A guide for librarians and teachers offers annotations summarizing the themes, plots, and publication information for 450 popular short stories.

Examines reoccurring themes and patterns in the mythologies of many ancient and modern cultures.

Uses approximately 250 poems by eighty-six poets to chronologically trace the development of such themes as art, beauty, civilization, family relations, freedom, and slavery in American poetry.

Identifies twenty-nine themes as being representative of the major concerns of British poets over seven centuries.

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies