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| View Larger Image | PREPAREDNESS NOW!: An Emergency Survival Guide for Civilians and Their Families
by Aton Edwards
| | List Price: | $15.95 | | Price: | $10.85 | | You Save: | $5.10 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 74416 | | Studio: | Process | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 340 | | Publication Date: | May 15, 2006 | | Publisher: | Process |
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- Paperback: 340 pages
- Author: Aton Edwards; Publisher: Process (May 15, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 097608225X
- ISBN-13: 978-0976082255
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Product Description
"It's a great thing that we have Aton Edwards to help inform and prepare the public." -- Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone. "Aton's work is tremendously important. What we need to do for the next round is to get ourselves prepared. This can help us get it done. How can we afford to have so many adults that aren't prepared to face anything?" -- Chuck D., author, musician, and host of "On the Real" "As good or better than any operator I've worked with in my years with the special forces in Vietnam. If he can't make us safer, no one can." -- Richard Muldrow, US Army and Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM-Ref.) PREPAREDNESS NOW! is an essential guide for those who want to be ready and able to handle the new realities of 21st Century life: extreme weather, global warming, bird flue, terrorist attacks, and more. This book empowers individuals and communities to take care of themselves and each other in the face of any emergency, and build more sustainable lifestyles along the way. Packed with checklists, resources, and step-by-step instructions, PREPAREDNESS NOW! has everything from home, office and car preparedness to information on Buckminster Fuller and building disaster-resistant geodesicdomes. PREPAREDNESS NOW! is written by one of the most experienced experts in the field. Author Aton Edwards is Executive Director of the NYC-based non-profit organization, International Preparedness Network (IPN). IPN has worked with the Red Cross, Center for Disease Control, NYPD, and other organizations to train thousands domestically and overseas to prevent and respond to emergencies and disasters. This manual delivers pratical advice on: - Building your emergency kits for home, car, and office. - Water Quality Control and Storage. - Emergency Shelter, Power, Lighting and Heating. - Emergency Transportation, Communications, and Evacuation. - Extreme Weather, Defense against Infectious Diseases. - Chemical, Biowarfare and Nuclear Preparedness. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)
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Shopping list 
This is more of a recommended shopping list than a long term emergency survival guide. Having said that, it does offer more than a few helpful hints if and when disaster strikes. It could be greatly expanded as it mostly caters to those in urban areas; also no mention is given to what may be used as money if calamity strikes the nation at large, or where to get food and water from etc.. Again this is more geared to 'small' scale events like Katrina, California quakes etc. It is nonetheless a great book to have and I did buy a few things after reading it. 5 stars if expanded to cover complete breakdown of America, did enjoy it a lot though. Check out the website for a few more hints.
April 02, 2008 | |
Prepared now!! 
Great product. The lists and explinations are a supurb starting point for anyone who wants to be prepared when bad things happen. The author is very careful to emphasize that physical fitness and acquiring certain skills are key to survival; just good common sense. He also provides web sites and resources for items on his list. I've used all of his lists to build my car, home and personal kits. In an all electronic age, we are VERY reliant on electricity...which gets knocked out when grids are overloaded. Well written and easy to read, I would recommend this book to anyone as an initial intro to self-reliance and disaster preparedness. Be prepared!
March 03, 2008 | |
Limited Value 
While promising, this book has some serious flaws.
In addition to a leftist philisophical and political bent which is out of place among the facts, the urban-focused survival orientation limits the value of the information to non-city dwellers.
Some of the information presented is just factually wrong. For example, his comments about firearms are clearly acquired from someone with limited knowledge of the technical aspects of firearms, and regurgitate a number of misconceptions and urban myths about them. These errors cause me to question the validity of many of his other perspectives, especially when they seem to be politically driven.
There is some good information here, but it must be gleaned from the chaff and outright propogandizing in order to find it. Unfortunately, the reader must already be knowledgable about the subject matter in order to determine preparedness fact from fiction.
The book has merit for those who already posess good survival knowledge, and might make a decent addition to a good preparedness library. A good resource for those living in cities, who will suffer the worst should disaster strike. At the very least, it makes the reader consider personal preparedness planning and take stock of one's degree of readiness.
For a novice who does not live in an urban area, or belong to the Green Party, the book would not be among my top recommendations.
November 28, 2007 | |
Good Information, Crazy Author 
The information found in this book is very useful, exact, correct and spot on. I can find no flaw in the INFORMATION of this book what-so-ever. I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in the subject matter. That said, there is one fatal flaw. Overt Liberalism from the author (which, I guess for Liberals make this a great book!). From claiming to know something bad (i.e. 9-11) was going to happen to the World Trade Centers and warning all his family and friends to stay away as early as Feb. 01, to commenting on Weapons of Mass destruction--saying something along the lines of "real WMD's, not imaginary ones that weren't found in Iraq" the author proves again and again that he's always right and that everyone else (i.e. the government) is always wrong. But, again, the Author's writing style is my only complaint.
October 11, 2007 | |
One of the Best Survival Books Ever
As an M.D. involved in disaster planning, and who lives in a hurricane zone in Florida I have read extensively in the field and this is one of the best survival books I have found. It is not an "arm yourself to the teeth and build a bomb shelter" book. It is a book all Americans should own and read. Practical, sensible advice, and excellent list of quality equipment sources.
July 20, 2007 | |
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