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Phoebe Apperson Hearst měla velmi úspěšného vlastního syna Williama, který byl ale více jako jeho otec: tvrdý obchodník. Našla však jemnou, uměleckou duši v malíři Orrinu Peckovi (1860–1921), který byl údajně gay a který ji, ještě za života své vlastní matky, začal oslovovat „má druhá mámo.“ Na základě podrobného výzkumu jejich vzájemné korespondence v Peckově pozůstalosti se můžeme ptát, jak moc si byla progresivní, bohatá žena 19. století, jakou byla Phoebe Hearst, vědoma Peckovy sexuality a pokud ano, jestli s tím neměla problém, nebo šlo o nevyřčené tajemství mezi nimi? Jejich příběh představí historik umění Ladislav Zikmund-Lender. Phoebe Apperson Hearst had a very successful son of William, but he was more like his father: a tough businessman. However, she found a delicate, artistic soul in the painter Orrin Peck (1860–1921), who was allegedly gay and who, while still his own mother's life, began to address her as “my second mother.” Based on a detailed study of their correspondence in Peck's estate, we may ask how much a progressive, rich 19th-century woman like Phoebe Hearst was aware of Peck's sexuality, and if so, if she had no problem with it, or was it an unspoken secret between them? Their story will be presented by art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender.

The globalisation of the world has a human face – growing international migration. This phenomenon raises various issues in the fields of politics, demography, culture, religion and national security... and of course labour law. This book examines the topic from several different angles, such as the precarisation of migrant workers, equal treatment, posting of workers, and forced labour. The final chapter analyses the legal system of the Czech Republic and its challenges with regard to international migration. The team of authors is composed of academics from various Central and Eastern European countries. Globalizace světa má svou lidskou tvář – rostoucí mezinárodní migraci. Tento fenomén vyvolává různé otázky v oblasti politiky, demografie, kultury, náboženství a národní bezpečnosti… a samozřejmě pracovního práva. Kniha se zabývá tímto tématem z několika různých úhlů pohledu, jako je prekarizace migrujících pracovníků, rovné zacházení s nimi, vysílání pracovníků do zahraničí a nucená práce. Závěrečná kapitola analyzuje právní systém České republiky a jeho výzvy v souvislosti s mezinárodní migrací. Autorský kolektiv je složen z akademiků z různých zemí střední a východní Evropy.

In 1939, due to WWII and the Nuremberg Laws, the revolutionary Czech structural engineer Jaroslav J. Polívka arrived in the United States. After his arrival, he started a research job at UC Berkeley, renewed his engineering practice, and offered his services to the US military as many businesspersons did during this era. Polívka worked for Henry Kaiser who turned Richmond, CA, into a vibrant, fast developing workers city. New residential districts, hospitals, hangars, docks, and warehouses were built there. Henry Kaiser approached the structural development of the city in the same way he revolutionized the construction of battleships: from prefabricated, standardized parts. He supported research and development of new technologies. Mobile, round-shaped hospitals from prefabricated aluminum frames were one of the results of that research. In 1946, Jaroslav J. Polívka introduced himself to the “starchitect” Frank Lloyd Wright. A productive mutual co-operation that lasted 13 years and resulted in eight spectacular projects had started and Polívka, who had been working on extensive research both at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, came up with many technological, structural, and material innovations over the period. In 1957, Henry Kaiser funded the construction of one of the two geodesic domes designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in Hawaii and in the process he invited Frank Lloyd Wright to consult the project. Jaroslav J. Polívka was probably in direct contact with Fuller, since he wanted to include him in his unfinished project of an encyclopedia of the world-famous structural engineers. On this particular story and a social matrix evolving around Henry Kaiser and Frank Lloyd Wright, the lecture seeks to rethink architectural global modernism as a cooperative project rather than a series of individual innovations manifested by isolated genius figures.

A comparative survey of astrophysical knowledge and skills of secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and other countries will be briefly described. In summary, the main results will be highlighted. The paper deals with the current state of the teaching of astrophysics at grammar schools in our country, with comments on a valid textbook. There are reasons why to teach to astrophysics and how to motivate it. The emphasis will be on the teaching of astrophysics at secondary schools, mainly in cooperation with Dr. Domańskim from Toruń. Essential parts are selected sample of ideas on the interpretation of physical content and the concept of teaching astrophysics based on published articles. Nejprve bude stručně charakterizován srovnávací průzkum astrofyzikálních vědomostí a dovedností žáků středních škol u nás, v Polsku, v Rusku a v dalších státech. Shrnujícím způsobem budou připomenuty hlavní výsledky. Dále se příspěvek zabývá současným stavem výuky astrofyziky na gymnáziích u nás, připomínkami k platné učebnici. Následně jsou uváděny důvody, proč astrofyziku vyučovat, jak provádět její motivaci. Těžištěm bude problematika výuky astrofyziky na středních školách, obsažená především ve spolupráci s Dr. Domańskim z Toruně. Podstatnou částí jsou vybrané ukázkové náměty na interpretaci fyzikálního obsahu a pojetí výuky astrofyziky, vycházející z publikovaných článků.

The objective of this study is to propose a trustworthy, valid and consistent methodological approach for measuring the efficiency of a logistics platform, where an entire country constitutes a logistic platform. Traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is found to be an appropriate tool – if its weaknesses are eliminated. DEA results are highly influenced by the choice of appropriate inputs and outputs variables, but the method itself does not provide guidance for their identification. The authors therefore propose to integrate traditional DEA by combining the Delphi technique with the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, which will assist in identifying proper, consistent input/output variables, evaluated by their relevance. The proposed framework allows the performance evaluation of the selected platform’s element or elements. It is thus a useful decision support tool for enterprises (private, public, both) that are managing logistics platforms and trying to improve their productivity in order to sustain or improve their position on the competitive market. This methodology allows comparative efficiency analyses to be estimated for similar countries. The presented methodology on one hand enables tailor-made solutions, but on the other hand is very general, and, with minor adjustments, can be applied by a variety of firms and industries. It can be applied in private sector firms in production and service industries, to analyse the relative performance of diverse logistics and non-logistics services, and in public profit or non-profit organisations.