Safety for Stalking Victims: How to Save Your
Privacy, Your Sanity and Your Life
by Lyn Bates, Linden Gross

• If you are being stalked, or know someone who is, this encyclopedia of safety can be a lifesaver. Literally. Hundreds of detailed suggestions for stalking-specific safety.
  

• If you are being stalked, or if you are concerned about someone who is the target of this potentially very dangerous crime, safety should be at the top of your priority list. Being the target of an obsessed person is a frightening experience. But it isn't necessary to live in fear. Learning how to be safe is the key.

"Safety for Stalking Victims" explains what stalking is, how to keep it from overwhelming your life, what is known about evaluating a stalker's potential to turn violent, and how to keep the situation from becoming worse, while being ready for anything. Using scenarios based on real stalking cases, "Safety for Stalking Victims" overflows with detailed, practical strategies to put you in control of your life, and let you break the cycle of terror.

Invasion of Privacy: How to Protect
Yourself in the Digital Age
by Michael S. Hyatt

From best-selling author and leading consumer advocate Michael Hyatt comes a startling report of how the government, industry, individuals, and interest groups have access to personal information about you. Fortunately Invasion of Privacy: How to Protect Yourself in the Digital Age contains valuable information about what you can do to protect yourself.

Effective Defense: The Woman, the Plan, the Gun
by Gila May-Hayes

Written by a woman for women who are considering their options for personal protection, both lethal and less than lethal. Clearly written for easy understanding of both technical jargon and the overall concern a woman should have about her surroundings. Recommended reading for any woman who is concerned about her personal safety.

Martial Arts America: A Western Approach to Eastern Arts
by Bob Orlando

This broad survey of martial arts traditions and their evolution to modern Western practice challenges the purpose and effectiveness of many martial arts activities and training methods used in the U.S. today. By focusing on the most effective and relevant way for Americans to pursue the various martial arts, Orlando's useful insights penetrate a subject too often shrouded in mysticism and marketing hype. This book is a good starting point for the uninitiated to learn more about the fighting arts as a self-defense option.

The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace
by Parry Aftab

A no-nonsense guide for keeping kids protected and informed on the Internet is an essential book for any family with a home computer. "The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace" comes highly recommended, with kudos from countless corporations, governmental agencies, and non-profit organizations. Equally useful for long-time users and newcomers to the Internet, parents will find a wealth of useful tips presented in a friendly and entertaining manner.

The Seven Steps to Personal Safety: How to Avoid, Deal With or Survive the Aftermath of a Violent Confrontation
by Richard B. Isaacs, Tim Powers

The foremost book on dealing with violent confrontations. Teaches you how to avoid dangerous situations. Covers everything from avoiding danger, through dealing with unavoidable danger (and dealing with the police afterwards), to coping after a confrontation. Based on the latest techniques used by police and professional bodyguards. Ideal for schools, corporate wellness programs, associations and clubs. Designed for people of all ages, sizes, sexes, and physical abilities.

Fighting Smarter: A Practical Guide
to Surviving a Violent Confrontation
by Tom Givens

Givens' long awaited new textbook, "Fighting Smarter", has been printed and is available at Mothers Arms. This is a companion text to our training courses, and is recommended to anyone serious about being safe in our ever hazardous environment. With almost three hundred pages 75 photos, and professional illustrations, "Fighting Smarter" covers the nuts and bolts of defensive shooting equipment and techniques in detail. More importantly, there is a wealth of information on developing the proper mindset, cultivating awareness skills, mental crisis rehearsal techniques and tips on understanding and spotting the early warning signs of criminal behavior. A better grasp of these vital issues will greatly reduce your vulnerability to attack and keep you out of most trouble. If a fight is unavoidable, however, you must have the proper mindset to prevail. "Fighting Smarter" retails for $24.95, plus $4.00 shipping.

Contact Mothers Arms at (602) 493-1348 in AZ or 1-800-464-4840, or by email to order your copies now.

Gun Proof Your Children/Handgun Primer
by Massad Ayoob

Two books in one: "Gun Proof Your Children" - Keeping children safe from unauthorized guns in their hands or those of others is covered from every direction, including gun locks, methods of storage, and above all, safety training for children and adults as well. "Handgun Primer" - Real world handgun safety, how to shoot, when to fire in self-defense, and gun/ammo/holster choices are discussed by this leading expert.

Guns: What You Should Know
by Rachel Schulson and Mary Jones (illustrator).

A non-judgmental book about firearms safety for children ages 4 to 8. Uses age-appropriate language and examples to educate children about firearms, and emphasizes a safety message consistent with 'Stop!,' 'Don't Touch!,' 'Leave the Area!' and 'Tell an Adult!.'

Protecting Children from Danger: Building Self-Reliance
and Emergency Skills Without Fear
by Bob Bishop and Matt Thomas

New ways to teach children about danger, while building self confidence with exercises to develop courage and a natural, protective spirit. Suited for 6 to 11-year-olds, this book uses games, simulations and exercises based upon proven educational principles.

Dial 911 and Die
by Richard W. Stevens and Garn Turner (illustrator)

"Dial 911 and Die" describes many types of cases in which governmental employees were negligent incompetent, or, in some cases, criminal in their actions: paramedics who refused to respond to a heart attack victim; a parole board which illegally released a violent career criminal; dozens of women who obtained restraining orders against abusive spouses/boyfriends who later murdered them. In each case, the courts ruled that the offending department or jurisdiction could not be sued ..." Robert A. Waters (Amazon.Com reader review)

The Gift of Fear
by Gavin de Becker

A leading expert on predicting violent behavior, de Becker believes we can all learn to recognize intuitive signals of the "universal code of violence," and use them as tools to help us survive. Although de Becker unfortunately trivializes the use of safety rescue tools, his advice on awareness is very helpful.

Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of
Women's Self-Defense
by Martha McCaughey

"I was once a frightened feminist" So begins McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self-defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for feminist theory and activism. Illustrating how self-defense forces a confrontation with central tensions in feminist theory over the body, violence, pleasure, and resistance, McCaughey has given us a highly original treatise that will change the way we think of gender politics, the female body and feminism itself. (publisher review)

Safe, Not Sorry; Keeping Yourself and
Your Family Safe in a Violent Age
by Tanya K. Metaksa

This book is an essential "survival guide" for all law abiding citizens that points out in a straight-forward format our common weaknesses and naivete in our day-to-day lives at work, home or play. Ultimately, every one of us is responsible for our own personal safety. In this book, we are made aware of just how much so, along with some little known surprises regarding the limits of reponsibility our police, society and the law have with regards to our personal safety. (Amazon.Com reader review)

The Truth About Self Protection
by Massad Ayoob

The first mass-market paperback that takes a positive look at the use of guns by citizens for self-defense. The book goes far beyond guns, with down-to-earth advice on the most effective defensive techniques; the most effective legal makeshift weapons; defensive techniques in your car; the truth about locks, alarms, safes and how to really deter burglars; the straight stuff about protective dogs; how to use Mace most effectively; and a wealth of other vital information.