JUST recently, reading Janna Malamud Smith’s memoir of her father, novelist Bernard Malamud, I was struck by the way this Brooklyn-born child of poor immigrants who were scarcely able to speak English ...
IDG Books, 358 pages, $19.99. When the first of the “for Dummies” books was published in 1991, the idea was to minimize the anxiety and frustration people feel about computers by poking fun at ...
I was recently rummaging through a huge pile of non-fiction books at a post-holiday sale, hoping to find some new winter reading material, when I discovered a copy of "Cats for Dummies" (IDG Books ...