Jerry Bowyer is a CNBC contributor and author of the upcoming Free Market Capitalist's Survival Guide.

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If I were doing it all over again, a survival guide would have come in handy.

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Inevitably, this book reads at times like a macabre form of survival guide.

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College Bound and Gagged is the straight-talking survival guide for anyone (read: parents) who are trying desperately to navigate the pre-college time and remain sane in the process.

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He was a speaker, consultant and author of many books on this subject, including Beyond Survival: A guide for the Business Owner and His Family.

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Want to spend a week in the jungles of Borneo with little but a guide and a survival kit?

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