《世界在掌上：The World On Your Hand》是臺灣布袋戲傳習中心與美國西北木偶中心共同策畫的特展專書，也是臺灣首部專門介紹全球偶戲歷史的著作。時間跨越從西元前到現代，地域覆蓋五大洲（歐洲、亞洲、非洲、北美洲、南美洲）。偶戲歷史同時也是人類移民史的一部分，透過偶戲移動的軌跡，讀者能深入了解人類歷史的演變。此書不僅涵蓋世界偶戲史，還收錄超過一百件戲偶沙龍照片，這些戲偶是自西北木偶中心遠渡重洋來到臺灣展出的，每個戲偶背後都有其獨特的故事和意義。

"The World On Your Hand: The Northwest Puppet Center Exhibition" is a special exhibition book co-planned by the Taiwan Potehi Institute and the Northwest Puppet Center in the United States. It is also Taiwan's first specialized book that introduces the history of puppetry around the world. The time span covers from ancient times to the present day, and the geographic scope spans across five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. The history of puppetry is also the history of human migration. Through the movement of puppetry, one can understand the changes in human history. In addition to the history of puppetry around the world, the content of the book also includes more than one hundred puppet salon photographs that traveled across the ocean from the Northwest Puppet Center to Taiwan, which also contains the stories and meanings behind them.