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Love Between the Covers (2015)

Director

Laurie Kahn

Subject

Literature; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

Romance novels comprise over a billion dollars a year in book sales, outselling science fiction, fantasy, and mystery combined. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous rather than elevated as a...

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Science for Survival 1 (1996 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching package that aims to challenge the stereotype that science is solely a western activity carried out by scientists, who are usuallly white and male, in laboratories. Uses the experience...

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Basic Collection, The (2001)

Subject

Cosmetic science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (35 mins each), £30.00 each

Two videos on hairdressing, one on men’s cuts and one on women’s, for those who have completed the first stages of their training and wish to improve their basic cutting techniques.

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Science for Survival (1995 Video)

Director

Ani King-Underwood

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

In India ecologist Vandana Shiva argues that the introduction of high-yield crops does not taken into account women’s knowledge of seeds, fostering a type fo development that ignores people’s needs....

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12 Days to Save the World (1993 Video)

Director

Frank Stapleton

Producer

Catherine Tiernan

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Economist Marcus Arruda analyses the UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Cuban president Fidel Castro warned that man is in danger of disappearing because of the fast and progressive...

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Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World, The (2013)

aka: Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World

Subject

Chemistry; Physics; Science; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

How did the first woman to win the Nobel prize achieve such great things in a time when a woman’s place was in the home? This BBC documentary tells the story of her lifetime including her status as a...

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Seeing New Englandly

Producer

Ernie Urvater

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 57 minutes), $19.95

SEEING NEW ENGLANDLY, the second programme in the series "Angles of a Landscape: Perspectives on Emily Dickinson," explores the poet’s education, her lifelong interest in science and literature, her...

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It’s Not Just a Job (1993)

Subject

Military Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £15.00

Explores the ‘other side’ of military recruitment and military life from the various perspectives of service veterans, activists for peace and social change, and young people. Former service men and...

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Mother: Caring for Seven Billion (2011)

aka: Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Director

Christophe Fauchere

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £39.50

Since the 1960s world population has nearly doubled and now tops seven billion. Population growth, though little discussed, is putting an unprecedented burden on the planet’s life systems. This film brings...

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Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete (2003)

Subject

Media studies; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 65 minutes), $225.00

A study of the sexism and homphobia that pervade US media coverage of female athletes. Sports media scholars examine the disparity between the success of female athletes and sports journalism’s often...

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