Paul Freiberger

A profile of the 44th President of the United States--his childhood in Hawaii, his college years at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, his career as a civil rights attorney and professor, all the way to the White House were he served two terms. This is the first available post-presidency biography of Barack Obama. Illustrations, index, glossary, further reading, quotes, and timeline included in all series titles.

Do You Have a Job Search Strategy? You Do Now. This book is your successful career search strategy in today's modern digital world. Follow it, and you'll remake your career, earn more, and gain greater fulfillment. Brimming with invaluable 21st century job search tactics, you'll learn how to: Evaluate your strengths and passions to determine the ultimate job for you. Select the best job-hunting methods for you. Prepare the best professional resume and cover letter for your job search. Customize your LinkedIn profile and resume to create a magnet for recruiters. Negotiate the best salary. Master the job interview. The Only Job Search Guide You'll Ever Need is your road map for finding your most fulfilling career and job.

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story. Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution. A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years. This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software.