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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse

A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times

Author: Athena Aktipis  

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

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

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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.

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"If Aktipis seems too cheery, that's the point. 'Having fun is an extremely important tool, ' she writes. "We need each other, we need art, we need opportunities for self-expression and communication, and we need to feel embedded in a community that has a stake in our well-being.' This is a weird, weirdly encouraging book from a scholar who understands the risks of volcanoes, killer robots, militarized pathogens, space aliens, nuclear weapons, wildfires and the greenhouse effect, but still she refuses to be terrified into inaction. Signing off, she writes, 'Don't fret. This is just the beginning.' "
--Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club
"Terrific. Aktipis is a talented writer, with an engaging style, sly humor, and an ability to incorporate remarkably diverse sources into a fun and information-packed book."--Robert Cialdini, New York Times best-selling author of Influence
"This feel-good book about the end of human existence comes just in time to remedy the winter doldrums. The basic message is yes, we are living in apocalyptic times, but we should calm our fears and prepare for whatever comes. Aktipis is by turns witty, insightful, reassuring, silly, and always interesting. Aktipis' advice seems a sensible response to it all. Teens will also enjoy both the topics and tone of Aktipis' survival guide."

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" 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

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About the Author

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Workman Publishing | Workman Adult
Published
11th April 2024
Pages
256
ISBN
9781523518258

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