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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'.Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.The full inside story of the breathtaking r...
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough , John Helyar
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate...
Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World
Clive Thompson
'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z.Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’...
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Ryan Holiday
**An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media c...
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
Don Norman
Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics. Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to tur...
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
Scott Galloway
‘A fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going’ Phil Simon Huffington PostAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got ther...
Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures
Claus O. Wilke
Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business...
The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Blake J. Harris
The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of th...
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
George Gilder
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumb...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
"Wonderfully erudite, humorous, and easy to read." --KDNuggetsIn the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want,...
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Tom Wainwright
Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis
*New York Times* Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”― *Time In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safa...
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Rose George
On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy, and so we must ship. Without shipping there would...
Only the paranoid survive: how to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company and career
Andrew S. Grove
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chipmaker, the fifth-most-admired company in America, and the seventh-most-profitable company among the Fortune 500. You don't achieve rankings like these unless you have mastered a ...
Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story
Sam Walton and John Huey
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.  The undisputed merchant king of the l...