Adapting Bestsellers
This Element looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms. It focuses on 'transmedia storytelling', building its case studies around the genre of modern fan...
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to ...
Adapting War Horse
This book analyses the success and adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel¿War Horse¿to stage, radio, live events, and feature film, in different cultures, on tours, and in translation.¿ In under a decade,¿War Horse¿has gone from obscure children's...
Adapting Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the 'Frank...
Adapting Cognitive Therapy for Depression
While the efficacy of cognitive therapy for depression is well established, every clinician is likely to encounter patients who do not respond to standard protocols. In this highly practical volume, leading authorities provide a unified set of cli...
Adapting Philosophy
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position. Where previous work in the field has presented the trilogy as...
Adapting to Win
When insurgent groups challenge powerful states, defeat is not always inevitable. Increasingly, guerrilla forces have overcome enormous disadvantages and succeeded in extending the period of violent conflict, raising the costs of war, and occasion...
Adapting Stephen King
Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. Over half a century since his earliest publications, Hollywood filmmakers continue to reinvent, reimagine, remake, and reboot King's stori...
Adapting Detective Fiction
Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of...
Bestsellers
'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an...
Adapting to Climate Change
Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whe...
Man Adapting
This enlarged edition of Man Adapting includes a new chapter expanding Dr. Dubos's discussion of the role of medicine in man's adaptive processes.¿ In 1965 he wrote at length of the biological and social problems of human adaptation, while treatin...
Adapting Institutions
Global environmental change is occurring at a rate faster than humans have ever experienced. Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services are the two main global environmental crises facing us today. As a result, there is a need for better un...
Adapting Minds
Adapting Minds
Adapting and Extending Secondary Mathematics Activities
This book is designed to assist teachers to get the most out of the textbooks or mathematics schemes used in their schools, providing methods of extending the activities offered to learners.
Hype - Bestsellers And Literary Culture
Bästsäljare är böcker som säljer i stora upplagor, som får ett stort antal läsare och är omtalade i medier och bland läsare. Trots att bästsäljare kan anses vara den mest synliga litteraturen på bokmarknaden har forskning om hur de skapas, framställs och mottas varit begränsad, likaså forskning kring bästsäljares kulturella och sociala betydelse. I forskningsantologin Hype är bästsäljaren som fenomen i fokus, inte minst utifrån perspektivet att populära berättelser bevisligen spelar stor roll för miljoner läsare. Bästsäljaren, betraktad som ett globalt fenomen, befinner sig i ett kraftfält mellan producenter och konsumenter, något som belyser det ömsesidiga beroendet mellan kultur, marknad och individ. Antologin behandlar en rad olika frågor som hänger samman med bästsäljande skönlitteratur såsom hur hajp skapas, bokmarknadens utveckling och fokus på stora böcker, författarens position i det samtida mediala landskapet, historiska perspektiv och förhållandet mellan bästsäljare och forskning. - Bestsellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the media and among readers. Yet there has been little research on the creation, reception, and cultural and social significance of bestsellers. Recognizing that popular narratives play an important role in the lives of millions of readers, Hype Bestsellers and Literary Culture looks closely at the literature so many people read. As global market phenomena, situated in between the power spheres of producers and consumers, bestsellers also highlight the interdependency of culture, market, and the individual. This volume addresses such diverse questions as the creation of hype, the role and the meaning of the author in the presentday media landscape, changes in the book trade, historical perspectives on bestselling literature, and the relationship between bestsellers and literary research.
Space, Place, and Bestsellers
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contempor...
Politics of Adapting to Climate Change
This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literat...
Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture
Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding ...
Adapting to Climate Change
A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choices ¿ Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten Books in Business and Economics for Spring 2021 ¿ It is all but certain...
Adapting to Climate Change
This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazard...
Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associate...
Adapting Cities to Climate Change
This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an over...
Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature
Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role throughout the history of children's literature and have been seen as an active and vital contributing force in establishing a common ground for intercultural communication across genera...
Writing Bestsellers
While the term 'bestseller' explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular ref...
Adapting to Climate Change in Europe
Adapting to Climate Change in Europe: Exploring Sustainable Pathways - From Local Measures to Wider Policies is a scientific synthesis of a four-year project on adaptation activities in Europe. It combines scientific assessments with...
Adapting to Organizational Change
Adapting to Organizational Change
Adapting to Climate Change
Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whe...
Adapting Legal Cultures
This exciting collection looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world: Europe,the USA and Latin America, S.E. Asia and Japan. Many of the contributors focus on fundamental theoretical issues. W...
Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams
Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams provides very tangible approaches on how Configuration Management with its practices and infrastructure can be adapted and managed in order to directly benefit agile teams. Written by Mario E. More...
Adapting in the Dust
Canada's six-year military mission in Afghanistan's Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan missio...
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines...