Steve Jobs
By: Walter Isaacson.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9781451648539
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-577) and index.
Table of contents: title: Characters
pagenum: xiii; title: Introduction: How This Book Came to Be
pagenum: xvii; label: Chapter One
title: Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter Two
title: Odd Couple: The Two Steves
pagenum: 21; label: Chapter Three
title: The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In
pagenum: 31; label: Chapter Four
title: Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design
pagenum: 42; label: Chapter Five
title: The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In
pagenum: 56; label: Chapter Six
title: The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age
pagenum: 71; label: Chapter Seven
title: Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter Eight
title: Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces
pagenum: 92; label: Chapter Nine
title: Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame
pagenum: 102; label: Chapter Ten
title: The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution
pagenum: 108; label: Chapter Eleven
title: The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules
pagenum: 117; label: Chapter Twelve
title: The Design: Real Artists Simplify
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter Thirteen
title: Building the Mac: The Journey Is the Reward
pagenum: 135; label: Chapter Fourteen
title: Enter Sculley: The Pepsi Challenge
pagenum: 148; label: Chapter Fifteen
title: The Launch: A Dent in the Universe
pagenum: 159; label: Chapter Sixteen
title: Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Intersect
pagenum: 171; label: Chapter Seventeen
title: Icarus: What Goes Up
pagenum: 180; label: Chapter Eighteen
title: NeXT: Prometheus Unbound
pagenum: 211; label: Chapter Nineteen
title: Pixar: Technology Meets Art
pagenum: 238; label: Chapter Twenty
title: A Regular Guy: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word
pagenum: 250; label: Chapter Twenty-One
title: Family Man: At Home with the Jobs Clan
pagenum: 267; label: Chapter Twenty-Two
title: Toy Story: Buzz and Woody to the Rescue
pagenum: 284; label: Chapter Twenty-Three
title: The Second Coming: What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last
pagenum: 293; label: Chapter Twenty-Four
title: The Restoration: The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win
pagenum: 305; label: Chapter Twenty-Five
title: Think Different: Jobs as iCEO
pagenum: 327; label: Chapter Twenty-Six
title: Design Principles: The Studio of Jobs and Ive
pagenum: 340; label: Chapter Twenty-Seven
title: The iMac: Hello (Again)
pagenum: 348; label: Chapter Twenty-Eight
title: CEO: Still Crazy after All These Years
pagenum: 358; label: Chapter Twenty-Nine
title: Apple Stores: Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone
pagenum: 368; label: Chapter Thirty
title: The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod
pagenum: 378; label: Chapter Thirty-One
title: The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper
pagenum: 394; label: Chapter Thirty-Two
title: Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life
pagenum: 411; label: Chapter Thirty-Three
title: Pixar's Friends: and Foes
pagenum: 426; label: Chapter Thirty-Four
title: Twenty-First-Century Macs: Setting Apple Apart
pagenum: 444; label: Chapter Thirty-Five
title: Round One: Memento Mori
pagenum: 452; label: Chapter Thirty-Six
title: The iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One
pagenum: 465; label: Chapter Thirty-Seven
title: Round Two: The Cancer Recurs
pagenum: 476; label: Chapter Thirty-Eight
title: The iPad: Into the Post-PC Era
pagenum: 490; label: Chapter Thirty-Nine
title: New Battles: And Echoes of Old Ones
pagenum: 511; label: Chapter Forty
title: To Infinity: The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond
pagenum: 525; label: Chapter Forty-One
title: Round Three: The Twilight Struggle
pagenum: 538; label: Chapter Forty-Two
title: Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of Invention
pagenum: 560; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 573; title: Sources
pagenum: 575; title: Notes
pagenum: 579; title: Index
pagenum: 599