Steve Jobs

Isaacson, Walter (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1451648537 :
ISBN: 9781451648539 :
Physical Description: xxi, 630 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
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Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-598) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 invention.