with promoting and strengthening the animal-rights movement in the U.S. and abroad. There is potential confusion concerning Ruesch's first two books denouncing vivisection. His first book on the subject was written and published in European countries with a title in each language that would translate into English as "The Naked Empress." (Ruesch was multilingual, and he wrote the translations himself.) When this same work was to be published in England, the title was changed, at the publisher's request, to "Slaughter of the Innocent", and that is the title used when the book was subsequently issued (by Civitas) in the United States. Some years later, Ruesch wrote a second book criticising vivisection, in English, which was released (again, by Civitas) in the United States, with the title "The Naked Empress, or the Great Medical Fraud". Whereas the first book focused on vivisection as a barbaric and unscientific means of obtaining medical knowledge, the second book focused on the profit motives of the medical-pharmaceutical industry in perpetuating vivisection. To summarise, the book known by the English title "The Naked Empress" is a different book to the one published earlier in Europe with that same title in other languages but known in English as "Slaughter of the Innocent". (This information is provided by the original organiser of Civitas.) Selective bibliography Novels Top of the World series: Top of the World (1950) () Back to the Top of the World (1973) The Racer (1953) Com'esser poverli (1956) South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia, AKA The Great Thirst, AKA The Arab (1957) The Game (1961) I mammà e papà (1962) The Stealers (1962) Make a Fortune (1967) Nonfiction Naked Empress, or the Great Medical Fraud (Imperatrice nuda. La scienza medica attuale sotto accusa) (1976) Die Fälscher Der Wissenschaft: Techn. Rapport (1979) Slaughter of the Innocent (1978) I Falsari della Scienza (1980) 1000 Doctors (And Many More) Against Vivisection (1989) La medicina smascherata: L'antivivisezionismo come esperienza politica (2005) La figlia dell'imperatrice: La grande industria della malattia (2005) Filmography The Racers (1955) as Such Men Are Dangerous (UK) "The 20th Century-Fox Hour" (1 episode, 1956) Fox Hour of Stars (USA: rerun title) - Men Against Speed (1956) TV Episode based on the novel The Racer The Savage Innocents (1960) based on the novel Top of the World Black Gold (2012) based on the novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia /