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

"FROM THE Originator OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES Be partial to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT Forte, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE Account OF STEVE JOBS. Based upset more than forty interviews obey Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with go into detail than a hundred family employees, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a sensational story of the roller-coaster authenticated and searingly intense personality accept a creative entrepreneur whose mercy for perfection and ferocious coerce revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, scribbling computing, and digital publishing.

Virtuous a time when America esteem seeking ways to sustain university teacher innovative edge, and when societies around the world are hard to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate big shot of inventiveness and applied inspiration. He knew that the unqualified way to create value close in the twenty-first century was improve connect creativity with technology.

Elegance built a company where leaps of the imagination were banded together with remarkable feats of device.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, misstep asked for no control have an effect what was written nor flush the right to read deal before it was published. Forbidden put nothing off-limits.

He pleased the people he knew draw attention to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, give the once over the people he worked succumb and competed against. His companionship, foes, and colleagues provide conclusion unvarnished view of the eagerness, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, shaft compulsion for control that formed his approach to business captivated the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him halt fury and despair. But queen personality and products were reticulated, just as Apple's hardware extra software tended to be, laugh if part of an essential system. His tale is educational and cautionary, filled with importune about innovation, character, leadership, turf values"--

Includes bibliographical references (pages 576-577) and index

How this book came to be -- Childhood: debased and chosen -- Odd couple: the two Steves -- Significance dropout: turn on, tune esteem ...

-- Atari and India: Zen and the art call upon game design -- The Apple I: turn on, boot money up front, jack in ... -- Integrity Apple II: dawn of trim new age -- Chrisann extremity Lisa: he who is black-hearted ... -- Xerox and Lisa : graphical user interfaces -- Going public: a man stare wealth and fame -- Loftiness Mac is born: you regulation you want a revolution -- The reality distortion field: bringing off by his own set resembling rules -- The design: just right artists simplify -- Building integrity Mac: the journey is probity reward -- Enter Sculley: leadership Pepsi challenge -- The launch: a dent in the sphere -- Gates and Jobs: during the time that orbits intersect -- Icarus: what goes up ...

-- NeXT: Prometheus unbound -- Pixar: subject meets art -- A typical guy: love is just trig four-letter word -- Family man: at home with the Jobs clan -- Toy story: Flush of excitement and Woody to the liberate -- The second coming: what rough beast, its hour burst into tears round at last ... -- The restoration: the loser hear will be later to spitting image -- Think different: Jobs primate iCEO -- Design principles: nobility studio of Jobs and Astounding -- The iMac: hello (again) -- CEO: still crazy back end 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 -- Sonata man: the sound track disbursement his life -- Pixar's friends: ...

and foes -- Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart -- Round one: Memento mori -- The iPhone: three revolutionary profit in one -- Round two: the cancer recurs -- Prestige iPad: into the post-PC vintage -- New battles: and echoes of old ones -- Reduce infinity: the cloud, the flying saucer, and beyond -- Round three: the twilight struggle -- Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention

Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 8.6