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English
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Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs’s spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3, and the iPhone. In the wake of his close collaborator’s death, the chief designer wrestled with grief and initially threw himself into...
3) Run: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Marc Bowman is an in-demand hired gun, a computer consultant for AmeriTel, the huge technical corporation where his wife Carolyn happens to work as a high-powered executive. Then, one morning, AmeriTel unceremoniously fires Marc with no notice and no cause. Furious, Marc turns to Carolyn for an explanation--and is stunned when she sides with her employer. Suddenly, things are happening in Marc's life that he can't explain; strange men are following...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This documentary looks not only at how his talent, style and imagination have shaped all of our lives, but also at the influences that shaped and molded the man himself. Through interviews with the people who worked closely with him or chronicled his life, we gain unique insight into what made him tick. In a never before broadcast, exclusive interview, Steve Jobs expounds his own philosophy of life, and offers advice to us all on changing our own...
Author
Publisher
12/Twelve
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist, Nat Idle, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after receiving a note warning him to leave immediately. The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, whom he has obsessively been mourning"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This book "isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to the ... female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that's changing the way we live, work and connect to each other"--Amazon.com.
9) Steve Jobs
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A critical examination of Steve Jobs, revered both as an iconoclastic genius and denounced as a barbed-tongued tyrant. Interviews with a handful of those closest to him unravel the larger than life myth he deliberately crafted, and examine the endurance of his values which continue to shape the culture of Silicon Valley to this day.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The computer engineer details his early life and education, his role as the creator of the first personal computer and co-founder of Apple Computer, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the technology revolution.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150. The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company came to be, how it survived two world wars and brought a ravaged Italy back to life,...
13) The scarecrow
Author
Series
Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the L.A. Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
14) Jobs
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Follows Steve Jobs' rise to fame from the time he was a college dropout in 1974 to the invention of the iPod in 2001.
A riveting story of a true American visionary, a man who let nothing stand in the way of greatness. It chronicles the iconic innovator and entrepreneur's early days. He was a college dropout who co-founded Apple Computer Incorporated and was then forced to leave. More than a decade later, Jobs returns and single-handedly sets a course...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The teenage phenoms behind viral video game Tampon Run share how their knowledge of coding and gaming -- not to mention their unique perspectives as women in a male-dominated industry -- has transformed their outlooks. They give advice on everything you need to know to start changing your own world : from a clear, concise guide to coding, to the lowdown on the inner workings of the tech industry, to insider tips from female tech founders on how they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.
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