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Summary: Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: Jackson Katz is an American hero! With integrity and courage, he has taken his message--that the epidemic of violence against women is a men's issue--into athletic terms, the military and frat houses across the country. His book explains carefully and convincingly why--and how--men can become part of the solution, and work with women to build a world in which everyone is safer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 KATConnors, Joanna
Summary: Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONNORS, JOANNA CONFielding, Joy.
Summary: "Deeply shaken after a brutal attack, Bailey Carpenter struggles to reclaim control over what had once seemed like a neatly-ordered life. Unable to face her job, her friends, or even the world outside her apartment, Bailey is trapped with her thoughts, replaying the attack in a desperate search for a detail that will help the police uncover the identity of her unknown assailant. Bailey sees her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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Summary: "A special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is fearless-- until she's attacked and nearly killed while on an assignment. Now nightmares merge into her waking hours and she's unable to venture beyond her front door without panicking. Soon Bailey finds a new use for her idle binoculars: casually observing from her window neighboring buildings and other people's lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: "A memoir of Nadia Murad's time as a captive of the Islamic State, her escape, and her human rights activism"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021