Karel Erný (2 results)

- Hardcover
Seller: Untje.com, Roeselare, BelgiumUntje.com
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dutch Dit boek biedt een uitgebreid overzicht van de biologie en ecologie van vissen, beginnend met de morfologische aspecten zoals motiliteit, kleuren, het geraamte, het spierstelsel en diverse inwendige systemen waaronder de ademhaling, bloedsomloop, spijsvertering en het zenuwstelsel. Naast de anatomie en fysiologie wordt er aandacht besteed aan de evolutie, systematiek en biogeografie van vissen, gevolgd door een analyse van ecologische factoren zoals waterkwaliteit, temperatuur en vervuiling. Verder komen de voortplanting, voeding, groei en groepsdynamica uitgebreid aan bod, evenals het mondiaal belang van de visserij en verschillende vistechnieken in zowel zoet als zout water. Het werk sluit af met een lijvige sectie geïllustreerde beschrijvingen en registers met Nederlandse en Latijnse namen. …

- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Penka Rare Books and Archives, ILAB, Berlin, GermanyPenka Rare Books and Archives, ILAB
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Add to basketPrague: Václav Petr, 1941. Octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative card wrappers, with the publisher's original printed wrap-around band; 120, [2] pp. Very good. Wrappers by the painter Karel ?erný. First edition of this work by Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer Bohuslav Brouk, one of the first promoters of Freud's work in Czechoslovakia. He was a close friend of Karel Teige and a co-founder of the Czech Surrealist Group in 1934. Considered one of the most original minds of the Czech avant-garde, he was also seen as its enfant terrible. Brouk's postscript for ?tyrský's "Emily Comes to Me in a Dream" (1933), a defense of erotic literature, revealed his great interest in sexual freedom, individual creativity, and modern artistic tendencies. His research in the early 1930s focused on topics such as masturbation, sexology, and fetishes, and his works were often censored. With a trenchant wit and rhetorical talent, he set out to destroy what he saw as everyday myths that make a meaningless existence bearable: ethics, work, sport, and marriage, among others. After the war, he was an outstanding public critic of communist ideology and fled the country after the 1948 coup.…