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Author | : Willo Davis Roberts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481449087 |
First eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.
Author | : Megan Vaughan |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780822333999 |
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.
Author | : Megan Stine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0515159484 |
Unearth the secrets of the mysterious giant stone statues on this tiny remote Pacific island. Easter Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles from anywhere, has intrigued visitors since Europeans first arrived in the 1700s. How did people first come to live there? How did they build the enormous statues and why? How were they placed around the island without carts or even wheels? Scientists have learned many of the answers, although some things still remain a mystery. Megan Stine reveals it all in a gripping narrative. This book, part of the New York Times best-selling series, is enhanced by eighty illustrations and a detachable fold-out map complete with four photographs on the back.
Author | : Megan A. Carney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520975561 |
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergence of social solidarity initiatives and networks forged between citizens and noncitizens who work together to improve local livelihoods and mobilize for radical political change. Basing her argument on years of ethnographic fieldwork with frontline communities in Sicily, anthropologist Megan Carney asserts that such mobilizations hold significance not only for the rights of migrants, but for the material and affective well-being of society at large.
Author | : Megan Stine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2017-05-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0451533879 |
Armchair adventurers can set sail for the remote Galapagos Islands and learn about the strange and unique animals that live there. The Galapagos Islands are a chain of volcanic islands located on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The isolated location of the islands has allowed a vast number of species to develop that are original to each island, such as the marine iguana, the blue-footed booby, the magnificent frigatebird and of course the giant Galapagos tortoise, which may live to be over one hundred years old. Studied by Charles Darwin during his historic voyage on the HMS Beagle, the island life contributed to his groundbreaking theory of evolution. Today the islands are a popular tourist destination and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This book, part of the New York Times best-selling series, is enhanced by eighty illustrations and a detachable fold-out map complete with four photographs on the back.
Author | : Gloria Whelan |
Publisher | : Sleeping Bear Press |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2011-08-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1410307921 |
Through the voice of a young girl, the life of the people known as Irish Travelers is explored. Megan spends her summers traveling around the Irish countryside with her family. They move from place to place, hauling their camper behind their old car. But they aren't on vacation. This is their way of life. Megan and her family are Travelers. As part of their summer life, Megan's father works odd jobs, from fieldwork to roofing houses. Despite the rough living, Megan loves her life and the freedom that comes from traveling the open road. But at summer's end, when there's no more work to be had, the family moves to the city of Dublin. The camper is parked and they move into a cramped house. Megan and her siblings attend the local school as their parents struggle to make ends meet. And as the seasons pass, Megan counts down the days until she can return to her summer life. Gloria Whelan's other books in the Tales of the World series are Waiting for the Owl's Call, Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers (2008 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal winner), and Yatandou (a Junior Library Guild selection). Ms. Whelan lives in Michigan. Beth Peck earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has illustrated many books for children, including A Christmas Memory, Just Like Josh Gibson, and Music for the End of Time. Ms. Peck lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Author | : Megan E. Freeman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2022-05-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534467572 |
Originally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.
Author | : Megan Kopp |
Publisher | : Ecosystems Inside Out |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780778714972 |
An island is a habitat for land-living organisms as well as creatures that visit from their ocean homes. Peel back the corners of the island to discover the incredible organisms that live in this ecosystem, from lizards and birds to possums and bats.
Author | : Mary Ann Paulin |
Publisher | : Hamden, Conn. : Library Professional Publications |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
To cover the immense publishing explosion of children's books, films, and other media for the 1980s, Mary Ann Pauline has created an encyclopedic set of volumes to complement and update her celebrated book, Creative Uses of Children's Literature.
Author | : John W. Edmiston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |