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This is a book about why people die. With only a little insight, everything that he says about Mt. climbing applies
to fighting or dealing with criminals. You may have had a hundred fights, but you have only had this fight this once.
All of Marc's
book are worth a read. This one was required reading for the Tactical Team when I made Team Leader. It's more apparent on
his website, but one of the things I appreciate about Marc is his refusal to simplify the problem of violence.
It's
not all about surviving, you also need to live. The Stoics seem to understand the world of harsh choice and consequences.
This is the book I gave my son for his sixteenth birthday. Aurelius said much of what I didn't have the words for.
Being
raised remotely (highschool graduating class of six) people were something of a mystery when I went to college. This book
helped, a lot. I think it will also prove invaluable to my two autistic children.
Fleisher
did an outstanding job of describing the world where low-level street criminals live. There were facts that were right in
front of my face for years that he was able to put into words.
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Samenow scares a lot of people, but his work is the best description that I have seen of a violent predator. Well
worth the time.
An outstanding book that we used to issue to the Tactical Team. An experienced officer and an experienced police psychologist
give advice on deadly force encounters- what you will experience during and after the event and how to prepare.
..."and
when the time comes, then I will die. How? As becomes a person who is giving back what is not his own."
An
introduction to the Meyers/Briggs personality inventory. One of the few really useful assessments I have found. Sometimes
it's not that people are wrong, it's just that they are seeing a different world.
A truly
pioneering work on the personal cost of combat. Almost everyone should read this book, but BEWARE. Read his sources, too
and some of the criticisms of his sources. His follow up books are also valuable but Grossman was willing to misrepresent
sources in service to his agenda.
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Obviously the best book on the subject of training for violence, or I wouldn't have bothered to write it. It ranges
from types of violence, to how to think (ever seen a martial arts book with a chapter on epistemology before?) to types of
criminals and violence dynamics, training, physical defense and aftermath.
Unfortunately
out of print, the aithor was a psychologist teaching that "the police personality" was a sub-human brute... until he took
up the challenge to wear the badge for a year.
As an army/jujutsu
guy I was very skeptical about a book on martial virtue by a TKD/Air Force guy, but he pulled it off. The distinction between
honor and face was especially insightful, and a concept I use when a banger starts talking about "respect".
A quick
guide to personality disorders. Magnified just a bit, the 'vampires' presented here become the different 'flavors' of criminals.
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