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Colloquial Czech

James Naughton
Colloquial Czech Book PDF

Author : James Naughton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317306061

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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.

The Czech Black Book

Historický ústav (Československá akademie věd)
The Czech Black Book Book PDF

Author : Historický ústav (Československá akademie věd)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : UOM:39015046414135

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The Czech Black Book by Historický ústav (Československá akademie věd) Pdf

This is an hour-by-hour account of the fall of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in 1968.

Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada

Jan Raska
Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada Book PDF

Author : Jan Raska
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555701

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Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada by Jan Raska Pdf

During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values. Diplomats, industrialists, politicians, professionals, workers, and students fled to the West in search of freedom, security, and economic opportunity. Jan Raska’s Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada explores how these newcomers joined or formed ethnocultural organizations to help in their attempts to affect developments in Czechoslovakia and Canadian foreign policy towards their homeland. Canadian authorities further legitimized the Czech refugees’ anti-communist agenda and increased their influence in Czechoslovak institutions. In turn, these organizations supported Canada’s Cold War agenda of securing the state from communist infiltration. Ultimately, an adherence to anti-communism, the promotion of Canadian citizenship, and the cultivation of a Czechoslovak ethnocultural heritage accelerated Czech refugees’ socioeconomic and political integration in Cold War Canada. By analyzing oral histories, government files, ethnic newspapers, and community archival records, Raska reveals how Czech refugees secured admission as desirable immigrants and navigated existing social, cultural, and political norms in Cold War Canada.

Czechs, Germans, Jews?

Kateřina Čapková
Czechs Germans Jews Book PDF

Author : Kateřina Čapková
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454744

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Czechs, Germans, Jews? by Kateřina Čapková Pdf

The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it was possible to change one's national identity or even to opt for more than one such identity without necessarily experiencing any far-reaching consequences in everyday life. Based on many hitherto unknown archival sources from the Czech Republic, Israel and Austria, the author's research reveals the inner dynamic of each of the national movements and maps out the three most important constructions of national identity within Bohemian Jewry - the German-Jewish, the Czech-Jewish and the Zionist. This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry.

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura
Summer of Caprice Book PDF

Author : Vladislav Vančura
Publisher : Karolinum Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788024611952

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Summer of Caprice by Vladislav Vančura Pdf

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.

Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic

Pat Lyons
Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic Book PDF

Author : Pat Lyons
Publisher : Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788073302962

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Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic by Pat Lyons Pdf

The book examines the origins, nature, and impact of different facets of political knowledge in the Czech Republic between 1967 and 2014. The central argument presented in this book is that evaluating citizens on the basis of objective, or factual, knowledge alone makes little sense. What citizens know about politics comes from a variety of sources that are complementary. This is the first detailed study of how much Czechs know about politics, and why it matters. Here are some of the key findings of this book. There are many forms of political knowledge.Citizens make decisions using different forms of political knowledge.Czechs knowledge of politics has remained constant over time.How people answer knowledge questions in surveys matters.Political knowledge is shaped by personality traits.Factual knowledge is linked with forecasting social change, but is not always linked with making correct voting.Experts with high levels of knowledge do not agree on what is a correct answer.

Czech Bluegrass

Lee Bidgood
Czech Bluegrass Book PDF

Author : Lee Bidgood
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050053

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Czech Bluegrass by Lee Bidgood Pdf

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.

A Czech Dreambook

Ludvík Vaculík
A Czech Dreambook Book PDF

Author : Ludvík Vaculík
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788024638522

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A Czech Dreambook by Ludvík Vaculík Pdf

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.

19 Knives

Mark Anthony Jarman
19 Knives Book PDF

Author : Mark Anthony Jarman
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0887846629

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19 Knives by Mark Anthony Jarman Pdf

With characters ranging from the desperate to the obsessive and wildly comic, Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives employs dazzling linguistic verve and staggering metaphoric powers in every sentence. Jarman doesn't just write about people. He puts us in their skin so that we feel their frailty and courage. No other contemporary Canadian short story writer slices up the imaginative excitement, cultural hybridity, and Joycean play of language we see in 19 Knives. Including one story shortlisted for the U.S.'s prestigious O. Henry Prize, and several other prize-winners, this collection brings a major emerging fiction writer to the fore.

The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation

Ladislav Holy
The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation Book PDF

Author : Ladislav Holy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521555841

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The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation by Ladislav Holy Pdf

When Ladislav Holy precipitately left Czechoslovakia for the UK in 1968 he was already one of the leading anthropologists in Central Europe. In the following decades he made important field studies in Africa. Since 1986 he has been engaged in research in the Czech Republic, and he brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyses Czech discourses on national identity. He argues that there were specifically 'Czech' aspects to the communist regime and to the 'velvet revolution', and paying particular attention to symbolic representations of what it means to be Czech, he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of communism, and the emergence of a new social system.

Contested Czech Cities

Michaela Pixová
Contested Czech Cities Book PDF

Author : Michaela Pixová
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813297098

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Contested Czech Cities by Michaela Pixová Pdf

This research was supported by Grant no. 14-24977P from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic as part of the project “Contested Czech cities: Citizen participation in post-socialist urban restructuring. This book focuses on urban grassroots movements in post-socialist Czechia and their struggle against unprofessional and nondemocratic urban processes in their cities. It shows that in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring, weakly consolidated democracy, and corporate capture of the local state, urban activists often resort to entering electoral competition as the only efficient way of improving the situation in their cities. The book is based on four case studies from different Czech cities, narrating stories of activists struggling against a controversial flood protection project, the demolition of public buildings, an unhealthy land-use plan, arrogant development, and overpriced city halls. It offers valuable insight into the obstacles created by institutionalized forms of power abuse which urban activists must deal with and discusses the pro-democratic potential of urban grassroot movements’ efforts to overcome their limited ability to influence political processes via standard means of civic engagement and protest activities.

A History of the Czech Lands

Jaroslav Pánek,Oldřich Tůma
A History of the Czech Lands Book PDF

Author : Jaroslav Pánek,Oldřich Tůma
Publisher : Karolinum Press, Charles University
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114477925

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A History of the Czech Lands by Jaroslav Pánek,Oldřich Tůma Pdf

Provides a systematic history from prehistory to the establishment of the Czech Republic.

Czech Feminisms

Iveta Jusová,Jirina Šiklová
Czech Feminisms Book PDF

Author : Iveta Jusová,Jirina Šiklová
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253021939

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Czech Feminisms by Iveta Jusová,Jirina Šiklová Pdf

Sixteen essays “apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society” (Aspasia). In this wide-ranging study of women’s and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech feminism. This collection of essays by leading scholars, artists, and activists, explores such topics as reproductive rights, state socialist welfare provisions, Czech women’s NGOs, anarchofeminism, human trafficking, LGBT politics, masculinity, feminist art, among others. Foregrounding experiences of women and sexual and ethnic minorities in the Czech Republic, the contributors raise important questions about the transfer of feminist concepts across languages and cultures. As the economic orthodoxy of the European Union threatens to occlude relevant stories of the different national communities comprising the Eurozone, this book contributes to the understanding of the diverse origins from which something like a European community arises. “While the collection demands that we understand Czech uniqueness, at the same time it is at its best when this uniqueness comes into focus through comparative study.” —Feminist Review “A colorful bouquet offering an overview of directions taken by Czech feminist scholarship since the 1990s.” —Slavic Review

The Czech Republic

Rick Fawn
The Czech Republic Book PDF

Author : Rick Fawn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135287306

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The Czech Republic by Rick Fawn Pdf

Czechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks. The fierce communist regime thereafter was brought down almost magically in 1989. Czechoslovakia added to the international political vocabulary the term, 'Velvet Revolution', and the velvet metaphor has characterised much of the country's path-breaking postcommunist transformation and its peaceful break-up in 1993. In separate chapters on history, politics, economics, foreign relations and the new Czech identity, this book not only applauds the successes of the Czech Republic since 1993, but also uncovers the frayed edges of the velvet nation.

Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train

Brian Czech
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train Book PDF

Author : Brian Czech
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520225147

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Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train by Brian Czech Pdf

Publisher Fact Sheet A bold critique of runaway spending & unchecked economic growth.