G. Pascal Zachary

The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy
(Westview, 2003)

In The Diversity Advantage, Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals that the key new determinants for any nation’s economic, political and cultural success are, surprisingly, a diverse population and a mongrel sense of self. Roaming the globe, Zachary shows how the rise of new forms of identity and migration are helping to determine who will win and who will lose in the next century.

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
(MIT Press edition, 1999)

At MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) was a pioneer computer designer. He is best known for his role in Washington during World War II: as an adviser to President Roosevelt, he organizaed the Manhattan project and oversaw the work of 6,000 other civilian scientists designing new weapons. His 1945 report "Science -- The Endless Frontier" spurred the creation of a system of public support for university research that endures to this day.

Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
(The Free Press, 1994)

One of the first detailed accounts of the inside of Microsoft, Showstopper remains a classic in the literature of high-tech, a dramatic glimpse at the world of high-stakes software programming.