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Against security [[electronic resource] ] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / / Harvey Molotch
| 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 |
Molotch Harvey Luskin
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Against security [[electronic resource] ] : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger / / Harvey Molotch
| 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-9910822660903321 |
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Molotch Harvey Luskin
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger
| The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger |
| Autore | Dearinger Ryan <1979-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/20978 |
| Soggetto topico |
Canal construction workers - United States - History
Railroad construction workers - United States - History Foreign workers - United States - History Canals - United States - History Railroads - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century american history
19th century american immigrants american empire american history american west canals capitalism central pacific railroad chinese construction workers continental empire cultural studies erie canal history immigrants immigration irish labor studies labor mormons narrative of progress national infrastructure rail travel railroads suffering survival technology union pacific railroad united states of america westward expansion workers rights workers |
| ISBN | 0-520-96037-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797577403321 |
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Dearinger Ryan <1979->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger
| The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / / Ryan Dearinger |
| Autore | Dearinger Ryan <1979-> |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 331.6/20978 |
| Soggetto topico |
Canal construction workers - United States - History
Railroad construction workers - United States - History Foreign workers - United States - History Canals - United States - History Railroads - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century american history
19th century american immigrants american empire american history american west canals capitalism central pacific railroad chinese construction workers continental empire cultural studies erie canal history immigrants immigration irish labor studies labor mormons narrative of progress national infrastructure rail travel railroads suffering survival technology union pacific railroad united states of america westward expansion workers rights workers |
| ISBN | 0-520-96037-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810482903321 |
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Dearinger Ryan <1979->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water Engineering in Ancient Societies
| Water Engineering in Ancient Societies |
| Autore | Ortloff Charles R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (276 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
Biography & True Stories
Archaeology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Petra
Nabataean water systems hydraulic analysis CFD canals reservoirs pipelines flow stability pre-Columbian urban Tiwanaku Bolivia hydraulic/hydrological analysis surface canals perimeter drainage channel moat subterranean channels societal structure Roman Pont du Gard water engineering castellum aqueduct CFD analysis hydraulic design critical flow Machu Picchu Inca ancient water engineering hydraulics central-Andes engineered landscapes political ecology Prehispanic resilience water security wetland management Roman aqueducts inverted siphons static pressure pressure surges lead pipes stone conduits air entrapment Vitruvius Inka Tipon precolumbian flow rates fountain Peru Archaic period Caral CFD models beach ridges ENSO events landscape change site termination |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910576875403321 |
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Ortloff Charles R
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| Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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