No list is complete without Dead or Alive: The Definitive Self Protection Handbook by Geoff Thompson.
I have used the skills I learnt from this book numerous times to diffuse or take charge of situations before they have escalated, and even my wife has used the skills to stop a situation in it's tracks when she was begin sized up as a potential victim.
It's covers pretty much most things, how the sorts of people we want to avoid operate and how they select victims (And therefore what lessons are learned on how to avoid them), what will happen to you physically before during and after a situation (adrenalin dump for example), it covers how to deal with eye contact challengers, it has interviews with muggers etc.
I have used the skills I learnt from this book numerous times to diffuse or take charge of situations before they have escalated, and even my wife has used the skills to stop a situation in it's tracks when she was begin sized up as a potential victim.
It's covers pretty much most things, how the sorts of people we want to avoid operate and how they select victims (And therefore what lessons are learned on how to avoid them), what will happen to you physically before during and after a situation (adrenalin dump for example), it covers how to deal with eye contact challengers, it has interviews with muggers etc.