William L. Simon Knihy

Poutavé vyprávění o klíčové postavě počítačového průmyslu. Nejde o autorizovaný životopis ani o autobiografii, ale o mozaiku složenou z informací a výpovědí mnoha lidí i médií (počínaje dětstvím Steva Jobse). Výsledkem je neobyčejně živý, pestrý i rozporuplný portrét velmi zajímavého člověka, který nesmazatelně ovlivnil naši dobu.Tato kniha nemusí být zajímavá jen pro ty, kdo se vyznají v počítačích. Je totiž fascinujícím čtením pro každého, kdo se zajímá o životní příběhy výjimečných lidí, literaturu faktu či svět podnikání.

Senior Vice President of Apple Computer shows Steve Jobs's innovative management style and techniques, and how they can be translated to any business.

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.

Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers an explosive follow-up to his bestselling work, focusing on aiding businesses and governments in combating data thieves and cybervandals. In his previous book, Mitnick illustrated how savvy hackers use "social engineering" to breach even the most secure systems through fictionalized case studies. Now, he presents real-life stories of computer break-ins, revealing how victims could have prevented these incidents. Mitnick's credibility within the hacker community allowed him to gain insights from the perpetrators, sharing their exploits for the first time. Among the stories are a group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines, two teenagers manipulated by terrorists to hack Lockheed Martin's systems, convicts who became hackers inside a Texas prison, and a "Robin Hood" hacker who accessed prominent companies' systems and informed them of their vulnerabilities. With gripping descriptions of actual break-ins, essential security tips for professionals, and Mitnick's sharp commentary, this book is poised to capture a broad audience, drawing interest from law enforcement and the media alike.