I.G. Farben worked with Hitler to create the largest private oil and rubber production facility in the world, "I.G. Auschwitz."
The Making of a Novelist. Defoe's Literary Achievement. A Defoe Dictionary. Key to the Characters and Locations -- The Shorter Fiction. Robinson Crusoe. Memoirs of a Cavalier. Captain Singleton. Moll Flanders. A Journal of the Plague Year. Colonel Jack. Roxana. A Tour through th…
A Spenser Chronology sheds new light on the life of the poet Edmund Spenser, a major canonical author whose entire literary career coincides with his vocation as a prominent Elizabethan planter in Ireland. Despite the number of specialist monographs devoted to him and the commen…
Concise definitions of approximately 12,000 terms from biology and related fields, such as anatomy, embryology and ecology. Intended for students at all levels. Includes commonly used, less used specialized, and new terms.
This volume is an illustrated guide to the mythological and legendary sites of Great Britain and Ireland. The author provides historical information, placing the myths and legends in their historical contexts. He then explains and describes each location and associates each with…