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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founde…

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iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later…

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The Road Ahead

Welcome to “The Road Ahead.” We have all been bombarded by the seemingly endless hype about the information highway and the coming age of technolo…

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The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

If you pick your books by their popularity--how many and which other people are reading them--then know this about The Search: it's probably on Bi…

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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society. From the telegraph and…

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shar…

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, …

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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex…

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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the c…

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To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body our s…

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Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

An engrossing, insider’s account of how a teacher built one of the world’s most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart & Amazon—and forever resha…

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Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition

The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains …

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