When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake

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Self-defense expert Tim Larkin presents an important book examining how to think about violence in order to defend ourselves and those we love.

In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it’s the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, “Move and you die.” The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat.

In this essential book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives. By deconstructing our assumptions about violence—its morality, its function in modern society, how it actually works—Larkin unlocks the shackles of our own taboos and arms us with what we need to know to prevent, prepare for, and survive the unthinkable event of life-or-death violence.

Through a series of harrowing true-life stories, Larkin demonstrates that violence is a tool equally effective in the hands of the “bad guy” or the “good guy”; that the person who acts first, fastest and with the full force of their body is the one who survives; and that each and every one of us is capable of being that person when our lives are at stake.

An indispensable resource, When Violence is the Answer will remain with you long after you’ve finished reading, as the bedrock of your self-protection skills and knowledge.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N2ZVBQS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6.6 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 279 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316354639
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Customers find this book essential for understanding violence, particularly its differences from social aggression, and appreciate its detailed explanations and thought-provoking content that makes them think differently about daily situations. Moreover, they consider it a definitive work that delivers the inside truth about violence, and one customer notes it thoroughly explores avoidance and retreat as preferable strategies to violence. Additionally, customers value its life-saving approach to self-defense and consider it well worth the purchase.