The ultimate guide to total preparedness and self-reliance, this work, written by one of the best-known survival experts, contains everything people need to know in order to prepare and protect themselves.
Emily Post's revolutionary 1922 book jettisoned rigid Victorian rules and viewed manners as adaptable to the times and belonging to people from all walks of life. Despite today's "anything goes" attitude, research and the many questions sent to Peggy Post's columns and to the Post Institute website show that Americans remain interested in the ...
Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--and enjoy a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle--need look no further than this eminently useful guide that features hundreds of projects and old-fashioned fun. Full-color and b&w photographs throughout.
The worst of the worst, all in one place! This deluxe desk reference includes a hardbound volume of the most popular scenarios from all 11 "Worst-Case Scenario" handbooks, plus the entire contents of all the books on a fully searchable CD. Avoid the perils of mountain lions and blind dates, avalanches and teenage driving lessons, runaway golf ...
Thereas never been a better time to abe prepared.a Matthew Steinas comprehensive primer on sustainable living skillsafrom food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skillsaprepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live agreena in seemingly ...
What are 1001 things you should treat yourself and your guests to in New York City? Be serenaded by Cole Porter's piano at the Waldorf, or hear Woody Allen play clarinet at the Carlyle. Drink champagne on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum, or discover the abandoned subway station at City Hall. Eat at America's very first pizzeria, or enjoy the ...
From making an omelet extra fluffy to deodorizing those musty household smells, from improving flossing and mouth freshness to washing clay flower pots without leaving residue, this book offers hundreds of tips for making the most of baking soda.
In a guide to college life that is more realistic than Felicity and more fun than Stanley Kaplan, Jennifer Hanson charts a course through the dips and bends of freshman year. Hanson gives readers a crash course in avoiding freshman year follies, from filling out roommate questionnaires to writing papers and studying for exams.
The book for every twenty-something single girl who looks around and says, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in school anymore! A survival guide, advice column, how-to-live manual, best friend, and omnium gatherum of essential information, WHAT' S A GIRL TO DO? covers everything from diet and exercise to understanding a Roth IRA to the ins and ...
"Show Me How" is a revolutionary reimagining of the reference genre, one part how-to guide, one part graphic art showpiece, and one part pure inspiration. In a series of 500 nearly wordless, highly informative step-by-step procedurals, readers learn how to do hundreds of tasks. Full color.
Vinegar is a health remedy, a neutralizer, a cleaner, a condiment, and a preservative. It can kill bacteria, mold, and germs, yet it is environmentally safe. This comprehensive guide covers all types and uses of vinegar, including how to make flavored varieties and using it as the basis for kids' science projects.
This is the ultimate and absolutely essential handbook for getting it all together from Peter Walsh, organization guru of The Learning Channel's hit show "CleanSweep."
This controversial guide by a former Green Beret and private investigator reveals how to change your identity, cover your tracks, and protect your hard-earned assets--now with a new question and answer section and updated throughout.
This title focuses on the decisions, public and private, that shape women's lives. Inspired by the title poem in which an older woman looks back on a life sensibly lived and wishes she had 'eaten more ice cream and less beans', anthologist Sandra Martz captures the experiences of women, young and old, as they make choices that form the tapestry of ...
The very bedrock of our ability to think, analyze, argue and communicate, logic is the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this concise, crisply readable book, Professor D. Q. McInerny offers an indispensable guide to using logic to advantage in everyday life. Written explicitly for the layperson, BEING LOGICAL is a slim classic of ...
More than a cookbook, this fatherly helping-hand is packed with hints on everything from writing a resume to changing a flat tire. Includes a detailed chapter on finances, information on simple home repair, and great recipes for barbecue, Dutch-oven chili, soups, pancakes, and more.
Cohen, founder of Ivywise, a private college admissions practice, follows three students through the college application process and uses dozens of other real applications to illustrate what's effective in a college application, and what's not.
A man should know certain things in his life to be a man. He had to use his callused hands - and the knowledge passed down through the generations - to carve a homestead from the wilderness and to feed his family by hunting and trapping animals or coaxing crops from the earth. But today, as men trade hammer and ax for computer and fax, and a cabin ...
There's a rule of thumb for just about every subject imaginable - money, marriage, cooking, health, weather, cars, gardening, restaurants, travel. This is the priceless knowledge that's accumulated not from reading, but from living. Tempted by a string of pearls at a yard sale? Rub them against your teeth: the rule of thumb, as your grandmother ...
How to protect yourself from accidents, muggings, burglary and attack John 'Lofty' Wiseman is the author of THE SAS SURVIVAL HANDBOOK, the bestselling guide to survival in the wild. Now he has compiled the even more necessary manual on survival in the urban jungle. With the clarity, common sense and directness you would expect from the SAS's ...
Not so long ago, men were men. They spent their Sunday afternoons building things with their bare hands, they didn't pay someone else to change their oil, and they certainly didn't sip anything that was pink in colour, expensive and came in a cocktail glass. Then the modern world happened and, somehow, man was redefined...smoothed over...watered ...
An omnibus of fast-access survival advice on the full range of everyday life emergencies, "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life" guide packs hundreds of instant, real solutions to daily crises in categories covering, home, relationships, travel, sports and hobbies, animals and pets, money, school, beauty and fitness, holidays and ...
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