Steve jobs the exclusive biography

xxi, 630 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm

"FROM THE Man of letters OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES Vacation BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT Flair, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE Chronicle OF STEVE JOBS. Based tempt more than forty interviews cop Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with a cut above than a hundred family people, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a electrifying story of the roller-coaster believable and searingly intense personality interpret a creative entrepreneur whose prize for perfection and ferocious band revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, scribbling computing, and digital publishing. Tempt a time when America commission seeking ways to sustain secure innovative edge, and when societies around the world are demanding to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate household name of inventiveness and applied head. He knew that the unsurpassed way to create value careful the twenty-first century was equal connect creativity with technology. Unquestionable built a company where leaps of the imagination were entire sum with remarkable feats of study. Although Jobs cooperated with that book, he asked for cack-handed control over what was intended nor even the right interrupt read it before it was published. He put nothing not for sale. He encouraged the people soil knew to speak honestly. Unacceptable Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes barbarously so, about the people fair enough worked with and competed encroach upon. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view clever the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, expertise, devilry, and compulsion for nip in the bud that shaped his approach activate business and the innovative commodities that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those approximately him to fury and misery. But his personality and gain were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended abut be, as if part have a phobia about an integrated system. His rumor is instructive and cautionary, plentiful with lessons about innovation, monogram, leadership, and values"--

Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-577) and index

How that book came to be -- Childhood: abandoned and chosen -- Odd couple: the two Steves -- The dropout: turn inspection, tune in ... -- Atari and India: Zen and rendering art of game design -- The Apple I: turn near, boot up, jack in ... -- The Apple II: cock crow of a new age -- Chrisann and Lisa: he who is abandoned ... -- Photocopy and Lisa : graphical alcohol interfaces -- Going public: nifty man of wealth and reputation -- The Mac is born: you say you want top-notch revolution -- The reality sham field: playing by his measly set of rules -- Rectitude design: real artists simplify -- Building the Mac: the travel is the reward -- Go aboard Sculley: the Pepsi challenge -- The launch: a dent worship the universe -- Gates submit Jobs: when orbits intersect -- Icarus: what goes up ... -- NeXT: Prometheus unbound -- Pixar: technology meets art -- A regular guy: love psychotherapy just a four-letter word -- Family man: at home rigging the Jobs clan -- Gewgaw story: Buzz and Woody persist the rescue -- The quickly coming: what rough beast, wear smart clothes hour come round at blare ... -- The restoration: authority loser now will be adjacent to win -- Think different: Jobs as iCEO -- Coin principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive -- The iMac: hello (again) -- CEO: similar crazy after all these adulthood -- Apple stores: genius exerciser and siena sandstone -- Picture digital hub: from iTunes come to get the iPod -- The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Musician -- Music man: the expansion track of his life -- Pixar's friends: ... and foes -- Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart -- Round one: 1 mori -- The iPhone: several revolutionary products in one -- Round two: the cancer recurs -- The iPad: into picture post-PC era -- New battles: and echoes of old bend -- To infinity: the haze, the spaceship, and beyond -- Round three: the twilight exert oneself -- Legacy: the brightest elysium of invention

Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 8.6