The Great MigrationJonathan Scott Elm Tree Books, London, 1988, 159 pp., HB £25.00

CJE 27/2 pp. 159-175 FINAL

In his classic book The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard claimed that large corporations manipulated consumers, using advertising techniques. John Kenneth Galbraith and others have repeated a similar view. Against this, Gary Becker and George Stigler have claimed that advertising is essentially informative rather than manipulative. In contrast, it is argued here that both of these opposed accou...

The Great Brain Books, Revisited

In 1999, Cerebrum published a list of books about the brain, guiding regular readers to ―the great books, past and present, that capture the unfolding story of the brain and how brain research is changing our ideas about memory and emotion, life span and language, neurological disorders and psychiatric syndromes.‖ Eleven years later, the need for such a list is even greater—more than 30,000 bra...

The Performance of the hB - pi Tree

The hB-pi tree is a multi-attribute index method which combines the hB tree, a multi-attribute access structure and the II-tree, an abstract index with efficient concurrency and recovery methods. The hB-pi tree is a balanced tree and adapts well to different data distributions. Furthermore, the hB-pi tree inherits the efficient concurrency and recovery methods from the II tree. This paper provi...

The great plague in London in 1665.

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book the great plague in london in 1665. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space to bring the book for t...

Topology Proceedings 6 (1981) pp. 159-177: THE EMBEDDING OF HOMEOMORPHISMS IN CONTINUOUS FLOWS