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Bel Canto in Theorie and Practice

A practical Guide to develop your Authentic Singing Voice

By: Dr. Anna Sophia Karin Wettig

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Bel Canto in Theorie and Practice

A practical Guide to develop your Authentic Singing Voice

By: Dr. Anna Sophia Karin Wettig

A Practical Guide to Develop Your Authentic Singing Voice Written by musicologist Dr. Karin Wettig, Bel Canto in Theory and Practice is for singers who want to dive deeper into the secrets of true bel canto (an Italian word meaning "beautiful singing"). Its practical advice and discoveries about vocal functions can be used by a hobby singer, choir member or soloist on his way to a professional career in pop, musical, theatre or opera. All the exercises are simple and well described with photos. If you are ready to breakthrough with your voice on stage, dive into these lessons and learn from the life story and personal discoveries of the author who says "After 20 years of voice practice, I have learned that awareness is the key and is my best teacher because awareness changes in 10 minutes what 5 years of voice exercises cannot do." Even non-singers who would like to develop more vocal expression power for their everyday life or business purposes will find lots of good tips. As you practice the exercises you will dive deeper into your personal natural vocal power and develop your true authentic voice over time. The whole body yoga approach and breathing exercises will strengthen your body (especially the rib cage and pelvis), develop a correct posture for standing, sitting and moving on stage and enable you to sing longer phrases easily and effortlessly. Your vocal cords and stiff tongue will relax. The low and high range of your voice will be bound together without the usual passage break and singing will become more powerful and effortless as the natural beauty of your voice shines through. Bel Canto in Theory and Practice also offers professional singers, who are curious to discover more about the secret behind the voices of opera singers like Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, technical details about the structure of the voice box and an analytical approach to the function of the human voice and her relationship with emotion. The musicological approach of the history of singing and voice development in opera will give the reader a deeper understanding about the ideal of vocal beauty working throughout four centuries of opera creation and its deep connection to the renaissance of ancient Greece and Rome. After losing her voice following a traumatic divorce, the author searched for a way to get her voice back. When voice therapy didn't heal her, she looked for a cure through singing. She left her life behind to pursue her dream to be a bel canto singer and her journey to becoming a coloratura soprano began. Studying bel canto videos, spending nights and weekends in churches alone with CDs of Callas and others, and pursuing classes for opera singing and workshops in Europe, she dove deeply into the physical aspects of opera singing, while her musicological curiosity made her travel to the origins and sources of bel canto in the Renaissance. Observing minuscule body and throat movements brought her a breakthrough. After two decades miracles started happening: her teeth aligned, her chin and jaw movement became smoother, her stiff tongue melted. In the end, she enjoyed an upright posture, better proportions, 1.5 cm more in height, emotional balance, cured sinusitis and healthy self-esteem. Her efforts were rewarded with a brilliant coloratura soprano voice. "Behind every weakness hides a talent!" is her motto now. Asked for a transcript of her voice classes, she wrote her personal method down. That was the moment Bel Canto in Theory and Practice was born. Her students' voices radically changed during her classes within ten minutes of training. The result is this book: an intuitive, heartfelt, yet practical approach to achieving excellence in bel canto through effortless singing. Order your copy today.

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PersonalityStyling Dr. Karin Wettig

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3981595432

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The Objects of Credence

By: Anna Mahtani

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The Objects of Credence

By: Anna Mahtani

The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.

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Oxford University Press

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0198847890

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America's Musical Inheritance - Memories And Reminiscences

By: Anna Eugenie Schoen Rene

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America's Musical Inheritance - Memories And Reminiscences

By: Anna Eugenie Schoen Rene

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528760654

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Choreography Invisible

The Disappearing Work of Dance

By: Anna Pakes

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Choreography Invisible

The Disappearing Work of Dance

By: Anna Pakes

Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind. Yet some dance practice involves people trying to embody something that exists before - and survives beyond - their particular acts of dancing. What exactly is that thing? And (how) do dances continue to exist when not performed? Anna Pakes seeks to answer these and related questions in this book, drawing on analytic philosophy of art to explore the metaphysics of dance making, performance and disappearance. Focusing on Western theater dance, Pakes also traces the different ways dances have been conceptualized across time, and what those historical shifts imply for the ontology of dance works.

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Oxford University Press

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0199988234

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Inequality and Poverty across Generations in the European Union

By: Tingyun Chen,Mr.Jean-Jacques Hallaert,Mr.Alexander Pitt,Mr.Haonan Qu,Mr.Maximilien Queyranne,Alaina Rhee,Ms.Anna Shabunina,Jérôme Vandenbussche,Irene Yackovlev

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Inequality and Poverty across Generations in the European Union

By: Tingyun Chen,Mr.Jean-Jacques Hallaert,Mr.Alexander Pitt,Mr.Haonan Qu,Mr.Maximilien Queyranne,Alaina Rhee,Ms.Anna Shabunina,Jérôme Vandenbussche,Irene Yackovlev

This SDN studies the evolution of inequality across age groups leading up to and since the global financial crisis, as well as implications for fiscal and labor policies. Europe’s population is aging, child and youth poverty are rising, and income support systems are often better equipped to address old-age poverty than the challenges faced by poor children and/or unemployed youth today.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484340256

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English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650

By: Anna-Maria Hartmann

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English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650

By: Anna-Maria Hartmann

Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their European counterparts. This volume focuses on the English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647 by Stephen Batman, Abraham Fraunce, Francis Bacon, Henry Reynolds, and Alexander Ross: it places their texts into a wider, European context to reveal their unique English take on the genre and also unfolds the significant role myth played in the broader culture of the period, influencing not only literary life, natural philosophy and poetics, but also religious conflicts and Civil War politics. In doing so it demonstrates, for the first time, the considerable explanatory value classical mythology holds for the study of the English Renaissance and its literary culture in particular, and how early modern England answered a question we still find fascinating today: what is myth?

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Oxford University Press

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0192534750

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Modern Italian Grammar

A Practical Guide

By: Anna Proudfoot,Francesco Cardo

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Modern Italian Grammar

A Practical Guide

By: Anna Proudfoot,Francesco Cardo

This new edition of the Modern Italian Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Italian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Implementing feedback from users of the first edition, this text includes clearer explanations, as well as a greater emphasis on areas of particular difficulty for learners of Italian. Divided into two sections, the book covers: traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives language functions and notions such as giving and seeking information, describing processes and results, and expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. This is the ideal reference grammar for learners of Italian at all levels, from beginner to advanced. No prior knowledge of grammatical terminology is needed and a glossary of grammatical terms is provided. This Grammar is complemented by the Modern Italian Grammar Workbook Second Edition which features related exercises and activities.

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Routledge

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1136195459

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Is There A Nordic Feminism?

Nordic Feminist Thought On Culture And Society

By: Drude von der Fehr,Anna Jonasdottir,Bente Rosenbeck

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Is There A Nordic Feminism?

Nordic Feminist Thought On Culture And Society

By: Drude von der Fehr,Anna Jonasdottir,Bente Rosenbeck

This text focuses on changes in culture and society that concern women and feminists in the Nordic countries. It examines women's political strategies, questions of identity, rationality and subjectivity, and social and cultural values.

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1135358494

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A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC)

By: Anna Magdalena Blomley

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A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC)

By: Anna Magdalena Blomley

This is the first systematic study of Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in ancient Argos and the city-states of the Argolic Akte. Based on one of the largest regional corpora of Greek fortified sites, the volume investigates the function of rural fortifications by placing them in the context of their surrounding landscape.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789699711

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The Story of a Life

Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire

By: Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia

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The Story of a Life

Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire

By: Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia

Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in Tsarist Russia. At a time when the vast majority of Jews resided in small market towns in the Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia liberated herself from that world and embraced the day-to-day rhythms, educational activities, and new intellectual opportunities in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Her story offers a unique glimpse of Jewish daily life that is rarely documented in public sources—of neighborly interactions, children's games and household rituals, love affairs and emotional outbursts, clothing customs, and leisure time. Most first-person narratives of this kind reconstruct an isolated and self-contained Jewish world, but The Story of a Life uniquely describes the unprecedented social opportunities, as well as the many political and personal challenges, that young Jewish women and men experienced in the Russia of the 1870s and 1880s. In addition to their artful translation, Eugene M. Avrutin and Robert H. Greene thoroughly explicate this historical context in their introduction.

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Cornell University Press

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1609090462

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Christoph Schlingensief

Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria

By: Anna Teresa Scheer

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Christoph Schlingensief

Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria

By: Anna Teresa Scheer

The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. Scheer traces Schlingensief's artistic lineage as a filmmaker with no formal training in theatre, whose work does not correspond to theoretical frameworks such as postdramatic theatre, Regietheater, or established categories of political theatre such as Brechtian, community, and agit-prop theatre. She explores how his work instead draws upon the highly performative gestures of the historical and post-Cold War avant-gardes as well the happenings and event-based practices of the sixties. Comprehensive case studies of six diverse theatrical and activist events are offered to demonstrate both the immediacy of Schlingensief's response to contemporary social and political events and his use of a range of artistic influences and different genres: Rocky Dutschke '68 (1996), Save Capitalism: Throw the Money Away! (1999) The Berlin Republic – or the Ring in Africa (1999) Hamlet (2001), Atta Atta – Art Has Broken Out! (2003) and the Church of Fear (2003). Key questions such as how his theatre functions as a provocation, and how an artist can insert themselves into the powerful flows of imagery produced by the perpetual global news cycle, form a coherent line of enquiry throughout each of the chapters. The significance of Schlingensief's artistic legacy of politicized theatre-making that pioneers new modes of active, aesthetic and public engagement in the political realm remains pertinent to topical socio-political debates and is of relevance to an international audience across a diversity of disciplines.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350001066

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The Romange of Biography

Volume 2

By: Anna Jameson

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The Romange of Biography

Volume 2

By: Anna Jameson

Reproduction of the original: The Romange of Biography by Anna Jameson

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3732699013

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Perfect Italian Diction for Singers

An Authoritative Guide

By: Timothy Cheek,Anna Toccafondi

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Perfect Italian Diction for Singers

An Authoritative Guide

By: Timothy Cheek,Anna Toccafondi

Perfect Italian Diction for Singers: An Authoritative Guide provides the steps and tools for singing beautifully and expressively in this language. Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi systematically home in on the essential features of the most beautiful Italian, pitfalls of non-native singers, and how to overcome those issues. In addition to delving to the heart of Italian sounds and inflection, they present controversies, misconceptions, and various approaches—often conflicting—that have arisen throughout the last century. Chapters also address: Italian style and legato Best use of supplemental resources and dictionaries Recitative with suggested, short Mozart excerpts Working with text Singing diphthongs, triphthongs, and hiatus Also included are a plethora of audio and video examples and exercises (over seventy QR codes), exercises for group or self-study, and self-assessment summaries. This book will help singers and students lay a solid foundation in beautiful, lyric Italian.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153816342X

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9781538163429

Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio

By: Lonely Planet,Pietro Iagnocco,Anna Beltrami,Mirna Cicioni,Karina Coates,Susie Walker

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Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio

By: Lonely Planet,Pietro Iagnocco,Anna Beltrami,Mirna Cicioni,Karina Coates,Susie Walker

Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Italian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!

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Lonely Planet

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1788686314

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Queer Love in the Middle Ages

By: Anna Klosowska Roberts

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Queer Love in the Middle Ages

By: Anna Klosowska Roberts

Queer Love in the Middle Ages points out queer themes in the works of the French canon, including Perceval , the Romance of the Rose and the Roman d'Eneas . It brings out less known works that prominently feature same-sex themes: Yde and Olive , a romance with a cross-dressed heroine who marries a princess; and many others. The book combines an interest in contemporary French theory (Kristeva, Barthes, psychoanalysis) with a close reading of medieval texts. It discusses important recent publications in pre-modern queer studies in the US. It is the first major contribution to queer studies in medieval French literature.

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Springer

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1137088109

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Caves

By: Anna Claybourne

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Caves

By: Anna Claybourne

Have you ever been in a cave? Most of us haven't, but there are adventurers and scientists who love finding new caves to explore. If you ever had the chance to climb down into a cave, what would you need to know? What would you pack? Who would you want to come with you? This book gives you the knowledge you need to plan your adventure!

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1410954285

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The Right Kind of Help? Tax Incentives for Staying Small

By: Ms.Dora Benedek,Mr.Pragyan Deb,Mr.Borja Gracia,Mr.Sergejs Saksonovs,Ms.Anna Shabunina,Mrs.Nina T Budina

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The Right Kind of Help? Tax Incentives for Staying Small

By: Ms.Dora Benedek,Mr.Pragyan Deb,Mr.Borja Gracia,Mr.Sergejs Saksonovs,Ms.Anna Shabunina,Mrs.Nina T Budina

Some countries support smaller firms through tax incentives in an effort to stimulate job creation and startups, or alleviate specific distortions, such as financial constraints or high regulatory or tax compliance costs. In addition to fiscal costs, tax incentives that discriminate by firm size without specifically targeting R&D investment can create disincentives for firms to invest and grow, negatively affecting firm productivity and growth. This paper analyzes the relationship between size-related corporate income tax incentives and firm productivity and growth, controlling for other policy and firm-level factors, including product market regulation, financial constraints and innovation. Using firm level data from four European economies over 2001–13, we find evidence that size-related tax incentives that do not specifically target R&D investment can weigh on firm productivity and growth. These results suggest that when designing size-based tax incentives, it is important to address their potential disincentive effects, including by making them temporary and targeting young and innovative firms, and R&D investment explicitly.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484302559

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Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns

Vol. II

By: Anna Jameson

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Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns

Vol. II

By: Anna Jameson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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3385612144

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Be Done on Earth

By: Anna Evans-Wylie

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Be Done on Earth

By: Anna Evans-Wylie

Six hundred years ago Brother Edgar Kegel, a fanatical Knight of the Teutonic Order came to the sleepy town of Helmsbury, bringing prejudice, torture and death with him. At his hand, Enid lost the man she loved and her two Stracceli sisters. She did nothing to stop him then but when Kegel returns in the 21st century to lead yet another crusade of bigotry and hatred, Enid is ready is ready for him. Enid's two Stracceli sisters, who perished in a fire six hundred years ago, are reborn into human form and find their way back to Helmsbury. They are unaware of their past and the danger that lies ahead. One of them, Eleanor, is a lonely and awkward girl, neglected by her rich, career-absorbed parents, and bullied by a boy from the estate. The other girl, Isobel, comes to Helmsbury with her father and little brother after losing her mother to a degenerative illness. She too has to fend for herself and fight her own battles. This is volume 2 of the "In the Web of Time" trilogy.

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Lulu.com

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1291151214

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9781291151213

Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof

By: Anna Nicholas

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Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof

By: Anna Nicholas

Having moved to rural Mallorca to escape the stresses of London life, Anna Nicholas continues to commute back to her glitzy PR agency to earn a crust. But she is harbouring a bizarre dream to open a luxury cattery on the island - unbeknownst to her long-suffering family.Life in the mountains is never uneventful as she gets to grips with phantom sheep, midnight snail hunts and Catalan lessons. Work also has its challenges, as she juggles demanding and often neurotic clients between Mayfair and Manhattan and is hotly pursued by lucrative deals. But increasingly Anna finds herself craving the simple life of her Spanish idyll because, as she discovers, you can take the girl out of Mallorca but you can't take Mallorca out of the girl.Wickedly irreverent, lovingly observed and filled with eccentric characters, Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof celebrates the wonders of Mallorcan life.

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Burro Books Limited

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1999661737

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9781999661731

Private International Law in Poland

By: Ewa Kamarad,Anna Wysocka-Bar

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Private International Law in Poland

By: Ewa Kamarad,Anna Wysocka-Bar

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to the law applied to cases involving cross border issues in Poland. It offers every lawyer dealing with questions of conflict of laws much-needed access to these conflict rules, presented clearly and concisely by a local expert. Beginning with a general introduction, the monograph goes on to discuss the choice of law technique, sources of private international law, and the relevant connection with other laws. Then follows clear description and analysis of the rules of choice of law on natural and legal persons, contractual and non-contractual obligations, movable and immovable property, intangible property rights, company law, family law (marriage, cohabitation, registered partnerships, matrimonial property, maintenance, child law), and succession law (including testamentary dispositions). The presentation concludes with an overview of relevant civil procedure, examining lex fori and issues of national and international jurisdiction, acceptability and enforcement of foreign judgements, and international arbitration. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for lawyers handling cases in Poland. Academics and researchers, as well as judges, notaries public, marriage registrars, youth welfare officers, teachers, students, and local and public authorities will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of private international law from a comparative perspective.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403529652

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9789403529653

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