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How to Defend Your Family and Home

Author : Dave Young

Publisher : Page Street Publishing

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 45,92 MB

Release : 2017-06-06

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 1624143725

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The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Yourself and Your Family from a Home Invasion Dave Young has survived his fair share of violent attacks, including witnessing a home invasion first-hand as a teenager when two burglars broke into his home. Fortunately, his family was okay, but the terrifying experience motivated him to dedicate the rest of his life to helping others survive life’s dangers. Now a seasoned veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and police force, Dave has packed this book with everything he’s seen and learned about home invasions. This life-saving information will turn chilling “what-if ” scenarios into planned strategies to protect your loved ones and belongings from any threat. Dave uses practical, everyday language to help you view your home from a criminal’s perspective, identify weak spots in your defense and correct them—effectively scratching your home off their target list. He uses real-life examples to teach how to recognize a threat scouting your neighborhood or home. Plus you’ll get detailed instructions on using unconventional weapons of opportunity placed smartly throughout the home and so much more. This book is for everyone—whether you own a firearm or not— because in reality, you can’t depend on a gun to save you in every situation. What will truly keep you safe is a better sense of awareness, the ability to recognize danger and the knowledge of what to do when you can’t avoid it, all of which you’ll learn here. Don’t let another day go by when your family could be at risk—start your proactive family defense strategy today.



Defending Home

Author : Barrett Williams

Publisher : Barrett Williams

Page : 69 pages

File Size : 26,84 MB

Release : 2024-06-26

Category : Self-Help

ISBN :

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**Defending Home Your Comprehensive Guide to Survival and Resilience** In an ever-changing world filled with uncertainties, "Defending Home" is your ultimate companion for ensuring the safety and security of your household. This essential eBook walks you through every step of fortifying your home, preparing for emergencies, and maintaining peace of mind, no matter what challenges arise. **What You'll Discover** **1. Understanding the Devastated Landscape** Learn to identify potential threats and assess the local terrain. Gain insights into monitoring environmental changes that may impact your home. **2. Home Fortification Basics** Dive into the crucial aspects of reinforcing your home's structural integrity, securing entry points, and analyzing vulnerabilities to make your home a fortress. **3. Creating a Safety Plan** Develop emergency protocols, establish clear communication arrangements, and designate safe zones within your home for maximum preparedness. **4. Stockpiling Essential Supplies** Master the techniques for efficient food and water storage, assembling medical and first aid kits, and ensuring a reliable power supply. **5. Building a Home Defense System** Construct protective barriers, set up surveillance and alarm systems, and get equipped with defensive tools and necessary training. **6. Fire Safety and Management** Implement preventive measures, plan effective evacuation routes, and familiarize yourself with essential firefighting equipment. **7. Water Purification and Management** Identify safe water sources, explore various purification methods, and adopt water conservation techniques to sustain your family. **8. Health and Hygiene in Crisis** Maintain cleanliness, prevent disease spread, and address sanitation challenges to keep your household healthy. **9. Nutrition and Food Security** Plan nutritious meals, practice gardening for self-sufficiency, and master food preservation techniques to ensure long-term food security. **10. First Aid and Medical Care** Learn basic first aid skills, manage common injuries, and prepare for long-term medical needs. **11. Mental Health and Emotional Resilience** Develop coping mechanisms, support family members, and reduce stress and anxiety during challenging times. **12. Effective Communication Strategies** Use hand signals and codes, leverage technology safely, and build a strong network with neighbors. **13. Concealment and Camouflage** Blend with surroundings, create hidden compartments, and employ cover and concealment techniques. **14. Sustainable Living Practices** Embrace renewable energy sources, practice resource management, and engage in waste reduction and recycling. **15. Contingency Planning and Drills** Regularly practice drills, adapt plans to new information, and commit to continuous learning and improvement. Empower your household with "Defending Home," a treasure trove of knowledge and practical advice. Transform your home into a safe haven and take control of your future with confidence and resilience.



Defend Yourself

Author : Rob Pincus

Publisher : Gun Digest Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,38 MB

Release : 2014-02-28

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9781440238314

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It CAN happen to you. Your home is the one place you should be safe and the one place you usually are safe--but a home invasion turns all that upside down. You can come out the winner in this frightening situation, and self-defense expert Rob Pincus, in his new book Defend Yourself--A Comprehensive Security Plan for the Armed Homeowner, shows you just what to do to survive this terrifying event. Inside you'll find: Strategies for evading, barricading, and battling an armed threat in your home. Smart weapon choices and how to stage them for access when you need them most. Special tactics for hotel rooms and single room apartments. Training tips and drills exclusive to combat accuracy needs. And much, much more! Pincus offers up an unprecedented analysis of the "dynamic critical incident" that is a home invasion. In addressing this crucial topic--the one you think can't happen to you--Pincus has provided the next level in self-defense mentoring. No matter who you are, no matter where you live, this book is a must-read.



Defending Jacob

Author : William Landay

Publisher : Delacorte Press

Page : 433 pages

File Size : 44,68 MB

Release : 2012-01-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0345527593

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A legal thriller that’s comparable to classics such as Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent . . . tragic and shocking.”—Associated Press NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • Boston Globe • Kansas City Star Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney for two decades. He is respected. Admired in the courtroom. Happy at home with the loves of his life: his wife, Laurie, and their teenage son, Jacob. Then Andy’s quiet suburb is stunned by a shocking crime: a young boy stabbed to death in a leafy park. And an even greater shock: The accused is Andy’s own son—shy, awkward, mysterious Jacob. Andy believes in Jacob’s innocence. Any parent would. But the pressure mounts. Damning evidence. Doubt. A faltering marriage. The neighbors’ contempt. A murder trial that threatens to obliterate Andy’s family. It is the ultimate test for any parent: How far would you go to protect your child? It is a test of devotion. A test of how well a parent can know a child. For Andy Barber, a man with an iron will and a dark secret, it is a test of guilt and innocence in the deepest sense. How far would you go? Praise for Defending Jacob “A novel like this comes along maybe once a decade . . . a tour de force, a full-blooded legal thriller about a murder trial and the way it shatters a family. With its relentless suspense, its mesmerizing prose, and a shocking twist at the end, it’s every bit as good as Scott Turow’s great Presumed Innocent. But it’s also something more: an indelible domestic drama that calls to mind Ordinary People and We Need to Talk About Kevin. A spellbinding and unforgettable literary crime novel.”—Joseph Finder “Defending Jacob is smart, sophisticated, and suspenseful—capturing both the complexity and stunning fragility of family life.”—Lee Child “Powerful . . . leaves you gasping breathlessly at each shocking revelation.”—Lisa Gardner “Disturbing, complex, and gripping, Defending Jacob is impossible to put down. William Landay is a stunning talent.”—Carla Neggers “Riveting, suspenseful, and emotionally searing.”—Linwood Barclay



Civil Defense Begins at Home

Author : Laura McEnaney

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 29,61 MB

Release : 2000-07-09

Category : History

ISBN : 0691001383

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A Season for Justice

Author : David French

Publisher : B&H Publishing Group

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 41,19 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Political Science

ISBN :

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In this gripping, thought-provoking, and sometimes emotional from-the-trenches account of religious persecution in America, Harvard-trained lawyer David French brings a unique perspective to the culture wars. Fighting the small battles in the small places, French has seen first-hand the real-life consequences of an imbalanced legal system and a Christian political approach that sometimes works against the very freedoms it seeks to protect. Through the use of stories, case studies and personal accounts, French traces precisely how Christians fight battles in church, school, and the workplace to preserve the basic right to share the gospel and worship as they choose. A Season for Justice will challenge and move its readers and force them to think clearly and soberly about the real legal attack on Christianity in America.



In Defense of Housing

Author : Peter Marcuse

Publisher : Verso Books

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 20,73 MB

Release : 2024-08-27

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1804294942

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In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.



Stand Your Ground

Author : Caroline Light

Publisher : Beacon Press

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 47,64 MB

Release : 2017-02-14

Category : History

ISBN : 0807064661

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A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.



Defending Elysium

Author : Brandon Sanderson

Publisher : Dragonsteel, LLC

Page : 81 pages

File Size : 12,38 MB

Release : 2021-11-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1938570278

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As Brandon Sanderson’s #1 bestselling Skyward series celebrates its third volume, Cytonic, travel back in time to the origin of Cytonics in the novella Defending Elysium. Centuries before Spensa looked skyward from the planet Detritus—back on Old Earth before it was lost—Jason Write faced a crucial question: was humanity ready to join galactic society? When faster-than-light communications were discovered by a small telephone company in 2071, alien species such as the Tenasi and Varvax overheard them and came to visit Earth. Because the Phone Company controls all communications with the aliens, their operatives like Jason operate above the law. Now, on the space platform Evensong, one of the Phone Company’s scientists has gone missing before surfacing in a hospital with amnesia, and Jason is sent to investigate. Right as he arrives, the body of a murdered Varvax ambassador is discovered, sure to cause a galactic incident. Coln Abrams of the United Intelligence Bureau seizes the opportunity to investigate Jason as he deals with the crisis. This could be the UIB’s chance to discover the Phone Company’s secrets—how does FTL communication work, and what is Jason hiding? Winner of Spain’s UPC Award for Science Fiction in 2007.



Defending Israel

Author : Alan M. Dershowitz

Publisher : All Points Books

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 26,93 MB

Release : 2019-09-03

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1250179971

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World-renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz recounts stories from his many years of defending the state of Israel. Alan Dershowitz has spent years advocating for his "most challenging client"—the state of Israel—both publicly and in private meetings with high level international figures, including every US president and Israeli leader of the past 40 years. Replete with personal insights and unreported details, Defending Israel offers a comprehensive history of modern Israel from the perspective of one of the country's most important supporters. Readers are given a rare front row seat to the high profile controversies and debates that Dershowitz was involved in over the years, even as the political tides shifted and the liberal community became increasingly critical of Israeli policies. Beyond documenting America's changing attitude toward the country, Defending Israel serves as an updated defense of the Jewish homeland on numerous points—though it also includes Dershowitz's criticisms of Israeli decisions and policies that he believes to be unwise. At a time when Jewish Americans as a whole are increasingly uncertain as to who supports Israel and who doesn't, there is no better book to turn to for answers—and a pragmatic look toward the future.