A nice list of technology/business books:
- Googled: The End of the World as we Know it by Ken Auletta
- Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain by Richard L. Brandt
- The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein
- The Accidental Billionares: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
- Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin
- Behind The Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
- Smasher by Keith Raffel
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Obviously, Strategy+Business is not going to be core science books, but I've always included social media, technology and innovation books in my very broad definition of science books. There are a couple of categories that have some very fine books on recommendation.
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Stealing MySpace:…
A nice list from the SF Chronicle:
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, by…
These days I am swallowing one good science book after another. 2010 seems to be a great year for science book publishing!
But I have also noticed that almost all of these books are written by science bloggers (or at least active Twitterers)! Some are writers first, and started blogging later.…
A thought experiment.
It all started with this Ray Bradbury quote in the New York Times:
"Libraries raised me," Mr. Bradbury said. "I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the…
Thanks for mentioning my book! Some people don't realize it's about the Google founders.
best,
Richard
You're welcome. Yes, I can imagine that would be a problem. Brin and Page have been able to keep a surprisingly low public profile, all things considered.