Fear Less
Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism

There is a VERY good reason why the title of this book is two word's rather than one. I am no political buff but you don't have to be to read and understand this book. It tell's the reader, among other thing's, to listen to their instinct's, specifically reguarding situation's where you see somethei......more

I recently read The Gift of Fear by the same author. While I did pull a few nuggets of new wisdom from this book, much of it was either a repeat of The Gift of Fear or focused heavily on terrorist attacks and the mass hysteria following 9/11. Slightly dated, but interesting nonetheless. If safety an......more

A book full of common sense. Gavin emphasizes the keywords that we should pay attention and filter to get the truth in news reports and media. We receive daily a tremendous amount of information that is intended to impart fear by exaggerating facts or by sensationalism. De Becker books, in my experi......more

Gavin De Becker does a fine job drawing out the differences between risk, threat, hazard, anxiety, worry, and true fear vs unwarranted fear. Where Bruce Schneier (in his also excellent Beyond Fear) credits government with whipping up unwarranted fear, De Becker is more inclined to credit the news me......more