Biography Books


The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World

The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders. In litt…

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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhoo…

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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whos…

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir

The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the…

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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network. The word spread through the hacking undergrou…

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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

THE BASIS FOR IFC FILMS' BLACKBERRYNamed a Best Business Book by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, and more The riveting, true sto…

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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products e…

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, from the author of the seminal Close to th…

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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Author: Brad Stone

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger’s car, or walking into a stranger’s home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it…

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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Author: Tae Kim

"The definitive look at the most remarkable business story of this era." —Morgan Housel, New York Times best-selling author of The Psycholo…

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