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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 Restoration of Order

In an engaging style, not lacking in irony and detachment, Milan Šimečka describes the process of restoring order and its result—so-calle...

The Normalization of Czechoslovakia 1969–1976

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 Roma as Agents of the “G*psy Question”

The story of Romani people in communist Czechoslovakia has long been framed by a discriminatory policy of assimilation, and thus by fatal...

Belonging, Mobility and Resettlement Policy in Socialist Czechoslovakia

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 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 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 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 Velvet Revolution 30 Years After

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution brought down the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, this book uses interviews, photographs, and...

The Well at Morning

Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obskurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at...

Selected Poems and Graphic Artworks, 1925–1971

Theatre Theory Reader

This publication opens with an Introduction and a short commentary on editorial issues entitled Editors’ Choices and Guidelines. The main...

Prague School Writings

Things in Poems

In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the ...