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The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemia...

The Country House Revisited

This monograph provides an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with a focus on the ...

Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

The Cremator (paperback)

“The devil’s neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.” It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and per...

The Defence of Constitutionalism

More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk’s study The Czech Question, Czech politics has becom...

The Czech Question in Post-national Europe

The Development, Conceptualisation and Implementation of Quality in Disability Support Services

Social services for people with disabilities have undergone substantial changes over time, in particular in the past two decades. Whilst ...

The Etiology of Mental Disorders

The textbook consists of three sections. The first offers a general overview of factors important to the etiology of mental disorders, pa...

Concise, Clear and Synoptical

The Evolution Myth

The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and ...

or The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong

The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind

What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems ...

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...