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In her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy...
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"In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history...
11) Animal migration
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Introduces animal migration, including why animals migrate and how humans can help the process, and profiles such notable migrating species as Arctic terns, humpback whales, and monarch butterflies.
15) Little red bat
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Takes young readers on an educational journey through one red bat's seasonal dilemma of hibernating or migrating. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.
16) Whales
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Introduces sperm whales, including their different body parts, how they travel in groups, what they eat, and how they care for their young.
17) Migration
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Presents a simple explanation of animal migration, how migration patterns correspond with the seasons, and the ways that migrating helps animals to survive or reproduce.
18) Elephants
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Introduces African elephants, including what they eat, how they travel in groups, their migration patterns, and how they care for their young.
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In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
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