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Klášter cisterciáků v Oseku

The history of the Cistercian monastery in Osek in North Bohemia began more than eight hundred years ago. In its first part, the book pre...

Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages

The medieval peasantry represents a particularly compelling unknown for historians, as it holds the key to understanding both later econo...

Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration

Flying with Wax Wings

Josef Mánes (1820–1871) was a creator on whom the Czech revivalist society placed its hopes for the creation of a national art. Mánes was...

Josef Mánes (1820–1871)

English for Teaching in English / Angličtina pro výuku v angličtině

Increasingly, Czech university teachers are being required to teach their subjects in English. That is why this book is aimed not only at...

O demokracii a o všem, co s ní souvisí

On Democracy and Everything Connected with It is a collection of 29 essays written by 34 authors working in Czech political science or re...

Miroslav Novák sedmdesátiletý

Of Spaces and Ideas

This monograph provides a deeper insight into the work of two contemporary British novelists, Jim Crace and Simon Mawer, with a particula...

The Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer

Ukrajina mimo Západ

Many states do not see Western anti-Russian attitudes following the invasion of Ukraine as a given – only a minority of countries have ac...

Proč se většina světa nepřidala k podpoře Ukrajiny proti ruské agresi?

Bible, křesťanství a kultura

This book of essays came into the world thanks to a project coordinated by Petr Pokorný. The aim of the project was to examine the biblic...

Eseje k poctě prof. Petra Pokorného

The culture of neural networks

The possibilities of generated cultural production have undergone fundamental changes in recent years, leading to a rethinking of existin...

Synthetic literature and art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak context

Teorie zahálčivé třídy

The book is one of the most famous and most significant works in critical sociology. Veblen provides the first systematic analysis of the...

Ekonomická analýza institucí

Ancient Weeds

The handbooks of literary studies usually tell us that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern...

Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times

Malý český člověk a skvělý český národ

In this book, Ladislav Holý analyses the specific Czech discourse on national identity and the changing, yet still problematic, relations...

Národní identita a postkomunistická transformace společnosti