"Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different" by Karen Blumenthal is the December Book Club choice. Meet at lunchtime in the Library on Tuesday, 27th November to borrow the book and to look at the book trailer.
"Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different" by Karen Blumenthal is the December Book Club choice.
What is the book about? According to the book summary, Jobs was: "Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and he was all of these things. Steve Jobs has been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through his life he was loved, hated, admired and dismissed, yet he was a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage when he was just 21 years-old, revolutionising the music world. He single-handedly introduced the first computer that could sit on your desk and founded and nurtured a company called Pixar bringing to life Oscar wining animations Toy Story and Finding Nemo.” [Book cover and quote: www.copac.ac.uk]
Meet at lunchtime in the Library on Tuesday, 27th November to borrow the book and to look at Steve Jobs speaking at the Stanford University Commencement in 2005. This speech is referred to throughout the book because it is a key to Jobs' life.
[Video: www.youtube.com]
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