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  • "The beauty contest"

    Bill Gates presides as Microsoft's WebTV and Xbox development teams duel for the honor of attacking Sony.
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    Stylish new Wodehouse editions and more of our favorite books.
  • The bull in Martha Stewart's china shop

    Christopher Byron explains why his unauthorized biography has ruffled the "queen of whitebread living."
  • Even lamer than a busted dot-com

    "F'd Companies," Philip Kaplan's obituary for online flameouts, is more pathetic than the companies it skewers.
  • Code free or die

    A new biography of Richard Stallman looks at how the free software mastermind got to be so single-mindedly stubborn.
  • Will the Net save China?

    A breathless new book predicts that Chinese digerati will revive their nation's glory -- but massive poverty and autocratic rulers won't vanish at the click of a mouse.
  • Pietro di Donato's "Christ in Concrete"

    The long-lost novel that inspired Jimmy Breslin to write "The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez."
  • The man who bought the world

    Liberals love George Soros because he supports good causes. But his life also shows that if you make enough money, you don't have to obey anybody's rules.
  • Evolution, Enron-style

    Not all fast-mutating organisms flourish. Some go extinct.
  • California scheming

    "Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is the first good book about one of capitalism's most embarrassing debacles.
  • Ghost arcade

    Old video games never die -- they just become collectibles and haunt our dreams.
  • How the music industry blew it

    John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading.
  • Dumb, dumber and theglobe.com

    A memoir by whiz kid turned dot-com refugee Stephan Paternot is as silly as the company he founded.
  • Wall Street gets an F

    Two new books on the economy blast investment bankers for bias and warn that the financial system is out of anyone's control.
  • Better dead than fat

    The pharmaceutical industry hooked millions on the dangerous diet drug fen-phen by manufacturing demand and ignoring warnings, says a new book.
  • The patriot

    He was prepared to shed blood to defend liberty. What separates American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from thousands of other gun-worshiping zealots?
  • The scared-stiff workaholic

    Robert Reich's "The Future of Success" says we're too insecure to stop working.
  • Finishing last in the race for dot-com riches

    Could there be a worse time than now to publish a book revealing the secrets of Internet start-up success?
  • There are spies among us. Yawn

    A new book shines a light on the surprisingly unexciting world of corporate secret stealing.
  • Capitalism is dead. Long live capitalism!

    In his new book, Dinesh D'Souza argues that dot-com prosperity is just another beneficiary of the Reagan legacy.
  • Missing the eBay point

    A new book about the auction Web site sheds little light on one of the Net's biggest successes.
  • Enter the "yettie"

    The "young entrepreneurial technocrat" has arrived: Finally, Mouse Jockeys and Nerds Made Good have an acronym of their own.
  • Computer toy joy

    Robot buddies will lead our children into a bright future, says Mark Pesce in his new book, "The Playful World."
  • The new, improved Steve Jobs

    Even if he did try to stop publication of a biography about him, there's a lot to admire about the Apple CEO, says author Alan Deutschman.
  • The once and future Steve Jobs

    How the comeback kid remade Apple -- from the "Think Different" campaign to a "loose lips sink ships" reign of terror.
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