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"iWoz traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted... individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive."—Bookpage
Before slim laptops that fit into brief…
Shelve iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
NFL football star Vernon Davis delves into his astonishing career, from winning Super Bowl 50 in 2016 with the Denver Broncos to reinventing himself as an actor and producer, and recalls the hard-won …
Shelve Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was before one pioneering work documented the underground c…
Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as…
Shelve An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and…
Shelve Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histor…
Shelve The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
“Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something that’s genuinely better is very hard.” —Jony Ive In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO with the unenviable task of turning around the compa…
Shelve Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed p…
Shelve Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Illustrated in B/W. A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of the century's most influential technologies.
Shelve The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-…
Shelve Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
#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 this book is different from all the others.
Becoming Ste…
Shelve Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Steve Jobs in his own words A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative ent…
Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. Th…
Shelve The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal re…
Shelve Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals--and most misunderstood presidents
Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military Histor…
Shelve American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done—just look at today's news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrif…
As Sam Walton himself said, this is "...a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story a…
In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he u…
