Walter Isaacson Libri

Basandosi su più di quaranta interviste con Steve Jobs in oltre due anni, e su più di cento con i suoi familiari, amici, rivali e colleghi, Walter Isaacson racconta l'avvincente storia del geniale imprenditore la cui passione per la perfezione e il cui carisma feroce hanno rivoluzionato sei settori dell'economia e del business: computer, cinema d'animazione, musica, telefonia, tablet ed editoria digitale. Mentre tutto il mondo sta cercando un modo di sviluppare l'economia dell'era digitale, Jobs spicca come massima icona dell'inventiva e dell'immaginazione, perché ha intuito in anticipo che la chiave per creare valore nel ventunesimo secolo è la combinazione di creatività e tecnologia, e ha costruito un'azienda basata sulla connessione tra geniali salti d'immaginazione e riconosciute invenzioni tecnologiche. Sebbene abbia collaborato attivamente per questo libro, Jobs non ha chiesto nessun controllo sul testo né ha preteso il diritto di leggerlo prima della pubblicazione. Non ha posto nessun filtro, anzi ha incoraggiato i suoi conoscenti, i familiari, gli antagonisti a raccontare onestamente la verità. E lo stesso Steve Jobs parla candidamente, talvolta in maniera brutale, dei colleghi, degli amici e dei nemici, i quali, a loro volta, ne svelano le passioni, il perfezionismo, la maestria, la magia diabolica e l'ossessione per il controllo che hanno caratterizzato il suo approccio al business e i geniali prodotti da lui creati. Ispirato dai suoi demoni, Jobs sarebbe potuto cadere nell'ira e nella disperazione. Ma la sua personalità e i suoi prodotti erano una sola cosa, esattamente come l'hardware e il software di Apple, parti di un sistema integrato

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius.

'This is a riveting book, with as much to say about the transformation of modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject' - Telegraph 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 is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster 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. 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. And as Isaacson shows in a new afterword commemorating the tenth anniversary of Jobs's death, that vision remains even more vital today.

This book explores Einstein's life and the development of his theories, highlighting his early years in Germany, personal relationships, involvement in the Atomic Bomb's creation, and his contributions to Civil Rights in the U.S.

The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna hit upon an invention that will transform the future of the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. It has already been deployed to cure deadly diseases, fight the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, and make inheritable changes in the genes of babies. But what does that mean for humanity? Should we be hacking our own DNA to make us less susceptible to disease? Should we democratise the technology that would allow parents to enhance their kids? After discovering this CRISPR, Doudna is now wrestling these even bigger issues. THE CODE BREAKERS is an examination of how life as we know it is about to change - and a brilliant portrayal of the woman leading the way.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works. What talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so creative. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity and teamwork, this book shows how they actually happen.

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.

No one has contributed as much to science in the last century as Albert Einstein. Drawing on new research and reproducing documents only recently made available, Einstein reveals the process behind the work and the man behind the science: his experiments in Germany, his marriages and children, his role in the development of the atomic bomb, and his involvement with civil rights groups.