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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

By Tom Bissell

YouTube: Steve Chen

By Lisa Albers

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

By Evan Ratliff

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

By Ellen Ullman

The Scrapbook of My Life

By Alfie Deyes

Traces Of Guilt

By Neil Barrett

Ada Lovelace: The Fantastically Feminist (and Totally True) Story of the Mathematician Extraordinaire

By Anna Doherty

Space Engineer and Scientist Margaret Hamilton

By Domenica Di Piazza

Mathematician and Computer Scientist Grace Hopper

By Andrea Pelleschi

Google Cybersecurity Expert Parisa Tabriz

By Domenica Di Piazza

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

By Sue Black

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

By James Ashton

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World

By Marc Goodman

YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain

By David Hall

The Illusion of Life

By Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas

Surfing the Zeitgeist

By gilbert adair

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth

By Hoffman, Paul

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

Great Scientific Experiments

By Rom Harré

Flickr Cofounder and Web Community Creator Caterina Fake

By Patricia Wooster

Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson

By Kari Cornell

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

By Lulu Yilun Chen

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