ALT The Secret Life of Circuits by Michał Zalewski, with a pop-art cover showing a woman holding a soldering iron, beside a photograph of three vacuum tubes. Text reads “Tube computers used as much electricity as a small town.” Additional text says “Now shipping from nostarch.com” and “Swipe for a look inside.”

ALT Page 163 of The Secret Life of Circuits. A graph shows collector current in a PN2222 transistor rising sharply to approximately 70 milliamps near 1 volt, then increasing gradually as collector-emitter voltage rises. The text explains transistor saturation, parasitic capacitance, and variations including PNP transistors and phototransistors.

ALT Page 163 of The Secret Life of Circuits. A graph shows collector current in a PN2222 transistor rising sharply to approximately 70 milliamps near 1 volt, then increasing gradually as collector-emitter voltage rises. The text explains transistor saturation, parasitic capacitance, and variations including PNP transistors and phototransistors.

ALT Cover of Practical PCB Design, From Breadboard to Production by Mike D. Smith. A black-and-white robot with a lightbulb on its head works on a circuit board at an electronics bench against a yellow background.

ALT Cover of Evasion Engineering, Building Custom Red Team Tools for Modern Defenses by Dennis Chow and Michael LaSalvia. A wooden Trojan horse stands against a textured red background, surrounded by ladders, scaffolding, and tools. A knife is visible inside its open side compartment.

ALT Cover of The Craft of Post-Training, A Practical Guide for AI Engineers and Developers, by Chris von Csefalvay. A black-and-white illustration shows a dog leaping toward a tossed bone against a yellow sky, with a city skyline below.

ALT Red Humble Book Bundle graphic featuring The Rust Programming Language, Algorithmic Thinking, Writing a C Compiler, and Quantum Computing. Text reads, “Harness programming courses powered by No Starch!” and shows the bundle discounted from $787 to $40.

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ALT The cover of The Secret Life of Circuits by Michal Zalewski, published by No Starch Press. It's a pop-art comic illustration of a red-haired woman holding a soldering iron like a cigarette, with a curl of smoke rising from the tip, against yellow and blue sunburst rays. Below the book, a yellow banner reads "Now shipping from nostarch.com."

ALT A comic-style illustration from the book of an old-fashioned high-tank toilet with a pull chain. A small wooden bucket hangs from the chain where the handle should be. The caption reads "Art based on Giovanni Organtini, 'A Flush Toilet Model for the Transistor,' The Physics Teacher 50, no. 4 (2012): 221."

ALT Yellow promotional graphic for *The Algebra of Code, Volume I*. Large black text reads, “Where functional programming meets the math behind it.” A cream-colored 3D rendering of the book appears on the right.

ALT Black, white, and yellow promotional graphic for Awesome Black Creativity by Richard Dryden, with art by Dave Kaleta. A quote from author and filmmaker Nelson George reads, “This is an innovative vision of American music, using a children’s toy to celebrate profound art.” The book cover features a LEGO portrait of a singer at a microphone. Available from nostarch.com in November 2026 and everywhere else January 12, 2027.

ALT Interior spread from Awesome Black Creativity. A page of text discusses bell hooks’s life, feminist writing, and advocacy for Black women, with part of her colorful LEGO portrait visible on the facing page.

ALT LEGO portrait of bell hooks seated on a red bench against a white background. The faceless figure wears a bright green top decorated with pink flowers and black pants, with her chin resting thoughtfully in one hand.

ALT Jeff Friesen sits at his worktable holding a colorful LEGO city model, surrounded by bins and drawers full of sorted bricks.

ALT Jeff Friesen adjusts a large LEGO mountain scene with snowy peaks, waterfalls, tiny boats, and mechanical details.

ALT Jeff Friesen works behind a tabletop LEGO city filled with tall gold Art Deco-style buildings and colorful skyscrapers.

ALT A hand places a tiny red-and-white LEGO sailboat beside a detailed icy mountain landscape built from LEGO bricks.