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Christianity

Europe

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

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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Europe

History of the Czech Lands Second Edition

Panek Jaroslav, Tuma Oldrich

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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

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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Linguistics

Syntax-Semantics Interface

Hajicova Eva

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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Literary Criticism

Country House Revisited Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

Topolovska Tereza

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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Fiction

Jewish Studies

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A Humorous – Insofar as That Is Possible – Novella from the Ghetto

Pick J. R.

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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Europe

Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank

Drapal Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024637303, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Her...

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Europe

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Ira Jaroslav, Janac Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024635903, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...

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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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Europe

Exile in London The Experience of Czechoslovakia and the Other Occupied Nations, 1939-1945

Smetana Vit, Geaney Kathleen Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9788024637013, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historian...

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