"The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht

Danger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do?
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help: jampacked with how-to, hands-on, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on everything you need to know FAST – from defusing a bomb to delivering a baby in the back of a cab.

Providing frightening and funny real information in the best-selling tradition of the Paranoid's Pocket Guide and Hypochondriac's Handbook, this indispensable, indestructible pocket-sized guide is the definitive handbook for those times when life takes a sudden turn for the worse.



So keep this book on hand at all times. It is informative and entertaining, but useful, too.

Contents
Foreword by "Mountain"
Preface
1. Great Escapes and Entrances
How to Escape from Quicksand
How to Break Down a Door
How to Break into a Car
How to Hot-wire a Car
How to Perform a Fast 180-Degree Turn with Your Car
How to Ram a Car
How to Escape from a Sinking Car
How to Deal with a Downed Power Line
2. The Best Defense
How to Survive a Poisonous Snake Attack
How to Fend Off a Shark
How to Escape from a Bear
How to Escape from a Mountain Lion
How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator
How to Escape from Killer Bees
How to Deal with a Charging Bull
How to Win a Sword Fight
How to Take a Punch
3. Leaps of Faith
How to Jump from a Bridge or Cliff into a River
How to Jump from a Building into a Dumpster
How to Maneuver on Top of a Moving Train and Get Inside
How to Jump from a Moving Car
How to Leap from a Motorcycle to a Car
4. Emergencies
How to Perform a Tracheotomy
How to Use a Defibrillator to Restore a Heartbeat
How to Identify a Bomb
How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab
How to Treat Frostbite
How to Treat a Leg Fracture
How to Treat a Bullet or Knife Wound
5. Adventure Survival
How to Land a Plane
How to Survive an Earthquake
How to Survive Adrift at Sea
How to Survive When Lost in the Desert
How to Survive If Your Parachute Fails to Open
How to Survive an Avalanche
How to Survive If You Are in the Line ofGunfire
How to Survive When Lost in the Mountains
How to Make Fire Without Matches
How to Avoid Being Struck by Lightning
How to Get to the Surface If Your Scuba Tank Runs Out of Air
The Experts
About the Authors