The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
By: Blake J. Harris
4.04
Format: 528 pages, ebook
The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual r…
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1. Upgraded
By: E. Catherine Tobler , Robert Reed , Yoon Ha Lee , Ken Liu , Peter Watts , Rachel Swirsky , Greg Egan , Jason K. Chapman , Tobias S. Buckell , Genevieve Valentine , Rich Larson , Benjanun Sriduangkaew , Neil Clarke , Chen Qiufan , Xia Jia , Elizabeth Bear , E. Lily Yu , Alex Dally MacFarlane , A.C. Wise , Madeline Ashby , Seth Dickinson , Mari Ness , Erin Hoffman , None , Greg Mellor , Helena Bell , Erin Cashier
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
An anthology of original cyborg stories edited by a cyborg. Stronger. Better. Faster. We will rebui… read more
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2. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
By: Steven Levy
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would… read more
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3. Abomination
By: Gary Whitta
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
He is England's greatest knight, the man who saved the life of Alfred the Great and an entire kingd… read more
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4. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
By: Jason Schreier
4.75
Format: None pages,
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5. Stay Awhile and Listen : How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a Video-Game Empire
By: David L. Craddock , Andrew Magrath , Monica Cesario , None
2.00
Format: 161 pages, ebook
Two companies. Two opposing cultures. One multi-billion-dollar video-game empire. Stay Awhile and L… read more
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6. More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
By: Michael J. Mauboussin
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Michael Mauboussin, one of Wall Street's most creative and influential minds offers provocative new… read more
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7. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
By: Wil Wheaton , David Kushner
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
Masters of Doomis the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack a… read more
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8. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
By: Antonio García Martínez
4.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Liar's Pokermeets The Social Networkin an irreverent expose of life inside the tech bubble, from in… read more
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9. Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
By: Sid Meier
4.19
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming,” an… read more
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"In the right context, a game is not just a vehicle for fun, but an exercise in self-determination and confidence."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Separately is probably how I work best with everyone, to be honest. I'm an introvert who likes people: I want to collaborate on the whole, but do my part individually."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Whatever it is you want to be good at, you have to make sure you continue to read, and learn, and seek joy elsewhere, because you never know where inspiration will strike."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Games were not just a diversion, I realized. Games could make you feel. If great literature could would its power through nothing but black squiggles on a page, how much more could be done with movem…"-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
10. The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
By: Ben Mezrich
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post! From one of our most innovative and celebrated aut… read more
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"Because so many people were betting against GameStop —and brick-and-mortar retail in general — the overall short position was enormous, almost comically so. At certain points over the past six months…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"And as a long-short fund, he'd also been obligated to take short positions — betting against companies — which was a tactic that, to most experts in finance, was uncontroversial. The thinking went, w…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Which meant, if somehow GameStop did start to go up, the people who had shorted the company would begin to feel pressure to buy; the more the stock went up, the heavier that pressure became. As the s…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Keith was sophisticated enough to understand the inherent risk of options; buying options wasn't as dangerous as short selling, because your potential for loss was capped, because you could always le…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
11. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
By: Jimmy Soni
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * … read more
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12. Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
By: Jason Schreier
4.05
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scene… read more
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13. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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14. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
By: Matthew L. Ball
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ― United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China ( Wall Street Journal, … read more
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15. Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games
By: Cliff Bleszinski
3.90
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game in… read more
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16. Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
By: Lori Garver
3.84
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The inside look at how the battle of the space billionaires began and why it matters, Escaping Grav… read more
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17. Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back
By: Cate Shanahan
4.40
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known … read more
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18. The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
By: Blake J. Harris
4.04
Format: 528 pages, ebook
The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual r… read more
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19. Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It
By: Brian Dumaine
3.77
Format: 336 pages, ebook
An in-depth, revelatory, and unbiased look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current… read more
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20. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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21. Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
By: Peter Rubin
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the fu… read more
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