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The Launch Pad
Inside Y Combinator,
Silicon Valley's
Most Exclusive
School for Startups

Portfolio/Penguin
(forthcoming fall 2012)

Steve Jobs
and the NeXT Big Thing


Amazon Kindle reprint
2012

Originally published by
Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
1993

Planet Google
Planet Google
One Company's
Audacious Plan
To Organize
Everything We Know

Hardcover
Free Press
2008

Paperback
Free Press
2009

The Wizard of Menlo Park
The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World

Hardcover
Crown Publishing Group
2007

Paperback
Three Rivers Press
2008

Eboys: The 
						            
						 
						            
						 
						 
						 
						 
						 
						 
						 
						 First 
						 inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
eBoys
The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists At Work

Hardcover
Crown Publishing Group
2000

Paperback
Ballantine Publishing
2001

The Microsoft 
								            
								 
								            
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 Way: 
								 The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition
The Microsoft Way
The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition

Hardcover
Addison Wesley Longman
1996

Paperback
Perseus
1997


Technology and 
								            
								 
								            
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 Society 
								 in Twentieth Century America
Technology and Society
in Twentieth Century America

An Anthology

Wadsworth Publishing
1989

China

Bulls in 
								            
								 
								            
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 the 
								 China Shop and Other Sino-American Business Encounters
Bulls in the China Shop and
Other Sino-American Business Encounters


Hardcover
Pantheon Books
1991

Paperback
University of Hawaii Press
1995

Remapping China: 
								            
								 
								            
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 Fissures 
								 in Historical Terrain
Remapping China
Fissures in Historical Terrain

Stanford University Press
1995


The Stubborn 
								            
								 
								            
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 
								 Earth: 
								 American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1037
The Stubborn Earth
American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937

University of California Press
1986

                                         

 

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