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Why I Write?

This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal put it, “the moment ...

And Other Early Prose Pieces

Studentské hnutí odporu

The personality of Josef Šárka (1918–2008) is connected with significant milestones in the fight against totalitarian regimes in Czechosl...

Hodnocení ve školní tělesné výchově a postoje žáků k pohybové aktivitě

This book focuses on the assessment of physical education, attitudes of students to this school subject, their motor performance, the fam...

Trial by Theatre

The motto Národ sobě – “From the Nation to Itself” – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague’s National Theatre symbolizes the impor...

Reports on Czech Drama

Sto studentských revolucí

This book presents the unique testimony of hundreds of student participants in the November 1989 Revolution, which it uses to depict life...

Studenti v období pádu komunismu – životopisná vyprávění

Meziválečná česká a slovenská žurnalistika (1918–1938)

To this day, the period between the two world wars in Czechoslovakia is associated with the idea of a flourishing democracy, economy and ...

Antropologie turismu

“Anthropology of tourism” is a relatively new sub-discipline and thematic area of socio-cultural anthropology, which is being gradually e...

Ženy (a muži) ve zpravodajských redakcích

In the Czech environment, this publication is the first comprehensive look at a number of the factors that affect the situation of male a...

Mediální instituce pohledem genderových mediálních studií

In Quest of History

On the centennial of the Czechs gaining their independence, award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvížďala and Cardiff-based philosopher o...

On Czech Statehood and Identity

Husitství a husité

This book presents 16 previously published papers, which have been revised and expanded to include new findings, thus reflecting the curr...

Bohumil Hrabal

Described as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century,” Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely transla...

A Full-length Portrait

The Velvet Revolution 30 Years After

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution brought down the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, this book uses interviews, photographs, and...