Against security [[electronic resource] ] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / / Harvey Molotch |
Autore | Molotch Harvey Luskin |
Edizione | [Updated edition with a New Preface] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.325170973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MolotchHarvey |
Soggetto topico |
Terrorism - Prevention - Government policy - United States
National security - United States Transportation - Security measures - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Freedom Tower
Ground Zero Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina New Orleans New York subway system One World Trade Center U.S. security air travel airport security airports anxiety body search canals class command and control command control crises danger disaster response ecological reform fear of flying fear gender discrimination human goals human territory levees mass transport natural disasters post 9/11 public policy public restroom public restrooms public transport race rebuilding remediation safety security policy security threat |
ISBN |
1-4008-5233-1
1-283-57145-5 9786613883902 1-4008-4486-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785622603321 |
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Music beyond airports : appraising ambient music / / edited by Monty Adkins and Simon Cummings |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Huddersfield, : University of Huddersfield Press, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254) |
Disciplina | 781.648 |
Soggetto topico | Music |
Soggetto genere / forma | Conference papers and proceedings. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Music
airports |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- How much world do you want?: ambient listening and its questions / David Toop -- Space in the ambience: is ambient music socially relevant? / Ambrose Field -- A question of background: sites of listening / Ulf Holbrook -- Three manifestations of spatiality in ambient music / Richard Talbot -- The steady state theory: recalibrating the quiddity of ambient music / Simon Cummings -- Fragility, noise, and atmosphere in ambient music / Monty Adkins -- Channeling the ecstasy of Hildegard von Bingen: "O Euchari" remixed / Lisa Colton -- Ambient house: "Little Fluffy Clouds" and the sampler as time machine / Justin Morey -- Adaptive game scoring with ambient music / Axel Berndt. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910563074103321 |
Huddersfield, : University of Huddersfield Press, 2019 | ||
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