Mccall: 335 books

When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated...

In February 1956, a remarkable young woman named Christina McCall began her working life as an editorial secretary at Maclean's magazine. It was a legendary time there, when the likes of Pierre Berton, Robert Fulford, June Callwood, Peter Gzowski, and Peter C. Newman graced the magazine's pages. McCall...

One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five...

A Vintage Shorts Original Selection   Twenty years ago, the publication of Nathan McCall’s groundbreaking memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler chronicled a black man’s passage from a life on the block to the prison yards to a journalism career that led to The Washington Post. McCall’s survival had...

After making her way into the metaphysical world, author Anita Kiser McCall has found that the study and practice of metaphysics is not an anti-Christian path. On the contrary, she realized that her faith and awakenings were (and are) intrinsically interwoven and exquisitely enhanced by Spirits confirmations...

In recent decades a new movement has arisen, bringing the conceptual tools of analytic philosophy to bear on theological reflection. Called analytic theology, it seeks to bring a clarity of thought and a disciplined use of logic to the work of constructive Christian theology. In this introduction...

They want the money…but he just wants her Behavioral psychologist Norah MacArthur leads a carefully constructed life of solitude and academic vigor, but not for long… Her con artist father is soon to be released from prison, having served a sentence for stealing $50 million. Only problem? The...

In her sharply observed and ultimately redemptive memoir, Catherine McCall paints a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking portrait of growing up in a complicated Southern family, whose perfect façade hides crippling imperfections. There are two parents, three children, and five ghosts in the McCall...

What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas’s analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the “new” natural law theories. The Architecture...

Perfection is inescapable and all consuming; it is a part of all socio-economic classes and all cultures. Perfection is ingrained in the way we look at each other as we attempt to discern whether we meet the expectations and desires of others, and whether they will love and respect us. Linda...

« McCall Smith foule aux pieds les conventions, pourfend les clichés et bouscule les idées toutes faites ! » The Sunday Telegraph Le livre :  Isabel Dalhousie retrouve sa vieille ennemie, Minty Auchterlonie, lors d’un goûter auquel participent leurs jeunes enfants. Elle s’en méfie toujours,...

« McCall Smith nous plonge dans les rapports amoureux avec humour et finesse. » Point de Vue Le livre :  Au cours d’un dîner, Isabel fait la connaissance d’une femme dont le mari, professeur à la faculté de médecine, est accusé d’avoir menti au sujet d’un médicament récemment mis...

"« Alexander McCall Smith se plonge dans la philosophie la plus échevelée avec les aventures d’Isabel Dalhousie. » Lire Le livre : Dans une ville aux abords d’Édimbourg, un garçon fait le récit détaillé d’une vie qui n’est pas la sienne. Il décrit parfaitement une île sur la...

The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow....