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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
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Engines of Logic: Mathematicians & the Origin of the Computer
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
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The Soul of a New Machine
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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3.82 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
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Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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3.78 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
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Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set
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Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution
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3.71 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
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Portraits in Silicon
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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Head First Design Patterns
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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Learning Javascript Design Patterns
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Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
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