Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

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.

Author: Catherine Lutz, Anne Lutz Fernandez
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230618138

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 118
Choice 10/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 120

About the Author

Catherine Lutz is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studiesat Brown University where she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology. As an author and editor, Professor Lutz has published nine books. Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former marketer and investment banker with fifteen years of corporate experience. She is an English teacher in Westport, Connecticut.