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Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

By Vance, Ashlee

The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

By Petroski, Henry

Dial 999!

By Pringle, Les

Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines

By Swade, Doron

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

By Parisi, Giorgio

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

Flickr Cofounder and Web Community Creator Caterina Fake

By Patricia Wooster

Steve Jobs: Genius by Design

By Jason Quinn

Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

By Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

By James Ashton

Future Crimes: A Journey To The Dark Side of Technology - and How To Survive It

By Marc Goodman

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

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

Google Cybersecurity Expert Parisa Tabriz

By Domenica Di Piazza

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

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

By Andrew Hodges

Mathematician and Computer Scientist Grace Hopper

By Andrea Pelleschi

Space Engineer and Scientist Margaret Hamilton

By Domenica Di Piazza