Safety category: 688 books
Survival Gear You Can Live With
Practical Survival Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2016
A quality survival kit is one of the critical elements in prevailing during a backcountry emergency. Survival instructor Tony Nester shares what essential gear to carry and how to design a tailor-made kit to fit your specific needs. Drawing upon the past 25 years of teaching fieldcourses, Nester provides...
Your Guide To Protecting Yourself
Learn Martial Arts With This Guide And Discover The Different Tips And Tricks On How To Learn Martial Arts By Yourself, How To Learn Self Defense Through Jujitsu Martial Arts And More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Jujitsu is a name used for Japanese martial arts techniques. The meaning of this word is the “art of softness” or “way of yielding”. Jujitsu came from Japan as a way of defeat of an opponent without using any weapons. Since hitting the opponent didn’t do much justice,...
by CDC
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
If disaster strikes, you may not have much time to act. Click on the links below to learn what simple steps you can take now to be ready to protect and care for your family should an unexpected emergency occur.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks. The complex systems can involve teams or individuals working on real-time supervisory control, command or information management tasks where a...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on...
Surviving Your Doctors
Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the...
The Piercing Bible Guide to Aftercare and Troubleshooting
How to Properly Care for Healing and Infected Ear, Facial, and Body Piercings
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In this compilation of chapters on healing and troubleshooting from The Piercing Bible, piercing expert Elayne Angel distills her best advice on caring for new piercings, from cleaning and hygiene to avoiding trauma and infection. It includes healing tips for every type of piercing:
· Earlobe
·...
Food Confidential
The Corporate Takeover of Food Security and the Family Farm?and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Fight the power and protect your family from the corporate interests that control our food chain.
When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America’s small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired,...
by Allison Frederickson
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
The idea of something as small and insignificant as a mosquito being the key agent in recent epidemics is wholly mind-boggling to me. Something that literally feeds off of the edges of society is causing life-long complications and even death in people, even in this day and age. What is possibly...
The Flight 981 Disaster
Tragedy, Treachery, and the Pursuit of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
On June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after its takeoff from Detroit. The explosion ripped a gaping hole in the bottom of the aircraft and jammed the hydraulic controls. Miraculously, despite the damage and ensuing chaos, the pilots were able...
Southern Storm
The Tragedy of Flight 242
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future.
On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic stranger running toward her,...
by Andrew Kain
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The new and fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling security classic.
Written by renowned ex-SAS security expert Andrew Kain, this handbook provides the most reliable, authoritative and respected security information on the market. Don’t leave home without it on your smartphone,...
The New Public Health
An Introduction for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, The New Public Health distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant...
by Kevin Lewis, David Michael Gilbertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Krav Maga, which means "contact combat" in Hebrew, is an easy-to-understand/remember aggressive system of self-defense. Idiot's Guides: Krav Maga will not only define what it is, but also review the principles and systems of techniques and training to ensure survival. Combining in-depth...