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Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs draws on more than forty interviews with the pioneer and the perspectives of family, friends, competitors, and colleagues, portraying his relentless drive, meticulous perfectionism, and profound influence on personal computing, animation, music, phones, tablets and digital publishing.

John Carreyrou’s investigative nonfiction exposes the rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion‑dollar biotech startup falsely claiming revolutionary medical technology.

Phil Knight, founder of Nike, recounts the early years of the company—from importing shoes from Japan to building a global brand—sharing the challenges, partnerships and personal moments that fueled its rise.

Walter Isaacson chronicles the minds that forged the digital age, from Ada Lovelace to Larry Page, showing how vision, collaboration, and engineering transformed abstract ideas into the computers, Internet, and technology we use today.

An in‑depth account of how Facebook grew from a dorm‑room experiment to a global social network with 500 million users, examining its rapid expansion, cultural impact, and the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg.

The Accidental Billionaires tells how Harvard undergraduates Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while chasing social status, transforming a campus project into a global social network and enduring friendship—and business—conflict.

Paul Vigna explains why Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are transforming finance, offering a self‑sufficient digital currency system that could bring billions of unbanked people into the global economy while challenging traditional banking and government control.

Turner, Ted. Call Me Ted: A Personal History.

Lindy Woodhead chronicles the rise and fall of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the American who transformed Oxford Street into London’s first modern department store and created a retail spectacle that dazzled the elite and revolutionized shopping.

A little more than twenty-five years ago, computer networks did not exist anywhere - except in the minds of a handful of computer scientists. In the late 1960s, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency funded a project to create computer communication among its university-based researchers. The experiment was inspired by J. C. R. Licklider, a brilliant scientist from MIT. At a time when computers were generally regarded as nothing more than giant calculators, Licklider saw their potential as communications devices. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the story of the small group of researchers and engineers whose invention, daring in its day, became the foundation for the Internet. With ARPA's backing, Licklider and others began the quest for a way to connect computers across the country. In 1969, ARPA awarded the contract to build the most integral piece of this network - a computerized switch called the Interface Message Processor, or IMP - to Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a small Cambridge, Massachusetts, company. A half-dozen engineers at BBN, who called themselves the IMP Guys, knew it was possible to do what larger companies - including AT&T and IBM - had dismissed as impossible. But making computer networking possible required inventing new technologies. Working around the clock, the IMP Guys met a tight deadline, and the first IMP was installed at UCLA nine months after the contract award. A nationwide network called the ARPANET grew from four initial sites. Protocols were developed, and along the way a series of accidental discoveries were made, not the least of which was e-mail. Almost immediately, e-mail became the most popular feature of the Net and the "@" sign became lodged in the iconography of our times. The ARPANET continued to grow, then merged with other computer networks to become today's Internet. In 1990, the ARPANET itself was shut down, fully merged by then with the Internet it had spawned.

The Frackers tells the non‑fiction story of how U.S. energy pioneers discovered natural‑gas reserves below the Appalachian basin and turned hydraulic fracturing into a global industry. It profiles the men behind the boom and examines its economic and political impact.

A concise biography of Danny Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies, exploring his pioneering contributions to the Internet and the company's growth.