The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
By: Laine Nooney
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a m…
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1. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
By: Steve Krug
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since Don't Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers ha… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- technology
2. The Pentagon's Brain
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
3. CyberStorm
By: Matthew Mather
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes the worst storms aren't caused by Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren'… read more
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4. On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
By: Brian Bagnall
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Filled with first-hand accounts of ambition, greed, and inspired engineering, this history of the p… read more
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5. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
7. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
9. The Lost Cause
By: Cory Doctorow
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more
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10. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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- technology
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
11. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- technology
13. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
14. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
15. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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16. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- technology
17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
18. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By: Cory Doctorow
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- technology
19. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
20. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
By: Taylor Lorenz
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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- history
- business
- technology
21. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- history
22. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
23. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
24. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- business
- technology
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
25. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
By: Keith Houston
3.87
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped bui… read more
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- history
- business
- technology
26. Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet
By: Richard Moss
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Shareware Heroes takes readers on a journey through a critical yet long overlooked chapter in video… read more
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- history
- business
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27. In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
By: Kyla Scanlon
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
“Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.” —Morgan House… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
28. The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
By: Jake Berman
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities. Every driver … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. The Night of Baba Yaga
By: Akira Otani
3.40
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more
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30. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
By: Laine Nooney
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a m… read more
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- apple
- business
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