A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times

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Athena Aktipis

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse

A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times

Athena Aktipis

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English

Workman Adult
09 July 2024

Social impact of disasters; Natural disasters; Safety in the home

A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises.

From Covid-19 to runaway technology to climate change, we are currently living in an apocalyptic state. And it's nothing new: As a species we've been surviving-and evolving from-apocalypses for as long as we've walked the Earth. So, we're capable of dealing with them, surviving them, and yes, thriving through them. In How to Make Friends and Win the Apocalypse, evolutionary psychologist and zombie enthusiast Athena Aktipis has assembled a lively, unexpected field guide to help readers mentally and practically prepare for current and future apocalyptic events. She begins by teaching readers to overcome the main obstacle in surviving an apocalypse: fear. And then trains them on how to make smart decisions based on historic precedent, human psychology, and brain science. Illustrated with 2-color illustrations throughout that both teach and entertain, the book is organized into five chapters that guide readers through our history with apocalypses, how we're evolved to survive them by cooperating with each other, and how to thrive amidst our multi-apocalyptic reality.

By: Athena Aktipis
Imprint: Workman Adult
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781523518258
ISBN 10: 1523518251
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Athena Aktipis is an evolutionary psychologist and professor at Arizona State. She is the co-Director of the Human Generosity Project, hosts a podcast called Zombified, and is the chair of the Zombie Apocalypse Meeting. Her most recent book is The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Understand and Treat Cancer.

Reviews for A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times

""" At turns irreverent, unexpected, informative, and funnier than it has any right to be, this is a brilliant handbook for preparing for the future, no matter what it brings."" --Andrew Maynard, author of Future Rising "" This guide doesn't sugarcoat our apocalyptish circumstances, but it demands radical optimism by reminding us of who we are: a species built for change, compassion, and survival."" --Rachel Feltman, author of Been There, Done That"