Are these for real? Safe In The City ...

Through a weird route on Amazon (looking up lock picking, something I always wanted to learn), I ended up in Street Survivalist land. From this one: Safe In The City : A Streetwise Guide To Avoid Being Robbed, Raped, Ripped Off, Or Run Over, I learned that other customers had looked at these titles too:

• Street E & E : Evading, Escaping, And Other Ways To Save Your Ass When Things Get Ugly
• Bouncer's Guide To Barroom Brawling : Dealing With The Sucker Puncher, Streetfighter, And Ambusher
• Put 'Em Down, Take 'Em Out! : Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison
• The International Fugitive
• How to Pick Pockets for Fun and Profit: A Magicians Guide to Pickpocket Magic
• Advanced Fugitive : Running, Hiding, Surviving And Thriving Forever
• Fugitive! : How To Run, Hide, And Survive
• Getaway: Driving Techniques for Evasion and Escape

I'm especially impressed that the original Fugitive! sold well enough to justify a sequel; did all those guys on the lam write to the publisher asking for advice on how to thrive--instead of just survive--outside the law? Are they sitting in their sleazy pay-per-night hotels with a stack of self-help books by the bed?