Ultimate Situational Survival Guide: Self-Reliance Strategies for a Dangerous World
by Robert Richardson

In The Ultimate Situational Survival Guide, survival expert Robert Richardson gives you real world advice on how to survive the very real dangers present in today's society.
100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
by Clint Emerson

A retired Navy SEAL offers this hands-on survival guide for civilians, featuring self-defense skills, evasion tactics and immobilizing maneuvers for escaping “worst case” scenarios including being locked in a trunk and eluding an active shooter.
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected
by Jason Hanson

With the skill of a trained operative and the relatability of a suburban dad, Jason Hanson brings his top-level training to everyday Americans in this must-have guide to staying safe in an increasingly dangerous world.
What Do I Do If...? How to Get Out of Real-Life Worst-Case Scenarios
by Eric Grzymkowski

What Do I Do If...? helps you solve the far more common, but no less devastating, of life's little curveballs.
How to Survive Anything
by Tim MacWelch

Identifies forty-eight different disaster scenarios ranging from natural disasters and criminal threats to society's end, including wildfire and street riots.
Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting
by Grant Cunningham

Provides self defense shooting skills that can be completed by one person or in groups, with information on adapting drills to a specific environment or shooting range and how to focus on areas of weakness or concern.
Defensive Pistol Fundamentals
by Grant Cunningham

Defensive Pistol Fundamentals helps you, the private citizen, learn the best, most efficient ways to defend your life, or the lives of your loved ones, with a legally carried pistol.
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