biographies and memoirs(57)

Muž Země

In this book, Bedřich Moldan, a geochemist, journalist, politician, and most importantly prominent Czech environmentalist recapitulates h...

Rozhovor s Bedřichem Moldanem

Učení je život, život je učení

This publication traces the professional and personal life of Pavel Hartl – a prominent Czech psychologist, psychotherapist, university t...

Jak jsem to tenkrát viděl

Miroslav Hroch, one of the most prominent Czech historians, recapitulates his professional career, especially his work at the Faculty of ...

Vzpomínky

Seven Days to the Funeral

Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalised memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozn...

Hledání a nalézání

Rozhovor s Michalem Andělem

Plzeň punková a metalová

Punková a metalová alternativní hudební scéna v Plzni (1983–1995)​

Anatomie komunismu: Skutečný příběh jedné rodiny

This book follows the story of three people in the turbulent 20th century: the life of my mother, my father and me, whose life was affect...

Chvění je naděje

Journalist and essayist Karel Hvížďala is known for his interviews with prominent figures of primarily Czech political and cultural world...

Záznamy od března 2021 do začátku války v únoru 2022

Ohlížím se zpět

Professor Arnold Jirásek (1887–1960), who first came into the public’s view as the doctor who operated on the mortally wounded Jan Opleta...

Sto let jedné židovské rodiny na českém venkově

This trio of egodocuments captures the fates of three generations of a single family. In the first part, Adolf Ornstein revisits the lif...

70 let Stomatologické kliniky v Plzni

Svět Václava Ciglera

This long-awaited dialogue between two prominent figures – journalist and writer Karel Hvížďala and the doyen of fine arts, glass-maker, ...