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| Author | : James Naughton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 478 |
| Release | : 2015-08-14 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1317306066 |
Download Colloquial Czech Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Colloquial Czech provides a step-by-step course in Czech as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Czech in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Czech will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Czech. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
| Author | : Michael Henry Heim |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
Download Contemporary Czech Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Historický ústav (Československá akademie věd) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Czechoslovakia |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Czech Black Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an hour-by-hour account of the fall of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in 1968.
| Author | : Lee Bidgood |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2017-09-11 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0252050053 |
Download Czech Bluegrass Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music’s emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities. Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that merges intimate immersion in the music with on-the-ground fieldwork informed by his life as a working musician. Drawing on his own close personal and professional interactions, Bidgood charts how Czech bluegrass put down roots and looks at its performance as a uniquely Czech musical practice. He also reflects on “Americanist” musical projects and the ways Czech musicians use them to construct personal and social identities. Bidgood sees these acts of construction as a response to the Czech Republic’s postsocialist environment but also to US cultural prominence within our global mediascape.
| Author | : Ludvík Vaculík |
| Publisher | : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8024638525 |
Download A Czech Dreambook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his last novel, and even longer since he wrote the 1968 manifesto, "Two Thousand Words,” which the Soviet Union used as one of the pretexts for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of a friend, Vaculík begins to keep a diary: "a book about things, people and events.” Fifty-four weeks later, what Vaculík has written is a unique mixture of diary, dream journal, and outright fiction – an inverted roman à clef in which the author, his family, his mistresses, the secret police and leading figures of the Czech underground play major roles.
| Author | : Vladislav Vančura |
| Publisher | : Karolinum Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2006-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8024611953 |
Download Summer of Caprice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vladislav Vancura's Summer of Caprice is commonly considered untranslatable. The playful style of the narrative, the level of language mastering and also the development of the metatextual context of the last 80 years together form this unmistakable classic of Czech literature. Looking from this perspective our English edition is an experiment, thanks to the translation by Mark Corner on one side which inevitably - as every other translation - is an interpretation, and the original illustrations by Jiri Grus and the typography by Zdenek Ziegler on the other side. However, it is an experiment aiming to present an understanding of Czech spirit, humour and way of life.
| Author | : Brian Czech |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780520225145 |
Download Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Publisher Fact Sheet A bold critique of runaway spending & unchecked economic growth.
| Author | : M. Mark Stolarik |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2017-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9633861543 |
Download The Czech and Slovak Republics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries. This is the only English-language volume that presents the synoptic findings of leading Czech, Slovak, and North American scholars in the field.The authors include two former Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, eight leading scholars (four Czechs and four Slovaks), and eight knowledgeable commentators from North America. The most significant new insight is that in spite of predictions by various pundits in the Western World that Czechia would flourish after the breakup and Slovakia would languish, the opposite has happened. While the Czech Republic did well in its early years, it is now languishing while Slovakia, which had a rough start, is now doing very well. Anyone interested in the history of the Czech and Slovak Republics over the last twenty years will find gratification in reading this book.
| Author | : Astrid Lorenz |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2020-04-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030400069 |
Download Czech Democracy in Crisis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Democracy theories and comparative political science have been challenged within the last decade by an unexpected democratic deficit and the rise of populism in the new EU-member states. This volume written by German and Czech scholars gives some food for thought for solving these research problems by means of thorough analyses of the polity, the politics and selected policies of the Czech Republic since 1990."Dieter Segert, retired Professor of Political Science (Area Studies on Eastern Europe), University of Vienna, Austria "Czech Democracy in Crisis is a long-overdue comprehensive study of the Czech political system. Using institutional approaches to change, it explores crucial policy outcomes. A perfect book for academics and practitioners who want to understand the challenges of democratic consolidation in a new democracy."Lenka Bustikova, Associate Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, USA, and author of Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe The image of the Czechs as a poster child of democratization has changed into a crisis narrative in recent years. This edited volume traces this change and examines the suitability of different theories to explain developments in Czech democracy. The contributors, all renowned experts in their fields, offer well-founded and compact insights into the post-1989 Czech political system. They cover political institutions and parties; civil society; the media; and selected policy areas such as foreign, economic, migration and regional policy. The book takes into account processes of democratization and Europeanization, explaining the political picture at various stages of development. Finding that many of today’s problems—fragmented political parties, government instability, inefficient state administration and low quality of governance—have not been new developments but have constantly existed, the authors present a plea for theoretical adjustments that should be read by all academics, students, practitioners and readers with an interest in Czech politics and society.
| Author | : Aviezer Tucker |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2000-08-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0822972131 |
Download The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2001Theory meets practice in The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel, a critical study of the philosophy and political practice of the Czech dissident movement Charter 77. Aviezer Tucker examines how the political philosophy of Jan Patocka (1907-1977), founder of Charter 77, influenced the thinking and political leadership of Vaclav Havel as dissident and president. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel is the first serious treatment of Havel as philosopher and Patocka as a political thinker. Through the Charter 77 dissident movement in Czechoslovakia, opponents of communism based their civil struggle for human rights on philosophic foundations, and members of the Charter 77 later led the Velvet Revolution. After Patocka's self-sacrifice in 1977, Vaclav Havel emerged a strong philosophical and political force, and he continued to apply Patocka's philosophy in order to understand the human condition under late communism and the meaning of dissidence. However, the political/philosophical orientation of the Charter 77 movement failed to provide President Havel with an adequate basis for comprehending and responding to the extraordinary political and economic problems of the postcommunist period. In his discussion of Havel's presidency and the eventual corruption of the Velvet Revolution, Tucker demonstrates that the weaknesses in Charter 77 member's understanding of modernity, which did not matter while they were dissidents, seriously harmed their ability to function in a modern democratic system. Within this context, Tucker also examines Havel's recent attempt to topple the democratic but corrupt government in 1997-1998. The Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel will be of interest to students of philosophy and politics, scholars and students of Slavic studies, and historians, as well as anyone fascinated by the nature of dissidence.
