Product Description: A collection of poems from Czech poet Holub, half from before the Soviet invasion, the other half from after 1968.

A collection of short essays and observations explores the interaction between everyday life and the scientific world (view table of contents)

Product Description: From the microscopic to the mundane, Miroslav Holub's first collection of observations is a delight for thoughtful readers. Holub's dry wit and scientific acumen focus on the intersection of the scientific world with everyday life, finding bemused delight in the mysteries of the universe and the often surreal details of life and politics in Prague...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the time of his death in 1998, Miroslav Holub was one of the most widely admired poets on the planet. This collection spans almost forty years of writing, much of it under circumstances that involved risk and silence, living under Communism, pursuing a career as a scientist, and carrying on the twentieth century's experimental tradition in poetry...read more

Product Description: Better known as Czechoslovakia's finest poet, Miroslav Holub is also a superb prose stylist. The fifty-five `essaylets'...each forty-three lines in length, first appeared in the magazine Vim. Adhering to the magazine's strictures on length, Holub invented a new genre that imposes additional limits on the arts limits that are spatial, social, political, and spiritual...read more

Essays by a leading Czech poet and scientist discuss the concept of the present, what made early humans human, the sex life of laboratory mice, the health of Napoleon and Lincoln, and other topics in science, human behavior, and their ethical dimensions

Product Description: Immunology of Nude Mice presents a discussion of the nature of this viable laboratory mutant. This new volume updates all immunological information contained in the sparse literature concerning nude mice. It comprehensively explores some of the fre-quent questions associated with nude mice, such as if the mutant is really athymic or if the thymic defect causes all of the other deviations from brain to gonads...read more

Product Description: Miroslav Holub was hailed as a major figure in East European literature and praised for a sensibility, permeated by scientific thought, that bridged dangerous gaps and specious divisions in human knowledge. This collection's ten-page title poem, Holub's longest, is among the major long poems of the second half-century...read more