As Moll Flanders struggles for survival amid the harsh social realities of seventeenth-century England, there is but one thing she is determined to avoid: the deadly snare of poverty. On the twisting path that leads from her birth in Newgate Prison to her final prosperous respectability, love is reg[...]

Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1721) together defined a new way of writing fiction in the eighteenth century. Each was highly controversial in Defoe's time, and each has generated a very large amount of criticism since. This Guide examines the major trends and movements in criti[...]

Kant's central task in the "First Critique" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. This title presents a commentary on Kant's aims and arguments in his celebrated "First Critique", within the context of the dominant schools of philosophy of his time.[...]

Young Robinson Crusoe has grown bored with life so he runs away from home to travel the world. One night, a terrible storm strikes his ship. Robinson awakens to find the ship destroyed and the entire crew dead. All alone on a deserted island, Robinson prepares for a life of solitude only to come fac[...]

A guide for aspiring women football fans by a popular television actress and the wife of NFL quarterback Rodney Peete explains each component of the game of football, describes the role of each position player, outlines common plays, and more, in a volume complemented by descriptions of some of the [...]

From ginger orangutans swinging through the canopy to tiny ground-dwelling frogs, Borneo s jungle positively teems with life. Prime patches are easily accessible from multiethnic cities with great food. Daniel Robinson, Lonely Planet Writer

"Getting you to the heart of a place"

'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorized extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions' based on such knowledge or resources without co[...]