History Books
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“America’s funniest science writer” ( Washington Post ) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times …
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and …
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with …
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
Computers are everywhere today -- at work, in the bank, in artist's studios, sometimes even in our pockets -- yet they remain to many of us object…
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 Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As sh…
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a human-compute…
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silico…
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are exten…
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckon…