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A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes.

Dozens of detailed, expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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After finding herself the subject of a powerful psychic attack, Dion Fortune wrote this detailed instruction manual for safeguarding yourself against paranormal malevolence. Fortune explores the elusive psychic element in mental illness and, more importantly, details the methods, motives, and physical aspects of psychic attack, and how to overcome this energy. The revised edition of this New Age classic includes an index and an additional explanatory note for contemporary readers. Index.

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Fact: More people are killed annually by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

Fact: Each year, thousands of couch potatoes are admitted to emergency rooms for television-related injuries.

Fact: There are more germs on your desk than there are on your toilet.

Forget about lions, tigers, and sharks-in a world where vacuum cleaners are more dangerous than venomous spiders, and household cleaner is more deadly than anthrax, it pays to know the risks of daily living-and how to avoid them. In this witty and wonderfully practical guide, Laura Lee reveals the 100 Most Dangerous Things in Everyday Life and What You Can Do About Them.

From rubber bands and paper clips to wading pools and holy water, readers will learn:
• The probability of encountering each threat

• How to determine the magnitude of danger

• Expert advice on how best to minimize the hazard

• Statistics on how many people have met their demise as a result of these risks

Equipped with thisworst-case scenario guide to armchair misadventures, alarmists, hypochondriacs, paranoids, and skeptics alike will be prepared for anything that comes their way-at home, at work, or at play.

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People think of their homes as safe havens from a toxic world, but unfortunately, this is usually not the case. This book sheds light on common toxins found around the house and offers parents straightforward ways to protect themselves and their children. It covers all areas of concern including food, medicines, household cleaners, airborne particles, and the house itself.

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110 CAR AND DRIVING EMERGENCIES offers quick, why-didn't-I-think-of-that answers to any problem a driver will possibly face, whether it's mechanical, electrical, weather, or an on-the-road hazard. Here is the first how-to book that shows how to calmly deal with minor problems or major hazards, in the driveway or garage or on the road far from home.

James Joseph, a longtime automobile and travel writer, has developed solutions to dealing with everything from a frozen lock to brake failure, from fixing a flat tire to extinguishing an engine fire.

Packaged to fit easily in a car's glove compartment for easy access, 110 CAR AND DRIVING EMERGENCIES is the perfect gift for a new driver or an inveterate traveler. Here are simple and clearly illustrated solutions for such things as what to do when the gas pedal jams, if the power steering suddenly quits, or if an instruments light comes on. It also provides drivers answers to such emergencies as dealing with a sudden windstorm, a flash flood, a smashed window, and engine fire, a drunk driver, or a front-tire blowout.

For ease of information, these situations are divided into Nature or Weather Related Emergencies, Situational Emergencies such as getting help on the road or dodging an object thrown from an overpass, Mechanical Emergencies, and Worst-Case Emergencies such as a rollover or a carnapping.

If you can't afford to have a personal driving instructor along, take this.

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An all-purpose guide that tells readers manageable ways to combat violence and make their community a safer place, this book covers personal safety, safety in the home, on the street, and in the community, in an accessible and easy-to-implement manner. Each of the 50 suggested actions is explained thoroughly, laid out in a very useful format, and presented as specific, practical advice.

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Everything drivers need to know about safety on the road is in this comprehensive handbook compiled by AAA, the automotive authority. Illustrations, quick tips, and sound advice encourage motorists to adopt a driving survival mindset and be prepared for emergencies. Topics include how to manage risk, navigate interstate highways, avoid crashes, cope with road rage, and handle breakdowns. Older drivers and parents of teenage drivers will find practical, age-appropriate suggestions for reducing risk behind the wheel. Even the most experienced driver will learn what it takes to survive in today's ever-changing driving environment. Driving Survival is required reading for anyone who wants to be more aware of the challenges.

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The American College of Emergency Physicians has created an essential and comprehensive first aid manual with treatments and techniques explained, step-by-step and illustrated with hundreds of photographs to show how to perform them correctly. Featuring important life-saving procedures, including rescue breathing, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, treatment for a blocked airway, and other life-threatening situations, the book also provides detailed anatomical information and offers treatments for people of any age in any situation.

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Work more effectively with DWI offenders!

This valuable book provides current information on the psychological, social-demographic, and psychiatric characteristics of DWI offenders. It also will provide you with up-to-date assessment strategies that can be employed with offenders, who characteristically are resistant to such assessment.

Until now, books written on this subject have focused purely on research that has been done with offenders. This book, however, provides both theoretical and applied strategies for working with this very difficult population in clinical/treatment settings. Assessment and Treatment of the DWI Offender provides practical treatment approaches such that will help you manage client resistance and incorporate family members and significant others into the treatment process to more effectively treat offenders.

Assessment and Treatment of the DWI Offender examines:

• the important variables that separate DWI offenders from alcoholics in general, as well as the "normal" population
• patterns of drinking behavior among offenders
• the magnitude of the DWI problem in the United States
• the history of the DWI countermeasures movement
• prevention and public education organizations such as SADD, MADD, the Partners in Progress program, the College Binge Drinking Initiative, and more
• enforcement techniques like breath testing, standardized field sobriety tests, on-site drug detection devices, etc.
• problems with the tools and techniques that are currently being used to address this issue
• interviewing techniques that work with DWI offenders
• more!

Intended primarily for counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other professionals who work with DWI offenders and packed with helpful and easy-to-read statistical charts and tables, this book is also essential for graduate students in psychology, social work, chemical dependency, or any of the helping professions.

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