genre the wrench
The Royal Institution of Great Britain ( often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri ) is an organisation devoted to scientific ___MASK31___ and ___MASK3___ , based in London . Auschwitz ___MASK48___ camp was a network of German Nazi ___MASK48___ camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during ___MASK4___ . It consisted of Auschwitz I ( the original camp ), Auschwitz II  Birkenau ( a combination ___MASK48___ / extermination camp ), Auschwitz III  Monowitz ( a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory ), and 45 satellite camps . The Wrench , published in the US under the title of The Monkey ' s Wrench , was one of Primo Levi ' s collections of stories ( another being The Periodic Table ) . First published as La Chiave a Stella by Einaudi in 1978 , the ___MASK24___ was written after Levi had retired from SIVA . It takes the form of an interview by a chemist of a rigger . They are both working in a remote work camp where there is little to do in the evenings except tell stories . The scene is loosely based upon Togliattigrad , the Fiat camp set up in Russia to build a car factory . The rigger is Libertino Faussone and the chemist is clearly autobiographical . A ___MASK5___ is a long narrative , normally in prose , which describes fictional characters and events , usually in the form of a sequential story . If This Is a Man ( first published in 1947 in Italian as " Se questo è un uomo " ; United States title : Survival in Auschwitz ) is a work by the Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi . It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti - fascist resistance during the Second World ___MASK35___ , and his incarceration in the Auschwitz ___MASK48___ camp ( Monowitz ) from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on January 27 , 1945 . A chemist ( from Greek chm ( ía ) alchemy + - ist ; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchimista ) is a scientist trained in the ___MASK45___ of chemistry . Chemists ___MASK45___ the composition of matter and its properties . Chemists carefully describe the properties they ___MASK45___ in terms of quantities , with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms . Chemists carefully measure substance proportions , reaction rates , and other chemical properties . The word ' chemist ' is also used to address Pharmacists in Commonwealth English . Primo Michele Levi ( 31 July 1919  11 April 1987 ) was an Italian Jewish chemist , writer , and Holocaust survivor . He was the author of several books , novels , collections of short stories , ___MASK64___ , and poems . His best - known works include " If This Is a Man " ( 1947 ) ( U . S .: " Survival in Auschwitz "), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi - occupied Poland ; and his unique work , " The Periodic Table " ( 1975 ), linked to qualities of the elements , which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best ___MASK75___ ever written . On 19 October 2006 , the Royal Institution of Great Britain named " The Periodic Table ", by Primo Levi , the best ___MASK75___ ever . After taking nominations from many scientists in ___MASK13___ disciplines , authors , and other notable people ( such as the Archbishop of Canterbury ), the Royal Institution compiled a shortlist of books for consideration . This shortlist was presented to the public at an event held at Imperial ___MASK50___ and the audience voted to determine which book was " the best ."