Background reading

In between books on nonprofit accounting and parenting teen girls, some background intro to computer science books are giving me some of the sense of orientation I crave:

Computing for Ordinary Mortals, by Robert St. Amant

Digitized : The Science of Computers and How It Shapes Our World, by Peter J. Bentley

Algorithms to Live By : The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths