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The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Man Skills
2010
First Published
3.65
Average Rating
512
Number of Pages
Following the success of The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (more than 150,000 copies sold!), this ruggedly handsome hardcover collection brings together new and classic advice from Worst-Case experts to help readers master the manly arts from wrestling an alligator to calming a crying child to extinguishing backyard barbeque fires with all the contents fully searchable on an accompanying CD.
Avg Rating
3.65
Number of Ratings
168
5 STARS
25%
4 STARS
34%
3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
4%
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Author

Joshua Piven
Joshua Piven
Author · 23 books

Josh Piven is a television writer and producer, speechwriter, playwright, and the author or co-author of more than twenty non-fiction and humor books, including the worldwide best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. He wrote the teleplay and serves as producer of Don The Beekeeper, a half-hour children’s TV show about honeybees and urban beekeeping. His most recent stage play, a holiday farce called No Reservations, had its world premiere in November-December, 2013, to great success and critical acclaim. More information. His next play is Muddled. Josh likes to refer to himself in the third person. Piven is perhaps best known for his famously tongue-in-cheek worst-case books, books that offer readers real-world (though often hilarious) advice on surviving worst-case situations that they might—but hopefully won’t—encounter: everything from “how to fend off a shark” and “how to wrestle an alligator” to “how to avoid the Freshman 15” and “how to determine if your date is an axe murderer.” Piven is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania—and living proof that English majors aren't necessarily failures.

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