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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 are 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 per year 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...
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Il y a une grande responsabilité à se représenter comme étant les derniers d'une longue lignée. C'est un lourd fardeau que tous ne sont pas prêts à porter. Voilà pourquoi, l'histoire de la calèche à Québec était de l'ordre du conte moral et de la fable philosophique. Aujourd'hui, alors que les derniers chevaux arpentent la ville, plus que jamais, le milieu de la calèche incarne un microcosme dans lequel les vérités, les opinions et...
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De novembre 1975 à octobre 1976, Serge Bouchard a voyagé avec des camionneurs dans le Nord-Ouest québécois. Son but: étudier et observer leur travail pour en faire le sujet de sa thèse de doctorat. Serge Bouchard et Mark Fortier ont transformé la matière de cette recherche ethnographique unique en un portrait vivant et pénétrant du monde des routiers.
Il y est question de mouvement, de routes et de béton, mais aussi des célèbres «truck...
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In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing...
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Le point sur les voitures de société en Belgique, leurs usagers et leurs impacts.
La voiture de société est, sans aucun doute, un des avantages de toute nature (ATN) les plus fréquemment proposés par les entreprises à leurs employés. Combien compte-t-on de voitures de société en Belgique? Quels sont les profils des usagers? Et quels sont les impacts sociétaux, environnementaux et économiques de cet « avantage ». Cet ouvrage, qui rassemble...
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An in-depth look at the history and culture of mobile homes in the United States.
In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable alternative to conventional site-built homes. Today one of every fourteen...
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True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America's interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity...for serial killers.
Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet's largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them: the highway killer. He went by many names: the "Hitcher," the...
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The witnesses of segregation still live among us, and award-winning broadcaster and educator Alvin Hall sets out to record their dramatic memories. He uses “The Green Book”, the guide that helped Black people travel safely on the nation's highways and roadways to create a moving, vital story of our past.
“Driving the Green Book” explores the history of America's segregated past, through a journey across terrain once considered too dangerous...
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