Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $11.99
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as
Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and
Oblivion for, literally...
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The Pixar Touch
Written by David A. Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00
The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot...
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Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $15.00
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and...
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Kelly
More Than My Share of It All
Written by Clarence L. Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $21.95
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Written by David Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.95
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes...
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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $27.00
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases...
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