The Life And Times Of The Apple

Presents a variety of facts about apples, including how they grow, crossbreeding and grafting techniques, harvesting practices, and the uses, varieties, and history of this popular fruit.

A look at the apple features apple history; apple lore; its life cycle, uses, and modern growing practices; apple anecdotes; and more than one hundred humorous, detailed illustrations.

This appealing book offers information on the history and lore of apples as well as a description of how they're grown . . . and the development and harvesting of the fruit. . . . The format provides for interplay between the text and the many full-color illustrations, creating a most effective and attractive presentation of the subject. . . .--Booklist, starred review.

Presents a variety of facts about apples, including how they grow, crossbreeding and grafting techniques, harvesting practices, and the uses, varieties, and history of this popular fruit.

Despite humble beginnings, today Apple, Inc. enjoys unprecedented popularity and prosperity with its products, routinely selling over a million devices in a single day. It is a major innovator in the computing and consumer landscape, and as shown in this retrospective, the history of the Apple II computer plays a large part in the current successes of the company. The late 1970s saw the dawn of the Apple II, the company's first hit product. It provided the breathing room for Apple to become self-sustaining and ultimately blossom into one of the greatest business and technology successes in history. This account provides a unique view of early personal computing and Apple as a company, focusing almost exclusively on the role of the Apple II within that story. It extends outward to the products, publications, and early online services that made up the ecosystem for the platform during its active years, and follows the story to present-day enthusiasts who still find new things to do with a computer that got its start more than 35 years ago.

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book for 2020 Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable woman but as there are only two of us in the office I feel emboldened to ask: “Why did you start Virago?” She looks up and without missing a beat, replies “To change the world, darling. That’s why.” I know I am in the right place. Following the chronology of the press where she has worked nearly since its founding, Lennie Goodings tells the story of the group of visionary publishers and writers who have made Virago one of the most important and influential publishers in the English-speaking world. Like the books she has edited and published—by writers ranging from Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood to Sarah Waters and Naomi Wolf—Goodings’s contribution to the genre breaks new ground as well, telling a story of women in the world of work, offering much needed balance to the male-dominated genre of publishing memoirs, and chronicling a critical aspect of the history of feminism: how women began to assume control over the production of their own books. Part memoir, part literary history, and part reflection on more than forty years of feminist publishing, A Bite of the Apple is a story of idealism and pragmatism, solidarity and individual ambition, of challenges met and the battles not yet won—and, above all, a steadfast celebration of the making and reading of books.

Sometimes; when you innovate; you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly; and get on with improving your other innovations.” These words are of Steve Paul Jobs; who revolutionized the world through computer technology. One of the co-founders of Apple; he took the industry towards new heights and changed the computing industry. Right from the beginning he had a passion for electronics and was mostly engrossed in making small gadgets in the garage. With his friend Wozniak he launched Apple and made computers a common word in the world. It is due to his untiring efforts that the world has come closer and people are connected with each other. This book is the story of an extraordinary genius Steve Jobs whose innovative acumen has made the computers and other electronic gadgets available to common man.

Simple text introduces readers to the science behind rainbows. Including why rainbows occur and what they are made of.