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Field Guide to the Apocalypse : Movie Survival Skills for the End of the World
Field Guide to the Apocalypse Movie Survival Skills for the End of the World
Author: Meghann Marco, Dominic Bugatto (Illustrator)
the end is near:
Surviving the apocalypse is one thing. Enjoying life after most of civilization is wiped out -- that's entirely different. Maybe you can outrun an avalanche, or escape a burning building, but can you really cut it after the unthink...  more »


 


Obviously, it's not going to be as easy as you thought to come out of Armageddon as the new ruling king of the world. Any chump off the street could be lucky enough to have the immunity to survive the all-of-humanity-killing disease, or be the one dude who happens to make it through a meteor strike. But not everyone will know what clothes to wear to intimidate, or what kind of vehicle you want to be driving in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Not everyone will have the sense to discern whether their food is, in fact, people.




You can survive the apocalypse without this book. But the apocalypse isn't the problem: It's what happens afterward. You against the other people left in the world. You'd better be prepared. With illustrations to assist you.


  • Introduction: What Apocalypse?    
  • Part I: The false utopia --
  • Culture, sex, and fashion in the false utopia --
  • How to get off mind controlling drugs --
  • How to conceal free will --
  • How to recognize a dream world --
  • My food is people --
  • How not to be replaced by a robot --
  • Part II: The neo-medieval world --
  • Mine shaft social dynamics --
  • How to be a rebel in the post-apocalyptic wasteland --
  • Dress to intimidate --
  • How to choose an intimidating vehicle --
  • Post-Apocalyptic guide to self-defense --
  • How to be a warlord --
  • How to convert a 70's muscle car to run on bathtub gin urban survival --
  • You are the omega man, or, how to synthesize a species saving serum from your own mucus --
  • The modern girl's guide to looting --
  • Sudden severe climate change --
  • How not to die in the desert wasteland --
  • Ice age survival --
  • Damn dirty apes --
  • Part III: The advanced technological dystopia --
  • Neo noir --
  • Defining your future self --
  • The detective --
  • Sprechen sie Nihongo? --
  • The hacker --
  • I, replicant --
  • Dealing with extraterrestrials --
  • Robots --
  • The official dystopia visitor's guide --
  • Part IV:  Apocalypse then --
  • How to stop an alien invasion --
  • How to save the world --
  • Massive coordinated animal attack --
  • On giant insects and other mutant terrors --
  • Mr. Apocalypse.
ISBN-13: 9780689878770
ISBN-10: 068987877X
Publication Date: 5/31/2005
Pages: 204
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Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Book Type: Paperback
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