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Baroque Prague

Lushly illustrated with more than two hundred color plates, including both historical images and contemporary photographs of architectura...

Elektřina a magnetismus

The book is a basic undergraduate textbook for physics and natural science majors. Its exposition is very thoroughly conducted, individua...

Klášter cisterciáků v Oseku

The history of the Cistercian monastery in Osek in North Bohemia began more than eight hundred years ago. In its first part, the book pre...

Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages

The medieval peasantry represents a particularly compelling unknown for historians, as it holds the key to understanding both later econo...

Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration

Flying with Wax Wings

Josef Mánes (1820–1871) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was...

Josef Mánes (1820–1871)

English for Teaching in English / Angličtina pro výuku v angličtině

Increasingly, Czech university teachers are being required to teach their subjects in English. That is why this book is aimed not only at...

Of Spaces and Ideas

This monograph provides a deeper insight into the work of two contemporary British novelists, Jim Crace and Simon Mawer, with a particula...

The Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer

O demokracii a o všem, co s ní souvisí

On Democracy and Everything Connected with It is a collection of 29 essays written by 34 authors working in Czech political science or re...

Miroslav Novák sedmdesátiletý

Ukrajina mimo Západ

Many states do not see Western anti-Russian attitudes following the invasion of Ukraine as a given – only a minority of countries have ac...

Proč se většina světa nepřidala k podpoře Ukrajiny proti ruské agresi?

From Laughter to Forgetting

A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde. This book offers a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and docum...

A Sourcebook of Czech Avant-Garde Discourses

Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art

Otakar Zich’s Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art. Theoretical Dramaturgy (1931) laid the foundation of systematic modern theatre theory and h...

Theoretical Dramaturgy

Ancient Weeds

The handbooks of literary studies usually tell us that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern...

Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times