Apocalypse Ready

An expertly curated compilation of over one hundred years of officially published, step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from government archives around the world. Global warming continues to cause extreme weather events and threatens to destroy the planet, while the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that disaster can manifest at any time. These and other possible impending catastrophes have caused rising levels of collective fear in nations around the world, and increasing demand for governments to plan, prepare, and avert calamity for its citizens. In Apocalypse Ready, Taras Young collects official survival and emergency documents from the United States to the Soviet Union offering essential survival tips and invaluable life-saving strategies for every possible cataclysmic eventuality. Organized into four broad disaster-themed scenarios—“Pandemics,” “Natural Disasters,” “Nuclear War,” and “Alien Invasion”—this unique collection displays a plethora of questionable survival advice and scare tactics from all around the globe for response to every disaster scenario that has occurred or been imagined since the early twentieth century. From posters showing how to minimize your chances of catching the Spanish flu to documents indicating how to identify aliens, this carefully curated selection of disaster-planning documents reveals differences in public attitudes toward impending catastrophe since the 1910s. Informative commentary by Young provides historical contexts for the official advice, exploring how our universal preoccupation with apocalypse has manifested globally, and explanatory captions clarify the messages contained in the survival documents.

A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It’s always felt that way. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate. Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.

Global economic meltdown. Widespread natural disaster. Disease pandemic. It doesn't matter the cause. In the coming Dark Age, the delicate supply infrastructures of modern society will collapse, and you will no longer have access to groceries, gasoline . . . or guns. The time to assemble your arsenal is now, says author Jim Ballou, and here he guides you through the many crucial factors you must consider when selecting firearms for a post-apocalyptic future. Some of the topics he covers include: What are the five basic questions you must ask yourself when selecting any handgun, rifle, or shotgun for the apocalypse? How can you squeeze surprisingly useful, life-saving service from older or low-value firearms? What vital support gear must you have when you are forced to become your own gun shop? Which types of ammunition will not only serve your survival needs, but also be available in quantity when ordinary sources run dry? What roles can multi-caliber guns, backup guns, and alternative weapons to conventional firearms play in your survival plans? What practical modifications can you make to your guns to make them more suitable for post-apocalypse survival? Given how critical weapons will become in an age when you may have to hunt for meat or defend yourself against numerous post-apocalyptic threats, the more you must force yourself to consider all the pertinent factors now . . . while you still can. Because when the world starts to crumble, you won't have time to select firearms—that's when you lock and load!

Middle school seems like a fight to survive for most students. There’s a sense of freedom, a sense of fear, and a sense of resentment stemming from trying to navigate a world that seems to want to tear them apart. Teachers seem to be oozing with resentment, blinded by their drive to make students more like them. Vic and Flo are two besties on the verge of the biggest test of their young lives as a spirit week assembly turns deadly when students are attacked by zombified teachers. They find themselves embarking on a pass-fail test to escape and find answers. Along the way they meet more young survivors: C.J, Connor, Izzy, and Leanne. As they travel together piecing together clues hidden in their survival stories, one thing becomes clear: zombies aren’t their only obstacle. As they travel in search of supplies and somewhere to call home, they push to find answers about the hordes. What makes the zombies blind? Why do they all look like they’re sweating? How does the infection spread? The one question they can’t answer is: what started it all?

The field of education has become a much more dangerous and uncertain world to work in. With threats such as financial cutbacks, pandemics, school shootings, and natural disasters looming over the heads of educators, the need to be ready for the ever-changing world of teaching is more vital now than ever before. Teacher Like a Prepper is a self-development book for educators such as teachers, school administrators, and school support staff as well as people who just want to be better prepared for emergencies situations (preppers). Preppers, sometimes referred to as survivalists, are individuals believes a disaster or emergency is likely to occur in the future and makes active preparations for it. They do this through such acts as stockpiling food, equipment, and other supplies as well as receiving additional training and practicing that training to keep their skills sharp. The book is designed to aid educators in being better prepared not only for emergencies, but also for the everyday occurrences that come with teaching children.

The end of the world is coming. Are you going to be ready when the sh*t goes down? Here’s a quick checklist: Have you dug up your wife’s rose garden and built a fallout shelter, equipped with a prison where you can lock up annoying family members? Have you mapped out an escape route to your safe zone? Is there a vehicle of death sitting in your garage? Have you filled your go bag with all the needed instruments, including waterproof matches, postapocalyptic goggles, and at least one sexual party favor? Have you learned how to milk various types of animals, including a giraffe? You need this book more than you even know. Without it, you’re roadkill. Lucky for you, Forrest Griffin is the perfect apocalyptic chaperone. From spotting the signs of the global downfall to alienating your loved ones now so they don’t come looking for you after, to hot-wiring a car to starting a religion in your own image, Griffin provides you with all the hot knowledge you need to survive the downfall of civilization. Simply put, this is the most important book about the apocalypse that you will ever read by a UFC fighter from Georgia.

Does it seem to you that everything in the world around you is shaking? Well, it is! Are you asking, "Why am I so unsettled? Why do I sense such foreboding in my circumstances? Why do I seem to be so scared about what I do not even understand?" Then this book is for you. Discover in this book answers for your "whys". There are answers that may surprise you. You can live in peace in the midst of chaos, if you so choose. This book can be used as a Bible Study to find truthful answers to your questions. You can also send people to this book who are asking you questions that you cannot answer about end-time events. Other books by this author are Shekinah Glory Reveals Wisdom, The Voice of The Lord Speaks and Israel's Glory Unveiled. All her books are available on Amazon and other venues. Author can be contacted by email at [email protected] Author's website: http://angelfire.com/bc3/heartofgod

The crew of the USCG Buoy Tender Sassafras, out of Honolulu, has embodied the Coast Guard's motto: Always Ready, in every mission, every circumstance, every crazy thing Mother Nature and the US Government has seen fit to dump in their laps. They've been doing so much, with so little, for so long, they feel ready to face anything. But then, they've never had to face a zombie apocalypse.You're Never Ready for a Zombie Apocalypse follows this group of misfits as they confront the unthinkable, with courage, heart, humor, and (wherever possible) deadly weaponry.