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Jandavlattepa, Vol. I
Central Asia became a forefront of international archaeological research early in the 1990s. Several respected archaeological teams gradually established their projects throughout …
Quantum Anthropology
Quantum Anthropology offers a fresh look at humans, cultures, and societies that builds on advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum …
In Quest of History
In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments …
Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914 97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that …
Czech Dreambook
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 …
Rus-Ukraine-Russia
An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he …
Signs from Silence
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 …
Why I Write?
"e;Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity."e; New Yorker A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and …
Country House Revisited
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 …
Trial by Theatre
The motto "e;Narod sobe"e;-"e;From the Nation to Itself"e;-inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater …
Bohumil Hrabal
Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "e;one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar …