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    From Praha to Prague
    From Praha to Prague ab 33.49 € als Taschenbuch: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Sojourn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
    The Sojourn, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and inaugural Chautauqua Prize, is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy. A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author’s own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amidst the unfolding tragedy in Europe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004001/bk_adbl_004001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Czech American Timeline
    Czech American Timeline ab 38.99 € als Taschenbuch: Chronology of Milestones in the History of Czechs in America. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Ungefähre Hauptrichtung
    In diesem Band sind Texte und Gespräche der letzten 20 Jahre versammelt. Sie schließen an die Auswahl von theoretischen Texten Hermann Czechs aus dem Jahr 1996 an, die ebenfalls im Löcker Verlag als erweiterte Neuausgabe des ursprünglichen Bandes "Zur Abwechslung" aus dem Jahr 1977 erschienen ist.Hermann Czech hat seit den frühen 60er Jahren ein umfangreiches und kaum überschaubares Konvolut an architekturtheoretischen und -kritischen Schriften verfasst; in Tageszeitungen, Magazinen, Themenbänden und als Vorträge, Lektionen sowie in zahllosen Interviews und Gesprächen eröffnet er als einer der wenigen bauenden Architekten dieses Landes weiterhin ein theoretisches Gebäude, das durch den nun geplanten dritten Band bis in die Gegenwart reicht.Er setzt damit die Tradition eines Adolf Loos, eines Josef Frank fort, und zusammen mit Kollegen wie Friedrich Kurrent und Friedrich Achleitner (um nur zwei Beispiele zu nennen) bilden diese Schriften die gedanklich theoretische Basis für die heutige Architektengeneration, die mit Beiträgen und Lehrtätigkeit von Sigrid Hauser, Otto Kapfinger, Adolf Krischanitz , Christian Kühn und einigen anderen weiteres theoretisch kritisches Unterfutter erhält, um die Zukunft der Menschen lebenswert und nachhaltig mittels Architektur mitzugestalten.Ein Begriffs- und Namenregister erschließen das Buch auch von dieser Seite.
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    Beyond the Sea of Beer
    Beyond the Sea of Beer ab 56.49 € als Taschenbuch: History of Immigration of Bohemians and Czechs to the New World and Their Contributions. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Expatriate Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
    A young American learns invaluable life lessons through basketball. When Dave Fromm graduated from college with good grades and high LSAT scores, he planned to apply to law school. But he actually wasn't that sure he wanted to go, at least not right away. A few years earlier, he'd been to Prague for a vacation and played a game of pickup basketball there. He was a decent basketball player, though not good enough to make the team at Boston College either time he'd tried out. So he did the kind of thing we'd all do if we had the guts (and a foolhardy sense of determination) - he moved to Prague to play basketball, even though he didn't speak Czech, or know anyone in Prague, or if the Czechs had basketball leagues there, much less professional leagues, still less if they let foreigners play. Expatriate Games is Dave Fromm's touching and amusing memoir of the year (1994) he spent playing basketball for TJ Sokol Krlovsk Vinohrady, a Czech semi-pro team. Throughout, Fromm, a self-proclaimed "gym-rat", struggles with his teammates, the European style of play, and the language barrier. But miraculously, Fromm describes how, despite the struggles, the team came together, a girl appeared, and he was introduced to a side of Prague most foreigners can't see - a Prague full of ghosts and back alleys and a people simultaneously embracing and reeling from transition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Gage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008689/bk_adbl_008689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Czech American Bibliography
    Czech American Bibliography ab 22.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Comprehensive Listing with Focus on the Us and with Appendices on Czechs in Canada and Latin America. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia: The History and Legacy of the Multiethnic Nations That Split Apart after the Cold War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 338min
    On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Thus ended one of the creations brought about by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, and as a country that had existed for just under 75 years, Czechoslovakia spent most of its time under the tyranny of fascism or communism.The country’s origins go back far longer than the 1910s, and they were complex and convoluted. The very geography of central Europe meant this territory had been conquered and occupied many times, and for much of the modern era, it belonged to much larger empires. Two distinct ethnicities had come to make up the bulk of the territory’s inhabitants: the Czechs and the Slovaks.Czechoslovakia’s split was mostly peaceful. Although nominally all “Slavs”, the country was an amalgamation of languages, alphabets, cultures, religions, and traditions, which ensured its short existence was littered with splits, conflicts, and shocking violence. In a sense, it’s somewhat surprising that it lasted as long as it did.In the wake of World War I, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, came into existence with a monarch as its head of state. Confirmed at the 1919 Versailles Conference, the “first” Yugoslavia was a particularly fragile enterprise, and there was almost constant tension between the majority Serbs and the other Yugoslav nationalities, especially the Croats. the Kingdom was a land of political assassinations, underground terrorist organizations, and ethnic animosities. In 1929, King Alexander I suspended democracy and ruled as a dictator until he himself was assassinated in 1934.The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was particularly vulnerable to the forces that engulfed the rest of Europe at the end of the 1930s. When the Axis forces attacked in 1941, the country quickly capitulated and was dismembered by the Nazis and their allies. A separate Croatian state was formed, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156989/bk_acx0_156989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Good Soldier Svejk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1724min
    The Good Soldier Švejk, written shortly after the First World War, is one of the great antiwar satires - and one of the funniest books of the 20th (or any) century. In creating his eponymous hero, Jaroslav Hašek produced an unforgettable character who charms and infuriates and bamboozles his way through the conflagration that tore through the heart of Europe, upending empires and changing social history. It is the closing period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination at Sarajevo has just occurred, and armies are on the march. Švejk, a seller of dogs of dubious provenance, ends up in gaol (the first of a number of such occasions) and then in a Czech battalion in the Austrian army. He becomes batman to a chaplain (who likes the bottle) and batman to Lieutenant Lukas, who is swiftly driven to despair; he causes havoc wherever he goes (inexplicably ending up being sentenced to death while wearing a Russian uniform), yet never losing an opportunity tell a story, an anecdote, a history, present an explanation: “Humbly to report, sir...” And the war rumbles on, with hints of the hideousness and slaughter emerging, sometimes all the more vivid because they appear almost between the lines. Jaroslav Hašek, was, like his subject, often on the sidelines of society - an anarchist, a communist, a vagrant, a humourist and writer; women and the bottle and sleight of hand all played parts in his life, and he died at the early age of 39 in penury and obscurity. His masterwork was left unfinished - appropriately, in a curious way, because of its episodic and wayward nature. Not that it matters! In this masterly and very funny reading, David Horovitch brings Švejk and his companions and compatriots to life, balancing subtle satire with out and out slapstick as we encounter Czechs, Hungarians, Russians, Italians and more from this potpourri of people and events. The Good Soldier Švejk is presented in the outstanding transla ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Horovitch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000233/bk_dhrm_000233_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: The History of the Central European Nation from Its Founding to Its Breakup , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 148min
    On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Thus ended one of the creations brought about by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, and as a country that had existed for just under 75 years, Czechoslovakia spent most of its time under the tyranny of fascism or communism.Of course, the country’s origins go back far longer than the 1910s, and they were complex and convoluted. The very geography of central Europe meant this territory had been conquered and occupied many times over the course of history, and for much of the modern era, the area belonged to much larger empires, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Habsburg Empire, and finally the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nevertheless, two distinct ethnicities had come to make up the bulk of the territory’s inhabitants: the Czechs, predominantly in the areas of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovaks, in Slovakia. Both peoples had their own Slavic-based languages, but the languages were similar enough to be mutually intelligible.Despite any ethnic similarities, the country that formed in 1918 among the ashes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was by no means a “nation-state” as most people understand that term. In fact, much of the territory which bordered Germany was inhabited by ethnic German speakers, including one of Prague’s most famous sons, the writer Franz Kafka. One of the 20th century’s most celebrated authors spoke German as his first language. As such, the lands that became Czechoslovakia had usually existed in some kind of supranational system where identity was allowed to be relatively fluid.Czechoslovakia would also play a crucial role in bringing about World War II, a sign that the area’s nationalism, which ultimately split Czechoslovakia apart in 1993, had long spelled danger in a place where so many groups competed for power. The presence of German speakers would serve as a pretext for Hitler’s acquisition of th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152927/bk_acx0_152927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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