title: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
author:  Max Brooks 
description: "'So meticulous and well researched that it's more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters' - Esquire 'A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead' - Time Out 'A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side' - New York Post 'Ignorance is the undead's strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.' (from The Zombie Survival Guide)"
zlib_text: The
  ZOMBIE
  Survival Guide
  Complete Protection from the Living Dead
  Max Brooks
  Illustrations by Max Werner
  For Mom and Dad.
  And for Michelle,
  who makes life
  worth fighting for.
  INTRODUCTION
  The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls—no matter what their label—these somnambulists are the
  greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself. To call them predators and us prey would be
  inaccurate. They are a plague, and the human race their host. The lucky victims are devoured, their bones
  scraped clean, their flesh consumed. Those not so fortunate join the ranks of their attackers, transformed
  into putrid, carnivorous monsters. Conventional warfare is useless against these creatures, as is
  conventional thought. The science of ending life, developed and perfected since the beginning of our
  existence, cannot protect us from an enemy that has no “life” to end. Does this mean the living dead are
  invincible? No. Can these creatures be stopped? Yes. Ignorance is the undead’s strongest ally,
  kno