Self-Defense - Crime Awareness and Avoidance: Books, Videos

For the first time since World War II, the United States faces an enemy fully capable of defeating it. Contrary to popular belief, this war did not begin with the attacks of September 11, 2001, and it will not end in Iraq or Afghanistan or with an election here at home. This fight is going to be with us for a very long time. When you are in a fight for your life, you can either be the winner or the loser – there is no middle ground.

If we are going to be the winner, we will have to realize the true nature of this conflict and our enemy. You will not see landing crafts full of al-Qaeda operatives coming ashore on U.S. beaches, nor battalions of radical fanatics parachuting onto your lawn. It is just not that kind of fight. If America loses this war, it will not be because what our enemy was able to do; it will be because of what we have done or failed to do.

Within these pages, Delta Force veteran, Kit Cessna, offers his unapologetic, no-punches-pulled assessment of what this war is really about and why we must defeat these radicals. He explains their history and motivations, and outlines their strengths and weaknesses (yes, they do have weaknesses). Most important, he discusses the role and duties all Americans must embrace in this fight for our survival‹cultural and physical. If you are an American concerned with the future of our nation, this is a must read.

Kit Cessna served in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta (Delta Force), 2nd Ranger Battalion and the 1st Special Forces Group as an A-Team member. While in Delta Force, he saw combat action in the 1989 invasion of Panama. Currently, he is an instructor for the U.S. State Department Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program and is the lead instructor for the Southern Anti-Terrorist Training Academy in Louisiana. He has served as a reserve SWAT officer for two police departments.
$14.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-718-5 142 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Imagine this scenario: It's late at night and you and your family are fast asleep in your beds. Everything's quiet and calm until you hear a crash downstairs. Is it just a burglar looking for an easy snatch-and-grab or a predator with murder on his mind? Do you creep stealthily toward the noise, your trusty shotgun at the ready? What if he has friends? Can you keep your family safe in a firefight? What do you do? In this groundbreaking video production from Paladin Press firearms and security expert Louis Awerbuck gives you the answers to these frightening questions. Awerbuck shows you how to set up a safe room in your home that will keep just about any intruder out, how to evaluate your home tactically, what to do and what not to do when you hear a "bump in the night" and which strategies will guarantee your safety in the event of a home invasion. Using realistic scenarios, Awerbuck also teaches proper weapon selection for home defense, secrets of using reflection and shadow to give you the tactical edge, the realities of tactical movement and more. This DVD is an absolute necessity for any homeowner.

Louis Awerbuck is the owner/director of the Yavapai Firearms Academy, a small-arms training operation based in Prescott, Arizona. He served as Chief Rangemaster at the American Pistol Institute and is an adjunct instructor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Central Training Academy.
$19.95
DVD-R 805966 022932 55 minutes

Kit Cessna, a combat-tested veteran of the U.S. Army's supersecret Delta Force, knows a lot about survival. Drawing on his experience as a career soldier, a SWAT officer and a Louisiana resident who provided security during Hurricane Katrina, Cessna examines what it takes to survive in America today and offers a wake-up call for those citizens who expect the government, or anyone else, to take care of them in any disaster, natural or man-made.

Cessna's number-one rule for survival is that the party primarily responsible for your continued existence is you. This book will teach you how to develop a stay-alive attitude, make yourself mentally tough enough for any situation, control your fear during a confrontation, choose the right weapon for various situations and deal with the emotional and legal aftermath of an attack or natural disaster.

Kit Cessna served in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta (Delta Force), 2nd Ranger Battalion and the 1st Special Forces Group as an A-Team member. While in Delta Force, he saw combat action in the 1989 invasion of Panama. Currently, he is an instructor for the U.S. State Department Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program and is the lead instructor for the Southern Anti-Terrorist Training Academy in Louisiana. He has served as a reserve SWAT officer for two police departments.
$15.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-504-4 146 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

If you want practical solutions to the violence that permeates today's society, this book offers savvy advice for dealing with everything from an unwarranted physical attack to the often ironic legal aftermath. Author Jerry VanCook explains the need for developing a working personal defense system and strives to instill the mind-set required to put it to work when violence strikes. Presenting tactics and techniques that are basic, easy to learn and proven effective under the stress of combat, he covers unarmed defense, improvised weapons, edged weapons, firearms and more.

Jerry VanCook has trained thousands of police officers, military personnel and civilians in both armed and unarmed defense over the past 30 years. He spent 14 years in law enforcement with various agencies.
$20.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-044-5 224 pages 8.5" x 5.5" photos, illust.

This is an entertaining street-level look at how crimes are really committed in America's cities. Chris and Animal use their NY–L.A. experience to help you learn the games carjackers, muggers, "gangstas," rapists, junkies and conmen play - and how to avoid them.

Marc "Animal" MacYoung knows the ins and outs of American violence. He is the author of many books and has appeared in countless videos on street violence and self-defense for Paladin. Reading his books and watching his videos will save you a lot of hassles and a lot of hurt.

Chris Pfouts is a professional writer and the author of the Paladin book True Tales of American Violence.
$30.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-775-5 320 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Safe in the Street will not teach you how to fight. It will show you how to prevent an attack by being aware of the danger signs that precede one. Learn the three stages of an impending assault and the right reaction to each. Plus, learn with Safe in the Street how your attitudes and actions warn thugs that you are not a "safe" victim and attacking you is not worth the risk.

Marc "Animal" MacYoung knows the ins and outs of American violence. He is the author of many books and has appeared in countless videos on street violence and self-defense for Paladin. Reading his books and watching his videos will save you a lot of hassles and a lot of hurt.
$19.95
DVD-R 805966 057538 51 minutes

Here Animal tells you how to survive when you're outflanked and outgunned. Rather than clashing head-on with every problem that comes along, you need to learn to apply hit-and-run tactics, utilize the environment and use your enemies' weaknesses against them.

Marc "Animal" MacYoung knows the ins and outs of American violence. He is the author of many books and has appeared in countless videos on street violence and self-defense for Paladin. Reading his books and watching his videos will save you a lot of hassles and a lot of hurt.
$20.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-743-4 192 pages 5.5" x 8.5" illustrations

Kelly McCann's professional credentials in the art of crime avoidance and self-defense are as good as it gets: on-site security specialist in the world's hottest of hot spots, combatives instructor to ultrahigh-speed military and police units, and hands-on security trainer to international corporations, among other sensitive assignments. Here is a compilation of the best of his wildly popular "Personal Security" columns in Guns & Ammo magazine. It covers the entire spectrum of personal security issues, with street-savvy ideas and twists you will find nowhere else. Learn how to vastly improve the physical security of your home; develop alert street smarts; stay safe while traveling in your vehicle, out of town or abroad; recognize and avoid crimes of the new millennium; keep your children safe; choose and use effective nonlethal weapons; engage in nasty unarmed combat; and utilize practical shooting skills that have been perfected in real-life situations. From spotting trouble before it happens to surviving a riot to handling a firearm like a pro, this book has it all!

Kelly McCann is one of America's foremost experts on personal and corporate security, armed and unarmed combat, and antiterrorist tactics. As the CEO of Crucible Security Specialists, he and his staff have provided security training for audiences ranging from elite U.S. counterterrorist units to Fortune 500 executives. He is also known to the public as "Jim Grover," former personal security editor for Guns and Ammo magazine and noted author of numerous instructional videos on armed and unarmed close combat and the best-selling book Street Smarts, Firearms, and Personal Security.
$35.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-067-4 280 pages 8.5" x 11" photos, Illust.

Ft. Hood, Virginia Tech, Main Street, USA. Hardly a week goes by without another deadly rampage somewhere. We'd like to think it's impossible that the familiar places we visit every day – "comfort zones" such as our mall, church, school, or office – could suddenly become twisted into the scene of the latest tragedy. But this alarming epidemic crosses every border and affects everyone. Most people either deny the problem or think that nothing can be done to prevent or survive such an attack. Arthur Cohen, an educator for 33 years who has worked closely with various law enforcement agencies on safety issues, knows better.

In Surviving a Massacre, Rampage, or Spree Killing, he analyzes past incidents to define who these killers are and what we can expect from them in the future, and then shows you how to formulate a plan of action for surviving one of these terrifying situations. He focuses on what the average person can do to stay alive in the first deadly minutes, because most incidents end in a matter of minutes, usually before the police arrive, putting the burden of survival squarely on the shoulders of those caught in the rampage. Cohen provides practical tactics and strategies – many derived from what did or didn't work in real-life attacks – to give you the best chance of surviving a spree, rampage, or mass killing, wherever the location.

This thoughtful, well-reasoned book goes beyond the hype to provide real answers to a very difficult problem.

Arthur Cohen is a nationally and internationally known author and personal safety expert. He taught junior and senior high science for 33 years before designing and teaching courses in school safety at several universities.
$19.95
Softcover 978-1-58160-725-3 190 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Most books about school violence focus on anti-bullying programs and counseling; Surviving a School Shooting by retired cop Loren Christensen takes a hard, realistic look at teaching kids what they will need to know if a gunman walks into their school.

What was once unimaginable and rare is now, tragically, part of life, and it's all too easy to summon that terrible image of a school surrounded by police officers, emergency vehicles and frantic parents and kids. Shootings have happened at large, urban schools and at small schools in sleepy little towns with low crime rates, because all it takes is one disturbed person to turn a seemingly safe school into a grim statistic.

Unfortunately, even responsible parents who warn their kids about drunk driving and other risky behaviors commonly send their children off to school without having what may be the most important talk of all: "What would you do if someone showed up with a weapon?"

In Surviving a School Shooting, Christensen teaches parents how to work with their children – from elementary schoolers to teens – to develop an age-­appropriate plan of action that includes developing an awareness of surroundings and critical thinking skills. Within the pages of this book are ideas and techniques to teach kids how to feel safer at school; when to tell adults about rumors or threats; how to mentally rehearse a response to a shooting; and what to do when a shooting occurs: when to run and how to run; when to hide and how to hide; when to fight and how to fight.

Just as a fire drill prepares a child to calmly follow a path to safety in a burning building, the information in Surviving a School Shooting will train students to begin thinking strategically, defensively and offensively in case violence erupts at their school.

Loren W. Christensen is a Vietnam veteran, a retired police officer with 29 years of law enforcement experience and a martial artist since 1965. His police experience includes working gang enforcement, street patrol, dignitary protection and three years spent teaching in several middle schools on a variety of topics of concern to kids. As a writer, Loren has penned 40 books and dozens of magazine articles on a variety of subjects. While his target audience is most often what he calls "the warrior community" – martial artists, cops and soldiers – his writing, which includes a variety of other subjects, is also popular among high school and college students, parents and professionals of every kind. He can be contacted through his website at www.lwcbooks.com.
$20.00
Softcover 978-1-58160-659-1 152 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

When you walk into a place, you have to be able to instantly identify the fighters, hustlers, workers, spectators and troublemakers. Find out how Animal and other professionals do this, based on their experiences as bouncers, drug dealers, bikers, prison officials and street people.

Marc "Animal" MacYoung knows the ins and outs of American violence. He is the author of many books and has appeared in countless videos on street violence and self-defense for Paladin. Reading his books and watching his videos will save you a lot of hassles and a lot of hurt.
$30.00
Softcover 978-0-87364-671-0 344 pages 5.5" x 8.5"

Starting with the author's wrenching account of being raped despite her years of martial arts training, Women's Street Combat from Paladin Press takes you far beyond the typical women's self-defense program to give you the real stuff: principles and tactics designed specifically to defeat a determined sexual predator.

Lifetime martial artist and assault survivor Kimber Johnson knows from brutal personal experience what will and won't work against a rapist, and teaches you a series of street-realistic techniques based on what real sexual predators do to make women victims, not ­fantasy-based martial arts with no basis in reality. This includes defenses against hair-pulling, choking and being pinned, three of the most common attacks women must deal with in a life-or-death struggle; how to go to the ground on your terms, not your attacker's, if you're suddenly shoved from any direction; scenario-based training designed to teach you how to deal with situations ranging from dealing with a drunk at a club to recognizing the precursors of a true assault; and more.

A rape attempt is one of the most horrific assaults a woman can experience; Women's Street Combat will teach you how to prevail if you are unlucky enough to be targeted by a predator. For information purposes only.

Kimber Johnson began her career in martial arts at the age of 4. She is a World Champion Forms/Fighting and AAU Champion with a 17 and 0 amateur boxing record, and holds a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do and a first-degree black belt in kung fu. A co-founder of the Women's Street Combat Rape Prevention program, she is also the mother of four children.
$29.95
DVD-R 805966 057934 60 minutes