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  • From Laughter to Forgetting

    A Sourcebook of Czech Avant-Garde Discourses

    Edited by Zuzana Ríhová ...
    Series series Modern Czech Classics
    A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the ... Read more

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  • Seven Letters to Melin

    Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality

    Translated by Ian Finlay Stone ...
    Series series Václav Havel Series
    Josef Šafařík’s Seven Letters to Melin is an exploration of man’s alienation from nature—and from himself—in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin, an engineer who believes in the value of science and technical progress, the book grows skeptical of such endeavors, while also examining mankind’s search for meaning in life. To help uncover this meaning, Šafařík ... Read more

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  • Charles IV

    Portrait of a Medieval Ruler

    Translated by Ian Finlay Stone ...
    A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV.Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of the fourteenth century. Having moved the seat of the Holy Roman Empire to Prague and founding the first university in Central Europe, Charles IV is a towering figure in Czech history and a crucial ... Read more

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  • Changing Vocational Education and Training

    An International Comparative Perspective

    Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the system.Changing Vocational Education and Training focuses on how the principles of stakeholding, ... Read more

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  • Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion

    The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education

    Series series Improving Learning
    How can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs? Will government policies enable us to achieve these goals? What new ideas do we need to ensure a more inclusive, equitable and efficient learning system? These are some of the main concerns which underlie this thought-provoking book coming from a ... Read more

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

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    Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning ... Read more

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  • From Socrates to Sartre

    The Philosophic Quest

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  • Perfectibilists

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
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