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A feminist-forward guide to setting boundaries, assessing safety, and defusing violence by a six-time karate world champion—tools and skills to build confidence, fight back, and live life on your own terms. Disclaimer: this is not your average self-defense book. As educator, martial artist...

Going well beyond first aid, this manual describes medical secrets used by an experienced African mission doctor and former assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School. The tips are pragmatic, affordable, and useful for anyone from medics to laypersons but are particularly aimed at people who work and live in remote areas with scarce resources. The subjects cover antibiotic therapy, advanced care of complex wounds, laceration closure with glue, malaria, oral rehydration therapy, fecal transplantation, and more.

THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SURVIVING ANYWHERE The SAS Survival Guide is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. This unrivalled guide from...

THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SURVIVING ANYWHERE The SAS Survival Guide is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. This unrivalled guide from...

The 50 Principles of Self-Protection offers you a comprehensive guide to enhancing your personal safety and preventing yourself becoming a victim of violence. Focusing on principles which you can apply immediately rather than lists of physical techniques which take time to learn, this book draws on tried and tested concepts, psychological insights and real-world experience. You can learn to empower yourself with the knowledge and mindset to be proactive, identify potential dangers, avoid, escape, de-escalate or in an emergency to use physical force legally.

Be prepared for any disaster and put your mind at ease with this step-by-step plan for surviving natural disasters, technological and grid failures, attacks, hazards, and more including sheltering in place or evacuating as conditions dictate. Are you prepared for a widespread electrical grid...

A life-saving guide that includes signs, symptoms, first aid treatments, and step-by-step skills to care for adults, children, and infants in case of everyday emergencies. This book is written in simple language to help anyone develop the skills to save lives, from splinting a sprained ankle, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and using an automated defibrillator (AED) responding to symptoms of strokes, diabetic emergencies, and emergency childbirth.

In an increasingly dangerous world, The Practical Guide to Personal Security equips everyday people with the mindset, tools, and real-world strategies used by elite professionals—proven strategies adapted for civilian life. From home defense to threat detection, self-defense to emergency response—whether you're walking across a college campus, coming home to an empty house, or managing a crisis, this book helps YOU take control of your safety.

Discover gripping true crime stories and the surprising tools you need to keep you and your family safe -- from iconic legal commentator, TV journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace wasn't always the iconic legal commentator we know today. One moment changed her...

THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SURVIVING ANYWHERE The SAS Survival Guide is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. This unrivalled guide from...

A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and...

“Most of us need never fashion a gas mask from a soup can.... Should the need arise, you’ll be glad for a copy of Survival Hacks... offers tips ranging from making a cookstove from a packet of alcohol-soaked ramen to cutting a fishing lure from the shiny bits of your Visa card.” —The...

First aid training will equip you with the awareness and practical capabilities of how to react if the worst happens. It’s the knowledge of how to help someone that collapses, cuts themselves, gets hurt in an emergency situation, or finds themselves in a medical emergency.

When disaster strikes our whole world changes. Everything we have come to rely on is compromised, and we often find ourselves with only our wits to get us through. It pays for everyone to know and understand what happens in a disaster and the proper steps to take to ensure their own personal safety and that of those in their charge. With the knowledge contained in this guide, you and your family will be able to venture out confidently knowing that you have the best weapon for your defense - your own ingenuity.

Cuts and bruises, sprains and strains, dislocations, broken bones, snake bites. Sound familiar? At one point in time we have all suffered such an injury or someone else in our family has. And especially in this last case we have wanted to help out anyway we could, but we didn't know how.

Women have been culturally trained to discount one of their greatest protections—safety intuition. As women, it is so ingrained in us to attend to everyone else, including strangers on the street, before we listen to ourselves, that we have lost touch with our innate ability to often detect dangerous situations. As the result, we are left generally defenseless to recognize predators who manipulate our natural compassion, to our own detriment.

Grounded in her experience as a blackbelt, self-defense instructor, and globally recognized organizer, Rana Abdelhamid offers a bold, urgent roadmap to a safer world Abdelhamid wants every woman and survivor of gender-based violence to be able to defend themselves, and every community to build...

Every dog owner knows their furry friend isn't just a pet; they're a beloved family member. In "Canine First Aid Made Easy: Saving Dogs, Saving Money, and Easing Your Stress - Your Essential Pet First Aid Guide" you'll find essential knowledge and skills needed to be your dog's first responder in times of crisis.

Are you wondering how to perform first aid techniques and administer survival medicine during any situation? Discover how to provide first aid, perform CPR, and lots of other life-saving techniques.

"Harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell" —Jenny Offill “Fascinating…Oddly uplifting” —The Economist "Smart, funny, irreverent, and philosophically rich" —Wall Street Journal By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious...