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The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms

By Audible Studios

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4.5 out of 5 stars with 188 reviews

Gary Rivlin tells the story of Ron Conway, the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley. Conway is a listener-friendly way into the realm of angel financing, where independently wealthy investors link up w

Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives

By HarperAudio

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4.2 out of 5 stars with 63 reviews

With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off. Zuckerberg has been on t

Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age

By Audible Studios

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4.5 out of 5 stars with 128 reviews

Alan Turing can be regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the wa

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

By Audible Studios

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4.4 out of 5 stars with 91 reviews

Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own. Along the way, we encoun

The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales of Silicon Valley

By Audible Studios

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4.4 out of 5 stars with 230 reviews

What's been written on the personalities that have emerged from Silicon Valley tends to be shallow, concentrating narrowly on overnight rags-to-riches sensations. This well-received collection of tales by one of the Valley's best journalists, howev

Period Piece Audio Book - CD

By Clear Books

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ean: 9781904555155, isbn: 1904555152,

4.9 out of 5 stars with 246 reviews

Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of an English childhood in the late 19th century, as a drawing of the world when I was young. The observations of the small incidents in her life, recorded

Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers

By The University of North Carolina Press

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ean: 9780807885062, isbn: 0807885061,

4.5 out of 5 stars with 205 reviews

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Yet for most of his 20 years in the Senate, Ervin was Jim Crow's most talented legal defender

Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website

By Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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4.8 out of 5 stars with 129 reviews

WikiLeaks, a platform for disclosing information, has managed to produce more scoops in the last three years than the Washington Post has in the last 30: the gruesome video of Iraqi civilians and journalists being murdered by members of the US milita

The History of the Telephone

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ean: 9781146708616, isbn: 1146708610,

4.6 out of 5 stars with 13 reviews

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor

Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Poetical Science

By Critical Connection

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4.4 out of 5 stars with 279 reviews

Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the first to write programs for, and predict the impact of, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843. Beautiful and charming, she was often characterized as "mad and bad," as was her illustrious father. This

Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything

By Audible Studios

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4.1 out of 5 stars with 290 reviews

Three years ago, 32-year-old Markus "Notch" Persson of Stockholm was an unknown and bored computer programmer. Today, he is a multi-millionaire international icon. Minecraft, the "virtual Lego" game Markus crafted in his free time, has become one of

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

By David Kirkpatrick

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4.3 out of 5 stars with 64 reviews

In a little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users - and an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads aro

An Interview with Jim Wilkinson

By Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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ean: 9780898715125, isbn: 0898715121,

4.0 out of 5 stars with 55 reviews

Recorded in 1984, two years before Wilkinson's death, this interview preserves some of the spirit and facts of mathematical history. He discusses his work, including the building of Turing's Pilot Automatic Computing Engine, and his involvement in

Los innovadores: Los genios que inventaron el futuro [The Innovators: The Geniuses Who Invented the Future]

By Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.

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4.3 out of 5 stars with 86 reviews

En una era que busca fomentar la innovación, la creatividad y el trabajo en equipo, Los innovadores es la obra que mejor muestra cómo se producen. Tras su extraordinaria biografía de Steve Jobs, el nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson cuenta la fascin

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

By Tantor Audio

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4.9 out of 5 stars with 127 reviews

Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new audiobook, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsess

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer; Library Edition (Great Discoveries)

By Blackstone Audio Inc

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ean: 9781483018386, isbn: 1483018385,

4.2 out of 5 stars with 296 reviews

A ''skillful, literate'' (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was

High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems

By Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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ean: 9781441784872, isbn: 144178487X,

4.9 out of 5 stars with 22 reviews

[Audio CD Library Edition in vinyl case][Read by Sneha Mathan] In 1982, a little upstart named Sun was making waves in the high-tech industry with its groundbreaking workstation technology, even as early competitors dismissed the company as not worth losing sleep over. Since then, Sun Microsystems has become a formidable presence in the industry, making its own rules and taking no prisoners, and is currently poised to reach the highest point of its ascendancy -- the challenge of Microsoft's

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Library Edition)

By Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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ean: 9781441793737, isbn: 1441793739,

4.2 out of 5 stars with 125 reviews

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Foreword by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, Inc.] Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could.The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappears on a