Takes you into the grandiloquent streetscapes of Vienna, an elegant cultural capital. While pinpointing the essentials on the capital of the Habsburgs and its musical tradition, this guide looks at the city's commitment to its citizens, and the exuberance of its contemporary culture.

Sao Paulo, a city in South America, is a culturally diverse megalopolis. From the Japanese markets in the neighbourhood of Liberdade, to the Italian neighbourhood of Bexiga and the numerous Lebanese sweet-stalls and kosher delis, Sao Paulo offers visitors a fascinating tour of the ethnic groups that make up modern Brazil.

A travel guide to 30 of the inspiring destinations in France.

Budapest is back at the heart of Europe. After a century of wars, uprisings and Socialist stasis, the Hungarian capital is gleaming again with luxury options. Budapest is also a-buzz with cultural firepower and underground energy. This book describes the city of Budapest.

How about swimming in Loch Ness? Or watching monkeys in Dorset? This title offers ideas for children ranging from toddlers to teens. Filled with sights, excursions and events throughout Britain, as well as activities to do at home, it covers various categories, from the adventurous to the educational, from the eco-friendly to just plain fun.

Features some of Britain's loveliest scenery. This book features craggy coves and sweeping strands, family favourites and surfers' paradises, sheltered bays and secret islands. It contains portraits of more than 60 seaside gems, with tips on where to eat, drink, sleep and go for a swim.

It is no longer a secret that Copenhagen is the perfect weekend destination, with its beguiling blend of shops, restaurants and world class museums. So, while many are lured to Copenhagen by its rich 20th century design legacy, they are as likely to leave having sampled the best that modern Scandinavia has to offer.

In 2007, Madrid emerges from several years under wraps to reveal its new facelift. This book covers artistic jewels housed in Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia, as well as the etiquette of watching a bullfight or joining in with a flamenco performance. It also shows where to stay and how to escape the city heat.

Visually stunning and spanning two continents, Istanbul lies on a cultural fault line. Evidence of its pivotal historical role is reflected in the city's architecture. Written by locally based writers, this book guides readers through its fashionable restaurants, innovative music and lively bar and nightlife scenes.

Riddled with cliches, many of them true, Havana is like no other city in the Caribbean - or in the world. Living with the effects of an embargo, it is constantly trying to move into the 21st century while proudly embracing its past. This work serves as a guide to Havana.

It isn't easy being the commercial, media and glamour capital of the world's most diverse and exciting country, but Mumbai manages it with a panache that is at once exciting, exhausting and inexplicable. Home to millions of people of every shade and culture from all over India, and growing every day, Mumbai is in a state of constant flux.

A guide to Naples. It lets you visit San Carlo opera house, where Rossini and Donizetti triumphed, sip a caffe where Oscar Wilde and Enrique Caruso used to lounge, and eat a margarita pizza at the restaurant that created it.

Hong Kong is a territory in perpetual re-invention. The fishing village colonised by the British in the early 19th century has long led Asia and the world in modern architecture - notably of the skyscraper variety. This is an insider guide to China's exciting city and environs.

Featuring 30 walks within the reach of London, this is the second volume of the Time Out Book of Country Walks . Between 4 and 13 miles long, these walks are provided with directions.

Offers hundreds of ideas for city-dwellers looking for a brief respite from the Big Smoke. Whether you're after culture, nature or adventure, this title presents ideas, that are close enough to the capital so that you can get there and back in a day. It also includes stately houses and ruined castles, and unusual museums and quirky shops.

Films entertain us like nothing else can, but they also have the power to change our lives. A film can frighten or reassure us, make us laugh, make us sad or remorseful, make us want to change the world. This book is a celebration of the life-changing force of the movies. It aims to prove how much the movies matter.

Contains reviews of the classic sights and venues in area-by-area chapters, maps with entries pinpointed, customised itineraries and visitor basics, and illustrated with photographs. This guide unearths Florence's architectural and artistic treasures. It also covers the cafes, restaurants, shops and hotels, both trendsetting and time-honoured.

Provides coverage of the major sights. This title offers visitors the chance to see the Eternal City as the locals do, revealing the trends in booming nightlife and arts scenes, and listing the born-again trattorie that have pushed designer restaurants on to the sidelines.

Describes Scandinavia in context of its lifestyle mags lining the shelves of the newsagents, or the calculated cool clothing sported by young Stockholmers. This book also offers information on boutiques and hotels, over 100 galleries and 70 museums and thousands of pine-covered islands that are a ferry ride away.

Aims to celebrate the transforming power of literature. This book features 50 novelists, writers and critics who draw the arc of a life lived in books, from birth to death - with Kate Clanchy on motherhood, Ali Smith on reading as a child, and Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Coe, Nigella Lawson and Sarah Waters on the volumes that changed their lives.