Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

ISBN 10: 1451648537 / ISBN 13: 9781451648539

Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2011

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Simon & Schuster, New York. 2011. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; moisture spotting to text block top with slight warping of upper rear page tops. DJ: Fine. White boards with light gray overlay on spine with black lettering on spine. 630 pp. This work is the biography of Steve Jobs, who revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. The first to connect creativity with technology, he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with the highest feats of engineering. His passion for perfection and ferocious drive is brought out in this book. A clean and very presentable copy. Codice articolo 003453

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Titolo: Steve Jobs

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, New York, NY

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: No Binding

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive, New York Times bestselling biography of Apple co-founder 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.

L'autore:

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.