survivalism

"After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes the events that lead to his decision to develop a plan to escape the country if it collapses and learn how to survive.

"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled. No government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--Cover, p. 4.

A graphic novel set in the town of Elk's Ridge, West Virginia, where Vietnam veterans live in peace and harmony, but as some of the city's residents grow restless, a desperate try at freedom has tragic results that will forever change the town and its people.

A study of the fusion of survivalist ethic and millennial belief, looking at how doomsday prophecies derived from ancient Hebrew and Christian texts have spurred the rise in militias, white supremacists, survivalists, and cults whose members are gearing up for Armageddon on Earth.

In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.

Examines the activities twentieth-century millenarians, or people who anticipate a sudden and dramatic change in the world order with the guidance of supernatural beings.

Examines the bizarre and often violent history of a proliferating number of hate groups who universally style themselves as "Survivalists.".

In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.