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Author: Philippe Van Haute
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2012-12-04
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1590516206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement." -William Richardson
Author: André Bazin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0520375815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Adaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature let him identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. His critical genius is on full display in this collection, where readers are introduced to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century. Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novelists of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck; Colette, Sagan, Duras; and more) as well as classic novels of the 19th century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy; Balzac, Hugo, Zola; Stendhal and more). Taken together, this volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin's criticism alike. As a bonus, 250 years of French fiction is put in play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature and especially for cinema"--
Author: George Christopher Williams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0691185506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over group selection has become a classic of science literature, valued for its thorough and convincing argument and its relevance to many fields outside of biology. Now with a new foreword by Richard Dawkins, Adaptation and Natural Selection is an essential text for understanding the nature of scientific debate.
Author: Malinda Lo
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012-09-18
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0316214469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross 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.
Author: Carolyn Kousky
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1642831395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities responding to these threats. In this book, coastal adaptation experts present a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, including concrete financing recommendations. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but it is achievable using varied approaches. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.
Author: Kamilla Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-05-20
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0197511198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom intertextuality to postmodern cultural studies, narratology to affect theory, poststructuralism to metamodernism, and postcolonialism to ecocriticism, humanities adaptation studies has engaged with a host of contemporary theories. Yet theorizing adaptation has been declared behind the theoretical times compared to other fields and charged with theoretical incorrectness by scholars from all theoretical camps. In this thorough and groundbreaking study, author Kamilla Elliott works to explain and redress the problem of theorizing adaptation. She offers the first cross-disciplinary history of theorizing adaptation in the humanities, extending back to the sixteenth century, revealing that until the late eighteenth century, adaptation was valued for its contributions to cultural progress, before its eventual and ongoing marginalization by humanities theories. The second half of the book offers ways to redress the troubled relationship between theorization and adaptation. Ultimately, Theorizing Adaptation proffers shared ground upon which adaptation scholars can debate productively across disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical borders.
Author: Lashon Booker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-02-24
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0195162927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: Adaptation, Evolution, and Intelligence, Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, and Rick Riolo. PART 1: GENETIC ALGOROTHMS AND BEYOND. 1. Genetic Algorithms: A 30 Year Perspective, Kenneth DeJong. 2. Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence by Means of Genetic Algorithms, John R. Koza. 3. John Holland, Facetwise models, and Economy of Thought, David E. Goldberg. PART 2: COMPUTATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND BEYOND. 4. An Early Graduate Program in Computers and Communications, Arthur W. Burks. 5. Had We But World Enough and Time, Oliver G. Selfridge. 6. Discrete Eve.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nalini Bikkina
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9819710766
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Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2017-05-26
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 928934959X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSignatories of Paris Agreement outlined their post-2020 climate actions, known as their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (I)NDCs. This study focuses on potential synergies between adaptation and mitigation in the (I)NDCs. It pays particular attention to the sectors of forestry, agriculture, energy and urban development. It draws on a review of climate change financing literature, and an analysis of the (I)NDCs and the financial and policy frameworks and programmes that make up global climate change financing structure, notably the texts of the Paris Agreement. The report contains recommendations for Nordic stakeholders to drive further synergies between mitigation and adaptation.
