From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs\' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with…
Dominique Defert Books




Jennie
- 311 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Lors d'une expedition scientifique en Afrique, le Dr Hugo Archibald, du Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Boston, decouvre une guenon dont la mere est mourante. Emu, il decide de la recueillir et la prenomme Jennie. De retour a Boston, ou l'attendent ses deux enfants, il l'eleve comme eux. Tant et si bien que Jennie finit par se comporter comme un etre humain: elle apprend a faire du tricycle, se bagarre avec son frere et sa soeur, s'habille toute seule... L'innocence et la maniere dont se comporte Jennie font fondre tous ceux qui croisent sa route. Jusqu'a attirer l'attention d'un primatologue, qui souhaite poursuivre l'experience de son adaptation en lui apprenant le langage des signes. Mais l'experimentation terminee, que reste-t-il de la guenon Jennie ? Saura-t-elle trouver sa place dans le monde si cruel des hommes ?
The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie Stryder's body didn't expect her to refuse to relinquish possession of her mind.
Digital Fortress
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
The NSA's invincible code breaking machine encounters a code that it cannot break. The agency calls in its head cryptographer Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power.