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81) When the grid goes down: disaster preparations and survival gear for making your home self-reliant
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Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear, and a handful of critical skills, that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well as long-term situations resulting from a grid-down...
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CAPE SAFETY, INC. - NEW BLOODDanger Dogs Series – No. 7 by Richard Hughes New Blood takes a far stricter look at how American politics in 2023 is affecting the national and international safety, health, and environmental decisions of the premier S. H. & E. firm, Cape Safety, Inc. and their California branch, Cliff Safety, Inc. "People are ultimately the firm's engineering specialty," says a staff member of the barely fictional consulting firm. What's...
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AN EXPERT'S TIPS FOR SURVIVING IN THE WILD WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
Would you be able to survive for days in a forest with only a knife and a lighter on you and no resources?
If you think not, this book may be the only thing that allows you to survive...
The idea that the society to which we are accustomed will soon cease to exist, forcing us to find alternative sources to that of our trusted supermarket to feed and hydrate ourselves, is not so...
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Cape Safety, Inc. - Change of Climate, No. 5 in the Danger Dogs Series, takes us from land mine detection in Ukraine to refloating the Ever Forward in Baltimore, Maryland, from underground aquifers in California to entertainment submarines engaged in hostage exchanges, from preserving a historic Blue Riband contender; to choosing between lobsters or blue whales in Maine; the safety, health, and environmental specialists of Cape Safety, Inc., and now...
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The 6th book in the series, Cape Safety, Inc. - S. H. E. - Safety, Health & Environmental, captures over 50 headline interventions involving the diverse cast of characters better known as the E. H. & S. consultants of C.S.I. Once more, the men-and increasingly, the talented women-of the barely fictional consulting firm travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem solving...
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I think we need a new crystal for this thing.-Scanner guy from the 70s.
Scanners were a lot simpler in decades past, when everything was analog, had a fixed frequency, and was unencrypted.
Nowadays, we have those old analog stations as well as digital, trunking systems, protocols, sites, talk groups, and who-knows-what coming down the road for next year. There are a lot of frequencies, systems, groups, codes, and little nit-picky details that have...
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The people that will be most affected by a "greater Cedar Rapids" were staying home or were still coping in FEMA trailers where the water pipes routinely burst in the harsh Iowa winter, or were living with relatives, or had simply disappeared and moved on or given up. They had sold their flooded houses for a song or had taken out a mortgage at the age of seventy. They were buried under massive mounds of bureaucratic paperwork, trying to get a check...
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This title focuses on tornadoes and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive. The title is complete with beautiful and colorful photographs, simple text, and a database for added activities. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or dreamed of--ultimately matter? Journalist Amanda Ripley set...
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This state-of-the-art manual is now completely updated and revised with new sections on transportation (such as carjacking or road-rage incidents), defending against terrorists (how to react to a suspicious package or behavior, for example), and information about numerous self-defense techniques. This survival guide now covers the world-any terrain, all climates-with hundreds of line drawings showing details on making tools and rafts, preserving food,...
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From Dr. Jason Hunt - survival expert, best-selling author, and first responder - SAR Survival: Search and Rescue Fundamentals for the Outdoors offers a behind-the-scenes look at fundamental wilderness search and rescue operations. This book provides essential training that can serve as a foundation to launch your volunteer SAR service or to equip you with the skills and knowledge that search teams will use to locate you and your loved ones if you...
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"Retail Security: Strategies and Solutions for Safeguarding Your Business" is a comprehensive guide for retailers looking to enhance their security measures and protect their assets. This book covers a range of topics, including loss prevention techniques, physical security breaches, employee theft, cybercrime, and organized retail crime.The book begins by discussing various loss prevention techniques, such as CCTV and surveillance systems, access...
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Before the outbreak of the Troubles, a typical firefighter's year might have included call-outs to chimney fires, the occasional house fire or road accident, and - even more rarely - a large factory or hay shed fire. While a firefighting career was always inherently exciting and risky, for most firefighters' moments of high drama were anything but a daily occurrence.
Then everything changed, and Northern Ireland's firefighters spent almost every...
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BUILD COMPETENCY, LEAD CONFIDENTLY, OVERCOME ANYTHING.
The world has changed, the fire department has changed, and the firefighters you serve with have changed. Fire organizations offer more services to the public via a more diverse group of firefighters than ever before. Those that rely on you to serve and lead them deserve a Fire Officer who can effectively evolve to meet their specific and unique needs while keeping what has historically made the...
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“Cape Safety, Inc. Cast of Characters” continues the travels and travails of the men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists. Look over their shoulders as they describe the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, as a giant tank full of molasses exploded, covering the city. Learn how a team of hazmat specialists disposed of 70,000...
99) Off Grid Solar Power: The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to Install Solar Energy Systems. Cut Down o
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Are you tired of paying expensive electricity bills? Did you really care about the environment and do you want to build your own off grid solar system to be completely self-sustainable? If Yes then Keep Reading… This book will teach you the best strategies to install a solar energy system for your tiny home, car, van, boat and RV to fnally reduce your energy bills! The book includes:Electricity and its typesFundamentals of solar powerApplications,...
100) The next catastrophe: reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007" Charles Perrow is professor emeritus of sociology at Yale University. He has worked as a consultant for the U.S. military, the White House, and the nuclear-power industry.
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe,...
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