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"In the Name of Self-Defense: What it costs. When it's worth it"

"What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground"

This fits well with Thomas Sowell's book Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Street Survival by Remsburg is for police officers. A citizen might do better with a book with a citizen's perspective, one not burdened with the constraints of being a PO.

The End of Average by Todd Rose - Pulls the curtain(s) aside from education, corporations and the non-science of "scientific management".

The Miraculous Fever Tree by Fiammetta Rocco This reads like (and should be made into) a BBC series: story after story of generations of human suffering from malaria

Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman - Painfully relevant to the current pandemic. Explains why the experts aren't!