Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, Michael J. SandelConsidering the role of justice in our society and our lives, Michael Sandel reveals how an understanding of philosophy can help to make sense of politics, religion, morality and our own convictions. Breaking down hotly contested issues, from abortion, euthanasia and same sex marriage, to patriotism, dissent and affirmative action, Sandel shows how the biggest questions in our civic life can be broken down and illuminated through reasoned debate.

with a mix of science

religious and political life of the nineteenth century urban middle-class in Bengal and My Boyhood Days

now called The Last Place on Earth

by luck or by chance

Obinze had hoped to join her

a Ukrainian war refugee and expert on tractors

a post-war Glasgow upbringing is somewhat alien to the antipodean author and Stephenson errs towards Angela's Ashes intonation as she describes her husband's tenement childhood (Scots readers may also find her regular translation of seemingly self-explanatory Scots phrases--which Connolly would use--obtuse)

"—Conor Cruise O'Brien

he must ask himself: is it patient or psychiatrist whose life is being laid bare

but a slave

intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s

he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him