History Books
The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest …
Elon Musk
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversia…
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…
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…
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening t…
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…
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 …
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…
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compel…
The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time
Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the worl…