History Books
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influen…
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create…
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the elec…
Technics and Human Development
Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because …
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . W…
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz …
The Soul of a New Machine
The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done—just look at today's news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated yo…
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it. In 2011,…
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…
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. La…