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Peter Norton

    Peter Norton is celebrated for his pivotal role in the early days of personal computing, developing crucial software and authoring influential books that demystified technology. His work provided essential tools and knowledge, empowering users and shaping the nascent digital landscape. Norton's insight into the burgeoning software market led to innovations that became foundational for the industry. His legacy is rooted in making complex computing accessible and understandable through practical applications and clear literary explanations.

    Autonorama
    Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
    Peter Norton's Guide to Unix
    The Peter Norton PC programmer's bible
    Fighting Traffic
    The Anti-Anxiety Program
    • 2021

      Norton argues that the promise of autonomous vehicles is distracting us from investing in better, more sustainabletransportation options, and increasing our dependence on cars.

      Autonorama
    • 2021

      "A lifeline for anxiety sufferers, this expertly crafted workbook has been revised and updated to be even more user-friendly. Readers discover a new sense of freedom as they work through this comprehensive program grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Step by step, the book provides skills for changing anxiety-provoking ways of thinking and for confronting feared situations safely and gradually. Updated with over a decade's worth of research advances, the second edition includes more detailed instructions for customizing the program, extra support for staying motivated, vivid stories that run throughout the book, new separate chapters on relaxation and mindfulness, and downloadable audio recordings. The large-size format makes it easy to fill in the worksheets; readers can download and print additionalcopies as needed."-- Provided by publisher

      The Anti-Anxiety Program
    • 2011

      Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as "jaywalkers." In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as "road hogs" or "speed demons" and cars as "juggernauts" or "death cars." He considers the perspectives of all users--pedestrians, police (who had to become "traffic cops"), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for "justice." Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of "efficiency." Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking "freedom"--A rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States

      Fighting Traffic
    • 1996

      Presents a fresh approach to computer concepts in a concise, 12-chapter text. This book is designed for courses that place equal emphasis on computer concepts and hands-on learning. Its includes an appendix on the ethical considerations of navigating cyberspace. It provides an optional CD-ROM containing simulations and student activities.

      Peter Norton's Computing Fundamentals
    • 1993

      Completely rewritten and reorganized, this third edition of a classic bestseller provides complete reference coverage of industry standard hardware, operating systems, program development tools, and technical details. Update includes Win 3.1 and Win NT, the new IBM and AMD BIOS, MS-DOS 6.0, Intel P5, and much more.

      The Peter Norton PC programmer's bible