Describes the etiquette and customs in the Czech Republic, covering a wide range of topics and providing behavioral and language guidance for traveling, socializing, doing business, and other situations; and includes a cultural quiz, a do's and don'ts list, and an annotated resource list.
Provides information about the geography, history, politics, culture, and aspects of everyday life in the Czech Republic, and includes a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
Presents a history of the Czech Republic and its people, covering historical points such as its existence as part of the Austrian empire in the 1800s; independence in 1918; Nazi occupation in World War II; Communist rule; the Prague Spring; and the Velvet Revolution.
Profiles the life of Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech republic from 1992 to 2002, and chronicles his childhood growing up under Nazi occupation and then under the control of the Soviet Union, and his political activism against the totalitarian regime.
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.
Text and illustrations present information on the geography, history and government, economy, people, cultural life and society of the nation known as the Czech Republic.
Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the Czech Republic.
