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Brink analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. He argues that an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused, and that responsibility consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities, and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities.

An introduction to climate change as moral space -- The capabilities approach -- Mobile adaptation -- Transformative learning and individual adaptation -- Playing at institutional adaptation -- Salutogenic climate change health -- Adaptation for wellbeing -- Bibliography

David O. Brink offers a reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions. Brink defends interpretations of key elements in Mill's moral and political thought, and shows how a perfectionist reading of his conception of happiness has a significant impact on other aspects of his philosophy.

"A pretty fair representation of the American people" : the great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist -- Chicago's great upheaval of 1877 : class polarization and Democratic politics / Richard Schneirov -- Looking north : a mid-south perspective on the Great Strike / Steven J. Hoffman -- The July days in San Francisco, 1877 : prelude to Kearneyism / Michael Kazin -- California's changing society and Mexican American conceptions of the Great Strike of 1877 / David Miller