Results for Philip Jenkins

isbn.nu

search for books and compare prices

ISBN

Title

Author

Advanced

About

Who We Are

What's an ISBN?

Philip Jenkins has written 39 work(s)

Search for other authors with the same name

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 14 >

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

Focalguide to Movie Titling

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

9780240510118 | Focal Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $8.95

The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry, 1640-1790

Product Description: This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by common attitudes, social outlook, living standards and educational patterns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780521250030 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London.

Paperback:

9780521521949, titled "The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640-1790" | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London.

B. Traven: Life and Work

Product Description: The most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of Traven's life and work together with an analysis of the sources of his inspiration and his impact on other modern writers - is presented in this book by an international group of experts...read more

By Philip Jenkins (editor) and Ernst Schurer

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780271003825 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: The most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of Traven's life and work together with an analysis of the sources of his inspiration and his impact on other modern writers - is presented in this book by an international group of experts.

A History of Modern Wales, 1536-1990

Product Description: Wales can be described as England's oldest colonial conquest, but centuries of political subjection have not destroyed the Welsh identity. The existence and survival of Wales thus represents one of the least understood parts of the "British Question" in national politics, the quest for a proper relationship between England and its Celtic neighbours...read more

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780582489240 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, October 1, 1990, cover price $27.75 | About this edition: Wales can be described as England's oldest colonial conquest, but centuries of political subjection have not destroyed the Welsh identity.

Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780202304359 | Aldine De Gruyter, August 1, 1992, cover price $47.95

Paperback:

9780202304366 | Aldine De Gruyter, August 1, 1992, cover price $25.95

Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide

Product Description: In assessing the concern that popular fears and stereotypes have exaggerated the actual scale of multiple homicides, Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction that includes an historical and social-scientifi c estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the construction of the phenomenom in public debate; and a cultural studies-oriented analysis of the portrayal of serial murder in contemporary media...read more

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780202304991 | Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 1994, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: In assessing the concern that popular fears and stereotypes have exaggerated the actual scale of multiple homicides, Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction that includes an historical and social-scientifi c estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the construction of the phenomenom in public debate; and a cultural studies-oriented analysis of the portrayal of serial murder in contemporary media.

Paperback:

9780202305257 | Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In assessing the concern that popular fears and stereotypes have exaggerated the actual scale of multiple homicides, Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction that includes an historical and social-scientifi c estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the construction of the phenomenom in public debate; and a cultural studies-oriented analysis of the portrayal of serial murder in contemporary media.

Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis

Product Description: If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. We have certainly seen many well-publicized cases, with front-page photos of priests led off to jail, and television interviews of parents afraid to let their children associate with clergy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780735105089 | Replica Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $29.65 | About this edition: If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy.

9780195095654 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Arguing that the current epidemic of clergy sex abuse is not as widespread as the media suggests, a critical examination of this issue states that popular imagination fans the fire of scandal and theorizes about why the controversy has targeted Catholicism.

Paperback:

9780195145977 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 17, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This volume takes a close, dispassionate look at the entire history of the issue of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy.

The Berlin Wall: Representations and Perspectives

By Philip Jenkins (editor), Manfred Keune (editor) and Ernst Schurer (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780820428840 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $68.95

Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America

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

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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.

The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania

Product Description: One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the state, tracing the Red Scare's reverberations in party politics, the labor movement, ethnic organizations, schools and universities, and religious organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

9780807847817 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States.

Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs

Product Description: America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs, like methamphetamine, PCP, Ecstasy, methcathinone, and rave drugs like ketamine, and GHB...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780814742433 | New York Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance.

Paperback:

9780814742440 | New York Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance.

The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780807824986 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States.

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

Product Description: In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are traceable to the mid-nineteenth century when Mormons, Freemasons, and even Catholics were denounced for supposed ritualistic violence, fraud, and sexual depravity...read more

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780195127447 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 6, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Looks at cults and anti-cult scares in American history and reveals the true characteristics of religious fringe movements and why they inspire such fierce antagonism.

Paperback:

9780195145960 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 15, 2001, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s.

Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way

Product Description: This incisive critique thoroughly and convincingly debunks the claims that recently discovered texts such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and even the Dead Sea Scrolls undermine the historical validity of the New Testament...read more

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780195135091 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 28, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author analyzes the 'hidden gospel' phenomenon and reveals how the over-emphasis on non-canonical accounts of Jesus has nearly derailed the search for the historical Jesus.

Paperback:

9780195156317 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 5, 2002, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This incisive critique thoroughly and convincingly debunks the claims that recently discovered texts such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and even the Dead Sea Scrolls undermine the historical validity of the New Testament.

Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet

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)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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.

Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism

Product Description: Images of Terror provides a critical consumers guide to the images of terrorism that we are offered daily in the mass media. All too often, scholars and journalists accept uncritically the interpretations of terrorism they receive from governments and official agencies...read more

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

9780202306780 | Aldine De Gruyter, April 1, 2003, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Images of Terror provides a critical consumer’s guide to the images of terrorism that we are offered daily in the mass media.

Paperback:

9780202306797 | Aldine De Gruyter, April 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Images of Terror provides a critical consumers guide to the images of terrorism that we are offered daily in the mass media.

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

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)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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

Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality

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)

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

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.

Breve Historia de Estados Unidos / A History of the United States

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

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

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.

Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

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

Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties And the Making of Eighties America

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

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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?

Still Life With Loops

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)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Paperback:

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").

The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

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

By Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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.

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, Library Edition

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 Philip Jenkins

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

CD/Spoken Word:

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.

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-and How It Died

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

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Edition summary (click for prices and details):

CD/Spoken Word:

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.

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 14 >