Science Books
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
Computer manufacturing is—after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great succe…
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, emergent AI tyrants, and limitless growth—pervert public dis…
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Pos…
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Steph…
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California crea…
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. …
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
From Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the global tech podcast Exponential View, comes a bold exploration and call-to-arms over…
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant…
Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science
This book is designed to be used as the primary textbook in a college-level first course in computing. It takes a fairly traditional approach, emp…
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains …