Authors:Lisa G. Shaffer, Lisa G. Shaffer, Marilyn L. Slovak,
Publisher: S. Karger Publishing
Keywords: human, cytogenetic, international, committee, nomenc, standing, nomenclature, iscn, system, recommendations
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2009-02-24
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 3805589859
ISBN-13: 9783805589857

This publication combines and extends the now classic system of human cytogenetic nomenclature prepared by expert committees and published in collaboration with Cytogenetic and Genome Research (formerly: Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics) since 1963. Revised and finalized by the ISCN Committee and its advisors at a meeting in Vancouver, BC, in December 2004, it updates, corrects and incorporates all previous human cytogenetic nomenclature recommendations into one systematically organized publication. It thus supersedes the previous compilations in "ISCN 1985" and its supplement, "ISCN 1991", the

Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: yearbook, volume, criticism, comparative
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1981-10-29
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0521232767
ISBN-13: 9780521232760

Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.Book DescriptionComparative Criticism is an an

Author: Jim Shaffer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: solution, leadership
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2000-04-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0070790639
ISBN-13: 9780070790636

Everyone communicates, problem is, most don’t have the necessary skills to communicate effectively. The Leadership Solution offers six steps for developing better leadership communication skills to improve performance. Using lively anecdotes and real-world examples, Jim Shaffer provides firsthand accounts of how Towers Perrin has helped dozens of Fortune 500 companies to fully engage their employees, and consistently keep the company’s strategies and goals in mind. Far from a gimmick or method du jour, The Leadership Solution is a complete program designed to focus employees on

Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: gardens, wildernesses, cities, spaces, criticism, volume, comparative
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1996-11-07
List price: $157.99
ISBN-10: 0521571480
ISBN-13: 9780521571487

This volume represents the ’state of the art’ in Comparative Literature as it has developed in the half century since 1945. Peter Szondi was one of the leading spirits in the urgent move towards the reclamation of the literary text from ideology in post-war Germany; Geoffrey Hartman this year delivered the first lecture in his name to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the Free University, Berlin, of which Szondi was Director. Hartman, one of the major comparatists of this period, whose subtle phenomenological readings have tran

Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: century, annual, journal, twentieth, traditions, criticism, volume, humanist, comparative
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2001-12-03
List price: $157.99
ISBN-10: 0521808073
ISBN-13: 9780521808071

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at the Humanist Tradition in the Twentieth Century and articles will include: The Book in the Totalitarian Context; Lorenzo Valla and Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Humanism; Hitler’s Berlin; Civilization and Barbarism: an anthropological approach; Walter Pater to Adrian Stokes: psychoanalysis and humanism; Art History and Humanist Tradition in the Stefan George Circle.

Author: Jan Shaffer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: stone, summoning
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-09-11
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 1425940439
ISBN-13: 9781425940430

For years, the residents of a simple community have recounted the ancient Prophecy of Completion: A child with one face and two bodies will lead those who quest for the truth. An ageless treasure will summon the child across time. Danielle, transported from the present by a beach stone, is surprised to meet Kirk whose identical face seems to bring hope for fulfillment of the prophecy. Danielle reluctantly leaves the safety of her own time to join his quest to find the Tree of Truth and the secret it holds. The rugged coastal New England setting and a variety of cunning character

Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: comparative, gothic, postmodern, literature, fantastic, criticism, volume, currencies
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2003-02-24
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0521818699
ISBN-13: 9780521818698

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. Articles in this volume include: ’Credit Limit: Fiction and the Surplus of Belief;’ ’In Possession: Person, Money and Exchange from ’Daphnis and Chloe’ to ’Roger Ackroyd;’ ’Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold;’ ’Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the Cultural Context;’ ’The Comic Effect in the Manuscript found at Saragossa’. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are listed in the Index to Volumes 1-24 of C