Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
Autor Catherine Lutz, Anne Lutz Fernandezen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 2009
"Carjacked "is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.
"Carjacked" details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780230618138
ISBN-10: 0230618138
Pagini: 254
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0230618138
Pagini: 254
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
Dream Car: Myth-making, Western Values, and the Automobile 23
The Pitch: How They Sell
The Pitch: How We Buy
The Catch: What We Really Pay Chapter 6. The Catch: The Rich Get Richer
Why We Drive
Drive Time Remakes Us
Getting Carsick
Full Metal Jacket: The Body Count
Conclusion: A Call to Action
Introduction
Dream Car: Myth-making, Western Values, and the Automobile 23
The Pitch: How They Sell
The Pitch: How We Buy
The Catch: What We Really Pay Chapter 6. The Catch: The Rich Get Richer
Why We Drive
Drive Time Remakes Us
Getting Carsick
Full Metal Jacket: The Body Count
Conclusion: A Call to Action
Notă biografică
CATHERINE LUTZ is a Watson Institute professor at Brown University, USA where she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology. As an author and editor, Professor Lutz has published nine books. She was until recently president of the American Ethnological Society, the oldest professional anthropological association in the United States.
ANNE LUTZ FERDINAND is a former marketer and investment banker with fifteen years of corporate experience. Ms. Fernandez is currently a teacher of English in the Westport, Connecticut public school system, USA.
Caracteristici
Catherine Lutz is frequently interviewed on the radio, including on NPR, and her editorials and articles have appeared in recent years in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and The Nation, among others
Catherine's most recent book, Local Democracy Under Siege, won the Jones and Sharff Prize for the Critical Study of North America, and her book Homefront was awarded both the Anthony Leeds Award for Urban Anthropology and the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
This is an in-depth look at automobiles, the industry myths involved, and the ways in which we can benefit by thinking and acting differently about cars
Catherine's most recent book, Local Democracy Under Siege, won the Jones and Sharff Prize for the Critical Study of North America, and her book Homefront was awarded both the Anthony Leeds Award for Urban Anthropology and the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
This is an in-depth look at automobiles, the industry myths involved, and the ways in which we can benefit by thinking and acting differently about cars
Descriere
Carjacked sheds new light on the complex impact of the automobile on American society and shows us how to develop a new and healthier relationship with cars, one that is both cheaper and greener.