The Secure Urbanite Personal Security In The Asphalt And Concrete Jungle

Roughly 80% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Cities offer anonymity to violent criminals as well as to those who value privacy. New digital technologies allow purveyors of hatred and assorted smut to enter our homes and pedophiles use the Internet to bait our children and victimize them. This book is designed to provide you with a tested methodology for being secure in the concrete jungle without slipping into paranoia or denial. You don’t have to be a just another crime statistic! About the Author Jim Wygand has provided seminars on personal security to companies, diplomats, government security personnel, schools, families and individuals for the past 18 years. He has been involved in the negotiation of several kidnaps and has written numerous articles and monographs on the issue of personal security. His method for avoiding violent crime is based on the same techniques employed by law enforcement, CIA, FBI, diplomatic and military personnel, to recognize and deal with possible danger. He has a strong personal reason for writing this book and he wants YOU and YOUR FAMILY to be safe. Jim Wygand is also the author of a novel entitled The Story of Charlie Mullins: The Man in the Middle.

Uniting broad, time-tested security principles and the author’s 35-plus years of experience with international security, intelligence, and foreign affairs, Understanding Personal Security: A Guide for Business Travelers offers a detailed yet practical framework on which to develop personal security awareness and training programs. As a critical resource for any travelers who may need to make fast, smart judgements in high-risk environments, this book helps readers analyze threats, threat actors, and the common adversarial characteristics, as well as the function of risk as a differentiating principle. This versatile text blends abstract organizing principles with street honed instincts, becoming equally valuable to security managers with previous experience and those corporate or non-profit organizations with employees in developing nations.

New Release "Urban Resilience" – Your Ultimate Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Concrete Jungle! When the unexpected strikes in the urban sprawl – are you prepared? The new must-have eBook, "Urban Resilience," is the definitive compendium for anyone looking to fortify themselves against the array of challenges a city can throw at them. This essential guide is designed to equip you with the know-how to navigate, endure, and emerge from urban calamities with confidence and skill. Dive headfirst into an enlightening journey through the urban landscape and discover the sophisticated dance between city infrastructure and potential survival risks. Explore the psychological complexities that disasters breed in dense populations, and arm yourself with a prepared mind, ready to face any emergency. "Urban Resilience" seamlessly guides you through building your personalized urban survival kit, filled with critical everyday carry items and knowledge to help you secure communication and maintain safety. Learn about securing shelter amid steel and stone, and find out how to turn the city's overlooked nooks into lifesaving resources. Unearth the secrets to sourcing water in a concrete desert, and become an expert in identifying what's good to eat when it seems like all hope is lost. Adapt your navigation skills to a chaotic cityscape, and ensure you can find your path to safety when traditional routes are untenable. Self-defense is not just a skill, but a necessity. This eBook will help you pinpoint dangers, harness improvised weapons, and defend yourself amidst ruin. From the echoes of empty streets, discover how to signal for help, and make crucial contact when it's needed most. Prepare to address the pressing reality of fires, explosions, and medical emergencies when help isn’t on the horizon. Learn to power through blackouts and understand how to protect your personal data amidst the digital dangers that surface during a crisis. But that's not all – "Urban Resilience" also brings you ingenious strategies for urban evacuation, the importance of community collaboration, and insights from past urban survival stories. Enhance your preparedness with practical exercises, checklists for both short-term and extended survival, and streamline communication with authorities. Tackle the trials of transportation when systems fail, safeguard your finances amidst turmoil, and even learn urban gardening for self-sustenance. Address challenges unique to urban pet owners, uphold hygiene standards without city services, and know how to utilize modern technology as a lifeline in dire times. Keep your family safe, informed, and ready for anything. "Urban Resilience" isn’t just a book – it’s your lifeline in the asphalt jungle. Whether you're a seasoned city dweller or a concerned newcomer, this guide stands as an invaluable resource for anyone determined to stand strong against the odds. Unlock the secrets to urban survival. Secure your copy of "Urban Resilience" today – and step up to meet any challenge the city has in store!

Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.

Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books