{"title":"Steven Levy","description":"Steven Levy is the author of Hackers, which has been in print for more than fifteen years, as well as Insanely Great: The Life \u0026amp; Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. He is also Newsweek's chief technology writer and has been a contributing writer to Wired since its inception. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.","products":[{"product_id":"crypto-how-the-code-rebels-beat-the-government-saving-privacy-in-the-digital-age-paperback","title":"Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or \"crypto\", in action. From \u003cb\u003eStephen Levy\u003c\/b\u003e--the author who made \"hackers\" a household word--comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. \u003cb\u003eCrypto\u003c\/b\u003e tells the inside story of how a group of \"crypto rebels\"—nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters—teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51317744566495,"sku":"9780140244328","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/emZFf0DODs9780140244328.webp?v=1788348422"},{"product_id":"hackers-paperback","title":"Hackers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak, \u003ci\u003eHackers\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating story that begins in early computer research labs and leads to the first home computers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as \"the hacker ethic,\" that still thrives today. \u003ci\u003eHackers\u003c\/i\u003e captures a seminal period in recent history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world, from MIT students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to the DIY culture that spawned the Altair and the Apple II.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319045521631,"sku":"9781449388393","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3vMqvflKa89781449388393.webp?v=1788366112"},{"product_id":"in-the-plex-how-google-thinks-works-and-shapes-our-lives-paperback","title":"In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The most interesting book ever written about Google\" (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword.Google is arguably the most important company in the world today, with such pervasive influence that its name is a verb. The company founded by two Stanford graduate students--Larry Page and Sergey Brin--has become a tech giant known the world over. Since starting with its search engine, Google has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, power utilities, self-driving cars, all while remaining the most powerful company in the advertising business. Granted unprecedented access to the company, Levy disclosed that the key to Google's success in all these businesses lay in its engineering mindset and adoption of certain internet values such as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk-taking. Levy discloses details behind Google's relationship with China, including how Brin disagreed with his colleagues on the China strategy--and why its social networking initiative failed; the first time Google tried chasing a successful competitor. He examines Google's rocky relationship with government regulators, particularly in the EU, and how it has responded when employees left the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. In the Plex is the \"most authoritative...and in many ways the most entertaining\" (James Gleick, The New York Book Review) account of Google to date and offers \"an instructive primer on how the minds behind the world's most influential internet company function\" (Richard Waters, The Wall Street Journal).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319053385951,"sku":"9781416596592","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/d-5mRpbsFs9781416596592.webp?v=1788366127"},{"product_id":"insanely-great-the-life-and-times-of-macintosh-the-computer-that-changed-everything-paperback","title":"Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe creation of the Mac in 1984 catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business. Now veteran technology writer and Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy zooms in on the great machine and the fortunes of the unique company responsible for its evolution. Loaded with anecdote and insight, and peppered with sharp commentary, \u003cb\u003eInsanely Great\u003c\/b\u003e is the definitive book on the most important computer ever made. It is a must-have for anyone curious about how we got to the interactive age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319173152991,"sku":"9780140291773","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dTAcxQT3O19780140291773.webp?v=1788366344"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/steven-levy.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}