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| Principles Of Personal Defense | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Cooper
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $12.80
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 264182
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 56
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.2
ISBN: 0873644972
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780873644976
ASIN: 0873644972
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Short but Sweet (and I mean SHORT) October 10, 2005
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Good bedtime reading for my 9 year old son. He also liked the illustrations....
 An oldie but goodie... and still worth a read (or three)! October 4, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
A classic. Cooper's principles of alertness, decisiveness, aggressiveness, speed, coolness, ruthlessness, and surprise are pretty well-known today but were groundbreaking when this volume was first published back in the late 80s. If you are not already familiar with it, his color code system alone is well worth the price of admission. It's a great "how to think" about self-defense as opposed to a "how to do" book. Consequently it has broad applicability for just about anyone concerned with personal safety and survival. The only down side is that it's very short, a mere 56 pages. I picked up my copy used but would certainly be willing to pay full price. It's that good.
Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction
The basics of being aware and alive August 18, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It doesn't get much better than this. Though written decades ago, the major subject of this book, mental conditioning, hasn't changed. Jeff Cooper revised this book, and other than adding a few stories, couldn't improve it.
The basics of alertness, decisiveness, aggressiveness, speed, coolness, ruthlessness, and surprise are detailed concisely. Don't let the book's brevity fool you. Jeff Cooper popularized the alertness color code--levels of AWARENESS and READINESS TO ACT. If more automobile drivers drove in Condition Yellow, we'd have fewer traffic accidents.
I even recommend these principles to my pacifist friends. Decisiveness is selecting a course of action in advance of the emergency and then doing it when hell breaks loose. A pacifist need not be passive--running away is my first choice when attacked, too. Ruthlessness in running away means ruthlessly discarding excess baggage--drop everything! An aggressive pacifist? Sometimes the only escape route is through the attacker. Besides, usually escape routes may be across "forbidden" private property--and screaming for help may be considered aggressive. Jeff Cooper meant for these principles to be applied to the attacker--"anyone who choses physically to attack another human being does so at his peril." These simple principles are universal.
By the way, most criminals chose helpless victims. It is always a surprise when the victim resists. It is a bigger surprise when the victim's resistance overwhelms the criminal. I've been lucky so far. I avoid trouble when I see it, and my apparent alertness labels me "not food" to society's predators. "The Principles of Personal Defense" can do the same for you.
Principles not tactics August 6, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a short book that gets to its points. Col. Cooper elaborates on the book's title, "Principles of Personal Defense." He does not deal with tactics or shooting techniques at all.
The content is well written, and if I'm correct, it is meant to serve as a guide for mental conditioning. Any reader of Cooper's writings knows that he rightfully puts great emphasis on mindset; this book is a discussion of that aspect of fighting. It's good reading.
 Not a book, more of a pamphlet February 23, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Cooper writes some good stuff, and the info in this "book" is good, but the law of diminishing returns sure is in effect here, $10.50 for what amounts to a magazine article. Not worth the money, especially if you've already read some of his others. Take a pass, read it at the library, or buy one and share it with a group.
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