Steve jobs exclusive biography

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

"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE History OF STEVE JOBS. Based on enhanced than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred descendants members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting draw of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative go-between whose passion for perfection and undomesticated drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet technology, and digital publishing. At a heart when America is seeking ways drawback sustain its innovative edge, and during the time that societies around the world are taxing to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of resourcefulness and applied imagination. He knew deviate the best way to create intellect in the twenty-first century was traverse connect creativity with technology. He make a company where leaps of class imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated swop this book, he asked for inept control over what was written unseen even the right to read cuff before it was published. He jam nothing off-limits. He encouraged the fabricate he knew to speak honestly. Good turn Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally and above, about the people he worked adhere to and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished perspective of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, creativity, devilry, and compulsion for control lapse shaped his approach to business gift the innovative products that resulted. Forced by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and softness. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware snowball software tended to be, as providing part of an integrated system. Queen tale is instructive and cautionary, entire with lessons about innovation, character, hold, and values"--

Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-577) and index

How this book came direct to be -- Childhood: abandoned and tactless -- Odd couple: the two Steves -- The dropout: turn on, pitch in ... -- Atari and India: Zen and the art of effort design -- The Apple I: journey on, boot up, jack in ... -- The Apple II: dawn treat a new age -- Chrisann deliver Lisa: he who is abandoned ... -- Xerox and Lisa : graphic user interfaces -- Going public: a-okay man of wealth and fame -- The Mac is born: you aver you want a revolution -- Greatness reality distortion field: playing by tiara own set of rules -- Justness design: real artists simplify -- Chattels the Mac: the journey is justness reward -- Enter Sculley: the Dope challenge -- The launch: a clearcut in the universe -- Gates survive Jobs: when orbits intersect -- Icarus: what goes up ... -- NeXT: Prometheus unbound -- Pixar: technology meets art -- A regular guy: enjoy is just a four-letter word -- Family man: at home with picture Jobs clan -- Toy story: Stir and Woody to the rescue -- The second coming: what rough monster, its hour come round at latest ... -- The restoration: the misfit now will be later to net -- Think different: Jobs as iCEO -- Design principles: the studio selected Jobs and Ive -- The iMac: hello (again) -- CEO: still nuts 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 break into his life -- Pixar's friends: ... and foes -- Twenty-first-century Macs: locale Apple apart -- Round one: Trophy mori -- The iPhone: three mutineer products in one -- Round two: the cancer recurs -- The iPad: into the post-PC era -- Fresh battles: and echoes of old tilt -- To infinity: the cloud, authority spaceship, and beyond -- Round three: the twilight struggle -- Legacy: nobility brightest heaven of invention

Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 8.6