This title offers information on what San Francisco natives & tourists need to know, from stopping a runaway cable car, staying warm in the summer, parking on a hill, eating sushi, & escaping from Alcatraz. From the Worst-Case Scenario folks, here is more invaluable advice for surviving life's most dangerous & uncomfortable situations. The pocket guides provide all new material in a scaled-down form, focusing on more specific situations & occasions, with How-Tos, Instant Solutions, & charts providing information on how to extricate yourself from different situations. ...

How to get out alive from almost every possible life or death situation. The book is divided into sections like Great Escapes & Entrances, Leaps of Faith, Adventure Survival. Each one including gems like how to survive when your parachute doesn`t open & how to leap from a moving car to a motorcycle. Each entry clearly laid out & well illustrated. ...

The authors of the best-selling ” Worst Case Scenario” series return with this `extreme` follow-up to the Junior Edition. Packed with funny, kid-friendly instructions for the most extreme situations like how to escape from a charging rhino, how to fend off a shark, how to survive if stranded on a raft at sea, & more! ...

The tips in this book will have kids laughing out loud, all while gearing them up to tackle all that's utterly disgusting in life, Worst-Case Scenario-style! SALES HANDLE: Get the scoop on how to tackle all things gross, Worst-Case Scenario-style. KEY SELLING POINTS: HOW THIS TITLE WILL BE DISTINCTIVE: The Worst-Case Scenario brand is known for its stellar survival tips & humor. Adding gross scenarios to the mix will make this book stand out & apart from the competition. --' Gross' topics are perenially popular with middle-grade boys. DEFINE CONSUMER: Parents looking for an engaging, humorous book for middle-grade or young adult boys. --Readers of all ages seeking a humor title. QUANTIFY VALUE: This 'gross' edition will cover a variety of topics. --Topics will appeal to a wide variety of consumers & could have adult crossover appeal. --There is humor & survival tips on every page. NOTABLE AUTHOR: David Borgenicht is a writer, editor, & publisher & co-author of all of the books in the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Survival Handbook series. He has over 10 years of Worst-Case Scenario Survival experience!RELEVANT SALES INFORMATION: The WCS series continues to be one of the major franchises in publishing with nearly 9 million copies sold. Scholastic Book Clubs is taking 11K of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Weird Junior Edition. ...

An omnibus of fast-access survival advice on the full range of everyday life emergencies, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life guide packs hundreds of instant, real solutions to daily crises in categories covering, home, relationships, travel, sports & hobbies, animals & pets, money, school, beauty & fitness, holidays & celebrations, & more. Clocking in at a chunky 288 pages, & containing hundreds of scenarios & solutions, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Life will keep readers informed & safe whether battling an bobcat or busted faucet. Because anything can go wrong anywhere at any time... ...

The Ultimate Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook combines into one volume 400 different scenarios from the publishers’ popular series of survival books, including many new additions, to provide advice on just about everything you may ever need to be helped with. Divided into chapters on animal encounters, health problems, home & hearth, social scenarios, urban survival, the natural world, getting around, & extreme emergencies, the books is not limited just to dealing with unusual or extreme cases one is unlikely to come across in one’s quiet, unadventurous every day life but is packed with useful tips of all sorts, illustrated by simple but informative & often amusing drawings. If one’s first impression of it may be “I’ll never need that
- it’s all obvious & anyway, I’ll never find myself in this situation”, ignore it at your peril – you’re likely to need it sooner than you think!
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This pocket-size guide from the authors & the publishers of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks aims to provide useful advice for various difficult situations travellers may find themselves in. If some may at a first glance appear unlikely, most are not, even if we all sincerely hope never to find ourselves in such situations. Advice ranges from protecting yourself in conflict zones or from theft at the airport to dealing with illness or injury & finding food or shelter when lost. There’s even advice on how to foil a UFO abduction – seems absurd, but one never knows these days! An appendix gives advice on travel strategies & gestures to use & avoid. ...

In this highly illustrated, interactive (Choose Your Own Adventure) Worst-Case Scenario title, you are trying to become the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest. You will make choices about your own survival & then experience the consequences of those choices. Will you summit Mount Everest & return to base camp safely, successfully earning the title of the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest? Or will you be forced to turn back early, or worse...? Only you can determine your own fate. ...

In this ultimate adventure, join the youngest crew of astronauts ever to make the trip to Mars! You`ll be faced with real dangers & decisions, & your choices will determine your fate on the Red Planet. Will you achieve your mission & return home to Earth safely, successfully earning the title of the youngest astronaut to make it to Mars? Or will you be forced to turn back early? Only you can determine your own fate. There are twenty-two endings to this adventure, but just one will lead to the ultimate success. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...