Us And Them

Author : David Berreby
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
ISBN 13 : 9780091801113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them written by David Berreby and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US AND THEM: Understanding your tribal mind reveals how and why we convince ourselves that we belong to differing human kinds - tribe-type categories like races, religions, classes, street gangs and high school cliques. Why do we see these divisions? Why do we care about them so much? Why do we kill and die for them? We see it every day on the news. Why have high schools in the US become killing zones? Why does strife continue in Northern Ireland? How do terrorists learn to torture and kill anyone who isn't one of them? Members Only answers these questions by looking at their common root in human nature. Politics and culture are invoked, of course, but the heart of the book is the individual mind. David Berreby describes how each person creates their own mind map, identifies others with similar mind maps and ostracises all those who are different. Based in solid scientific research, David Berreby exposes new discoveries about the mind and brain that will eventually overturn many of our familiar notions about human kinds and how we perceive them. This is a crucial subject that touches all of our lives in ways both large and small, obvious and subtle. Human kind thinking is part of human nature.

Author : David Berreby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044653
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them written by David Berreby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking and eloquently written book explains how and why people are wedded to the notion that they belong to differing human kinds--tribe-type categories like races, ethnic groups, nations, religions, casts, street gangs, sports fandom, and high school cliques.

Author : Jim Carnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761221
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them? written by Jim Carnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of intolerance in the United States begins in colonial times. Discrimination on the basis of religion, race, and sexual orientation have been characteristic of our society for more than three centuries. "Us and Them" illuminates these dark corners of our nation's past and traces its ongoing efforts to live up to its ideals. Through 14 case studies, using original documents, historical photos, newly commissioned paintings, and dramatic narratives, readers begin to understand the history and psychology of intolerance as they witness firsthand the struggles that have shaped our collective identity. We read about Mary Dyer, who was executed for her Quaker faith in Boston in 1660. We learn how the Mormons were expelled from Missouri in 1838. The attack on Chinese miners in Rock Spring, Wyoming in 1885, the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Mobile, Alabama in 1981, and the Crown Heights riot in New York in 1991--all are presented in clear and powerful narrative that brings to life history that is often forgotten or slighted.

Author : T L Coughlin
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Us And Them written by T L Coughlin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have your last breath. Seventeen-year-old Evren was born for one purpose: to serve as a vessel for the Leviathans, an alien species hidden in global dragon lore. She longs to join the secret society who concealed them in history-and as last of the twelve prophesied Paladins, she needs to. With the world in ruin, their unification will signal the Leviathans' return to Earth to protect humans from their worst enemy: themselves. But Evren's ambitions are dashed when a Paladin is found dead. The murder sets her world ablaze and now she must stop the saboteur, or risk destroying a celestial plan millennia in the making. However, finding the truth-and the killer-in a society built on deceit won't be easy, especially with Evren's fierce and guarded mother as its leader. Can Evren salvage what's left of her fate? Or will dark discoveries make her the next victim?

Author : Jim Carnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195131258
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them written by Jim Carnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents episodes throughout American history where individuals were hated because of their race or nationality

Author : David Campton
Publisher : London ; New York : French
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them written by David Campton and published by London ; New York : French. This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play was written to be performed by a company of almost any size, of any age and of either sex. Two parties enter, A and B, from East and West. Each party plans to settle down, then sees each other. Instant suspicion. A dividing wall is built. After mutual spying war ensues and the wall is broken down.-Flexible cast

Author : Danny Vendramini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908244775
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Them and Us written by Danny Vendramini and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put aside everything you thought you knew about being human - about how we got here and what it all means. Australian theoretical biologist Danny Vendramini has developed a theory of human origins that is stunning in its simplicity, yet breathtaking in its scope and importance. Them and Us: how Neanderthal predation created modern humans begins with a radical reassessment of Neanderthals. He shows they weren't docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores - top flight predators of the stone age. Neanderthal Predation (NP) theory reveals that Neanderthals were 'apex' predators - who resided at the top of the food chain, and everything else - including humans - was their prey. NP theory is one of those groundbreaking ideas that revolutionizes scientific thinking. It represents a quantum leap in our understanding of human origins.

Author : Helmut Newton
Publisher : Scalo Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them written by Helmut Newton and published by Scalo Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of two photographers who have lived together for fifty years.

Author : Bridget Anderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611565
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Us and Them? written by Bridget Anderson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically and politically productive to to consider them together. Judgments about who counts as skilled, what is a good marriage, who is suitable for citizenship, and what sort of enforcement is acceptable against 'illegals', affect citizens as well as migrants. Rather than simple competitors for the privileges of membership, citizens and migrants define each other through sets of relations that shift and are not straightforward binaries. The first two chapters on vagrancy and on Empire historicise migration management by linking it to attempts to control the mobility of the poor. The following three chapters map and interrogate the concept of the 'national labour market' and UK immigration and citizenship policies examining how they work within public debate to produce 'us and them'. Chapters 6 and 7 go on to discuss the challenges posed by enforcement and deportation, and the attempt to make this compatible with liberalism through anti-trafficking policies. It ends with a case study of domestic labour as exemplifying the ways in which all the issues outlined above come together in the lives of migrants and their employers.

Author : Steven Romero
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430236450
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eliminating "Us And Them" written by Steven Romero and published by Apress. This book was released on 2011-08-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging popular notions of what it takes for IT organizations to succeed, IT governance evangelist at CA Technologies Steve Romero presents many of the theories and ideas around IT governance, the key components of successful process management, and behavioral management as key factors in IT's success. The topic of IT governance has never been more popular than it is today. Almost every organization recognizes the need to establish sound IT governance, and almost every enterprise is still very immature when it comes to the discipline. This book challenges and calls into question the traditional approaches and strategies for running IT organizations. The concepts presented in the book are timeless, but reflect the recent changes in the organization's view of the role of the IT department. IT can become a major asset to an organization, often even becoming "the product" in today's Internet-based sales environment. Eliminating "Us and Them" discusses these changes and presents three areas that contribute most to the change from an alienated and oft-despised department to a key tool for organizational success: An in-depth understanding of IT governance, which has never been more popular than it is today. An in-depth understanding of process and process management, a discipline that more and more enterprises are investing in and establishing formal organizational constructs to enable and support. A case-study view of how an enterprise can establish, promote and instill the values that foster positive behaviors in every person in the organization, with the intent of influencing their ability to realize enterprise goals. Romero's insights are based on more than 30 years working in IT and over four years as an IT governance evangelist, traveling around the world, speaking at hundreds of events, and visiting more than 100 companies espousing the approach in this book.