This article showcases our top picks for the Best Books in Computer Science History. We reached out to industry leaders and experts who contributed to this article’s suggestions (they have been credited for their contributions below).
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The Computer Book by Simson L Garfinkel
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The Book results in being available to the lay reader in a way few books about computing match. To understand technologies, laws, or people, it pays to investigate their origins. This is a readable book with an engrossing remark on not just computers, but their status in society. Since each listing is only one page, it is a joy to flip through but also to view how computing has grown.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
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This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book. (Arianna Huffington, founder, Huffington Post and founder & CEO, Thrive Global) Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book. (Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet) From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and a surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world – where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
Hands-on History by Garth Sundem
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Hands-on History: American History is a strategy guide designed to help teachers foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking with the help of hands-on lessons. Prepared by teachers with college and career readiness in mind, this educational resource helps teachers stay up-to-date with strategies like game-formatted activities to make learning fun and interactive; builds excitement for your social studies students.
Hands-on History by Sarah D. Giese
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Making learning fun and interactive builds excitement for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities to study land and water forms, map components, latitude and longitude, climate, vegetation, plate tectonics, natural disasters, global water issues, economics, and political systems. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and support college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based studies, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their explorations of history.
Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik
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In the bestselling myth of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is an interesting journey of intellectual invention. This brilliant group created several impressive innovations that triggered a technological change, including the first private computer, the graphical interface, and the laser printer, only to see these breakthroughs denied by the corporation. Yet, instead of giving up, these determined inventors turned their thoughts into empires that completely altered contemporary life and modified the world.
