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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect us from Violence

De Becker, Gavin

Fear Less: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism

De Becker, Gavin

Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)

De Becker, Gavin

Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls

Snortland, Ellen

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison (Vintage)

Abbot, Jack Henry

Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories by Women

Caignon, Denise, and Gail Groves

Fear Itself: The Origin and Nature of the Powerful Emotion that Shapes Our Lives and Our World

Dozier, Rush W.

The Batterer: A Psychological Profile

Dutton, Donald and Susan K. Golant

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Estes, Clarissa P.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

Gonzales, Laurence

To Have or to Harm: True Stories of Stalkers and Their Victims

Gross, Linden

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

Grossman, Dave

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Grossman, Dave

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

Hare, Robert D.

Bodytalk: The Meaning of Human Gestures

Hare, Robert D.

In Search of the Woman Warrior: Four Mythical Archetypes for Modern Women

Lane, Richard J.

Armed and Female: Twelve Million American Women Own Guns, Should You?

Quigley, Paxton

Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training

Siddle, Bruce J.

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Steinem, Gloria

Options for Avoiding Assault: A Guide to Assertiveness, Boundaries, and De-escalation for Violent Confrontations

Tesoro, Mary

Child Lures: What Every Parent and Child Should Know About Preventing Sexual Abuse and Abduction

Kenneth Wooden

Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

Alice Miller

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