What You’ll Learn:
- How to identify and meaningfully assess risks in your life, then develop strategies for managing them
- Ways to build up and diversify a robust financial safety net—a key component of nearly all effective preparedness strategies
- How to adapt your prep plans to a variety of situations, from shelter-in-place scenarios to evacuations by car or on foot
- Sensible approaches to stockpiling food, water, and other essentials, along with recommendations on what supplies are actually worth having
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Table of contents:
Preface
Part I: Thinking About Risk
Chapter 1: A Method to the Madness
Chapter 2: The Specter of Humdrum Calamities
Chapter 3: Exploring Large-Scale Risks
Chapter 4: Oh No, Zombies!
Part II: The Prepared Lifestyle
Chapter 5: Mind Over Matter
Chapter 6: Building a Rainy-Day Fund
Chapter 7: Safeguarding Your Savings
Chapter 8: Engineering a Doomsday-Proof Career
Chapter 9: Avoiding Common Injuries
Chapter 10: Protecting Oneself in the Digital and Physical Realm
Chapter 11: Getting in Shape
Chapter 12: Building a Community
Chapter 13: Hatching a Plan
Part III: The Essentials
Chapter 14: The Discreet Charm of the Bulletproof Vest
Chapter 15: Water
Chapter 16: Nourishment
Chapter 17: Sanitation, Hygiene, and Health
Chapter 18: Fuel and Electricity
Chapter 19: Household and Vehicle Tools
Chapter 20: Evacuation Gear
Chapter 21: Protection Against Pollutants and Disease
Chapter 22: Emergency Communications
Chapter 23: Entertainment and More
Part IV: Active Self-Defense
Chapter 24: The Politics of Putting Up a Fight
Chapter 25: Standing Up for Your Belongings
Chapter 26: Fighting for your Life
Chapter 27: Understanding Firearms
Epilogue
Notes
