Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Tripp Mickle's After Steve in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spiritual partner at Apple." The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs's spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 My mother was against me writing a book about myself. She had tried to talk me out of it, but now that the book was actually a thing, she had changed her mind. She gave me her blessing, but insisted that I burn the book after I was done with it.
#2 I had always been Jewish, but when I asked my mother if I had ever had a conversion ceremony, she said she didn't remember....
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I took my dog to the vet, who found that he had a violent cough. The vet decided to do an X-ray to see if something was stuck in his windpipe. The nurse gave him a shot to knock him out, because he was not a good boy and did not want to behave.
#2 I had always wanted to believe in something like dogs bringing out the best in us, but I couldn't picture it with...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Chuck Kleveland, age 44, was a truck driver who lived in Chester, a small town near Hebron. He was on his way to the barber in Hebron when he saw a dead body in a cornfield. He knew it was a girl, dressed in a blue one-piece blanket sleeper, and her hand was glazed over with ice.
#2 Kleveland, the owner of a truck stop, had seen enough. He did not move closer...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was born in 1954 in a small village in Rwanda. I was the ninth child of my parents, and I was an island in time's river, separated by six years from my older sister and five years from my younger brother. I got a lot of attention from my mother because of it.
#2 I grew up in Rwanda, and as I was a middle child, I was often in charge of the family. I...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: gradually and then suddenly. I had been intermittently unwell since I graduated from college in 1997, and now I was getting steadily worse. I was met by turns with cutting skepticism but also genuine concern from clinicians, friends, and colleagues.
#2 There is a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses that are often...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I grew up with the living embodiment of the strength, devotion, and intelligence Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books. My mother, Frae Ella Berry, was a one-room-schoolhouse teacher who married a man who was a devoted partner but whose restlessness also challenged all her strength.
#2 My mother's story was that she and her sister Edith, her big sister,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 My roots are in Brittany, the tip of France. I grew up hearing my ancestors speak Breton, a Celtic language that is difficult to understand today. I always sensed that I was a daughter of a rugged, cragged land and the mysterious ocean.
#2 My mother, Anne Le Théo, was the only daughter in her family. She was bright and successful in her studies, and she grew...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 When we arrived in Rome, we were taken to a refugee camp where we were lodged with other asylum seekers from all over the world. It was a temporary safe space for us until we could be processed and assigned a new country to live in.
#2 At the Hotel Barba, I had the chance to meet many different grandmothers and grandfathers from all over the world. I learned how...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The hearing was held in the Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. There were more media present than spectators. The waiting area was full of people, some appearing for their own trials, and some whose presence there I could not pinpoint.
#2 Everyone hopes for a warm and loving gathering of family and friends, but there is always a subliminal fear that...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I had intended to spend the first act of 1776, a musical about the Declaration of Independence, ignoring the stage and staring at Abraham Lincoln's box from my balcony seat. But I was sucked into the play, and I spent the second act in the Lincoln Museum basement.
#2 The play gives the audience a sense of the anguish, embarrassment, and disappointment Adams and Jefferson...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The climb up Lhotse was terrifying, but I was able to get over it and focus on the ropes. They turned into velvet ropes that led me toward a mysterious, exclusive nightclub.
#2 I have learned to make do with the jumar, which is an extension of me. I respect the jumar and bow to it every time I feel its steel teeth bite down on rope.
#3 At elevations like this,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Amanda Palmer is a complex person. She is passionate about her art, but she is also passionate about her fans and friends. She is inseparable from her music, art, and blog, and she can't be separated from them.
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was a bright, playful child, too young and energetic to understand fear. I spent a lot of time in front of the hallway mirror, examining my eyes to discover where the fear was hiding. I was three generations living in the same house: Baba-jan and Nanah-jan, their four daughters, my aunts Kurbra, Hajar, Zahra, and Azizah, my uncles Naseer and Basheer, and me.
#2...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology.
#2 The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was very fortunate in life, and as I lay in bed late at night, I was surrounded by beautiful things. But I was also very poor, and poverty didn't preclude gorgeous beaches and a climate like heaven.
#2 I grew up on Cat Island, and I was free to explore and play anywhere I wanted. I knew from observation that the sapodilla tree produced fruit, plump, grayish brown,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The city of San Francisco is bouncing down the hill, and thousands of people are looking at the crazed truck that is carrying Kesey and his friends. They are terrified of the law, and they are sitting up in plain view of thousands of already startled citizens.
#2 I knew little about Kesey at the time, other than that he was a highly regarded 31-year-old novelist...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 On June 4, 1942, Wade McClusky was flying at 19,000ft in a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive-bomber at the head of two squadrons of USS Enterprise dive-bombers, Scouting Six and Bombing Six. He was tasked with attacking the Japanese carrier striking force, Kido Butai.
#2 McClusky's sixth sense told him that the Japanese were not going too fast, but too slow. They must...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Jim Williams, a billionaire, lived in a mansion in Savannah, Georgia. He was not trying to fool anyone by living the way he did. He was showing visitors through the house, and one man took him aside and told him that his money was old.
#2 Jim Williams was a successful dealer in antiques and a restorer of old houses. He had been president of the Telfair Academy, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was in the Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine, California, after surviving five days in the mountains. I had surgery to remove the blood clots, necrotic tissue, and bone fragments in my left buttock. It took several weeks to drain the fluids from my wound.
#2 I was with a handful of students on a warm autumn day in 1979 when I met Ken, who was on a trip to...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request