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Action Hero's Handbook:
How to Catch a Great White
Shark, Perform the Vulcan
Nerve Pinch, Track a
Fugitive and Dozens of
Other TV and Movie Skills by Joshua Piven, David Borgenict |
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Reviews Synopsis How to crack a safe, escape from Alcatraz, get the girl and live the action hero's life. From the creators of the publishing phenomenon, THE WORST CASE SCENARIO HANDBOOK, THE ACTION HERO HANDBOOK will put you in touch with your inner action hero. Irreverent, but practical advice written by experts (actors, stuntmen, private investigators, con artists, criminals and cads) will tell you how to talk tough, jump on a horse, dock a cruise ship, drive through down town without letting the speed drop below 55mph or just buy more time. Step-by-step instructions will help you live the movie life! |
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| The
Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven, David Borgenict |
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How to Wrestle Free From an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout. |
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"humorous" title--after all, it's unlikely you'll be called
upon to land a plane, jump from a motorcycle to a moving car or win a
sword fight--the information contained in The Worst-Case Scenario
Survival Handbook is all quite sound. Authors Joshua Piven and David
Borgenicht consulted numerous experts in their fields (they're cited at
the end of the book) to discover how to survive various and sundry awful
events. Parachute doesn't open? Your best bet for survival is to hook
your arms through the straps of a fellow jumper's chute--and even then
you're likely to dislocate both shoulders and break both legs. Car
sinking in water? Open the window immediately to equalise pressure, then
open the car door and swim to the surface. Buried in an avalanche? Spit
on the snow--it will tell you which direction is really up. Then dig as
fast as you can. Each survival skill is explained in simple steps with
helpful illustrations. Most stress the need to be prepared--both
mentally and physically. For example, to escape from quicksand, you will
need to lay a pole on the surface of the quicksand, flop on your back
atop the pole and pull your legs out one by one. No pole? No luck.
"When walking in quicksand country, carry a stout pole--it will
help you get out should you need to."
Hopefully you'll never need to know how to build a fire without matches, perform a tracheotomy or treat a bullet wound. But in the words of Survival Evasion Resistance Escape Instructor "Mountain" Mel Deweese, "You never know."
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| The
Worst-case Scenario Travel Handbook Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht |
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Sequel to the best-selling international sensation The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, this is the indispensable and indestructible handbook for life's little turns for the worse when abroad. With real step-by-step instruction from expert sources on such crucial topics as how to cross a piranha-infested river, pass a bribe, walk on a broken leg, sneak, across the border, escape from the trunk of a car, and survive being stalked by a lion, it's the one book you can't leave home without. Also including practical tips for surviving the less-worse-but-still-horrible scenarios of lost luggage, jet lag, etc |
| Review Piven and Borgenicht's Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel is, like their previous bestseller The Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook, a pithy, witty and surprisingly useful guide to getting through life's stickier patches with body, soul and even dignity intact. The difference here is that the authors have addressed the kind of glitches, pitfalls, disasters and conundra one might encounter when sojourning in distant or hostile lands. Hence there are sections offering advice on: How to Control a Runaway Camel; How to Survive in Frigid Water; How to Pass a Bribe; How to Deal with a Tarantula; and so on. Some of the problems and chapters might seem a little far-fetched and remote (How to Cross a Piranha-infested River); others all-too local and everyday to be confined to a travel book (How to Survive a Mugging). Each and every chapter is clearly written, accompanied by simple but effective illustrations, and derived from the accumulated wisdom of top survival experts in various armies, navies, academies and universities. There's also a very handy appendix dealing with general travel tips, such as which thumb-gestures to avoid when you don't want to insult the natives, and how to say, "Hello, I have been seriously wounded" in Japanese. This is a must-pack for all modern adventurers.
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| Collins
Gem SAS Survival Guide John Wiseman |
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What would you do if you were in the middle of a tropical rain forest and one of your party was bitten by a bug or a snake? Do you know how to choose a knife or how and when to abandon ship? The Collins Gem SAS Survival Guide has the answer to these--and many, many other--essential survival questions for anybody wanting to trade the supermarket for the scrub and get back to nature. The pocket-size guide covers everything from the essential survival kit and pouch to disaster strategies for those who find themselves facing natural disasters such as hurricanes, avalanches, floods, tornadoes, active volcanoes, floods, lightening and earthquakes. And just in case nature proves too much for such precautions, there is an extremely comprehensive section on health and first aid. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white line drawings and colour photographs for identifying wild plants and animals, this is a well-produced, compact and comprehensive guide for all would-be explorers
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