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Tuhami

In the now classic work Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan, Vincent Crapanzano recounts results of his encounters with an illiterate Moroccan...

Portrét Maročana

Most do budoucnosti

In the 1960s and 70s one of the most historically valuable cities in northern Bohemia had to give way to surface coal mining. The new cit...

Laboratoř socialistické modernity na severu Čech

Rambling On (paperback)

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czec...

An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Umění a kultura království Benin

This book on the remarkable culture and original art of the Benin Empire covers historical transformations of the empire, local mythology...

Jazyk v kontextu kultury

Jerzy Bartmiński (1939) is one of the most important Polish and European linguists, prominent figure in the field of modern ethnolinguist...

Dvanáct statí z lublinské kognitivní etnolinvistiky

Physical and personality traits of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia

On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the death of Charles IV in 1978, Professor Emanuel Vlček, MD, DSc conducted research of the s...

A medical-anthropological investigation

Tři studie o trestním právu v českých zemích v 17. a v první polovině 18. století

Criminal law is not just a set of regulations defining what is a crime and what punishment offenders should receive. The Criminal Code al...

Dějiny české a slovenské psychologie

This overview of the development of psychology in the Czech and Slovak environment from its very beginnings to the present day focuses pr...

Sociální mozek

It has been ten years since the publication of the first edition of The Social Brain (Karolinum 2006). The number of scientific papers fo...

Osvojování jazyka dítětem

Lucie Saicová Římalová’s book presents the main themes related to the acquisition of a child's first language ("mother tongue"). It defin...

Encyklopedie menších křesťanských církví v České republice

Religiousness in the Czech Republic has been developing dynamically and the current religious scene is so diversified that it is not easy...