1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785622603321

Autore

Molotch Harvey Luskin

Titolo

Against security [[electronic resource] ] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / / Harvey Molotch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4008-5233-1

1-283-57145-5

9786613883902

1-4008-4486-X

Edizione

[Updated edition with a New Preface]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MolotchHarvey

Disciplina

363.325170973

Soggetti

Terrorism - Prevention - Government policy - United States

National security - United States

Transportation - Security measures - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Colors of Security -- Chapter 2. Bare Life: Restroom Anxiety and the Urge for Control -- Chapter 3. Below the Subway: Taking Care Day In and Day Out -- Chapter 4. Wrong-Way Flights: Pushing Humans Away -- Chapter 5. Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero -- Chapter 6. Facing Katrina: Illusions of Levee and Compulsion to Build -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Radical Ambiguity and the Default to Decency -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of command-and-control not only annoy and intimidate but are counterproductive. Sociologist Harvey Molotch takes us through the sites, the gizmos, and the politics to urge greater trust in basic citizen capacities-along with smarter design of public spaces. In a new



preface, he discusses abatement of panic and what the NSA leaks reveal about the real holes in our security.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824388403321

Autore

Herring Hayim

Titolo

Tomorrow's synagogue today : creating vibrant centers of Jewish life / / Hayim Herring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Herndon, Virginia : , : The Alban Institute, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-56699-680-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

296.6/5

Soggetti

Synagogues - United States - Organization and administration

Judaism - United States

Judaism - 21st century

Rabbis - Office

Leadership - Religious aspects - Judaism

Spiritual life - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Praise for the Book; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Changing Context of American Synagogue Life; Exploring a Twenty-First-Century Synagogue; The Case for Collaboration; Remixing the Rabbinate; Pathways to Synagogues of the Future; You Have the Wisdom to Find the Way; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

In the past decade many intelligent people who care deeply about synagogues have written about them. So how is this book different from all other books? Many books take the overall mission of the synagogue as a given, and the recommendations around structure are really about incremental change. Tomorrow's Synagogue Today stimulates the reader to unleash the power of synagogues to exponentially influence people's Jewish lives. Herring offers creative scenarios to stretch the imagination about how more synagogues could



become vib