Adaptation
Title | Adaptation PDF eBook |
Author | Malinda Lo |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012-09-18 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0316214469 |
Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. Among them are Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David, who are in Arizona when the disaster occurs. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway in the middle of the Nevada night, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won't tell them what happened, where they are--or how they've been miraculously healed. Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction-and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret. Adaptation is a bold contemporary science-fiction thriller from the acclaimed author of Ash.
Adaptation
Title | Adaptation PDF eBook |
Author | Charlie Kaufman |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781854597083 |
'Adaptation' concerns Laroche, an eccentric collector of rare orchids (played by Chris Cooper), a journalist called Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep) who's writing his story and a screenwriter called Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage), who, in adapting the resultant book, writes himself into the movie...
Climate Change Adaptation
Title | Climate Change Adaptation PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Dale |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2022-07-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0231552971 |
Climate change policy has typically emphasized mitigation, calling for reducing emissions and shifting away from fossil fuels. Yet while these efforts have floundered, floods, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters are becoming more frequent and potent. As the risks escalate, we must ask how to adapt to a changing climate. How might farmers modify their practices to maximize food security? Can coastal cities protect their infrastructure from rising seas? Are there strategic ways for developing countries to combine climate resilience with economic growth and poverty reduction? For people and societies around the world, these questions are not theoretical: adaptation is already underway. This book offers a concise overview of climate adaptation governance. In clear, accessible language, Lisa Dale describes key strategies that governments, communities, and the private sector are now deploying. She presents the theory and practice that underlie climate adaptation efforts at local and global scales, providing illuminating case studies that foreground the problems facing developing countries. Dale analyzes the effectiveness of a range of policy interventions, drawing out principles of good governance and discussing how practitioners can navigate complex tradeoffs. She emphasizes equity and inclusion, considering how climate adaptation policy can account for the needs of historically disadvantaged groups. Written for a wide audience, this book is an invaluable introduction for all readers interested in how societies can meet the challenges of an altered climate.
What is Adaptation?
Title | What is Adaptation? PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Ernest Lloyd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Adaptation (Biology). |
ISBN |
Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Global and Sectoral Aspects
Title | Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Global and Sectoral Aspects PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher B. Field |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1149 |
Release | 2014-12-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107058074 |
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.
Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations
Title | Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations PDF eBook |
Author | Dragoş Iliescu |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 711 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1107110122 |
This book provides a practical but scientifically grounded step-by-step approach to the adaptation of tests in linguistic and cultural contexts.
The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations PDF eBook |
Author | Dominic McHugh |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2019-06-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 019005154X |
Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.