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The Teapot Dome Scandal
How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome.
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Tim Cook
The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Journalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011.
The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder memorably records the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market.
Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the...
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent
The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Famed aviation pioneer Donald Douglas once said "Every airplane flying today has some Jack Northrop in it." Northrop was an aviation genius who was more interested in developing new technology than selling airplanes or making a fortune. The Northrop story is the story of American aviation history; he...
by Mason Inman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."
In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since.
Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped...
The Google Guys
Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
How much do you really know about Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
The Google Guys skips past the general Google story and focuses on what really drives the company's founders. Richard L. Brandt shows the company as the brainchild of two brilliant individuals and looks at Google's...
The Players Ball
A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
“An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still...
Uncanny Valley
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age
In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial—left a job in book publishing for...
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat,...
The Fifth Domain
Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
**An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts--and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone.
"In the battle raging between offense...
by Professor Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology, Dr Elisabetta Costa
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact...
Whiplash
How to Survive Our Faster Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist.
The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time...
Greed and Glory on Wall Street
The Fall of the House of Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street
In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who...