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Baddiley. Professor Sir James Baddiley in Conversation with Professor Sir Hans Kornberg Frs October 1990 (1990)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Sir James Baddiley is the discoverer of teichoic acids, polymers which represent a major component of cells, i.e. of Gram-positive bacteria. He discusses his family life and education, and his research and...

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Bernal and the Social Function of Science (1996 Video)

aka: Social Function of Science, The

Director

Peter Howell

Subject

Biology; Chemistry

Distribution

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Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the Science Policy Research Unit, introduces John Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques that enabled the double helix structure of DNA...

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Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule) (2015)

Director

Scott Noble

Subject

History; Politics & government; Social Studies

The series examines early American history through an examination of class. Part 1 DIVIDE ET IMPERA includes sections on Mother Jones, the American Constitution; the Civil War draft riots; Reconstruction;...

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Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention (2008)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 109 minutes), $12.99

Video recording of a lecture given by Craig Venter in February 2008, sponsored by the Long Now Foundation. With his current series of breakthroughs in synthetic biology, Craig Venter and his team are not so...

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Poetry of Sorley Maclean, The (2009)

Subject

Literature

A short online course on the work of Sorley MacLean (1911-1998), who is now regarded as one of the greatest Scottish poets of the twentieth century. However, until the 1970s, his verse was known by very few...

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Spanish Civil War, The (1972)

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £60.00

The course and major events of the Spanish Civil War including the Generals’ Revolt in July 1936, relief of the Alcazar in Toledo, defence of Madrid, collapse of the Republic in the north, Franco’s...

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Ratio Analysis (2013)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

In business, the bottom line is the numbers. Whether it’s a major global corporation or a sole trader based at home - the health of a business comes down to whether the figures stack up - or not. But...

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Salvador Moncada: Adventures in Vascular Biology (2005)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

A recording of The Croonian Lecture by Professor Salvador Moncada FRS of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, delivered at the Royal Society on 10 May 2005 at 6:00pm. Thirty years ago it was...

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What’s So Great About Proust? (2010)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, in so far as it deals explicitly with a disappearing world in ways often felt to be incorrigibly nostalgic,...

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Incarcerating Us (2016)

Director

Regan Hines

Producer

Vincent Vittorio

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 84 minutes), $15.99

Feature-length documentary that exposes America’s prison problem and explores ways to implement vital criminal justice reforms. With 2.3 million people behind bars, the US has the largest prison population...

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