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Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...
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£16,00
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Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...
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£34,00
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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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Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard
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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£26,50
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Prague A City and Its River
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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£20,00
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Beyond Decadence Exposing the Narrative Irony in Jan Opolsky's Prose
ISBN: PB: 9788024625713, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
300 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 4 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter...
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£22,50
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Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja From Aluk Todolo to "New" Religions
ISBN: PB: 9788024622286, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
170 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 40 halftones, 3 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Sa'dan Toraja are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This rigorous academic study by noted expert Michaela Budiman examines the deep cultural shif...
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£19,00
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Chattertooth Eleven
ISBN: HB: 9788024615738, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2009
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 36 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a former singer and cabaret director from Prague published a novel about soccer. Eighty-six year...
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£19,00
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Archaeological Atlas of Prehistoric Europe (Archeologicky Atlas Evropy)
ISBN: HB + CD: 9788024607740, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2009
724 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, 827 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A collaborative effort of the Archaeological Institutes of the universities of Prague and Vienna, "Atlas of the Prehistoric Archaeology of Europe" documents the spread of prehistoric cultu...
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£94,00
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