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Collapse may refer to:

• Collapse, the action a collapsible or telescoping object does
• Collapse (medical)
• Collapse (sports)
• Collapse (structural)
  • Cave-in is a kind of structural collapse
  • Collapse of the World Trade Center, a 2001 event
• Collapse (topology), a mathematical concept
• Wave function collapse, in physics
• Societal collapse
  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the collapse of Soviet federalism

Entertainment[link]

Film and literature[link]

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, a book by Jared M. Diamond
• Collapse (film), a documentary directed by Chris Smith and starring Michael Ruppert
• Collapse (journal), a journal of philosophical research and development published in the United Kingdom

Music[link]

• Collapse (album), a 2006 album by the American metalcore band Across Five Aprils
• "Collapse", a song by Soul Coughing from their 1996 album Irresistible Bliss
• "Collapse", a song by Sparta from their 2002 album Wiretap Scars
• "Collapse", a song by Imperative Reaction from their 2006 album As We Fall
• "Collapse", a song by Saosin from their 2006 album Saosin
• Collapse, a 2006 album by Deas Vail

Video games[link]

• Collapse!, a 1999 series games created by GameHouse
• Collapse (2008 video game), an action game released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows
• Collapse, a fictional event in the computer game Dreamfall
• The Collapse (Deus Ex), a fictional event within the plot of the computer game Deus Ex and its sequel Deus Ex: Invisible War

See also[link]

• All pages with titles containing "Collapse"
• Disintegrate (disambiguation)
• Fall (disambiguation)

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Jared Diamond
Born	Jared Mason Diamond (1937-09-10) September 10, 1937 (age 74) Boston, Massachusetts
Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Fields	Physiology Biophysics Ornithology Environmentalism Ecology Geography Evolutionary Biology Anthropology
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Alma mater	Harvard College Cambridge University
Notable awards	Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1997) Royal Society Prize for Science Books (1992, 1998 & 2006) Pulitzer Prize (1998) National Medal of Science (1999)

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Originally trained in physiology, Diamond's work is known for drawing from a variety of fields, and he is currently Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography[link]

Diamond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Bessarabian Jewish family. His father Louis K. Diamond was a physician and his mother Flora Kaplan a teacher, musician, and linguist. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and earned an A.B. from Harvard College in 1958 and a Ph.D. in physiology and membrane biophysics from the University of Cambridge in 1961.

After graduating from Cambridge, Diamond returned to Harvard as a Junior Fellow until 1965, and, in 1968, became Professor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School. While in his twenties, he developed a second, parallel, career in ornithology and ecology, specialising in New Guinea and nearby islands. Then in his fifties, Diamond developed a third career in environmental history and became Professor of Geography at UCLA, his current position.^[1] He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1999^[2] and an honorary doctorate by Westfield State University in 2009.

Diamond is married to Marie Diamond (née Marie Nabel Cohen), granddaughter of Polish politician Edward Werner, and has two adult sons.^{[citation needed]}

Work[link]

Diamond's original specialism was salt absorption in the gall bladder.^[3] He has also published scholarly works in the fields of ecology and ornithology, but is best known for authoring of a number of popular science books combining topics from diverse fields other than those he has formally studied. Because of this diversity Diamond has been described as a polymath.^[4][5]

Diamond's first popular book, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991), examined human evolution and its relevance to the modern world, incorporating evidence from anthropology, evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, and linguistics. It was well-received by critics and won the 1992 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books^[6] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.^[7] In 1997, he followed this up with Why is Sex Fun?, which focused in on the evolution of human sexuality, again drawing from anthropology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

His third and best known popular science book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, was published in 1997. In it, Diamond sought to explain the political and economic dominance of Eurasian societies over those from other parts of the world throughout history. Using evidence archaeological and historical case studies and evidence from genetics and linguistics, he argued that gaps in power and technology between human societies are not primarily caused by cultural or racial differences, but originated in environmental differences amplified by various positive feedback loops. According to Diamond the geography and ecology of the Eurasian landmass gave societies there an advantage over those on other continents, which they were subsequently able to dominate or conquer. Guns, Germs, and Steel was a best-seller and received several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, an Aventis Prize for Science Books^[6] and the 1997 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. However the work was criticised for factual inaccuracies in some of Diamond's case studies, and more generally as an argument for environmental determinism. A television documentary based on the book was produced by the National Geographic Society in 2005.

Diamond's next book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), examined a range of past civilizations in an attempt to identify why they either collapsed or succeeded, and considers what contemporary societies can learn from these historical examples. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, he argued against explanations for the failure of past societies based primarily on cultural factors, instead focusing on ecology. Among the societies mentioned in the book are the Norse and Inuit of Greenland, the Maya, the Anasazi, the indigenous people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Japan, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and modern Montana. Similarly Collapse was again both critically acclaimed and criticised for environmental determinism and specific factual inaccuracies.^[8] It was nominated for Royal Society Prize for Science Books.^[6]

Diamond's most recent book Natural Experiments of History, co-edited with James Robinson, is a collection of essays illustrating the multidisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of history that he advocates.^[9]

[edit] Vengeance Is Ours (2008)

On 21 April 2009, Henep Isum Mandingo and Hup Daniel Wemp of Papua New Guinea filed a $10 million USD defamation lawsuit against Diamond over a 2008 New Yorker magazine article entitled "Vengeance Is Ours: What Can Tribal Societies Tell Us About Our Need to Get Even?"^[10] Mandingo and Wemp claimed the article, an account of feuds and vengeance killings in the New Guinea highlands, misrepresented and embellished their involvement in inter-tribal violence.^[11] The lawsuit came after Rhonda Roland Shearer alleged that the New Yorker article contained factual inaccuracies – most notably that Mandingo was fit and healthy, not, as claimed by Diamond, wheelchair-bound after being injured in fighting.^[12]

Diamond and the New Yorker both stood by the article, maintaining that it was a faithful account of the story related to Diamond by Wemp while they worked together in 2001 and again in a formal interview in 2006. They said that the article was based on "detailed notes", that both Diamond and the magazine did all they reasonably could to verify the story, and that in a recorded phone interview conducted in August 2008 by Chris Jennings, a fact checker for the New Yorker, Wemp did not raise any significant objections.^[13] Wemp contends he told Jennings the story was "inaccurate, inaccurate".^[12] According to anthropologist Pauline Wiessner, an expert on tribal warfare in Papua New Guinea, young men often exaggerate or make up entirely their exploits in tribal warfare; she stated that Diamond would have been naïve to accept Wemp's stories at face value.^[13]

Selected publications[link]

Books[link]

• 1972 Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 12, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 438.[1]
• 1975 M. L. Cody and J. M. Diamond, eds. Ecology and Evolution of Communities. Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1979 J. M. Diamond and M. LeCroy. Birds of Karkar and Bagabag Islands, New Guinea. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 164:469–531
• 1984 J. M. Diamond. The Avifaunas of Rennell and Bellona Islands. The Natural History of Rennell Islands, British Solomon Islands 8:127–168
• 1986 J. M. Diamond and T. J. Case. eds. Community Ecology. Harper and Row, New York
• 1986 B. Beehler, T. Pratt, D. Zimmerman, H. Bell, B. Finch, J. M. Diamond, and J. Coe. Birds of New Guinea. Princeton University Press,Princeton
• 1992 The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, ISBN 0-06-098403-1
• 1997 Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality, ISBN 0-465-03127-7
• 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-06131-0
• 2001 The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, & Biogeography (with Ernst Mayr), ISBN 0-19-514170-9
• 2003 Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion, ISBN 1-58663-863-7.
• 2005 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-303655-6.
• 2010 Natural Experiments of History (with James A. Robinson). ISBN 0-674-03557-7 ISBN 978-0674035577

Articles[link]

• Island Biogeography and the Design of Natural Reserves (1976), in Robert M. May's Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications, Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 163–186.
• Ethnic differences. Variation in human testis size. (April 1986) Nature 320(6062):488–489 PubMed.
• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (May 1987) Discover pp. 64–66
• Japanese Roots (June 1998) Discover
• Curse and Blessing of the Ghetto (March 1991) Discover, pp. 60–66
• Race Without Color (November 1994) Discover
• The Curse of QWERTY (April 1997) Discover
• Kinship With The Stars (May 1997) Discover
• Japanese Roots (June 1998) Discover
• What’s Your Consumption Factor? (January 2, 2008) The New York Times
• Vengeance is Ours (April 2008) The New Yorker
• Diamond, Jared (2011). "Why do some societies make disastrous decisions?". In John Brockman. Culture: leading scientists explore civilizations, art, networks, reputation, and the on-line revolution. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-202313-1. 

Boards[link]

• Editorial board, Skeptic Magazine, a publication of The Skeptics Society
• Member, the American Philosophical Society
• Member, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Member, the National Academy of Sciences
• US regional director of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF/World Wildlife Fund)

Awards and honors[link]

• 1961–1965 Prize Fellowship in Physiology, Trinity College, Cambridge, England
• 1968–1971 Lederle Medical Faculty Award
• 1972 Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Medical Class
• 1973 Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Medical Class
• 1975 Distinguished Achievement Award, American Gastroenterological Association
• 1976 Kaiser Permanente/Golden Apple Teaching Award
• 1976 Nathaniel Bowditch Prize, American Physiological Society
• 1978 American Ornithologists Union, elected fellow
• 1979 Franklin L. Burr Award, National Geographic Society
• 1985 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant
• 1989 Archie Carr Medal
• 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
• 1992 Tanner Lecturer, University of Utah and many other endowed lectureships
• 1992 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books for The Third Chimphanzee^[6]
• 1992 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize^[7]
• 1993 Zoological Society of San Diego Conservation Medal
• 1994 Skeptics Society, Randi Award
• 1995 Honorary doctor of literature, Sejong University, Korea
• 1996 Faculty Research Lecturer, UCLA
• 1997 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize for Guns, Germs and Steel
• 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs and Steel
• 1998 Elliott Coues Award, American Ornithologists' Union
• 1998 California Book Awards, Gold Medal in nonfiction for Guns, Germs and Steel
• 1998 Aventis Prize for Science Books for Guns, Germs and Steel^[6]
• 1998 International Cosmos Prize^[1]
• 1999 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
• 1999 National Medal of Science
• 2001 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
• 2002 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
• 2006 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for Collapse^[6]
• 2006 Dickson Prize in Science
• 2008 Ph.D. Honoris Causa at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

See also[link]

• Assembly rules

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jared Diamond

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Jared Diamond

• Diamond's page at the UCLA Department of Geography
• UCLA Spotlight – Jared Diamond
• Edge – Jared Diamond

Lectures and talks[link]

• Why societies collapse at TED, 2003
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, April 2007
• The Evolution of Religions at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California
• PBS – Guns, Germs and Steel (with full transcripts)

Interviews[link]

• Hammer Conversation with Jared Diamond and John Long, March 16 2010
• Interview with Charlie Rose
• Interview with New Books in History

James Wesley Rawles
Born	1960 Livermore, California, United States
Nationality	United States
Education	San Jose State University
Occupation	Novelist
Influenced by	Robert Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle, Pat Frank, George R. Stewart, Mel Tappan, David Brin, Tom Clancy, Howard Ruff, Dr. Gary North, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises
Website
http://www.survivalblog.com

James Wesley, Rawles^[1] is a New York Times best-selling^[2] survivalist-fiction author, blogger, and survival retreat consultant.^[3] A conservative Christian,^[4] Rawles is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, a blog on survival and preparedness topics.^[3] Rawles is the author of the survivalist novels Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse^[5] and Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, as well as the national bestseller^[6] How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times.

Biography[link]

Rawles was born in Livermore, California in 1960 and received a BA degree from San Jose State University. He was a United States Army Military Intelligence officer, serving from 1984 to 1993.^[7] He resigned his commission as an Army Captain, immediately after Bill Clinton became President of the United States.^[7] Rawles worked as an Associate Editor and Regional Editor (for the Western U.S.) with Defense Electronics magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s^[8] and concurrently was Managing Editor of The International Countermeasures Handbook.^[9] He worked as a technical writer through most of the 1990s with a variety of electronics and software companies^[7] including Oracle Corporation.^[10] In 2005 he began full-time blogging.^[3]

He is now a freelance writer, blogger and retreat consultant.^[11][12] He has been called a "survival guru"^[4] and the "conscience of survivalism."^[13] Rawles is best known as the author of the survivalist novel Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse.^[14]

Blog presence and consulting[link]

Rawles is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, a popular blog on survival and preparedness topics.^[15] The blog has been described as "the guiding light of the prepper movement."^[16] According to a Los Angeles Times article from February, 2012, SurvivalBlog receives 300,000 unique visitors per week.^[17] The main focus of his blog is preparing for the multitude of possible threats toward society.^[18] In his various writings, Rawles has warned about socio-economic collapse,^[19][20] terrorist attacks,^[21] and food shortages. As a consultant, Rawles advises his clients primarily via telephone on emergency preparedness.^[3]

Books[link]

James Rawles has written three books that are sold by mainstream booksellers. The second sequel to Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse will be released in October 2012.

[edit] Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

His first book was a work of speculative fiction set in a near future period of hyperinflation and socio-economic collapse first titled: Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, and later re-titled: Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse. The book was originally released in draft form as shareware^[22] under the title "Triple Ought" in the early 1990s but was later printed by the Christian partner publisher Huntington House. After Huntington House went out of business, the book was re-released by Xlibris, a "print on demand" publisher. Starting in April, 2009, the novel went back into wide circulation, in a 400-page trade paperback edition, published by Ulysses Press, Berkeley, California. This new edition was updated and expanded to include a glossary^[23] and index.^[24]

In early April 2009, shortly after its release, it was ranked number 6 in Amazon.com's overall book sales rankings, but fell to number 33 a week later.^[5] By the end of the month it had fallen to number 98.^[25] The book's initial popularity caught librarians unprepared because the book was considered a niche title, and had not been reviewed by the major book review publications. According to Library Journal, the topic struck a chord with "a small but vociferous group of people concerned with survivalism" who share a sense of societal anxiety associated with the economic recession. The journal went on to say that Patriots was "reportedly originally conceived as a nonfiction guide. According to a number of Amazon.com reviewers, the novel will not win any literary prizes; its strength lies in its practical reassurances, focus on guns, and Christian ideology." Librarians then scrambled to purchase copies of the book to meet the unanticipated demand.^[5]

[edit] Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse

Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse is a contemporaneous sequel novel that parallels the events that occurred in Patriots, following a hyperinflationary socioeconomic collapse and the subsequent events known as "The Crunch." The novel follows several new characters (as well as some characters from Patriots) as they attempt to survive in the United States following The Crunch as they deal with criminal gangs, a provisional American government and the general breakdown of society. The book was released on 4 October 2011. It rose to #2 in Amazon's overall book sales ranks, the same day. On 23 October 2011, it was listed at #3 in the New York Times best-selliers list in the fiction hardback category.^[2] Less than a month after publication, the novel had gone through four printings and had 52,500 copies in print.^[26]

[edit] How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times

Rawles authored the international bestseller^[6] How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times, a non-fiction book drawn primarily from posts from SurvivalBlog.com, his popular blog on preparedness topics. SurvivalBlog has about 160,000 unique visitors per week. The book was called "The preppers' Bible", by a Reuters journalist.^[16] The main focus of his blog is preparing for the multitude of possible threats toward society. In his various writings, Rawles advises preparedness in the event of catastrophe, including preparedness against the risks of a post-disaster society which include looting, armed violence and food shortages. He also recommends preparedness measures including the establishment of rural safe havens at least 300 miles from the nearest major city, financial planning for a future barter based economy, water retrieval and purification, food production and storage, security and self-defense techniques and strategies.^[27][28]

The book received a favorable book review on the weblog of Orville R. Weyrich Jr.^[29] There was also a summary of the book published in the March–April 2010 issue of The Futurist magazine, under the headline: "Alarmingly Practical Advice For Doomsday."^[27] The book is briefly quoted and the title is mentioned in the article "Are You Ready for the End of the World?" in the January 2010 issue of The Philadelphia Trumpet, a publication of the Philadelphia Church of God.^[28]

In an interview with Rawles about the book, syndicated radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy said that the book "posits a collapse of civilization."^[30] When interviewed by syndicated radio talk show host Laura Ingraham about the book on 5 October 2009, she said that the book "goes through point by point the basics of being prepared and heightening your chances of surviving some type of major crisis." Echoing Rawles's writings, Ingraham warned that "there is a thin line between order and total anarchy in time of a crisis, when peoples lives are on the line—and all the nicities and the rules go out the door."^[31]

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It has 14 chapters and three appendices, 336 pages, ISBN 978-0-452-29583-4. September 2009. First Printing (September 2009): 20,000 copies. Second Printing (October 2009): 6,000 copies. Third Printing (October 2009): 25,000 copies. An unabridged audiobook edition is also available (ISBN 978-1441830593), produced by Brilliance Audiobooks. It was narrated by Dick Hill. As of March 2011, there were 132,000 copies of the book in print, and it had gone through 11 printings. ^[32] As of April, 2012, there were 12 foreign publishing contracts in place to produce editions in 11 languages, and the book was still in Amazon.com's Top 250 titles, overall. ^[33]

FAQs[link]

Starting in the early 1990s, he also authored or co-authored 17 Internet frequently asked questions (FAQ) reference pages, primarily on firearms topics, such as one on antique guns that is often cited.^[34]

Philosophical, political and economic views[link]

Rawles is an outspoken proponent of family preparedness, especially regarding food storage^[35] and advocates relocating to lightly populated rural "retreat" areas. His preparedness philosophy emphasizes the fragility of modern society, the value of silver and other tangibles for barter, recognition of moral absolutes, being well armed, maintaining a "deep larder," relocation to rural retreats, and Christian charity.^[36] In an interview in The New York Times, Rawles referred to himself as a "guns and groceries" survivalist.^[37]

Rawles is a strong proponent of the right to keep and bear arms, having said that people are "merely exercising a pre-existing right" when they carry firearms to public events such as political rallies. When he was asked about open carry, "but...without a permit?", he replied, "We have a permit—it is called the Second Amendment,"^[38]

Rawles is outspokenly anti-racist.^[39][40]

The Survivalist movement[link]

A central premise of the growing survivalist movement, of which Rawles is a leading spokesman,^[41] is concern about the risk of a coming societal meltdown and the need to prepare for the repercussions. Rawles said that an incorrect far-right "lunatic fringe" media image has developed in part because of the actions of a radical few such as Timothy McVeigh. He called this a distortion of the true message of survivalism. Unlike the fringe proponents, Rawles focuses instead on "family preparedness" and "personal freedom". Rawles explains that the typical survivalist does not actually live in a rural area, but is rather is a city dweller worried about the collapse of society who views the rural lifestyle as idyllic. Speaking from his experience, Rawles cautions that rural self-sufficiency actually involves "a lot of hard work".^[42] In 2009, he was quoted as saying: "There's so many people who are concerned about the economy that there's a huge interest in preparedness, and it pretty much crosses all lines, social, economic, political and religious. There's a steep learning curve going on right now."^[3]

American Redoubt concept[link]

In March, 2011, Rawles formulated the American Redoubt concept. This plan designates five western states (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, eastern Oregon, and eastern Washington) as a safe haven for conservative Christians.^[43] The concept was endorsed by former Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, who had recently relocated his entire extended family to western Montana.^[44] It also soon inspired the launch of a weekly podcast by Christian Libertarian journalist John Jacob Schmidt, called Radio Free Redoubt.^[45]

Secret ranch location[link]

An article published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2008 asserts that Rawles lives in California, but later in the article, Rawles noted that the location of his ranch in the US is kept secret. "We don't actually reveal our location, even at the state level, All that I'm allowed to say is that we're somewhere west of the Rockies. We intentionally keep a very low profile. We just don't want a lot of people camping out on our doorstep the day after everything hits the fan."^[46] The German FAZ newspaper asserts that the ranch is in northern Idaho.^[47] Others have claimed that the "undisclosed location" of the ranch is in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming or even in Central America.^[1] A CNN Europe article written before his wife died noted that Rawles "...lives on a ranch in an undisclosed location with his wife (who he refers to in his blog affectionately as "the Memsahib") and their children. Their life is almost entirely self-sufficient: They keep livestock, hunt elk and the children are schooled at home. Stored away in the ranch somewhere is a three-year supply of food."^[48] In an article titled "The Most Dangerous Novel in America", Rawles told The Daily Beast: "I’m not at liberty to discuss where I live. It’s part of an agreement I made with my wife. I really can’t go into the details. We live in a very remote area. I embrace technology. We don’t live in a cellphone area, but I’m online constantly. We’re just prepared to live off-grid, if the power grid goes down. Because of the nature of my blog and my novel, I don’t just want anonymity, I need anonymity. I could wake up some morning in the aftermath of some crisis and look out in my barnyard and see five Winnebagos and some TV crews. I don’t want fans of my books to descend on my property, so I have to be perspicacious."^[49] In 2009, Rawles told an Agence France-Presse reporter: "I'm surrounded by national forest. A river runs through the back end of the property, so there's no shortage of water and no shortage of fish or game to shoot. If Western civilization were to collapse tomorrow, I'd have to read about it on the Internet. I just wouldn't notice."^[50]

Bibliography[link]

• Rawles on Retreats and Relocation, Print on demand from CafePress, No ISBN (January 2007)
• SurvivalBlog: The Best of the Blog, Volume 1, Print on demand from CafePress, No ISBN (February 2007)
• Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, Ulysses Press, Berkeley, California, ISBN 978-1-56975-599-0 (April 2009), ISBN 978-1-56384-155-2 (November 1998), ISBN 978-1-4257-3407-7 (December 2006),
• Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4391-7280-3, (October, 2011)
• How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York, ISBN 978-0-452-29583-4, (September 2009)

Quotes[link]

• Owning a gun doesn’t make someone a “shooter” any more than owning a surfboard makes someone a surfer.^[51]

• There is no substitute for mass. Mass stops bullets. Mass stops gamma radiation. Mass stops (or at least slows down) bad guys from entering a home and depriving its residents of life and property. Sandbags are cheap, so buy plenty of them. When planning your retreat house, think: medieval castle.^[52]

• I'm often asked why I make such a 'big deal' about choosing conservative Christians, Messianic Jews, or Orthodox Jews for neighbors. The plain truth is that in a societal collapse there will be a veritable vacuum of law enforcement. In such times, with a few exceptions, it will only be the God fearing that will continue to be law abiding. Choose your neighborhood wisely.^[53]

• The three most important things to look for when searching for a church home are doctrine, doctrine, and doctrine. If your main criteria are 'programs' and 'outreach' to this or that niche group, then in my opinion you are starting your search the wrong way.^[54]

• As an Army officer, I learned that in order to be effective, an army must have three key abilities: To move, shoot, and communicate. Take away any one, and you are ineffective. But if you get all three right, you can absolutely devastate an opponent—even one that has vastly superior numbers.^[55]

• Modern military planners often talk in terms of “threat spirals” when a given threat escalates and inspires a defensive countermeasure. Ideally you should anticipate your opponent’s next escalation and take countermeasures, insulating yourself from the future threat.^[56]

• If you are serious about preparedness, then it is time to get out of your armchair and start training and preparing. It will take time. It will take some sweat. It will take money. But once you’ve prepared, you can sleep well, knowing that you’ve done your best to protect and provide for your family, regardless of what the future brings. Don’t get stuck in the rut of simply *studying* preparedness. Unless the shelves in your pantry and garage are filling with supplies, and unless you are growing muscles and calluses, you are not preparing.^[57]

• Governments tend to expand their power to the point that they do harm. In SurvivalBlog, I often warn of the insidious tyranny of the Nanny State... ...If the state where you live becomes oppressive, then don’t hesitate to relocate. Vote with your feet! ^[58]

• When the time to perform is at hand, the time to prepare has passed. Amageddon Medicine, by Dr. Cynthia Koelker, 2012, MD Books, Akron Ohio, (Foreword, p xv.)

• As a Christian, I feel morally obligated to assist others who are less fortunate. Following the Old Testament laws of tzedakah (charity and tithing), I believe that my responsibility begins with my immediate family and expands in successive rings to supporting my immediate neighborhood and church, to my community, and beyond, as resources allow. My philosophy is to give until it hurts in times of disaster.^[59]