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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry's transactions online. So why ... |
Just a Geek
Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", Wil left Hol... |
Dancing Barefoot
Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five short-but-true tales of life in the so-called Space Age in Dancing Barefoot. With a true geek's unflinching honesty, Wil examines life, love, the web, an... |
Katie.Com: My Story
"Our lips met... I felt a few stray whiskers... and suddenly I realized that this was a grown man who was giving me my first real kiss... Something inside me snapped. Now I didn't want this at all. But I couldn't speak." Fourteen-year-old Katherine Tarbox... |
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The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greates... |
Hard Drive : Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
Hard Drive charts Gates's missteps as well as his successes: the failure of OS/2 and the embarrassing delays in bringing Windows to the marketplace; the highly publicized split with IBM, which then forged an alliance with Apple to battle Microso... |
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Doom, the video game in which you navigate a dungeon in the first person and messily lay waste to everything that crosses your path, represented a milestone in many areas. It was a technical landmark, in that its graphics engine delivered brilliant perfor... |
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes Andrew Hodges:
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The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison : *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gates is the tech world's nerd king, Ellison is its Warren Beatty: racing yachts, buying jets, and romancing... |
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Gates : How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America
Gates reveals the guiding genius behind the unparalleled success of the Microsoft Corporation-- the biggest and most profitable personal computer software company in history-- and exposes the intensely competitive tactics that help it dominate the deskt... |
iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Lightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and more recently the iPod. He has dazzled and delighted audiences with his Pixar movies. And he had bedeviled, destroyed, and demoralized hundreds of... |
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Father, Son & Co. : My Life at IBM and Beyond
In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style ... |
