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Ancient Egyptians at Play

Board Games Across Borders

By: Walter Crist,Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi,Alex de Voogt

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Ancient Egyptians at Play

Board Games Across Borders

By: Walter Crist,Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi,Alex de Voogt

The rich history of Egypt has provided famous examples of board games played in antiquity. Each of these games provides evidence of contact between Egypt and its neighbours. From pre-dynastic rule to Arab and Ottoman invasions, Egypt's past is visible on game boards. 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 civilizations. Game practices, which were also part of Egyptian rituals and divination, travelled throughout the eastern Mediterranean. This book explores the role of Egypt in accepting and disseminating games during its long history. Over the last few years, the extent and the modes of contact have become better understood through museum and archival research projects as well as surveys of archaeological sites in Egypt and its surrounding regions. The results allow new insight into ancient Egypt's international relations and the role of board games research in understanding its extent. Written by three authors known internationally for their expertise on this topic, this will be the first volume on Ancient Egyptian games of its kind and a much-needed contribution to the field of both Egyptology and board games studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474221203

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9781474221207

Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

By: Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt

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Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

By: Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt

Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a century by psychologists, there was until now no single volume summarizing psychological research into board games. This book, which is the first systematic study of psychology and board games, covers topics such as perception, memory, problem solving and decision making, development, intelligence, emotions, motivation, education, and neuroscience. It also briefly summarizes current research in artificial intelligence aiming at developing computers playing board games, and critically discusses how current theories of expertise fare with board games. Finally, it shows that the information provided by board game research, both data and theories, have a wider relevance for the understanding of human psychology in general.

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487

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Psychology Press

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1135425124

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9781135425128

The Meroitic Language and Writing System

By: Claude Rilly,Alex de Voogt

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The Meroitic Language and Writing System

By: Claude Rilly,Alex de Voogt

This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. In addition to providing a full history of the script and an analysis of the phonology, grammar, and linguistic affiliation of the language it features: linguistic analyses for those working on Nilo-Saharan comparative linguistics, paleographic tables useful to archeologists for dating purposes, and an overview of texts that can be translated or understood by way of analogy for those working on Nubian religion, history, and archaeology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107008662

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The Meroitic Language and Writing System

By: Claude Rilly,Alex de Voogt

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By: Claude Rilly,Alex de Voogt

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Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

By: Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt

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The Psychology of Board Games

By: Fernand Gobet,Jean Retschitzki,Alex de Voogt

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Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety

Research and Operational Experiences in Aviation Psychology

By: Dr Alex de Voogt,Dr Teresa C D'Oliveira

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Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety

Research and Operational Experiences in Aviation Psychology

By: Dr Alex de Voogt,Dr Teresa C D'Oliveira

How should we organize our selection or training procedures? In what way can a flight crew mediate problems? How are we to understand reported errors? Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety presents recent findings in aviation psychology, bringing fresh insights to such questions. Aviation psychologists study personnel selection and training; they evaluate the management of flight operations, and ultimately they analyse the things that went wrong. The strong interrelation between these components allows us to talk about a chain of safety. This volume appraises this chain of safety by considering the mechanisms that determine its effectiveness - input mechanisms, coping mechanisms and control mechanisms. Each contribution discusses a component of the chain while the book as a whole emphasizes and illustrates that understanding the connections between these parts is essential for the future. By addressing these issues the book leads to further considerations such as how mistakes are linked to training and how coping mechanisms should help us to understand errors and accidents. Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety will appeal to aviation professionals (human factors experts, safety managers, pilots, ATCOs, air navigation service providers, etc.) and academics, researchers, graduates and postgraduates in human factors and psychology. Although primarily written for the aviation industry, this book will also be of interest to other high-risk dynamic activities that face similar challenges: the need to present effective and safe outcomes to the public in general and the stakeholders in particular.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409486907

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9781409486909

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Ancient Egyptians at Play

Ancient Egyptians at Play

Moves in Mind

Moves in Mind

The Meroitic Language and Writing System

The Meroitic Language and Writing System

The Meroitic Language and Writing System

The Meroitic Language and Writing System

Moves in Mind

Moves in Mind

Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety

Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety

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