Author: Robert W. Thomso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: adaptation, armenian, georgian, texts, oxford, oriental, monographs, original, chronicles, history, caucasian, rewriting, medieval
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-06-27
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0198263732
ISBN-13: 9780198263739

The first modern, annotated translation of the Christian chronicles of Georgia, adapted by the Armenians in the thirteenth century. An important source for writers on Armenia after 1200, the chronicles deal with the history of Georgia from its mythical origins to the time of their composition--and are of particular interest to the historian for the way that they were then altered in a pro-Armenian manner.

Authors:Karl Tuyls, Ann Nowe, Zahia Guessoum, Daniel Kudenko,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: multi, agent, adaptation, learning, notes, artificial, european, intelligence, iii, agents, systems, adaptive
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540779477
ISBN-13: 9783540779476

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of three editions of the European Symposium on Adaptive and Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, ALAMAS, held in Paris, Brussels and Maastricht in 2005, 2006, and 2007 respectively. This book presents 17 revised and carefully reviewed papers selected from 51 total submissions to the ALAMAS symposia from 2005 to 2007. This volume aims at increasing awareness and interest in adaptation and learning for single agents and multi-agent systems, and encourages collaboration between Machine Learning experts, Software Engine

Author: Elaine May
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: adaptation
Published: 1970-10
List price: $5.50
ISBN-10: 0822200090
ISBN-13: 9780822200093

Author: Richard S. Lazarus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: adaptation, emotion
Number of Pages: 572
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 019509266X
ISBN-13: 9780195092660

In this landmark work, Richard Lazarus -- one of the world’s foremost authorities -- offers a comprehensive treatment of the psychology of emotion, its role in adaptation, and the issues that must be addressed to understand it. The work provides a complete theory of emotional processes, explaining how different emotions are elicited and expressed, and how the emotional range of individuals develops over their lifetime. The author’s approach puts emotion in a central role as a complex, patterned, organic reaction to both daily events and long-term efforts on the part of the individ

Author: Linda Hutcheon
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: adaptation, theory
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-06-13
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415967953
ISBN-13: 9780415967952

Are we living in the age of adaptation? In contemporary cinema, of course, there are enough adaptations --based on everything from comic books to the novels of Jane Austen--to make us wonder if Hollywood has run out of new stories. But if you think adaptation can be understood by using novels and films alone, you’re wrong. Today there are also song covers rising up the pop charts, video game versions of fairy tales, and even roller coasters based on successful movie franchises. Despite their popularity, however, adaptations are usually treated as secondary and derivative. Whether in the

Author: George E. Vaillant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: life, adaptation
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-08-11
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0674004140
ISBN-13: 9780674004146

Between 1939 and 1942, one of America’s leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which a group of promising individuals coped with their lives over the course of many years. Nearly forty years later, George E. Vaillant, director of the Study, took the measure of the Grant Stu

Author: Florian Coulmas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: adaptation, language
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1990-01-26
List price: $60.99
ISBN-10: 0521362555
ISBN-13: 9780521362559

Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements. This wide-ranging collection of essays looks at this phenomenon from a variety of historical and synchronic perspectives, and brings together the work of a number of leading scholars in the field. Several different languages are examined at different stages of their history, including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Kiswahili, German and Hindi. This well-informed book is a significant contribution to the existing lit