{"product_id":"the-gift-of-fear","title":"The Gift of Fear","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\n\n\n\nProtect yourselfby learning how to trust \n and act on \n your instinctswith the \"empowering\" #1bestseller from personal safety expert Gavin de Becker (Boston Globe).\n\nA carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a gun. These days, no one is safe from the specter of violence. But according to Gavin de Becker, everyone can feel safer, act safer, be safer -- if they learn how to listen to their own sixth sense about danger.\n\nDe Becker has made a career of protecting people and predicting violent behavior. His firm handles security for many of the leading figures in Hollywood and Silicon Valley,and his computerized risk-assessment system helps analyze threats to members of Congress and the Supreme Court. Now, in this unprecedented guide, de Becker shares his expertise with everyone. Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trustour own intuitions. For everyone who's ever felt threatened, this book is essential reading.\n\n\n\nReview\n\n\n\"A how-to book that reads like a thriller...provocative...empowering.\"\nBoston Globe\n\n\"De Becker has a lot to say about crime and the fear of crime, and he says it persuasively...His blend of empathy, reassurance, and common sense wows readers.\"\nNewsweek\n\n\"\nThe Gift of Fearoffers the gift of survival. Read it.\"\nLinden Gross, author of To Have or to Harm\n\nSuperb and compelling, bringing into focus the complexity of human response to real or perceived danger. De Becker redefines the parameters of fear and challenges the basis of a fear response. This book is for everyone who has ever feared.\nAnn Wolpert Burgess, Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania\n\nThis book can save your lifeIt should be read by everyone who wants to triumph over fear.\nScott Gordon, former Chairman of the Los Angeles County Domestic Violence Council\n\nThe ability to protect oneself from violent behavior, largely through ones own intuition, is the central premise of de Beckers bookthus, fear is a gift. The book taps the anxieties of an era.\nNew York Times\n\nGavin de Beckers book is the first to explain that our powers of intuition are the best protection we have against violence.\nDaniel M. Petrocelli, lead counsel for plaintiffs in Fred Goldman v. O. J. Simpson\n\nA tour de forceRiveting, instructive, a book that dissects the phenomenon of violence, unravels its mysteries, and shows us how to prevail.\nErika Holzer, author of Eye for an Eye\n\nShould be required reading for women\nand their loved ones. It offers potentially life-saving information in a style that is compelling. It is by far the best book I have read on how to handle violence, and I recommend it to one and all.\nTheresa Saldana, actress and founder of Victims for Victims\n\nGavin de Beckers brilliant insights and encyclopedic familiarity with the minds of criminals have made powerful contributions to the successful prosecution of many cases, including mine, and now he shares that knowledge with his readers.\nMarcia Clark, prosecutor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFEATURES\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46567282278623,"sku":"S44771131","price":21.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0581\/9701\/6765\/files\/91yIVkLIPDL.jpg?v=1733721539","url":"https:\/\/speedmerchant65.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gift-of-fear","provider":"The Hungry Bookworm \u0026 Speedmerchant65","version":"1.0","type":"link"}