The Best Survival & Emergency Preparedness Reference Books 2025

1. Great Hideouts of the West: An Idea Book for Living Free [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. There are virtually unlimited reasons why one should consider a hideout or, at the very least, learn about them, so that when the need arises, the expertise will be there. And that is exactly why this book was wrirtten. 170 pages

Great Hideouts of the West: An Idea Book for Living Free, Used [Paperback]

2. Defensive Living: Preserving Your Personal Safety through Awareness, Attitude and Armed Action [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Imagine a defensive training guide that has the informational firepower to keep cops safe presented in a way that's practical for your family to use to protect themselves, too. Filled with 50+ yrs. of hard-earned, expert-level LE & military training experience, this treasure chest of self-protection wisdom covers everything from mental conditioning for effective response to defensive driving tactics and medical self-help techniques.

Defensive Living : Preserving Your Personal Safety Through Awareness, Attitude, and Armed Action, Used [Paperback]

3. Your Survival: Protect Yourself from Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Flu Pandemics, and Other Disasters [With DVD] [Spiral-bound - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Protect your family and your home. Be prepared with Your Survival , a complete system -- handbook, video and organizer -- that makes planning for a disaster so simple, easy, and inexpensive that there's no longer an excuse to put it off. Complete with checklists to help you stock an emergency food closet, vet your insurance policy, improve the chances your S.O.S. calls and emails will get through when no one else's can, and protect your home and your family against earthquakes, tornadoes, mudslides, terrorist attacks, pandemics... any crisis you may face. Your Survival provides a wealth of life saving knowledge: - Explore a 90-minute DVD which includes interviews with the nations foremost disaster experts - Learn first-hand the most common mistakes people make - Discover the 10 most important items you should have on hand at all times With advice from survivors and experts alike, Your Survival is a vital investment.

Your Survival: Protect Yourself from Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Flu Pandemics, and Other Disasters [With DVD] [Spiral-bound - Used]

4. Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job--with deadly results ? A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of "black mayonnaise." Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as "beach whistles." ? In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel--its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth's deepest ocean trench--to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort.?Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. ? Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. ? An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book--which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm-- is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population's rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk--how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred--and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. ? Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel--behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible--lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.

Trapped under the Sea : One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness, Used [Hardcover]

5. Emergency Essentials: Tips for Preparedness, Used [Paperback]

Earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes, fire or flood, severe weather, loss of employment, personal injury, sustained power outages: such disasters are usually unforeseen and can disrupt our lives as well as threaten our safety. In this helpful book, prepa

Emergency Essentials: Tips for Preparedness, Used [Paperback]

6. The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. There are plenty of books about coping with adversity. But isn't until now, with WHO SURVIVES, that we discover the human factors that determine survival. It's a combination instruction book and security blanket that blends compelling true stories with cutting-edge science to deliver some of the most important lessons we'll ever need to learn. The book will: --list the most important traits necessary for survival (e.g., adaptability, tenacity, faith) --identify the 5 types of survivors--debunk myths (like only the strong survive), explore the frontiers of survival science (How much strain and punishment can a human body endure?), and introduce readers to counterintuitive thinking (Ever heard of posttraumatic growth?)--provide a Survivors Tool Kit, including an online test that measures one's Survivor's Quotient Each one of us eventually joins the club of millions who face life's inescapable tribulations and tragedies. WHO SURVIVES is the companion we need to prepare us for and guide us through the worst.

The Survivors Club : The Secrets and Science That Could Save Your Life, Used [Hardcover]

7. What to Do When You Meet Cthulhu: A Guide to Surviving the Cthulhu Mythos [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Providing insight into the famed Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft as well as the countless mythical threats that creep among Earth's population, this comprehensive handbook explores the transdimensional beings, subterranean creatures, and fantastical beasts that lurk in the corners of time. From encounters with Barnabas Marsh and Wilbur Whateley to dangerous seaside communities, this witty exploration covers the multitude of imaginary dangers, escape options, and chances of survival when confronting these horrors. Shoggoths, Nightgaunts, ghouls, and Cthulhu all have ventured into popular culture in the form of cuddly toys, but as this entertaining overview proves, these monsters are not so warm and fuzzy when met face-to-face, face-to-muzzle, or face-to-tentacles. Authoritative and hilarious, this "survival guide" sheds light on the mysterious and often unimaginable world of Cthulhu.

What to Do When You Meet Cthulhu: A Guide to Surviving the Cthulhu Mythos [Paperback - Used]

8. Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear: More Medicine for Motorcyclists [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. What is the best thing to do when the bike goes down and you suffer a bad patch of "road rash?" How do you prevent infection and minimize scarring? Answers to these questions and practical advice on many other medical situations motorcyclists encounter, are contained in this new volume from flash gordon, m.d. For years, gordon has been dispensing practical medical advice with a liberal dose of dry humor through his "Medical Motorcycling" column in Motorcycle Consumer News. As a doctor who rides motorcycles, he combines knowledge gained from many years of medical practice with the straightforward non-nonsense style of a veteran rider. He has the knack of explaining medical conditions and injuries in plain language that makes sense, and does so in an entertaining and highly informative style. Though the advice is directed to motorcyclists, all the medical information he provides is applicable to the general public, and has been enhanced by clever illustrations by Craig Harrison.

Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear : More Medicine for Motorcyclists, Used [Paperback]

9. The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions, Used [Hardcover]

Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctions Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own firsthand experiences conducting field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged and calamitous period of environmental crisis in Earth's history. Wignall shows how these series of unprecedented extinction events swept across the planet, killing life on a scale more devastating than the dinosaur extinctions that would follow. The Worst of Times unravels one of the great enigmas of ancient Earth and shows how this ushered in a new age of vibrant and more resilient life on our planet.

The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions, Used [Hardcover]

10. Eskimo Rolling, Used [Paperback]

The Eskimo roll--the self-rescue technique of righting a capsized kayak without leaving the cockpit--is the key to a kayaker's confidence. A bombproof roll is the mark of an expert paddler. Written by internationally famous sea kayaking expert Derek Hutchinson, this book provides detailed instructions on how to perform the Eskimo roll with skill and success in a wide variety of conditions.

Eskimo Rolling, Used [Paperback]