Steve Jobs : the exclusive biography [printed text] / Walter Isaacson, Author  . -  1st edition Reprint . - London : Little, Brown, 2011 . - xxii, 630 p. : ill (b & w) ; 24 cm.
ISBN : 978-1-4087-0374-8
This is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.

Class number:	621.39092
Abstract:	Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues - this book chronicles the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative ehtrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing.
Contents note:	Characters; Introduction: How this book came to be; Chapter One Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen; Chapter Two Odd couple: The two Steves; Chapter Three The dropout: Turn On, Tune In ...; Chapter Four Atari and India: Zen and the art of game design; Chapter Five The Apple I: Turn on, Boot up, Jack in ...; Chapter Six The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age; Chapter Seven Chrisann and Lisa: He Who is Abandoned...; Chapter Eight Xerox and Lisa: Graphical user interfaces; Chapter Nine Going public: a man of wealth and fame; Chapter Ten The Mac is born: you say you want a revolution; Chapter Eleven The reality distortion field: playing by his own set of rules; Chapter Twelve The design: real artists simplify; Chapter Thirteen Building the Mac: the journey is the reward; Chapter Fourteen Enter Sculley: the Pepsi challenge; Chapter Fifteen The launch: a dent in the universe; Chapter Sixteen Gates and Jobs: when orbits intersect; Chapter Seventeen Icarus: what goes up...; Chapter Eighteen NeXT: Prometheus unbound; Chapter Nineteen Pixar: technology meets art; Chapter Twenty A regular guy: love is just a four-letter word; Chapter Twenty-One Family man: at home with the Jobs clan; Chapter Twenty-Two Toy story: Buzz and Woody to the rescue; Chapter Twenty-Three The second coming: what rough beast, its hour come round at last...; Chapter Twenty-Four The restoration: the loser now will be later to win; Chapter Twenty-Five Think different: Jobs as iCEO; Chapter Twenty-Six Design principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive; Chapter Twenty-Seven The iMac: hello (again); Chapter Twenty-Eight CEO: still crazy after all these years; Chapter Twenty-Nine Apple stores: genius bars and siena sandstone; Chapter Thirty The digital hub: from iTunes to the iPod; Chapter Thirty-One The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Piper; Chapter Thirty-Two Music man: the sound track of his life; Chapter Thirty-Three Pixar's friends:...and foes; Chapter Thirty-Four Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart; Chapter Thirty-Five Round one: Memento mori; Chapter Thirty-Six The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one; Chapter Thirty-Seven Round two: the cancer recurs; Chapter Thirty-Eight The iPad: into the post-PC era; Chapter Thirty-Nine New battles: and echoes of old ones; Chapter Forty To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond; Chapter Forty-One Round three: the twilight struggle; Chapter Forty-Two Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention Acknowledgements; Sources; Notes; Index.