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Author
Series
My weirder school volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A. J. and the Ella Mentry School gang learn some unusual self-defense moves from a wacky teacher who thinks he's an action hero"--
Author
Publisher
Pitchstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's decades of experience teaching everyday people how to defend themselves and on a rational approach to the scientific data, The Gift of Violence provides the average person with the knowledge they need to reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of violence -- and to survive a violent encounter"--
Author
Publisher
Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In The New Superpower for Women, Steve Kardian, a thirty-year veteran of law enforcement, FBI defense tactics instructor, and an expert on the criminal mind, demonstrates how to become a "hard target" and not a "soft target" by simply trusting your gut. Additionally, he shows how the habits of safety can become an integral part of your daily routine"--
6) Knack self-defense for women: strategies, moves & everyday tactics to gain confidence & stay safe
Author
Series
Publisher
Knack
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In a non-threatening way, teaches seven important rules to personal safety, such as safe versus harmful secrets and touches, and gives children the knowledge and confidence they need to make smart choices about their well-being.
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Álvaro Umpiérrez es un profesor de defensa personal que cuenta con una reconocida trayectoria internacional. En este volumen ha volcado todos los conocimientos adquiridos a lo largo de su formación y experiencia y aporta, a todos los lectores, las claves esenciales para aprender a defenderse ante un ataque físico. Es un compendio de estrategias básicas que pueden aportar seguridad. Del mismo modo, Umpiérrez da también las claves para mejorar...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
El abuso verbal puede vestirse de muchos trajes puede ser un abuso sutil o bien un abuso descarado) pero siempre hace que quien sufre el abuso se sienta tratada con desconsideración. Pregúntate acerca de tu 'Príncipe azul' convertido hoy, incomprensiblemente, en tu pareja abusadora: ¿Usa tonos de voz desaprobadores, acusadores o sarcásticos? ¿Hace comentarios hirientes o críticas sobe tu apariencia o sobre lo que dices o haces? ¿Tiene una...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While nobody ever dreams they could personally be caught in a situation with mass casualties or injuries due to premeditated or random violence, this guide provides readiness techniques to help avoid becoming a victim in dangerous situations. Includes tips to boost awareness and possibly even stop a violent event before it starts.
15) Self-defense
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Providing a self-defense system that actually works in the real world, this action-packed guide to avoiding attacks, neutralizing attackers and protecting yourself and your loved ones helps you to sharpen your instincts and respond proactively to impending danger, master hand-to-hand combat basics and more.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of. but two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped-and the most dangerous game of all begins.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense"--
Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenseless. That those subject to the most violence--the enslaved, the colonized, the oppressed--have been...
19) Queen & Slim
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly...
Author
Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This is a book about presenting the concepts of situational awareness to children in a way that will keep them engaged and help them take an active role in their own personal security. It will show you how to use fun, interactive games to build situational awareness skills such as: how children can identify and understand normal environmental behaviors; how children can spot abnormal behaviors within their given environment; how to give children a...
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