Health and Safety Books

A friend loaned me this book after she read it for her book club.
Dark Tide was an excellent book. I really enjoyed the connection of the tragedy to the political enviroment of the day. I also enjoyed the fact that the attorney for the plaintiffs was a graduate of Williams College, a fine Massachusetts College and my son's alma mater. The only part of the book that was unsatisfying to me was the long period of time it took the judge to write his decision, and the eternity it took for the poor victims to actually receive compensation.

Growing up outside of Boston, my father told me about the molasses flood many, many times. It was a story passed down to him from my grandfather, an immigrant from Greece who arrived in Boston 9 years before the tank exploded. I always wondered about this tragedy, and this book brings it into full focus. It is well written and keeps the reader interested. I highly recommend this book.

Enjoyed reading "Dark Tide" because the author did a better than fair job of tying in the pieces so to speak, placing the incident in historical context that stretched across continents and many generations. All too often, safety and caution were thrown to the winds when it looked like profit might suffer from it. Usually, when we look at incidents like this the profit was eventually lost and many lives suffered. Can we call this old practice? No, just look at the product recall lists and try to figure in what is missed.

The research for this book is phenominal. Steve Puleo answers any question the reader may have about this event. Many articles have been published over the years about the Molasses event but none as indepth as this book. All history buffs, fans of Boston or just reading a good story will enjoy this book.

Blank stares, or expressions of disbelief are the usual reactions that people display when being told about a fifteen-foot tidal wave of Molasses sweeping through the narrow streets of Boston's North End during World War I. People feel that the possibility of a person being swept away and drowned in what most of them think of as only a sugary topping for pancakes or waffles seems impossible. But for the 21 people and many horses and other animals who actually drowned in the icky goo and the many more who were permanently injured by being slammed into brick walls or buried under falling buildings, the image was all too real.
Stephen Puleo writes in such a skilled manner as to make his readers feel like they were actually there, either caught up in the nightmarish flood of black goop or observing it first hand. He was blessed in his research by discovering all the transcripts and interviews from the many lengthy court cases that followed the 1919 disaster were still available. Those cases led to many reforms to the Boston and the rest of the nation's building and zoning codes. The horrible accident could have been avoided. There were plenty of indications of the impending disaster. Over many months, when too many streams of molasses were seen running down the sides of the 50-foot high storage tank and neighborhood children were regularly coming over to collect some of the sugary syrup as a sweet treat, the reaction of the manager of the storage tank was to paint the tank the same color as the molasses so that the problem wasn't as noticeable.
Thankfully, this terrible tragedy greatly curtailed the future placement of dangerous storage tanks or other industries in crowded residential neighborhoods. This book is a fascinating read. It also provides many incisive insights into the Italian Immigration of Boston and the USA as it was prior to World War I. The only weakness I detected in the book was the attempt to tie the Sacco/Vanzetti convictions and later executions into the story. They were two of the anarchist's leaders who were advocating armed revolution and terror bombings during the period of the story, but the connection with the main story of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 was a bit of a stretch. The inclusion of their story is mostly a distraction from this excellent history of a surreal disaster that swept through the quaint street canyons of historic Boston. This easy-to-read narrative should be required reading for all Boston high schools and colleges.

With the dollar being devalued, banks closing and oil prices rising I fear the inevitable. This book is quite helpful in helping myself and my family get organized with very helpful ideas.

I am glad to have read this one. I feel much more prepared but realize there's more to do. I enjoyed the narratives and writing style, as well.

This book should be required reading in all High Schools across America.
It would solve most of the challenges Americans have with their family and living conditions.
One of the best 'be ready" books I have read in the past 35 years.
Dallas Texas

Cute lil cartoon illustrations made it feel more like it was aimed at school children than adults. If the SHTF this isn't the book that I would want to prepare with or use as a reference after the fact.

the book has a lot of good points, not in the manner i would have written it but you cannot argue their is a lot of great information in it that could really help your family in a time of distress

This book really delivers on it's promise. Not only does it go over a lot of questions that cyclist have it actually gives detailed answers on how to address those questions. I can see myself using this book for a long while.

This is a most amazing book on many levels. It is a reference book, a book of interviews with the great names in the bicycling world, a book packed with fitness tips for all ages, interviews with people who have biked for years and years and still bike. Here's just on piece of advice I got from an interview: "Don't sit down for an hour after dinner" and "find a gear you like to ride in and just stay in it" and so much more. You really don't even have to be a bike rider to get alot out of this book.

Alternates between being inspirational and educational. Plan to get it for my biking friends when they hit 40 or 50. Lots of useful information and a good read.

This book got me fired up about cycling. Having fought a lifetime battle with weight and health demons, I have recently lost 80 lbs by swimming, cycling and running. However, I need constant inspiration to maintain my current level of fitness.

Through their own awe-inspiring cycling achievements, along with other amazing cycling personalities, the authors have written a book that entertains, educates and inspires. I have placed it on my "top shelf" where it is accessible for future reference along with all of my favorite books.

This book explains why it is necessary for older riders to stretch before riding and to avoid simple sugars. I am not sure knowing those things will make me do them, but reading the book does move me in the direction of better habits.

I really liked the interviews. I learned something useful in each one of them. They are also the sort of thing that inspires you to ride. Reading descriptions of how to do various exercises was not easy. Perhaps drawings or photos would have helped. Still, I would rather be riding than doing exercises, no matter how advisable it is to do the exercises.

This book will have an effect on my training and riding style. One of the most helpful sections was about using one's glutes more for added power in pedaling. I may not revise everything I do immediately, but I will read my underlinings again and again. In time I will be doing more of what this book suggests.

Several times I thought I would not be at all interested in a new chapter's topic. But, when I got into the chapter it was even more interesting than the previous chapter. Some of the topics were also vital, like watching out for osteoporosis.

The immediately most helpful thing I learned by reading this book was how to utilize and strengthen my 'glutes' for more power and more endurance. I can ride longer and faster with less soreness afterward now. That information alone was worth the cost of the book.

There is some good information on preserving and building relationships, but most of the people cited for their life stories were better examples of broken relationships. Cycling can be addictive and a non-cycling spounse is not always content to sit at home and wait for the cyclist to return home.

It is generally very enjoyable to read.

This book should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in maintaining their health. As someone whose husband has been diagnosed with mercury/heavy metal poisoning due to the mercury amalgams in his teeth, I can testify to the devastating affects this poison can cause to the human body. My husband went from being a very strong, healthy 52 year old man who was never sick to a very ill one in a matter of months. Until we figured out what was wrong with him, my husband was preparing himself and me to die - he was that sick. We went from doctor to doctor trying to find out what was wrong with him - we even made a trip to the Cleveland Clinic, but all any of those doctors could do was tell him the didn't know what was wrong, what was causing it and then prescribe drugs to mask his symptoms. It was finally through our own exhaustive research that we made the connection between his symptoms and his teeth. Unfortunately, we didn't figure things out quite soon enough as he has lost part of the vision in one of his eyes, and we don't know if he will recover that sight. We were fortunate to locate a dentist that trained with Dr. Huggins and that follows Dr. Huggins' protocol. My husband is undergoing having all of his amalgams, crowns and root canals removed and replaced with compatible materials. Dr. Huggins' book is a life saver - it is well written, easy to understand and so very informative. After reading his book as well as Dr. Russel Blaylock's Health and Nutrition Secrets (another book I highly recommend), everything made sense.

Our new dentist referred my husband to a wellness center and to a wonderful functional medicine specialist who has developed a custom chelation protocol to remove these toxins from my husband's body. He's getting better, but we don't know yet what permanent effects he will have from this. I'm grateful that this information is gradually coming to light - I wish more people, especially the mainstream media, would pick up on it a bit more.

I get very angry whenever I think about what the dental community has done to my husband and to millions of other unsuspecting folks. The very agencies designed to protect us, the FDA and the ADA, have done a horrible job of that, and they refuse to admit that they are a problem. I find it ironic that they now warn pregnant women and children not to have amalgams placed, but apparently they are okay for everyone else? Mercury has no place in the human body regardless of whether you are 3 or 93! It is one of the most toxic substances known to man - mercury thermometers and mercurochrome have quietly disappeared off the store shelves; the EPA website offers very specific instructions on how to clean up after breaking a fluorescent lightbulb; the package insert for amalgam has a skull and crossbones and instruction on how to dispose of the excess (call haz mat) - yet the FDA and ADA deem it safe to place in teeth inches away from the brain and spinal cord. In fact the department of health and environment for the state where I live currently has a Mercury Collection Program ongoing and it cites all of the dangers of mercury, but not one word about amalgams (although dentists are free to participate!).

Get this book - it could save your life!

Very easy to read and understand. This book will and should scare the amalgams out of you. I've done a lot of research into this subject and have found almost all of the information in this book to be absolutely true and actuate. If your health is suffering and your doctor can't give you a valid reason why you need to read this book. I wish there was a way I could convey what I know to be the truth to you about this subject without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. If you have silver (Mercury) amalgams do the research and have them removed and you will know what thousands of others have found out about the most deadly poison in the world. It will change your life!

As a person with a dental background, I would like to say: To my knowledge, all Dr. Hal Huggins has said about Mercury toxicity and its effects on the brain and nervous system is correct. It is truth. For those who defend the dental community and ADA, you do not know who owns the patent on this mercury filling. It would be a big liability. *Also please read any of the health books by Dr. Blaylock a neurosurgeon exposing metal toxicity as well as other legal poisons in our everyday lives.

Next, I would like to tell you: Having my Root Canals extracted is the biggest regret of my life. My facial bones have resorbed and shrunk, without the compression forces of biting everyday. My smile, speech, chewing are all effected. I will have alot of surgery ahead of me so that I do not develop neuralgia, and I have other complications. The mercury that I had removed, was good choice. Glad to be rid of it. Just don't breathe the vapors, which is the methylated mercury and the deadliest kind.

My warning to you is: How do you know your Holistic Dentist knows what he is doing? Because mine didn't. Make sure your spaces a filled as soon as the gums have healed and are ready. Dentures are not natural, they have chemicals in the pink plastic, and also making eating difficult. If you are young, you need to be aware that without balanced number of teeth in your dental arch (top and bottom) there will be gradual changes to your jaw and facial bones. Also, I have found some Holistic dentists are not truly holistic in philosophy, and have chosen to get on the Alternative medicine band-wagon to pump up their business. Some- not all.


Please be careful.

Dr. Huggins is very honest and well meaning, from what I can see. But he may not have been in practice long enough after he made this discovery to develop better ways of dealing with subsequent problems long term. The people he trains will hopefully pick up where he left off. This book gets 4 Stars for Dr. Huggins bravery and sacrafice. I am hopeful for you all, just understand once a tooth is gone, you can't get it back. Believe me I looked into regrowing them and genetics too, its not happening --yet.

Jam packed with extremely helpful information that will challenge what you think about the mercury they're putting into people's teeth everyday, every hour of the day. It's unbelievable that it's legal to put mercury into the human body whatsoever!

You can prove or disprove anything with a little hocus pocus. After 200 years of using silver fillings(mercury) you think the FDA would not allow something if it was harmful--hummmm!!! Wonder how much money he made off this book?
For all the people using these "white" fillings--composites--just to replace silver filling--I wonder what chemicals leak from these polymers? They haven't been in use as long as metal filings.
I'm donating my book to the garbage can.

This is the book that in 1998 convinced me to change from a career in aviation design to one in avation safety. Vaughan suprised herself when a study into anticipated management wrongdoing became a safety study. Sometimes hard going but a rewarding read with 3 powerful concepts emerging.

It was a well-researched book but it seemed to me that she spent a lot of time repeating herself regarding the decision-making process. She did reach the most logical conclusion - the Challenger explosion was an engineering mistake and not the result of NASA management weighing risk against cost. She does turn upside-down the official result of the official investigations that ruled it was "middle-management under performance pressure" - which never made sense to me anyway. However, there are some conclusions she reaches that might possibly not have made any difference in the end. She states that one of the flaws in the teleconference was the lack of video, which prevented the persons involved in the conference to read the body language of the other participants. I think she overlooks the fact that many engineering types are also on the autistic spectrum - specifically on the Asperger Syndrome side of the spectrum - and therefore have the inability to read body language in the first place. In that case, a video teleconference would not have made any difference or would not have made much difference.

I was excited to read a new book by the author of Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior, one of my favorite books and a must read for anyone hoping to make it in the corporate world. And this book is fascinating and obviously well researched, but can this really be the whole story? It seems to me that in an organization like NASA that is used to dealing with over-the-top secret activities, it shouldn't be too hard to pull the wool over the eyes of a professor they're showing around! Even your second rate candy company is going to be a web of intrigue--and if there's some malfeasance going on, don't expect to uncover it by talking to a focus group of techies! If you're going to learn something, you're going to need to go deep cover, and you're going to need to be bribing people and if you're going to take your story to the public, you'll need to simplify things--get all your ducks in a row, make a little tableau--otherwise it's too complex for the layperson to understand. And so you find you've got to fight the devil with fire.

And probably if any of those techies ever did stumble upon the core of what was going on, I bet he high-tailed it out of there faster than you can say Ethel Rosenberg! So it's a good book, but I'd won't be surprised if before I die, the real story comes out. [10]

This is a theoretically profound book and it is highly readable. Wonderful book! I enjoy it very much!

I found this book very informative on the Challenger accident and the "culture of risk" at NASA. However, I feel the author drags on too long with her NASA-bashing. The book could stand to be about 100-150 pages shorter. I think the phrase "beating a dead horse" is appropriate.

There is a risk that comes with everything, even taking a peaceful walk in the woods, does that mean we shouldn't? Vaccines DO save lives, do some more research on real medical literature written by people more knowledgeable on the topic than the author. It is absolutely inconceivable, and egoistic not to vaccinate your children and it would prove to be a complete disaster in the long run. Talk to, see and stay with a person that has Diphtheria, Tetanus or Pertussis for a few moments before you make the decision. Trust me the diseases still exist and they will and might get back if people made the decision not to vaccinate and THAT is scary!

What is wrong with people? Why do you think there is some conspiracy to hurt children with immunizations?

The development of vaccines is the most important invention in the history of medicine. They have saved millions of lives - that is a fact.

There is always risk to any medical treatment - but parents who do not vaccinate their children are putting their children at risk for serious medical problems. Please do not put your trust in one or two people on the fringes of medicine who lack even a basic education in medicine. Why would you listen to such counsel? I truly do not understand...

When your car breaks down, do you take it to the grocery story? When your pipes get clogged, do you call your banker?
When your child is sick, do you take him to a political historian? I certainly hope not.

The author of this book has no medical education other than medical history. It was written with a political bent.
"Harris L. Coulter; Ph.D. - biography
# July 1969 - Awarded degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) by Columbia University, NY; dissertation title: Political and Social Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Medicine in the United States: The Formation of the American Medical Association and its Struggle with the Homeopathic and Eclectic Physicians.
# 1961 - Awarded M.A. by Columbia University, NY (Political Science).
# 1954 - Awarded B.A. by Yale University, CT (Russian Area Studies)."
from Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research

If you live near an old cemetery, just take a stroll sometime and look at the dates on the old headstones from the 1800's and you will get a first-hand look at the pre-vaccine era.

And if you decide not vaccinate your children, never let them leave the United States -- at least they benefit from herd immunity here.

I read this book after I had already planned on not vaccinating. It still was a blessing. It has some heart wrenching stories about real families who were damaged by something that doctors say(really lie about) will protect you. My son had an adverse reaction to a vaccination. The doctors are either mis-informed or LIARS!!! Greedy for gain and they could care less about you. But I as a human being, who knows nothing about you is giving you advise: READ THIS BOOK AND OTHERS, DONT BE A FOLLOWER, YOUR CHILDRENS LIVES DEPEND ON IT, YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS ONE DAY, DONT EVER VACCINATE!!!!

A MUST READ BOOK-YOU WILL BE GLAD THAT YOU DID.
VERY WELL DOCUMENTED

I wish I had read this book before I had my daughter vaccinated,unfortunately she died right after receiving her vaccines in 2001,they tried blaming it on SIDS(very easy cover up) but I hired a lawyer and proved it wrong,I didn't get any money nor did I want that as it won't replace what I lost,I wanted to prove a point.If parents only knew what was in these vaccines and how alot of these aren't really needed they would be appalled.There is a reason they make you sign a consent form in the Dr's office and every state has a Vaccine Injury Compensation Program(VICP) and a VAERS(vaccine adverse event reporting system)in place.Alot of Dr's won't even vaccine their own kids because of the dangers and Dr's get paid a set amount of $ to administer these shots to our kids.Read this book please,all the side effects that our kids experience after receiving the vaccine are NOT normal.If I only knew then what I know now.One more thing,when the schools and daycares tell you that they can't enter without the vaccines,don't believe them,there are very easy ways around it,my son goes to school no problem without them and is healthy as can be.

Shame on Amazon.com for including a link to a sanofi-pasteur ADVERTISEMENT for DPT vaccine in this book's listing information!
I am appalled that Amazon is so hard up for cash they must resort to taking blood-money from the corporations responsible for our children's nightmare. While we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars attempting to reverse the damage done to our children by this and other pharmaceutical companies, Amazon helps them to blow smoke to other unsuspecting parents and lull them into ignorant complacency regarding "government-recommended vaccinations". There is only ONE thing driving the govt's vaccination schedule, and that is MONEY.
And now these same companies add insult to injury (literally) by getting congress to pass laws to prevent them from owning up to their complicity in the damage done to our children?
Enough! Enough being a nation of sheep, all jumping off a cliff one after the other.
READ THIS BOOK and take it to heart! Your legislators (with few notable exceptions) don't care about your children, only their own deep pockets.
*Educate before you vaccinate*
*Your child...Your choice*
The message in this book (and others like it) NEEDS to be made common knowledge; the sooner the better for the health of America's children.

Especially for anyone with children, a must read! A lot of us think we know how to protect our children but we must be honest with ourselves and admit we don't know everything!

Very informative information in regards to the type of people that are in our society. When it comes to children, you can never be too careful.

I think every person that has a child in their home should read this book. I also think children over 14 years of age should read this book.

If you have the internet,if you have kids (THIS IS A MUST READ FOR PARENTS!), if you love kids, if you work around kids, if you hate the actions of pedophiles that become sexual predators and feel they should be incarated unitl Jesus comes back, or you think hey should get treatment and that is the best solution, get the freakin book!
It covers all of these issues and all of the operations and catching these sexual predatory dirtbags. ( Ofcourse I'm a "locker upper!")It is a great read, Chris Hansen is well spoken on all issues, and just does a great job with this one! Its full of information and sometimes will make you say "What" and sometimes "HMMMMM." It is probably the best beginners book for reading on the issue of online predators. There are more explicit and problably more scientific ones but this should be on every internet crimes against children bookshelf. GET THE BOOK!!!

Based on the popular "To Catch a Predator" series, Chris Hanson wrote this book. This is an informative book that all parents should read. About 30% of it is about the TV program and the rest is written like a guidebook. Chris Hanson includes other stories from families and experts, as well. I have watched "To Catch a Predator" from the beginning and really enjoy it. It's great to watch these weasels (my apologies to all weasels) get arrested and I know that this show is doing a lot of good. There is also a spin-off of sorts that started on MSNBC recently called "Predator Raw" which includes extra clips from passed shows. Some have even whispered that because of Chris Hanson's immense popularity on "Dateline" he was partly behind Stone Phillips getting the axe. I don't know if that's true or not; but I'm always happy to see a man with a multi-million-dollar contract who does absolutely nothing get his walking papers. My only complaint about Chris Hanson is that he has done some "To Catch a Predator" parodies which are rather inappropriate and tasteless. In my opinion, he is in no position to bite the hand the feeds him because he should know more than anyone how serious this is.

This book is a nice simple way to pave the way for more conversations about this topic.

After reviewing several books, I found this to be the most appropriate book for my preschooler on this topic. It is a good place to start having conversations with your child and is sufficiently vague enough not to frighten him or her. I think if you have the expectation that this book IS the conversation, you will be disappointed.

This book is the best one I found on this topic for very young and innocent children. My daughter scares very easily so I needed something that would not scare her but help her understand she needs to keep her privates covered. This helped but we still have occasions when she forgets to keep the dresses DOWN! LOL

I have two girls (ages 4 and 2) and have been struggling with how to introduce the topic of inappropriate touching to them. This book made it much easier. It handles the subject matter-of-factly and with simple to understand terms. Children learn that it's OK if they don't want to be touched, that their private areas are those that are covered by a bathing suit, and that touching is never a secret. I think it's important to introduce this subject to children at a young age and this book allows you do so in a non-threatening, non-frightening way.

I bought two of these little books so my children could read them to their preschool kids. It gives even preliterate children the ability to talk about things that might happen to them, despite our best efforts to protect them. If they know how to talk about improper touching, we can intervene much quicker. Besides, kids like it when we read to them.

I'm not sure why anyone would trumpet the opinions in this book as "truth". These proclamations are made as though Libby is a recognized god of some religion, you know, that horrible thing that we should all flee. But who is Libby? Is he a personal success story of this approach? (I would like to speak to his wife(ves), children, or other significant others to see how his worship of selfish sexual gratification enhanced their lives.)

I see several swipes at the era of "abstinence-only" education. We all know this has been given only lip service, while organizations who share Libby's opinions have had federal funding and protection of the law to undermine the efforts of parents. If Libby sees no value in sexual discipline, sex as an expression of committed lifetime love within the Creator's design, then fine. That is his opinion. He is entitled to have it. But for him to pretend that his view of things approaches the status of "truth" or even "intelligence" illustrates his arrogance (another symptom of exaggerated self importance, along with sexual indulgence). The whole deal is a bombastic proclamation of his own opinions. Follow at your own risk.

An honest straight-forward, non-clinical look at sex for younger folks. Many problems could be solve with this approach. Pretending that sex is evil or detrimental is silly and dangerous.

From my perspective as a sexuality educator and sex therapist, I highly recommend The Naked Truth About Sex. It is an ideal book for parents, young people, and anyone who works with young people. Dr. Libby's book is sex positive, straight forward, factual, and accurate. This is the best book that I have read on this topic.

Before reading this book, I was already in a serious 3-year relationship from which learned a lot both beneficial and painful. While reading Dr. Libby's book, I realized that I had tried to have a serious romance (which included a sexual relationship) at too young an age. (I was 15 years old). I will never forget the experience of my first love, but I wish I hadn't been so young and naive.

Dr. Libby speaks with wisdom about this exact phenomenon. Too bad I didn't read this book till I was 18. This book however, did teach me some new information about the technicalities of STDS, birth control and the complications involved in having a sexual relationship. It was very informative. I especially enjoyed the way Dr. Libby spoke of sex as a positive and natural act as it is so taboo in our culture among teens. He seemed to understand that young people are going to be sexual whether they are informed or not. So, it is admirable that he is trying to inform them. The examples he used were specific and therefore easy to relate to. This made it helpful as a teenage reader because he was not too general.

I would recommend this book to those who may think they know everything about sex, because they don't. I thought the same.

The Naked Truth About Sex serves as a handbook for teens to guide them to make intelligent sexual decisions. Through his book, Dr. Libby relates to teens on a different level. He doesn't use the "abstinence only method/ 'just say no' approach" that teens are used to and tired of hearing and offers safe sexual choices in an honest and sincere tone that allows the reader to trust his advise.

Libby doesn't lecture teens and encourage them to hide their sexuality. He advocates that sex needs to be fun, playful, safe, and understood. He encourages partners to talk about sex and to have presex talks for "the players to better understand the game".

Teens should safely explore their sexuality to find what fits them and what they like to help them lead a happy sexual life. The Naked Truth About Sex offers useful information that is extremely valuable to teens including, birthcontrol, STDs, sexual preferences, and sexual "technique". Unlike most books regarding teen sexuality, Libby works toward the possibility of being sexually active and staying true to personal morals, values, and beliefs. Libby's refreshingly honest approach to teens and sex makes this book a must read for all considering an alternative to abstinence.

In My opinion the best of this book is the section on the yawara stick or an improvised version of it.
This weapon needs little training too be very effective and will often be a surprise too the most seasoned streetfighter or martial artist!
Try it on yourself!
Point proven!

This book is just great. It's very technical at some points (I don't know very many anatomy terms). But the author explains everything very simply and with diagrams. If I wasn't taking martial arts though, I wouldn't know what he meant by "knife hand" or "hammer fist". He does not explain (from what I could tell) how to preform these strikes. This is not a book on how to take someone out with a flick of the finger. It's for the martial artist to know where to strike and what damage you could possibly do. This is very important to know in a real life or death situation. Very empowering.

It's a very useful book, easy to read, it's explain all you must know about self defense.

I am no martial arts expert or even amateur. However, my conclusion on reading
this book is that anyone reading it thinking it is a shortcut to self defense knowledge
will be disappointed. In the end, learning these moves (and practicing them, which
I wonder exactly how one does) requires patience, time, and training from an
experienced martial arts expert.

Some specifics I noted:
1. Some of the moves require a sharp blow. If you are a 98 pound weakling,
delivering that blow still required strength.
2. Some of the moves talks about a hard hit with a stick or solid object, which is
great if you happen to have one.
3. Some of the moves would only work if you had an opponent in a disadvantaged
position, which it is hard to see how you would achieve.
4. In a brief section on vital points (instantly lethal) for pistol shooting, the author
makes too much of what is not realistic under a stress shooting situation. Look,
you can shoot 10s all day at the range, but shooting an uncooperative target
while you are under stress will see your shooting skill drop 50% or more.
Unless you are a trained sniper or SWAT, go for the center of mass and
keep shooting. You want a clean one shot kill, go hunting.

For an experienced martial arts person, I imagine this book could be a good
review of basics.

For the inexperienced, you will learn how frail your body is. But if you really
want to use this stuff, you need training.

Being the author of several books on the martial arts and fighting, I am always looking for books of exceptional quality to add to my library. If I have a book in my library, it's definitely worth owning. One such book is N. Mashiro's, "Black Medicine: The Dark Art of Death."

This was one of the first books that I ever purchased years ago when I was in high school and starting to learn about the martial arts. This book gives you a very good overview on the vulnerable and vital points on the human body and is very informative. If you are interested in self-defense or any of the martial arts, I would definitely put this book on your too buy list.

Introduction:

1. The 3 Ways To Get Your Attacker To Stop Hurting You

a. Make him lose his concentration.
b. Interfere with his control over his body.
c. Destroy the integrity of his body.

2. The 3 Ways To Kill Your Opponent

a. Destroy the central nervous system.
b. Destroy or interfere with circulation.
c. Interfere with breathing.

What the author does with this book is to give you a fairly basic, yet detailed description of the locations of certain vulnerable and vital areas of the body, and the effects that certain blows can and will have when directed against these areas. This is done not only through accurate written descriptions, but also through the realistic and practical use of photographs and in some cases, illustrations.

The author breaks down the following chapters to vital points located in certain areas of the body and its extremities. They are as follows:

1. Vital Points of the Head
2. Vital Points of the Neck and Throat
3. Vital Points of the Upper Trunk
4. Vital Points of the Lower Trunk
5. Vital Points of the Hand and Arm
6. Vital Points of the Leg and Foot

The author concludes this book with a section on the vital points of pistol shooting. Which in and of itself is a remarkable section and one in which an entire book should be devoted.

This review is without a doubt the shortest one I have ever written, and on a book that should be a staple in the library of every martial artist and/or self-defense practitioner. Simply stated, "If you could only have a select number of books in your library, this book would definitely be one of them."