SURVIVAL SKILLS
SUPPLEMENTARY COURSES AND RESOURCES
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1. HOME SAFETY AND FIRST AID
(See listing below.)
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2. DISASTER READINESS
(See listing below.)
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3. URBAN SURVIVAL
TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE BOOKS
The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman
Harvill (HarperCollins Publisher, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB, UK). 1991, ISBN 0-00-272164-3, paperback. [Comment: This 320-page book provides a excellent comprehensive course on how to survive in modern cities and urban situations. It covers pollution, radiation, body care, chemical hazards, drug abuse, stress, city violence, natural disasters, a city survival kit, safety around buildings, electricity, gas, liquid and solid fuels, water, securing a home, pets, use of handyman tools and equipment. It has a large section on poisons, fire, disasters, health, self-defense and how to secure your home from thieves and attack. It contains a wealth of information about safety when traveling, and even provides counsel on what to do if arrested. One section is all about protecting yourself from urban terrorism. Anyone living in a large city may want to take time to look through this book.]
A Sigh of Relief: The First-Aid Handbook for Childhood Emergencies (4th Edition) by Martin I. Green
Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-35180-X. [Comment: This a profusely illustrated, very well-organized, step-by-step, 384 large page paperback covering everything from bites to bicycle safety, drownproofing to drug overdoses, chicken pox to choking. It has a very useful "quick-access" emergency index on the back cover that tells you where to find what to do in the most common emergency situations. As with all emergency training material, one should study over the material before it is needed.]
TAPES AND VIDEOS
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Dr. Heimlich's Home First Aid Video (video, 36 minutes)
[Comment: This is an excellent training video that should be reviewed periodically.]
Plan to Get Out Alive (video, 30 minutes)
[Comment: This video presents a realistic picture of what happens during a fire and what measures to take to increase your chances of getting out alive.]
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
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4. WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE BOOKS
The SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman
Harvill (HarperCollins Publisher, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB, UK), 12.99; ISBN 0002171856. [Comment: This best seller, 288-page, well-illustrated book on survival is a complete guide on how to survive in the wild, under all kinds of conditions. Developed for the Special Air Services (SAS) of the British Army, its topics include: How to Survive (readiness, kits, needs, water), Strategies for Survival (accidents, polar, mountains, seashore, islands, deserts, tropics), Food (edible plants, animal foods, hunting, fishing, animal tracks), Camp Craft (building a shelter, making and using fire, survival meals, organizing a campsite, ropes and knots), Reading the Signs (map reading, direction finding, weather signs), On the Move (when to break camp, planning your route, tackling the terrain, sledges and rafts), Health ( first aid, treatment, diseases, cold-climate hazards, natural medicine, poisonous snakes), Survival at Sea (man overboard, survival afloat, making a landfall), Rescue (signals and signaling, rescue techniques), Disasters (drought, flood, fire, gases and chemicals, hurricanes and earthquakes, nuclear incidents).]
Back to Basics -- How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills
Readers Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY, 1981, ISBN 0895770865. [Comment: This 456-page hardcover book teaches lost skills from the pioneer days of America. The book is broken into six major parts: 1. Land: Buying it -- Building on it. 2. Energy from wood, water, wind and sun. 3. Raising your own vegetables, fruit, and livestock. 4. Enjoying your harvest the year round. 5. Skills and crafts for house and homestead. 6. Recreation at home and in the wild. Each section is broken down into dozens of other sections, and will teach you everything from making your own dyes, to clothes, to rope, how to kill and prepare game, how to make traps, how to grow and preserve foods, how to build a shelter from an adobe brick home to a log cabin, to emergency shelters, first aid, home remedies, making your own soaps, your own compost, your own everything!]
TAPES AND VIDEOS
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
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5. FARMING BASICS
TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE BOOKS
(No listing available at this time.)
TAPES AND VIDEOS
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Better Homes and Gardens: Landscaping (video, 45 minutes)
[Comment: This video provides a demonstration of simple ways to landscape a garden.]
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
SIM Farm (Windows CD-ROM)
Maxis CD-ROM, ISBN 1-56754-006-6. [Comment: Teaches basic information about raising different crops and animals, as well as the basics of farm economics.]
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