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The Torah / Law Is a Journey

The Old Testament is rich in metaphor. Metaphorical expressions appear not only in places where you might expect them, like the poetic ve...

Using Cognitive and Culturally Oriented Linguistics to Interpret and Translate Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible

The Stojka family

The book traces the history of a Romani family from the territory of today’s Slovakia across the 19th and 20th centuries. Working with a ...

Spatial mobility and territorial anchoredness of Lovara Vlax Roms in the former Czechoslovakia

The Spanish Conditional (with Reference to English and Czech): A Contrastive Cognitive Approach

The monograph examines the Spanish conditional (cantaría) with respect to the English conditional (would) and the Czech conditional (zpív...

The Shop on Main Street

A classical work of the 1960s Czechoslovak literature and film in a new publication of Iris Urwin Lewit’s translation. An original and re...

The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016

This is a unique history of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest association in the media field. However, the IOJ was embroiled in t...

Useful Recollections, Part III

The Prague of Charles IV

This publication, written by Czech professor of art history Jan Royt, renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom in the...

The Pied Piper

For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-c...

The Philosophy of Living Nature

The Philosophy of Living Nature is an English translation of Zdeněk Kratochvíl’s revised and updated book published in 1994 in Czech, a c...

The Parisian Summit, 1377–78

The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeti...

Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

The Natural Gas Conundrum

The study examines energy security in the Central Asia region, with an emphasis on the natural gas sector. The research presented in the ...

Transformation of the Central Asian Energy Security Complex after 1991

The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains

The book offers a summary of the social, economic and cultural aspects of metal mining in the Bohemian Erzgebirge. Individual chapters de...

in the Early Modern Period and Their Impact on Cultural History

The MicroBook

This textbook was designed to help students during their study of the extensive discipline of clinical microbiology. It can also serve as...

Clinical Microbiology for Medical Students