David Borgenicht

From the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series comes expert advice for one of the most extreme situations of all: middle age.

Turn any wedding party into a crack team of wedding survival experts with this funny pocket-sized guide. It s the perfect tool to deal with any day-of disaster. Learn how to: make an emergency cummerbund, revive a guest who has fainted, stop a bad toast, repair a dropped wedding cake, and more! Hand these out to your crew and relax in the knowledge that they can handle even the toughest situations! Series Overview: Worst-Case Scenario: For more than twenty-five years, the Worst-Case Scenario series has been saving the lives, limbs, and sanity of adults and children through expert advice for surviving extreme situations (with real information and humor).

Weddings are stressful, but you ll feel a lot more relaxed if you know you re surrounded by survival experts. This funny and useful book, the perfect size to pop in a clutch or tuck inside a bouquet, will give bridesmaids the knowledge they need to deal with any day-of disaster. Learn how to: fix a broken high heel, revive a guest who has fainted, stop a bad toast, repair a dropped wedding cake, and more! Hand these out to your girls and relax in the knowledge that they can handle even the toughest situations! Series Overview: Worst-Case Scenario: For more than twenty-five years, the Worst-Case Scenario series has been saving the lives, limbs, and sanity of adults and children through expert advice for surviving extreme situations (with real information and humor).

An action-packed, day-to-day guide to surviving a year's worth of peril—from the bestselling authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. Danger! It lurks at every corner—sharks, grid collapse, a sinking car, a malfunctioning parachute. This crucial, illustrated daily calendar from the authors of the internationally bestselling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series is packed with step-by-step guidance and essential knowledge for extreme and everyday scenarios. Because you just never know. 6 x 5 x 1-1/2 inches 316 tear-away pages

You re finally done with the rat race and ready to relax! Your troubles are over or are they just beginning? This humorous and portable guide will steer you through all the dangers retirement can throw at you. Learn how to: Beat seasickness on your round-the-world cruise; Treat road rash from your new motorcycle; Drive a golf cart through a hurricane; Nap under challenging conditions; And, if it all turns out to be too much, ask for your job back. Enjoy the good life while preparing for the worst!

From the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series, a hilarious and highly portable manual for surviving any car disaster, from hurricane weather to high-speed pursuits. Getting into a car is the most dangerous thing most of us do every day. And it's not just the risk of an accident. What if there's a blizzard? What if your brakes malfunction? What if you're stuck in traffic and you need to pee? Good news: The Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Driving is here to help. Learn how to: Evade a pursuer on the highwayEscape from a trunkDrive down a flight of stairsBail out at high speedsAnd more Keep one in your glove compartment at all times

An action-packed, day-to-day guide to surviving a year's worth of peril—from the bestselling authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series.Danger! It lurks at every corner—sharks, grid collapse, a sinking car, a malfunctioning parachute. This crucial, illustrated daily calendar from the authors of the internationally bestselling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series is packed with step-by-step guidance and essential knowledge for extreme and everyday scenarios. Because you just never know. 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches 314 tear-away pagesPerfect for: Kids, teens, and adults feeling a little anxious and in search of expert survival advice on extreme to everyday scenarios Fans of the Worst-Case Scenario book series Gift-givers seeking a funny and practical calendar People looking for clever office or desk decor

Bryter på ett humoristiskt sätt ner alla typer av besvärliga situationer (även de osannolika), baserat på råd från amerikanska utrikesdepartementets tjänstemän, filmstuntmän och järnvägsingenjörer, bland andra experter. National Geographic Varning! Fara lurar runt varje hörn. Blixtnedslag. Björnar. Cybermobbning. Drönarattacker. Förfrysning. Laviner. Sjunkande bilar. Från att brottas med en giftorm och att identifiera en bomb till att landa ett flygplan om piloten svimmar av här finns experternas samlade steg för steg-instruktioner för när livet plötsligt tar en vändning till det sämre. Den här överlevnadsguiden behövs nu mer än någonsin och levererar roliga, men verkliga, råd som du behöver få koll på.Här får du hjälp med både uråldriga utmaningar (laviner, björnar, att göra upp eld) och mer moderna prövningar (extremt väder, fake news, att tappa mobilen i toaletten). Överlevnadshandboken levererar actionfyllda nödinstruktioner för ångestfyllda tider!Joshua Piven har blivit jagad av knivsvingande motorcykelrånare (han lyckades fly), strandad på en stollift under en tjutande snöstorm (han blev räddad), och har en gång haft en njursten (den kom ut). David Borgenicht har hittills överlevt möten med skallerormar, björnar och bergslejon (nåja, åtminstone sett dem), rån, bedragare och sina egna tonårsbarn.

The best-selling (and wildly hilarious) Worst-Case Scenario series is back with 40 extreme survival tips for kids ages 8 to 12, great for adventurous fans of the I Survived series. Erupting volcanoes. Ravenous sharks. Pooping in the woods. The great outdoors is a weird, wonderful, and scare-your-pants-off terrifying place. Whether you re freezing in the Arctic, escaping quicksand in the jungle, or befriending tarantulas in the desert, this guide has you covered. (Figuratively, not literally. We didn t have the budget for a blanket-sized book.) Bust this guide open and discover step-by-step instructions for surviving the most extreme situations that Planet Earth can throw at you. Learn how to: Dodge a charging rhinoceros. Ride out a sandstorm. Navigate by the stars. Build a snow cave. Cross piranha-infested waters. And much more! Yeah, the outdoors can be scary, but you ve got this indispensable, laugh-out-loud survival guide. So what are you waiting for? Get out there!

More than 200 clever tricks to help stubborn kids go to bed, clean their room, take a bath, and more without tears or fights. As a parent, you want nothing more than to keep your child fed, clothed, clean, healthy, and safe. Your kid, meanwhile, wants nothing more than to eat junk, go nude, stay up all night, and fall down a well. Begging doesn t work. Bribery isn t sustainable. You don t want to shout. But what are you supposed to do? It s time to get sneaky. The Sneaky Parent offers a full playbook of clever ploys for beating kids at their own game. With the strategies outlined in this book, you can gently guide kids towards positive choices while letting them think they re the ones in control. Learn how to: Boost oral hygiene by pretending a toothbrush is a paintbrush for teeth. Render long plane trips painless with a game of 'name that cloud'. Calm separation anxiety by developing fun ways to wave goodbye. And dozens of other clever tactics, tricks, and games. With a little benevolent sneakiness, your child will enthusiastically try new foods, embrace bath time, go to sleep on a schedule, and other necessary but unpopular life skills. The best part? They ll be sure it was their idea.

It’s the apocalypse—now what? Prepare for the end of civilization with the help of the world’s best-selling survival guide series and learn how to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.The doomsday clock is seconds from midnight. Extinction-level dangers draw closer with every tick. But fear not! Here is an indispensable guide to preparing for and surviving the ultimate in worst-case scenarios, with humor to lighten the load. You can’t panic if you’re laughing.Dozens of survival experts provide illustrated, step-by-step instructions on: How to Pack a Go Bag in Thirty MinutesHow to Make Your Bunker Feel Like HomeHow to Survive an Alien InvasionHow to Defeat a Robot UprisingHow to Survive the Next PandemicHow to Fend Off a Hostile ClanHow to Eat Insects and RodentsHow to Rebuild a Utopian SocietyYou've gotten this far. Don't let zombies take you out.

Danger! It lurks at every corner. Quicksand. Sharks. Cyberbullies. Super-Flu. From wrestling an alligator to evading drones to landing a plane if the pilot passes out, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help with expert, illustrated, step-by-step instructions for life's sudden turns for the worst. Needed now more than ever, this revised and expanded edition—published on the international bestseller's 20th anniversary—delivers frightening and funny real advice readers need to know fast. With crucial information added from across the Worst-Case series and 20 all-new scenarios for twenty-first century threats (extreme weather, "fake news," dropping a cell phone in the toilet), this action-packed hardcover handbook brings emergency instruction for anxious times.

Uses a humorous approach to provide kids with helpful advice in case of strange or supernatural experiences. Chapters cover aliens and space travel, monsters, werewolves, ghosts, unicorns, mermaids, dragons, and more. Appendix includes a field guide to magical creatures and forms to document strange sightings.

Uses a humorous approach to provide helpful advice for coping with Earth's most dangerous environments. Chapters cover survival at sea, in the mountains, in the desert, in the jungle, in the arctic, and on safari. Appendix includes guides for eating extreme foods and finding direction without a compass.

Homework, hormones, heartache...middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facingor just about to facethis big transitional time in school and life. The handbook is packed with funny-but-useful tips for the trickiest situations that crop up in middle school, like taking charge of a too-busy homework schedule, dealing with a cold shoulder from a friend who has suddenly become just too cool, avoiding common e-mail and cell phone disasters, and more.

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: jam-packed 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. The essential companion for a perilous age. Because you never know?