Summary of into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster : by Jon Krakauer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910158900303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [San Francisco, California] : , : Instaread, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-945048-38-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (23 pages)
• Disciplina: 796.522095496
• Soggetti: Mountaineering expeditions - Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Summary & Analysis"--Cover.

Sex in the heartland [[electronic resource] /] / Beth Bailey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778194103321
• Autore: Bailey Beth L. <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0-674-26185-2; 0-674-02039-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 265 p., [16]p. of plates. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 306.70977
• Soggetti: Sex customs - Middle West - History - 20th century; Sexual ethics - Middle West - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-250) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Before the Revolution -- 2 Sex and the Therapeutic Culture -- 3 Responsible Sex -- 4 ; Prescribing the Pill -- 5 Revolutionary Intent -- 6 Sex as a Weapon -- 7 Sex and Liberation -- 8 Remaking Sex -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the story of the sexual revolution in a small town in Kansas. Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual behaviour in postwar America.