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Product Description: Thisestablished introductory textprovides a lucid, authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments. In this revised and updatednew edition, Jenkins discusses the Obama presidency, the economic crisis and recent environmental issues...read more
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9780230282865 | 4th edition (Palgrave Macmillan, February 28, 2012), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Thisestablished introductory textprovides a lucid, authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments.
9780230506770, titled "History of the United States" | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 30, 2007), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This highly readable introductory guide provides a lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments.
9781403900296 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 2003), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This highly readable introductory guide provides a lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments.
9780312163617 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 1997, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Covers political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of American history

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9780230282872 | 4th edition (Palgrave Macmillan, February 28, 2012), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: This established introductory text provides a lucid, authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments.
9780230506787 | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 30, 2007), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: This highly readable introductory guide provides a lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments.
9781403900302 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 7, 2003), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This highly readable introductory guide provides a lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic, and cultural developments.
9789990133967 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 2003, cover price $0.02
9780312163624 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Covers political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of American history

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Product Description: Award-winning historian Theodore Friend recently set out alone across Asia and the Middle East on a quest to understand firsthand the life situations of women in Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam recounts Friend’s remarkable journey and relates hundreds of encounters and conversations with people he met along the way...read more
By Philip Jenkins (foreword by)
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9780802866738 | Eerdmans Pub Co, November 16, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Award-winning historian Theodore Friend recently set out alone across Asia and the Middle East on a quest to understand firsthand the life situations of women in Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.

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Product Description: Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur'an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired in Christianity than it is in Islam...read more
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9780061990717 | Harpercollins, October 25, 2011, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur'an.

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Product Description: In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents...read more
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9780195146165 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 31, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin American has barely registered on Western consciousness.

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9780199767465 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 13, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
9780195183078 | Rev exp edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 19, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The first edition of The Next Christendom has been hailed as a landmark in our understanding of modern Christianity.
9780195168914 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 24, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: By the year 2,050 only one Christian in five will be non-Latino and white, and the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere.

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Product Description: The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, Philip Jenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful characters shaped Christian doctrine...read more
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9780061768941, titled "Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years" | 1 edition (Harpercollins, March 9, 2010), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century.

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9780061768934, titled "Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, March 8, 2011), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, Philip Jenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful characters shaped Christian doctrine.

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Product Description: The Untold Story of the Church's First Thousand Years In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that for centuries Christianity's center existed to the east of the Roman Empire.
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9780061472817 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, November 3, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Untold Story of the Church's First Thousand Years In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that for centuries Christianity's center existed to the east of the Roman Empire.

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Product Description: The surprising story of how Christianity flourished in China, India, the Middle East, and Africa for 1,000 years, shaping Christianity---and Islam---as they are today.
By Dick Hill (narrator) and Philip Jenkins
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9781400159710 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 28, 2008), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The surprising story of how Christianity flourished in China, India, the Middle East, and Africa for 1,000 years, shaping Christianity---and Islam---as they are today.

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Product Description: Spencer Bain is a modern man of science, a university anthropologist doing fieldwork in a small New Mexican town. Used to long separations from his wife, a UCLA professor equally dedicated to her career, he is mostly untroubled by his infidelities, and hers that is, until now...read more
By Philip Jenkins (foreword by) and Harry Sylvester
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9781586173227 | Ignatius Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Spencer Bain is a modern man of science, a university anthropologist doing fieldwork in a small New Mexican town.

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Product Description: Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 1930s, was a particularly volatile period, and by 1940, racist, nativist, and fascist groups had become so visible as to arouse public fears of insurrection and sabotage...read more
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9780807823163 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape.

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9780807857069 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape.

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Product Description: Is the Christian church in Europe doomed to collapse under the weight of globalization, Western secularism, and a flood of Muslim immigrants? Is Europe on the brink of becoming "Eurabia"? Though many pundits are predicting just such a scenario, God's Continent reveals the flaws in these arguments and offers a much more measured assessment of Europe's religious future...read more
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9780195313956 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 5, 2007, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: An objective analysis of the future of Christianity and Islam in Europe examines the continent's religious trends in light of its secular culture, the decline of conventional Christian churches, and the influx of immigrants from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

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9780195384628 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 6, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Is the Christian church in Europe doomed to collapse under the weight of globalization, Western secularism, and a flood of Muslim immigrants?

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9781422208052 | Mason Crest, September 15, 2009, cover price $9.95

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9781422208038 | Mason Crest, September 15, 2009, cover price $9.95

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9788420663357, titled "Breve historia de Estados Unidos / A History of the United States" | 3 tra edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, December 2, 2008), cover price $20.95

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Product Description: In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China...read more
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9780061472800 | Harpercollins, November 1, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China.

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Product Description: The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history. Leading religion scholar Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the earliest, most influential churches of the East-those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church-died...read more
By Dick Hill (narrator) and Philip Jenkins
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9781400109715 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 28, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history.

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Product Description: The surprising story of how Christianity flourished in China, India, the Middle East, and Africa for 1,000 years, shaping Christianity---and Islam---as they are today.
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9781400139712 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 28, 2008), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: The surprising story of how Christianity flourished in China, India, the Middle East, and Africa for 1,000 years, shaping Christianity---and Islam---as they are today.

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Product Description: Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins' phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future...read more
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9780195300659 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The best-sellling author of The New Christendom continues his study of the growth of Christianity in the southern regions of the world, examining the influence of the Bible on the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including the impact on growing liberation movements and the rise of women's rights.

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9780195368512 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 12, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins' phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Product Description: Born in San Sebastian, and still living and working there, the Basque poet Eli Tolaretxipi has published two collections of poetry in Spanish - "Amor muerto naturaleza muerta" ("Past Love Still Life") and "Los lazos del numero" ("The Loops of the Figure")...read more
By Philip Jenkins (trans)
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9781904614463 | Arc Pubns Todmorden, March 6, 2008, cover price $17.30 | About this edition: Born in San Sebastian, and still living and working there, the Basque poet Eli Tolaretxipi has published two collections of poetry in Spanish - "Amor muerto naturaleza muerta" ("Past Love Still Life") and "Los lazos del numero" ("The Loops of the Figure").

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Product Description: Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues that a remarkable confluence of panics, scares, and a few genuine threats created a climate of fear that led to the conservative reaction...read more
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9780195178661 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 15, 2006, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Draws on tabloid journalism, fiction, movies, and television, in an exploration of the confluence of panics, scares, and genuine threats that created a climate of fear that led to America's conservative turn after the 1960s.

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9780195341584 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 27, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today?

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9780195189100 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 1, 2005, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: Nacion que suele suscitar las mas encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de America se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta "Breve Historia de Estados Unidos" recorre el desarrollo historico de este pais desde los inicios de la colonizacion hasta nuestros dias...read more
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9788420658438 | 2nd edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Nacion que suele suscitar las mas encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de America se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos.

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Product Description: It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem far less seriously, declaring that molestation was a very rare offense and that molesters were merely confused individuals unlikely to repeat their offenses...read more
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9780300073874 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Over the past century public images of child molesters have varied widely, ranging from a view of sexual offenders as confused individuals unlikely to repeat their crimes to a much more threatening notion of compulsive predators with little hope of cure.

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9780300109634 | Yale Univ Pr, December 28, 2004, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure.

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Product Description: Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can haunt a speaker for years, writes Jenkins, but it is still possible to make hostile and vituperative public statements about Roman Catholicism without fear of serious repercussions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195154801 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 17, 2003, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Offers an analysis of prejudice against Catholics, arguing that anti-Catholicism can be seen in all areas of American culture, including movies, television, publishing, the arts, the news media, and academia.

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9780195176049 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 28, 2004, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America.

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In this account of the changing attitudes towards Native American spirituality, Philip Jenkins charts the history of white American attitudes toward Native religions from colonial times to the present. (view table of contents)
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9780195161151 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 21, 2004, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In this account of the changing attitudes towards Native American spirituality, Philip Jenkins charts the history of white American attitudes toward Native religions from colonial times to the present.

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Product Description: "A useful introduction to the methods that the kiddie-porn community uses to hide its activities" —The Washington Monthly, Nov. 2001 "This is a troubling book that exposes how child pornography has found a safe haven on the Internet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780814742624 | New York Univ Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: "This is a troubling book that exposes how child pornography has found a safe haven on the Internet.

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9780814742631 | Reissue edition (New York Univ Pr, July 1, 2003), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "A useful introduction to the methods that the kiddie-porn community uses to hide its activities" —The Washington Monthly, Nov.

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