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Summary: The Gift With No Ribbon
Review: Gavin DeBecker writes a memorable and useful book on how to recognize and deal with potentially dangerous people whom we encounter by choice or by chance.He identifies very specific warning signs that can help the reader determine if someone will abuse, serial kill, stalk, or 'go ballistic' in a workplace. He then offers valuable survival tools to help the reader avoid, prevent, or even survive potentially life-threatening situations at home, in the workplace, or in a deserted parking garage. I would have liked more pages of interviews between him and victims/potential victims. Nonetheless, the book had me gripped, and I finished it in a weekend. I will now be less intimidated (but not less alert) when I walk to my car.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!
Review: This amazing book is quite "readable" and filled with reassurance as well as warning. I purchased it after confiding in a friend that a former boyfriend who had been stalking me for many years had once again "popped up" - and am I ever glad I followed her suggestion and read this book! Information IS power, and more than ever before we need to feel empowered to resist attack - but also need to balance our wariness with common sense. Mr. deBecker has a handle on the important stuff and his writing style is engaging and comprehensive. Paying attention to our natural "intuition" can be life-saving, and deBecker gives practical advice for heeding our own innate survival signals and avoiding violence.
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Summary: An good book, but a few things were lacking
Review: The Gift of Fear is a overall good book that opens your eyes to things that you may not have noticed before, and teaches you to pay more attention to your innate survival signals. It also does a good job of stressing overall awareness of your surroundings. Having said that, I think there were a few instances where he inappropiately places intuition over logic. For example, I cannot remember what page it was, but he stated that a woman had a violent boyfriend who threatened to kill her, beat her, etc., and then goes on to say that the woman's intuition should have told her something was wrong. If someone threatens such things, it's not intuition to think something is wrong, it is perfectly reasonable. That, and it seemed he tried to inject too many anti-gun arguments, when the book was about how to deal with violent people, not how they acquirerd the means to be violent. Still, it's a good book, but I think I would have given it three and a half stars if I could have.
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Summary: The world isn't safe! Get used to it!
Review: Along with "Strong On Defense", the Gift of Fear is a wake up call for those walking through life with their heads down. Violence and evil exists and this book superbly tunes your awareness to recognize trouble before it escalates beyond your control. Our Police reports show that in most cases the victim "felt" something was wrong almost immediately, before anything serious happened. The best self defense is avoidance!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I'm buying this book for every woman I know!
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Summary: A MUST READ FOR ALL WOMEN
Review: This book should be required reading for all women. Men should read this book to better understand the constant awarness women must exercise. This book clearly explains how we are all potential targets but sometimes we can keep from being a victim.
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Summary: I hate people
Review: I can't tell you how great it is to have totally lost all optimisim about humankind from reading this book. I'm so glad that I know understand that most people are evil and violent. How ignorant I was before! Now I go through life armed with the knowledge that it is a cold cruel world out there. I feel so empowered. NOBODY is going to even THINK about approaching me anymore! Wanna date?
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Summary: A must read .
Review: I've read this book twice.It's so enlightening ,comprehensive, brilliant and interesting that I'd certainly read it again in the future.I understand today so many things I didn't before. De becker analyzes the reality of voilence in our society in a way I've never read ,heard or thought about before. The wisdom wrapped in this page-turner is invaluable.It worth every buck, and could be the most important book of the year for you. Buy it ASAP!
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Summary: The Gift of Fearlessness
Review: Have you ever confronted a situation where, for some reason that you couldn't quite put your finger on, you were uneasy or fearful? Did you tell yourself not to be silly? Did you go ahead and take a risk that you later regretted? De Becker explores the origin of that still, small voice in the back of your mind that warns you against danger. He comes away from that study with two truths: [1] That gnawing, uneasy feeling always has a factual basis, and [2] It always has your best interest at heart. The paradox of De Becker's book is that, when we learn to heed that often-disregarded fear signal, we can lead our lives much less fearfully.
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Summary: A GREAT COMMENTARY ON HUMAN NATURE - NOT JUST FOR WOMEN
Review: I hesitated to read this book at first, thinking it was entirely about the victimization of women. A friend convinced me it was a good read and once I picked it up, I couldnt put it down. De Becker shows through a series of examples that people have come to ignore the basic human instict of survival. By ignoring fear, we open ourselves to those that would do us harm. Women and Men constantly put themselves in danger all in the name of manners. De Becker shows that it is better to appear rude on occassion that to be a target of violence. The subject matter is captivating. The writing style lends itself to a quick read. De Becker drives home his point with chilling examples rather than bore the reader to tears with meaningless psycho babble. It is an excellent commentary on human nature and the violence that is increasingly permeating into our society. Definately worth picking up.
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