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Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries Heritage and Development Strategies
ISBN: PB: 9788024636450, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. This book investigates the ramifications of...
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£15,00
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St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle
ISBN: HB: 9788024631295, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
550 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 315 colour plates, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle" is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemian kings and to this day is a leading Christian cathedral,...
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£56,50
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Signs from Silence Ur of the First Sumerians
ISBN: PB: 9788024631301, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 6 halftones, 148 line drawings, 15 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 and 1934...
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£30,00
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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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Saturnin
ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....
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£8,99
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£22,50
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Silver Judaica From the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788087366127, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2014
315 pp., 21.5x16.5 cm, 530 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Jewish Museum in Prague is home to a variety of silver Jewish ritual artifacts, from Kiddush cups, Hanukkah lamps, and Torah decorations, to the dozens of other objects used in observi...
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£22,50
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Spoken Sibe Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech
ISBN: PB: 9788024621036, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2013
212 pp., 24x17 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At present, the Sibe language is the only still-active oral variety of Manchu, the language of the indigenous tribe of Manchuria. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most wi...
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£19,00
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Sculpture of the Czech Art Nouveau
ISBN: HB: 9788024602356, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2001
431 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The English version of the major book from Petr Wittlich, which charts the crisis and development of Czech monumental sculpture at the turn of the 19th/20th century and explores the new de...
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£60,00
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