This book is intended to be a guide. It will not teach you about skills per se, or impart "secret" knowledge. It is not designed to make you the next star of a survival TV show, nor will it get your name in the paper, or make you famous. You will not learn obscure talents, magical incantations to ward off fictional undead, or a thousand and one different uses for a paperclip. This book will not help you perform surgery on a battlefield, teach you to construct a car from a box of dissimilar metal parts, find bizarre uses for obscure household items, or any of the plethora of nonsense pervading...