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Avant-Guide Prague is the first and only style-driven travel guidebook to Europe's hippest city. With a razor-sharp editorial focus, this book breaks fresh ground by way of new discoveries and authoritative reports on stylish hotels, the latest restaurants, unique shops, and the best nightspots. Exploring cultural delights in Old Town, the Jewish Quarter, Mala Strana, and New Town, Avant-Guide Prague offers almost a dozen original features that zero-in on people who are driving local scenes in art, television, music, film, fashion, and food. Edited and designed for fashion-aware travelers of all ages and pocketbooks, this book combines all the comprehensiveness of a traditional travel guide with the knowing intelligence and fast-forward design of a top-notch urban magazine. ... Read more

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a MUST BUY for Prague travel
This book is dead on.We were in Prague for four days, and this book was an indispensible tool.The bar/club descriptions were honest, straight-forward and written as if by a friend who had been living there for six years.Beyond merely naming a bar, giving an address and some surface description, they go in depth, including what nights to visit which place.The restaurant descriptions were fantastic, and lead us to some of the best (and best priced) meals we had on the trip.The mapping system makes navigation remarkably easy.Get this book, go to Prague, and rest assured you will have a good time.

a GREAT Guide
I must say that I'm VERY impressed with this guide for Prague. I've been a frequent visitor to the city for the past couple of years, and am FINALLY moving there this summer. This guidebook is great because it provides inside information for visitors like me-- people who don't want to look like tourists and want to take in the best of local culture and nightlife-- people who would rather try and speak even a little of the local language czech than flock to English speaking tourist traps.

absolutely invaluable and the best by far of any guide we used
We have just returned from a trip to Prague and Vienna. This guide to Prague was absolutely invaluable and the best by far of any guide we used. Visiting Vienna afterwards, we sorely wished that they had written one on that city, too; the other travel resources we used were not nearly as complete or informative as your guide had been for Prague. We look forward to the publication of additional Avant guides in the future!

Worth it for the nightlife sections alone
One of the biggest problems about visiting another city is that, unless you know somebody there, your chances of finding your way into the local "scene" are about nil.I've tried TimeOut, which has a few bars and event listings, but other than the 1% chance that there's a concert you like right then, it's pretty unhelpful.Avant-Guide is the answer, as far as I'm concerned, steering you away from (in Prague) huge touristy places like Karlovy Lazne, "a teen-tourist club on four floors for those who don't know anyplace better to go."It has paragraph-long descriptions of 79 bars and clubs, detailing not only the music and decor but, more significantly, the crowd, the vibe, and the fact that "nobody we know has ever gotten laid here."Owning this bar is like having a best friend who's lived in the city for a dozen years and has done nothing but look for a "spectacular after-hours DJ bar that just gets going at 3am and hits its stride hours later."

Of course, there are other sections.The Restaurants section is equally good, even if it tends to favor restaurants out of the average twentysomething's budget.Ditto 20 pages on "boutique hotels."The weakness, other than occasionally MTV-cool writing, is the Sights section, tellingly placed at the back, which gives a rudimentary paragraph to places that a Frommer's or Michelin might have written a chapter on.But if you're traveling with friends rather than family, you probably won't care: you'll be recovering from the best nightlife you've ever had. ... Read more

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In this gentle and simultaneously amusing, yet ominous, autobiographical novel, Ilse Tielsch describes the events of 1938 on the Austrian-Czech border, as seen through the eyes of a bright-eyed and curious ten-year-old girl. We watch as the divisive vitriol of Hitler's politics destroys the sense of community that had prevailed between speakers of Czech and German, as the awareness of ethnic differences comes to divide people, and as people mysteriously begin to disappear from the town. Throughout the year, Elfi's parents are increasingly reluctant to answer questions; though they attempt to keep Elfi ignorant of politics, the reader understands before she does what tragic events are building momentum in this region. Elfi's narrative gives vivid life to the personal histories that are taking place against the background of larger historical events. ... Read more

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The essays in this volume reflect the broader interpretation of culture as a system of shared meanings, values, attitudes and symbolic forms in any sphere of human life. Although thematically diverse, all these studies adhere to the concept of what is sometimes termed the new cultural history or socio-cultural history. The work opens with a cluster of methodological and historiographical reflections. Topics covered by the thematic sections include confessional and religious life in early modern Europe, symbolism and representation, strife and accommodation among different denominations compelled to live in a common space, order and hierarchy, cracks in the machinery of authority and the threat of disintegration as well as the history of alphabetization, literacy and reading and writing practices. This book pays tribute to Istvan Gyorgy Toth (1956-2005), Head of the Department of Early-Modern History at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Professor of History at Central European University (both in Budapest), until his premature death in 2005. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts in Czech Republic face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts to Czech Republic? How important is Czech Republic compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts vary from one country of origin to another in Czech Republic? On the supply side, Czech Republic also exports human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts. Which countries receive the most exports from Czech Republic? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts in Czech Republic. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts for those countries serving Czech Republic via exports, or supplying from Czech Republic via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

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A catalogue of 212 objects from the National Museum of the Czech Republic representing the cultural history of the Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) dating back to the 6th century. Each item exemplifies an important historical and artistic milestone in both Czech culture and that of Europ ... Read more

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Czech Republic has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3342 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice. ... Read more

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is Austria's most important nineteenth-century woman writer, but her works have remained largely unknown to English speakers, even her most important, the compelling Their Pavel, first published serially in 1887. Based on a true incident, Their Pavel/ investigates the troubled social relations of a Moravian village that is endowed with the right of local governance but steeped in the habits of its feudal relationship to the local barony. The novel explores the parallel fates of the children of a hanged murderer and thief. Milada, the appealing and alert daughter, is adopted on a whim by the aging baroness, while Pavel, the awkward and taciturn son, is thrown upon the uncertain mercy of the village, but both suffer the stigma of their father's crime. In her sometimes grimly humorous picture of village life, the author spares neither the Catholic Church nor the landed aristocracy nor the villagers themselves. ... Read more

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A True Tale of Love Behind the Curtain
I am in the same situation as the previous reviewer; I have a huge waiting list of friends and students who want to read this book and it is difficult for me to get it back. As a fellow expat in Prague, this book is close to my heart and I can completely relate to Gene Deitch. I too, am in love with a Czech and will probably spend the rest of my life here as well. He went through many of the same experiences as I have, but for 30 years under communist rule. He was truly in love and a great man to give up the luxuries of America and sacrifice his family for the woman he loves.

Luckily, unlike other expats during this time, he was free to come and go as he pleased and was still earning American dollars. He gives an excellent description of life during communism and even delivers some laughs. Most of my students and friends have never heard of this book and are enjoying every page that I share with them and spreading the word about this gem. Unfortuntately, it has not been published in Czech. So many Czechs would love to read this novel and see how the world looked in Prague through a westerners eyes during the turbulent past. I laughed and cried throughout the book. My friend has met the Deitchs, and they are still happy and very much in love.

Deitch also provides an extensive guidebook and tour of Prague in his last chapter. This book is enough to make anyone see the beauty and mystique of this city and the desire to come and see it for themselves.

Fantastic book
This is the only book I own about life outside the US that I regularly lend out. I also routinely have trouble getting it back! Not only is the story fascinating--An American goes & lives behind the Iron Curtain for 30 years for the woman he loves, but Deitch has stuffed the book full of as many useful & interesting facts as possible about his adopted city. Even if I had never been to Prague I would greatly enjoy his "Secret Prague Guidebook" chapter. As it is, I am greatly looking forward to checking out some of the off-the-track details he mentions, next time I am over there. I recommend this book for any student of history, and especially for anyone curious about how life was under communism for ordinary people. ... Read more

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12 x 9 Softcover with dustjacket - no flaws. Color plates. [ FEATURED ARTISTS: J. Brychtova - S. Libensky - V.Cigler - M. Karel - V. Kopecky - D. Zamecnikova ] ... Read more