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Product Description: A CZECH-ENGLISH PARALLEL-TEXT CONCISE NOVEL First published in Prague in 1922, this dark concise novel by Michal Mares (1893-1971), set in the Czechoslovakia of his day, explores, with anarchist undertones, the place of women in society...read more
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9780956889003 | Gardners Books, June 1, 2011, cover price $11.25 | About this edition: A CZECH-ENGLISH PARALLEL-TEXT CONCISE NOVEL First published in Prague in 1922, this dark concise novel by Michal Mares (1893-1971), set in the Czechoslovakia of his day, explores, with anarchist undertones, the place of women in society.
Product Description: A wildly comic story about the fate of a Czech family from the 1960s onwards. At turns humorous, ironic, and sentimental, an engaging portrait of their attempts to flee from history (meaning the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia) - or at least to ignore it as long as possible...read more
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9780993377327 | Jantar Pub, March 27, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A wildly comic story about the fate of a Czech family from the 1960s onwards.
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9781444106015 | Hodder & Stoughton, December 31, 2010, cover price $40.65
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9781851093045 | Abc-Clio Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $110.00
Product Description: Book by Short, David
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9781851090112 | Abc-Clio Inc, August 1, 1986, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Book by Short, David
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9780866533249 | Workbook edition (Good Apple, June 1, 1985), cover price $7.95
Product Description: Prague-born Karel Michal (1932â84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakiaâs oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man, he fruitlessly cycled through a number of professions before finally turning to writing in the early 1960s...read more
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9788024614946 | Karolinum, September 15, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Prague-born Karel Michal (1932â84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakiaâs oppressive communist regime.
Product Description: Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as the children are left to fend for themselves, order and routine quickly give way to brutality and chaos, and Ilya finds himself drawn into the violence...read more
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9781846271625 | Reprint edition (Ingram Pub Services, August 1, 2013), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Czechoslovakia, 1968.
9781846271618 | Italian edition edition (Granta Books, May 6, 2010), cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Czechoslovakia, 1968.
Product Description: Documenting the history of Hertfordshire county, this recent compilation captures an immense amount of research with maps, demographic reports, industrial development layouts, and more. Though other English counties have similarly researched statistics, this is the first for Hertfordshire county...read more
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9780954218966 | Univ of Hertfordshire Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Documenting the history of Hertfordshire county, this recent compilation captures an immense amount of research with maps, demographic reports, industrial development layouts, and more.
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9780877625742 | Technomic Pub Co, May 1, 1988, cover price $35.00
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9780199609642 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2011), cover price $17.95
Product Description: It is a Christ-like act to befriend a sick or a lonely person: this book is a wonderfully useful guide to giving the most you can by your visits. Written by authors with long pastoral experience, it will prove a real help to all those who seek to turn the routine visit into a time of real spiritual growth...read more
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9781845500160 | Reprint edition (Christian Focus, January 7, 2005), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: It is a Christ-like act to befriend a sick or a lonely person: this book is a wonderfully useful guide to giving the most you can by your visits.
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9788024614472 | 1 edition (Karolinum, February 15, 2008), cover price $20.00
Product Description: Pools & Spas: Ideas for Planning, Designing, and Landscaping, offers ideas and advice through the complete process from pool/spa selection to creating an attractive landscaping environment. Over 300 inviting color photos and illustrations show the many options from infinity-edge pools to indoor swim spas; from built-ins to attractive above-ground pools...read more
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9781580110808 | Creative Homeowner Pr, October 28, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Pools & Spas: Ideas for Planning, Designing, and Landscaping, offers ideas and advice through the complete process from pool/spa selection to creating an attractive landscaping environment.
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9781580115339 | Creative Homeowner Pr, February 6, 2012, cover price $19.95
9781580113915 | 2 edition (Creative Homeowner Pr, February 1, 2008), cover price $21.95
Product Description: Prague, I see a city... is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in search of her true identity. Suffused with the atmosphere immediately following the end of the Communist regime, Hodrova's novel is a conscious addition to the tradition of Prague literary texts by, for example, Karel Hynek Macha, Jakub Arbes, Gustav Meyrink, and Franz Kafka, who present the city as a hostile living creature, or as a labyrinthine place of magic and mystery, in which the individual human being may easily get lost...read more
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9780956889065, titled "Prague, I See a City" | Jantar Pub, August 9, 2015, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Prague, I see a city.
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9780956889010 | Gardners Books, June 16, 2011, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: Prague, I see a city.
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9788024632865 | Reprint edition (Karolinum, October 15, 2016), cover price $12.00
Product Description: Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by the time of his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation’s greatest twentieth-century writers...read more
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9788024623160 | Karolinum, April 15, 2014, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties.
Product Description: Seen as a precursor to works such as Huxley's Brave New World, this true classic of the dystopian genre remains all too resonant in today's political climate Determined to liberate the mass-produced but highly intelligent robots forged in the machinery of Rossum's island factory, Helena Glory arrives in a blaze of righteousness only to find herself perplexed and set aback by the robots' seeming humanity but absolute lack of sentience...read more
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9781843914594 | Hesperus Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Seen as a precursor to works such as Huxley's Brave New World, this true classic of the dystopian genre remains all too resonant in today's political climate Determined to liberate the mass-produced but highly intelligent robots forged in the machinery of Rossum's island factory, Helena Glory arrives in a blaze of righteousness only to find herself perplexed and set aback by the robots' seeming humanity but absolute lack of sentience.
Product Description: For a decade, we have admired the incisive and broadly informed works of Ladislav Tondl on the foundations of science. Now it is indeed a pleasure to include this book among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. We hope that it will help to deepen the collaborative scholar ship of scientists and philosophers in Czechoslovakia with the English reading scholars of the world...read more
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9789027701473 | Springer Verlag, December 31, 1972, cover price $249.00 | About this edition: For a decade, we have admired the incisive and broadly informed works of Ladislav Tondl on the foundations of science.
Product Description: Simple Guide to Customs & Etiquette in the Czech Republic, as with all titles in this series, offers the reader a unique focus on the customs, etiquette and way of life in the newly emerging Czech Republic, providing a wealth of 'insider' knowledge in an easily accessed, pocket book format...read more
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9781860340758 | Paul Norbury, March 1, 1997, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Simple Guide to Customs & Etiquette in the Czech Republic, as with all titles in this series, offers the reader a unique focus on the customs, etiquette and way of life in the newly emerging Czech Republic, providing a wealth of 'insider' knowledge in an easily accessed, pocket book format.
Product Description: It's easy to teach yourself Czech! Complete Czech: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Czech, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Czech with confidence...read more
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9780071767088 | 3 blg edition (McGraw-Hill, April 22, 2011), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: It's easy to teach yourself Czech!
Product Description: Are you looking for a complete course in Czech which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Czech will guarantee success!Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive...read more
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9781444106916 | Pck pap/co edition (Teach Yourself, November 26, 2010), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Are you looking for a complete course in Czech which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker?
Product Description: It's easy to teach yourself Czech! Complete Czech: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Czech, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Czech with confidence...read more
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9780071767071 | 3 box pap/ edition (McGraw-Hill, May 10, 2011), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: It's easy to teach yourself Czech!
CD/Spoken Word:
9780071430425 | Subsequent edition (Teach Yourself, April 1, 2004), cover price $27.95
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