New Releases by Joshua Piven

Provides practical information for would-be space tourists, describing different types of flights and covering flight training, the launch, emergencies, and such aspects as sleeping in weightless environments and using the vacuum toilet --

The college years are a time of noble pursuit of knowledge, self-betterment—and unending peril! Students are at risk from the moment they receive their acceptance letters. Fortunately, the authors of the phenomenally best-selling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series have come to the rescue, offering all-new, hands-on, step-by-step instructions for surviving the worst that higher education has to offer, on campus and off. Learn how to identify a party school, engineer a hookup, survive "the spins," and escape a stadium riot. Discover the best way to sleep in class, pass a test you haven''t studied for, avoid the "freshman fifteen," and pull an all-nighter. With practical advice for avoiding laundry and identifying unsafe institutional food, along with an appendix of excuses for missed deadlines and a back-up diploma, this is truly required reading for all college students—and a perfect high school graduation present.

Joshua Piven explores and explains incredible stories of good and bad luck, revealing how we think of luck, and what factors affect it.

Een humoristische en praktische eerste hulp voor serieuze en minder serieuze problemen in de decembermaand.

I felt, intuitively, that luck exists. It’s like capitalism: For better or for worse, and whether you believe in it or not, luck is inescapable. —from As Luck Would Have It While cowriting the books in the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, Joshua Piven came across dozens of people with tremendously compelling stories of triumph (or misfortune), seemingly against all odds and logic. When they were asked what they had in common, invariably their answer was: good luck, or not enough of it. The beneficiary of his own brand of extraordinary luck in publishing, Piven decided to take a closer look at how this phenomenon plays a part in success and survival. As Luck Would Have It offers a fascinating survey of the phenomenon, presented through incredible first- person stories: the swimming pool repairman who had only a hundred-dollar bill to pay for his hot dog, asked for his change in lottery tickets, and won $180 million; the woman who survived a plane crash at sea; the teller who was struck by lightning while at his window inside the bank; the guy who invented the Pet Rock. Weaving the subjects’ own beliefs about their experiences with compelling research on chance, probability, and luck psychology, As Luck Would Have It also includes research on how to prepare for luck, how to deal with it when it arrives, and how to make the choices that will help us benefit from luck. Mesmerizing, by turns hilarious and harrowing, As Luck Would Have It offers a series of scenarios that are at once unimaginable and vividly real.

A mille lieues des kits de survie pour baroudeurs, ce guide pratique réunit une mine d''explications illustrées et de conseils d''experts réellement utiles, qui vous permettront d''affronter le danger ou d''échapper au pire, avant qu''il ne soit trop tard ! Encaisser un coup de poing. Démarrer une voiture sans clé de contact. Faire fuir un requin. Mettre au monde un bébé dans un taxi. Soigner une blessure par balle. Echapper à un taureau qui charge. Survivre à la morsure d''un serpent venimeux. La plupart de ces situations ne vous tomberont probablement jamais dessus. Probablement. Mais le jour où cela se produira, mieux vaudra avoir lu ce livre ! C''est sans doute ce qui lui a valu un énorme succès de librairie aux Etats-Unis, où sa parution a suscité un véritable phénomène de société. Avec l''aide du journaliste Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, auteur du Petit Livre des questions stupides, a consulté toutes sortes d''experts pour écrire ce livre : cascadeurs, médecins, toreros, moniteurs de plongée...