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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by - Daston, Lorraine
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"We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and death. Cultures notoriously differ as to the content of their rules, but there is no culture without rules. In this book, historian ...

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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by 2023, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691254081

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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by 2022, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691156989

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