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This book uses unexploited postal data to explore regional economic fluctuations in the nineteenth-century United States and to study social mobility and status among postmasters, particularly women and African Americans.

This is the definitive global guide about dumplings for dumpling lovers (is there anyone who’s not?).It is a scientifically ironic travel cookbook that has created and analysed a dumpling database, including over 200 dumplings from 70 countries, each classified into six dimensions of dumplingness. It is a unique combination of history, science, statistics and, of course, recipes.

Enumeration Nation confronts the importance of data provenance by investigating the Census Bureau’s 1970 transition to self-enumeration. Joseph Ballegeer follows the participants in the census—Bureau statisticians, survey instrument, and the people being counted—to demonstrate how culture is part and parcel of data generation.

Black Metal Theology explores what happens when the extreme music of black metal and Christian theology are thought and heard together. The result is a rethinking of the divine as expressed in the intimate processes of worldly decay.

Economic and climate goals can align, but trade-related climate measures by the Global North have increased tensions with the Global South. This publication offers solutions and strategies for more mutually supportive economic and climate policies.

This book explores the rhetorical and ethical dynamics of didactic illness narratives, including works by Audre Lorde, Philip Roth, and Sara Manguso, focusing in particular on how these narratives defy prevailing critical notions about the formal and cultural value of moral storytelling.

The Narrative Compass by Pablo Valdivia examines how cultural narratives and metaphors shape collective thought and drive social change. Using insights from various disciplines, the book reveals how narratives serve as cognitive tools that guide perception and foster empathy, ultimately orientating individual and group identities and motivating societal transformation.

The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.