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Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life
Web edition: March 27, 2009
Print edition: April 11, 2009; Vol.175 #8 (p. 30)
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Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, eds.
Standards are a fact of life, from cradle to coffin size.
Cornell Univ., 2009, 244 p., $22.95.
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