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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Art and Power in the Reign of Catherine the Great: The State Portraits

, 2014
This dissertation examines the relationship between art and power in the reign of Catherine II of Russia (1762-1796). It considers Catherine's state portraits as historical texts that revealed symbolic manifestations of autocratic power, underscoring the
McBurney, Erin
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Isabel de Madariaga : Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great, 1990 ; I. de Madariaga : Catherine the Great. A Short History, 1990 ; John T. Alexander : Catherine the Great. Life and Legend, 1989

, 1992
Michaud Claude. Isabel de Madariaga : Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great, 1990 ; I. de Madariaga : Catherine the Great. A Short History, 1990 ; John T. Alexander : Catherine the Great. Life and Legend, 1989. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°24, 1992.
Michaud, Claude
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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CATHERINE THE GREAT: THE ARCHITECTURAL BIOGRAPHY

Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The space of culture, 2023
The paper deals with the problem of architectural agenda of Russian empress Catherine the Great. The keen interess fo the empress was to create an ideal word full of images of great civilizations of the past particulary of Roman empire. At the same tiem she thought of the buildings created in the days of her reigning as “future antiquity”.
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS BY DON PHARMACY

Кубанский научный медицинский вестник, 2017
This article examines the historical aspects of the creation of pharmacy organizations in the Don from the beginning of the 18th century. The development of the pharmaceutical business of our region is associated with the names of the great men of the ...
T. G. DERGOUSOVA
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Female Rulers of the Two Empires: Representation Strategies of Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great

, 2020
he paper examines parallels and difference between representation strategies of Maria Theresia and Catherine the Great. It is based on two groups of interrelated images illustrating double nature of the Empress, i.e.
Ekaterina Skvortcova, Skvortcova, Ekaterina Alksandrovna   +1 more
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