Rules: A Short History of What We Live by In a great green room

In a great green room

Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world

Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage

living side by side for hundreds of years

Rules: A Short History of What We Live by In a great green roomA panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the