Tim Dean: 11 books

Book cover of A Time for the Humanities

A Time for the Humanities

Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy

by Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human,...
Book cover of Taking Aim

Taking Aim

Power and Pain, Teens and Guns

by Michael Cart, Marc Aronson, Edward Averett
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late...
Book cover of Nine Lives

Nine Lives

My time as the West's top spy inside al-Qaeda

by Aimen Dean, Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018

As one of al-Qaeda’s most respected scholars and bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent working for MI6, he foiled numerous attacks on civilians, brushing with death so often that his handlers...
Book cover of Rush to the Rockies! The 1859 Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush
by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

The 1859 “gold fever” emboldened many adventurous souls to head west to the mineral-rich regions of the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Their destination, commonly called “Pike’s Peak,” was the area known today as Colorado’s Front Range. The prospector’s dream was of an easy life of...
Book cover of Film and Photography on the Front Range
by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013

Film and Photography on the Front Range will acquaint the reader with the stories of many photographers of this Colorado region. From the earliest Rocky Mountain daguerreotypist in 1851, landscape pioneers, portraitists, silent filmmakers, theater commercial producers, fine arts photographers, to photojournalists, you will discover a picturesque history of Colorado image making.
Book cover of Two Hearts Desire

Two Hearts Desire

Gay Couples on their Love

by José Vélez, Craig Lucas, Guillermo Castro
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

A declaration of love - gay couples talk about their significant other. Current and past liaisons, passion and daily routine, longtime relationships and the tingle of first dates - the day-to-day reality of love is manifold. This anthology also tells about a time of loss, when many men lost their...
Book cover of Welcome to Theological Field Education!
by Matthew Floding, Barbara J. Blodgett, Charlene Jin Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010

Field education is an opportunity for students to develop ministry skills, practice ministerial reflection, discern their call, experience professional collegiality, and undergo personal transformation. Field education offers them a place to practice ministry and a space to reflect on it, to integrate...
Book cover of Ploughshares Winter 2015-2016 Volume 41 No. 4
by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...
Book cover of Doctors, Disease, and Dying in the Pikes Peak Region
by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

A quote attributed to Mark Twain says, “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” While there is no evidence that Mark Twain truly uttered, or wrote, this quip, the readers of this book are fortunate—it does not make any health recommendations. And although the odds...
Book cover of Massacre, Murder, and Mayhem in the Rocky Mountain West
by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016

Each killing event was unique, but all were fueled by forces that seemed to guide the hands of the perpetrators: alcohol, fear, greed, hate, ignorance, revenge, passion, self-righteousness. Often the murderers were disenfranchised, disassociated, or disgruntled. . . .Since the September 11,...
Book cover of I love you

I love you

Schwule Paare über ihre Liebe

by Matthew Rettenmund, José Vélez, Craig Lucas
Language: German
Release Date: June 6, 2017

Eine Liebeserklärung an die schwule Liebe - aus der Feder von Paaren! Aktuelle und verflossene Liebschaften, Leidenschaft und Alltag, Langzeitpartnerschaften oder das Prickeln neuer Beziehungen - die tagtägliche Realität der Liebe ist vielfältig. Diese Anthologie erzählt auch von einer Zeit der...
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