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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
wiley   +1 more source

Detection and genotypes of piroplasms affecting ruminants in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Vet Res
Barghash SM   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*

open access: yesEconomic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.
There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
wiley   +1 more source

Bronze Age make-up recipes from Sudanese Lower Nubia point to a greater diversity across cultural borders in ancient Northeast Africa. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Lemos R   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Accessing Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Teach Financial and Managerial Accounting: A Review and Recommendations

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial and managerial accounting (FMA) courses are critical courses that give first‐year students their first taste of technical accounting content. This paper surveys 20 years of literature in five specialist accounting education journals to draw out research‐informed instructional strategies and associated recommendations on their use and
Sanobar Anjum Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

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