Using MIS is the book that teaches students how people use information systems to solve business problems. Building on students'experience and knowledge base from personal MIS to workgroup MIS to enterprise MIS, this text stresses the important role of Information Systems in satisfying business objectives. Realistic examples, mini-cases, case applications, and thought-provoking review material with projects promote active learning. This text is beneficial to the business professional interested in a basic understanding of management information systems today.

For introductory undergraduate courses in Information Systems taught in MIS, IS, CIS, Business and management departments. Kroenke's Using MIS helps instructors get students involved Using MIS. By actively engaging students it emphasizes how knowledge of MIS will help all business students become better problem solvers and business professionals.

Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.

Appropriate for any course introducing management information systems from a business perspective. This casebook will serve as an ideal complement to most MIS/CIS textbooks. Designed to demonstrate how software can support managerial decision-making activities, this casebook features 24 cases (more than another casebook currently on the market) covering a wide range of functional areas throughout the business, including finance/accounting, HR, production, and information systems. The cases are spread across three difficulty levels basic, intermediate, and advanced. They present common managerial issues and problems, and encourage students to actually use their models to make decisions for the cases characters. They require students to apply spreadsheet, database, Web-page development, and/or presentation graphics software, often in an integrated manner. Many of the cases require students to prepare both written and oral presentations on their solutions. Among the topics covered in MIS Cases: Decision Making with Application Software Second Edition: forecasting, inventory decisions, what-if analyses, pricing strategies, billing decisions, and much more.

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."

An Arab-American college student struggles to live with epilepsy in this starkly colored and deeply-cutting graphic novel. Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college student—but managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a balancing act between his seizure triggers and his day-to-day schedule, but he finds that nothing—not even his medication—seems to work. The doctors won’t listen, the schoolwork keeps piling up, his family is in denial about his condition, and his social life falls apart as he feels more and more isolated by his illness. Even with an unexpected new friend by his side, so much is up against him that Isaac is starting to think his epilepsy might be unbeatable. Based on the author’s own experiences as an epileptic, Mis(h)adra is a boldly visual depiction of the daily struggles of living with a misunderstood condition in today’s hectic and uninformed world.

This Handbook provides critical, interdisciplinary contributions from leading international academics on the theory and methodology, practical applications, and broader context of Management Information Systems, as well as offering potential avenues for future research