Myths and Traditions of Central European University Culture, Paperback - Lukás Fasora

By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Luk s Fasora and Jiř Hanus take a diachronic approach to ...

Reducere. Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural...

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s,...

Reducere. In 2009, George Soros delivered a series of lectures at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, which provided a broad overview of hi...

A collection of Jan Neruda's intimated, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth ce...

In Avala Is Falling, Jovanovic's breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers and doctor...

Writing on Water is an attempt to grasp the phenomenon of sound in prayer, that is: a meaning in sounds and soundscapes, and a musical essence in t...

Reducere. This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed middle-class Jewish pr...

Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines...

Reducere. The Coming Spring (Przedwiosnie), Zeromski's last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then...

A modern guide to the art of blacksmithingPublisher: Quadrille Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Alex PoleIllustration(s): Full colour photography throughou...

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 ...

Reducere. Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz's work is familiar to every Polish reader, yet remains unknown to the outside world. The stories in this selection were all w...

Reducere. Forgacs examines the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture and applied design by focusing on the idea of the Bauhaus, rather than on it...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Alfrun (Professor of West Slavonic Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt University of Berlin) ...

This monograph discusses Portuguese eugenics within a strong international historiographical comparative framework and situates it within different...

The renowned historian Ivan Berend discusses populist demagoguery through the presentation of 18 politicians from 12 European countries from World ...

Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this c...

After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international financial institution, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)...

This collective volume enhances the discourse on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. The Balkans offer classic ...

This volume examines the legacy of the East-West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely bee...

Despite an increase in the number of EU and government initiatives in their favor, the situation of Roma in Europe has only worsened.

This collection of essays offers an analysis of the roots of the armed conflicts in the Donbas region of Ukraine, by exploring local society and tr...

Reducere. In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way Fidesz, the party on government for the first time then, was eliminating the institutional system...

Publisher: Central European University PressIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175...

This book illuminates a set of crisis and conflicts that marked the 1920s and 1930s in the area between the Baltic and the Black Seas, demonstratin...

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes this is the most co...

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes this is the most co...

Reducere. Chocolate cake makes sweet dreams come true. In a real-life fairy tale, author Sheryl Ness shares how she fell in love with Vincenzo, a chef in a q...

In this volume, leading social scientists, empirical analysts, and policy practitioners demonstrate the various ways in which the insights of J nos...

Reducere. An autobiographical account of the armed resistance against the Soviet Union, which took place between 1944-1956. Published in English for the firs...