How this book came to be --
Childhood: abandoned and chosen --
Odd couple: the two Steves --
The dropout: turn on, tune in ... --
Atari and India: Zen and the art of game design --
The Apple I: turn on, boot up, jack in ... --
The Apple II: dawn of a new age --
Chrisann and Lisa: he who is abandoned ... --
Xerox and Lisa : graphical user interfaces --
Going public: a man of wealth and fame --
The Mac is born: you say you want a revolution --
The reality distortion field: playing by his own set of rules --
The design: real artists simplify --
Building the Mac: the journey is the reward --
Enter Sculley: the Pepsi challenge --
The launch: a dent in the universe --
Gates and Jobs: when orbits intersect --
Icarus: what goes up ... --
NeXT: Prometheus unbound --
Pixar: technology meets art --
A regular guy: love is just a four-letter word --
Family man: at home with the Jobs clan --
Toy story: Buzz and Woody to the rescue --
The second coming: what rough beast, its hour come round at last ... --
The restoration: the loser now will be later to win --
Think different: Jobs as iCEO --
Design principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive --
The iMac: hello (again) --
CEO: still crazy after all these years --
Apple stores: genius bars and siena sandstone --
The digital hub: from iTunes to the iPod --
The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Piper --
Music man: the sound track of his life --
Pixar's friends: ... and foes --
Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart --
Round one: Memento mori --
The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one --
Round two: the cancer recurs --
The iPad: into the post-PC era --
New battles: and echoes of old ones --
To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond --
Round three: the twilight struggle --
Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention