Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry’s best-selling books Include: Dave Barry Does Japan, Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up, and Dave Barry Turns 40. Championed by the New York Times as “the funniest man In America,” Barry’s syndicated column for The Miami Herald now reaches over 250 newspapers across the country. Television has even succumbed to his wit—the popular sitcom “Dave’s World” is based on his life and columns

DAVE Barry was described in The New York Times Book Reviewas “the funniest man in America,” a claim he has been quick to disavow, except for the plaque on the front door. Nevertheless, the reviewer got there late: The Pulitzer Prize Committee had cited him for commentary earlier in 1988, and he got off with an appropriately light sentence (Even earlier, in 1986, he won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Association of Newspaper Editors, but what do they know?). Apart from these facts—which, as Mr. Barry occasionally Puts it—we are not making up, the relevant details seem to be that he writes for The Miami Heraldand is syndicated in approximately 150 other newspapers, several of which make money despite this. Barry lives with his wife, Beth, and son, Robby, in a Coral Gables, Florida, house surrounded by giant mutant spiders. “Brilliant ... Barry not only changes the face of American history, he practically has to be restrained from taking up hammer and chisel to change the faces on Mount Rushmore as well.”—Associated Press “If you like to have fun with American history, here’s your chance. Dave Barry Slept Here is a zany, delightful twisting of just about everything important in America’s past.”—St. Louis Post Dispatch “A delight from the top of his introduction to the tip of his last outrageous footnote.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Impressive ... Genuinely fresh insight ... Dave Barry Slept Here might be the rallying point for reformers determined to restore rigor and bite to the public school curriculum.”—Greensboro News and Record “I wish I would have taken Dave Barry’s history class in high school instead of the one I did. Instead of getting in trouble for writing all over the desk, I would have been excused for an upset stomach from laughing so hard. And I would still be laughing now, years later.”—Grand Rapids Press “All the history you’ll ever need to know.”—Tampa Tribune-Times This Guy Has Also Written Dave Barry Turns 40 Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits Homes and Other Black Holes Bad Habits The Taming of the Screw Stay Fit and Healthy Until You’re Dead Claw Your Way to the Top Dave Barry’s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex Babies and Other Hazards of Sex

Dave Barry is the author of Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, Homes and Other Black Holes, Stay Fit and Healthy Until You’re Dead, Bad Habits, and Dave Barry’s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his syndicated column. He lives in Coral Gables, Florida, with his family

“READ ‘EM AND LAUGH ...” “If there’s one thing you can count on from Dave Barry, it’s extreme humor. Non-stop yuks.”—Dallas News “Dave Barry is the only living writer who makes me laugh out loud, something he accomplished on virtually every page of his latest collection of craziness—from the introduction to the final page.”—The Boston Globe “Have you ever had a vacation where you didn’t lose the car keys or traveler’s checks, get a seat on the plane next to a crying baby or airsick adult or end up divorced without ever going near Nevada? If so, you probably wouldn’t understand what’s so funny about Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need. The rest of us, however, would.”—Kansas City Star “For good old belly laughs and delightful play with cliches of the language, there’s Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need.”—The Boston Phoenix Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist at the Miami Herald. His books include Homes and Other Black Holes, Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits, Dave Barry Slept Here, and Dave Barry Turns 40, among others

В этой книге собраны лучшие интервью с Дэвидом Боуи, которые он давал на протяжении почти всего своего творческого пути. Каждое из них — это один из этапов его невероятного путешествия через эпохи, образы, альбомы, хиты, каждое — возможность заглянуть через плечо гения поп-музыки. И во всех он невероятно точен и внимателен к собеседникам

In his early childhood days, a young boy, David Copperfield, had been living with his mother and their servant Peggotty. His mother marries a very cruel man, Mr. Murdstone and David is being sent away to Salem House where it is not very safe at all. It was a run-down London boarding school where Mr. Creakle beats up young boys. David’s mother soon gives birth to a son by Mr. Murdstone. Unfortunately she dies after a while. David was dragged out of school and was forced to work at a wine warehouse with Mr. Murdstone. David runs from work and lives with his great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, where he lives a happier life. She soon adopts him and sends him off to Dr. Strong’s school in Canterbury. When David was done with his education at Dr. Strong’s school, he goes to work at the law firm of Mr. Spenlow and Jorkins. He meets his significant other, Dora Spenlow and falls in love with with her. After that, they were engaged to each other. They had their very first child but Dora becomes ill and dies after giving birth, along with the child. It was a sad life for David but he tries to move on. He had traveled abroad for several years and realizes he truly loves this other woman, Agnes Wickfield. David becomes a famous writer and marries Agnes. They live happily ever after along with their friends

En 1929 Irène Némirovsky envió al editor Bernard Grasset el manuscrito de su primera novela David Golder. Estaba escrita en francés. El texto entusiasmó al editor, quien la publicó de inmediato. Fue saludada por una crítica sorprendida por la juventud de la autora y el crítico Paul Reboux quien fuera uno de los primeros en llamar la atención sobre la joven Colette en su momento, auspició grandes éxitos a Némirovsky. La crítica francesa, tan acartonada a su Academia, nunca se adaptó a la precocidad de sus autores y siempre los miraron como a bichos raros. Encima, no son escasos en autores jóvenes y brillantes: desde Rimbaud, pasando por Alain Fournier, a Colette y Françoise Sagan. David Golder narra la historia de un banquero ruso-judío que vive en París. Está continuamente sometido a los caprichos de su esposa y de su hija, a quien adora, y por ellas pierde la cabeza y la fortuna. A comienzos de la novela, David Golder se desmaya y le es diagnosticada una angina de pecho. Debe descansar, pero le resulta imposible: tiene que seguir haciendo negocios. Viaja por barco a Rusia, se reencuentra con su paupérrimo pueblo natal y durante el viaje de regreso muere. Escrita con un estilo preciso y detenido, la obra no es sino una versión adecuada a las primeras décadas del siglo de La muerte de Iván Illich de León Tolstoi. La enfermedad y la muerte están aliadas frente a la negligencia del protagonista: aunque se niegue a verlo, su fin está cerca. Tolstoi escribió su obra como una fábula sobre las vanidades de la vida. Tanto allí como en la mayoría de los autores eslavos aparece una sola verdad: `siento dolor, gracias a eso sé que estoy vivo` y `mi dolor es lo único que tengo`. Turguenev hablará del dolor espiritual: el amor no correspondido, o la búsqueda de una vida con sentido como en Rudin, el héroe ruso que marcha a luchar a las barricadas francesas en 1789. En Pushkin este dolor es el del honor perdido, en Gógol y también a veces en Dostoyevski, la miseria. Tal vez en los emigrados este dolor de vivir fue reemplazado por la nostalgia, por eso tantos personajes de Nabokov (Pnin, por ejemplo) sienten que viven como si estuvieran muertos. Némirovsky también sigue la tradición rusa: el dolor existe para recordarnos que vivimos y que lo estamos haciendo mal. Las vanidades pertenecen al mundo de las apariencias, en el mundo real sufrimos y nos estamos muriendo

David Suzuki’s autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in “Metamorphosis” and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life and his hopes for the future. The book begins with his life-changing experience of racism interned in a World War II concentration camp, and goes on to discuss his teenage years, his college and postgraduate experiences in the U.S., and his career as a geneticist and then as the host of “The Nature of Things.” With characteristic candor and passion, Suzuki describes how he became a leading environmentalist, writer, and thinker; the establishment of the David Suzuki Foundation; his world travels and meetings with luminaries like Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama; and the abiding role of nature and family in his life. David Suzuki is an intimate and inspiring look at a modern-day visionary

The novel is set in the Northeastern United States some centuries after an atomic war ended high-technology civilization. The novel follows its title character, Davy (who grew up a ward of the state and thus has no last name) as he grows to manhood in a pseudo-medieval society dominated by a Church that actively suppresses technology, banning “anything that may contain atoms.” Davy begins as an indentured servant in an inn, but escapes, and most of the novel is concerned with his adventures. The book is written as though Davy himself were writing his memoirs, with footnotes by people who knew him. Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965