Books like Us and them by Jim Carnes

A concise guide that distills 3,000 years of political thought into 48 practical principles for gaining, maintaining, and defending power in personal and professional arenas.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a self‑help guide that teaches principles of personal and professional effectiveness, emphasizing character development, leadership, and self‑management.

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

A seminal 16th‑century Italian treatise, The Prince offers practical guidance for rulers, arguing that ends can justify morally dubious means to secure power and glory.

A powerful story of a Black family's battle for dignity, family, and land in Depression‑era Mississippi, seen through the eyes of eight‑year‑old Cassie Logan.

Explores the evolution of racist and antiracist ideas in America, tracing their European origins to contemporary society.

Carol Anderson’s nonfiction study uncovers the history of white backlash—‘white rage’—that follows gains in racial equality, tracing its roots from the Reconstruction era to today.

In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town.

Perceptions, memories, fears, hopes and wants are all blended by your mind to create a map of reality. One of the most important parts of that map is identity: your sense of who belongs where, in a world made up of races, ethnic groups, nations, religions, cultures, political parties, and countless other categories of person. But how does the mind come up with these labels? How does it sort their overlapping claims -- the demands of being, at the same time, for instance, a Muslim, an American, a ``soccer mom'' and a Democrat? How does it decide which labels are for fun, like ``Red Sox fan,'' and which labels are serious (like ``Red State voter''). Why can the same religious or political identity mean life or death in one place, but count for little in another? And, most of all, why do people the world over care so much about these groupings? Why are we willing to kill, or to die, for a nation, a religion, or a football team? In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how 21st-century science is addressing these age-old questions. Us and Them links neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology and other fields to show how recent research has altered our understanding of humanity's ``tribal mind.'' From the medical effects of stress (which link tribal feelings to hormone levels and risk of heart attacks) to the rhetoric of politics (where the same few images have been used across centuries to trigger ``Us-versus-Them'' responses), our perceptions of group identity affect every part of our lives. Science, Berreby argues, shows how this part of human nature is both surprisingly important and surprisingly misunderstood.