Defend Yourself 101

Strong on Defense author: Sanford Strong rating: asin: 0671535110 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00

Definition: trite:

* banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; “commonplace," "hackneyed."

This book is NOT trite! but so common as to have become trite is the current wisdom that in a self defence situation, “your mind is your best weapon.”

This implies that gadgets, martial arts, self defence classes and ignoring the reality of violence will not work to save you from the violence you are facing. This book brings a tone of realism to the trite.

Surviving Armed Assaults: A Martial Artists Guide to Weapons, Street Violence, and Countervailing Force author: Lawrence A. Kane rating: asin: 1594390711 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $16.47 USD

At over 300 (large format) pages, this tour de force is destined to rise to the top of everyone’s list of: what to buy for a martial artist.

How To Hide Anything author: Michael Connor rating: asin: 0873642899 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 USD

From his time served with the British Army in Northern Ireland, Mike Connor refined his ability to find caches of arms and explosives. This skill has now been reversed for us to help us to be able to hide things if we need to.

With little effort and expense, you can hide cash, firearms and ammo and even family members from the menacing eyes of burglars, terrorists or home invaders.

Inside the Criminal Mind: Revised and Updated Edition author: Stanton Samenow rating: asin: 140004619X binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $16.50 USD

Have you ever asked: “How could a person do such a thing to another person?” “Why doesn’t he seem to care for others at all?”

Is there something about the permissive society of Dr. Spock that disturbs you? Do you wish to see the courts put real teeth into the way the law is written?

There is a really great cartoon in which Frank turns drunkenly to the bartender and says, “My therapist believes in Reality Therapy so now he’s blaming me for everything I do!”