1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458980503321

Autore

Muller Benjamin

Titolo

Security, risk and the biometric state : governing borders and bodies / / Benjamin J. Muller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-16140-2

1-282-57147-8

9786612571473

0-203-85804-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

PRIO New Security Studies

Disciplina

363.285

929.9

Soggetti

Biometric identification

Security systems

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing borders and bodies; 2 Are You Who You Say You Are?: Biometrics and the management of borders and bodies; 3 Suspect(ing) Biometrics: Identity, security and national ID cards; 4 Catastrophe, Narrative and the Failure of Imagination; 5 Securing the Political Imagination: Popular culture, the security dispositif and the biometric state; 6 A North American Biometric State?; 7 Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity: Biometrics and homo sacer in Fallujah

Conclusion - Borders, Bodies and Biometrics: The train has left the stationNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications has accelerated, giving rise to the term 'biometric state'. This book explores how these 'virtual borders' are



created and the effect they have upon the politics of citizenship and immigration, especially how they contribute to the treatment of citizens as suspects. Finally and most importa

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0067927

Autore

Delumeau, Jean

Titolo

Il cattolicesimo dal 16. al 18. secolo / Jean Delumeau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Mursia, 1976

Titolo uniforme

Le catholicisme entre Luther et Voltaire

Edizione

[Ed. italiana a cura di Mario Bendiscioli]

Descrizione fisica

XII, 307 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Trad. di X. Toscani.

Disciplina

282

Soggetti

Cattolicesimo - Storia - 16.-18.sec

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788877603321

Autore

Fay John D (John David)

Titolo

Kernel functions, analytic torsion and moduli spaces / / John D. Fay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island, United States : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1992

©1992

ISBN

1-4704-0890-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Volume 96, Number 464

Disciplina

515/.98

Soggetti

Kernel functions

Functions, Theta

Moduli theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 1992, Volume 96, Number 464 (second of 4 numbers)"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Heat equations""""Insertion theorems""; ""Notational Index""; ""References""



4.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0211962

Autore

Guichelaar, Jan

Titolo

Willem de Sitter : Einstein's Friend and Opponent / Jan Guichelaar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2018

Titolo uniforme

De Sitter, Een alternatief voor Einsteins heelalmodel

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

01A70 - Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies [MSC 2020]

01A60 - History of mathematics in the 20th century [MSC 2020]

00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020]

83-XX - Relativity and gravitational theory [MSC 2020]

85A40 - Cosmology [MSC 2020]

83Fxx - Cosmology [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia