Biography Books
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…
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. La…
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé …
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…
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in…
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a human-compute…
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silico…
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are exten…
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
“What does it mean to manage well?” From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive …