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  1. Placebo Paradox, The: Exploring the Placebo Effect

    Director
    Ed Prosser
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychology

    The placebo effect is a long-recognised phenomenon that has played an important part in the history of medicine. But it’s not until recently that science has begun to truly understand how the placebo...

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  2. Genius of Charles Darwin, The (2008)

    Subject
    Biology; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

    Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explores the work of Charles Darwin in this 3-part series for Channel 4. Darwin’s theory of evolution has always been at the crux of Dawkins’ criticism of...

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  3. Animated Life of A.R. Wallace, The

    Director
    Flora Lichtman; Sharon Shattuck
    Subject
    Biology

    This animated paper puppet video celebrates the life of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is co-credited, along with Charles Darwin, with conceptualising the theory of natural selection. [8 minutes]

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  4. Christmas Lectures 1991: Waking Up in the Universe (1991)

    Subject
    Science

    Richard Dawkins presents the first in a series of lectures on the theme of "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe." (57 minutes). The other lectures in the series are also available...

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  5. Khumi Lives (2010)

    Director
    Ittukgula Changma
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies

    Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...

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  6. Ascent of Money, The (2008)

    Subject
    Economics; Finance & Accounting; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

    A television series in which historian Niall Ferguson goes on an epic tour of world finance and examines the dynamic role of money and financial institutions in world history. The evolution of credit and...

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  7. Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the ‘Deep Past’ In the 19th-Century Imagination (2009)

    Subject
    Geology; Natural history

    Why was the young Charles Darwin’s fascination with geology so important for his later work and why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? This podcast with Professor Jim Secord,...

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  8. Extinct (2010)

    Director
    Russell Barnes
    Producer
    Alex West
    Subject
    Biology

    A series of six 25-minute television programmes in which palaeontologist Julian Hume and archaeologist Peter Floore search for evidence as to why certain animals became extinct. Using scientific research,...

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  9. Clarke. Life of a Microbial Biochemist: Professor Patricia H. Clarke Frs in Conversation with Professor J. Gareth Morris Frs, 10 May 1994 (1994)

    Subject
    Biology

    Professor Patricia Hannah Clarke’s main research was on bacterial enzymes: their evolution and properties, and producing and purifying them for industrial use. She was also involved in developments in...

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  10. Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language (5 Parts) (2009)

    Subject
    Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 250 minutes ), $599.95 (set)

    Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies, while evaluating the scope...

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