Product Description: Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary Bruce Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business...read more

Product Description: A tender and charming account of a marriage and a fascinating look at how two people come to know each other across culture and race.G. Pascal Zachary is a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal when he finds love in, of all places, the zoo in Accra, Ghana...read more

Argues that a nation's economic, political, and cultural successes are tied to its diversity, profiling an emerging global civilization while explaining how new forms of identity and migration are creating strength in various countries. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A Wall Street Journal correspondent's visionary, big-picture look at why countries, businesses, and people win and lose in an increasingly multicultural world.. Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What qualities will insure the continued dominance in the new millennium of U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Follows the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most politically and economically influential engineers and inventors

Describes the five-year, 150 million dollar project Microsoft undertook to develop an advanced PC operating system (view table of contents)