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Renaissance Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...
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£23,00
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Samizdat Past & Present
ISBN: PB: 9788024640334, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
250 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature – the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others – has, in fact,...
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£18,00
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Fragmented Lives Chronicles of the Gulag
ISBN: PB: 9788024637006, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Fragmented Lives", Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel ac...
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£14,00
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Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings
ISBN: PB: 9788024638690, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! With a focus on Spanish modality, this book presents Bohumil Zavadil's theoretical approach – the first such presentation in English – to this category and, consequently, analyzes its poss...
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£20,00
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Atlas of Religions in Czechia
ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...
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£30,00
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History of the Czech Lands Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9788024622279, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
650 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 80 halftones, 23 colour maps, 8 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Born January 1, 1993 after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside it...
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£40,00
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Studies of Homeric Greece
ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...
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£23,00
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Syntax-Semantics Interface
ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...
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£19,00
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Country House Revisited Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst
ISBN: PB: 9788024636726, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
178 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From "Howard's End" to "Brideshead Revisited", this book explores the leitmotif of the English country house in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, with a focus on the works of E....
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£14,00
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto
ISBN: HB: 9788024636993, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2018
212 pp., 19x14 cm, 30 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places – and even in the smallest of creatures. Set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, J. R. Pick's novella "Society for...
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£16,50
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