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Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People

Vagnerova Marie, Csemy Ladislav, Marek Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024625171, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
320 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 27 line drawings, 2 maps, 79 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The chronically homeless face a stark reality: lack of access to support systems, adequate shelter, and sustenance, with little hope for something better. For young people, however, life o...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints

Neslehova Mahulena

ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...

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Evolution

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

Mejsnar Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024625201, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
150 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 8 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published "On the...

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Music

Prague Soundscapes

Jurkova Zuzana

ISBN: PB: 9788024625157, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
340 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 64 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dvorak's opera Rusalka at the National Theatre. A punk concert in an underground club. The hypnotic chanting of Hare Krishnas joyfully dancing through the streets. These are the sounds of...

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Business & Economics

Generalized Microeconomics

Hlavacek Jiri, Hlavacek Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024620244, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
208 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 71 graphs, 7 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The generalization of microeconomics enables model descriptions of economic rationality, even in fields that standard microeconomics more or less avoids, like nonprofit sectors of market e...

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Philosophy

Cur homo? A History of the Thesis of Man as a Replacement for Fallen Angels

Novotny Vojtech

ISBN: PB: 9788024625195, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Examining, outlining, elucidating, and supplementing the existing body of scholarship concerning the medieval theological supposition that man was created as a replacement for fallen angel...

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Other

Basic Czech I Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623344, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech. The first volume presents the basics of the Czech language by mean...

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Other

Basic Czech II Third Revised and Updated Edition

Adamovicova Ana, Ivanovova Darina

ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024625140, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2014
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech".Basic Czech" II is structured similarly, but it moves students fro...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Czech Action Art Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain

Morganova Pavlina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623177, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

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Fiction

Of Mice and Mooshaber

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: HB: 9788024622163, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Ladislav Fuks (1923-1994) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is be...

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