Biography Memoir Books


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…

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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…

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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…

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Elon Musk

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversia…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, from the author of the seminal Close to th…

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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

1 New York Times Bestseller There have been many books—on a large and small scale—about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But t…

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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of spa…

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