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When Technology Fails Book

SKU: 392455

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Comprehensive guide for emergency preparedness with practical low-tech solutions.

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Description
Hailed as "a marvelous guidebook for helping us through the worst of times, and even improving on the best of times." - Thom Hartmann, syndicated radio host and author

Product Highlights
Get the tools you need to be prepared for unexpected emergencies! This huge, encyclopedic book contains topics on:
  • Supplies and preparations
  • Energy, heat and power
  • Low-tech medicine and healing
  • Water quality and treatment
  • Food, shelter and first aid
  • Low-tech chemistry
  • Stein, 8-1/2" x 11", 493 pp.

Details
Contents
  1. An Introduction to Self-Reliance
  2. Present Trends, Possible Futures
  3. Supplies and Preparations
  4. Emergency Measures for Survival
  5. Water
  6. Food: Growing, Foraging, Hunting and Storing
  7. Shelter and Buildings
  8. First Aid
  9. When High-Tech Medicine Fails
  10. Clothing and Textiles
  11. Energy, Heat and Power
  12. Metalworking
  13. Utensils and Storage
  14. Better Living Through Not-So-Modern Chemistry
  15. Engineering, Machines and Materials
  16. Making the Shift to Sustainability
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