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Books about the history of computing and the computer industry, as well as philosophies behind software development and the development of various pieces of tech.
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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Introduction to System Design
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Shivam Singh (Goodreads Author)
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The Soul of a New Machine
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
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Steven L. Kent (Goodreads Author)
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
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Digicrimination – Those are the Good Times: A New Type of Discrimination That Came with Digitization
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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
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David A. Price (Goodreads Author)
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
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Paul Freiberger (Goodreads Author)
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
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Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
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Brian Dear (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
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Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
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The Wit and Wisdom of Steve Jobs
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Gennaro Salamone (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The New Hacker's Dictionary
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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The Night Shift
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Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line
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The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban
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OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
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The Inner History of Devices
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Sherry Turkle (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Florentine Deception
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Silicon Planet: My Life in Computer Chips
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Pat Hays (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything
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James Barrat (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Green It for Sustainable Business Practice: An Iseb Foundation Guide
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Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website
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Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution
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4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings
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In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
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3.85 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
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Tom Standage (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,550 ratings
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
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Fred Kaplan (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 3,142 ratings
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 4,814 ratings
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
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Erez Aiden (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
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Future Crimes
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Marc Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 4,377 ratings
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
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4.03 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
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Eric O'Neill (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,314 ratings
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
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The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It
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Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It
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#digitalparenting: A Parent's Guide to Social Media, Cyberbullying & Online Activity
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The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
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Hack-Proof Your Life Now! The New Cybersecurity Rules: Protect your email, computers, and bank accounts from hacks, malware, and identity theft
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Sean M. Bailey (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Art of Cyber Conflict
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Henry J. Sienkiewicz (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Power Down & Parent Up: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children
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Holli Kenley (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – and All of Us
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Rana Foroohar (Goodreads Author)
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The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth
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Samuel Woolley (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 184 ratings
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
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Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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The Eyes on Growing Needs:
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
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Greg Milner (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life
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iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives
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Craig Detweiler (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Breakpoint: Why the Web will Implode, Search will be Obsolete, and Everything Else you Need to Know about Technology is in Your Brain
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Jeff Stibel (Goodreads Author)
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Raising Generation Tech: Prepare Your Children for a Media-Fueled World
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
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Internet Wars: The Struggle for Power in the 21st Century
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Fergus Hanson (Goodreads Author)
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
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Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
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How To Make Webcomics
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Brad Guigar (Goodreads Author)
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Facebook: The Inside Story
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
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The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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Blake J. Harris (Goodreads Author)
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
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