Author Lynne Finch takes a comprehensive look at ways to improve your family's immediate safety and methods for protecting them in the future. Finch covers a wide range of topics from temporary ways renters can make their home secure, to more permanent changes an owner can make.
Author Lynne Finch takes a comprehensive look at ways to improve your family's immediate safety and methods for protecting them in the future. Finch covers a wide range of topics from temporary ways renters can make their home secure, to more permanent changes an owner can make.
In this updated edition, the author addresses the full range of disasters that can turn an ordinary day into a fight for survival. He offers advice on alarms, insurance, preparing a "disaster kit," planning for evacuation, communication, emergency food handling, first aid, and m…
Would you know how to prepare for an unforeseen emergency, or handle an unexpected disaster? With real/world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step/by/step actions can help us make it safely …
Build the perfect bug out vehicle shows you how to outfit any vehicle with equipment and survival gear that will help you quickly drive from ground zero to a safer location. Survival expert Creek Stewart, author of the best-selling Build the perfect bug out bag, details from sta…
"Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It pays attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s. This bo…
As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets, allowing both major studios and independent productions to participate in the popular phenomenon. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shift…
"Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It pays attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s. This bo…
Words to live by -- Paying attention -- Making errors -- Taking risk -- Thinking ahead -- Looking out for each other -- Taking and giving advice -- Around the house -- Watching kids -- From here to there -- At work -- Fires and natural disasters -- At the doctor -- Getting older…
Careful: a user's guide to our injury-prone minds
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 …