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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cold-Served Revenge

By: Petr Macek

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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cold-Served Revenge

By: Petr Macek

Europe 1911. The Great Powers vie for influence and are divided by political quarrels. War is in the air. For retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who has just suffered a coronary, these distant matters are of little concern. But politics are about to turn his quiet country life upside down. Mycroft, the detective's politician brother, has asked Holmes to investigate the murder of a powerful industrialist and the mysterious kidnapping of the King's nephew. Could these two cases be connected? Thus the legendary detective and his old friend Watson set out on an all-new adventure, one that will take them from the canals of Venice to an ancient castle in the Scottish plains. It’s an adventure they could hardly have expected as they near the ripe old age of sixty. Will Holmes lose a lifelong friend? And which villain from Holmes’s past might want to start a world war…?

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780926618

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9781780926612

Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

By: Petr Macek

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Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

By: Petr Macek

Spring 1937. While German Chancellor Adolf Hitler ceaselessly talks of peace, his actions seem deliberately calculated to make the Western allies lose patience. The schizophrenic geopolitical atmosphere even can be felt as far away as Fulworth, England, the home of the retired Sherlock Holmes, where the Steiners, a German migrant couple, have recently found a refuge and have assumed care of the detective's household after the passing of Mrs Hudson. Spying and detective work are far from the thoughts of beekeeping enthusiast Holmes, but the suicide of his protégé - a local youth whose natural talent the detective developed and encouraged for ten years - is a heavy blow. The death without apparent motive has now pulled Holmes back into the world, which has changed dramatically. Steam power has given way to electricity, carriages have been replaced by automobiles, and the skies are dotted with giant airships. The only thing that has remained constant is evil, in the shape of an enemy with whom Holmes first tangled more than forty years ago…

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787050505

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9781787050501

Golem's Shadow

The Fall of Sherlock Holmes

By: Petr Macek

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Golem's Shadow

The Fall of Sherlock Holmes

By: Petr Macek

Reichenbach was not his deepest fall.... Autumn 1903 has not been kind to Sherlock Holmes. Irene Adler, his platonic love, is dead, and the detective has again fallen into the clutches of cocaine. Dr Watson hopes that the distraction of a marriage fraud case can help pull his friend out of his depression. But it soon becomes clear that behind the apparently banal crime lurks something much more sinister, something that will take Holmes and Watson to faraway Bohemia, where they must face an unimaginably terrible enemy. A corpse has been discovered on the grave of Rabbi Loew and Prague's Jews are whispering about the Golem...

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170

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780927282

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Spring Man

A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

By: Petr Janecek

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Spring Man

A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

By: Petr Janecek

Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous, ghostly denizen of oral culture. Petr Janeček analyzes the archetypal character, social context, and cultural significance of this fascinating phenomenon with the help of dozens of accounts provided by period eyewitnesses, oral narratives, and other sources. At the same time, the author illustrates the international origin of the tales in the originally British migratory legend of Spring-heeled Jack that reaches back to the second-third of the nineteenth century, and Janeček also draws parallels between the Czech myth of Spring Man and similar urban phantom narratives popular in the 1910s Russia, 1940s United States and Slovakia, and 1950s Germany, as well as other parts of the world.

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229

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666913766

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9781666913767

The Perspective of Resurrection

A Trinitarian Christology

By: Petr Gallus

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The Perspective of Resurrection

A Trinitarian Christology

By: Petr Gallus

Because the Christian faith stands and falls with Jesus Christ, Christology is at the heart of its theology. Answering the question of Jesus Christ's identity is therefore urgent. Petr Gallus attempts to do so by critically reflecting on tradition and articulating it for today.

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481

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161601092

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9783161601095

Beyond the Digital Divide

Contextualizing the Information Society

By: Petr Lupač

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Beyond the Digital Divide

Contextualizing the Information Society

By: Petr Lupač

This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787565475

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9781787565470

"Route CZ-AT" to the USA

Perceiving American Culture in Central Europe

By: Petr Anténe,Wolfgang Haupt,Eva Maria Oberschneider,Elena Salchner,Václav Řeřicha,Eva Maria Hrdinová,Kateřina Kovářová,Andrea Hoffmannová,Jana Kořínková

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"Route CZ-AT" to the USA

Perceiving American Culture in Central Europe

By: Petr Anténe,Wolfgang Haupt,Eva Maria Oberschneider,Elena Salchner,Václav Řeřicha,Eva Maria Hrdinová,Kateřina Kovářová,Andrea Hoffmannová,Jana Kořínková

While English is the lingua franca and an established language in numerous countries, it is its American variant that keeps spreading rapidly to other parts of the world due to the wide ranging influence of the USA in politics, economics and popular culture. The nine authors of this volume present various aspects associated with the perception of the USA, whether it be American English, a theme in American literature and culture or an analysis of their reception in and/or influence on the Czech Republic or Austria. As all of the contributors work or study at an educational institution that prepares future teachers, most of the chapters either discuss the students’ or pupils’ point of view on the topic or provide another connection to the process of foreign language teaching.

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Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

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8024453657

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9788024453651

Golem's Shadow

The Fall of Sherlock Holmes

By: Petr Macek

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The Fall of Sherlock Holmes

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Andrews UK Limited

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1780927274

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Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

By: Petr Macek

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1787050505

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Irreconcilable Differences?

Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution

By: Michael Kraus,Allison Stanger

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Irreconcilable Differences?

Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution

By: Michael Kraus,Allison Stanger

This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational societies and ethnic separatism and its origins. The blend of analysis and insider experiences will make this book invaluable for all concerned with nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, and transitions in Eastern Europe.

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366

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461600340

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9781461600343

Sherlock Holmes and The Last Victim of Jack The Ripper

By: Petr Macek

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Sherlock Holmes and The Last Victim of Jack The Ripper

By: Petr Macek

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Doctor Watson were an inseparable pair from the 1880s until the interwar era of the twentieth century. Now they are back with eight new adventures, in which the good Doctor recounts the most curious investigations he and his friend set out to unravel over the decades, be it the mystery surrounding the construction of the London Underground, the spontaneous combustion of a wealthy entrepreneur, the suicide at a prestigious boarding school for girls, or the return of the most terrifying serial killer of his time - Jack the Ripper. Immerse yourself with Holmes and Watson in the realm of London fog, gas lamps and horse-drawn carriages.

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1804245372

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Digital Peripheries

By: Petr Szczepanik,Pavel Zahrádka,Jakub Macek

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Digital Peripheries

By: Petr Szczepanik,Pavel Zahrádka,Jakub Macek

This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends in the consumption of audiovisual content are limited by, and pose new challenges for, existing audiovisual business models and their legal framework in the EU. The European Commission's Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, which was intended e.g. to remove obstacles to the cross-border distribution of audiovisual content, has triggered a heated debate on the transformation of the existing ecosystem for European screen industries. While most current discussions focus on the United States, Western Europe, and the multinational giants, this book approaches these industry trends and policy questions from the perspective of relatively small and peripheral (in terms of their population, language, cross-border cultural flows, and financial and/or symbolic capital) media markets. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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1013278321

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9781013278327

Cesty do dospělosti

Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky dnešních dvacátníků

By: Petr Macek,Lenka Lacinová,Stanislav Ježek

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Cesty do dospělosti

Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky dnešních dvacátníků

By: Petr Macek,Lenka Lacinová,Stanislav Ježek

Tým sociologů z Institutu pro výzkum dětí, mládeže a rodiny na FSS MU sledoval během uplynulých pěti let asi tisícovku lidí narozených v letech 1990–1994. Zajímá vás, jak tito mladí lidé uvažují o sobě a o světě? Kde a s kým bydlí? Jaké mají vztahy s rodiči? Jaký význam přikládají svým vztahům partnerským a s jakou perspektivou zahajují svou profesní dráhu? Odpovědi nabízí tato kniha. Zaujme vás nejen tematickou komplexností, ale také důrazem na nové sociálněpsychologické fenomény, jako je identita mladých Vietnamců v České republice nebo vztah "přátelství s benefity".

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Masarykova univerzita

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8021084014

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9788021084018

Book's by Petr Macek

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cold-Served Revenge

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cold-Served Revenge

Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

Golem's Shadow

Golem's Shadow

Spring Man

Spring Man

The Perspective of Resurrection

The Perspective of Resurrection

Beyond the Digital Divide

Beyond the Digital Divide

"Route CZ-AT" to the USA

"Route CZ-AT" to the USA

Golem's Shadow

Golem's Shadow

Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

Sherlock Holmes and Hitler's Messenger of Death

Irreconcilable Differences?

Irreconcilable Differences?

Sherlock Holmes and The Last Victim of Jack The Ripper

Sherlock Holmes and The Last Victim of Jack The Ripper

Digital Peripheries

Digital Peripheries

Cesty do dospělosti

Cesty do dospělosti

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