In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.

Looks at how social customs have changed from medieval times to the present and speculates on the social needs manners fulfill.

Chapter 1 FROM ORDER TO DISORDER 5 mins. John enters and goes into his office. He says something very quickly about having made a bad mistake. He had sent the review of a paper. . . . The rest of the sentence is inaudible. 5 mins.

Particle physicists constitute a community of sophisticated mythmakers—explicators of the nature of matter who forever alter our views of space and time. But who are these people? What is their world really like? Traweek, a bold observer of culture, opens the door to this unusual domain and offers us a glimpse into the inner sanctum.

A selection of articles from the Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies, reflecting the wealth of Dutch feminist theories. The focus is on equality versus difference, theory and history, the body, and French thought and psychoanalysis.