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Trinity Apocalypse, The (Cd-Rom) (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

CD-ROM

The full text and 91 images from the 35 folios of the ‘Trinity Apocalypse’, an outstanding example of the English illuminated manuscript, produced around 1250. Includes full-colour images and the...

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Structure and Cultivation of the Mushroom (1978 Multimedia)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

out of distribution, Audiocassette.; 41 slides. col.

Slides 1-26 deal with commercial mushroom cultivation and slides 27-35 with the structure and life history of the mushroom.

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Eole (1983 Film)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An account of the development of the Eole programme, with strong emphasis on systems and material design and testing. The experiment involved the launching of a fleet of atmospheric balloons and a satellite...

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Food Safety is in Your Hands (2005)

Subject

Catering; FE; Health & safety

Shows catering staff the importance of when to wash their hands and use barriers such as gloves, tongs, paper wraps, etc. when handling ready-to-eat foods, to prevent the spread of foodborne disease.

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Roger and Me (2004)

Subject

Economics; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

A tragi-comic documentary in which satirist Michael Moore ruthlessly pursues General Motors CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm done to the thriving community of Flint, Michigan when 35,000 jobs...

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Colour of the Moment, The (1989 Video)

Director

Alain Jaubert

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

Discusses Claude Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’ in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. In his garden at Giverny, Monet created a gigantic...

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Nanjing Massacre, The (1998 Multimedia)

aka: Nanking Massacre, The

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Historical materials relating to the Nanjing (Nanking) massacre, committed in December 1937 by the Japanese army in China. Includes 1000 pictures, 350,00 words of illustration and testimony in Chinese,...

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Happy People: A Year in Taiga (2010)

Director

Dmitri Vasyukov

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

A film profiling a year in the lives of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga. Werner Herzog, who narrates the film, edited down the four hour television documentary...

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Sermiligaag 65°54’n, 36°22’w (2008)

Director

Anni Seitz

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few...

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The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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