Weight: 600 grams, dimensions: 210 x 127 x 46 mm At any time in life should be surrounded by good advisors. Fortunately, there are always one or the other who feels able to provide us with good advice. Such equipped to deal with the crisis is just a breeze.
In my childhood there were only a relevant guide book. It was called "Secret Tips from Donald Duck. A practical handbook for boys." One can see immediately that the book had to be long before the spelling reform and come out long before gender mainstreaming. I found it a few weeks at home in the attic. I do not remember how old I was, but I had entered my height: 140 cm. In the book you could learn everything about invisible ink, kites, wind speeds and the Gordian knot . Later I thought I use at the U.S. Army Survival Handbook . This was now more juicy topics: survival after a plane crash, determine the direction of the Clock (I have from time to time required for travel) or dealing with sharks in tropical waters.
All these books seem like a pharmacy journal compared to a medical dictionary. Useful, but not very comprehensive. The Austrian Karl Leopold von Lichtenfels has - no surprise with the Name - the task of writing a fruitful lexicon that contains the whole world know about dealing with crises and disasters. Since we are currently in crisis, it is perhaps not difficult to prepare by reading this book for the worst. The market is booming way. Crisis management literature makes checkout. Titles such as "self-sufficiency from the Garden: How his garden, of course, ordered food and healthy harvest" remember " Wholly Earth Catalog " (from 1968) by Stewart Brand, who is considered the precursor of today's Internet search engines. More titles such as "The Big Book of survival techniques. This comprehensive reference work for all who want to act in exceptional situations prevail quickly correct and "show that even today are still books without decent editing on the market but also the importance of" Canned Decisions ", to about. decision stocks pilots train such a decision routines, and then in an emergency almost instinctively to respond.
But how we react as a normal citizen to a crisis? Leopold von Lichtenfels studied astronomy, physics, theology and education in Vienna and realized his book with the help of a scholarship. It was sort of a waste product of an analysis of 350 prophecies of the downfall of the world. It is clear that one be thought makes. His example also shows that promoting science meets sometimes even the right ones.
The book is a kind of "Noah's Ark of survival". This is a little used up. However, it can discover a lot of interesting information. Not everything the author has even checked. He regrets explicitly in his introduction that he has not even verified the existing instructions to cannibalism - to have to arrange for a scientist, a hard lot, their own curiosity petty research ethical concerns.
The book is clearly structured and practical. It begins with a chapter on "Civil Protection for Beginners "and then lists all known threats. are fires, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, etc. This barrenness of war, air raid and nuclear weapons missions signs of a nuclear weapon used, according to the author," very bright burst of light "and" thunder-like rumble. "This is also some discos, but is certainly true. The advice he gives to the survival of atomic explosions seem a bit helpless. Help Reicher is already the list of places where you have a higher chance of survival or the list of places that you should avoid because they are mentioned in the prophecies of doom. There is so much to discover, that, as an almost angry reader to live in such a sheltered world.
contribution to the future of humanity: In this case more than obvious. This book is a pdf version on any mobile phone!
Karl Leopold von Lichtenfels: Encyclopedia of survival. Handbook for Crisis Times, 2005. Cologne: Anaconda. ISBN 3-938484-26-8
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