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"Every year in Namibia, about two thousand zebras suddenly disappear from their grazing area along the Chobe River. Months later, the herd returns. Where do they go? And why? Thanks to satellite-tracking collars, scientists were able to solve the mystery, but several questions remain. Award-winning science author Sandra Markle reveals the process scientists used to study the zebras, and she also delves into the science of migration, exploring how...
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Cicada Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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71 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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All the branches of the animal kingdom--birds, fish, crustaceans, reptiles, mammals, insects, and even slime molds undertake great journeys across water land or air. This is a glorious celebration of the mysteries and marvels of migration.
7) Circle
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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Follows the migration of the bar-tailed godwits from Australia and New Zealand to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
8) Earth
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A story of three animal families on a journey across our planet - polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales. It captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elusive animals.
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"Outdoor educator and field researcher Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration--a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her panniers were recycled buckets. In Bicycling with Butterflies, Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic...
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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56 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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Monarch butterfly populations have been declining for the last two decades, and scientists aren't sure why. This book takes readers on a quest to discover what is happening and what scientists know. --
13) The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"How biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and popular television...
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Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
109 pages : color illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm
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"The images here are a selection from the hundreds sent in by children's book illustrators from all over the world for an exhibition entitled Migrations. Its aim is to express support for and solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of human migrants who face immense difficulties and dangers in their struggle to find a better and safer place to live."-- Page 8.
15) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry...
16) The gold rush
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2009
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342 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own 'Siete Magníficos'--to repopulate her hometown and protect...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
An acclaimed cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
19) Ice age
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Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice age ...
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