Books that endorse or cover IMPACT-style self-defense as well as other important self-defense information:

“Padded attacker courses offer women a chance to experience full-force fighting, as these self-defense instructors believe that most successful assaults occur not because women aren't strong enough to fight men but because women facing an assailant often freeze up rather than fight. Because the 'muggers' attack the students at full force...women...learn their defense techniques while their adrenaline level is high and their fine motor skills low, thus committing the skills to 'bodily memory,' which will automatically be triggered in the course of an attack."
-- Martha McCaughey, Real Knockouts

The Gift of Fear, Gavin deBecker

Protecting the Gift, Gavin deBecker

The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women & Girls, Ellen Snortland

The Safe Zone: A Kid’s Guide to Personal Safety by Donna Chaiet and Francine Russell

Real Knockouts, The Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense, Martha McCaughey

Trauma and Recovery, Judith Hermann