Joshua Piven, Author . Villard $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6055-9
As a former technology journalist who was offered an opportunity to coauthor what became the phenomenally bestselling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook and its five sequels, Piven is no stranger to the vagaries of fortune. This series of short...
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Just in time for summer travel, the hyperimaginative and slightly paranoid authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, 1999's favorite gift book, deliver what will no doubt become popular airport reading for stranded passengers in...
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Joshua Piven, Author, David Borgenicht, Joint Author, Burt Reynolds, Read by , read by Burt Reynolds. Listen & Live $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-885408-69-3
You've just leapt off a building and, noticing a Dumpster below, you thank your stars that you've spent several hours listening to this cassette, and you can now land in said Dumpster without breaking your back. Although it is rather...
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Joshua Piven, Author, David Borgenicht, Joint Author, Jennifer Worick, Joint Author , read by Laura Hamilton. Listen & Live $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-885408-79-2
In The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
(1999), Piven, Borgenicht and Worick taught readers how to escape from quicksand and jump from bridges. It's relatively simple to calculate a shark's actions, they say, but human nature is much...
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Joshua Piven, Author, David Borgenicht, Author, David Borgenicht, Joint Author Chronicle Books $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3575-6
The latest addition to this wildly popular series continues--surprisingly--to display the wit, style and plain-old smart-ass insight of its multiple predecessors. The secret to Piven's and Borgenicht's success seems to be in maintaining, at all...
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Joshua Piven, Author, David Borgenicht, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8118-3599-2
The unstoppable Piven and Borgenicht are at it again, producing another in the seemingly endless series of ""Worst-Case Scenario"" books. This time, the authors turn their attention to the potentially disastrous holiday season, and the result is...
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Joshua Piven, Author, David Borgenicht, Author, Brenda Brown, Illustrator Chronicle Books $15.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4539-7
With this latest in the The Worst Case Scenario Handbook series, readers can indulge their morbid fantasies and action hero daydreams while maybe even picking up a helpful tip for the next time they get stuck in quicksand, ride an out-of-control...
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Joshua Piven, Author, David Borgenicht, Author, Jennifer Worick, Author Chronicle Books $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4230-3
Filled with cheeky but practical solutions to just about any problem a college student could face, this slender volume opens with an ominous warning:""when a life is imperiled or a dire situation is at hand, safe alternatives may not exist.""...
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