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A Book of Fans
Helena HoncoopovaCurrent price €37.39Original price €43.99The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in...
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A History of the Czech Lands
Jaroslav PanekCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99Born January 1, 1993, after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, th...
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A World Apart and Other Stories: Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle
KarolinumNakladatelstvi Univerzity KarlovyCzech RepublicCurrent price €17.81Original price €21.99A World Apart brings together translations of eight stories by Czech women from the turn of the twentieth centurya period of female political emanc...
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Antonín Raymond in Japan (19481976)
KarolinumNakladatelstvi Univerzity KarlovyCzech RepublicCurrent price €40.73Original price €41.99A study of the Raymond architectural studios work to help rebuild Japan after WWII.Antonín Raymond in Japan examines the life and work of Noémi (18...
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Art Nouveau Prague
Petr WittlichCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Prague has become one of Europesand the worldsmost popular tourist destinations. As in London, Pari...
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Behind the Lines: Bugulma and Other Stories
Jaroslav HasekCurrent price €21.05Original price €25.99Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Svejk, a series of absurdist...
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Beyond the World of Men: Womens Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle
KarolinumNakladatelstvi Univerzity KarlovyCzech RepublicCurrent price €17.81Original price €21.99An inclusive collection of modern Czech short fiction that features overlooked women writers. Bringing together Czech fiction published by women be...
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Cesky, Prosím II: Czech for Foreigners
Jitka CvejnovaCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99These new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requ...
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Charles IV: Portrait of a Medieval Ruler
Václav urekCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV. Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called one of the most le...
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Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund: Romance Languages Versus Czech (a Parallel Corpus-Based Study)
KarolinumNakladatelstvi Univerzity KarlovyCzech RepublicCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and...
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Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
Aspen BrintonCurrent price €20.23Original price €21.99Jan Patoka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intelle...
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Czech Dreambook
Ludvik VaculikCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50Its 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writers block. It has been ...
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Ear
Jan ProchazkaCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Soviet Czechoslovakia. A deputy minister in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Ludvík enjoy...
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End of the World: Poetry and Prose
Ivan M. JirousCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet Magor (which translates roughly to fool or madman), Ivan Jirous was one o...
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God''s Rainbow
Jaroslav DurychCurrent price €17.81Original price €21.99This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neithe...
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Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
KarolinumNakladatelstvi Univerzity KarlovyCzech RepublicCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning M...
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Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life
Josef JedlickaCurrent price €21.05Original price €25.99Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakias postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journeyof Our...
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Newton: Kosmos - Bios - Logos
Irena StepanovaCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world was shocked: it turned out that Newton's writings ...
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Nudging towards Health: A Tool to Influence Human Behavior in Health Policy
Frantiek OchranaCurrent price €33.22Original price €36.50An analysis of nudging as a tool for influencing human health behavior. Behavioral economics sees nudges as ways to encourage people to re-evaluate...
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Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015
Filip LabCurrent price €26.51Original price €33.99Pavel Diass work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and c...
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Philosophy En Noir
Miroslav PetricekCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar ...
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Plowshares into Swords
Vladislav VancuraCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Originally published in 1925, Plowshares into Swords is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav Vanura tells the story of the denizens of...
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Prague: A City and Its River
Katerina BeckovaCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlem...
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Renaissance Prague
Eliska FucikovaCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Pragues throne, the character of the citys municipalities...
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