Gizmodo Reading Room: History

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta

Publisher ’s Weekly name Ken Auletta ’s book as a “ savvy profile of the Internet search octopus , ” and they ’re not very far off . If there was ever anything you wanted to know about the means the fellowship on whose services we depend oh - so - very much , then this is the book to spend an evening with . [ Amazon;Kindle;Barnes and Noble;Nook ]

Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles: Memorabilia and Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away

by Stephen Sansweet

WeconsiderStar Wars : 1,000 collectable to be “ one of the good Star Wars coffee bean - table Quran in recent memory board … Written and compiled by Stephen J. Sansweet — who , as head of fan relations for Lucasfilm and curator ofRancho Obi - Wan , has two of the awesomest jobs in our galaxy — the Christian Bible covers a million different things Lucasfilm has licensed over the year , and a handful of very telling feat by fans as well . mass love to make fun of the over - licensing of Star Wars , but a certain genius is revealed when you see all of it , all at once . ” [ Amazon;Barnes and imposing ]

https://gizmodo.com/the-craziest-official-star-wars-stuff-5413178

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The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

by John Ortved

I recall read a New York Times review of John Ortved ’s unauthorized history of The Simpsons which described the book as a “ 300 - Sir Frederick Handley Page combining of juicy amusement chin-wag , plenteous tv chronicle and notes from a disenchanted devotee . ” That verbal description , along with Adam Frucci ’s recommendation , make this sound like a great read for anyone who ’s ever watched and sleep with The Simpsons . [ Amazon;Barnes and Noble ]

Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By

by Anna Jane Grossman

Anna Jane Grossman , an periodic contributorto Gizmodo , is much the authority on all the old matter we employ and love . Her Bible Obsolete : An cyclopaedia of Once - Common thing Passing Us By is a grotesque collection of essays and tidbits about all those things and about the many well-nigh draw a blank objects and experience , some we can recall lovingly , others we wallow for having scat . [ Amazon;Barnes and imposing ]

https://gizmodo.com/four-old-gadgets-we-love-and-four-we-hate-5378200

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Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple

by Michael Moritz

Return to the Little Kingdom is a revisit of Michael Moritz ’s The Little Kingdom : The Private Story of Apple Computer , a leger which was often name as one of the good written about Apple . With all the expansions and gain made in this young mass though , it could be foretell the classical guide on all things Apple past and present . [ Amazon;Barnes and baronial ]

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information

by Erik Davis

Our beloved JoelTake Back Take OffJohnson , makes Erik Davis ’ Word auditory sensation like an unbelievable read : “ A decade past its original issue , I still know of no other single book that can describe a thread from the alphabet — the first applied science — to the internet , with scads of engrossing cultural and anthropological stoppage in between . I do n’t even think I believe in magic , but then I read TechGnosis again and have a hard time key between magic and technology that ’s sufficiently sophisticated beyond spoken communication . ” [ Amazon;Barnes and Noble ]

The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

by H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace

When we took a look at someillustrations from The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception , we described the book as being part charming book of account , party history of the CIA ’s “ treble top - secluded and sometimes forbidding MKULTRA division . MKULTRA was speculate to have been erase from chronicle in 1973 , but — in true spy fashion — the few shreds of paperwork that remained end up telling its whole story . ” [ Amazon;Kindle;Barnes and Noble ]

https://gizmodo.com/secret-cia-manual-shows-magic-tricks-used-by-spies-5415878

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