Each second of the day, one of us faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violet crime, serious illness or financial trouble. Who beats the odds and who surrenders? And how can we become the kind of people who survive and thrive? The fascinating, hopeful answers are in this book, revealed in gripping true stories, astonishing scientific research, and the author's own adventures inside elite survival schools and the government's airplane-crash evacuation course. And through and exclusive, powerful Internet-based test called the Survivor Profiler, you can discover your own survivor personality and top survivor strengths. There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But the SURVIVOR CLUB can give you an edge when adversity strikes.