Biography Memoir Books
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whos…
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change…
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of h…
Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out t…
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicati…
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied…
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a f…
Uncanny Valley
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age In her mid-twenties, at the height…
Elon Musk
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversia…
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a…