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Okno příležitosti

Even with borders closed, the environment brings people together. As tensions between East and West began to ease in the late 1980s, a wi...

Životní prostředí a přeshraniční vztahy na březích Dyje 1984–1995

Historicus inter saecula movens

A book of contributions celebrating Professor Jiří Pešek’s milestone birthday shows his wide range of research interests and, for the fir...

Kniha k životnímu jubileu prof. Jiřího Peška

Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University

The Bohemian Reformation — the reformation before the Reformation — offered a radical solution to the spiritual and institutional crisis ...

Od trestu k terapii

How did experts living in post-war Europe understand violence? The book explores the approaches of psychiatrists and psychologists to vio...

Forenzní psychiatrie v poválečné obnově Evropy

Emperor Charles IV and the Origins of the Great Schism, c. 1375–1378

Emperor Otto I the Great made history in the Holy Roman Empire with a significant dynastic achievement: in 967, he persuaded the pope to ...

Filling in the Gap

This volume provides an insight into the world of the Carolingian monks and clerics who created the fascinating liturgical organism known...

The Post Pentecost Series of Gospel Antiphons

Mezi solidaritou a zklamáním

The COVID-19 pandemic was an absolute social phenomenon, a period of both urgent and less serious crises, and a time that can reveal a lo...

Česko v době covidové a postcovidové

Charles IV. Portrait of a Medieval Ruler

Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of t...

Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc

Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc presents the lives of those who chose self-immolation as a radical form of protest against the politica...

Politically motivated cases of self-immolation in 1966–1989

Člověk na železnici 1

For two centuries, the railway has been a place where the stories of all kinds of passengers intersect – including those of politicians, ...

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České mapové sbírky

The book provides a clear overview of the history, content, and accessibility of 19 Czech and Moravian map collections kept by archives, ...

Historická chronologie

The second, revised, and expanded edition of Marie Bláhová’s now classic handbook provides a systematic overview of the development of th...