Worst-Case Survival Handbooks
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks are a series of guides that have sold over 10 million copies. Written by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, they conceive all kinds of "worst cases" and give survival guidance to get out of them.
The classic book that started it all was The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. It describes itself as an essential companion for a perilous age — jam-packed with how-to, hands-on, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on everything from defusing a bomb to delivering a baby in the back of a cab. This indispensable, indestructible pocket-sized guide is the definitive handbook for those times when life takes a sudden turn for the worse.
Other books in the series include:
- The Worst-Case Scenario Travel Handbook — the kind of glitches, pitfalls, disasters and conundrums one might encounter when sojourning in distant or hostile lands, with sections including how to control a runaway camel, survive in frigid water, pass a bribe, deal with a tarantula, cross a piranha-infested river, and survive a mugging.
- The Worst-Case Scenario Handbook: Life — packing hundreds of instant, real solutions to daily crises in categories covering home, relationships, travel, sports and hobbies, animals and pets, money, school, beauty and fitness, holidays and celebrations, and more.
Other, less outdoorsy guides in the series include Golf, Parenting, Dating and Sex, Work, and University.