In Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, and Bart Engelen investigate the extensive and growing economic inequalities that characterize the affluent market societies…

Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel’s basic metaphysical contrast between subjective and objective ways of thinking about the world. He shows how a proper understanding of radically perspectival views…

Provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams’ contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which Williams was one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers.

Features interviews that span Alan Ball’s entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and…

This volume provides a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, and includes some morphophonology and morphology. It presents the data of five years…

With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment. Focusing on informal learning, this text examines in…

Creative Lives and Works is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on three of Britain’s foremost…