Washington's youngest senator exposes corruption in high places, almost at the cost of his career.

A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.

An explosive war story about an American ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible...

A look at T.E. Lawrence, a British officer who unites the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks during World War I.

In a secret Norwegian laboratory, the Nazis are developing "heavy water," which is critical for making a nuclear weapon. Physicist Rolf leads a small team of commandos into the country to destroy the lab before it's too late. (Based on a true story.)