The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier
The Space Baron…
Shelve The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket Boys
The dramatic inside story of the…
Shelve Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
How did a shaky startup that barely got its first rocket off the ground defy expectations to become the world’s leading spaceflight company? Get the untold story of the team of game-changers, led by …
Shelve Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight d…
Shelve Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the …
Shelve Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game.Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they have their own names. When …
“Stephen Witt’s deep reporting shines through every page of The Thinking Machine. The result is a page-turning biography of perhaps the most consequential CEO and company in the world.” —David Epstein…
Shelve The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
THE BASIS FOR IFC FILMS' BLACKBERRYNamed a Best Business Book by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, and more The riveting, true story of the BlackBerry empire—and how it would eventuall…
Shelve Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing, two former astronauts tell of the intense human drama behind the lunar race between two superpowers, and of the sacrifices and risks ask…
Shelve Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the gen…
Shelve Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century—an astounding net worth of $10 billion, and co…
Shelve Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist