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Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia: Sharing …
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions which is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More than sixty percent of the world’s people live in the region, making it the growth center of the world. A…
- Edition
- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030812072
- Collation
- v, 164 p
- Series Title
- 164
- Call Number
- 363.73874095
Adaptation in the age of media convergence
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and Yo…
- Edition
- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048534012
- Collation
- 232 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 700.457 FEH a
Dickens after Dickens
"[W]e have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant… G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to ‘find’ Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781912482214
- Collation
- xi, 247p..: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823.8 DIC d
Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature
In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular – Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of Finnish literature from the early 20th century to the present. By analyzing different genres of Finnish literature in varying historical contexts M…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789522228048
- Collation
- 210p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 894.54109113 MET m
Pre-field screening protocols for heat-tolerant mutants in rice
This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering stages – with screening based on simple phenotypic responses. The protocols are based on the use of a hydroponics system an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319773384
- Collation
- xii, 39p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 633.182 PRE p
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