In this original and imaginative slant on contemporary brand management, Thom Braun takes us into the minds of the world's greatest Western thinkers to reveal what they might say about branding if they were alive today. Philosophers covered include Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,...

"In The Advertised Mind du Plessis draws on the very latest research into the workings of the human brain undertaken by psychologists, neurologists and artificial intelligence specialists. He uses this research to suggest why emotion is such an important factor in establishing a firm memory of...

Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction & cross cultural research -- The history of consumer psychology / Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd & Nigel Marlow -- Cross cultural consumption / Susan Forquer Gupta -- Globalization, branding, and multicultural consumer behavior / Carlos J. Torelli & Mara Rodas...