History Books
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
From the New York Times –bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life , a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.<…
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From trendy restaurants to city gr…
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes…
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis - a cult classic now updated and reissued with a …
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 …
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 Technological Society
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its fi…
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 …
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
For centuries people communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried and …
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. Th…