The Mystic Fall Migration of North American Monarchs
The mystical migration behavior of monarch butterflies has been the subject of research by entomolgists, biologists, and scientists for many years. Has the answer as to why these gossamer-winged monarchs migrate south every year ever been totally ... [... more]
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Susanne Akesson
Susanne Åkesson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, in Sweden. She teaches evolutionary animal ecology and ornithology and does research in animal migration and navigation. She also does popular science ... [... more]
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Karen Fisher
A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson's Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life... follows two characters of ... [... more]
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Nathan Irvin Huggins
This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of [... more]
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Fred Bodsworth
The Eskimo curlew, which once made its migration from Patagonia to the Arctic in flocks so dense that they darkened the sky, was brought to the verge of extinction by the wanton slaughter of game-hunters. Following the doomed search of a solitary ... [... more]
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Nicholas Lemann
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators ... [... more]
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Antoine O Flatharta
When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you'll break out of that shell, grow ... [... more]
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Winged Migration
 From Amazon.com: For earthbound humans, Winged Migration is as close as any of us will get to sharing the sky with our fine feathered friends. It's as if French director Jacques Perrin and his international crew of dedicated filmmakers had been given a [... more]
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Value Migration
Insightful and influential: I discovered this book during a business trip to Phoenix in 1996, and it still occupies a space on my special shelf of books that have deeply influenced me. As the most basic level the concept of value migration is business [... more]
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The Gourmet Atlas: The History, Origin, and Migration of ...
From Amazon.com: Buyer beware: once you've started leafing through the pages of The Gourmet Atlas, you probably won't be able to put it down. It is more than just a book about food; within the atlas's pages you'll discover the historical origins of [... more]
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Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines
good summaries: For social scientists and their students who study migration, this is an excellent resource. It covers topics by discipline and in general does so in a comprehensive way. An essay that really looks at multidisciplinary use of these models [... more]
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Globalizing Migration Regimes: New Challenges to ...
Author: Stockholm Workshop on Global Migration R Author: Joakim Palme Author: Kristof Tamas Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 304.82 EAN: 9780754646921 ISBN: 0754646920 Number Of Pages: 328 Publication Date: 2006-05 [... more]
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