Rules: A Short History of What We Live By

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By

By
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston
2022 • 384 pages

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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166 books

Microhistory

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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222 books

Political Philosophy And Theory

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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Statism and Anarchy
God and the State
The Half Has Never Been Told
The Second Sex
Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Blessed

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75 books

History Europe

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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

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16 books

Philosophy Of Law

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The Criminalization of Abortion in the West: Its Origins in Medieval Law
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better
Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State
Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism