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.