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This guide is a unique resource for music lovers with a passion for travel. Europe’s foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive, accessible and attractive collection.

Written by experienced tutors, ‘Anthem How To Do 11+ and 12+ Verbal Reasoning: Technique and Practice’ offers an extensive breakdown of the types of questions likely to feature in verbal reasoning assessments, along with advice on how to prepare for tests and practice materials.

The ‘Anthem Short Revision Papers 11+ and 12+ Verbal Reasoning Book 1’ features a wide range of short revision tests, and is perfect for highlighting weak spots as well as consolidating skills.

Written in multiple-choice format and covering a wide range of questions, the test papers in this pack emulate the style and content of questions featured in actual verbal reasoning assessments, and are the perfect exam-preparation tool.

Women poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the standpoint of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure. This anthology features a broad range of crucial subjects addressed by these poets, including marriage, motherhood, female desire, and social problems.

This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.

This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject is noteworthy today, much less in the 1950s and 1960s.

This book is an annotated edition of The Correspondents (1775), a work, as the introduction argues, derived from A Sentimental Journey, and one of the best of the many later efforts to capture Sterne’s unique blend of sensibility and sensuality.

'Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications' offers a philosophical perspective to ethical problems by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities.

When Joyce Hetherington loses her half-sister in a mysterious railway accident, she calls on her old school friend, Greg Mason, to investigate. As the two sink deeper and deeper into the case, they begin to realise that certain seemingly unrelated threads in her family story – some stretching as far back as WWII – have the potential to weave a web with far greater implications than either of them could have ever imagined.

“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.

Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.