98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent book on survival. I am glad someone finally divides "SURVIVAL" from "Wilderness Living Skills" I would venture to say that most people that provide bad reviews of this book are looking for texts in Wilderness Living Skills. There are other books for that. I use 98.6 for a text book in our Search and Rescue Team training. In reality most victims succumb to hypothermia in survival situations other than trying to catch fish with a shoe string and a safety pin. It is reality at its best, presented in a humorous fashion.
Ted Fisher, Vermilion County Search and Rescue

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Cody Lundin, director of theAboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares hisown brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated newbook on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry,the backyard, or the highway. This is the ultimate book on how tostay alive-based on the principal of keeping the body's coretemperature at a lively 98.6 degrees.

In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses thata human can live without food for weeks and without water forabout three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dipsmuch below or above the 98.6 degree mark, a person can literallydie within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriouslyor even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe coretemperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could saveyour life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellioushumor, and plenty of backcountry expertise.

Watch naturalist Cody Lundin on "DualSurvival" as he uses many of the same skills and techniquestaught in his book: 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your AssAlive.

As seen

in the

10-part series
"Dual Survival"

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The Discovery Channel!

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The Portable Personal Trainer: 100 Ways to Energize Your Workouts and Bring Out the Athlete in You Review

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(More customer reviews)This book contains 100 strategies about how to bring passion and delight to any personal training program and into one's life. Each "tip" is followed by an action item that provides specific recommendations about how to incorporate it into one's fitness program and life. My personal favorite strategy is # 89, "exercise with a dog". This tip talks about how dogs can lift our spirits and keep us living in the moment.The action item suggests you watch your dog closely during the excercise and notice how focused they are on the "thrill of movement"."Passion and performance"; what a wonderful connection! A motivational book that actually has great advice! I highly recommend this "trainer".

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Exercise Your Body.Enjoy Yourself.Experience the Difference.Whatever your fitness level, world-class Iron Man triathlete Eric Harr shares 100 inspirational strategies to uncover your passion and improve your performance.•See each workout as a celebration and an opportunity for personal growth (#5).•Stop counting calories and listen to your body for nutrition information it knows what you need (#22).•Learn why morning workouts are best–and it's not just because you'll burn more body fat (#35) •Experience the power of a "breakthrough session" in your training program (#60).•Find out the five best fat-burning secrets, and why you must be selfish about your fitness.(#s 90 and 91).•Put less effort into your workout for world-class results (#73).•Let go of your ego and rely on your inner strength and confidence (#84).Gleaned from thousands of hours of training and shared wisdom from the very best athletes in the world, these simple lessons will transform your approach to getting fit, staying active, and being alive.

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The Oral History Workshop: Collect and Celebrate the Life Stories of Your Family and Friends Review

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Know Your Family, Know Yourself
I wished I would have had this book before my dad died. He died in 2008 (my mom is in a home in the last stages of Alzheimer's). It was while staying at my parents house clearing out all their belongings I found this unmarked audio cassette tape. It was my dad reading a poem about St. Nick. The tears rolled down my cheeks as I listened. It made me realize how much I missed the sound of his voice.
This book is great to know your family and friends, and to know yourself. In chapter 3, "Ask a Question, Gather a Story, you will find seventy-three pages of questions. Just reading the questions gives you insight not just about the person you would interview, but yourself. The categories of questions alone give insight for painting a picture of one's life. For example, just reading: "The Terrific Twenty questions on page 56-57 is a good way to know people better. There are around forty-three categories and seventy-three pages of questions. There are the usual categories like, Teen Years, Career and unusual categories: "Rites of Passage" category: "Who taught you to ride a bike." "The Wider World," asks, "What kinds of world events were discussed at home." It makes you think about what matters.
This book has everything you need for an oral history, writing a memoir, or just questions to know your family better.
You, or the person being interviewed, may not be famous to the wider world, but I bet you are the heart and world to people who love you, and vice versa. Capture that life, those special moments in a form that can be shared and remembered. Do an oral history of your own life. An oral history is a priceless gift.

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We all know that we should ask now, before it's too late, before the stories are gone forever. But knowing and doing are two different things.Cynthia Hart, author of Cynthia Hart's Scrapbook Workshop, shows exactly how to collect, record, share, and preserve a family member's or a friend's oral history in this practical and inspirational guide. The Oral History Workshop breaks down what too often feels like an overwhelming project into a series of easily manageable steps: how to prepare for an interview; how to become a better listener; why there's always more beneath the surface and the questions to ask to get there; the pros and cons of video recording, including how your subjects should dress so the focus is on their words; four steps to keeping the interview on track; how to be attentive to your subject's energy levels; and the art of archiving or scrapbooking the interview into a finished keepsake.At the heart of the book are hundreds of questions designed to cover every aspect of your subject's history: Do you remember when and how you learned to read? Who in your life showed you the most kindness? What insights have you gained about your parents over the years? Would you describe yourself as an optimist or a pessimist? In what ways were you introduced to music? What is the first gift you remember giving? If you could hold on to one memory forever, what would it be? When the answers are pieced together, a mosaic appears-a living history.

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