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Product Description: Former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes readers on a tour through Jobs's astonishing career. From the inception of game-changing products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to his stunning fall from grace, and his rebirth at the helm of Apple as he developed the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, The Steve Jobs Way presents Jobs's leadership challenges and triumphs, showing readers how to apply these principles to their lives and careers...read more
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9781593156398 | Perseus Books Group, March 8, 2011, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes readers on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.

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9781593157104 | Reprint edition (Perseus Books Group, April 3, 2012), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes readers on a tour through Jobs's astonishing career.

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9781455807963 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 12, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.

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Product Description: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career. From the inception of game-changing products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to his stunning fall from grace, and on to his rebirth at the helm of Apple, his involvement with Pixar, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and much more, The Steve Jobs Way presents real-life examples of Jobs’s leadership challenges and triumphs, showing readers how to apply these principles to their own lives and careers...read more
By Christopher Hurt (narrator)
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9781455855216 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, February 14, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.
9781455855223 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, February 14, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.

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Product Description: There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, where the groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born...read more
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9781449316242 | Oreilly & Associates Inc, October 19, 2011, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision.

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Product Description: Thomas J Watson Sr’s motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company, journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M...read more
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9780132755108 | IBM Pr, June 10, 2011, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Thomas J Watson Sr’s motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime.

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Product Description: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career. From the inception of game-changing products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to his stunning fall from grace, and on to his rebirth at the helm of Apple, his involvement with Pixar, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and much more, The Steve Jobs Way presents real-life examples of Jobs’s leadership challenges and triumphs, showing readers how to apply these principles to their own lives and careers...read more
By Jay Elliot, Christopher Hurt (narrator) and William L. Simon (contributor)
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9781455807949 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, April 12, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.

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Product Description: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career. From the inception of game-changing products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to his stunning fall from grace, and on to his rebirth at the helm of Apple, his involvement with Pixar, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and much more, The Steve Jobs Way presents real-life examples of Jobs’s leadership challenges and triumphs, showing readers how to apply these principles to their own lives and careers...read more
By Jay Elliot, Christopher Hurt (narrator) and William L. Simon (contributor)
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9781455807956, titled "The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 12, 2011), cover price $99.97 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.
9781455807970, titled "The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, April 12, 2011), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career.

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Product Description: Filled with first-hand accounts of ambition, greed, and inspired engineering, this history of the personal computer revolution takes readers inside the cutthroat world of Commodore. Before Apple, IBM, or Dell, Commodore was the first computer manufacturer to market its machines to the public, selling an estimated 22 million Commodore 64s...read more
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9780973864960 | Variant Pr, December 30, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Filled with first-hand accounts of ambition, greed, and inspired engineering, this history of the personal computer revolution takes readers inside the cutthroat world of Commodore.

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At nineteen, Michael Dell started his company as a freshman at the University of Texas with $1,000 and has since built an industry powerhouse. As Dell journeys through his childhood adventures, ups and downs, and mistakes made along the way, he reflects on invaluable lessons learned. Michael Dell's revolutionary insight has allowed him to persevere against all odds, and Direct from Dell contains valuable information for any business leader. His strategies will show you effective ways to grow your business and will help you save time on costly mistakes by following his direct model for success.
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9780756718770 | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: At nineteen, Michael Dell started his company as a freshman at the University of Texas with $1,000 and has since built an industry powerhouse.
9780887309144 | Harperbusiness, March 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The founder of Dell Computer Corporation recounts the story of his thriving high-tech company and the strategies that have made it so successful and competitive

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9780060845728 | Reprint edition (Harperbusiness, January 1, 2006), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The founder of Dell Computer Corporation recounts the story of his thriving high-tech company and the strategies that have made it so successful and competitive.

Miscellaneous:

9780062004246 | Harpercollins, October 26, 2010, cover price $12.99

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9780694520237 | Harperaudio, March 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The founder of Dell Computer Corporation recounts the story of his thriving high-tech company and the strategies that have made it so successful and competitive.

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Product Description: It seems unthinkable today. But a quarter-century ago, when personal computers were still new, Steve Jobs was cast out of Apple. The year was 1985. IBM and Microsoft dominated the computing world. The revolutionary Macintosh, launched with such fanfare the year before, was foundering...read more
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9780670812783 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the growth of Apple Computer from a small 'background' company to a technocratic, mammoth corporation and the organizational chaos that resulted from shortsighted, wide spread restructing

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9780615278841 | Createspace, April 7, 2009, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: It seems unthinkable today.
9780140093728 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1990), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: It seems unthinkable today.

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The high-tech wizard behind Apple offers a personal account of the creation of the first personal computer by marrying computer circuitry with a video screen and a typewriter keyboard to create the affordable, easy-to-use Apple I, detailing his life before and after Apple and providing a personal perspective on an invention that ignited the computer revolution. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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9780393061437 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 25, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines.

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9780393330434 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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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Product Description: In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.Enter Lou Gerstner...read more
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9780786252558 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever.
9780060523794, titled "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround" | Harperbusiness, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The chairman and former CEO of IBM recounts his years at Big Blue, detailing how, under his leadership, IBM was transformed from a company on the verge of collapse into one of today's most preeminent global corporations.

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9780060527167, titled "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround" | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, November 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The chairman and former CEO of IBM recounts his years at Big Blue, detailing how, under his leadership, IBM was transformed from a company on the verge of collapse into a preeminent global corporation.

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9780060743468 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, February 28, 2008), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever.
9780060527150, titled "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround" | Abridged edition (Harperbusiness, November 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The chairman and former CEO of IBM recounts his years at Big Blue, detailing how, under his leadership, IBM was transformed from a company on the verge of collapse into a preeminent global corporation.
9780060529444, titled "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround" | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, November 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The chairman and former CEO of IBM recounts his years at Big Blue, detailing how, under his leadership, IBM was transformed from a company on the verge of collapse into a preeminent global corporation.

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Product Description: Others have written about the rise of Hewlett-Packard, including Dave Packard himself in The HP Way. But acclaimed journalist Michael S. Malone is the first to get the full story, based on exclusive access to corporate and private archives, along with hundreds of interviews...read more
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9781591841524 | Portfolio, April 5, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A history of Hewlett-Packard chronicles the efforts of its Stanford graduate founders to build their first product in a small California garage through its rise to a legendary Silicon Valley company, in an account that credits the company's objectives, employee trust, and firm self-appraisals with enabling its successes.

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9781591841876 | Reprint edition (Portfolio, March 25, 2008), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Others have written about the rise of Hewlett-Packard, including Dave Packard himself in The HP Way.

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Describes the creation of the first personal computer, details engineer Steve Wozniak's life before and after Apple, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the computer revolution.
By Patrick Lawlor (narrator) and Steve Wozniak
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9781400103287 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 1, 2006), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Describes the creation of the first personal computer, details engineer Steve Wozniak's life before and after Apple, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the computer revolution.

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Describes the creation of the first personal computer, details engineer Steve Wozniak's life before and after Apple, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the computer revolution.
By Patrick Lawlor (narrator) and Gina Smith
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9781400133284 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 30, 2006), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Describes the creation of the first personal computer, details engineer Steve Wozniak's life before and after Apple, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the computer revolution.

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Describes the creation of the first personal computer, details engineer Steve Wozniak's life before and after Apple, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the computer revolution.
By Patrick Lawlor (narrator) and Gina Smith
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9781400153282 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 30, 2006), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Describes the creation of the first personal computer, details engineer Steve Wozniak's life before and after Apple, and provides a personal perspective on the invention that helped ignite the computer revolution.

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Product Description: Reveals the Key Management Principles Behind Dell's Unprecedented Success The story of how Michael Dell grew a dorm-room, custom-PC shop into the world’s leading computer systems company, in just 21 years, has become part of modern business lore...read more
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9780072262544 | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reveals the Key Management Principles Behind Dell's Unprecedented Success The story of how Michael Dell grew a dorm-room, custom-PC shop into the world’s leading computer systems company, in just 21 years, has become part of modern business lore.

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Product Description: Originally a military and scientific computational tool of a small number of government, scientific, and corporate elites in the late 1940s, the computer has evolved significantly in less than 70 years to become a revolutionary technology and the basis for one the largest industries in America...read more
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9780313328442 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 2005, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Originally a military and scientific computational tool of a small number of government, scientific, and corporate elites in the late 1940s, the computer has evolved significantly in less than 70 years to become a revolutionary technology and the basis for one the largest industries in America.

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Product Description: IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past. From granite blocks used to tell time, to beads used for accounting purposes, to punch cards, to computer chips as small as a raindrop, all are the historical roots of this corporate legend...read more
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9780738537009 | Arcadia Pub, January 19, 2005, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past.

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Product Description: There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision. Revolution in the Valley traces this vision back to its earliest roots: the hallways and backrooms of Apple, where the groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born...read more
By Andy Hertzfeld and Steve Wozniak (foreword by)
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9780596007195 | Oreilly & Associates Inc, December 15, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an everyday tool was simply a vision.

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Product Description: Digital Equipment Corporation achieved sales of over $14 billion, reached the Fortune 50, and was second only to IBM as a computer manufacturer. Though responsible for the invention of speech recognition, the minicomputer, and local area networking, DEC ultimately failed as a business and was sold to Compaq Corporation in 1998...read more
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9781576752258 | 1 edition (Berrett-Koehler Pub, July 1, 2003), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In a study of Digital Equipment Corporation, the author chronicles the four-decade arc of one of the most important companies of the computer age, revealing how the company rose to prominance and then collapsed.

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9781576753057 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, August 1, 2004, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Digital Equipment Corporation achieved sales of over $14 billion, reached the Fortune 50, and was second only to IBM as a computer manufacturer.

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Product Description: From its inception in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, carved itself a role in American business unlike any other company. Launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Ken Olsen with a $70,000 investment from the country's first venture capital firm, DEC rapidly became a pioneer in computer technology...read more
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9780738535876 | Arcadia Pub, June 30, 2004, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: From its inception in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, carved itself a role in American business unlike any other company.

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The Chairman and former CEO of IBM recounts his remarkable years at Big Blue, detailing how, under his leadership, IBM was transformed from a company on the verge of collapse into one of today's most preeminent global corporations. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
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9780060523800 | Reprint edition (Harperbusiness, January 1, 2004), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The chairman and former CEO of IBM recounts his years at Big Blue, detailing how, under his leadership, IBM was transformed from a company on the verge of collapse into one of today's most preeminent global corporations.

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Product Description: Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, and including Apple's recent move into the music business...read more
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9781593270100 | 2 revised edition (No Starch Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, and including Apple's recent move into the music business.

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Product Description: The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leadersThis groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures...read more
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9780471414636 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 17, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Uses records, letters, internal memos, and personal documents to provide a biography of the man who transformed the small Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into the international giant IBM.

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9780471679257 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 3, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leadersThis groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures.

Miscellaneous:

9780471431374, titled "The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr and the Making of IBM" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 26, 2003, cover price $16.95

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Presents a history of the development and proliferation of the computer microchip, also known as the integrated circuit. (view table of contents)
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9780738205618 | Basic Books, December 25, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the development and proliferation of the computer microchip, also known as the integrated circuit.

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