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This fundamental textbook of history of sport deals with the historical periods of physical culture in the past, from ancient times to the origin of modern sports. Besides the world history of physical education, the work deals in detail with the history of sport in Czechoslovakia, not only in the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic, during the WW2 or in the post-war period, but also in the period of communist totalitarian regime. Final chapters, that reflect the evolution of physical education and sport in the Czech Republic in the past two decades, are of significant importance. It is one of the first complex compilations of this era.

Monograph from the field of onomastics and translatology brings a complex perspective of somewhat neglected problematics of transfer of proper nouns between Czech and Russian and partly also between English and Russian. In the introduction the author describes methods of transfer of proper nouns, some of them just compiled from existing literature, some introduced anew and others modified. Especially the rules of transcription from Czech to Russian were subjected to critique and modified thoroughly. Then she defines which method is suitable for each category of proper nouns and text genres. The addenda include the most popular tables of transcription and transliteration. The treatise is a useful tool for translators, both Russian and Czech studies scholars, journalists, travel agents and all who work with texts containing foreign Russian and Czech proper nouns.

Souborný studijní materiál pro účastníky kurzu s přímou výukou i další zájemce představuje výběr předpokládaných základních témat pro rozvoj jazykové a komunikační kompetence jedince.

The conference was focused on common topics, such as accounting, taxation, financial markets, financial literacy, financial education, corporate finance, public finance, banks and insurance companies as well as on more specific areas, such as application of econometrics models, foreign investments and current trends related to economics, data processing and state policies.

Development of the Department of Ethnology at the university in Brno is in this book presented at the background of wider framing of the Faculty of Arts and the Masaryk University. Collecting sources was based on couple of yearbooks of the university in Brno along with partial evaluations of the department, anniversary articles or personal bibliographies of teachers. Archive of Masaryk University served as source of documents. Publication covers all spheres of department work – education, research and organizing with focus on last decade, which was accompanied by generational change, but also by new social situation in the Czech Republic and Europe. It again introduced issues of ethnical and regional identity or multiculturalism and brought new research possibilities.

The work is based on authentic field researches in 1990–1992 with two last living goddesses in Žítková in the White Carpathians, the researches were originally elaborated as the diploma thesis. Other field collections of 1995–1996 are dedicated to the goddess I. Gabrhelová. The last field researches of 2013–2014 monitor diaries of the eyewitnesses, for which such topic is close especially in relation to their childhood. In the theoretical part there is an analysis of individual incantations and magical practices, further an analysis of a magical ceremony with respect to application of homeopathic and contact magic. The last part of the work is devoted to logic of magical thinking and monitoring of contact points with contemporary forms of magic of recent healers.

Kniha Spravedlivý start se zaměřuje na problematiku spravedlivosti v předškolním vzdělávání a na přechodu z mateřské školy do základního vzdělávání. I když spravedlivosti ve vzdělávání je v poslední době věnována v české společenskovědní komunitě značná pozornost, předškolní vzdělávání nebylo dosud v tomto kontextu zkoumáno. Dominantními tématy byly zejména souvislost vzdělávacích výsledků a dosaženého vzdělání s rodinným zázemím, genderové nerovnosti v základním, středním a vysokoškolském vzdělávání a dopady existence víceletých gymnázií na spravedlivost vzdělávacího systému. Zkoumány byly i vzdělávací dráhy romských žáků a situace ruských a vietnamských žáků v základním a středním vzdělávání. Obecně málo informací máme o situaci žáků se zdravotním postižením a se zdravotním a sociálním znevýhodněním.

Collection of papers “Current issues of the Russian language teaching XII” is devoted to issues of methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, to issues of linguistics and literary science. It is a result of the international scientific conference of the same name which took place on 9–11 May 2016 in Brno (Czech Republic).

Aspects of traditional folk culture become an integral part of cultural heritage in the Central European countries. On the Czecho-Slavonic Ethnographic Exhibition (1895) were laid foundations of phenomenon that came to be known as folklorism, which was further developed and participated in social and cultural life. In the 20th century, because of the political development consequences in Czechoslovakia, the approach to folk culture was changed. Czech society takes various, often ambivalent stance on it. The objective of this publication is to provide analysis of the different forms of use (and misuse) of folk culture, since the late 19th century to the present day. The analysis concerns the sphere of folklorism, folk art production and building manifestations, which includes especially folk architecture and its protection and revitalization.

The book describes the traditional folk culture in Moravia in the time period ranging from the mid-18th century to the end of the 19th century by means of six thematic axes: Autochthony – External Influences – Stability over Time – Fluidity over Time – Territorial Unity – Territorial Differentness. Using examples of specific cultural phenomena, the authors try to illuminate the processes which formed folk culture and influenced its creators and bearers in the past. Such an approach leads to more plastic knowledge of the reality of life in Moravian countryside in the past in the entirety of its changeability, stability, variability, and uniformity.

This anthology contains contributions focused on a wide range of issues related to the right to education. Among the topics presented are kindergarten enrolment, equal access to primary school education, university autonomy, the status of private universities, accreditation procedure, judicial review of secondary schools evaluation (the national school leaving exam) and university education, freedom of study within the European Union, and also the difficult search for balance between freedom of speech and public education in the USA. The individual articles were written by renowned scholars, practicing lawyers, judges, and members of the Ombudsman's staff. The anthology targets both readers with an interest in legal issues as well as those with a focus on education such as teachers, sociologists, political scientists, and economists.

The conference was focused especially on the current issues related to the impacts of the financial crisis on financial and non-financial institutions, new regulation rules and procedures on financial markets, new accounting and tax challenges and trends and tendencies in banking and insurance industry.

The book describes the development of interpretative frames and framing processes of Roma and pro-Roma activists in the Czech Republic after 1989. Using micro-discursive frame analysis, it shows how diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing varies in relation to changes in integration policies, the level of racist, extreme-right or anti-Roma speeches and manifestations, public debates, and opportunities in fundraising over the four years examined (1992, 1997, 2002, 2007). Complementary protest event analysis is used to describe the interaction between activists´ discursive strategies and their collective action repertoire. The book shows that the dominant framing in cultural and political field prevalent in 90s shifted into frames of Roma as aid beneficiaries within the socio-economic field. This shift seems to have an effect also on the form of collective mobilization of the Czech pro-Roma movement.

Prof. PhDr. Richard Jeřábek, DrSc. began to compile the Biographical Dictionary of European Ethnology as a result of his lifelong study of this discipline. He felt a need to prepare a general guide that would define the basics of the discipline as well as present researchers who had contributed to its establishment – not only for his students but also for Czech ethnologists. As he did not finished his work, the experts and PhD students of the Department of European Ethnology of Faculty of Arts took charge of the dictionary in order complete it, after several years of hard work.

Corporate competitiveness has been an attention-attracting phenomenon for decades. Nonetheless, this publication aims to deepen its understanding. First and foremost, and as a major contribution, it brings the operationalization of the concept of competitiveness. However, its principal contribution is an application of the sequential forward flow search algorithm together with the nearest neighbors'classifier, the joint usage of which has managed to reduce potential competitiveness factors to the most informative ones, i.e. those that can in their combinations best discriminate between the less competitive and more competitive companies. Furthermore, the publication contains preliminary results of the research which means that it identifies possible competitiveness factors in Czech companies.

This book is conference proceedings from the conference aptly named'Elections: The Feast of Democracy or Intrigue?'It contains fifteen contributions including political science analysis of contemporary political parties, critical commentary on electoral courts'practice, an analysis of the phenomenon of voters'purposive moving and vote buying, and insightful reflections on electoral geometry, electoral campaigns in public media, the point of international monitoring of elections, and the right to vote for the mentally handicapped. Monopoly of a single political party or the lack of information are no longer major threats today. The risks of our time are the ideological ones, regrettably including the ideological void of political actors, populism, the lack of visions which would go beyond one parliamentary term, political clashes conceived as a reality show, and perception of politics as a private business instead of promoting and defending the public interest.

International conference European Financial Systems 2012 was focused on prevailing scientific inquiries in the area of global financial markets and financial systems. Particular attention was paid to the European financial and sovereign debt crisis, comprising the possibilities of its resolution and options of its prevention in the future. Fruitful discussions covered also recent findings and trends in banking, insurance, financial engineering, and financial management alongside with developments in accounting practices and taxation systems.

Proceedings of the international scientific conference. Papers are devoted to the issue of the functioning of the non-profit sector and its actors, public sector, public finance and administration, current trends of development and current challenges.

The publication is a result of an international cooperation of ethnographers from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Serbia. It describes the agrarian phenomena that contributed to the formation of traditional folk culture of many countries and thus helped to create the identity of the European continent. Especially in Central Europe and the Balkans, farming and pastoral traditions maintained crucial position in the society for a long time. The compilation makes use of specific historical material and recent evidence from field research.

Zdenka Jelínková was a prominent researcher in the area of folk dancing who was participating at the birth of Czech ethnochoreology after the Second World War. She was born in 1920 in Velká nad Veličkou, South-eastern Moravia. In her childhood and youth, she still had opportunities to encounter numerous manifestations of traditional folk culture, which were gradually disappearing from everyday life due to the influence of modern society. In 1949, her erudition brought her to a group of collectors who were making folklore records for the collections of the Folk Song Institute in Brno. In 1950, she was hired as a qualified worker of this institution and she was working there until her retirement in 1982. In her field research, she focused mainly in Moravia and partly Silesia. She made about 10,000 collectors records during her career as a researcher. She died in 2005. The publication The Paths of Folk Dancing. Zdenka Jelínková and Czech ethnochoreology introduces this personality mainly through her life's work and outlines the formation of the scientific specialization in the Czech environment.

The book deals with the introduction of innovations, particularly environmental innovation. The issue of sustainable development affects all organizations from the economic, social, and environmental perspective. Through environmental innovations, businesses could achieve not only cost cuts and the reduction of their negative impact on environment; the innovations are also a platform for the involvement of employees in improving organizational processes. The publication describes factors influencing the birth and implementation of improvement proposals from the perspective of conservation psychology and organizational psychology. The outcomes of the research could be used as a probe into the system of business innovation support and they also give an idea of how employees view the environmental aspects of innovation activities.

The monograph “The Specifics of Reverse-Flow Management” presents a part of the results of of a long-term exploratory-descriptive research focusing on the access of companies to reverse flows. The text builds on the authors'previous work – Management of reverse flows – by elaborating the following issues: outsourcing, strategy and formal planning of reverse flows, the form of reverse flows, and the information systems support.

The Druzhba pipeline is one of the most important energy infrastructure projects in Central and Eastern Europe, supplying the European part of Russia's former Soviet bloc with oil since the second half of the last century. The future of the pipeline has become uncertain in recent years. The further use of Druzhba is in doubt mainly due to the difficult relations of the Russian Federation with transit countries, and its possible termination is indicated by Moscow's change in its export strategy, namely increasing crude oil exports via sea terminals, at the expense of pipelines. The authors focus on how a potential curtailment of oil supplies by Druzhba can affect the energy situation of the two customer countries, i.e. the Czech Republic and Poland. Also, the text offers answers on many questions, such as Is there a danger of curtailment of the supply of oil via Druzhba to the surveyed countries? If so, what might be the mid-term implications of the situation, economic, security or other? Which actors will be affected by potential supply curtailment and how? The study focuses on the impact on economic entities (firms), the state and even households to a limited extent.

The International Conference is focused on the presentation of theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of financial systems. A special emphasis is laid on new conditions and regulatory measures in the fields of banking, financial markets, insurance, accounting, taxation and their impacts in the corporate sphere. In the insurance field besides, questions covering of new risks, their prophylaxis and financing.

The monograph presents selected results of a long-term empirical research which focused on the attitude of Czech companies to reverse flow management in terms of the perception of a potential value. In addition, it presents a compilation of current knowledge in the field of reverse flow management and value creation within these flows.

The publication is the result of a three-year observation of Czech companies'relation to quality, particularly their awareness of the fact that the quality of their products is a factor of competitiveness of the entire enterprise. The research was carried out using a questionnaire survey in companies in selected sectors. Based on the research of relevant specialized literature, research questions were formulated in the field of product quality, product quality monitoring and control, degree of customer satisfaction, and competitive advantages and disadvantages. Partial analyses were carried out from 2008 to 2010, and only those questions that remained completely unchanged in the individual reporting periods were subjected to mutual comparison. In addition to the survey, the financial indicators of the individual participating companies were analyzed in each year. This enabled the authors to monitor the situation of the company not only in the context of issues of quality, but also relate the results of this survey to their actual financial success. To split the businesses into two groups according to their financial performance five indicators selected on the basis of the research literature and experience with previous similar studies on a similar subject were used.

The International Conference is focused on the presentation of theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of financial systems. A special emphasis is laid on new conditions and regulatory measures in the fields of banking, financial markets, insurance, accounting, taxation and their impacts in the corporate sphere. In the insurance field besides, questions covering of new risks, their prophylaxis and financing.

The aim of the conference is to provide the PhD students and postdocs with a forum for presentations of their research papers, obtaining feedback from conference participants and moderators, and building-up useful contacts for scientific research and sharing experience.

The Faculty of Arts is one of the four founding faculties at Masaryk University in Brno; its creation was linked to the act which established the university in 1919. Due to difficulties with furnishing and staffing, teaching did not commence until 1921. Throughout the remainder of the interwar period, the institution was affected by serious material difficulties, most importantly the absence of suitable buildings for teaching, as a result of which the school almost fell victim to the government's economic interventions into university education on two occasions.

This book discusses the Late Neolithic (Lengyel Culture) part of the settlement in Těšetice-Kyjovice near Znojmo, southern Moravia. It contains detailed analyses of pottery, chipped, polished and other stone industries, malakofauna and osteological material in the context of the Central Danubian region. There is also a statistical analysis of pottery. It is another volume in a planned series of monographs processing and analysing prehistoric settlement of an important polycultural site.