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

Author/creator Molotch, Harvey Luskin
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionxv, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction : colors of security -- Bare life : restroom anxiety and the urge for control -- Below the subway : taking care day in and day out -- Wrong-way flights : pushing humans away -- Forting up the skyline : rebuilding at ground zero -- Facing Katrina : illusions of levee and compulsion to build -- Conclusion : radical ambiguity and the default to decency.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012012128
ISBN9780691155814 (cloth : alk. paper)

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