Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the “graveyard of empires” for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.
Please find below links to download a PDF and Excel spreadsheet of the Princeton Nature Catalogue for 2021. There is also a link to the collection on Edelweiss.
Please find below links to download a PDF and Excel spreadsheet showing all titles publishing in August 2021 from the UPG presses. There is also a link to the collection on Edelweiss.
How we lost control of the internet—and how to win it back.
The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses the politics and debates of gentrification to diagnose the massive, systemic problems blighting our contemporary internet: erosions of privacy and individual ownership, small businesses wiped out by wealthy corporations, the ubiquitous paywall. But there are still steps we can take to reclaim the heady possibilities of the early internet. Lingel outlines actions that internet activists and everyday users can take to defend and secure more protections for the individual and to carve out more spaces of freedom for the people—not businesses—online.
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: 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.
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