Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isaacson, Walter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011.

Jobs, Steve.

Apple Computer, Inc.

Computer engineers--United States--Biography.

Computer engineers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2011]

Summary:

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In "Steve Jobs: A Biography," Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, "Steve Jobs" is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen 1

Chapter 2 Odd Couple: The Two Steves 21

Chapter 3 The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In ... 31

Chapter 4 Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design 42

Chapter 5 The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In ... 56

Chapter 6 The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age 71

Chapter 7 Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned ... 86

Chapter 8 Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces 92

Chapter 9 Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame 102

Chapter 10 The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution 108

Chapter 11 The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules 117

Chapter 12 The Design: Real Artists Simplify 125

Chapter 13 Building the Mac: The Journey Is the Reward 135

Chapter 14 Enter Sculley: The Pepsi Challenge 148

Chapter 15 The Launch: A Dent in the Universe 159

Chapter 16 Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Intersect 171

Chapter 17 Icarus: What Goes Up ... 180

Chapter 18 Next: Prometheus Unbound 211

Chapter 19 Pixar: Technology Meets Art 238

Chapter 20 A Regular Guy: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word 250

Chapter 21 Family Man: At Home with the Jobs Clan 267

Chapter 22 Toy Story: Buzz and Woody to the Rescue 284

Chapter 23 The Second Coming: What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last ... 293

Chapter 24 The Restoration: The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win 305

Chapter 25 Think Different: Jobs as iCEO 327

Chapter 26 Design Principles: The Studio of Jobs and Ive 340

Chapter 27 The iMac: Hello (Again) 348

Chapter 28 CEO: Still Crazy after All These Years 358

Chapter 29 Apple Stores: Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone 368

Chapter 30 The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod 378

Chapter 31 The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper 394

Chapter 32 Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life 411

Chapter 33 Pixar's Friends: ... and Foes 426

Chapter 34 Twenty-first-century Macs: Setting Apple Apart 444

Chapter 35 Round One: Memento Mori 452

Chapter 36 The iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One 465

Chapter 37 Round Two: The Cancer Recurs 476

Chapter 38 The iPad: Into the Post-PC Era 490

Chapter 39 New Battles: And Echoes of Old Ones 511

Chapter 40 To Infinity: The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond 525

Chapter 41 Round Three: The Twilight Struggle 538

Chapter 42 Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of Invention 560.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-577) and index.

ISBN:

9781451648539