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Baroque Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024643762, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
330 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 200 colour plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Baroque Prague" is a lavish excursion through Prague's important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the...
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£24,00
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Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects
ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...
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£16,00
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Czech Dreambook
ISBN: PB: 9788024638522, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvik Vaculik has writer's block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powe...
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£21,00
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Epistemic Modality in Standard Spoken Tibetan Epistemic Verbal Endings and Copulas
ISBN: PB: 9788024635880, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest in the world, and standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken language in the Tibetic group. A comprehensive introduction to epistemic...
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£22,50
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Summer of Caprice
ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...
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£8,99
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£22,50
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Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People
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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£15,00
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Around the Globe Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists
ISBN: PB: 9788024622262, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this unusual and important new work, Miroslav Vanek interviews twelve experts on oral history to discuss the medium's current status within the social sciences in light of recent techno...
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£15,00
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Mathematics for Economists Made Simple
ISBN: PB: 9788024616575, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
364 pp., 23x15 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! As the field of economics becomes ever more specialized and complicated, so does the mathematics required of economists. With "Mathematics for Economists", expert mathematician Viatcheslav...
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£20,00
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