Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson

This was the best book I read in 2011. Eminently readable it tells the story of a remarkable man, adopted at birth, rebellious at every stage of his childhood and youth, caught up in the hippy revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, enchanted by the spiritual values of Zen Buddhism which influenced products like the iPod, iPad and Apple Mac in his insistence on their perfect cornerless shapes and simplicity. Steve Jobs was irrational, brutal, abusive and a genius, a man who believed at the junction of the sciences and arts lays designers whose job it was to translate the most complex, scientific and technological concepts into easy-to-use, beautiful products available to the public. Thanks to him we hve everything from instant booksto instant music. Read this book, you won't be disappointed. This man changed the way we live.

This review is by Mr Gray, Principal at SMC.

Copies of this book are available in the SMC Library.