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ISBN: HB: 9788024625188, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.4x22.8 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in fan-shaped pictures, which blossomed fro...
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£34,00
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Midway on Our Life's Journey
ISBN: HB: 9788024631271, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
150 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...
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£19,00
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Pavel Dias, Photographs 1956-2015
ISBN: PB: 9788024630175, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
258 pp., 29.2x19 cm, 180 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Pavel Dias's work forms one of the touchstones of Czech journalistic and documentary photography. Working at a time when the stiffness of form and content called for by Soviet ideology was...
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£26,50
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Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612
ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...
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£20,00
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From Syntax to Text The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9788024628790, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuše Duškova...
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£26,50
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From Iberian Romani to Iberian Para-Romani Varieties
ISBN: PB: 9788024629360, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 3 halftones, 25 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Linguistic contact between Romani and Spanish, Catalan and other languages of the Iberian Peninsula began in the first half of the fifteenth century. This contact resulted in the emergence...
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£19,00
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Czech Law in Historical Contexts
ISBN: PB: 9788024628608, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The legal system of the present-day Czech Republic cannot be understood without sufficient knowledge of its historical roots and evolution. Kuklik traces the development of Czech law from...
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£22,50
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Newton Kosmos – Bios – Logos
ISBN: PB: 9788024623795, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2015
170 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world was shocked: it turned out that Newton's writings in physics and mathematics, often conside...
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£13,50
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Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 The Sudeten Question and the Transformation of Central Europe
ISBN: PB: 9788024621449, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2015
450 pp., 24.1x17.5 cm, 15 halftones, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Czechs and Germans 1848-2004", Vaclav Houzvicka describes the development of the Czech-German national controversies from the mid-nineteenth century through the establishing of the Cze...
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£17,99
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Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629-1786
ISBN: PB: 9788024626765, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
200 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 30 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to which the Irish Franciscans fled, the Prague Franciscan...
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£22,50
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