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Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation

by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson  · 30 Dec 2011  · 98pp  · 25,753 words

—all while making the work read better in the process. That also couldn’t have happened without interim editor (while Courtney was working on a side project of her own—which resulted in a beautiful baby girl), Julie Steele. Julie stepped in graciously, in the middle of a very busy and important

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares  · 5 Oct 2015  · 232pp  · 63,846 words

my life. We knew no one for a hundred miles in any direction. Naturally, I started tinkering on the computer again, starting about a dozen side projects simultaneously. A year and a half later, I thought I was on to something. I noticed two things that bothered me about Google: too much

open source project to use GitHub free of charge. This drove a lot of its early adoption: when a developer wanted to work on a side project, GitHub was the first place that came to mind. Another use of community is for hiring. Everyone working at Gabriel’s startup DuckDuckGo was a

Mastering Pandas

by Femi Anthony  · 21 Jun 2015  · 589pp  · 69,193 words

a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His pet interests include data science, machine learning, and Python. Femi is working on a few side projects in these areas. His hobbies include reading, soccer, and road cycling. You can follow him at @dataphanatik, and for any queries, contact him at <femibyte

Essential Sqlalchemy

by Jason Myers and Rick Copeland  · 27 Nov 2015  · 458pp  · 46,761 words

at local and national events about technology. He’s also the chair of the PyTennessee conference. He loves solving health-related problems, and has a side project, Sucratrend, devoted to helping diabetics manage their condition and improve their quality of life. He has used SQLAlchemy in web, data warehouse, and analytics applications

Care to Make Love in That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice

by The Believer, Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt  · 6 Mar 2012

1, 2007, my sister arrived home from the bar, under the influence of alcohol, and disturbed my slumber by blasting songs from her electro-pop side project while dancing around the inflatable mattress I was sleeping on in her living room. She then proceeded to smoke her face off while mocking my

Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

by Lorin Hochstein  · 8 Dec 2014  · 761pp  · 80,914 words

to ensure that your use thereof complies with such licenses and/or rights. 978-1-491-91532-5 [LSI] Foreword Ansible started as a simple side project in February of 2012, and its rapid growth has been a pleasant surprise. It is now the work product of about a thousand people (and

Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth

by Nick Maggiulli  · 15 May 2022  · 287pp  · 62,824 words

large amounts of money: “In observing friends who’ve sold startups and made millions: After one year, they’re back to toying with their old side projects. They used their money to buy a nice home and eat well. That’s it. They’re otherwise back to who they were.”⁵⁷ Do you

The Life of a Song: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best-Loved Songs

by David Cheal and Jan Dalley  · 20 Sep 2017  · 116pp  · 34,937 words

obsessed with the sea, and her nautical album Ashore includes the song, with Huw Warren’s piano navigating around the original melody. And The Unthanks’ side-project Songs from the Shipyards offers a version in the accents of Tyneside. Adrian McNally sings the verses, while Rachel and Becky Unthank – as the ‘women

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

by Austin Kleon  · 6 Mar 2014  · 55pp  · 17,493 words

your job but having a social network of people familiar with your work and ready to help you find a new one. Imagine turning a side project or a hobby into your profession because you had a following that could support you. Or imagine something simpler and just as satisfying: spending the

Spike: The Virus vs The People - The Inside Story

by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja  · 15 Jan 2021  · 245pp  · 71,886 words

. What does the Chinese government know that we don’t know?’ That was when he knew Moderna had to get serious about its hastily convened side-project. He was meant to be in Germany the weekend after Davos for a business meeting but woke up in a sweat one night, convinced he

The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management

by Reuvid, Jonathan.  · 30 Oct 2011

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown  · 24 Apr 2017  · 344pp  · 96,020 words

Austin Like a Local

by DK  · 171pp  · 34,369 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

London: The Autobiography

by Jon E. Lewis  · 25 Aug 2009  · 655pp  · 151,111 words

Learning Vue.js 2: Learn How to Build Amazing and Complex Reactive Web Applications Easily With Vue.js

by Olga Filipova  · 13 Dec 2016  · 292pp  · 66,588 words

The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

by Steven Johnson  · 26 Dec 2008  · 200pp  · 60,987 words

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

by Hu Anyan  · 240pp  · 83,473 words

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott  · 1 Jun 2016  · 344pp  · 94,332 words

The Connected Company

by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal  · 2 Dec 2014  · 372pp  · 89,876 words

Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future

by Ben Tarnoff  · 13 Jun 2022  · 234pp  · 67,589 words

Ego Is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday  · 13 Jun 2016  · 177pp  · 54,421 words

Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America

by Danielle Dimartino Booth  · 14 Feb 2017  · 479pp  · 113,510 words

Alpha Trader

by Brent Donnelly  · 11 May 2021

The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry

by John Warrillow  · 5 Feb 2015  · 186pp  · 49,251 words

Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving

by Jason Torchinsky  · 6 May 2019  · 175pp  · 54,755 words

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

by James Ball  · 19 Jul 2023  · 317pp  · 87,048 words

The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance

by Jim Whitehurst  · 1 Jun 2015  · 247pp  · 63,208 words

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

by Robert H. Frank  · 31 Mar 2016  · 190pp  · 53,409 words

Sarah Millican--The Queen of Comedy

by Tina Campanella  · 14 Apr 2017  · 252pp  · 80,924 words

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

by Adam L. Alter  · 15 Feb 2017  · 331pp  · 96,989 words

Choose Yourself!

by James Altucher  · 14 Sep 2013  · 230pp  · 76,655 words

Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How

by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang  · 10 Mar 2020  · 257pp  · 76,785 words

Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)

by Bo Bennett  · 29 May 2017

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline  · 15 Feb 2011  · 458pp  · 137,960 words

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling  · 15 Jan 2010  · 183pp  · 49,460 words

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz  · 8 Mar 2016  · 233pp  · 58,561 words

The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything

by Jason Kelly  · 10 Sep 2012  · 274pp  · 81,008 words

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-To-5

by Taylor Pearson  · 27 Jun 2015  · 168pp  · 50,647 words

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown  · 14 Apr 2014  · 202pp  · 62,199 words

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling

by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross  · 30 Jun 2013

The Googlization of Everything:

by Siva Vaidhyanathan  · 1 Jan 2010  · 281pp  · 95,852 words

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

by Shane Snow  · 8 Sep 2014  · 278pp  · 70,416 words

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang  · 6 Feb 2018  · 334pp  · 104,382 words

Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

by Hugh Howey  · 2 Oct 2017  · 339pp  · 105,856 words

The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty

by Ethan Sherwood Strauss  · 13 Apr 2020  · 211pp  · 67,975 words

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

by Kelly Weill  · 22 Feb 2022

The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life

by Nick Maggiulli  · 22 Jul 2025

Unf*ck Your Habitat

by Rachel Hoffman  · 178pp  · 51,244 words

My Start-Up Life: What A

by Ben Casnocha and Marc Benioff  · 7 May 2007  · 207pp  · 63,071 words

Roads and Bridges

by Nadia Eghbal  · 139pp  · 35,022 words

Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff  · 21 Nov 2017  · 1,331pp  · 183,137 words

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

by Ellen Ruppel Shell  · 2 Jul 2009  · 387pp  · 110,820 words

Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn

by Chris Hughes  · 20 Feb 2018  · 173pp  · 53,564 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs

by John Doerr  · 23 Apr 2018  · 280pp  · 71,268 words

A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

by Warren Berger  · 4 Mar 2014  · 374pp  · 89,725 words

The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders

by Kate Kelly  · 2 Jun 2014  · 289pp  · 77,532 words

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe  · 6 Dec 2016  · 254pp  · 76,064 words

Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy

by Lawrence Ingrassia  · 28 Jan 2020  · 290pp  · 90,057 words

AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together

by Nick Polson and James Scott  · 14 May 2018  · 301pp  · 85,126 words

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

by Erik Vance  · 14 Sep 2016  · 266pp  · 85,265 words

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J. B. MacKinnon  · 14 May 2021  · 368pp  · 109,432 words

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb

by Dorie Clark  · 14 Oct 2021  · 201pp  · 60,431 words

The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future

by Laurence C. Smith  · 22 Sep 2010  · 421pp  · 120,332 words

The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small

by Steve Sammartino  · 25 Jun 2014  · 247pp  · 81,135 words

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future

by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson  · 27 Mar 2017  · 293pp  · 78,439 words

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

by Ben Mezrich  · 20 May 2019  · 304pp  · 91,566 words

Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire: Everything I Know Now About Autism and Asperger's That I Wish I'd Known Then

by David William Plummer  · 14 Sep 2021

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

by Alec Ross  · 13 Sep 2021  · 363pp  · 109,077 words

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters

by Joanna Walsh  · 22 Sep 2025  · 255pp  · 80,203 words

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport  · 17 Sep 2012  · 197pp  · 60,477 words

Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff

by Dinah Sanders  · 7 Oct 2011  · 267pp  · 78,857 words

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

by Justin Fox  · 29 May 2009  · 461pp  · 128,421 words

Know Thyself

by Stephen M Fleming  · 27 Apr 2021

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols  · 25 Sep 2017  · 391pp  · 71,600 words

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss  · 1 Jan 2007  · 426pp  · 105,423 words

Travel While You Work: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Business From Anywhere

by Mish Slade  · 13 Aug 2015  · 288pp  · 66,996 words

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy

by Gregory Brandon Salsbury  · 15 Mar 2010  · 261pp  · 70,584 words

The Startup Wife

by Tahmima Anam  · 2 Jun 2021  · 297pp  · 83,528 words

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb  · 5 Mar 2019  · 340pp  · 97,723 words

5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich With Purpose

by Nik Halik and Garrett B. Gunderson  · 5 Mar 2018  · 290pp  · 72,046 words

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

by Paul Jarvis  · 1 Jan 2019  · 258pp  · 74,942 words

The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha  · 14 Feb 2012  · 176pp  · 55,819 words

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

by Nick Bilton  · 15 Mar 2017  · 349pp  · 109,304 words

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

by Tim Harford  · 3 Oct 2016  · 349pp  · 95,972 words

The Productive Programmer

by Neal Ford  · 8 Dec 2008  · 224pp  · 48,804 words

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

by Nicholas Carr  · 5 Sep 2016  · 391pp  · 105,382 words

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

by Stephen Witt  · 8 Apr 2025  · 260pp  · 82,629 words

Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D.  · 23 Dec 2018  · 960pp  · 125,049 words

Unknown Market Wizards: The Best Traders You've Never Heard Of

by Jack D. Schwager  · 2 Nov 2020

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

by Oliver Burkeman  · 9 Aug 2021  · 206pp  · 68,757 words

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

by Randall Stross  · 4 Sep 2013  · 332pp  · 97,325 words

Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

by Ali Tamaseb  · 14 Sep 2021  · 251pp  · 80,831 words

Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney  · 30 Dec 2011  · 752pp  · 131,533 words

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

by Stephen Witt  · 15 Jun 2015  · 315pp  · 93,522 words

The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market

by Leah McGrath Goodman  · 15 Feb 2011  · 553pp  · 168,111 words

Fuller Memorandum

by Stross, Charles  · 14 Jan 2010  · 366pp  · 107,145 words

Iron Sunrise

by Stross, Charles  · 28 Oct 2004  · 462pp  · 142,240 words

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas  · 27 Aug 2018  · 296pp  · 98,018 words

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson  · 5 Oct 2010  · 298pp  · 81,200 words

USA's Best Trips

by Sara Benson  · 23 May 2010  · 941pp  · 237,152 words

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

by Josh Kaufman  · 2 Feb 2011  · 624pp  · 127,987 words

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink  · 1 Jan 2008  · 204pp  · 54,395 words

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

by Tim Mohr  · 10 Sep 2018  · 370pp  · 107,791 words

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

by Billy Gallagher  · 13 Feb 2018  · 359pp  · 96,019 words

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

by Steven Johnson  · 18 Oct 2006  · 304pp  · 88,773 words

The Participation Revolution: How to Ride the Waves of Change in a Terrifyingly Turbulent World

by Neil Gibb  · 15 Feb 2018  · 217pp  · 63,287 words

Solitary

by Albert Woodfox  · 12 Mar 2019  · 484pp  · 155,401 words

The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice

by Julian Guthrie  · 31 Mar 2014  · 428pp  · 138,235 words

Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors

by Edward Niedermeyer  · 14 Sep 2019  · 328pp  · 90,677 words

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

by Cate Sevilla  · 14 Jan 2021

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Henrich  · 27 Oct 2015  · 631pp  · 177,227 words

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time

by Maria Konnikova  · 28 Jan 2016  · 384pp  · 118,572 words

Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits

by Kevin Roose  · 18 Feb 2014  · 269pp  · 83,307 words

Laziness Does Not Exist

by Devon Price  · 5 Jan 2021  · 362pp  · 87,462 words

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney  · 7 Mar 2017  · 526pp  · 160,601 words

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

by Clint Watts  · 28 May 2018  · 324pp  · 96,491 words

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy  · 14 Apr 2020

Jared Bibler

by Iceland's Secret The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con-Harriman House (2021)

Exit Strategy

by Sherry Walling, Rob Walling  · 22 Nov 2024  · 215pp  · 60,241 words

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

by Loren Grush  · 11 Sep 2023  · 375pp  · 127,360 words

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

by Keith Houston  · 22 Aug 2023  · 405pp  · 105,395 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

Makers

by Chris Anderson  · 1 Oct 2012  · 238pp  · 73,824 words

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu  · 14 May 2016  · 515pp  · 143,055 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

by Scott Belsky  · 31 Mar 2010  · 223pp  · 63,484 words

Work Rules!: Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

by Laszlo Bock  · 31 Mar 2015  · 387pp  · 119,409 words

Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes From the Best Kitchens on Wheels

by Shouse, Heather  · 19 Apr 2011

Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created

by Jeffrey Zygmont  · 15 Mar 2003

Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure

by Alex Honnold and David Roberts  · 2 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 77,084 words

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See

by Gary Price, Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan  · 2 Jan 2003  · 481pp  · 121,669 words

Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett  · 27 Aug 2018  · 230pp  · 71,834 words

Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

by Christopher Steiner  · 29 Aug 2012  · 317pp  · 84,400 words

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth

by Steve Pavlina  · 14 Oct 2008

The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy

by Leigh Gallagher  · 14 Feb 2017  · 290pp  · 87,549 words

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late

by Michael Ellsberg  · 15 Jan 2011  · 362pp  · 99,063 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

Open: The Story of Human Progress

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Sep 2020  · 505pp  · 138,917 words

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

by Jason Schreier  · 4 Sep 2017  · 297pp  · 90,806 words

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

by Jeff Lawson  · 12 Jan 2021  · 282pp  · 85,658 words

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

by Richard Baldwin  · 10 Jan 2019  · 301pp  · 89,076 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

The Rough Guide to Finland

by Rough Guides  · 31 May 2010  · 493pp  · 155,660 words

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn  · 3 Jun 2019  · 302pp  · 85,877 words

Wanderers: A Novel

by Chuck Wendig  · 1 Jul 2019  · 1,028pp  · 267,392 words

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

by Kenneth Payne  · 16 Jun 2021  · 339pp  · 92,785 words

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies  · 4 Sep 2019  · 412pp  · 128,042 words

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

by Sarah Frier  · 13 Apr 2020  · 484pp  · 114,613 words

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum  · 14 May 2020  · 307pp  · 88,745 words

Learning Ext Js

by Shea Frederick  · 19 Dec 2008  · 324pp  · 87,064 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal

by Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz  · 20 Jul 2020  · 520pp  · 134,627 words

The Martian

by Andy Weir  · 1 Jan 2011  · 410pp  · 103,421 words

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

by Wolfram Eilenberger  · 14 Sep 2020

Lessons-Learned-in-Software-Testing-A-Context-Driven-Approach

by Anson-QA

The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work

by Scott Berkun  · 9 Sep 2013  · 361pp  · 76,849 words

The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Any Top Tech Company

by Gayle Laakmann Mcdowell  · 25 Jan 2011  · 242pp  · 71,938 words

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan  · 27 Aug 2014  · 757pp  · 193,541 words

Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

by Hamish McKenzie  · 30 Sep 2017  · 307pp  · 90,634 words

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone  · 30 Jan 2017  · 373pp  · 112,822 words

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

by Darren McGarvey  · 2 Nov 2017  · 224pp  · 73,737 words

City of Exiles

by Alec Nevala-Lee  · 1 Dec 2012  · 341pp  · 104,493 words

Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made

by Andy Hertzfeld  · 19 Nov 2011

Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython

by Wes McKinney  · 25 Sep 2017  · 1,829pp  · 135,521 words

The Manager’s Path

by Camille Fournier  · 7 Mar 2017

The Knowledge Economy

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger  · 19 Mar 2019  · 268pp  · 75,490 words

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier  · 6 May 2013  · 510pp  · 120,048 words

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

by Ben Mezrich  · 13 Jul 2009  · 226pp  · 69,893 words

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

by Andrew Blum  · 28 May 2012  · 314pp  · 83,631 words

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell  · 19 Jul 2021  · 460pp  · 130,820 words

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

by Tony Fadell  · 2 May 2022  · 411pp  · 119,022 words

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies  · 5 Oct 2020  · 741pp  · 164,057 words

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger  · 2 Mar 2021  · 304pp  · 89,879 words

Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

by Christopher Wylie  · 8 Oct 2019

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

by Mark Bergen  · 5 Sep 2022  · 642pp  · 141,888 words

The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last

by Jimmy Wales  · 28 Oct 2025  · 216pp  · 60,419 words

Velocity Weapon

by Megan E. O'Keefe  · 10 Jun 2019  · 602pp  · 164,940 words

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

by Chris Guillebeau  · 7 May 2012  · 248pp  · 72,174 words

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

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