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Steve Jobs
A Biography
Draws on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors and colleagues, to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.NPR Bestseller
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Worm
The First Digital World War
Using the history of the Conficker computer worm as a centerpiece, the author discusses the war raging over the Internet, between those who want to exploit it and those who aim to protect it. By the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down. 75,000 first printing.
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Ghost in the Wires
My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker
The world's most famous former computer hacker, now a security consultant, describes his life on the run from the FBI creating fake identities, finding jobs at a law firm and a hospital, and keeping tabs on his pursuers.
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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices
How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives
The MIT Media Lab has produced many innovations over the years. In The Sorcerers and their Apprentices, Frank Moss profiles some of the creative solutions that have been developed in the lab — and explains how other companies can also foster creativity.
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Ultimate Blogs
Masterworks from the Wild Web
The first compilation of the World Wide Web's most colorful and innovative blogs offers a definitive introduction to the blogosphere with works by famous and unknown bloggers alike, including humorists, feminists, diarists, photographers, expatriates, gossipmongers, soldiers, physicists, muckrakers, and many more.
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Macrowikinomics
New Solutions for a Connected Planet
The authors show in more than a dozen fields, that we have reached a historic turning point: cling to the old industrial era paradigms or use collaborative innovation to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern and care for one another.
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Always On
How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future—And Locked Us In
Looks at the social implications of having all of one's technology in a single device and the notion of being plugged into information and socially available all the time.
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Tomatoland
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Ben Mezrich draws on court records, FBI transcripts, NASA documents and first-person interviews to reconstruct NASA fellow Thad Roberts' theft of invaluable moon rocks, offering insight into Roberts' personality and the nature of his accomplices.
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The Big Roads
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
Provided by publisher.
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Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
A seafood journalist who has written for National Geographic traces the history of bass, cod, salmon and tuna fishing while assessing the critical state of today's commercial fishing industry, citing the roles of over-fishing and fish farming while recommending specific protections. Reprint.Literary Award Winner
