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Our Biometric Future : Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance / / Kelly A. Gates
| Our Biometric Future : Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance / / Kelly A. Gates |
| Autore | Gates Kelly A. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 363.232 |
| Collana | Critical Cultural Communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Biometric identification
Face |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Biometric
Future Tracking approach complex example failed governance identifies prime problems pursued pursuit shortsighted social solutions technocratic technological technologies this where |
| ISBN | 0-8147-3303-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Facial Recognition Technology from the Lab to the Marketplace -- 2. Police Power and the Smart CCTV Experiment -- 3. Finding the Face of Terror in Data -- 4. Inventing the Security-Conscious, Tech-Savvy Citizen -- 5. Automated Facial Expression Analysis and the Mobilization of Affect -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786576903321 |
Gates Kelly A.
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| New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages / / Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
| Rebellion, rascals, and revenue : tax follies and wisdom through the ages / / Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod |
| Autore | Keen Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource 537 p.) |
| Disciplina | 336.2009 |
| Soggetto topico | Taxation - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
America
China English France Great Britain Hut Tax War Japan Maori New Zealand United States VAT Vlad the Impaler ancient taxes anecdotes bizarre cheating death and taxes deduction dog tax dumbest taxes evasion exemption failed haven history of taxation modern taxes origin of income tax poll protests revenue sales smartest taxes stamp strangest taxes successful tariffs tax revolts tax use weird |
| ISBN | 0-691-19998-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Searching for the Holy Grail -- War Profiteers and the Corporate Tax Revisited -- Give Me Land, Lots of Land -- Conscripting Wealth -- Limiting the Damage -- The Cleverest Man in England -- Broaden the Base, Lower the Rate (Maybe) -- Shaping a Tax System -- How Many Feathers? -- 11. Citizens of the World -- Squeezing a Rice Pudding -- Havens from the Tax Storm -- The Rich Are Different from Us -- They Don't Live Here Any More -- Don't Tell -- False Profits -- If I Were You, I Wouldn't Start from Here -- A Farewell to Arms (Length Pricing)? -- Tumbling Taxes
The Big Picture -- Part III. Changing Our Ways -- 8. Breaking Bad and Making Good -- Do the Right Thing -- Family Matters -- Taxing Knowledge -- Tax Bads, Not Goods -- Saving the Planet -- Wind-Breaking Cows, Scary Dogs, and Cute Cats -- The Wages of Sin -- The Vile Custome -- The Curse of the Drinking Classes -- Sex, . . . -- . . . Drugs, . . . -- . . . But Not Much Rock and Roll -- Unhealthy Living -- Just Say No? -- 9. Collateral Damage -- Spurring Ingenuity -- Stranger Things -- Drawing a Line -- Excess Burden -- No Fire without Smoke -- A Window on Excess Burden -- 10. How to Pluck a Goose A Crime of Passion and the French Income Tax -- Old Fears and New Directions -- 6. Some Are More Equal Than Others -- Taxing Femininity -- Peculiar Tax Institutions -- Leaps of Faith -- Outsiders -- Strangers in a Strange Land -- Taxes as Punishment -- Hard Choices -- 7. Stick or Shift? -- False Starts -- Burgling Other People's Intellect -- You Must Remember This -- Buddy, Can You Spare 1/20th of a Dime? -- Things Aren't Always What They Seem -- Helping the Working Poor (or Their Employers) -- Are Tax-Free Municipal Bonds a Giveaway to the Savvy Rich? -- The Murky Incidence of the Corporate Tax Doing Your Bit -- Paying Your (Feudal) Dues -- Crossing the Line -- And There's More -- Jobs for the Boys -- A Tax on Stupidity -- Part II. Winners and Losers -- 4. Fair Enough -- Heads on Pikes -- Poll Taxes and the English -- Noble Causes -- Trying to Be Fair -- Pay for What You Get? -- Pay What You Can? -- Show Me a Sign -- Taxing by Class -- Taxing by Community -- Taxing the Finer Things in Life -- Presumptions of Prosperity -- 5. This Colossal Engine of Finance -- The Work of Giants: The Income Tax in Britain -- The Dred Scott Decision of the Revenue Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Plunder and Power -- 1. Any Public Matter -- Bengal to Boston -- Never Such Disgrace -- Why Bolivia Is Landlocked -- Taxing the Light of Heaven -- Not Everything Is About Tax. But . . . -- 2. The Way We Were -- A Quick Gallop through the Long History of Taxation -- How Much? -- Warfare and Welfare -- Babbage's Nightmare -- Debt, Default, and Princes -- Making Money -- 3. By Another Name -- Elizabeth I to Spectrum Auctions -- Selling Sovereignty -- Cheap Labor -- Working for Nothing -- A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man's Fight |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554235303321 |
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Keen Michael
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| Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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This is not a president [[electronic resource] ] : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / / Diane Rubenstein
| This is not a president [[electronic resource] ] : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / / Diane Rubenstein |
| Autore | Rubenstein Diane <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.920922 |
| Soggetto topico |
Presidents - United States
Political culture - United States Popular culture - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1992
American Bush Contra Guinier Iran Iraq Japan Lani President Republican This Through War collective convention culture diverse episodes failed investment nomination political situates vomiting |
| ISBN |
0-8147-7731-7
0-8147-7620-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: my own private presidents -- Organizational note -- The mirror of reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America -- Oliver North and the lying nose -- This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation -- Bush, the man who Sununu too much: male trouble and presidential subjectivity -- "Chicks with dicks": transgendering the presidency -- "Honey, I shrunk the president": psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the Clinton presidency -- "Father, can't you see I'm bombing?" A Bush family romance -- Hillary regained -- Notes -- Index -- About the author. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781839603321 |
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Rubenstein Diane <1953->
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| New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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