International Directory of Building Research Organizations. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…""An International Directory of Building Research Organizations""; ""Copyright""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""I UNITED STATES ""; ""Association Profiles""; ""Corporate Profiles""; ""University Profiles""; ""ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN""; ""ENGINEERING""; ""Federal Laboratory Profiles""; ""Other Profiles""; ""II INTERNATIONAL ""; ""Argentina""; ""Australia""; ""Austria""; ""Belgium""; ""Brazil""; ""Canada""; ""Chile""; ""China""; ""Colombia""; ""Czechoslovakia""; ""Denmark""; ""Ecuador""; ""Egypt""; ""Federal Republic of Germany""; ""Finland""; ""France""; ""Qualitel""…”
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Pragmalinguistics. by Prucha, Jan

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Why I write? : and other early prose pieces by Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997

Table of Contents: “…-- Those Rapturous Riflemen -- Cain -- Trapezium Number Two -- The House that Refreshed Itself in a Flash -- The Feast of Sts Philip and James -- Scribes and Pharisees -- No Escape -- The Glorious Legend of Wantoch -- The Sufferings of Old Werther -- Protocol -- A Schizophrenic Gospel -- A January Story -- A February Story -- One Great Guy -- Atom Prince -- The Gabriel Explosion -- Made in Czechoslovakia -- Blitzkrieg -- Meetings by Chance and by Design -- Line No. 23a -- One Pretty Nondescript Station -- A Christening -- Be Expecting Me…”
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Total wars and the making of modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 by Liber, George

Table of Contents: “…The Ukrainian Movements in Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1939 -- Part Two. The Second Total War: Social Engineering -- 5. …”
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The annual register : world events in 1968

Table of Contents: “…THE USSR AND EASTERN EUROPE -- CHAPTER 1 -- THE USSR -- CHAPTER 2 -- EASTERN GERMANY-POLAND-CZECHOSLOVAKIA-HUNGARY-BULGARIA-RUMANIA-ALBANIA-COMECON -- EASTERN GERMANY -- POLAND -- CZECHOSLOVAKIA -- HUNGARY -- BULGARIA -- RUMANIA -- ALBANIA -- COMECON -- VI. …”
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60 minutes. Saving the children

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Panorthosia Author Comenius 19-26. by Dobbie, A. M. O.

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Piano duet repertoire : music originally written for one piano, four hands

Table of Contents: “…. -- Beckwith, John (b. 1927), Canada -- Becucci, Ernesto (1845-1905), Italy -- Bečvařovsky (Beczwarzowsky), Antonín Felix (1754-1823), Czechoslovakia/Germany -- Bedetti, Tiziano (b. 1976), Italy -- Beebe, Edward J. …”
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A history of histories of German literature : 1835-1914 by Batts, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…8 Foreign Histories of German Literature: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland9 An Overview -- 10 Conclusion -- 11 Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z…”
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Exporting Perilous Pauline : Pearl White and serial film craze

Table of Contents: “…: Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde -- 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl…”
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Exporting Perilous Pauline : Pearl White and serial film craze

Table of Contents: “…: Pearl White and the First Avant-Garde -- 5 Fascinations for the Nation: American Serial Film, Czechoslovakia, and the Afterlives of Pearl…”
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Public policy : a comprehensive introduction by Potůček, Martin

Table of Contents: “…CAVEAT: A WARNING AND A CHALLENGE -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A10/ How to UnderstandPublic Policy -- DIFFICULTIES OF A SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF POLICIES -- GUIDELINES FOR THE EXAMINATION PROCESS -- SOLVING A COGNITIVE TASK -- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS -- CHOICE OF THEORY (THEORIES) -- MODELING -- METHODS OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND POLICY MAKING -- CAVEAT: A WARNING AND A CHALLENGE -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- Literature -- Part A -- Journals and Internet Sources -- English-Czech Glossary of Public Policy Terms -- List of Tables -- Part A -- List of Figures -- Part A -- PART B -- Introduction to Part B -- Terminology of the Pillars in the Czech Pension System -- /B1/ Historical Overview of Pension Systems in the World and in the Czech Republic -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF PENSION SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE PENSION SYSTEM IN THE TERRITORY OF TODAY'S CZECH REPUBLIC -- AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (UNTIL 1918) -- INTERWAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1918-1938) -- CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1945-1989) -- CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1990-1992) -- THE CZECH REPUBLIC -- 1993-1998 -- 1998-2006 -- 2006-2010 -- 2010-2013 -- 2014-2017 -- SOURCES -- RECOMMENDED SOURCES -- /B2/ The Role of Politicians and Experts in the Preparation of Czech Pension Reform -- ANALYTICAL APPROACH -- HYPOTHESES -- THE THEORY OF DISCURSIVE INSTITUTIONALISM -- METHOD OF FRAME ANALYSIS -- A HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DISCOURSES -- THE EXECUTIVE TEAM AND TEAM OF EXPERTS (BEZDĚK COMMISSION I) -- EXPERT ADVISORY FORUM PES (BEZDĚK COMMISSION II) -- NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF THE GOVERNMENT -- NERV -- EXPERT GROUP: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION PARTY (EG) -- THE EXPERT COMMITTEE ON PENSION REFORM (OK) -- CONCLUSIONS -- SOURCES -- LEGISLATION -- /B3/ Czech Pension Reform: How to Reconcile Equivalence with Fiscal Discipline -- THEORY AND METHODS -- ACTOR-CENTERED INSTITUTIONALISM -- ACTORS' BEHAVIOR.…”
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Prospects for constitutionalism in post-communist countries. by Gonenc, L.

Table of Contents: “…Poland; 3.4.2. Hungary; 3.4.3. Czechoslovakia; 3.4.4. Bulgaria; 3.4.5. Romania; 3.4.6. …”
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Making Sense of Human Rights Commitments by Smekal, Hubert

Table of Contents: “…CASE STUDY -- 4 Human Rights Commitments in Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia -- Background Information -- 4.1 The Socialist Past -- 4.2 Changes in the 1990s during the Initial Stages of Democratic Transition -- 4.3 Developments in the Czech Republic after the Split of the Federation…”
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Göbbels, Himmler and Göring : the unholy trinity by Sangster, Andrew, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Night of the Long Knives 1934Vienna Putsch 1934; Concentration Camps; Centralising the Police; Perceived Enemies of the Reich; Nature of SS; SS Rites, Rituals and Runes; Himmler the Carer for the SS; Waffen-SS 1934-5; Himmler in the Context of the Reich; Himmler at this Juncture; Chapter Three; Early Expansion and Consequences; Austria-Czechoslovakia 1937-39; Sub-Human Behaviour; Some Dissent; Chapter Four; Poland; a Racial War 1939; Police Tyranny in the Early War Years; Towards the West; Himmler spreads his Tentacles; After France and Before Russia; Eastwards and Organised Killing…”
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Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy And Central. by Hofhansel, Claus

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The American way of peace : an interpretation by Prybyla, Jan S.

Table of Contents: “…Then (1945-1991) -- Pax Americana -- The Postwar Task -- Bretton Woods -- The Marshall Plan and Containment -- German Wirtschaftswunder -- The Berlin Blockade -- The Truman Doctrine -- NATO and Its Cross of Lorraine -- The Korean War -- The Hungarian Revolution and the Berlin Wall -- The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev -- The Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev Doctrine -- Cultural Shift -- D'tente -- Eurocommunism -- Negotiated Cold War -- The Errors of Socialism -- Ronald Reagan and His Critics -- Solidarity -- Gorbachev and His Nemesis -- The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of Germany -- The End of an Era -- And Now (1991-2004) -- After the Fall: Celebratory Foresight and Ominous Speculations -- After the Wall: What Happened on the Ground -- Drifting Apart: Multipolarity and Hegemony -- Aggregation: The European Union -- Disaggregation: Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chinese Shadows -- 9/11 and the War on Terrorism -- Lessons.…”
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Passion and Ambivalence : Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law. by Berman, Nathaniel

Table of Contents: “…Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, and "Peaceful Change"Part Three Of Law and Fantasy; Chapter Seven. …”
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Revolution and resistance in Eastern Europe : challenges to communist rule

Table of Contents: “…/ Bartosz Kaliski -- Negotiated revolution in Poland and Hungary, 1989 / Nigel Swain -- To learn from the Soviet Union is to learn how to win: the East German revolution 1989-90 / Peter Grieder -- Revolution and revolt against revolution: Czechoslovakia, 1989 / James Krapfl -- Afterword: East or West? …”
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Holocaust and the kindertransport.

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Conflict in Europe : 1935-1945. Part one, The Treaty of Versailles & the League of Nations

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Samizdat Past and Present by Glanc, Tomás

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Tomáš Glanc: Long live samizdat -- Editorial note -- Miroslav Červenka: The semiotics of samizdat -- Miroslav Červenka: Two notes on samizdat -- Josef Jedlička: Samizdat -- František Kautman: Question marks over unpublished literature -- Petr Fidelius: The forgotten question mark over 'unpublished'literature -- Jiří Gruša: Censorship and literary life beyond the mass media -- Tomáš Vrba: Independent literature and freedom of thought1970-1989 -- Jiří Gruntorád: Samizdat literature in Czechoslovakia duringthe 1970s and 1980s -- Martin Machovec: How underground authors and publishersfinanced their samizdats -- Martin Machovec: The group of writers around the Půlnocseries (1949-1955): a specific example of underground culturalactivities -- Alena Přibáňová -- Michal Přibáň: Sixty-Eight Publishers in contactwith domestic samizdat and competition in exile -- Petr Šámal: Parallel circulation as a consequence of censorship -- Weronika Parfianowicz-Vertun: Post-Gutenberg revolution?…”
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The New great transformation? : change and continuity in East-Central Europe

Table of Contents: “…Bryant -- Values and the welfare state in Czechoslovakia / P. Mareš, L. Musil and L. Rabušic -- Revolution and restoration : on the origins of right-wing radical ideology in Hungary / A. …”
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Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe : Legacies from the Past and Policies for the Future. by Good, David F.

Table of Contents: “…; THE YUGOSLAV ECONOMY FROM AMALGAMATION TO DISINTEGRATION Failed efforts at molding a new economic space 1919 91; STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN POLISH AGRICULTURE 1918 89; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1899 1992; GERMAN BANKS AND FORE.…”
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The world wars. Episode 4, The storm explodes

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Proud Servant : the Memoirs of a Career Ambassador. by Briggs, Ellis

Table of Contents: “…""14 Everything, Literally Everything, Is at Stake""""Part One: George Messersmith""; ""Part Two: Pearl Harbor""; ""Part Three: Spruille Braden""; ""15 Dominican Republic: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow""; ""16 Pat Hurley's China""; ""17 The State Department Struggles with Peace""; ""Part One: The Argentine Problem: Perón, Braden, and Messersmith""; ""Part Two: The Pentagon, Panama, and Alger Hiss""; ""Part Three: The Move to Foggy Bottom""; ""18 Gaucho Interlude: The Good Old Days in Uruguay""; ""19 A Turn to the Left: Czechoslovakia""; ""20 Korea: The First War We Did Not Win""…”
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Avant-garde to new wave : Czechoslovak cinema, surrealism and the sixties by Owen, Jonathan L.

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Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories by Hrabal, Bohumil

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Sanctioning modernism : architecture and the making of postwar identities by Doordan, Dennis P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Vladimir Kulić -- Bucharest: the city transfigured / Juliana Maxim -- The scope of socialist modernism: architecture and state representation in postwar Yugoslavia / Vladimir Kulić -- Czechoslovakia's model housing developments: modern architecture for the socialist future / Kimberly Elman Zarecor -- Sanctioning modernism and tradition: Italian architecture, the vernacular, and the state / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Making religion modern. …”
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Communists and their victims : the quest for justice in the Czech Republic by David, Roman

Table of Contents: “…The Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia: Were People Coerced?; Chapter 2. Justice After Transition: Retributive, Revelatory, Reparatory, and Reconciliatory Measures; PART II. …”
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The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650-2000

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Textile workers around the world,16502000: Introduction to a collective work project; PART I NATIONAL HISTORIES OF TEXTILES WORKERS; 2 Textile production in Argentina, 16502000; 3 Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states; 4 Brazil: the origin of the textile industry; 5 China; 6 Denmark: the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial relations.…”
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Routledge handbook of regionalism and federalism

Table of Contents: “…'Federalising the Federation': The Failure of the Yugoslav Experiment / Florian Bieber ; Czechoslovakia: A Peaceful Disintegration / Michal Ilner. -- Part 4: Transnationalism Regionalism. …”
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The sweet century : women who defied a communist dictatorship by Třeštíková, Helena, 1949-

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Body and narrative in contemporary literatures in German : Herta Müller, Libuše Moníková, and Kerstin Hensel by Marven, Lyn

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Post Communist Sinology in Transformation : Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia. by Shih, Chihyu

Table of Contents: “…Beyond Academia and Politics:Understanding China and Doing Sinology inCzechoslovakia after World War II; Chapter 2. Linguistic Choices for the Identity of"China" in the Discourse of CzechSinologists; Chapter 3. …”
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The Modern Composer and His World. by Beckwith, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Participants in the International Conference of Composers -- I: The Composer in Today's World -- COMPOSER AND PUBLIC -- Victor Legley (BELGIUM) -- Vassily Kukharski (USSR) -- Alfred Frankenstein (USA) : The Critic's Role -- Discussion -- TRAINING OF COMPOSERS -- Heinrich Sutermeister (SWITZERLAND): Letter to a Young Aspiring Composer -- Jean Papineau-Couture (CANADA) -- Aurelio de la Vega (CUBA) -- Discussion -- COMPOSER AND PERFORMER -- Václav Dobiás (CZECHOSLOVAKIA) -- Gunther Schuller (USA) -- Victor Feldbrill (CANADA) -- Discussion -- II: The Composer's Métier -- SERIALISM -- Iain Hamilton (GREAT BRITAIN) -- George Rochberg (USA): Duration in Music -- Ernst Krenek (USA) -- Discussion -- SOME OTHER PATHS -- Henri Dutilleux (FRANCE) : Diversities in Contemporary French Music -- Zygmunt Mycielski (POLAND) -- Constantin Regamey (SWITZERLAND) -- Gunther Schuller (USA) -- OPERA AND BALLET -- Karl-Birger Blomdahl (SWEDEN): Aniara -- Henk Badings (NETHERLANDS) : Experiences with Electronic Ballet Music -- SYNTHETIC MEANS -- Hugh LeCaine (CANADA) -- Josef Tal (ISRAEL) -- Vladimir Ussachevsky (USA) -- Discussion -- FORM -- Vagn Holmboe (DENMARK): On Form and Metamorphosis -- Luciano Berio (ITALY) -- Discussion -- III: Summary -- Conference Summary -- Discussion -- The Concerts of the Conference by Udo Kasemets.…”
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Česká a Slovenská Religiozita Po Rozpadu Společného Státu Náboženství Dioskúrů. by Nespor, Zdeněk R.

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Post Communist Sinology in Transformation : Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia. by Shih, Chihyu

Table of Contents: “…Beyond Academia and Politics:Understanding China and Doing Sinology inCzechoslovakia after World War II; Chapter 2. Linguistic Choices for the Identity of"China" in the Discourse of CzechSinologists; Chapter 3. …”
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The Modern Composer and His World. by Beckwith, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Participants in the International Conference of Composers -- I: The Composer in Today's World -- COMPOSER AND PUBLIC -- Victor Legley (BELGIUM) -- Vassily Kukharski (USSR) -- Alfred Frankenstein (USA) : The Critic's Role -- Discussion -- TRAINING OF COMPOSERS -- Heinrich Sutermeister (SWITZERLAND): Letter to a Young Aspiring Composer -- Jean Papineau-Couture (CANADA) -- Aurelio de la Vega (CUBA) -- Discussion -- COMPOSER AND PERFORMER -- Václav Dobiás (CZECHOSLOVAKIA) -- Gunther Schuller (USA) -- Victor Feldbrill (CANADA) -- Discussion -- II: The Composer's Métier -- SERIALISM -- Iain Hamilton (GREAT BRITAIN) -- George Rochberg (USA): Duration in Music -- Ernst Krenek (USA) -- Discussion -- SOME OTHER PATHS -- Henri Dutilleux (FRANCE) : Diversities in Contemporary French Music -- Zygmunt Mycielski (POLAND) -- Constantin Regamey (SWITZERLAND) -- Gunther Schuller (USA) -- OPERA AND BALLET -- Karl-Birger Blomdahl (SWEDEN): Aniara -- Henk Badings (NETHERLANDS) : Experiences with Electronic Ballet Music -- SYNTHETIC MEANS -- Hugh LeCaine (CANADA) -- Josef Tal (ISRAEL) -- Vladimir Ussachevsky (USA) -- Discussion -- FORM -- Vagn Holmboe (DENMARK): On Form and Metamorphosis -- Luciano Berio (ITALY) -- Discussion -- III: Summary -- Conference Summary -- Discussion -- The Concerts of the Conference by Udo Kasemets.…”
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Media and revolution : comparative perspectives

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