title: Doomsday Preppers Complete Survival Manual: Expert Tips for Surviving Calamity, Catastrophe, and the End of the World
author: Michael Sweeney
description: Dr. MICHAEL S. SWEENEY is a professor at Ohio Universitys E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, where he serves as director of the graduate program and teaches print journalism courses.<br />He has written a variety of books for National Geographic Books, including<i>God Grew Tired of Us</i>,<i>Brain: The Complete Mind</i>, and<i>BrainWorks</i>. He also has published academically on the history of wartime journalism, and particularly on the methods and effectiveness of censorship in wartime. His first book,<i>Secrets of Victory</i>, about the American Office of Censorship in World War II, was named book of the year for 2001 by the American Journalism Historians Association.He is associate editor of<i>Journalism History,</i>a quarterly academic journal published at the Scripps School.<br /><br />Dr. Sweeney received his bachelors degree from the University of Nebraska, his masters from the University of North Texas, and his Ph.D. from Ohio University.He lives in Athens, Ohio, with his wife, Carolyn.
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  ## Cannibal Reign
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Thomas Koloniar
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First the asteroid would come, slamming into the earth just north of the
  Montana border, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, and unending night.
  
  
  And after that… Hell.
  
  
  Astronomer Marty Chittenden is the first to recognize the approaching doom—a
  discovery that makes him a marked man.
  
  
  Green Beret Jack Forrest knows the catastrophe is inevitable, and begins
  stockpiling an abandoned missile silo with supplies while gathering together a
  small community of men, women, and children he prays can survive the
  apocalypse.
  
  
  Then disaster strikes. In an instant the world they know ends forever,
  transformed into a nightmare realm of eternal darkness. Soon the few remaining
  humans are transformed as well, becoming savage things—raping, pillaging, and
  devouring their own.
  
  
  And the time is approaching when Forrest and his people will have to leave
  their underground “Noah’s Ark” to face 