Discusses the history of computers and explains their various parts and uses, hardware, software, the Internet, good computer etiquette, and their future. Sidebars answer questions asked on the authors' radio show.

Discusses what hardware computer engineers do and how to prepare for a career in this field.

Presents information on computers, from the abacus to the laptop, including their invention, history, how modern-day computers work, and how they have affected people's lives.

One of my earlier books, this was the first one about work. Sitting down to consider all the jobs I've had, it was only then that I realized I had quite a few -- some without pay. One of the chapters lists them. Other chapters discuss management, consulting, the union -- both of the workers as well as the group fighting the confederacy -- the minimum wage, why we work and working smart rather than working hard.

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills. Less attention is being paid to the 'big picture' or worldview. Author David Rigoni offers an alternative perspective. Using a shaman metaphor, he examines how the most important learning in a professional program takes place between the lines of the formal curriculum. He argues that this worldview change ought to be intentional and that all aspects of the educational process ought to work to that end. To clarify what is needed, the book then looks to educators from throughout history who worked with their students with a total focus on changing their worldviews. These educators, of course, are the shamans.