Protect yourself: A self-defense guide for women from prevention to counter-attack (A Spectrum book)

By Robert G. Barthol

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137314221
• ISBN13: 9780137314225
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.

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Protect Yourself

If you're a woman concerned about being robbed, raped, or assaulted, Protect Yourself shows how to prevent these crimes from happening to you. It teaches realistic defensive maneuvers you can use if you are attacked to guard against injury and to escape safely from your assailant. Written by Robert G. Barthol, an experienced law-enforcement official, this book provides practical suggestions for keeping intruders out of your home, apartment, and car, and tells what to do if they get in. Explaining how to deal with specific situations - the amouros repairman, obscene phone calls, purse snatchers - the author presents tips for walking the streets safely at night, being assertive, and staying calm in an emergency situation. Scores of drawings and photographs illustrate the easy-to-learn defensive techniques that anyone - women, men, even youngsters - can use. Protect Yourself shows how to use surprise, speed, and the attacker's weight and momentum to your advantage, and how to use your teeth, hands, and other natural weapons to produce an immediate and painful reaction in your attacker. Explaining how to practice these techniques so that they become part of your automatic reflexes, Protect Yourself provides the information you need to increase your security and prevent yourself from becoming an assailants next victim. --- from book's back cover