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Poetry

Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition

Hrdlicka Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...

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Travel

Education

Prague University Town

Petran Josef, Petranova Lydia

ISBN: PB: 9788024640532, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
216 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 141 colour plates, 1 halftone,

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petran and Lydia Petranova guide us through the history and architecture of Prague's diverse univers...

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Philosophy

Philosophy en noir

Petricek Miroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024638539, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to u...

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Fiction

Pied Piper

Dyk Viktor

ISBN: PB: 9788024634401, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
125 pp., 19x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For "The Pied Piper", Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for hi...

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Political Science

Public Policy A Comprehensive Introduction

Potucek Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635569, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potucek draws...

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Landscape Architecture

Prague Gardens and Parks

Pacakova-Hostalkova Bozena

ISBN: PB: 9788024634227, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
260 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 145 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The design of Prague's gardens and parks – especially the green spaces of its palaces, castles, and monastery complexes, both private and public – is inseparable from the millennium-long e...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard

Bouzek Jan, Militky Jiri, Taneva Valentina, Domaradzka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024633015, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
246 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 57 colour plates, 12 maps, 46 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long co...

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Europe

Travel

Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since 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 settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Living Nature

Kratochvil Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024631318, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Philosophy of Living Nature" focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to physis, or nature. Zdenek Kratochvil reveals, on a philosophical level, the roots of tod...

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Europe

Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378

Royt Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024631325, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "The Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378", Czech professor of art history Jan Royt renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom during the High Gothic period, presenting the...

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