James P. Womack,  Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos   When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota...

Tim Wu In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some...

Loukia D LoukopoulosR Key DismukesImmanuel BarshiDespite growing concern with the effects of concurrent task demands on human performance, and research demonstrating that these demands are associated with vulnerability to error,...

Frederick P Brooks, JrFew books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred...

Author: Michael Lewis Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat . . . not just...

Po Bronson The Nudist on the Late Shift is the true story of a new generation at the proving point of their lives, written by the most exciting and authentic...

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best...

Gabrielle Zevin This is not a romance, but it is about loveTwo kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering...

Gene I Rochlin Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions...

Gil Gordon Having Trouble Finding the Off Switch on Your Laptop?E-mail, cell phones, laptops, personal digital assistants ... they were supposed to liberate us from the workplace, but instead mobile...

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

Michael Dertouzos Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of...