Nonfiction Books
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? For future generations, it won't mean any…
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
“boyd’s new book is layered and smart . . . It’s Complicated will update your mind.”—Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review “A fascinatin…
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…
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for m…
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
From three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems using design, prototyping, and testing ideas w…
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…
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 …