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580 animals, 304 pages and almost two kilos - when you get your hands on the Atlas of Real Monsters, you can't help but feel a certain sense of majesty. In a huge illustrated atlas with the subtitle Bestiary of Animal Evolution, Barbora Müllerová guides us from ancient times to the present, i.e. fro...

After many years, Albatros Publishing House has taken on the task of publishing the stories of the legendary Jaroslav Foglar's The Quick Arrows. It relied on illustrations by the well-known comic book author Jiří Grus. The boys from The quick Arrows have been waiting for a new edition for over ten ...

Malá Strana is nowadays still an attractive destination for foreign tourists and still also for locals. However, we all feel that a certain charm is being lost in exchange for economic profit, which the Ministry of Culture and the Prague 1 municipality are trying to balance in various ways. One of t...

R.U.R. is the abbreviation of a fictitious company and the name of a theatre play of the same name, which has been heard by every Czech. Karel Čapek's story of how man destroys his own species through his vision remains a timely warning for consumer society more than a century after its publication ...

Don't judge a book by its cover is a thesis I often tell readers, but rarely follow myself. Thank God for that, because otherwise I probably wouldn't have read Markéta Pilátová's two-year-old children's book about a baba who is also a mushroom. Bába Bedla is one of those books that not only delights...

The heroines are written in a lively language and deal with important Czech women, or if we want to say women born in the Czech lands. Most of them are hardly heard of in the public sphere, and if they are, they are usually only featured as someone's wife, or are hailed as rarities in an otherwise c...