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Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival
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List Price:
$19.95
Fitness-Health-Care Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Cross-Current Pub.
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780936348070
ISBN: 0936348070
Label: Cross-Current Pub.
Manufacturer: Cross-Current Pub.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2002-04
Publisher: Cross-Current Pub.
Studio: Cross-Current Pub.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A complete guide to emergency preparedness for our uncertain times. Virtually an encyclopedia of food storage and personal preparedness, it covers topics from exactly how to design a food storage program tailored for your particular family to growing and preserving food, storing fuel, alternate energy, emergency evacuation kits, medical and dental, surviving biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism, communications, selection of firearms and other survival tools, and preparing for earthquakes. Dozens of detailed, expert checklists and tables with photographs and index. Extensive book and resource lists with regular and Internet addresses. An absolute must for those serious about preparing for and surviving during our dangerous times.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Comment: The author is very specific on figuring the amounts of each food types to store based on caloric needs of your age group and reminds you to think ahead and anticipate changes as a person or child ages. As a nurse I feel this information is critical to overall health as he includes the number of calories needed per age. He also recommends that you store a variety of foods as well as 'treat' foods to compensate for a change in your diet that might eliminate our fast food habits. This book will guide you in creating a pantry suited to your own family. I highly recommend this book for the details it provides in all areas of long term food storage.
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Summary: Physical Survival
Comment: I enjoyed this book very much. This is a reference book and a book of facts and useful imformation. The writing style is dry. I get a little nuts when I buy a book about home preparedness and there are chapter's about making arrowheads and how to skin a rabbit and how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together. If things every get this bad, I don't want to live anyway. However, in Mr. Sprigarelli's book, you won't find nutty stuff like making arrowheads. It's smart stuff and to the point. It's worth the money. Regards, Keith Renick, Peachtree City, Ga.
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Summary: Don't buy this directly from the author/publisher
Comment: I have a personal copy of this book and thought so highly of it that I tried to buy one for my son. Amazon was temporarily out of stock so I made an online purchase directly from the authors. Guess what, that was in December and it is April now and the book was never sent. The authors have responded to email inquiries and promised to send the book. However they have never followed through and also have never bothered to send a refund. Maybe they are having a crisis of their own, in which case maybe they aren't all that well prepared after all. If you must have it, buy from Amazon or another credible source.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too vague to be very useful
Comment: This book brings up too few scenarios to be useful that way, and really didn't do much more than thoroughly go into the pros and cons of purchased food preservation methods.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Overall good, but stresses unlikely scenarios
Comment: Overall, the book is informative. However it devotes too much time to growing food and not enough to being able to survive if you and your family are stuck at home for an extended period of time, such as during a flu pandemic, or loss of electricity for a few weeks. More "retreat home" info would be useful. I would suggest purchasing this book for its overall informative value. But, if you live in NYC or another urban sprawl, most of this book would not apply since growing food and raising animals would not work.
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