How to Prepare for a Pandemic: and Other Extended Disasters (ISBN 1419638785)

Essential Reading:
Year after year, we Americans face numerous threats that could adversely impact our lifestyles. These threats include natural, medical, and man-made disasters--any one of which could bring about immediate and long-lasting hardships to our friends and families. In anticipation that each of us will eventually face some sort of disaster, William Stewart has written a common-sense guide to help us survive as comfortably as possible for as long as necessary. His approach is quite thorough and detailed, yet it is very easy to follow. Item by item, he addresses how we can prepare to cope with disruptions of food, water, energy, safety, medical services, and transportation. Each subject discussion is broad enough to encompass most domestic situations, yet each one is also filled with direct and practical advice that you can use right away. Since disasters are always looming on the horizon, this book should be considered essential reading for everyone.

A Practical Guide to Home Preparedness:
Will Stewart's book on family preparedness is unusual because it is written to help families survive both the short as well as the long emergency. This reference text focuses on practical solutions to providing water, food, energy, and heat when our usual sources of these essentials have become unreliable or unavailable. Will's straightforward approach to the issues makes this book a valuable addition to the library of anyone concerned with basic survival in the urban or rural setting during the short or long emergency. Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP Author of the Bird Flu Manual

How to Prepare for a Pandemic; and Other Extended Disasters:
This book serves as an excellent guide for the person who knows he/she needs to make decisions and purchases to ensure a measure of safety and comfort during a pandemic or other disaster, but is unsure where to begin. Many helpful references and resource details are provided to assist in planning and in-depth research. Highly recommended.

Maybe good for people with no idea where to start...:
This book...not much more than a "thick pamphlet," is basically a collection of web links and numerous quotes of warning from a variety of sources. The same information, in more depth, can be found very easily on the web for free. ((...) is such a site focusing on avian flu...and preparing for it.) Overall, if you really have no idea what to do but you want to try getting prepared, this might help. But if you already realize that you'll need heat, shelter, food, water...this will be redundant to what seems to be common knowledge.

Excellent resource:
I thought about this for a long time, and could not come up with an adjective that was enough. Every household should have this book if they have no other. It is an excellent resource for getting your home and family ready for the imminent future.