Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
 Amazon.com Review: After rice, corn, and wheat--the three staples of, respectively, East Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia--the olive is the foodstuff most closely bound to history, shaping the course of nations and empires. Mort Rosenblum, the author of [... more]
$25.00
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and ...
Amazon.com Review: In 1999, an editor of the New York Times Magazine approached Witold Rybczynski, the well-known student of architecture and urban design, and asked him to write a short essay on the best and most useful common tool of the past [... more]
$22.00
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer ...
Amazon.com Review: In the early 1970s, while Silicon Valley was designing the latest generation of digital wristwatches and pocket calculators, a ragtag group of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics hobbyists were busy creating the future in their [... more]
$16.95
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AOL.com
Amazon.com Review: AOL's story--from its origins in a doomed gaming service through its early appearance as a much-dismissed startup to its current status as an often-maligned giant--is as irresistible as a heroic comedy. Kara Swisher chronicles the [... more]
$14.00
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The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story
Amazon.com Review: Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry's [... more]
$25.95
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
Amazon.com Review: Considering that the history of the Internet is perhaps better documented internally than any other technological construct, it is remarkable how shadowy its origins have been to most people, including die-hard Net-denizens! At last, [... more]
$15.00
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Secrets of Software Success: Management Insights from ...
Amazon.com Review: In Secrets of Software Success, Detlev Hoch, with Cyriac Roeding, Gert Purkert, and Sandro Lindner, look at what's driving the prosperity of the world's best software companies and what's responsible for the failure of others. The [... more]
$27.50
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High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and ...
Amazon.com Review: If you've ever gone out to lunch with a coworker and suddenly found yourself witness to a savage stream of unflattering assessments of bosses, wicked gossip, and the-emperor-has-no-clothes analysis of your industry, you'll know what it' [... more]
$27.50
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High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the ...
Amazon.com Review: Sun Microsystems is the type of company that most new startups hope to become: massively profitable, astoundingly innovative, and supremely adaptable. But as Karen Southwick's engaging narrative High Noon makes clear, there were many [... more]
$46.50
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The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams
Amazon.com Review: Pop quiz: Where are American kids taught the nuances of being millionaires as part of their junior high curriculum? Where do guests at a posh outdoor party grouse about the defects of high-end flushable Porta-Johns? Where does a school [... more]
$27.00
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ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First ...
Amazon.com Review: Today's computers are fantastically complex machines, shaped by innovations dreamt up by hundreds of engineers and theorists over the last several decades. Does it even make sense, then, to ask who invented the computer? McCartney [... more]
$23.00
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, ...
Amazon.com Review: This is not a computer book but rather a fascinating history of the personal computer. Even if the computer isn't your thing, and you don't remember arguing with Commodore 64, Apple II, and TRS-80 owners over whose computer was the [... more]
$34.95
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