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"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination,...
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"A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors--experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades--which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves"--
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"The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder--the peerless visionary of technology and culture--explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to 'search and sort' attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies--videos, maps,...
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2018.
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"A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley--from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way. Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly--and as aggressively--as the entity we now know as Silicon Valley. Built with a seemingly permanent culture of reinvention, Silicon Valley does not fight...
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Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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2022.
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English
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"Steve Case, cofounder of America Online and Revolution and New York Times bestselling author of The Third Wave, shows how entrepreneurs across the country are building groundbreaking companies, renewing communities, and creating new jobs—in the process reimagining the American landscape and bringing people together around a shared future."--
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John Wiley
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2014.
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English
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"Become the applicant Google can't turn down. 'Cracking the Tech Career' is the job seeker's guide to landing a coveted position at one of the top tech firms. A follow-up to 'The Google Resume,' this book provides new information on what these companies want, and how to show them you have what it takes to succeed in the role. Early planners will learn what to study, and established professionals will discover how to make their skillset and experience...
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Wiley
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[2011]
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English
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"The information you need to land the tech job of your dreams Whatever your industry, there's no denying the desirability of the perks and salary enjoyed by employees at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and other top tech companies: casual attire, free and unlimited sodas (or even food), flexible hours, onsite luxury gyms, and funky offices. Yet getting a position at such a company is far from assured. Hiring processes and requirements are unique,...
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Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
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[2021]
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English
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"Missouri Senator Josh Hawley argues that big tech companies--Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple--represent the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age, and proposes a democratic, hopeful path forward"--
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Wiley
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[2014]
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English
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"Entrepreneurship starts with an idea and a dream: a dream of a better world for others, and a life less ordinary for yourself. These days, more people than ever are full of world-changing ideas and, thanks to technology, have the means to bring them to life. But many ideas remain just ideas, and many dreams just dreams.Startup Mixology is first and foremost a book about turning your ideas into action. From the co-founder of media company Tech Cocktail,...
13) Secrets of Silicon Valley: what everyone else can learn from the innovation capital of the world
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013.
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English
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While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come from Silicon Valley firms, compared to 10 percent from New York. In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur...
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Feral House
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[2005]
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English
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"Welcome to Big Dead Place, a grunt's eye view of America's Antarctic Program that shatters the well-worn cliches of polar literature. Here the heroic camaraderie and romantic desolation give way to sterile buildings populated by characters like a crazed manager who fills his boots with antifreeze, Boozy the Clown, ghosts that haunt the food freezer, and horny employees who grab rare private moments coupling on the altar in the Chapel of the Snows....
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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2017]
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English
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"One of Silicon Valley's most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in startups. There are two ways to make money in startups: create something valuable--or invest in the people that are creating valuable things. Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis has made a fortune investing in creators, spotting and helping build and fund a number of successful technology startups--investments that have earned him tens of millions...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"An acclaimed tech reporter reveals the inner workings of the most powerful companies in the world, taking you behind the scenes with Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella. At Amazon, "Day One" is code for working inventively and urgently, as if it were the first day of your startup. Day Two is, in Bezos's own words, is "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful...
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Crabtree Publishing Company
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[2018]
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English
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"Tech Industry examines the technological innovations that are transforming not only the way goods are manufactured and distributed, but also how people function in the workplace, from the farmer in the field to the pilot in the sky. Dynamic photographs and informative text sharply illustrate the momentous advancements we are experiencing in industrial technology, such as 3-D printing, product delivery by drone, and computer chips for consumers to...
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