(2032)

O chalupách a lidech

A majority of Czech population is familiar, either through direct experience or indirectly, with the phenomenon of spending time at weeke...

Chalupářství v českých zemích v období tzv. normalizace a transformace

Spinoza a politika

Étienne Balibar (1942), Louise Althusser’s student, is one of the most significant contemporary political thinkers. His book, Spinoza and...

The Cremator (paperback)

“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and per...

Poznávání života

French epistemology represents a distinctive line of thought within philosophy, represented primarily by Gaston Bachelard with his theory...

K teorii vojenského plavání

Military swimming is part of the special physical training in the Army of the Czech Republic. It refers to a complex of information and s...

Teorie obrazu

This book, a collection of essays, focuses on individual aspects of the relationship of a text and an image. Mitchell analyzes pictorial ...

Eseje o verbální a vizuální reprezentaci

Co je ironická věda

István Vörös, a Hungarian Czech scholar, literary scientist, aesthetician and university professor, is primarily a poet, although his fic...

Kolektivizace venkova v horním Polabí

Following the communist putsch in February 1948, Czechoslovak society was undergoing a very difficult stage, which was associated with ex...

Od fenoménů k aktérům a jejich motivacím

Balkán ve 20. století

This gripping and easy to follow book presents the complex and ever current theme of South-Eastern Europe. The structure of the book, div...

Nahlédnutí do středověku

The contradictions in the title should do more than to merely attract potential readers. The realization that many things in the Middle A...

Mluva písma a četba obrazů

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemia...

Prague: Its Gardens and Parks

The design of Prague’s gardens and parks, including those that belong to palace, castle and monastery complexes, private and public alike...