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From the April 2015 Issue A Few Nice Men The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution By Walter Isaacson Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli LR
From the September 2011 Issue A Beautiful Mind The Genius in My Basement: The Biography of a Happy Man By Alexander Masters LR
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From the October 2012 Issue Discovery Channels Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science By Morton A Meyers LR
From the December 2012 Issue The Shocking Truth Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand By Nassim Nicholas Taleb LR
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From the August 2013 Issue Viral Statistics Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier LR
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