The Gift of Fear - Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Hardcover, New)

• A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers to help carry a woman's groceries. Is he a good Samaritan or is he after something else?
• A fired employee says, "You'll be sorry." Will he return with a gun?
• After their first date, a man tells a woman it is their "destiny" to be together. What will he do when she rejects him?
• A teenager is obsessed with "death metal" music and fascinated with guns. Is he going to kill someone?
• A mother has an uneasy feeling about the nice baby-sitter she's just hired. Should she cancel her plans?
• A man is threatened by his girlfriend's angry ex-husband. Should he go to the police?

Now, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior, proves that we are all qualified to answer life's highest-stakes questions. "True fear is a gift," he says, because it is a survival signal that sounds only in the presence of danger; yet unwarranted fear has assumed a power over us that it holds over no other creature on earth. It need not be this way.

In this extraordinary, groundbreaking book, de Becker shows that you can already predict violent behavior. Through dozens of compelling stories from his own career, he lays out the pieces of the human violence puzzle and shows how you can solve it by paying attention to the subtle and sometimes blatant signals of intuition. As he says, "you can refuse to be a victim."

Filled with unique and surprising insights into human behavior, The Gift of Fear will help you separate real from imagined danger, give you confidence in a sometimes threatening world, and make your life measurably safer.

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