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| 1. |  | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage from Pocket Price: $10.46 Customer Review:  all sorts of new stuff was going on with computers in the 1980s. It offered new opportunities for spies to steal military accounting and inventory records. Fortunately most people are incapable of deciphering military accounting and inventory records anyways. Clifford Stoll interjects just enough of... |
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| 2. |  | iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It from W. W. Norton Price: $8.97 Customer Review: While Steve Jobs continues to be quite visible in the press, not as much is known about his Apple co-founder. This autobiography is a step in the right direction, as Steve Wozniak touches on his childhood, education, marriage(s) and even the evolution of his political views along with a detailed... |
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| 3. |  | The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  One has to remember that this book was written during the burst of the Internet bubble. At that time, the general view is that the Internet bubble were purely speculative and would not have any lasting impact. Michael Lewis went against the conventional wisdom at the time and described in a series... |
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| 4. |  | Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival from Plume Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I really enjoyed this book. It serves to remind us that we can accomplish so much with the courage and tenacity of our human spirit; thoroughly recommended |
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| 5. |  | iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business from Wiley Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I became a huge fan of Apple after purchasing a Powerbook in 2005. Unknowingly I became a disciple of Steve Jobs in doing so, and have become increasingly loyal to the brand as result. When purchasing the book iCon, I simply wanted to have a book about Steve Jobs that was as current as possible... |
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| 6. |  | Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture from Random House Price: $7.96 Customer Review: This book is absolutely magnificent. Being an avid Doom fan and having played every single iD Software game since Wolf3d, this book actually makes me feel as if I am sitting in the same room as Romero and Carmack while they made the best games ever ! It is so inspirational. I am an Electrical... |
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| 7. |  | Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins from Gotham Price: $10.20 Customer Review: As this book makes clear, Tom Perkins is superhuman. He founded many wildly successful technology companies, helped invent the venture capital business, and is now ridiculously wealthy. He hangs out with the rich and famous and splits his time between yachts and mansions in California and Europe.... |
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| 8. |  | Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm from Scribner Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Flawless - in every sense - absolutely incredible breadth of space - the view you get through your own eyes is truly very real and utterly horrific.... I grew up like this and I know what it takes to come out of it whole (or at least partly) - as you will never forget how and why we become the soil... |
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| 9. |  | Play Winning Chess: An Introduction to the Moves, Strategies, and Philosophy of Chess from the Usa's #1 Ranked Chess Player (Winning Chess) from Microsoft Pr Customer Review: Internation Grand Master Yasser Seirawan and International Master Jeremy Silman team up in this collaborative effort to teach the basic fundamentals of Chess. When I originally opened up this book, I thought it was a little below my level and probably written for children. I muscled through it,... |
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| 10. |  | How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite from Wiley Price: $19.77 Customer Review: I almost threw the book away when reading the first chapter. The first chapter of any book is very important. I don't understand usingr what criteria the editors of the book had to choose someone whose writing is so uninspiring and even annoying. Especially, the tone of his writing is inappropriate... |
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| 11. |  | Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company from Portfolio Hardcover Price: $6.99 Customer Review: Highly Recommended!! I purchased and read this book with true enjoyment. I now have a better understanding on how decisions were made between two visionary individuals; to create a corporation with family values and core objectives. Their achievements brought excellence to their employees in so many... |
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| 12. |  | Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World from Doubleday Customer Review: I decided to read more about C.J. Peters after I concluded The Hot Zone; finding myself infatuated with this semi-mysterious, tropical-shirt wearing military officer and virus researcher. I was fascinated by this man whose experience and research will and has changed history. Despite the... |
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| 13. |  | Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire from Collins Business Price: $12.85 Customer Review: This is a decent book on how Bill Gates and his business team built the Microsoft empire. The good aspects of this book include the following: * The emphasis on how Microsoft was not built in a day but with many, many long days and lots of innovative thinking. This book illustrates how hard... |
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| 14. |  | Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary from HarperAudio Customer Review: It was really fun to read the book. The book had good morals, relating to daily life principles. It gave a good idea about intellectual property, copyrights, open source, free software foundation. It helps Linux enthusiasts to know more about Linus...A closer look at the inner personality of... |
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| 15. |  | Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 from Authorhouse Price: $13.45 Customer Review: As one who was the recipient of the LINC groups move to St. Louis and knew many of the pioneers portrayed in Severo's book, no one could have told it better regarding the cultural battle between those needing interactive access without an intervening priesthood and the status quo. If you want... |
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| 16. |  | Portraits in Silicon from The MIT Press Price: $27.00 Customer Review: The book starts with a brief bio of Charles Babbage from the nineteenth century and then continues with twenty-seven twentieth century masterminds behind computer software, hardware, and business models. Each subject receives ten to twelve well-written pages by prolific journalist Robert Slater -... |
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| 17. |  | Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This is a must read for the financially trying times we currently live thru.Even though the book is a couple of years old it is still current. Reccommended to me by a financial analyst during a flight layover afer telling a few war stories, "origins" sums up exactly what the title says. As... |
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| 18. |  | Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot from Basic Books Price: $12.76 Customer Review: You know those books that promise you untold wealth and secrets to make you rich? This isn't one of them, which makes it one of the best reads I've seen in a while. It gives a realistic depiction of making money in virtual economies (which is pretty amazing in and of itself). It even explores and... |
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| 19. | [no image] | The Idea Factory: Learning to think at M.I.T. (Plume) from Plume Customer Review: If you're going to MIT, I bet there are loads of websites and info-dumps out there for you. This is the book for the rest of us, those that that wonder what it would have been like. How is it different? How is grad school in the sciences different from taking undergrad classes? Easy, well-paced read... |
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| 20. |  | The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials) from Collins Business Price: $11.33 Customer Review: Heard the recorded version of THE HP WAY: HOW BILL HEWLETT AND I BUILT OUR COMPANY by David Packard I found it fascinating to learn how these two college friends decided to start their own company in 1939 out of a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California (that has now become a... |
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