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Bailey, Joseph, Fearproof Your
Life: How to thrive in a world addicted to fear.
Throughout time, we have sought peace and safety by trying to
out-guess the unknown. We have tried to prepare for the unexpected
and the apparitions of our minds. In an age of 24-hour cable news,
when we can stay glued to the latest terrorist attack or natural
disaster, the next epidemic and what the pundits tell us we should
be afraid of, our efforts to control the unknown and keep
ourselves safe have led to a collective as well as a personal
sensation of fear. We have become addicted to fear. But we don't
need to be adrenaline junkies. This book guides us through a
process of how discovering who we truly are immunizes us from our
own fears, as well as those of others. The author takes us through
a process of knowing, listening to, and honoring our own unique
True Self, of being willing to listen to our truth and act from
it, without seeking approval, of being willing to forgive
ourselves and others and take responsibility for what we create.
Conari, www.conari.com, 2007,
ISBN 1-57324-307-8 
Becker, Gavin de, The Gift of Fear and
other survival signals that protect us from violence. True
fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the
difference. A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny
gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted
parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence
surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning
to trust - and act on - our gut instincts. In the empowering book,
the author, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading
expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle
signs of danger - before it's too late. Shattering the myth that
most violent acts are unpredictable, the author, whose clients
include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers
specific ways to protect yourself and those you love,
including...how to act when approached by a stranger...when you
should fear someone close to you...what to do if you are being
stalked...how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone
calls...the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening
person...and more. Learn to spot the danger signals others miss.
It might just save your life. Dell Trade Paperback, 1999
ISBN 0-440-50883-5 Buy
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Finley, Guy, The Courage to Be
Free: Discover your original fearless self. When you
realize that no one else on this earth can be like you - that no
other soul can know the beauty, sorrow, light, and darkness you
alone are given to see - then you will no longer want to be like
anyone else on this earth. You will, at last, be the fearless
individual your heart of hearts has called you to be. There is a
world of wisdom in this small gem of a book and the author is a
master at opening our eyes, ears, and hearts to the plain and
simple truths of this life. gunfinley.com,
2010, Weiser Books, www.redwheelweiser.com,
ISBN 978-1-57863-475-0 
Finley, Guy, The Essential Laws of Fearless
Living: Find the power to never feel powerless again. What
would our lives be like if we could break through the illusions of
limitation, if we could have everything we want and become truly
conscious in our daily lives? What would if feel like if we could
access our own True Selves? Through forty concise, incisive essays
in this book, the author provides readers a picture of what they
can all aspire to. The lessons in this book are for readers to
take into their hearts, to help lighten their loads of fear and
suffering and enlighten their days. They are modern-day parables,
contemporary renderings of universal and ancient truths, and
aphorisms to live by. Pain attracts pain. Fear begets fear. Don't
wish for freedom; choose it. Choose to live in the light of
reality. Give yourself what you really want. Weiser Books,
www.redwheelweiser.com,
2008, ISBN 157863427X 
Glassner, Barry, The Culture of
Fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong
things: crime, drugs, minorities, teen moms, killer
kids, mutant microbes, plane craches, road rage, & so
much more. In this eye-opening examination of a pathology that
has swept the country, the author, a noted sociologist, reveals
why Americans are burdened with overblown fears. He exposes the
people and orgnaizations that manipulate our perceptions and
profit from our anxieties: politicians who win
elections by heightening concerns about crime and drug use even as
both are declining, advocacy groups that raise money by
exaggerating the prevalance of particular diseases; TV
newsmagazines that monger a new scare every week to garner
ratings. A passionate and reassuring study, this book thoroughly
debunks many of the predominant scares of our age. The author lays
bare the frightening lies and half-truths told about - workplace
violence, the internet, airline safety, child abduction, gulf war
syndrome, baby-killing mothers, suicidal teens, angry African
Americans. Whether by the promotion of dubious statistics about
pseudo-problems like "road rage" and "husband abuse," or
frightening stories about "middle-class junkies" and "depraved
adolescent murderers," the peddlers of fear cost Americans dearly.
Individually, we're weighed down with needless worries, and as a
nation, we waste billions of dollars combating minor or
non-existent dangers. All the while, we neglect real problems that
we could solve if we put our minds to them. This book diagnoses a
predominat pathology of our age and provides a rallying cry for a
return to rationality in our personal lives and in our national
sense of purpose. As such, this book offers a timely antidote to
paranoia, an antidote that Americans cannot afford to pass up at
the dawn of the new millennium. Basic Books www.basicbooks.com
1999 ISBN 0-465-01489-5 Buy
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Jampolsky, Gerald, Love is Letting Go of Fear.
A Course of Miracles is the source of the lessons
contained in this little book that will teach you to let go of
fear and remember that our very essence is love. This book shows
that to experience this kind of reality we must be willing to let
go of our obsession with the past and the future. If we can do
this, we are ready to learn how to transform ourselves - to change
our lives. Bantam Books, 1981 ISBN 0-553-23079-4
Jeffers, Susan, Feel the Fear...and
Beyond: Mastering the techniques for doing it anyway. A
step-by-step guide and concret exercises that tailor the Feel the
Fear program to the demands of your busy life! For both
individuals and group use - including an invaluable 30-Day Power
Planner which offers simple yet effective techniques for handling
whatever life brings us in a strong and life-affirming way. It
shows you how to identify and conquer the one deep, abiding fear
that runs your life. Get in touch with the most loving part of who
you are. Let go of the victim mentality that pulls away all your
power. Confront new situations with condfidence and love. Open
your eyes to the abundance and much more. Random House 1998
ISBN 0110003612 Buy
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Lederer, Wolfgang, The Fear of Women: An inquiry into the
enigma of woman and why men through the ages have both loved and
dreaded her. In an important pioneering study, the author has
given us new insights into the relationship between the sexes.
Drawing on a wide spectrum of sources - archaeology, ethnology,
religion, mythology, art, literature, linguistics, as well as
psychiatry and psychoanalysis, the author attempts to show not
what women really are but what men through the ages have feared
them to be - a fear that even Freud did not choose to penetrate
and that has remained almost totally unacknowledged by
psychotherapy. The author's findings have importance not only for
clinicians but for all men who are gripped by the unreasonable
fears described in his study and for all women who are working for
liberation from male prejudice and domination. What both sexes
should try to achieve, writes the author, is not equality or
freedom alone but perfection of man's and woman's uniqueness.
Harveste Book, 1968 ISBN 0-15-630419-8
Loggins, Michael Bernard, Fears of Your
Life. This book is about scary things: all the things that
you're afraid of. Everybody has fears in common and in this
guileless handwritten book, the author, an adult with
developmental disabilities, battles his fears by listing more than
one hundred of them. He explores the depths of our most human
emotion. From simple fears, like "# 57 Fear of being different."
to more complex fears like # 85 Fear that if you put too much
toilet paper in the toilet bowl it will run over and get all over
the floor and on you and on someone else too, it would leak from
upstairs to the next floor below." The author has been writing,
drawing and painting at San Francisco's Creativity Explored since
it's inception in 1984. His work has been exhibited at Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Mark Moore Gallery in
Los Angeles, and the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery in New York. Manic
D Press, 2004, ISBN 0-916397-90-4
Sardello, Robert, Freeing the Soul from
Fear. Fear comes at us from everywhere - from war, politics,
work, relationships, strangers, movies, the media. It drives us to
manic extremes or fits of rage. It damages the relationships that
would otherwise give us the means to confront it. Most important,
says the author, fear keeps us from a state of being that is the
soul's strongest defense against it: becoming present. When not
confronted, fear feeds on itself, gnaws at our being, and makes us
forgetful of our humanity. At the same time, when approached with
the correct attitude, fear can spur us to discover more of our
humanity. This book shows us how to strengthen ourselves in the
face of overwhelming fear, and gives us the means to unlock the
creative intelligence of the heart. The crucial task, the author
urges, is to work with fear and find a place of balance. Our
humanity is to be found not in the complete absence of fear, but
in a courageous, unending struggle with it. It's a struggle that
leads us to the core of what it means to be truly human, and
allows us to work with the destructive forces within us to find a
new sense of love. Through careful descriptoins of the common
characteristics of fear - flashes of self doubt, disturbances of
breathing, numbness of the senses - and an analysis of the often
overlooked experiences of the soul, the author helps us toward the
possibility of finding healing in the modern world, and toward
becoming full present in our lives. Riverhead Books www.penguinputnam.com
1999 ISBN 1-57322-133-3 Buy
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Todhunter, Andrew, Fall of the Phantom Lord, Andrew
Todhunter. In the tradition of the wildly popular
man-versus-nature genre that has launched several bestsellers, the
author follows the lives of world-class climber Dan Osman and his
coterie of friends as he explores the extremes of risk on the
unyielding surface of the rock. In the course of the two years
chronicled here, the author also undertakes a journey of his own
as he begins to weight the relative value of extreme sports and
the risk of sudden death. By the end of the book, as he ponders
joining Osman on a dangerous fall from a high bridge to feel what
Osman experiences, the author comes to a new understanding of risk
taking and the role it has in his life, and in the lives of these
climbers. Doubleday www.anchorbooks.com
1998 ISBN 0385486413 Buy
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Tuttle, Cameron, The Paranoid's Pocket
Guide: Hundreds of things you never knew you had to worry
about. For the first time ever, all your weirdest fears, all
your secret paranoias, are conveniently collected in one handy
volume. Worried? Of course! But wait, there's more.
We've tracked down hundreds of bizarre-but-true accounts of the
ordinary things that can make just getting up downright hazardous.
Startling photographs document the everyday items that menace your
safety. Whether it's archibutyrophobia (the fear of peanut butter
sticking to the roof of your mouth) or phobophobia (the fear of
fear itself) that eventually gets you, don't be afraid to buy this
book. You never know what might happen if you don't. Practice
defensive living. Carry this book at all times. nervous@awarehouse.com
Chronicle Books www.chroniclebooks.com
1997 ISBN 0-8118-1665-6 Buy
This Book!Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
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