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    Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson.

    • Title:Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson.
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    • Author/Creator:Isaacson, Walter.
    • Published/Created:New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2011.
    • Holdings

      • Location:Temporarily shelved at DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
        c.2  Shelved at DAVID LAM LIBRARY Great Reads
      • Call Number: QA76.2.J63 I83 2011
      • Number of Items:2
      • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 03-31-2024
        c.2 On loan - Due on 03-30-2024
       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011.
      Apple Computer, Inc.--History.
      Computer engineers--United States--Biography.
      Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
    • Medical Subjects: Life Change Events.
    • Genre/Form: Biographies.
    • Description:xxi, 630 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Summary:"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-577) and index.
    • ISBN:9781451648539 (hardback)
      1451648537 (hardback)
      9781451648546 (trade paperback)
      1451648545 (trade paperback)
      9781451648553 (ebook)
      1451648553 (ebook)
    • Contents:How this book came to be
      Childhood: abandoned and chosen
      Odd couple: the two Steves
      The dropout: turn on, tune in ...
      Atari and India: Zen and the art of game design
      The Apple I: turn on, boot up, jack in ...
      The Apple II: dawn of a new age
      Chrisann and Lisa: he who is abandoned ...
      Xerox and Lisa : graphical user interfaces
      Going public: a man of wealth and fame
      The Mac is born: you say you want a revolution
      The reality distortion field: playing by his own set of rules
      The design: real artists simplify
      Building the Mac: the journey is the reward
      Enter Sculley: the Pepsi challenge
      The launch: a dent in the universe
      Gates and Jobs: when orbits intersect
      Icarus: what goes up ...
      NeXT: Prometheus unbound
      Pixar: technology meets art
      A regular guy: love is just a four-letter word
      Family man: at home with the Jobs clan
      Toy story: Buzz and Woody to the rescue
      The second coming: what rough beast, its hour come round at last ...
      The restoration: the loser now will be later to win
      Think different: Jobs as iCEO
      Design principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive
      The iMac: hello (again)
      CEO: still crazy after all these years
      Apple stores: genius bars and siena sandstone
      The digital hub: from iTunes to the iPod
      The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Piper
      Music man: the sound track of his life
      Pixar's friends: ... and foes
      Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart
      Round one: Memento mori
      The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one
      Round two: the cancer recurs
      The iPad: into the post-PC era
      New battles: and echoes of old ones
      To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond
      Round three: the twilight struggle
      Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention.
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