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Brrr! For Florida manatees, the coastal ocean waters are starting to cool down. It's time for the manatees to swim south. Why do they have to move? Learn all about manatee migration and how weather makes them move. Colorful photos and carefully leveled text guide readers along on the journey.
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A little dragonfly hovers over a pond on a warm summer afternoon. Soon, summer will end, and the dragonfly will say goodbye to its home in the north forever. Why does it have to leave? Learn all about dragonfly migration and how weather makes them move. Colorful photos and carefully leveled text guide readers along on the journey.
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Savanna elephants spend most of the day munching on grasses and branches. But soon, finding enough food will become difficult. With the oldest elephant leading the way, the herd is on the move. But why do they need to leave? Learn all about elephant migration and how weather makes them move. Colorful photos and carefully leveled text guide readers along on the journey.
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Honk, honk! Overhead, a flock of geese flies in the shape of a V. These geese live in Canada, but when it gets cold, they must fly south. Why do they have to go? Learn all about goose migration and how weather makes them move. Colorful photos and carefully leveled text guide readers along on the journey.
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Little Gray loved his lagoon and the humans who came to visit him there. One day, Mama announces that they must swim north to a far-away sea. At first he is sad to leave his home, but Little Gray soon realizes the importance of their journey. What happens along the way and how does Little Gray help his mother? Swim along with Little Gray as he finds the way to this special, food-filled sea.
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During the Great Migration of 1916-1940 over two million African Americans left the American South seeking a greater quality of life, with the Steel City a major destination. Men and women packed up what they could fit in a suitcase or the trunk of a car and left behind their homes and families in search of better opportunities in the budding industries of the North and Midwest. They were escaping discriminatory laws and racial violence. Purchasing...
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Praise for the first edition:
"By far the best general book on its subject. . . . Moving Europeans will remain a standard reference for some time to come." –Charles Tilly
"Moch has reconceived the social history of Europe." -David Levine
Moving Europeans tells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines the links between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed European life. This update of a classic...
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How researchers used Missional Action Research to make a real difference for displaced persons in Colombia
Christian scholars are often motivated to live the gospel by serving the vulnerable. But how do we put our academic research to practical use to help those in need? Christopher M. Hays explains how his interdisciplinary team of theologians, social scientists, pastors, and local partners combined efforts to support internally displaced...
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Did you know that the Klondike Gold Rush was the biggest and fastest movement of people in North American history?
From 1897 to 1898, over 100,000 men and women walked, rode, paddled, and sailed thousands of miles to the Klondike River area of the Canadian Yukon in search of gold.
Out of those 100,000 people, only about a quarter ever made it to the goldfields, and those who did mostly went home empty-handed. But for a very lucky, hard-working, and...
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