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The New New Thing: How Silicon Valley Defines the Ways We Think and Live as We Enter a New Century
by Lewis, Michael
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0340766980
- ISBN 13
- 9780340766989
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number Line.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour title & text to dust wrapper on white ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £17.99. Some slight shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems unused, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 286 pp. text. v pp. Epilogue, Acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: The author of this book sets out to find the most important technology entrepreneur. He finds Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who aims to turn the healthcare industry around with his new project. So why was he spending so much time on a computerised yacht, each feature installed because, as one technician put it, "someone saw it on Star Trek and wanted one just like it!"* A NEAR FINE copy with minimal faults to dust jacket.*
Synopsis
As American capitalism undergoes a seismic shift, Michael Lewis , author of the bestselling Liar's Poker , sets out on a Silicon Valley safari to find the true representative of the coming economic age. All roads lead to Jim Clark , the man who rewrote the rules of American capitalism as the founder of (so far) three multi-billion dollar companies--Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. Lewis's shrewd, often brilliantly funny, narrative provides ahead-of-the-curve observations about the Internet explosion and how the success of Silicon Valley companies is forcing a reassessment of traditional Wall-Street business models. Weaving Clark's story together with that of this new business phenomenon, Lewis has drawn us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century and blown the lid off the changing economy.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4279
- Title
- The New New Thing: How Silicon Valley Defines the Ways We Think and Live as We Enter a New Century
- Author
- Lewis, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0340766980
- ISBN 13
- 9780340766989
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 303
- This edition first published
- October 21, 1999
- Size
- 23.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
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