1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008454303321

Titolo

The future of terrorism : violence in the new millennium / / Harvey W. Kushner, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1998

ISBN

9781322418957

1322418950

9781452246420

1452246424

9780761908685

0761908684

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 278 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KushnerHarvey W

Disciplina

363.3/2/0973

Soggetti

Terrorism - United States - Forecasting

Twenty-first century

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 (p. 251-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 - The Threat from Outside; Chapter 1 - The New Terrorism; Chapter 2 - Armed Prophets and Extremists: Islamic Fundamentalism; Chapter 3 - Terrorism in America: The Threat of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism; Part 2 - The Threat from Within; Chapter 4 - Terrorism, Hate Crime, and Antigovernment Violence: A Review of the Research; Chapter 5 - The Patriot Movement: Past, Present, and Future; Chapter 6 - Two Decades of Terror: Characteristics, Trends, and Prospects for the Future of Terrorism in America; Part 3 - Fighting Terrorism

Chapter 7 - Prosecuting Domestic Terrorists: Some RecommendationsChapter 8 - An International Legislative Approach to 21st-Century Terrorism; Chapter 9 - Domestic Law Enforcement's Use of Sensory-Enhancing Technology in Terrorist Situations; Part 4 - Terrorism in the 21st Century; Chapter 10 - The 21st-century Conditions Likely to Inspire Terrorism; Chapter 11 - Cyber-Biotech Terrorism: Going High Tech in the 21st Century; Chapter 12 - The Internet: A Terrorist Medium for the 21st Century; Chapter 13 - Will



Terrorists Go Nuclear? A Reappraisal; References; Index; About the Editor

About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Future of Terrorism provides a deep insight into this relatively new phenomenon in the U.S. The contributers provide many insights into trends in domestic terrorism the media and terrorism, reducing the risk and deterrents, etc.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965270403321

Titolo

Museum making : narratives, architectures, exhibitions / / edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Laura Hourston Hanks, and Jonathan Hale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-44574-9

1-136-44575-7

0-203-12457-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Museum meanings

Altri autori (Persone)

MacleodSuzanne

Hourston HanksLaura

HaleJonathan

Disciplina

727/.6

Soggetti

Museum architecture

Communication in architecture

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

Front Cover; Museum Making; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Museum making: the place of narrative: Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale and Suzanne MacLeod; Part I: Narrative, space, identity; Introduction; 1. Imaginary museums: what mainstream museums can learn from them: Rachel Morris; 2. Staging exhibitions: atmospheres of imagination: Greer Crawley; 3. Writing spatial stories: textual narratives in the museum: Laura Hourston Hanks



4. Athens, London or Bilbao? Contested narratives of display in the Parthenon galleries of the British Museum: Christopher R. Marshall5. This magical place: the making of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the politics of landscape, art and narrative: Suzanne MacLeod; 6. Narrative space: three post-apartheid museums reconsidered: Nic Coetzer; 7. The museum as narrative witness: heritage performance and the production of narrative space: Jenny Kidd; 8. Beyond narrative: designing epiphanies: Lee H. Skolnick; 9. Place, time and memory: Stephen Greenberg; Part II: Narrative, perception, embodiment

Introduction10. Scales of narrativity: Tricia Austin; 11. City as museum, museum as city: mediating the everyday and special narratives of life: Dorian Wiszniewski; 12. Narrative transformations and the architectural artefact: Stephen Alexander Wischer; 13. Architecture for the nation's memory: history, art, and the halls of Norway's national gallery: Mattias Ekman; 14. Arsenic, wells and herring curing: making new meanings in an old fish factory: Sheila Watson, Rachel Kirk and James Steward; 15. Accessing Estonian memories: building narratives through game form: Candice Hiu-Lam Lau

16. Narrative landscapes: James Furse-Roberts17. Narrative environments and the paradigm of embodiment: Jonathan Hale; Part III: Narrative, media, mediation; Introduction; 18. Narrative space: The Book of Lies: Paola Zellner; 19. Productive exhibitions: looking backwards to go forward: Florian Kossak; 20. Incomplete stories: Annabel Fraser and Hannah Coulson; 21. In the museum's ruins: staging the passage of time: Michaela Giebelhausen; 22. Meaningful encounters with disrupted narratives: artists' interventions as interpretive strategies: Claire Robins and Miranda Baxter

23. Where do you want the label? The roles and possibilities of exhibition graphics: Jona Piehl and Suzanne MacLeod24. The narrative of technology: understanding the effect of New Media artwork in the museum: Peter Ride; 25. The thick present: architecture, narration and film: Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe and Nathalie Weadick; 26. A narrative journey: creating storytelling environments with architecture and digital media: Tom Duncan and Noel McCauley; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums.Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potentia