biographies and memoirs(62)

Plzeň punková a metalová

The book describes the diverse environment of the punk and metal alternative music scene in Pilsen during the 1980s and the first half of...

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

Poznámky k revoluční akci v Chicagu (1914–1918)

Alois Richard Nykl (1885–1958), an American of Czech origin, is primarily known as a linguist, polyglot and Orientalist. Having traveled ...

Pražská škola v korespondenci

The Prague School became an icon in world linguistics of the 20th century: based on the Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Sau...

Dopisy z let 1924–1989

Pronikám do Boha / So dringe ich in Gott

Dopisy z nacistického a komunistického žaláře / Briefe aus der NS-Haft und aus dem kommunistischen Gefängnis

Přemysl Šámal

This book presents the first comprehensive account of the life story of Přemysl Šámal (1867–1941) and his family. Šámal, a Prague lawyer,...

Hlava Maffie a kancléř prezidentů

Příběhy budování občanského sektoru v České republice po roce 1989

Stories of the Building of the Civic Sector in the Czech Republic after 1989 presents a new perspective on the formation of the civic sec...

Rozmluvy s Antonínem Švehlou a o Švehlovi

This memoir-based text written by Czech journalist, diplomat and author, Karel Mečíř, is devoted to Antonín Švehla, a Czech politician, s...

Vzpomínky agrárního diplomata Karla Mečíře

Rozmluvy ze Šafránku

This publication, Conversations about Šafránek. With a Smile about Life, Growing Old and Old Age, is dedicated to Pilsen native professor...

S úsměvem o životě, stárnutí a stáří

Růst a světlo tvarů

A collection of studies and essays by Czech and Slovak authors devoted to the work of painter, graphic designer, illustrator, and sculpto...

Aspekty díla Miloše Ševčíka

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...

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...

Studentské hnutí odporu

The personality of Josef Šárka (1918–2008) is connected with significant milestones in the fight against totalitarian regimes in Czechosl...