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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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