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Alister E. McGrath; Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath. The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. IVP Books, 06/08/2007.
083083446X Brand New Item! Will only have slight wear from sitting on our shelves. Binding: Hardcover ISBN13: 9780830834464 Size: 5.7 x 8.3 x .7 in. <p> Publisher Description: The God Delusion by world-renowned scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins received wide coverage, fueled much passionate debate and caused not a little confusion.<p><p>Once an atheist himself, Alister McGrath wonders how two people, who have reflected at length on substantially the same world, could possibly have come to such different conclusions about God. In The Dawkins Delusion? McGrath and his wife, Joanna, subject Dawkins's critique of faith to rigorous scrutiny.<p><p>This book will be warmly received by those looking for a reliable assessment of The God Delusion and the many questions it raises including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.<p><p>Market/Audience<p><p>? General readers<p>? Pastors<p>? Students<p>? Culture watchers<p><p>Endorsements<p><p>"Alister McGrath invariably combines enormous scholarship with an accessible and engaging style." ROWAN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury<p><p>"Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his muchcherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism." FRANCIS COLLINS, Director of the Human Genome Project<p><p>"The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why." MICHAEL RUSE, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University<p><p>Features and Benefits<p><p>? Provides a timely response to the recent bestselling book by Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion<p>? McGrath, like Dawkins, was an atheist and now, again like Dawkins, teaches at Oxford.

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Melanie McGrath. Motel Nirvana: Dreaming of the New Age in the American Desert. Picador USA,
0312143729 ISBN: 0312143729 Hardcover with dustjacket, 228 pages. VG+/VG+. New! Picador USA 1996. First USA Edition. Spirituality, New Age. Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com A 30-year-old British woman travels around the southwestern United States, the focal point of the New Age movement and a desert landscape where "someone you can rely upon to have an opinion about soap opera or McDonald's turns out to have seen angels in her backyard and the man who sells you a cup of coffee thinks himself a reincarnation of Nefertiti." McGrath struggles to maintain a sense of ironic amusement as she encounters an assortment of eccentric folks, from a pudgy, sexually confused "angel" to a "convergence" of people who have achieved immortality--or claim to, at any rate--by deciding that they don't feel like dying. American readers may find some difficulty warming up to McGrath's British prose style, but the humor and insight in Motel Nirvana are well worth the effort. --Ron Hogan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly A British journalist checks into the American Southwest to spend a year among pilgrims in the more outre regions of inner space and among the spiritual snake-oil salesmen who serve them. McGrath's wanderings take her literally and figuratively all over the map?to spiffy, boutique-choked Santa Fe, to the ill-fated Biosphere, to a UFO drop-in at an Arizona canyon, to an orgy of "cellular intercourse" among a cult of self-professed "immortals." She intersperses passages of high humor with more sober disquisitions on the real history of Europeans in the West, from the Spanish seekers for El Dorado to the scientists working at the National Laboratory at Los Alamos. There's a glancing, supercilious tone to much of the writing here, and McGrath's prose sometimes shades into deep purple (in the city of Phoenix, "the mammon virus throbs everywhere, extending its spider legs into the lowliest corner of the city, poisoning its soul"). But McGrath concludes her first book with a passionate elegy for the indigenous cultures being plundered and homogenized by New Age hucksters?and with a moving confession of her own that brings the work to an inspired conclusion. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc..

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McGrath, Patrick: Trauma - A Novel, NY Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher 2008
ISBN: 1-4000-4166-X Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Peter Mendelsun; Book Design By Robert C. Olsonn

First printing of the Knopf hardcover edition. viii, 214pp. Red paper boards, black ink spine lettering, cream endpapers, deckled fore-edge. Dust jacket price 24.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. Book and Dust jacket are in As New, unread condition. No remainder markings. Patrick McGrath is a Poe for our times, the first postmodern-gothic storyteller. Drawn from the mind's most unruly nightmares and macabre alcoves, his elegantly bizzare fiction is laden with shimmering images of sensuality touched with subtle humor and irony, rich with atmospheric prose which stretches the limits of gothic horror - creating unforgettable literature. " Hailed by the 'San Francisco Chronicle' as "an uncommon storyteller [with a] trademark ability to probe the layers of the human psyche," Patrick McGrath has written his most addictive and enthralling novel yet. Charlie Weir's family is comprehensively dysfunctional - abandoned bv his father, his mother ravaged by that betrayal, and his brother, Walt, a successful artist, less Charlie's ally than his rival. So it's hardly surprising that he should find a vocation in psychiatry in New York City, counseling traumatized war veterans returning home from Vietnam. Agnes Magill, the sister of one damaged soldier, soon becomes Charlies wife. But the suicide of her brother, Danny ends the marriage, leaving Charlie to endure a corrosive loneliness even as Manhattan grows steadily more dirty and dangerous around him. Then, in the haunting aftermath of Charlie's mother's death, Agnes returns to offer him the solace he has never been able to provide for her. Almost simultaneously, he is presented with a quite different anodyne - a volatile woman whose irresistible beauty, tinged though it is with an air of grievous suffering, jeopardizes everything he has hoped might restore his dwindling faith in his calling and himself. As Charlie's hold on sanity weakens, and events conspire to send him reeling headlong toward the abyss, the themes of family passion and madness - by now synonymous with Patrick McGrath's writing - rightly assume "the inevitability of myth," as Tobias Wolff has written of his work, in "fiction of a depth and power we hardly hope to encounter anymore." A genuine psychological thriller, 'Trauma' is once unnerving, unsettling and utterly riveting." - dust jacket front flap. "McGrath manipulates reader expectations expertly in this sharp-edged psychological study of a man deluded by his personal demons. Charlie Weir, a Manhattan psychiatrist, applies the life skills the members of his badly dysfunctional family have helped him hone to counseling patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. While everyone else he knows appears in danger of spinning out of orbit, Charlie exudes the calmness and confidence of a man in control of his circumstances. But he's unable to connect emotionally with the women in his life, and he repeatedly revisits his memory of the suicide of his ex-wife's brother, who was also one of his patients. With painstaking precision, McGrath drives this story to a climactic, if hastily resolved, moment of self-revelation in which Charlie uncovers a forgotten personal trauma that has perverted his perceptions and made him the most unreliable of narrators. Notwithstanding these efforts to give Charlie's tale the jolt of a psychological thriller, this is a haunting story of a man in the grip of a painful and beautifully articulated spiritual malaise." - Publishers Weekly. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Clark, Mary Higgins: Let Me Call You Sweetheart, New York, NY, U.S.A. Pocket Books 1996
ISBN: 0671568175 Good

Cover & pages in good cond. with a corner crease, very slight spine creases, cover showing minor wear. SYNOPSIS: Kerry McGrath takes her daughter to a prominent New York plastic surgeon following an automobile accident and runs into a woman from her past in the waiting room. Suzanne Reardon, the "sweetheart murder" victim from a case McGrath prosecuted 10 years earlier, is supposedly dead, and her former husband is on death row after having been convicted of murdering her. McGrath sets out to restore the scales of justice in this twisty tale of homicidal obsession. As prosecutor Kerry McGrath immerses herself in a fresh investigation, she is catapulted into the strange and ominous territory of those so obsessed with beauty they'll kill for it. Each new piece of evidence reveals a disturbing cache if questions. Not only does everyone involved want to keep the case closed, it's clear somebody will stop at nothing to keep in sealed forever. 1st Paperback Printing Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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