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The Chattertooth Eleven

Eduard Bass' story from 1922, a classic of Czech literature, has been published in English (Karolinum 2008). The translation, distinctive...

The Iconography of Pristine Statehood

The history origins and development of government and state as an institution is an essential questionconcerning not only the history of ...

Painted pottery and seal impressions from Susa, southwestern Iran

The Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629–1786

At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to whic...

The Lesser Histories

From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own lif...

The Lexical Tones of Vietnamese Metropoles

The objective of this monograph is to describe differences in tone realization and perception between two major Vietnamese dialects: Hano...

The Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece

The Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece was one of the most important Gothic artists of the international style art in the European context. ...

The MicroBook - Clinical Microbiology for Medical Students

This textbook was designed to help students during their study of the extensive discipline of clinical microbiology. It can also serve as...

The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains

The book offers a summary of the social, economic and cultural aspects of metal mining in the Bohemian Erzgebirge. Individual chapters de...

in the Early Modern Period and Their Impact on Cultural History

The Natural Gas Conundrum

The study examines energy security in the Central Asia region, with an emphasis on the natural gas sector. The research presented in the ...

Transformation of the Central Asian Energy Security Complex after 1991

The Parisian Summit, 1377–78

The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeti...

Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

The Philosophy of Living Nature

The Philosophy of Living Nature is an English translation of Zdeněk Kratochvíl’s revised and updated book published in 1994 in Czech, a c...

The Pied Piper

For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-c...