Author: Ewa Morawska
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: prosperity, insecure
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1999-04-26
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0691005370
ISBN-13: 9780691005379
This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achievi
Author: Eve Ensler
Publisher: Villard
Keywords: memoir, political, last, insecure
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812973666
ISBN-13: 9780812973662
“Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life.”–Eve EnslerWhen her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and ho
Author: Dan Caldwell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: world, insecure, security, seeking
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-12-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0742538133
ISBN-13: 9780742538139
Seeking Security in an Insecure World is intended to provide a brief but thorough introduction to contemporary security studies. With clear and lively prose, compelling examples, and solid scholarship, it will engage both undergraduate students of international relations and general readers who wish to gain a better understanding of what security means today and how it can best be achieved.
Author: Richard V. Ericson
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: world, insecure, crime
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2007-01-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0745638295
ISBN-13: 9780745638294
Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. It explains why selected issues of national security (threats of terrorism), social security (benefit system integrity), corporate security (liabilities for harm) and domestic security (anti-social behaviour) are at the top of the political agenda. It documents how this politics of insecurity leads to enormous expenditures on risk assessment and managem
Author: David Rice
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: software, insecure, cost, real, geekonomics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-12-09
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0321477898
ISBN-13: 9780321477897
“The clarity of David’s argument and the strength of his conviction are truly inspiring. If you don’t believe the world of software affects the world in which you live, you owe it to yourself to read this book.”–Lenny Zeltzer, SANS Institute faculty member and the New York Security Consulting Manager at Savvis, Inc. “Geekonomics stays with you long after you finish reading the book. You will reconsider every assumption you have had about software costs and benefits.”–Slava Frid, Gemini Systems, CTO, Resilience Technology Solutions “
Authors:Peter Gill, Mark Phythian,
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: world, insecure, intelligence
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0745632440
ISBN-13: 9780745632445
The role of intelligence in the contemporary world is ubiquitous: individuals, groups and organizations as well as states seek information in order to increase their sense of security. The events of 9/11 and subsequent ’war on terror’ have made intelligence more central to the study of government and international affairs than at any time previously, reviving old debates and generating new ones. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop it and how? What happens to the intelligence that is produced? This timely new book explores these and other key questions. Co
Author: Steven Hill
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hope, insecure, way, european, promise, europe
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520261372
ISBN-13: 9780520261372
A quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe. A world power has emerged across the Atlantic that is recrafting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. In Europe’s Promise, Steven Hill explains Europe’s bold new vision. For a decade Hill traveled widely to understand this uniquely European way of life. He shatters myths and shows how Europe’s leadership manifests in five major areas: economic strength, with Europe now the world’s wealthiest trading bloc, nearly as large
