History
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The Computers That Made the World
$24.99 Add to cartThis book tells the story of the birth of the technological world we now live in. It chronicles how computers reshaped World War II. And it does it all through the origins of 12 influential computers
- Author: Danton, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 191686807X
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
$20.00 Add to cart“Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and–for better or worse–necessary reading.” –Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem
An entertaining account of the philosophy an- Author: Shapiro, Scott J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1250335671
- Language: English
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A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer
$16.00 Add to cartIn this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinat… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0375726187
- Language: English
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Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
$19.99 Add to cartWe are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, K
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075147
- Language: English
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Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
$19.00 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012
In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illumina- Author: Dyson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075998
- Language: English
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Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation
$29.95 Read moreA celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.
Today, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them “phones.”
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Wiltshire, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0262044013
- Language: English
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The Computer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreWhat is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller machines? What will the next generations of computers loo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ince, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0199586594
- Language: English
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Worm: The First Digital World War
$16.00 Add to cartThe Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government … [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145949
- Language: English
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
$21.99 Add to cartThe secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world.
“The One Device is a tour de force, with a fast-paced edge and heaps of analytical ins- Author: Merchant, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316546240
- Language: English
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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation
$54.99 Add to cartThe technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft’s computer was required to be
- Series: Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration
- Author: O’Brien, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1441908765
- Language: English
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Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
$48.17 Add to cartIn the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engage… [more below]
- Author: Swaine, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1937785769
- Language: English
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The Idealist
$21.99 Add to cartThis smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society–and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of R… [more below]
- Author: Peters, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1476767742
- Language: English
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and ’80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-tru
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0887309895
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
$19.99 Read moreThe shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom, and even democracy itself.
Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected,… [more below]- Author: Menn, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1541762363
- Language: English
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Computing: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartDiscover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.
In an accessible style,- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Ceruzzi, Paul E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0262517671
- Language: English
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The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
$24.00 Add to cartThe only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley, from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all.
Over the past five decades, the tech industry has grown into one of the most importa- Author: Malone, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1953953166
- Language: English
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The Soul of a New Machine
$19.99 Add to cartTracy Kidder’s “riveting” (Washington Post) story of one company’s efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential readi… [more below]
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316491977
- Language: English
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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
$28.00 Add to cartAn engrossing origin story for the personal computer–showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.
Skip the iPhone, the iPod,- Author: Nooney, Laine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226816524
- Language: English
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
$28.00 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for December 2023
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated gr
- Author: Scheirer, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1503632881
- Language: English
