Michael Jackson: The Making of "Thriller" is an illustratedtribute to the King of Pop and his groundbreaking music video, withnever-before-seen photos of its creation. The book features over200 exclusive, behind-the-scenes photographs of the artist on setduring the 1983 production of the Grammy award winning videodirected by John Landis. Considered to be the most successful project of all time,"Thriller" is beloved the world over, inspiring imitation and acult-like following of millions of fans. Documenting the creationof the most popular and iconic music video of all time, this bookcelebrates the artist and his music at the top of his career. Famed photographer Douglas Kirkland and journalist Nancy Griffinwere the only members of the media allowed on the set of the video.The resulting photos capture Jackson both in high performance modeand relaxing on the set and depict his transformation into thecharacters in the video as well capturing the public and privatefaces of Michael Jackson.

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widelyread authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the mostfamous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own truestory has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth isrevealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer SelinaHastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personalcorrespondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his onlychild, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity,and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as TheRazor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood spentwith unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a traumathat resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his lifean urgent need for physical tenderness. Here, too, are his adulttriumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed him a glitteringsocial life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with suchluminaries as Do

A dramatically new interpretation of the development of thethought of Michel Foucault, one of the 20th century's mostinfluential thinkers. In this lucid and groundbreaking work, EricParas reveals that our understanding of the philosophy of MichelFoucault must be radically revised. Foucault's critical axes ofpower and knowledge -which purposefully eradicated the concept offree will- reappear as targets in his later work. Parasdemonstrates the logic that led Foucault to move from amicrophysics of power to an aesthetics of individual experience. Heis the first to show a transformation that not only placed Foucaultin opposition to the archaeological and genealogical positions forwhich he is renowned, but aligned him with some of his fiercestantagonists. "Foucault 2.0" draws on the full range of thephilosopher's writing and of the work of contemporaries whoinfluenced, and sometimes vehemently opposed, his ideas. To fillthe gaps in Foucault's published writings that have so far limitedour conception of the arc of

This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensiveassessment of Bernard Williams' contribution to moral philosophy, afield in which Williams was one of the most influential ofcontemporary philosophers. The seven essays, which were speciallycommissioned for this volume, examine his work on moralobjectivity, the nature of practical reason, moral emotion, thecritique of the 'morality system', Williams' assessment of theethical thought of the ancient world, and his later adoption ofNietzsche's method of 'genealogy'. Collectively, the essays notonly engage with Williams' work, but also develop independentphilosophical arguments in connection with those topics that have,over the last thirty years, particularly reflected Williams'influence.