| The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life |  | Author: Ben Sherwood
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  156 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,773
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
Publication Date: January 22, 2009
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Product Description
Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to your life? How can birthdays be hazardous to your health?
THE SURVIVORS CLUB
Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do some people bound back and others give up? How can I become the kind of person who survives and thrives?
The fascinating, hopeful answers to these questions are found in THE SURVIVORS CLUB. In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, this book reveals the hidden side of survival by combining astonishing true stories, gripping scientific research, and the author's adventures inside the U.S. military's elite survival schools and the government's airplane crash evacuation course.
With THE SURVIVORS CLUB, you can alsodiscover your own Survivor IQ through a powerful Internet-based test called the Survivor Profiler. Developed exclusively for this book, the test analyzes your personality and generates a customized report on your top survivor strengths.
There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But THE SURVIVORS CLUB can give you an edge when adversity strikes.
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 My thoughts on The Survivor's Club September 9, 2010
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Just finished The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood. It was quite interesting and gave me pause on how I would react in a dire emergency. I found the references very well done - though I admit I didn't try to check them. An enjoyable read and information that everyone should have - have passed it onto my "young adult" children.
Fascinating Reading August 13, 2010
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
Some of the stories in here are beyond incredible, but all true. I found myself time-after-time putting the book down and picturing what was going on during one of these disasters than people lived through and what happened to them during and after their amazing ordeal.
In addition to inspiring individual stories, the book is extremely thought-provoking. Are people who survive when everyone around them is dying just plain lucky? Did God intervene? Did their attitudes make the difference between life and death? Did their attention to detail or intelligence mean anything?
Where's the safest place to be if you had a heart attack? What's the best seat in an airplane, if it's going to crash? How much time do you have to escape a burning building, airplane, a car, a train? What are you odds of survival on a number of things?
There are so many topics in here, so much fascination information and so many dramatic, incredible stories of survival, you spend hours just shaking your head in amazement reading this book.
A must read if this subject interests you August 9, 2010
vks
My voracious reading habits focus on an obsession with non-fiction survivor accounts. There are many excellent books written about true heroes - both historical and current, and accounts of unimaginable circumstances from which people survive.
I count The Surviors Club amongst them - in fact, at the top of the list. Most tell the story of a survival, but not only does Sherwood accomplish that, with mulitple accounts, he offers a valid analysis of why and how it was accomplished. If nothing else, I feel stronger and more able to be counted as a survivor should an unknown situation present itself in my future.
vks
Must read August 7, 2010
Daniel Jonathan Bingham
The information found in this book could one day save my life. The book helped to identify my strengths & weaknesses.
 Little Info Here Should Be New to Readers August 4, 2010
Donna Goldman (South Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't understand all the 5 star ratings for this rather ordinary and unremarkable book. Sure it contains good information but only if you haven't been paying attention to may others who have previously provided the same information in a multitude of forms (e.g. books, TV, radio). The only good thing about this book was the very clever title and cover.
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