Books written by Alex de Voogt

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  The Meroitic Language and Writing System

  The demonstratives have plural markers such as -roY in Old Nubian, -gu in Kenuzi-Dongolawi, and -gu in Nara. The plural suffix of Meroitic follows the Nubian and Nara cases seamlessly. Tama has a plural demonstrative -y', and this tone ...

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  Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games

  Note that nationality is inadequate for a definition of culture (Irvine & Berry, 1988; Poortinga, 1977), and that the environmental variables identified in cross-cultural psychology also include socio-economic factors, family size and ...

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  Ancient Egyptians at Play: Board Games Across Borders

  This volume starts by introducing the reader to board games as well as instruments of chance and goes on to trace the history and distribution of ancient Egyptian games, looking particularly at how they show contact with other cultures and ...

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  The Idea of Writing: Writing Across Borders

  This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.

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  Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety: Research and Operational Experiences in Aviation Psychology

  ... complex socio-technical systems of work. Rather than attempting to tabulate error in order to design interventions to reduce this error, resilience engineering places emphasis on ... error type and error detection mechanism in the context.

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  Ancient Egyptians at Play: Board Games Across Borders

  This volume starts by introducing the reader to board games as well as instruments of chance and goes on to trace the history and distribution of ancient Egyptian games, looking particularly at how they show contact with other cultures and ...