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Surviving Survival The Art and Science of Resilience

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ISBN-10: 0393083187

ISBN-13: 9780393083187

Edition: 2012

Authors: Laurence Gonzales

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The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath.The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a fellow of the Santa Fe Institute. His essays are collected in the book House of Pain. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.