OTHER TITLES OF INTEREST.

Just for Fun (HarperBusiness) is the biography of Linus Torvalds, the eccentric Finn whose Linux computer operating system has challenged the global hegemony of Microsoft. Penned by Torvalds himself with the help of writer David Diamond, the book tells the story of how it all began in 1981, when Torvalds' grandfather let him play with a computer. Torvalds then spent his adolescence programming frenetically in the 1990s and used the Internet to spread his open-source code free of charge. Readers interested in knowing where high technology is heading should take a look it's full of good humor and entertaining anecdotes.

For Shawn R McCarthy, the Internet has become commercial battle ground. In The Art of.COMbat (Wiley,John & Sons Incorporated), McCarthy uses The Art of War, a 2,000-year-old combat manual by Chinese general Sun Tzu, to highlight winning strategies in the digital war. Mccarthy describes using the Internet as "a strategic weapon" to conquer key markets and find competitors' weak spots. The author, who is also a financial consultant, uses his experience at Lycos to strengthen theoretical arguments with real-life examples. e a com