History Books
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of me…
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Am…
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé …
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
The definitive guide to the cloud computing revolution. Hailed as "the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement" (Chris…
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the…
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the prese…
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it. Cory Doctorow's Enshittification t…
Technics and Civilization
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the mac…
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human j…
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, co…