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Background. In the current paper we examined the psychometric properties of the Physical Activity Barriers Questionnaire for children with Visual Impairments (PABQ-VI). We examined evidence for the ability of the PABQ-VI...

This article focuses on alcohol consumption among Czech and Finnish youth. First, it describes the situation regarding alcohol consumption in both countries, including trends in consumption in recent years, and, second, ...

Andrea Orzoff: Battle for the Castle. The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914–1948. Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 286 stran.

The objective of this study was to determine the anthropometric and somatotype differences between elite single-canoeists (C1) included in the white-water slalom Czech national team (NT) (n = 5) and others (n = 12) who d...

Is a direct expression of feelings still possible in the novel of the 21st century? This article examines how Tanguy Viel, a contemporary author publishing in Les Editions de Minuit and considered as an experimental writ...

The humanities in general, and literature in particular – Martha Nussbaum argues – deserve a leading role within the educational system, because they contribute in a fundamental way to the functioning of a democratic...

Amidst all the collective emotions prevailing in 19th century France, a remarkable one is fear, which can be perceived in the myth of Barbarian invasions. The opposition between the so-called “civilized” and “barba...

The paper is a part of research focused on Catholic theologians and biologists who, in the years 1871–1910, in agreement with the so-called Mivart’s theory, accepted the evolutionary origin of the human body, or did ...

Bibliography of Jiří Levý

Body ecology is a micro-ecology. It is a discipline derived from philosophical naturism, deep ecology and holistic body-mind practices developed since 1850 in the corporeal experience of body recreation, outdoor living, ...

Book review: Bronislav Ostřanský (ed.). Bronislav Ostřanský (ed.). Islamofobie po česku. Český odpor vůči islámu, jeho východiska, projevy, souvislosti, přesahy i paradoxy. Praha: Vyšehrad 2017, 294 s. ISBN ...

The aim of this article is to discuss the role of Jiři Kovtun, a Czech writer and historian, in the development of Czech translatology. It is based on the article Čapek’s translations in the development of Czech tran...

This article contains the theme of catholic theological perspectives on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations since Vatican II until today. The article presents some negative opinions on Islam and some positive appreciati...

This contribution is dealing with an evaluation of tourism position in the Czech society in the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century. Tourism depending on social and economic state of soci...

China’s leaders are aware that the country’s emergence as a major power in the twenty-first century is preconditioned by acquiring soft power and a favourable national image. Culture and cultural projection are seen ...

In the translated lecture the author tries and answers the question on what ground are we entitled to ascribe “centrality” to Central Europe. He points out that, in contemporary usage, the term “Europe” stands fo...

This paper presents a preliminary discussion of the status of translation practices embedded in the commentarial entries of the Yuan dynasty anthology Du lü yanyi 杜律演義 [Explanation of the Meaning of Du Fu’s Re...

This article describes and analyzes the use of corporal punishment (CP) of children by parents in Czech society, while making use of several quantitative surveys conducted both among adolescents and in the adult populati...

Book review: Denisa Červenková. Katolický pohled na náboženskou pluralitu. Praha, Karolinum 2016, 200 stran, ISBN: 978-80-246-3327-5.

Book review: Dokumenty Mezinárodní teologické komise 1969–2017 a některé další texty Papežské biblické komise a Kongregace pro nauku víry, ed. Ctirad Vaclav Pospišil – Eduard Krumpolc. Olomouc: Univerzita...

The main goal of the experiment was to compare electrical activity in selected muscles: m. tibialis anterior, m. gastrocnemius, m. rectus femoris, m. biceps femoris and mm. erectores spinae, at the TH/L transition level ...

Editorial

The progressive industrialization and its economic consequences led to a decline of the traditional bourgeois values, and to the rise of the modern metropolitan society, in the second half of the 19th century, where the ...