Biography Books
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
By Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for H…
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of …
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the elec…
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz …
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it. In 2011,…
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. Th…
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136)
How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? Can mathematical notions be used to enhan…
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology …
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was b…
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one. I…