Dave Grossman
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Una exhaustiva investigación sobre lo que le ocurre al cuerpo humano bajo el estrés de un combate letal: cómo afecta al sistema nervioso, al corazón, a la respiración, y las distorsiones perceptuales y la pérdida de memoria que se pueden producir. También se abordan los últimos hallazgos sobre las técnicas de adiestramiento como, por ejemplo, la inoculación del estrés y la respiración táctica, que pueden prevenir estos efectos debilitadores...
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Una investigación sobre las implicaciones psicológicas de provocar la muerte en combate y las consecuencias de ello. El libro analiza los síntomas del trastorno por estrés post-traumático, un manual para profesionales de las fuerzas armadas.
El Teniente Coronel Dave Grossman es un experto reconocido a nivel internacional en el campo del estudio de la violencia. Es profesor de psicología y ciencia militar, y ha dado conferencias en cuarenta universidades...
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With the title Faith, Family and Fighter Jets splashed above a combat-worn fighter jet, soaring high above the mountains of Afghanistan, Colonel Todd "Riddler" Riddle's story is anything but typical. His writing conveys lessons of faith and leadership forged from a life of military service in harm's way; a missional life calling where the stakes of success and failure are at the highest possible levels. Colonel Todd "Riddler" Riddle's first person...
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The title of this book: Can I See Your Hands, refers to one of the key outcomes of this book-being able to tell whether or not people want to cause us harm. To put it very simply, if you can see someone's hands and they are not concealing them, holding a weapon or positioning to strike you, one's levels of trust and confidence can increase. This simple example can serve as a reminder to all of us in many of the complex moments we have to deal with,...
6) Dead Body Calls: One Cop's Experiences With Homicides, Suicides, Fatal Accidents, and Natural Deaths
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Bestselling author Loren W. Christensen served as a Military Policeman in Saigon, Vietnam, "the most dangerous city in the world," as it was called at the time. Shortly after returning home, he joined the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, serving for twenty-five years. As a street cop, there were times he was dispatched to dead body calls so frequently that other officers teasingly called him the "Death Car."
It didn't help that the morgue was in...
8) Radical Evil
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How do normal young men turn into mass murderers? With detailed accounts from the diaries of Nazi death squads, Oscar® winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky crafts a chilling study on the nature of evil.