1. Business

Asia's Digital Dividends: How Asia-Pacific's Corporations Create Value From E-Business

David C. Michael, Greg Sutherland

Asia's Digital Dividends is the first book that thoroughly assesses the implications of e-business for Asia-Pacific's dynamic corporations. It is a groundbreaking work for the region and its companies, with a strong focus on capturing real value - the "digital dividends" that are a top priority for executive teams. This book provides e-managers and e-entrepreneurs in the West with their first coherent, in-depth look at the Asian e-commerce revolution and the wealth of opportunities it presents.

2. Management

The Harvard Entrepreneurs Club Guide to Starting Your Own Business

Poonam Sharma

This guide serves as an introductory survey of the steps involved in the process of successfully starting a business. Targeted specifically at entrepreneurs, recent college graduates and college students, the guide addresses issues such as financing and business plans. Topics covered include: where do you get your idea?; the business plan; financing; identifying your market; legal protection; and stories of undergraduates who have made it.

3. Computer

Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, Third Edition

Adam Drozdek

4. Book of the Month

The Opposite of Fate

Amy Tan

With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. Amy’s tumultuous relationship with her mother, the strongest influence in her life, is captured neatly in the various chapters. The anguish of understanding the story of her mother’s life in her fractured English and of dealing with her decline as she grapples with Alzheimer’s in her final days are poignant. As noted by various reviewers, at the heart of Tan’s stories are the binding ties of mother-daughter relationships and it is in these chapters that one gets a sense of Tan’s own life providing the authenticity to her writing