How Long to Read Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies

How Long Does it Take to Read Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies by Larry Busch

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Written by a former hostage negotiator, Taken Hostage provides specific daily behavioral, situational, and long-term psychological strategies used successfully by hostages who survived months and years of mental and physical torture by terrorists, religious extremists, and criminal gangs. The book describes in detail the five stages of a hostage taking. Whether taken hostage for ransom, political leverage, or as a human shield, the book suggests what treatment the hostage can expect during each stage and how to best counter them. Taken Hostage describes how a hostage can moderate the physical and mental effects caused by physical tortures such as binding, suspension, beatings, starvation, and sexual assault and against mental tortures such as social deprivation, false executions, and brainwashing. The book identifies the mental hazards of depression, suicide, and barbed-wire psychosis and how to combat them. Particular strategies such as passive compliance and humanizing will instruct the hostage on how to apply recognized psychological strategies to the hostages advantage, and as such, play a more active role in their day-to-day physical treatment and sustain positive mental health. The book stresses safer travel planning as the most important strategy against being kidnapped in the first place. It details hotel security, insider accomplices, finding the right hotel and the right taxi, and how to use countersurveillance techniques to identify and thwart a potential kidnapping. The book coaches the hostages family and employers back home how to effectively manage the media and one another, thereby reducing the incidence of hostage and family PTSD and reintegrating a changed person back into their changed family. The detailed survival strategies will inspire a hostages will to live and sustain a familys hope. It is written for domestic and international travelers, UN and NGO volunteers, military personnel, and anyone in harms way.

How long is Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies?

Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies by Larry Busch is 410 pages long, and a total of 102,500 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies aloud.

What Reading Level is Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies?

Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Taken Hostage Stories and Strategies?

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