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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...

Vlastní Bůh

In the contemporary globalized world marked by a mixing of cultures and worldviews, the necessity to seek modes of coexistence, especiall...

Mírotvorný a násilný potenciál náboženství

Filosofie en noir

Thinking necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact is becoming ever more clear, which might be th...

Biografický slovník 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy 1945–2008 (A–L)

The history of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, is one of continuous research tasks of the Institute for the History of...

Mocenská posedlost

MUDr. František Koukolík’s successful book, Obsession with Power, has made a comeback to the book market in a new edition, significantly ...

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

This book is subtitled "A Humorous – If Possible – Novella from the Ghetto." It was published in 1969 by a famous satirist from Prague, a...

A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Praha univerzitní

Prague has been a center of university education for almost seven centuries. It was on April 7, 1348, that Charles IV, King of Bohemia an...

Čestní doktoři Univerzity Karlovy 1848–2015

The tradition of honorary doctorates, which was introduced at Western European universities at the end of the 15th century, was adopted r...

Diagnostika a léčba osteoporózy a dalších onemocnění skeletu

This book, written for the students of medicine and starting doctors preparing for specialized exams in internal medicine, orthopedics an...

Francouzská literatura v českých překladech po roce 1989

This analysis of the bibliographical corpus of French fiction published in the Czech translation between 1989–2013 demonstrates known fac...

25 let bez cenzury

Views from the Inside

From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the latter twentieth century displaye...

Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948–1989)

Povinná sociální solidarita

Contemporary public social policy disrupts the principles of mandatory social solidarity, making non-systematic and economical (cost-savi...