William L. Simon Bücher

Steve Jobs ist ein Mann mit vielen Bewunderern und Kritikern - die Autoren dieser Biografie geben beiden Gruppen (Lese-)Futter. Ihr Buch liefert zahlreiche Episoden und interessante Einzelheiten über den Werdegang eines eigenwilligen Unternehmers, der gleich drei Branchen aufgemischt und uns den Mac, den iPod und iTunes beschert hat. Detailliert und mit Sinn für Dramaturgie beschreiben die beiden Autoren die aufregende Berg- und Talfahrt von Jobs' unternehmerischem und privatem Leben. Ab der Mitte des Buches bringen größere Rückblenden und Zeitsprünge den chronologischen Faden gelegentlich durcheinander - doch wer mindestens eines der von Steve kreierten Produkte kennt, findet ihn schnell wieder. getAbstract empfiehlt das Buch allen, die sich für ein vielaktiges Lehrstück vom Aufstieg, Sturz und Wiederaufstieg eines genialen Macht- und Machertypen interessieren

Jeffrey D. Simon tells the gripping story of the forgotten terrorist group the Galleanists, a fiery brand of Italian anarchists in the United States during the early 1900s, many of whose tactics are still used today.

An engaging and insightful popular history of American presidential elections from 1789 to the present.

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 1971. His analysis of how deeply held beliefs in witchcraft, spirits, and magic evolved during the Reformation remains one of the great works of post-war scholarship.

First history of 'real' fairies sighted throughout history as recorded in historical sources, by the world's two leading fairy historians. Historical fairies are not sweet like Tinkerbell but mostly dangerous and best avoided.

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney’s Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs’s dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three movies, music, and computers.

Kevin Mitnick's long-awaited memoir of computer hacking and FBI skirting, revealed now after seven years of government-mandated silence.

John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson are just a few of the prominent American mediums who have been accused of being frauds. But what if a respected scientist challenged them to make contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions? What if the results not only stunned a skeptical scientist but also offered astonishing answers to a timeless Is there life after death?THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTSRisking his academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked well-known mediums to become part of a series of experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. This riveting narrative, with electrifying transcripts, documents stringently monitored experiments in which mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues.Here are the results that awed sitters and researchers a revelation about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Forced by data to abandon skepticism, Schwartz presents this amazing account of his groundbreaking work, compelling from first page to last.

Über ein Jahr lang hat Kevin Mitnick, der heute als Prototyp des Hackers gilt, in der Hackerszene nach „echten“ und spannenden Geschichten gesucht, die auch für Sicherheitsverantwortliche in Firmen hochinteressante Erkenntnisse abwerfen. Die hier vorliegende Sammlung von Geschichten ist das Ergebnis dieser Suche.

Examines the legendary success that Steve Jobs has had with Pixar and his rejuvenation of Apple through the introduction of the iMac and iPod