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Console Wars
Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Goodreads
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary...
Googled
The End of the World As We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.
There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling...
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace.
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking...
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care
Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients,...
The History of the Future
Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
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.
From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But...
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeek
With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the...
Dot Complicated
Untangling Our Wired Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.
Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since...
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME
The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here...
by Tom Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The sacred history and profane present of a substance long seen as the essence of health and civilization.
For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are...
Cockpit Confidential
Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A New York Times bestseller
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...
How...
Freedom's Forge
How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal
Freedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General...
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
On ship-tracking websites, 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...
by Gary Taubes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.
Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today...