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Cultivating Rough Ground: Getting Neglected Plots Productive

By Keith Wills

The Sure Thing: The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History

By Nick Townsend

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

By Ananyo Bhattacharya

The Bride of Science: A Life of Ada Lovelace

By Benjamin Woolley

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener - Father of Cybernetics

By Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman

Adventures of a Mathematician

By S. M. Ulam, Daniel Hirsch, William G. Mathews, Francoise Ulam, Jan Mycielski

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

By Leslie Berlin

Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Business Icon

By Richard Tedlow

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

By Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith

My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World

By Julian Dibbell

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

By Scott Galloway

Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know

By Nina Schick

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

By Carissa Veliz

Netflix: Reed Hastings

By Lisa Albers

Mathematician and Computer Scientist Grace Hopper

By Andrea Pelleschi

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

By Ben Mezrich

Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition: Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of 2022

By Lulu Yilun Chen

Flickr Cofounder and Web Community Creator Caterina Fake

By Patricia Wooster

Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson

By Kari Cornell

Great Scientific Experiments

By Rom Harré

Minecraft, Second Edition: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game That Changed Everything

By Daniel Goldberg, Linus Larsson, Jennifer Hawkins

Inside Steve's Brain: Business Lessons from Steve Jobs, the Man Who Saved Apple

By Leander Kahney

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Google Cybersecurity Expert Parisa Tabriz

By Domenica Di Piazza

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

By Tom Bissell

The Mastermind: The hunt for the World's most prolific criminal

By Evan Ratliff

YouTube: Steve Chen

By Lisa Albers