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Jim Grover's professional credentials in crime avoidance and self-defense are as good as it gets: on-site security specialist in the world's hottest of hot spots, firearms and 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 enormously popular "Personal Security" column in Guns & Ammo and his feature articles in Handguns magazine. 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 from grade school through college; choose and use effective nonlethal weapons; engage in nasty unarmed combat if necessary; and utilize radically practical shooting skills that have been perfected in real-life situations. 8 1/2 x 11, softcover, photos, illus., 280 pp.