{"product_id":"9781501314872","title":"Password","description":"Author: Eve,Martin Paul\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781501314872\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 22 Jun 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 136 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e The open-access edition of this text was made possible by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from The Leverhulme Trust.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003cbr\u003eWhere does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if not the unauthorized use of a password? In untangling the histories, cultural contexts and philosophies of the password, Martin Paul Eve explores how 'what we know' became 'who we are', revealing how the modern notion of identity has been shaped by the password. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRanging from ancient Rome and the 'watchwords' of military encampments, through the three-factor authentication systems of \u003ci\u003eHarry Potter \u003c\/i\u003eand up to the biometric scanner in the iPhone, \u003ci\u003ePassword \u003c\/i\u003emakes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the words, phrases and special characters that determine our belonging and, often, our being.\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46619379302558,"sku":"UBD-9781501314872","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781501314872.jpg?v=1773898250","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781501314872","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}