Adaptation

Adaptation
Author: Malinda Lo
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total 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.

Climate Change Adaptation

Climate Change Adaptation
Author: Lisa Dale
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total 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.

Adaptation

Adaptation
Author: Charlie Kaufman
Publisher: MIT Press
Total 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...

Adaptation and Natural Selection

Adaptation and Natural Selection
Author: George Christopher Williams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691185506

Biological 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.

Adaptation Studies

Adaptation Studies
Author: Christa Albrecht-Crane
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0838642624

This collection of essays offers a sustained, theoretically rigorous rethinking of various issues at work in film and other media adaptations. The essays in the volume as a whole explore the reciprocal, intertextual quality of adaptations that borrow, rework, and adapt each other in complex ways; in addition, the authors explore the specific forces

What is Adaptation?

What is Adaptation?
Author: Richard Ernest Lloyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1914
Genre: Adaptation (Biology).
ISBN:

Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Global and Sectoral Aspects

Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Global and Sectoral Aspects
Author: Christopher B. Field
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total 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

Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations
Author: Dragoş Iliescu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total 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.