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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

An English translation of a successful title by the first post-1989 Czech ambassador to Israel, Miloš Pojar. The book is a result of the ...

Tázání po dějinném

The book consists of ten chapters. The first four texts include a Heideggerian comprehensive quest for meaning, in this case history (tim...

Teachers on the Waves of Transformation

A transforming society undergoes changes on many levels. The main two of these are changes in the structures and culture of society. But ...

Czech Secondary Schools Before and After 1989

Temný kontinent

Mark Mazower’s Europe is not a continent of old countries and nations, but in many respects, it is very new and in the course of the 20th...

Evropa ve 20. století

Teologie ve stínu. Prolegomena k dějinám české katolické teologie druhé poloviny 20. století

This collection of essays outlines selected historical facts about the Catholic theological reflection in the Czech Lands in the second h...

The Birth of the State

In the book titled Birth of the State, readers learn what researchers nowadays think about the rise and stabilization of the oldest state...

Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China

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...

The Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629–1786

At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to whic...

The Parisian Summit, 1377–78

The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeti...

Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

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

Totalismus a holismus

This book, written by his student, Radim Palouš, and published on the anniversary of Jan Patočka's death, contemplates on existence both ...

Trpké vzpomínky na 17. listopad

This collection, published on the occasion of the International Students' Day – Day of the Fight for Freedom and Democracy, supplemented ...