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Principles Of Personal Defense | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Cooper
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 75618
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 56
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.2
ISBN: 0873644972
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780873644976
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
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Condition: Brand new paperback. New revised edition.
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This revised edition of Jeff Cooper's classic on personal defense is the best study of the guiding principles of survival in the face of unprovoked violence by human assailants. Cooper discusses the vital elements of defensive mental conditioning, including alertness, decisiveness, aggressiveness, speed, coolness, ruthlessness and surprise.
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 Must read for serious students of self defense November 21, 2007
Michael B. Voncannon (East Tennessee)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Anyone who considers themself a student of self defense should consider this a must read.
 Never Got It! January 4, 2007
D. Grossman (Willits,CA)
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
I never got this book. Amazon kept sending me delay notices and after about 2 months, I canceled order.
Seminal work December 2, 2006
T. C. Fuller (Burlington, Vermont United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an outstanding work on a much-avoided subject. While we would very much like to pretend that our society is violence free (at least as far as it pertains to us individually), the sad reality is that this is not the case. Cooper's writing on this topic is spot on, his prose is a study in how to use an incredible command of the language and his brevity in doing so is nothing short of amazing. I can not recommend this book high enough for those interested in this subject matter.
Excellent advice, but not really a book March 19, 2006
Lodge2 (Texas)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a hard copy of a presentation. If you took out the drawings and put on 8.5x11 paper, it would probaby be only a few pages long.
That said, it is excellent advice and worthy of keeping around to read on a regular basis. I plan on giving a copy to each of my teenage kids.
 Jeff Cooper is the best --- but this is a pamphlet, not a book! November 5, 2005
Dr. Steve Edwards (Philadelphia, PA)
56 out of 62 found this review helpful
If you're looking for information from the best in his field, Jeff Cooper is the go-to guy. But DO NOT waste your money on this "book." This is a reissue of a 1989 training presentation that Cooper developed.
While his chapter headings are good (7 principles), each "chapter" is about 2-3 pages of large print. The entire "book" contains only 28 pages on which there is reading material, and many of those pages are less than half full. And Paladin Press, usually fairly competent, apparently never bothered to proofread this mess, with missing punctuation and errors such as "50-called" instead of "so-called."
I will now give you the entire book, in less than 100 words:
Here are the seven principles of successful personal defense:
- Alertness
- Decisiveness
- Aggressiveness
- Speed
- Coolness
- Ruthlessness
- Surprise
And the one take-home nugget of insight from this book:
All of these principles must be backed up by one's SKILL with a firearm, which requires training and practice. "YOU ARE NO MORE ARMED BECAUSE YOU ARE WEARING A PISTOL THAN YOU ARE A MUSICIAN BECAUSE YOU OWN A GUITAR." This one sentence inspired me to schedule some refresher training, and to set aside some additional time on a weekly basis to practice and maintain my skills.
OK, I just saved everyone about $10, plus s+h, plus the wait for it to arrive in the mail, plus the disappointment that you didn't buy one of Jeff's other books instead. Buy a box of JHPs with good stopping power, and think of me [fondly, NOT as the imaginary target!] the next time you go to the practice range.
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