"This text provides students with an introduction to basic computer skills and experience, enhanced by helpful pedagogical aids, including case studies and highlighted features such as Portfolio Development, Reflective Practice, Computing Timelines, Filmographies, bibliographical sources, and a text-linked glossary of key computer terms." "New in the Second Edition: In addition to being thoroughly updated, a totally new Chapter 1 has been added to...

Since the 1960s, the rapid evolution of technology has created a new cultural geography--a virtual geography. The Difference Engine: Computing, Knowledge and the Transformation of Learning offers a conscious critique of this change and its effects on contemporary culture and education. This engaging text assumes that we are at a critical moment--one where we are moving from a modern into a post-modern culture-- and examines the seven key components...

W.E.B Du Bois stands as the preeminent Africanist and Pan-Africanist of the twentieth century, but, also, arguably the most important Black intellectual of his time. Though often lauded for his work on African Americans specifically, he was also the champion of the African continent, its peoples, and its entire diaspora throughout his life. Despite this fact, his work on Africa has been underemphasized and under theorized in much of the scholarly...