In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann introduces you to the various types of knives and helps you choose the best survival knife.

In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann explains how the body loses heat and how a proper shelter helps prevent that loss.

Why are so many apparently healthy people suddenly dying? While the autopsy reports from the Medical Examiner’s Office have ruled most of the deaths due to natural causes, a veteran Inspector senses that a serial killer may be lose in the city.To see if his intuition is correct, he assigns Nora Tholey, a relatively new officer who comes from a ‘cop family’ and whose brother is an Assistant DA, to review the autopsy reports and the histories of the deceased to see if their deaths ar...

In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann teaches you the basics of compass and map reading. He also describes types of maps and compasses and how they can be used to navigate your way back.

In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann teaches you how to select a fire site and how to start and maintain a fire.

In this excerpt from Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need, John D. McCann introduces you to survival kits, survival clothing and basic skills to survive.

Your Kit, Your SurvivalWhen an unexpected emergency situation rears its ugly head, will you be up to the challenge? "I wasn't prepared for that!" will no longer be a valid response with the survival-kit-building methods in this book from survival expert John McCann. This fully revised and expanded second edition includes all new information for building bug out bags, get-home bags and vehicle kits that are fully customized to meet your family's specific survival ne...

Having a survival kit is not enough - You must know what to do with it!An emergency can arise at anytime, and everyone from the average commuter to the risk-taking sportsman can benefit from knowing basic survival skills. Armed with the techniques in Survival Skills You Need, you will be prepared to survive.Building on the essentials presented in his first book, Build the Perfect Survival Kit, author John D. McCann details the survivor men...

This story brings together divers and the most playful creature in the ocean - the dolphin - and tells about how everyone needs to be alert even whilst having fun.

In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the Modern Corporation explains how and why large companies have changed their organisational structures and philosophies, focusing in particular on how these changes affect the careers of middle managers. Based on in-depth interviews with over two hundred middle and senior managers working in large corporations in the USA,...

In looking for an approach to teaching literature in high school, teachers largely fall back on the methods that they had experienced as students. These practices often involve a teacher assigning a complex work of literature and then assessing students’ reading through in-class recitations or quizzes. Teachers typically dominate the discourse and sometimes take charge of the task by reading aloud whole swathes of texts to their students. We know from our own experience as teachers, superv...

Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions and the broader issue of sustainability. All the information that readers need to use food web analyses as a tool for understanding and quantifying transition processes is provided. Advancing the idea of food webs as complex adaptive systems, readers are challenged to rethink how changes in environmental conditions affect t...