The richly told narrative of the Silicon Valley generation that launched five major high-tech industries in seven years, laying the foundation for today’s technology-driven world.At a time when
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains access
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains acces
Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (The New
What made Silicon Valley happen, and why has it persisted? The Valley’s premier historian tackles these questions in a lively blend of history and storytelling.
Beginning in 1938 Germany, Sophie L.: A Life in Five Moves chronicles the moves of a Jewish woman, Sophie, as she travels from war-torn Europe to South America, finally settling in the United States.
A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city."For much of the eighteenth century, New York City was second only to Charlestown, South Carolina, in its proportion of
