From painstakingly researched biographies and histories charting the rise and fall of modern business empires to deep dives into the birth of influential gadgets, these are some of the best tech books to gift.
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On Wednesday, more than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, walked off the job, marking the largest health care worker strike in US history.
Must have taken you a long time to hunt down all that history.
— Cormac Wibberley, Jim Kouf, Marianne Wibberley, Ben Gates, Nicolas Cage, imdb.com
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
— Kayla Alpert, Charles Addams, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Wednesday Addams, Jenna Ortega, imdb.com
History does not remember blood. It remembers names.
— George R. R. Martin, Ryan J. Condal, Kevin Lau, Ser Vaemond Velaryon, Wil Johnson, imdb.com
What trans people really need, though, is a sense of a broader history of that representation, so that they can, kind of, find themselves in it.
As I lounged in a chaise, I discovered that you can’t actually tan when your entire body is covered in a gown.
For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.
The deeply divided House of Representatives took the historic step to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, charging a president with high crimes and misdemeanors for just the third time in American history.
— Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, CNN, cnn.com
Jimmy Hoffa: Would you like to be a part of this, Frank? Would you like to be a part of this history? Frank Sheeran: Yes, I would. Whatever you need me to do, I'm available.
Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.
Ah, 1913, it was America's puberty, and my puberty too.
— Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Nick Kroll, Ghost of Duke Ellington (voice), Jordan Peele, imdb.com
Spanning over 500 years of history, the book features the work and biographies of over 400 women artists.
It's salacious and bizarre and it'll follow you forever.
— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, James Sullivan, Theo Germaine, imdb.com
The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach an official, and it makes the Senate the sole court for impeachment trials. The power of impeachment is limited to removal from office but also provides for a removed officer to be disqualified from holding future office.…
The thing people don't realize about being a history teacher is, dude, it is so boring.
Everyone in history has always known that if you text someone 'heyy' with two Y's it means you wanna fuck.
But although history should not become a straitjacket, which overwhelms and binds, neither should it be forgotten.
Many are so unoriginal they study history to find mistakes to repeat.
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.