Fowler, Susan J.

Summary: "The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after. In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LPB FOWLER FOW

Fisher, Adam

Summary: A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and Facebook.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 FIS

O'Mara, Margaret Pugh

Summary: "The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech re-created America in its image, for good and for ill. Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 OMA

Menuez, Doug.

Summary: Offers a pictorial chronicle of the Silicon Valley technology boom, beginning with Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer company in 1985 and expending to other innovative companies in the region up to the bursting of the dot com bubble.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014

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Fowler, Susan J.

Summary: "The unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley history--and what came after In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOWLER, SUSAN FOW

Summary: From the first smartphones to social media, eBay to emojis, the ideas that dominate lives were born at a 1989 tech startup never heard of. It is a tale of how a great vision and an epic failure changed the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEN

Summary: Over the holidays, Ned, an overprotective but loving dad and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird. The rivalry develops, and Ned's panic level goes through the roof when he finds himself lost in this glamorous high-tech world and learns that Laird is about to pop the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHY RATED R

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Wiener, Anna

Summary: "The story of Anna Wiener's time spent working in Silicon Valley as the tech industry went through monumental changes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIENER, ANNA WIE

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Brown, Janelle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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Cohen, Noam

Summary: Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regulations, or social welfare programs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 COH

Harris, Malcolm

Summary: "In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 HAR

Brennan-Jobs, Lisa

Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018

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Summary: The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLA

Summary: In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIL

Brown, Janelle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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Lassieur, Allison

Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LAS