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Elon Musk

AvWalter Isaacson

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

168 kr

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#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller#2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESWalter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world. For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk, his workplaces, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries – nothing was off-limits.Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet is a thrilling, mind-bending story and nobody could tell it better. Filled with amazing tales of triumph and turmoil, and lessons about leadership and business, it ultimately addresses the question everyone wants to ask: why is Elon Musk so successful?This book includes over 100 integrated black and white images.

Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX och jakten på en fantastisk framtid

AvAshlee Vance

Storpocket, Svenska, 2023

(2)

155 kr

Han har jämförts med såväl Thomas Edison som Steve Jobs. Men Elon Musks mål saknar motstycke: han vill att människor ska kunna leva på planeten Mars. Företagsledaren och miljardären Musk står bakom Tesla Motors, SpaceX, PayPal och SolarCity, företag som alla har sänt chockvågor genom affärs- och industrivärlden. I den här undersökande boken skriver teknikjournalisten Ashlee Vance om Elon Musks dramatiska liv och om hur hans häpnadsväckande visioner formar vår framtid.

”Ashlee Vance skriver rappt och underhållande. Alla som på något sätt är intresserade av kreativitet och företagsledning måste läsa Vances bok Elon Musk.” Jan Gradvall, Dagens industri

”Efter de sista sidorna kommer ingen läsare att vilja jämföra honom med Steve Jobs. Ge Musk erkännande. Det finns ingen som han.” The New York Times

Elon Musk

AvWalter Isaacson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

(16)

306 kr

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Ja, och så tog han ju över Twitter – och döpte om det till X.

I två år har Isaacson följt Musk som en skugga, suttit med på hans möten, gått fabriksronderna och ägnat timme efter timme åt att intervjua Elon själv, hans släkt och vänner samt hans medarbetare och motståndare. Resultatet är en avslöjande skildring från insidan, fylld till brädden av fantastiska berättelser om triumfer och katastrofer, som får oss att ställa frågan: Är de demoner som driver Musk helt enkelt det som krävs för att driva innovation och framsteg?

Elon Musk : en snabbläst biografi på svenska

AvWalter Isaacson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

198 kr

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Elon Musk – geniet, entreprenören och den kontroversielle visionären. Han är en av vår tids mest fascinerande och omdiskuterade personer. Han har förändrat världen med elbilar, privat rymdforskning, och satsningar på artificiell intelligens. Och, ja – han köpte också Twitter. Han har även dykt upp som en viktig person i amerikansk politik. Det här är en snabbläst version av författaren Walter Isaacsons biografi om Elon Musk. Den ger en unik inblick i Musks liv och tankevärld. Under två år följde Isaacson Musk på nära håll och tillbringade otaliga timmar med honom. Han intervjuade dessutom Musks familj, vänner och kollegor för att skapa en komplett bild av en excentrisk och gränslös entreprenör. Den här boken innehåller också ett uppdaterat kapitel om vad som har hänt i Musks liv och i hans olika bolag, efter att biografin skrevs. Vägen till framgång är vår biografi-serie om personer som på olika sätt nått toppen. Det kan vara allt från entreprenörer och företagare, till kulturella eller politiska personer. Först ut är Kylie Jenner och Elon Musk. Det här är en snabbläst bok från Piece of Cake.

Elon Musk

AvWalter Isaacson

E-bok

Svenska, 2023

(8)

139 kr

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Ingen människa präglar vår tid lika definitivt som technörden och företagsledaren Elon Musk. I den här boken skildras den trotsige visionären och innovatören som lotsat världen in i elbilarnas, den privata rymdkapplöpningens och den artificiella intelligensens tidevarv. Ja, och så tog han ju över Twitter – och döpte om det till X. I två år har Isaacson följt Musk som en skugga, suttit med på hans möten, gått fabriksronderna och ägnat timme efter timme åt att intervjua Elon själv, hans släkt och vänner samt hans medarbetare och motståndare. Resultatet är en avslöjande skildring från insidan, fylld till brädden av fantastiska berättelser om triumfer och katastrofer, som får oss att ställa frågan: Är de demoner som driver Musk helt enkelt det som krävs för att driva innovation och framsteg?

Elon Musk (Spanish Edition)

AvWalter Isaacson

Häftad, Spanska, 2023

312 kr

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Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

AvTim Fernholz

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

234 kr

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Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

AvAshlee Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

102 kr

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Enshittification

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It

AvCory Doctorow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

(2)

245 kr

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*** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the monopolists who dominate online - X, TikTok, Amazon, Meta, Apple - this is all part of the playbook. The process is what leading tech critic Cory Doctorow has dubbed 'enshittification'. First, the platform attracts users with some bait, such as free access; then the activity is monetized, bringing in the business customers and degrading the user experience; then, once everyone is trapped and competitors eradicated, the platform wrings out all the value and transfers it to their executives and shareholders.As a result, online public squares have become places of torment, and online retailers are hellish dumpster fires. The virtual gathering places where we once imagined the world's problems might be resolved are now a sewer of hatred and abuse - thoroughly enshittified.Doctorow enumerates the symptoms, lays out the diagnosis, and identifies the best responses to these diseased platforms: the monopolies online must be shattered. Companies too big to fail or to jail - and much too big to care - must be cut down to size. Only an attack on corporate power will permit effective regulation and real privacy. Tech unions must protect the workers who should, in turn, defend us against their bosses' sadism and greed.Praise for The Internet Con:"One of the Internet's most interesting writers." -- Edward Snowden"This book fills me with hope that a radical yet plausible alternative to computational tyranny can be developed and deployed." -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Fittest"This book is the instruction manual Big Tech doesn't want you to read. It deconstructs their crummy products, undemocratic business models, rigged legal regimes, and lies. Crack this book and help build something better." -- Astra Taylor"A brilliant barn burner of a book. Cory is one of the sharpest tech critics, and he shows with fierce clarity how our computational future could be otherwise." -- Kate Crawford, author of The Atlas of AI

Zero to One

Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

AvBlake Masters,Peter Thiel

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

(2)

141 kr

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WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING?The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there.‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan

Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

AvNassim Nicholas Taleb

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

(8)

145 kr

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Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable?This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist.'One of the smartest books of all time' Fortune'An iconoclastic tour de force ... nothing escapes his Exocets' Evening Standard'Brilliant' John Kay'Excellent and thought-provoking ... an entertaining book' Financial Times'Wall Street's principal dissident' Malcolm Gladwell

Hillbilly Elegy

The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Vice-President of the United States

AvJ. D. Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

(13)

132 kr

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ Observer J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point. ‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal ** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **

Antifragile

Things that Gain from Disorder

AvNassim Nicholas Taleb

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

(4)

163 kr

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'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.'The hottest thinker in the world' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

Muskism

A Guide for the Perplexed

AvQuinn Slobodian,Ben Tarnoff

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

(1)

261 kr

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A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age 'A searing analysis of Elon Musk… Impressive and unrelenting, this grapples with a destructive ideology that seems poised to consume everything' - Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)'Impeccably researched and splendidly written, Muskism introduces us to a world full of promise and fear' - Branko Milanovic, author of The Great Global TransformationWho on earth is Elon Musk and what is he doing? Is he a hero, a villain, or does he swing constantly between those two poles? According to the constant media gush driven by his every act and pronouncement, Musk is best understood in personal terms. This book argues differently. Rather than seeing Musk as an individual, it sees him as an avatar of something called Muskism: a playbook for our new postliberal age.It’s not that Musk himself holds a coherent set of beliefs; you could say his life is one long improvisation. And he’s certainly never used the word Muskism – just as, a century ago, Henry Ford never used Fordism to define his own postliberal modernity. In exploring the forces that have shaped Musk, from South Africa to Silicon Valley, Space X to DOGE, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff outline the motifs and practices that have come to dominate our own crisis-ridden world.Muskism, they show, speaks the language of crisis and emergency to invoke a less human future: where humans are purged from the productive process and, through social media and video games, merged with the machine. This is a worldview in which the technocrat is king; which piggybacks on the state to achieve supremacy; and in which only a select few deserve salvation. If you enter, this book warns you, you will grind and you will live in the shadow of one man – but the rewards could be priceless and the alternative might be extinction.

Snowball

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

AvAlice Schroeder

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

(2)

215 kr

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Recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, The Snowball is the most fascinating financial success story of our time. Warren Buffett, the legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but finally has given Alice Schroeder unprecedented access to him and all those closest to his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies and wisdom. The result is this personally revealing and complete biography of 'The Oracle of Omaha', indispensable reading for those who wish to know the man behind the outstanding achievements.

Fourth Turning Is Here

What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

AvNeil Howe

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

214 kr

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The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this “riveting and revelatory” (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like afterward.Thirty years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras—or “turnings”—that always arrive in the same order and each last about twenty years. The last of these eras—the fourth turning—was always the most perilous, a period of civic upheaval and national mobilization as traumatic and transformative as the New Deal and World War II, the Civil War, or the American Revolution. Now, right on schedule, our own fourth turning has arrived…and Neil Howe has returned with an extraordinary new prediction. What we see all around us—the polarization, the growing threat of civil conflict and global war—will culminate by the early 2030s in a climax that poses great danger and yet also holds great promise, perhaps even bringing on America’s next golden age. Every generation alive today will play a vital role in determining how this crisis is resolved, for good or ill. “Big history and bold futurology” (The Wall Street Journal), The Fourth Turning Is Here takes us deep into the collective personality of each living generation to make sense of our current crisis. explore how all of us will be differently affected by the political, social, and economic challenges we’ll face in the decade to come, and reveal how our country, our communities, and our families can best prepare to meet these challenges ahead.

Del 1 - Maintenance: Of Everything

Maintenance: Of Everything

Part One

AvStewart Brand

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

392 kr

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The first in-depth exploration of maintenance—and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance—from the author of How Buildings Learn and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going. Yet it’s also easy to shirk or defer—until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional. The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions: the Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. It goes on to explore the insights that can be gleaned from vehicle maintenance, from the zeal of motorcycle maintainers to the maintenance philosophies that fought for dominance of the auto industry to the state of electric vehicle manufacturing today, with absorbing detours into the evolution of precision in manufacturing, the enduring importance of manuals, sustainment in the military, and the never-ending battle against corrosion.Maintenance: Of Everything is a wide-ranging and provocative call to expand what we mean by “maintenance”—not just the tiresome preventative tasks but the whole grand process of keeping a thing going. It invites us to understand not only the profound impact maintenance has on our daily lives but also why taking responsibility for maintaining something—whether a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.“No one else but Stewart Brand is talking about the art and science of maintenance and how to do it well. This will be an instant classic.”—Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist“A deliciously good book.”—Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

AvPhil Knight

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

(5)

134 kr

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'A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates'The best book I read last year was Shoe Dog, by Nike's Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted storyteller' Warren BuffettIn 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the boot of his Plymouth, Knight grossed $8000 in his first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of start-ups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all start-ups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognisable symbols in the world today. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, he tells his story. Candid, humble, wry and gutsy, he begins with his crossroads moment when at 24 he decided to start his own business. He details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream - along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls how his first band of partners and employees soon became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything. A memoir rich with insight, humour and hard-won wisdom, this book is also studded with lessons - about building something from scratch, overcoming adversity, and ultimately leaving your mark on the world.

Bullshit Jobs

The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It

AvDavid Graeber

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

(3)

141 kr

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'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesFT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 and CITY AM BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it. This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world.

Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

AvEd (President of Pixar and Disney Animation) Catmull

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

(1)

204 kr

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is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation Studios-into the story meetings, the postmortems, and the `Braintrust' sessions where art is born.

Leadership Genius of Elon Musk

AvDennis Kneale

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

302 kr

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An admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor.One of the most influential figures of our time, Elon Musk is the most talked about man in America who isn’t running for president (yet!). In The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, veteran business journalist Dennis Kneale chronicles Musk’s extraordinary journey, presenting him as a beacon of inspiration. Musk’s unparalleled success as an innovator and entrepreneur is not just a testament to his genius, but a playbook for those daring to dream big.Synonymous with groundbreaking advancements and daring ventures, Elon Musk has not only shaped the future with companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and xAI, but has also redefined what it means to be a leader today. Despite facing relentless criticism and controversy, Musk's relentless pursuit of his visions provides invaluable lessons about resilience, innovation, and the power of conviction. Filled with counterintuitive advice like “Tease your critics and torture your enemies” and “work impossible hours and make them keep up,” this illuminating biography reveals how the richest man in the world got that way.Kneale delves into the essence of Musk’s philosophy, dissecting the principles that have guided his extraordinary journey. From embracing the possibility of the impossible to the strategic handling of critics and media, Musk's approach to life and business offers a unique blueprint for success in today's fast-paced world. His ability to dream big, bet on himself, and turn crises into opportunities serves as a masterclass in achieving greatness against all odds.

Exploring the Life and Achievements of Elon Musk

Visionary Entrepreneur and Space Pioneer

AvPhoenix Rivers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

280 kr

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Elon Musk

American Oligarch

AvDarryl Cunningham

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

221 kr

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk's Best Lessons for Life, Business, Success and Entrepreneurship

AvAndrew Knight

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

255 kr

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

AvAshlee Vance

Inbunden, Engelska

(3)

206 kr

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Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

AvAshlee Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

(1)

177 kr

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Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

AvAshlee Vance

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

104 kr

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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”

Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.

Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.

Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition

AvAshlee Vance

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

44 kr

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“Highly recommended for high school and ambitious middle school readers.” —School Library Journal

"A valuable addition to STEM-themed collections." —VOYA

An in-depth look into the extraordinary life of the world’s most important entrepreneur, Elon Musk. This middle grade book is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.

This fascinating and easily accessible paperback young readers’ adaptation of Ashlee Vance’s New York Times bestselling Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future features black-and-white photographs throughout and an epilogue.

The version for adults has been praised as “riveting” (The Financial Times), “spirited” (The Wall Street Journal), and “masterful” (Vice). Now younger readers can read about this innovative leader who is revolutionizing three industries at once: space, automotive, and energy.

There are few people in history who could match Elon Musk’s relentless drive and vision. A modern combination of famous inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Steve Jobs, Elon is the man behind companies such as SpaceX, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and PayPal that are transforming the way we live.

Written with exclusive access to Elon, his family, and his friends, this book traces Elon’s journey from a kid in South Africa to a young man in the United States, his dramatic technical inventions, and his world-changing companies. Elon has sparked new levels of innovation in the world, and this book gives young readers a detailed but fast-paced look at his story.

A Junior Library Guild Selection!

Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

AvAshlee Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

101 kr

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South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. The personal tale of Musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk's marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life...

Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.

Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Young Reader's Edition

AvAshlee Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

196 kr

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