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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Parenting
Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, ...
Chronicle Books, 2003
You wont put it down
I love this little gem of a book. It had me laughing so hard that I was crying. Covers things you never thought possible. Trust me you are ahead of the game with this one. A great shower gift they will be talking about forever!!!
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From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
Gordon Bethune
Wiley, 1999
Remarkable Turnaround
This is an enlightening book on how CEO Gordon Bethune, together with his team, engineered a remarkable turnaround of Continental Airlines in the mid-1990s and then steered Continental to be a very successful airline. With literary assistance from journalist Scott ...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Weddings
Joshua Piven, Sarah Jordan, ...
Chronicle Books, 2004
Great gift, good for laughs
Let's be honest - planning a wedding is not fun. The bride does most of the work, and after many months of planning, it's easy for a bride to lose her cool when something small goes wrong. This book totally puts the big day in perspective, and can give the bride a ...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Book Of Survival Questions
Joshua Piven
Chronicle Books, 2005
EXCELLENT BOOK! ONE OF MY FAVORITES!
Once you start reading this book, it's hard to put it down. The information is great. Some points of interest: How to escape quick sand; escape a hotel room fire; climb out of a well; protect yourself in a sword fight; survive animal attacks -- and much much more! If ...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Joshua Piven
Chronicle Books, 1999
The book works...
I read the book. I saw a car accident. I can't go into further details because it is illegal to perform medical procedures without a degree in medicine. The boy didn't survive (he was brain dead immediately (happens when your head takes a cars bumper)) but his body did ...
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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Glenn Greenwald
Three Rivers Press, 2008
To vote intelligently you must read this book
If you want to know what happened, read Scott McClellan's book because he will tell you. If you want to UNDERSTAND what happened, read this book. It's hard going at first but stay with him. He makes the point that good vs. evil is not Bush's primary goal, it is his ...
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Worst-Case Scenarios
Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard University Press, 2007
Superb discussion of cost benefit analysis applied to extreme situations
Cass Sunstein has written a superb analysis of how cost benefit analysis can usefully be applied to extreme situations - worst case scenarios. He takes up two - mostly climate change, but then compares it to counterterrorism. My comments below focus on the ...
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The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Worst Case Scenario)
Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
Chronicle Books, 2007
Worst is the Best
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Worst Case Scenario)
Great product! A compilation of many other gudess, plus a cd, it's a great value for the money. However, I'm going to have to get a second copy for myself; my college student son took the first ...
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The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel
Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
Chronicle Books, 2001
Excellent Choice!
I purchased this book as a gift for a friend, and it was exactly what I was looking for! This book offers solutions to travel nightmares, very handy for an inexperienced traveler.
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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS ...
Dan Cederholm
New Riders Press, 2007
Great book
Excellent book, brings up a lot of good accessibility and best practice points. This will make me a better web developer.
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Cards: 30 Postcards (Worst Case Scenario)
J Piven
Chronicle Books, 2001
Great Cards!
These Cards are fun! You Get 30 Postcards what have Tips From The worst-case scenario survival handbook and the Travel book what you can send to people! You should get These! They're worth the Price!
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work
Joshua Piven
Chronicle Books, 2003
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Work
This book is hysterical and good reading material to pick up when you are having a bad day. Good to give to a co-worker or enjoy yourself. Many of the scenarios I can relate to.
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Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College
Jennifer Worick, Joshua Piven
Chronicle Books, 2004
good/funny read
I got this for my nephew who just went to college and he has found it very funny. He likes all the survival books and he said that him and his friends at college like this one
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The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac .: Politics (Worst-Case Scenario)
David Borgenicht, Turk Regan
Chronicle Books, 2008
Informative, amusing, humorous for our times
The Worst-Case Scenario series had brought us lots of unusual and surprising tips (How to Escape from the Trunk of a Car, How to Remove a Leach, How to Escape from a Stampede of Giraffes, etc..) but now the team tackles something that we all want to be saved from: ...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition
Joshua Piven
Chronicle Books, 2005
Worth it if only to laugh at some of the scenarios
The book is extremely entertaining and it might save your life, too. It covers scenarios James Bond would aspire to.
"How to endure a Turkish prison"
"How to survive an elephant stampede"
"How to survive a nuclear attack"
"How to take a bullet"
"How to control a ...
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