Hooking up [[electronic resource] ] : sex, dating, and relationships on campus / / Kathleen A. Bogle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452235703321
• Autore: Bogle Kathleen A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8147-8991-9; 0-8147-9111-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.73084/20973
• Soggetti: College students - Sexual behavior - United States; Dating (Social customs) - United States; Universities and colleges - Social aspects - United States; Electronic books.
• 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. 211-219) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- From dating to hooking up -- The hookup -- The hookup scene -- The campus as a sexual arena -- Men, women, and the sexual double standard -- Life after college : a return to dating -- Hooking up and dating : a comparison -- Methodological appendix.
• Sommario/riassunto: Listen to her NPR InterviewThe Sociology of "Hooking Up": Author Interview on Inside Higher EdNewsweek: Campus Sexperts--›Hookup culture creates unfamiliar environment - to parents, at leastHooking Up: What Educators Need to Know - An op-ed on CHE by the authorIt happens every weekend: In a haze of hormones and alcohol, groups of male and female college students meet at a frat party, a bar, or hanging out in a dorm room, and then hook up for an evening of sex first, questions later. As casually as the sexual encounter begins, so it often ends with no strings attached; after all, it was “just a hook up.” While a hook up might mean anything from kissing to oral sex to going all the way, the lack of commitment is paramount.Hooking Up is an intimate look at how and why college students get together, what hooking up means to them, and why it has replaced dating on college campuses. In surprisingly frank interviews, students reveal the circumstances that have led to the rise of the booty call and the death of dinner-and-a-; movie. Whether it is an expression of postfeminist independence or a form of youthful rebellion, hooking up has become the only game in town on many campuses.In Hooking Up, Kathleen A. Bogle argues that college life itself promotes casual relationships among students on campus. The book sheds light on everything from the differences in what young men and women want from a hook up to why freshmen girls are more likely to hook up than their upper-class sisters and the effects this period has on the sexual and romantic relationships of both men and women after college. Importantly, she shows us that the standards for young men and women are not as different as they used to be, as women talk about “friends with benefits” and “one and done” hook ups.Breaking through many misconceptions about casual sex on college campuses, Hooking Up is the first book to understand the new sexual culture on its own terms, with vivid real-life stories of young men and women as they navigate the newest sexual revolution.

Dynamics and mission design near libration points . Volume 2 Fundamentals : the case of triangular libration points / / G. Gomez ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967993203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2001
• ISBN: 9786611956301; 9781281956309; 1281956309; 9789812810649; 9812810641
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Collana: World scientific monograph series in mathematics ; ; 3
• Altri autori (Persone): GómezG (Gerard)
• Disciplina: 521.3
• Soggetti: Three-body problem; Lagrangian points
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Bibliographical Survey; 1.1 Equations. The Triangular Equilibrium Points and their Stability; 1.2 Numerical Results for the Motion Around L4 and L5 ; 1.3 Analytical Results for the Motion Around L4 and L5; 1.3.1 The Models Used; 1.4 Miscellaneous Results 1.4.1 Station Keeping at the Triangular Equilibrium Points; 1.4.2 Some Other Results; Chapter 2 Periodic Orbits of the Bicircular Problem and Their Stability; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Equations of the Bicircular Problem; 2.3 Periodic Orbits with the Period of the Sun 2.4 The Tools: Numerical Continuation of Periodic Orbits and Analysis of Bifurcations; 2.4.1 Numerical Continuation of Periodic Orbits for Nonautonomous and Autonomous Equations; 2.4.2 Bifurcations of Periodic Orbits: From the Autonomous to the Nonautonomous Periodic System 2.4.3 Bifurcation for Eigenvalues Equal to One; 2.5 The Periodic Orbits Obtained by Triplication; Chapter 3 Numerical Simulations of the Motion in an Extended Neighborhood of the Triangular Libration Points in the Earth-Moon System 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Simulations of Motion Starting at the Instantaneous Triangular Points at a Given Epoch; 3.3 Simulations of Motion Starting Near the Planar Periodic Orbit of Kolenkiewicz and Carpenter
• Sommario/riassunto: It is well known that the restricted three-body problem has triangular equilibrium points. These points are linearly stable for values of the mass parameter, <i>μ</i>, below Routh's critical value, <i>μ</i>1. It is also known that in the spatial case they are nonlinearly stable, not for all the initial conditions in a neighborhood of the equilibrium points <i>L</i>4, <i>L</i>5 but for a set of relatively large measures. This follows from the celebrated Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem. In fact there are neighborhoods of computable size for which one obtains "practical stability" in the sense t