Barry Books

This book is extremely informative and very readable. It is an excellent addition to the library of a contractor, architect and/or home owner.

of Prof. Yatt, I feel compelled to add my two cents. Barry is by far one of the most logical and lucid people I have ever met. His book saved me when it came to my second internship. Any time a new task was presented before me, I used this book to get a quick perspective on the issues, in order to get through my tasks efficiently. This put me at the top of the pool of "Intern Architects" by the end of the first month. This is also one of the most inclusive books I have read: everything from model building codes, Homeowner's Associations, Design Review Boards and Design Otimization strategies from a very well-rounded Architect are covered in plain English.

Ultimately a great purchase for anyone, but in particular for the professional seeking advice and the upper-level Undergraduate and Graduate level Architecture student.

I have always been interested in Cuba, but I have tended to focus on the Health System there and have learned very little about Cuba before Castro and the revolution. This book gives an overall picture of Cuba as it developed through the years from all different perspectives, both positive and negative. Even though the different sections are simply short excerpts from different works, the editors have been able to put everything together in order to show all different aspects of Cuba and its history.

This is the best documentary history of Cuba printed recently. It has not only documents, but also pictures, songs, etc. As Cuba is a controversial subject, the authors give broad swath of documents to present Cuban history.

Salberg and Maron have performed an important public service.

The leading authority on the disease has joined forces with our best patient advocate. The result is a book both authoritative and readable.

An invaluable resource to anyone who needs information on this disease.

These guys are my heroes.

If you or someone you love suffers from this disease, then this book is a must read. It completely explains the condition in a way that is easy to understand. It also covers the various ways currently used to identify and treat the symptoms. This book was co-authored by the leading cardiologist in the field and the president of the HCMA support group [....]Additionally, I would recommend contacting the HCMA for more information and support. They can put you in touch with a specialist in your area who can better help you treat this disease.

My wife was diagnosed with this condition in April 2002 by a local cardiologist who did not know much about HCM and should have diagnosed it in January with the first test. After joining the HCMA and receiving this book, we knew more than our local doctor. The HCMA hooked us up with a Specialist at the Cleveland Clinic and where we are currently getting treatment. As a matter of fact, Dr. Lever at the Cleveland Clinic even recommended this book for us to read! He was very pleased that we had already done that!

I'm slightly biased cause I've been a fan of Mr. Kites work for a few years but this is a laugh-out-loud funny, coffee table, Christmas book. Now how many of THOSE have ya got. Not only are the images fabulous but his commentary is as silly, insightful, irreverant and outlandish! If you love Christmas and especially if you don't, this is one book you must have. And must give someone else. As long as they're a "real friend"!

This is great. Santa being shot at is a super fantasy for any and all cynics.

A charming story with a subtle but important message. And, my goodness, the illustrations are FANTASTIC! Read this story to your little ones with all of the Southwestern vernacular and it is sure to become a family favorite! Did I mention the FANTASTIC illustrations?!

This is my new favorite gift to give all the kids in my life. Not only are the illustrations like nothing I have seen in a book before, the story is heart warming and delightful. I wouldn't have thought I could ever fall for a snake, but the story and illustrations just pulled me in. Those prairie dogs are the cutes things, I felt like I was right in there with them. Gotta go, my daughter is pulling on me to read it to her again.

I've read most if not all of Dave Barry's books, but for some
reason had missed DAVE BARRY'S WORST SONGS AND OTHER
HITS . . . now I know why; it apparently never came out as book.

What Dove Audio did was record his original "Bad Song Survey"
columns and then add a long piece about Elvis fans and the tale
of his "Tupperware Song" . . . the compilation rocks.

Barry is sooooo funny, as evidenced by his description of the
voter's choice for Worst Song--in both the Worst Overall and Worst Lyrics
category:

"MacArthur Park," as sung by Richard Harris, and later remade, for
no comprehensible reason, by Donna Summer.

It's hard to argue with this selection. My 12-year-old son, Rob, was
going through a pile of ballots, and he asked me how "MacArthur Park"
goes, so I sang it, giving it my best shot, and Rob laughed so hard
that when I got to the part about leaving the cake out of the rain, and
took so long to bake it, and I'll never have the recipe again, Rob was
on the floor. He didn't believe those lyrics were real. He was sure
his wacky old humor-columnist dad was making them up.

So as to not disappoint readers of this review, here are the other
results . . . the clear runner-up in both categories was "Yummy
Yummy Yummy (I Got Love in my Tummy), performed by Ohio
Express, and coming in a strong third was "(You're) Having My Baby"
by Paul Anka. Honorable mention went to Bobby Goldsboro, who
got many votes for various songs, especially "Honey."

Arte Johnson and John Ritter both did a fine job on the narration
of WORST SONGS.

If you are a Dave Barry fan, you'll enjoy this compilation of tales.... The piece about Elvis fans and the saga of the Tupperware Song are the best! John Ritter is an excellent choice to read / "sing" the tales (very expressive storyteller and great "singer" for this type of musical content). Thanks for making the commute more tolerable!

Barry Dordick's rollicking book of poetry for youngsters, Dear Cow, Not Now, I'm Busy, is full of rhymes that could give Odgen Nash something to muse about. "Hugs," for example, features such marvelous rhyming couplets as "Schnauzer"/"'Yowzer!" and "koala"/"scholar!" Sometimes Dordick elicits the latent onomatopoeia in a word by juxtaposing it with another, as when he links "tickle" with "pumpernickel" (87).
Animals with human abilities, foibles, and desires are a staple of kids' poetry, but Dordick's rhyming rejuvenates these conventions, as in "Maxwell," named after a turtle who knows how to "fax well" and "play/The sax well" (6) and in "Irving the Armadillo."
Various poems celebrate art as a vehicle for exuberance, expansiveness, and admirable individuality.
In his poem on Marc Chagall, Dordick's matter-of-factness about Chagall's refusal to explain his folk surrealist drive- why, for example, his "houses . . . leap"- is itself a lesson for kids to be open to possibilities. When the "extraordinary" powers of the unconscious are at work, events of "sleep" permit the artist to "leap" beyond common sense or, somehow, to "float away on a cloud." Of course, the force of art can be perilous to the boundaries that audience members may erect: "I got chased/ By a couple of oboes,/ I got chased/ By a band of bassoons./ I got chased/ by some wild percussion/ Through so many/ Different rooms" (24).
The innovative "Boy, Do I Love Math!," undermines math's stereotypical association with tedium or absence of emotion and expresses the aesthetic joy that actual mathematicians experience. Even if the poet is being a bit ironic, such artful propaganda- the user-"friendly" animation of math, emphasis of the "cool," "surprise" element in solving problems, and the intellectual freedom and play that so-called "homework" might deliver- is good for children: "We oughtta teach [this to] the teachers"! This book will teach children much about the pleasures of language along with opportunities for the imagination's exercise, and these subtle, witty poems also offer considerable enjoyment to adult readers.

Barry Dordick's rollicking second book of poetry for youngsters, Dear Cow, Not Now, I'm Busy, is replete with rhymes that could give twentieth-century light-verse master Odgen Nash something to muse about. "Hugs," for example, features such marvelous rhyming couplets: "Schnauzer"/"'Yowzer!'","iguana"/"wanna," and "koala"/"scholar!" In "Say Cheese!" the poet says the names of several kinds of cheese and pairs them with hilarious rhymes and slant-rhymes: "Gouda"/"cuter," "Cheddar"/"letter," "gotta"/"Ricotta" (36).
Animals with human abilities, foibles, and desires are a staple of children's poetry, but Dordick's rhyming rejuvenates these conventions, as in "Maxwell," named after a turtle who knows how to "fax well" and "play/The sax well" (6) and, especially, in "Irving the Armadillo."
Various poems celebrate the notion of art as a vehicle for exuberance, expansiveness, and admirable individuality. Marc "Chagall wants to paint the universe," and Dordick shows us how he does:
the "extraordinary" powers of the unconscious are at work, when the events of "sleep" permit the artist to "leap" beyond ordinary aesthetic or representational possibilities or, somehow, to "float away on a cloud." Of course, the force of art can be perilous to the boundaries that members of its audience may erect: "I got chased/ By a couple of oboes,/ I got chased/ By a band of bassoons./ I got chased/ by some wild percussion/ Through so many/ Different rooms" (24).
The most innovative poem in the book is "Boy, Do I Love Math!," which undermines mathematics's stereotypical association with either tedium or absence of emotion and gives a sense of the aesthetic joy that actual mathematicians experience when "numbers . . . bounce around/ in friendly shapes and sizes./ Equations seem to smile and wink,/ They come with cool surprises" (67.)

Dear Cow will teach children a great deal about the pleasures of language along with opportunities for the imagination's exercise, and these subtle, witty poems also offer considerable enjoyment to adult readers.

No doubt about it, "Design and Color" is a rare and true feast for the eyes. Better yet, it's not just pretty pictures; it is also a surprisingly informative and well-written survey of the art of tile-making in (primarily Central) Asia. I can safely call it my favorite art book.

No doubt about it, "Design and Color" is a rare and true feast for the eyes. Better yet, it's not just pretty pictures; it is also a surprisingly informative and well-written survey of the art of tile-making in (primarily Central) Asia. I can safely call it my favorite art book.

Those of us in public health have been regularly frustrated by the lack of collaboration and persistant fragmentation in the field. Dr. Gustin's sentinal work lays the groundwork for a system which circumvents these problems. He then goes on to develop a web-based architecture based on vector analysis that he calls 'situational cubes' to seamlessly identify and interdigitate public health sectors, public health problems, and at risk groups. This is an inspirational forward thinking work. Well-referenced and well-conceived, it is a quick yet powerful read.

This text should be standard reading in all public health academic programs in the US and abroad...

This book appears to be the first written work detailing the role of the internet in the process of public health collaboration and data, information, and resource sharing. It is clearly a major breakthrough for those of us in public health that have been frustrated with the redundancy and fragmentation that occurs between the various sectors of the community that participate in solving public health problems.

A visionary, Dr. Gustin brilliantly lays out a concise foundation for his theoretical basis of an on-line network. He then goes on to develop a web architecture based on what he calls 'situational cubes' a three dimensional vector creation which takes into account all the perturbations of sectors, public health problems, and at-risk groups. In my opinion, simply brilliant.

I would like to see some follow-up to this work, simply because it is so right on target and because the utility/possibilities are so large!

Who is this guy and how did he get so funny? Nearly every page has had me doubled over in laughter. A brilliant satire of food reference works, food history, food writing in general.

With the 2008 election in its final weeks and the economy in a shambles, this book is the best medicine. Nothing like a good (really, really good) laugh to take the edge off. Foy is brilliant. Every entry made me laugh out loud...and I'm not much of a laugh-out-louder.