This job survival guide offers real-life strategies for dealing with the officious boss. Employees are introduced to the FIRST approach, which advocates flying below the radar, ignoring, retraining, standing one s ground, and talking turkey. Practical tactics are provided for dealing with a wide range of unique and nasty bosses, including Covering Your Butt 101, Making Molehills out of Mountains, and The Straw Man Strategy. These tips will help any employee deal with a difficult boss, whether ignorant, foul, rude, selfish, loud, obnoxious, abrasive, incompetent, impatient, incoherent, embarrassing, smelly, mean-spirited, sexist, or disrespectful, or any combination thereof.

Poisonous snakes, cars careening off of roads into rivers, hurricanes and tornadoes, crashing planes stranding their surviving passengers on deserted uncharted islands, killer bees, gall stones, bad blind dates, eroding urban infrastructure with these and many more everyday dangers it is amazing that anyone manages to live into adulthood.

The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami is the first book to address the phenomenon of the pending wave of commercial debt maturities coming due in the next five years, and the impact those maturities will have on the commercial real estate markets when combined with the historic economic crisis the world is experiencing at this time.

"Believe it or not, I was so impressed with this series of videos that it was one of the reasons I started CampingSurvival.com. Being a former Marine and outdoors enthusiast, I greatly appreciate the excellent job Ron and Karen Hood do of sharing their vast knowledge of camping and survival skills. However, despite all that they teach in every video, I still find them to be very entertaining as well. These videos are so enjoyable that they make me long for Spring even before winter has started! Buy one and I guarantee you'll want to buy them all!"-Tom Sciacca President JHL Supply / CampingSurvival.com

Whether enrolling in college for the first time or returning after an extended absence, this motivational guide provides adult students with a wealth of practical guidance. This thorough handbook explores not only how to succeed academically while balancing family, work, and other important responsibilities, but also addresses how students can learn to confront their fears, increase their self-confidence and resiliency, and create support groups.

3 people marooned on a desert island, only one will survive.

n this survival scenario, hosts Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury find themselves on a deserted island off the coast of Nova Scotia in the dead of winter with plummeting temperatures. Despite the freezing temperatures and his partners objections Cody doesnt give in on his indigenous survival strategy, where he lives his life barefoot. Here, hes only wearing shorts and wool socks. The only items they have are those theyre able to salvage from the life raft they used to reach the island: an emergency mylar blanket, a plastic tarp, two knives and a single rescue flare. They must use these items and their arsenal of skills to find shelter, build a fire and find food and water showing what it takes to survive.

Before Steve Irwin, there was Harry Butler. Experience all 26 Episodes of the Premier Australian Wildlife Series hosted by one of Australias most recognized environmental conservationists. Go into rainforests, through swamps, over mangroves and across the desert for extraordinary footage of exotic species in action with Harry Butler, the first wildlife television host to get up close and personal with nearly every animal in Australia! In the Wild, which aired on the Discovery Channel in the U.S., was one of the most influential wildlife shows on television. Now, you have a front row seat for all 26 original episodes featuring crocodiles, deadly snakes, flying foxes, wombats, kangaroos, beautiful scenery and much, much more!

Episode 6 - Beyond Survival: Humans are animals with similar biological needs to other species. So why have we got art, cinema, sport, literature and philosophy? In the last programme in the series, Desmond Morris examines what the human animal does when it has sorted out its basic needs food, warmth and shelter and has gone beyond mere survival. Morris explores the inventiveness of human behaviour, and comes to some fascinating conclusions.

When confronted with a life-threatening situation, 90% of people freeze or panic, says Gonzales in this exploration of what makes the remaining 10% stay cool, focused and alive. Gonzales (The Hero s Apprentice; The Still Point), who has covered survival stories for National Geographic Explorer, Outside and Men s Journal, uncovers the biological and psychological reasons people risk their lives and why some are better at it than others. In the first part of the book, the author talks to dozens of thrill-seekers-mountain climbers, sailors, jet pilots-and they all say the same thing: danger is a great rush.