Tag: Adaptations

Free Download Mayako Murai, "Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures "
English | ISBN: 0814345360 | 2020 | 424 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro-American materials. Editors Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi bring together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today.

Free Download Michael T. Hayes, "Incrementalism and Policymaking in the USA: Adaptations for a Partisan Age"
English | ISBN: 3031384849 | 2023 | 101 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines incrementalism as a policymaking process in the USA. It provides an overview of incrementalism as a theoretical concept, assesses historical and contemporary attitudes toward it, and considers it as a viable alternative to rationality. The book argues that incrementalism is both an inevitable and desirable method of policymaking, despite seeming ill suited to the current system of highly ideological and polarized political parties. It also advocates a return to realism in which policymakers on both the left and right recognize the superiority of incrementalism, as well as a new system of partisan incrementalism through which political parties compete by offering distinctive incremental alternatives on major policy issues. The book will appeal to scholars and students of American public policy, public administration and politics.

Free Download Kara Kennedy (Author, Narrator), "Adaptations of Dune: Frank Herbert’s Story on Screen"
English | ASIN: B0CV5YRZT3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:37:00 | 216 MB
Considered by many to be unadaptable due to its length and complexity, Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic Dune has made it to the screen about every two decades. David Lynch was the first director to successfully make a film adaptation in 1984, but his version of Dune was heavily criticized for numerous reasons. John Harrison’s 2000 television miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune was a success for the Sci-Fi Channel and won Emmys, yet has mostly been forgotten. Meanwhile, Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film Dune: Part One won Oscars but only adapted the first two-thirds of the book, leaving viewers waiting for the conclusion.
Each director expressed concern with staying faithful to the world’s bestselling science fiction book while attempting to bring to life its characters, settings, and story. But in the end, how faithful were they to Frank Herbert’s 1965 masterpiece?

Free Download Physiology of Marine Mammals: Adaptations to the Ocean
by Michael Castellini
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032285605 | 369 pages | True PDF | 72.5 MB

Free Download Behavioural Adaptations of Desert Animals by Giovanni Costa
English | 1995 | ISBN: 3642793584 | 198 Pages | PDF | 13.6 MB
After a brief survey of biotopic and vegetational features and an account of the main groups of desert animals, the most unusual patterns of the behaviour of the xerophilous fauna are examined.

Free Download Kristine Johanson, "Shakespeare Adaptations from the Early Eighteenth Century: Five Plays"
English | 2013 | pages: 474 | ISBN: 161147647X | EPUB | 4,0 mb
This book presents a scholarly edition of five of the first adaptations of Shakespeare from the eighteenth century, the period when Shakespeare became "Shakespeare." Written by men influential in early Augustan cultural spheres, these adaptations demonstrate how contemporary literary principles and contemporary politics were applied to Shakespeare’s texts. In these adaptations of Henry V, Richard II, Coriolanus, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, we see the various ways that eighteenth-century authors "righted" Shakespeare’s "wrongs": through the addition and alteration of female characters and romantic sub-Descriptions, the introduction of new scenes, the use of the unities of time and place, and the inclusion of overt moral and political arguments.

Free Download The Geography of Central Asia: Human Adaptations, Natural Processes and Post-Soviet Transition by Igor Jelen
English | EPUB | 2020 | 390 Pages | ISBN : 3030612651 | 111.3 MB
This book provides a profound geographical description and analysis of Central Asia. The authors take a synthetic approach in a period of critical transformation in the post-soviet time. The monograph analyzes comprehensively the physical and human geography as well as human-nature interactions of Central Asia with focus on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Natural processes are described at a systemic scale, focusing on ecological impacts and consequences and contemporary human adaptations and organization. It also discusses in which ways the human organizations try to apply solutions for their needs such as security, territorial management and resources renewability, material and functional needs, identity elaborations, culture and communication.

Free Download Robert Lublin, "The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings"
English | ISBN: 1350351563 | 2024 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 140 MB
An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel’s myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley’s novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how

Free Download Meyer D. Glantz, Jeannette L. Johnson, "Resilience and Development: Positive Life Adaptations"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0306461234, 1475772262 | PDF | pages: 306 | 3.0 mb
Leading experts review the research on resilience and represent the diverse perspectives and opinions found among both scientists and practitioners in the field. Although the chapters are written to the standards expected by researchers, they are equally useful for program developers and others in applied fields seeking science-based information on the topic. This book is a unique resource in keeping with the growing interest in resilience both in research and interventions.

Free Download Shrimps: Their Diversity, Intriguing Adaptations and Varied Lifestyles
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031209656 | 1259 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 152 MB
This book explores the biology of decapod shrimps, a group of animals known to most people as a nutritious and tasty food item. Shrimps are amazingly diverse in size, shape, coloration, behavior and natural history. Shrimp fisheries and aquaculture are a vital part of the USA and world economies. These crustaceans are key ecological and food-web components of marine and freshwater habitats. The book synthesizes information on the taxonomic and ecological diversity of shrimps, the structure and function of shrimp anatomy, antifouling adaptations, coloration and camouflage, reproductive biology, sexual systems, mating systems and behavior, life history strategies, symbioses between shrimps and other organisms, shrimp fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the evolution and phylogeny of shrimps. All chapters are written within an adaptational and evolutionary perspective. Important questions about shrimp biology are asked, and hypotheses for testing in future research are proposed. The book is spiced up with personal anecdotes and observations from the author’s research experiences.