Dreams of flight

The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) on a stolen motorcycle jumps an imposing barbed wire fence—caught on film, the act and its aftermath have become an unforgettable symbol o...

Dreams of germany

Diversity of disciplines and  author team (senior and junior; gender; national perspective). Range of iconic case studies: Bruckner and Wagner through to the Beatles and Kraftwerk. Represents the cream of upcoming scholars alongside more established scholarly voices. Revisits and...

Dreams of global science

Through the case of precision medicine, Larry Au shows how global and national forms of science cooperate, compete, and come into conflict with one another, producing what he calls hybrid science.

Dreams of molly

Another great novel from Baumbach, it is filled with longings and lingerings, sex and deprivation, humor and heartache.

Dreams of nationhood

The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspaper...

Dreamworlds of race

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the Unit...

Dress accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450

Dress in anglo-saxon england

Dress rehearsal

This book explores life in Transnistria, a Russian-backed breakaway region between Moldova and Ukraine. Journalist Larisa Kalik blends memoir and reportage to reveal how this frozen conflict shapes identity, daily life, and Russia’s strategies for hybrid warfare in Ukraine and beyond.

Dressed for dissent

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the wake of the Second Intifada and energized by the Arab Spring, young Palestinian designers have used fashion to voice the...

Dribble drabble

A collection of 145 high-quality, classroom-tested, hands-on, process-oriented art activities for learning and fun.

Drift

A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer

Drift ice

Poems of delicate sensibility that explore important environmental issues.

Driftwood

An experience of exile; a personal epic.

Drinking bomb and shooting meth

Jeffrey W. Alexander examines how Western alcohol and innovative pharmaceuticals became so popular, available, and fashionable in Japan. He considers the people who brewed, distilled, synthesized, and marketed these products and explores what their advertising campaigns say about Japan’s shifting...

Drinking history

A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene...

Driven out

Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the twentieth century, Chinatowns b...

Driven to their knees

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politicsHumiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through bodies as well as words, and is expressed ...

Driving and drinking

Driving and Drinking takes about an hour to read. It will stay with you a lifetime.

Driving change

Over recent decades, the UK’s transport system has undergone radical changes. David Metz examines the role new business models and government policies have played in these changes, highlighting many of the unforeseen consequences for transport development and for future outcomes.

Driving digital strategy

Digital transformation is no longer news--it's a necessity.Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large companies in traditional industries have succeeded at digitizing their businesses in truly transformative ways.The New York Times, formerly a bastion of traditional media, has create...

Driving in palestine التحرّك في فلسطين

This research-creation project by artist Rehab Nazzal documents the politics of surveillance and mobility in contemporary Palestine through photos, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in English and Arabic.

Driving innovation from within

Kaihan Krippendorff reveals how many of the modern world’s most impactful creations were invented by passionate employee-innovators. He lays out a step-by-step playbook to unlock innovation from the inside, mapping the barriers that frustrate efforts to disrupt from within and providing tools to ...

Driving like crazy

Driving miss daisy

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Surprising, luminous, and powerful. It will mostl likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy." —Laurie Winer, Los Angeles Times A timeless American play, which inspired the Academy Award–winning film, Driving Miss D...

Driving technical change

Driving the soviets up the wall

The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's use of archival sources from the former East German and Soviet regimes is unrivalled, and from these...

Drone art

What happens when a drone enters a gallery or appears on screen? What thresholds are crossed as this weapon of war occupies everyday visual culture? These questions have appeared with increasing regularity since the advent of the War on Terror, when drones began migrating into civilian platforms ...

Drones

Delving into philosophical discussions about the implications of drone technology, Andy Miah delivers in this book a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applications of drones, as well as a critical interrogation of the social, cultural, and moral issues that they provoke.

Drones and the law

Drones and the Law: International Responses to Rapid Drone Proliferation presents innovative solutions to the controversial issues raised by the drones and a critical assessment of its growing use as a weapon system in modern warfare and privacy issues.

Drop-out, push-out, or walk-out?

Drop-out, Push-out, or Walk-out?: (Re)imagining Education for Young Mothers and Pregnant Adolescents delves into the pressing issues of social justice and equity for pregnant learners and school-aged mothers within international contexts.

Dropping ashes on the buddha

Drought

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environ...

Drowning tucson

Hi-def, brutally honest tales from the streets of Tucson.

Drug assemblages – policies, counternarratives, and local experiences

A transdisciplinary critique of global drug regimes, exploring how power, policy, and inequality intertwine across the Americas.

Drug war capitalism

Drug wars are good business.

Drug war politics

Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug polit...

Drugs, thugs, and diplomats

In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the Colombian security forces were linked to abus...

Drumbeat

In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, lea...

Drunk enough to say i love you?

The newest play by Britain's brilliant Caryl Churchill.

Dry bones rattling

Dry Bones Rattling offers the first in-depth treatment of how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network in Texas and the Southwest is gaining national attention as a model for ...

Dry powder

The same week his private equity firm forced massive layoffs at a national grocery chain, Rick threw himself an extravagant engagement party, setting off a publicity nightmare. Fortunately, Seth, one of Rick’s partners, has a win-win deal to invest in an American-made luggage company for a song a...

Dubliners

James Joyce's first major work, Dubliners provides a fascinating snapshot of early 20th century life in Ireland, bringing his city to the world for the first time.