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Krajiny

The publication presents a selection of Jaroslav J. Alt painting and graphic work from his later years (1980–2023). The artworks are inte...

Saturnin - francouzsky (paperback)

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best-seller. This is entirely appropriate, for while Saturnin draws on a tra...

Slovenské dráhy 1918–1948

Rail transport in Slovakia saw a dramatic development in the first half of the 20th century. Historians Miroslav Sabol and Ľudovít Hallon...

Wenceslas IV

In dramatic circumstances on the hot summer day of 16 August 1419, Bohemian king Wenceslas IV died at Nový hrádek near Kunratice, away fr...

King of the Romans and of Bohemia and the Origins of the Hussite Revolution

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)

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

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...

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?

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...

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