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...Caste is a complicated concept described in the Encyclopedia Britannica as a form of hierarchical social order practised by Hindus in south Asia that is “upheld by a complex cultural ideology”....
...Encyclopedia Britannica has one list. The IMDb movie database has another. I ask if she knows the right number. “No,” comes that brisk, familiar voice down the telephone line. “No idea.”...
...In his book The Disruption Dilemma, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management professor Joshua Gans recounts how Microsoft’s CD-Rom encyclopedia thrived in the 1990s after market leader Britannica...
...According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Because of their preoccupation with form and their ivory-tower aloofness, the Acmeists were regarded with suspicion by the Soviet regime.”...
...Encyclopedia Britannica was a concept conceived in 1768 in the head of a Scot: William Smellie (with much content borrowed from Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson)....
...Stopping the presses on the Brockhaus is different from stopping the presses on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The 250-year era of western encyclopedia-making appears to be ending....
...By contrast, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, allows anyone who follows some basic rules to make a contribution and to gain access to the information they need....
...Encyclopaedia Britannica the company has largely moved away from the encyclopedia....
...In 1998 the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards suffered cracked ribs from a falling set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Well, it’s all over now....
...This was the title of an introductory essay for a 54-volume set, Great Books of the Western World, once marketed by the Encyclopedia Britannica. The essay was written by editor-in-chief Robert M....
...Sir, Sarah Gordon starts her article about the Encyclopedia Britannica switching from paper editions to online with: “The forests will benefit” (“Battleground over web content shifts decisively to quality...
...Crowd-sourced Wikipedia (flawed, quick and free) helped drive Britannica (authoritative, labour-intensive and dear) out of the paper encyclopedia business....
...Sources: Thomson Reuters, ITRI, ICSG, ILZSG, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Encyclopedia Britannica...
...Encyclopedia Britannica – Debt Bondage — description ( in slavery (sociology) ) A person became an indentured servant by borrowing money and then voluntarily agreeing to work off the debt during a specified...
...For a fee, you would have Microsoft Encarta, and the Encyclopedia Britannica online....
...Already in the 1952 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (the one I have on my shelves) there is an ominous sign: the article on rivers is entitled “River and River Engineering”....
...With five full-time employees, it is ten times bigger than Encyclopedia Britannica and roughly the same in accuracy.4 It runs on a wiki, software that enables users to edit the content of Web pages....
...It’s an anti-encyclopedia. Its contents (eg, 20 “strange facts about hair”) are totally random and pointless. Why? Because that’s the only rational response to information overload....
...Last year, the magazine Nature published the findings of a comparison between the open online encyclopedia and Britannica....
...This same pattern, in which “micropowers” are successfully contesting the dominion of traditional “megaplayers”, is also in evidence in a far more cerebral market: encyclopedias....
...It selected a number of scientific topics and asked experts on each to review that topic’s entry in both Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, and summarise the errors they found....
...Others dismiss the idea of an encyclopedia written by amateurs as old-fashioned 1960s utopianism....
...NHM curator Richard Sabin compares the collection to “an encyclopedia” - but most of the public has ditched the Britannica in favour of a click or two on Google....
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