A region-by-region travel guide to the Czech Republic and Slovakia that covers the countries' histories, cultures, and landscapes and provides color photos, cutaway illustrations of architecture, maps, practical information, and details on sights to see, things to do, lodgings, and restaurants.
Examines the history, geography, towns and cities, people, culture, education, cuisine, transportation, economy, tourism, and nature of the Czech Republic, a landlocked country surrounded by Germany, Poland, Austria, and Slovakia.
Chronicles the history of the Czech Republic and explores daily life, politics, and the many challenges facing the country since the decline of Communism and the emergence of democracy.
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
Presents the history, culture, economy, and government of The Czech Republic, and describes major cities, landscape, people, holidays and festivals, and its place in the European Union.
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
