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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 book examines and explains China’s increasingly significant impact on world affairs and global economics. It analyses China’s role in global power shifts, with China’s economic, political and technological evolution since 1990 as background, and assesses its position today and in the next decades, especially regarding its relationship with the other great power America.

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.

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.

This book examines the literary author Ulla Isaksson’s work as a writer for the screen, with particular focus on her collaboration with director Ingmar Bergman from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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.

Political Animals explores how science, law, politics, and public values shape wildlife conservation, from America’s distinctive wildlife management system to today’s contentious wildlife debates around the world.

Green theory broadens international relations by incorporating environmental concerns, climate justice, sustainability, and the ecological consequences of industrialization, colonialism, and economic growth. Using comparative case studies, this edited volume examines climate justice and develops the concept of the distributed ecosystem.