July 2021 New Title Releases from UPG
Please find below links to download a PDF and Excel spreadsheet showing all titles publishing in July 2021 from the UPG presses. There is also a link to the collection on Edelweiss.
Why Veganism Matters – The Philosopher Event video
Why Veganism Matters: Gary Francione with Adam Ferner and Darren Chetty, a video of the webinar hosted by The Philosopher, the longest-running public philosophy journal in the UK, founded in 1923.
Why Veganism Matters presents the case for the personhood of nonhuman animals and for veganism in a clear and accessible way that does not require any philosophical or legal background. This book offers a persuasive and powerful argument for all readers who care about animals but are not sure whether they have a moral obligation to be vegan.
UPG June 2021 New Titles
Please find below links to download a PDF and Excel spreadsheet showing all titles publishing in J from the UPG presses. There is also a link to the collection on Edelweiss, which will give you a lot more detail on the books, it’s free to access and there’s no need to register.
Breaking the Social Media Prism, reviewed in the Economist
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue, reviewed in Washington Post
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s last book is a curation of her own legacy, tracing the long history of her work for gender equality and a “more perfect Union.”
UPG May 2021 New Titles
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An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura reviewed in the New York Times
Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades but turned her back on the English language and American culture. After a phone call from her older sister reminds her that it is the twentieth anniversary of their family’s arrival in New York, she spends the day reflecting in solitude and over the phone with her sister about their life in the United States, trying to break the news that she has decided to go back to Japan and become a writer in her mother tongue.
April 2021 New Titles
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March 2021 New Titles
Please find below links to download a PDF and Excel spreadsheet showing all titles publishing in March from the UPG presses. There is also a link to the collection on Edelweiss.
The Terroir of Whiskey
Look at the back label of a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew the grapes, from its soil to the climate. Winemakers universally accept that where a grape is grown influences its chemistry, which in turn changes the flavor of the wine. A detailed system has codified the idea that place matters to wine. So why don’t we feel the same way about whiskey?
