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Potomnost

The central theme of this book, written by Gerhard Richter, a professor of German studies and comparative literature at Brown University,...

Figury následování v moderním myšlení a estetice

Metrická společnost

The ubiquitous language of evaluation and scoring has fundamentally altered our perception of values and status. The rise of quantificati...

O kvantifikaci sociálna

Italská opera v mozartovské Praze

This book focuses on one of the key periods in the history of theater in Prague, the peak years of the Italian opera, 1781–1785, which ha...

Kritika rozvoje

For over one hundred years, development has been a positive defining influence on our society. It is the starting point which is referred...

Od kolonialismu k postrozvojové praxi

On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle

“I love Christmas, that Muslim holiday.” (K. Biebl) In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) travelled from ...

Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

Dějiny ruské moderny

This literary historical work by Miluše Zadražilová, a scholar of Russian studies (1937–2012), is the result of her lifelong professional...

Pokus o rekonstrukci

Biologie člověka pro učitele

A new edition of the successful textbook, Human Biology for Teachers. The scholar gradually expounds on the basics of the anatomy and phy...

Psychiatrie a pedopsychiatrie

Psychiatry and Pedopsychiatry presents a comprehensive view of the field. It especially elaborates on pedopsychiatry in detail, which is ...

Principy reprezentativní vlády

Many of us would consider representative government to be a near synonym for democracy. In his study, French political scientist Bernard ...

Estetika ambiguity

Remaining in ambiguity is at the root of how we experience art works. The ambiguity is inherent in the genre and content, in the movement...

Souhrnné texty z chemie pro přípravu k přijímacím zkouškám II.

The second volume of this chemistry textbook is intended for foreign and Czech students who are preparing for the study of medicine, phar...

Dějiny Polska

Polish historian Marceli Kosman (* 1940), a professor of history and political sciences at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, is o...