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Author: De Gruyter Publisher: De Gruyter Saur ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : de Pages : 528
Book Description
Der Index zum Tschechischen und Slowakischen Biographischen Archiv listet etwa 118.000 Personen, die auf den Gebieten der Tschechischen und der Slowakischen Republik gelebt, bzw. gewirkt haben, und erschließt so ca. 245.000 Artikel aus 212 Nachschlagewerken.
Author: De Gruyter Publisher: De Gruyter Saur ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : de Pages : 528
Book Description
Der Index zum Tschechischen und Slowakischen Biographischen Archiv listet etwa 118.000 Personen, die auf den Gebieten der Tschechischen und der Slowakischen Republik gelebt, bzw. gewirkt haben, und erschließt so ca. 245.000 Artikel aus 212 Nachschlagewerken.
Author: Francisca de Haan Publisher: Central European University Press ISBN: 6155053723 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 698
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This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms.
Author: Mary K. Mannix Publisher: American Library Association ISBN: 0838912958 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 387
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Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author: De Gruyter, Inc. Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9783111860343 Category : Languages : de Pages : 1506
Book Description
The Czech and Slovak Biographical Index lists some 118,000 persons, who either lived or were influential in the Czech and the Slovakian Republics, and thus facilitates access to the approximately 245,000 entries in the Czech and Slovakian Biographical Archive.
Author: Mariusz Szczygiel Publisher: Melville House ISBN: 1612193145 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
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Winner of the Europe Book Prize One of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century. For example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company—and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also the birthplaces of Ivana Trump and Tom Stoppard). Or the story of Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they could keep publishing. Or the story of the singer Karel Gott, winner of the country’s Best Male Vocalist Award thirty-six years in a row, whose summer home, Gottland, is the Czech Dollywood. Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with everyone from filmmakers to writers to pop stars to ordinary citizens, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times—equally funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd . . . in a word, Kafkaesque. From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Michael Zantovsky Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802192394 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 570
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The “definitive biography” of the poet and political dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia—and first president of the Czech Republic (Walter Isaacson). This portrait of Vaclav Havel, iconoclast and intellectual, renowned playwright turned political dissident, president of a united then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist, is written by his former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend—and recounts the turbulent twentieth-century era through which he prevailed. Havel’s lifelong perspective as an outsider began with his privileged childhood in Prague and his family’s blacklisted status following the Communist coup of 1948. This feeling of being outcast fueled his career as an essayist and a dramatist writing absurdist plays as social commentary. His involvement during the Prague Spring and his leadership of Charter 77, his unflagging belief in the power of the powerless, and his galvanizing personality catapulted Havel into a pivotal role as the leader of the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Although Havel was a courageous visionary, he was also a man of great contradictions, wracked with doubt and self-criticism. But he always remained true to himself. This “smart and exciting” biography is “both inspiring and filled with lessons for our time” (Walter Isaacson). “Havel was one of the most important intellectual-troublemaking statesmen of his time—a nonconformist, determined to live in truth, who questioned the system, his countrymen and himself constantly. No one is better suited than Michael Zantovsky to describe, interpret, and analyze this moral giant . . . A brilliantly informed intellectual and political history.” —Madeleine Albright “Entertaining, intimate, and moving . . . Zantovsky’s voice—that of a natural storyteller with an eye for the memorable anecdote, a mischievous wit, an easy intelligence, and keen sense of balance and fairness—is so engaging.” —Paul Wilson, The New York Review of Books
Author: Albert John Walford Publisher: London : Library Association Pub. ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 862
Book Description
A revised and updated guide to reference material. It contains selective and evaluative entries to guide the enquirer to the best source of reference in each subject area, be it journal article, CD-ROM, on-line database, bibliography, encyclopaedia, monograph or directory. It features full critical annotations and reviewers' comments and comprehensive author-title and subject indexes. The contents include: philosophy and psychology; religion; social sciences, sociology, statistics, politics, economics, labour and employment; land and property, business organizations, finance and banking, and economic surveys; economic policies and controls, trade and commerce, business and management, and law; public administration, social services and welfare, education, customs and traditions; geography; biography; and history.
Author: De Gruyter
Author: De Gruyter
Author: Michal Horsák
Author: Francisca de Haan
Author: Mary K. Mannix
Author: De Gruyter, Inc.
Author: Bea Joseph
Author: Marcela Horváthová
Author: Mariusz Szczygiel
Author: Michael Zantovsky
Author: Albert John Walford