books about: departures     books:       Conversation in Spanish: Points of Departure3 reviews Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, Frank Sedwick Heinle, 2001 Good for third year High School Spanish I have used this book in my third year high school Spanish classes with good results. The questions range from easy to more difficult, requiring from short phrases to longer, more thoughtful answers. The topics covered are timely and useful, and the students seem to enjoy working together and orally answering the questions. The vocabulary is very useful.             The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)25 reviews Timothy Egan Vintage, 1991 Fabulous natural history of the Northwest Mr. Egan is a superb writer. This collection of essays takes you through history and across the landscape of the NW. The chapter on Salmon stands with the best environmental eriting that I have encountered.             French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew46 reviews Peter Mayle Vintage, 2002 A Cozy Read about France "It was a pleasure just to be alive." ~ Peter Mayle, on his experience in France Peter Mayle's "French Lessons" is an engaging book about French cuisine. He takes the reader off the beaten path to vicariously experience new discoveries. Along the way we find cooking advice (what type of pan to use when making an omelette), health spas, festivals, beaches, marathons and cheese eating ...             Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems66 reviews William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima Wiley, 2000 Not entirely useless Ok, so I'm in the same boat as most of you here. I hardly even opened this book when I first took a course in differential equations. However, once I began taking higher level courses I found its introductory explanations of many forms of solutions (like Bessel Functions) to be useful. Although I don't believe it's worth using in a course in ordinary differential equations, it still makes ...             The Road from Coorain46 reviews Jill Ker Conway Vintage, 1990 enjoyable read The wonderful autobiography entitled, The Road From Coorain, written by Jill Ker Conway is a must-read! Her engaging and rich detail gives an enchanting description of the Australian life-style from a very unique perspective. Beginning in the 1930's, young Jill Ker lived with her tightly-knit family on a ranch called Coorain, Australia. Isolated in the desert and located far from Sydney, ...             Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan23 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2001 A first rate book on Afghanistan Kaplan is an American journalist who made several trips into Afghanistan during the time that the Soviet Union had occupied Afghanistan and was intent on turning Afghanistan into a communist country. In his trips, Kaplan experienced and describes the life common to all mountain peoples, the cruelty and gruesomeness of war especially in its counter-insurgency edition, and the traditions of the ...             Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them (Vintage Departures ... Kimberly Lisagor, Heather Hansen Vintage, 2008 A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet. Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destination long known for the stunning beauty of its ice floes, but in our lifetimes it will have no glaciers due to global warming. In the biobays of ...             The Facts In The Case Of The Departure Of Miss Finch2 reviews Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli Dark Horse, 2007 He shivered at the memory... The world of Neil Gaiman looks pretty normal -- until you see the dark, eerie, bizarre things that swim just under the surface. So expect nothing less from the primly-titled "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch," a graphic novel adaptation of Gaiman's short story. Michael Zulli's matter-of-fact artwork serves as a solid complement to Gaiman's eerie story of an ordinary, ...             Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Vintage Departures)27 reviews Marie Winn Vintage, 1999 wonderful story I live in Portland Oregon, and have large populations of birds in my back yard, so this was a fun read. Perhaps i will visit NYC someday, and i will bring my glasses! What a nice book!             Near Death on the High Seas: True Stories of Disaster and Survival (Vintage Departures Original)2 reviews Vintage, 2008 Near Death on the High Seas The sense of adventure is one facet of humanity, and while some choose to ignore it, others indulge in it: dabbling with the dangerous, playing with the portentous, and facing their fears. Near Death on the High Seas is a collection of real life stories about people who strive for thrill and adventure, through the medium they love: a boat and the open sea. The book opens with an inspiring ...             The Departure (Animorphs, vol. 19)102 reviews K.A. Applegate Scholastic Paperbacks, 1998 Definately the Best Cassie and In the Top Animorph category! Wow! Iloved this Book! I think everyone was impressed because usually the Cassie books stink. This book is a turning point in the Animorph series. Cassie learns that she can't escape the war, but when she has to return, it will be even harder to fight . .             Point Of Departure5 reviews Laurie Breton Mira, 2007 action-packed police procedural Boston realtor Kaye Winslow is meeting a potential buyer of the 6.5 million dollar Worthington House. However, when the client Philip Armentrout arrives he finds a male corpse and no Kaye. Police detectives Doug Policzi and Lorna Adams head the inquiry into the John Doe homicide and the missing realtor. The cops interview Kaye's spouse Sam, a college professor up for tenure, and his sister ...             Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (Vintage ...17 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2008 Bulletins from the front The book which preceded Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts (Imperial Grunts) was an informative and touching collection of snapshots of service men and women stationed on the edges of America's military map. As of this writing, I haven't finished Hog Pilots, but it's clearly cut from the same cloth. I'm profoundly grateful for the specific individuals mentioned in these books as well as their un-named ...             Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi18 reviews Jonathan Raban Vintage, 1998 A Wonderfully Written Book Cerebral, yet accessable, Jonathan Raban is hard to peg in terms of genre. A book such as Old Glory could be considered travel writing, but such easy classification would fall far short of the mark. He incorporates history, some incredible descriptive prose, and sparse but welcome bits of dry British wit. In fact, his Englishness is part what makes the book so interesting - you see America, warts ...             Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean55 reviews Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery Vintage, 1999 Compelling, insightful, and funny. This is about as perfect as a book can be. I won't recap the concept; plenty of other reviewers have summed it up. But I want to express my unbounded admiration for this book. I would never have imagined that a set of letters between friends could make for fascinating, hard-to-put-down reading, but this set of letters does. In spades. These women's lives are just plain interesting--Kate's, in ...             Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Vintage Departures)21 reviews Michael Zielenziger Vintage, 2007 "We need more black ships" A back cover blurb calls Michael Zielenziger's book a "trenchant investigation." I think it's right on the mark. It's an invigorating mixture of shoe-leather reporting, social science and essay. Despite the title and initial focus on the 'hikikomori' phenomenon, the author makes informed observations and eye-opening conclusions about the country as a whole. It's a good companion piece to Alex ...             Near Death in the Mountains: True Stories of Disaster and Survival (Vintage Departures Original)1 review Vintage, 2008 The Highs and Lows of Mountain Climbinb Near Death in the Mountains is not for the squeamish! Can you imagine being stranded in an ice cave at eight thousand feet, the raging wind gusting in excess of 100 m.p.h., frostbite swelling your hands and feet so badly you can't even dress yourself, you become delirious from lack of water, and are unaware of the passage of time? These conditions can be part of the countless, serious ...             The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (Vintage Departures)8 reviews Patrick Symmes Vintage, 2008 Necessary reading This is a wonderful book that explores the historical and social background of the success of a communist regime on a island ninety miles from the U.S. The author reports extensively on the school that Castro attended, and interviews several of his classmates, but this is only a microcosm of Cuban society at large. He has done a lot of homework to capture the Cuban mentality and society, from ...             The Bible As/in Literature (Points of Departure)1 review James S. Ackerman, John Sweet Scott Foresman & Co, 1995 Good ...I have very little education about religious topics. I'm reading this in one of my classes right now and I think it's wonderful. I give it four stars though because it can get boring at times. Otherwise, it's great if you don't want to read the bible... My favorite passage in this is Jacob's Ladder.             No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo32 reviews Redmond O'Hanlon Vintage, 1998 The Only Way I'll Ever Get to The Congo Another excellent book from Mr. O’Hanlon. I previously read Into the Heart of Borneo and In Trouble Again. This is just as good and just as important. I wondered at first –the start was so abrupt and desultory. But I was soon taken in by the exotic setting, the bizarre but engaging real-life characters, and the curious, almost dream-like parade of events. 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