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Product Description: Catholicism: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed in your studies, all in one place. It covers the key themes and topics that you are expected to understand, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like key ideas, quotations, and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam...read more

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9781473615793 | Teach Yourself, February 16, 2016, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Catholicism: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed in your studies, all in one place.

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Product Description: In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Stanford explores two thousand years of cultural and theological history to investigate how the very name Judas came to be synonymous with betrayal and, ultimately, human evil...read more

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9781619027091 | Counterpoint, January 12, 2016, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss.

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Product Description: The most famous traitor in all of history—who was he really, and what does he mean for us today? In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss...read more

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9781444754728 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 2015, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The most famous traitor in all of history—who was he really, and what does he mean for us today?

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Product Description: Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant to talk about it. Our contemporary rituals seek to sanitise death and distance us from our own inevitable fate...read more

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9781441179777 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 23, 2013), cover price $22.95

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9781472909183 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 18, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant to talk about it.

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Product Description: The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief. Their experiences range from the earliest losses - actress and author Carol Drinkwater's miscarriages, Irish writer Catherine Dunne's still-birth and the death of Sarah Brown's daughter Jennifer at ten days old - right up to campaigner Augusto Odone losing his severely disabled son, Lorenzo, the day after his 30th birthday, or novelist Wendy Perriam coping with the death of her daughter, Pauline, when she was 43...read more
By Peter Stanford (editor)

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9781441183033 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 28, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The death of a child is seldom discussed.

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9781408192085 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, February 28, 2013, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief.

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Product Description: Contemporary pilgrim Peter Stanford visits some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, taking the spiritual temperature ofour apparently secular and sceptical age.>

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9780826434043, titled "The Extra Mile: A Twenty-First Century Pilgrimage" | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2010, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Contemporary pilgrim Peter Stanford visits some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, taking the spiritual temperature ofour apparently secular and sceptical age.

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Product Description: Writer, journalist and broadcaster Peter Stanford makes a modern-day pilgrimage around some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, to take the spiritual temperature of an age often described as secular and sceptical. Each of his chosen destinations has a long association with belief and an intriguing, controversial and often colourful story...read more

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9781441167354 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 12, 2011), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Writer, journalist and broadcaster Peter Stanford makes a modern-day pilgrimage around some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, to take the spiritual temperature of an age often described as secular and sceptical.

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Product Description: A complete guide to the oldest institution in the Western world--the Catholic Church Explore the essential beliefs and practices of the religion and delve into its long and fascinating history in Catholicism--An Introduction. From the significance of Rome and the importance of the Papacy, to current issues such as science, contraception and new movements within the faith, learn what it means to be Catholic today...read more

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9780071747547 | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill, October 13, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A complete guide to the oldest institution in the Western world--the Catholic Church Explore the essential beliefs and practices of the religion and delve into its long and fascinating history in Catholicism--An Introduction.

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Product Description: Discover Catholicism and its role in our world Teach Yourself Catholicism is a comprehensive guide to the Catholic faith. It begins by focusing on the essential beliefs of Catholicism before delving into the history of the Catholic Church and the roots of its traditions and practices...read more

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9780071602549, titled "Catholicism" | McGraw-Hill, October 21, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discover Catholicism and its role in our world Teach Yourself Catholicism is a comprehensive guide to the Catholic faith.

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9780826486035 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 14, 2007, cover price $44.95

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Product Description: What does it mean to be a Catholic in today's world? What distinguishes the modern Catholic from anyone else? At a time when the Vatican provokes hostility by its opposition to contraception, abortion and the use of condoms in fighting AIDS, how many Catholics share its views? And if they don't, how can they in good conscience stay in the Church? These are among the many questions that writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford is addressing here...read more
By Peter Stanford (editor)

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9780826485779 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 30, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be a Catholic in the modern world?

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9780826491459 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 23, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: What does it mean to be a Catholic in today's world?

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Provides advice for fathers on the practical and emotional aspects of raising a child.

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9780756605667 | Dk Pub, August 16, 2004, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Provides advice for fathers on the practical and emotional aspects of raising a child.

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Traces the author's personal exploration of the many interpretations of heaven as depicted in major religions, in the scientific community, among philosophers, in literature, and in popular culture.

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9781403963604 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the author's personal exploration of the many interpretations of heaven as depicted in major religions, in the scientific community, among philosophers, in literature, and in popular culture.

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An inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries - and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.

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9780006531579 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 17, 2003), cover price $14.40 | About this edition: An inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries - and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.

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Product Description: After the persecutions that followed the Reformation, the Catholic Church that re-emerged in the 19th century was a defensive, introspective one, largely made up of working-class immigrants and a handful of land-owning families who kept the faith despite adversity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780225666588, titled "Cardinal Hume and the Changing Face of English Catholicism" | Geoffrey Chapman, April 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Basil Hume never wanted to be the leader of the English Catholic Church, but in 1976 the Pope thrust the diffident Abbot of Ampleforth into the limelight.

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9780225668827 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 1, 2001, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: After the persecutions that followed the Reformation, the Catholic Church that re-emerged in the 19th century was a defensive, introspective one, largely made up of working-class immigrants and a handful of land-owning families who kept the faith despite adversity.

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Product Description: This absorbing biography of Lady Bronwen Astor—celebrated model, media darling, and one of the great beauties of her day—vividly recreates the postwar fashion world, the legendary social scene at Cliveden, and the most sensational political scandal of modern times. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780006388593 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, February 1, 2001, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: This absorbing biography of Lady Bronwen Astor—celebrated model, media darling, and one of the great beauties of her day—vividly recreates the postwar fashion world, the legendary social scene at Cliveden, and the most sensational political scandal of modern times.

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By Mike Abrahams (photographer) and Peter Stanford

Hardcover:

9780953675623 | Art Books Intl Ltd, October 1, 2000, cover price $32.95

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As the controversy over women in the church continues, an author thoroughly explores the often dismissed legend of an English woman who, in the middle of the ninth century, disguised herself as a man and became Pope of the Catholic Church. Reprint.

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9780805039108 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the often dismissed legend of an English women who, in the middle of the ninth century, disguised herself as a man and became Pope of the Catholic Church

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9780425173473 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 2000), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Explores the often dismissed legend of an English women who, in the middle of the ninth century, disguised herself as a man and became Pope of the Catholic Church

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The legend of Pope Joan - the woman who, dressed as a man, headed the Catholic church in the early 9th century - has always been a subject of fascinated speculation. This book attempts to reveal what can be known about this legend, using secret histories, medieval carvings and tarot cards.

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9780749320676 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 1, 1999), cover price $16.15 | About this edition: The legend of Pope Joan - the woman who, dressed as a man, headed the Catholic church in the early 9th century - has always been a subject of fascinated speculation.

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In this lucid and lively account, Peter Stanford traces the idea of the Devilthrough the ages. He casts a wide net, exploring Christianity, literature andthe arts, folklore, psychology and history. 2 cassettes.

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9780788167904 | Reprint edition (Diane Pub Co, December 1, 1996), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In this lucid and lively account, Peter Stanford traces the idea of the Devilthrough the ages.
9780805030822, titled "The Devil: A Biography" | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Explores why humans have needed the Devil to explain evil and human suffering and why modern Americans are once again turning to the explanation of a Devil

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559274166, titled "The Devil: A Biography" | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 1997), cover price $16.95

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