Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson.

I Steve : (other title)

Summary:

Based on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - - as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues - - the author offers a fascinating look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.

Record details

ISBN: 9781451648539
ISBN: 1451648537
ISBN: 9781451648546
Physical Description: xxi, 630 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Chapter 1 Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen 1 -- Chapter 2 Odd Couple: The Two Steves 21 -- Chapter 3 Dropout: Turn On, Tune In ... 31 -- Chapter 4 Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design 42 -- Chapter 5 Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In ... 56 -- Chapter 6 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 Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution 108 -- Chapter 11 Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules 117 -- Chapter 12 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 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 Second Coming: What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last ... 293 -- Chapter 24 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 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 Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod 378 -- Chapter 31 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 IPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One 465 -- Chapter 37 Round Two: The Cancer Recurs 476 -- Chapter 38 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.
Target Audience Note:	1080L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.6 40 148854.