Adaptation & Survival introduces the reader to the ways in which living things adapt to survive on Earth. Find out how plants & animals change to suit their environment, learn about evolutionary processes, & discover how pollution & natural disasters can affect living things. ...

Providing a fresh angle on adaptation studies, this study looks at how avant-garde directors & filmmakers have treated literary works in distinct ways. It examines films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Jan Svankmajer & many others. ...

An interdisciplinary collection offering a survey of adaptation of literary texts across media including animation, film, TV, fan fiction, biopics & music video. It investigates both 'classic' & contemporary texts by British & American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe & Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, & P D James. ...

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. This book argues that without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political & cultural roots that call for significant change in social & political relations if human vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced. ...

Based on a long-term study begun in 1939 exploring the human life cycle, this work provides an analysis of individual differences in coping with stress in life. The author presents a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, immature, neurotic or psychotic. ...

The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding & behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics & case studies from China, India, Ethiopia & South Africa. ...

Two popular comedies directed by Spike Jonze & written by Charlie Kaufman. In ' Adaptation' (2003), Nicolas Cage stars as screenwriter Charlie Kaufman who is struggling to adapt Susan Orlean's book ' The Orchid Thief' for the big screen. Riding high on the success of his hit ' Being John Malkovich', Kaufman finds himself in much demand around Hollywood. But this doesn't make the task of adapting Orlean's (Meryl Streep) book about orchid hunter John Laroche (Chris Cooper) any easier. In fact, the troubled writer finds himself in so much trouble that he calls on his clueless twin brother, Donald (Cage), for help. In ' Being John Malkovich' (1999) Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is unappreciated as a puppeteer & bored with his ten-year marriage. When he takes a job in an office, he discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. To his amazement, he then finds that he is able to occupy & control Malkovich's body. But when he shares his discovery with his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz) it leads to all kinds of trouble. ...