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Anti-Personnel Mine Injuries: Surgical Management (1993 Video)

Director

Roger Bunting; Robin Coupland

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 2000 sale: Sfr150.00 (+p&p)

Looks at surgery for anti-personnel landmine victims as practised in the International Committee of the Red Cross hospital in Peshwar, Pakistan, which treated people wounded by the fighting in Afghanistan.

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Chemical Handling: Basics

Subject

Chemistry; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £125.00

This programme covers the basics of chemical handling. The DVD covers: hazard identification; personal protection; emergency response. This DVD includes: embedded, Powerpoint presentations, which can be...

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Qui était Kafka? (2007)

aka: Who was Kafka?

Director

Richard Dindo

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), 14.94 Euros

Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...

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Knowledge of Healing, The (1999)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

The first full-length film dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine, which takes a highly developed, holistic approach to health through the use of herbs, roots and minerals. Includes interview with The...

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Wasting the Alps (1989 Video)

Director

Christopher La Fontaine

Producer

Christopher La Fontaine

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the threat to the Alps environment caused by pressures from tourism, the decline of mountain agriculture and acid rain. Show areas in Austria, France and Switzerland where efforts are being made to...

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Expensive Theology, An (1992 Video)

Producer

Peter Ceresole

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

At CERN in Switzerland in a 20-mile tunnel, using the world’s largest machine, scientists are looking at particles from the first instant of the universe, work that has no immediate application. Elsewhere,...

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Ruskin’s Journey (2000 Video)

Director

Michael Wheeler

Producer

Michael Wheeler

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £??

Professor Michael Wheeler revisits some of the sites that inspired John Ruskin and informed much of his thinking - Rouen cathedral in France, the falls at Schaffhausen in Switzerland, Chamonix in the French...

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Silent Waters (2006)

Director

Sabiha Sumar

Subject

Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2014)

Director

Andrew Braunsberg

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £8.16

Film director Roman Polanski discusses his remarkable, often controversial, life and career with his longtime associate Andrew Braunsberg in conversations filmed during a time when Polanski was under house...

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Planet Hunters (1996 Video)

Producer

Danielle Peck

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows astronomers from Manchester, Switzerland and California as they scour the skies for signs of planetary systems other than our own. Recently other solar systems have been discovered with what appear...

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