Category: Geography Cultures

By Trisha Speed Shaskan

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By Jennifer Thermes

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By Jose Javier Lopez

The information-packed volumes during this sequence offer finished overviews of every nation's humans, geography, historical past, govt, economic system, and tradition. plentiful full-color illustrations advisor the reader on a voyage of discovery, and maps replicate present political barriers. Written by way of the main skilled professors educating international nearby geography, this sequence meets social stories and geography curriculum criteria.

By Douglas A Phillips

A tough setting with a harsh Arctic weather has made lifestyles for the Finns tremendous hard. yet they've got triumph over greater than simply their atmosphere. this can be the survey of the Finnish geography, heritage, govt, economic climate, humans, and tradition. It assists scholar researchers in investigating this Nordic nation.

By Robert H. Mayer

Often called the "most segregated urban in America," Birmingham, Alabama, grew to become a hotbed for civil rights job within the early Nineteen Sixties. nice African-American leaders, together with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, helped lead the civil rights circulate within the urban. In Birmingham, African-American early life marched, sang, and spoke out opposed to segregation. even supposing they confronted police canine and hearth hoses, they provided non-violent resistance and didn't back off. while the youngsters MARCHED explores the civil rights leaders who geared up the circulation and the courageous kids and youths on the center of the struggle.

By David M. Schwartz

The Yanomani are South American Indians who stay within the Amazon rain woodland. This lovely photo-essay follows the lives of the Yanomani humans of their day-by-day routine--hunting, fishing and playing--giving young ones a glimpse of the lives of a vanishing humans. it will train young ones to recognize the methods of one other tradition and even perhaps to assist it continue to exist. Full-color images.

By Byrd Baylor

Francisco is a lonely boy. Amigo is a prairie puppy. They either stay within the barren region, and either wish anyone to play with. Francisco thinks that he is "taming" Amigo, his puppy -- yet Amigo understands higher.

By Tim McNeese

The abolitionist circulate, which used to be a crusade to finish the perform of slavery and the slave alternate, started to take form within the wake of the yank Revolution. within the years prime as much as the Civil warfare, the circulate persevered to realize energy, mostly end result of the decision of such leaders as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown. The Abolitionist stream is an intensive exploration of this seminal stream in American background. through providing readers various pictures, insightful textual content, sidebars, a chronology and timeline, and a priceless word list, this ebook makes the folks and occasions linked to abolitionism come alive in a effective but available demeanour.

In 1864, throughout the Civil warfare, the C.S.S. Hunley grew to become the 1st submarine on the earth to sink an enemy send. The Hunley and its team mysteriously vanished. What occurred on that chilly wintry weather evening? After over a century, scientists ultimately have many of the solutions.

By Tim McNeese

The labour circulate espoused social equality andhonest labour throughout the formation of labour unions. this article is an intensive examine the move that has had a profound influence on how operates within the US.