title: No Starch Press
text: # No Starch Press
  
  No Starch Press is an American publishing company, specializing in technical literature often geared towards the geek, hacker, and DIY subcultures. Popular titles include Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Andrew Huang's Hacking the Xbox, and How Wikipedia Works.
  
  ## Topics
  
  No Starch Press publishes books with a focus on networking, computer security, hacking, Linux, programming, technology for kids, Lego, math, and science. The publisher also releases educational comics like Super Scratch Programming Adventure and The Manga Guide to Science series.
  
  ## History
  
  No Starch Press was founded in 1994 by Bill Pollock. It is headquartered in San Francisco. The company has published titles that have received recognition in the Communication Arts Design Annual and STEP inside 100 competition, and have been awarded the Independent Publisher Book Award (the IPPYs) from Independent Publisher magazine.
  
  ## Availability
  
  No Starch Press titles are available online and in bookstores in all major English language markets worldwide. No Starch Press titles have been translated into over thirty languages.
  
  Penguin Random House Publisher Services distributes No Starch Press titles in the U.S. and worldwide.
  
  ## Popular books
  
  * Absolute OpenBSD
  * Cult of Mac
  * Debian System
  * Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
  * How Wikipedia Works
  * Programming Linux Games
  * English-language editions of several of The Manga Guides books:
     * The Manga Guide to Biochemistry
     * The Manga Guide to Calculus
     * The Manga Guide to Cryptography
     * The Manga Guide to Databases
     * The Manga Guide to Electricity
     * The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
     * The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
     * The Manga Guide to Physics
     * The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis
     * The Manga Guide to Relativity
     * The Manga Guide to Statistics
     * The Manga Guide to the Universe
  * The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
  