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Learn how to survive just about anything!


Read my latest column.
 Now Available.





 
Worst-Case Scenario with Bear Grylls is now on the Discovery Channel!


Green up your home and your lifestyle with THIS GREEN HOUSE! Now on sale.

 

70 earth-friendly, do-it-yourself projects to make any home an eco-castle, from basement root cellar to green roof, and every room in between.

 

 

 

 

Watch the short for more information. Read a review.

 

 

 

 

 

Other books:

 

 

 

BAD VS. WORSE

 

Ever imagined things going really, really wrong? 

 

Me too. (And I don't mean Iraq, though it counts.)

 

What happens when you have to choose the lesser of two evils, like who you'd rather have over for a steak dinner, Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer? Or who you'd rather perform at your son's bar mitzvah, Ozzy or Marilyn Manson? Or which would make a better housepet, Godzilla or Jaws? Or who would make a better summer camp counselor, Dick Cheney or Osama bin Laden?

 

It's called a lose-lose decision. And BAD VS. WORSE explores dozens of these impossible conundrums, and helps you decide the undecideable.

 

Read more.

 

Buy the book!

 

 

 

 

Want to quit your boring 9-5 (or 8-6) job and do something cool with your life? Who doesn't? Boring people, that's who. But not you! So, read about the book that inspired a generation to follow their passions: THE ESCAPE ARTISTS

 

THE ESCAPE ARTISTS: TRUE STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO TURNED THEIR OBSESSIONS INTO PROFESSIONS, now in bookstores. Click on the cover for more info.

 

Order it from Amazon.

 

Read the press release. And the first chapter (PDF).


 


Books, Books, A Whole Series of Books . . .


I'm the New York Times best-selling author of 15 books. Read more.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Try Your LUCK . . .
 
Think you're lucky? Unlucky? Read about people who had a lot, of both. Read more.