The Fourth Edition of USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY is about our future, a future rapidly becoming the present Information technology is not just something to make our lives easier it is work, and changing it fast. It redetining entire industries It is changing the nature of is altering conventional meanings of time and space. Information technology, as one observer stated, is now as vital as the air we breathe. This book puts the reader in the front row of this revolution.

Features of this Edition:

New Organization & Emphasis on "E-Concepts."

Using Information Technology is table of contents has been reorganized to permit greater treatment of "e-concepts." Because the Internet and World Wide Web are now so widespread, we decided to treat "e-concepts" earlier in the text and more extensively.

Emphasis on Practicality.

This edition not only covers fundamental concepts but also offers a great deal of found in computer magazines, is expressed throughout the text in the Bookmark This! Practical Action Boxes practical advice. This advice, similar to that

Emphasis on Ethics.

Many texts discuss ethics in isolation, but we believe this area is too important to be treated last or lightly. Ethical matters are

featured throughout the book and identified by a special logo. We discuss such all-important issues as copying of Internet files, online plagiarism, privacy, computer crime, and netiquette.

The Total Solution

The biggest advantage of the Fourth Edition of Using Information Technology is its ability to work with the other elements of McGraw-Hill/Irwin's Total Solution:

The Student Online Learning Center- For each chapter, the

student Online Learning Center offers both a review of the text material and additional exercises organized around the following themes: Group/team projects, Internet/Web-related content, mini-case studies of actual companies, and profiles of careers that are influenced by information technology.

Pageout-PageOut is McGraw-Hill's Course Website Development Center. In a little under an hour, you can have a professionally designed website that offers a syllabus page. URL, McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center content, online exercises and quizzes, gradebook, discussion board, and an area for student Web pages. Visit the PageOut website at

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