San Antonio College Library

Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways.

The famous rysai kenbo or good wife, wise mother role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct its first appearance in Japan being the latter half of the nineteenth century. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing to not just the family but to the formation of the state. Koyamas discovery has transformed how we see modern womens history in Japan and East Asia as a whole....