History Books
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy…
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…
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…
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
We are just beginning to see a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make the stuff of I, Robot and the Terminator all too real. …
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough ed…
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022” A SABEW…