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Antarctic Crossing (1958 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

About the 1957-58 crossing of the Antarctic continent. Tells how eight men of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition’s advance party made landfall on the coast of Antarctica and established the base...

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Expotopia: The Belgian World’s Fairs (2014)

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), 19 Euros

The Brussels World’s Fair of 1958 was an important moment in the postwar history of Belgium. It was also an important monument in honour of a modern utopian era which was to bring peace and reconciliation...

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Mighty Saturns: Saturn V (2005)

Subject

Astronomy; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £34.99

The Spacecraft Films collection is a comprehensive series devoted to the history of space exploration, featuring actual video and film footage from NASA’s archives. This installment focuses on one of space...

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Planeat (2011)

Director

Shelley-Lee Davies

Subject

Agriculture; Biology; Health Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £71.99

PLANEAT is the story of three men’s life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. With an additional cast of pioneering chefs...

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Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games (2011)

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 365 minutes), £22.99

A collection of films celebrating British folk customs and rural games, ranging from morris and maypole dancing, sword and step dances to Shrove Tuesday football games and the Padstow Obby Oss ceremony. The...

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Tumour Slide Sets (199 Multimedia)

Subject

Veterinary science

Distribution

Sale, Slides. 10 slide sets: 23, 23, 28, 35, 52, 24, 62, 27, 58, 18 slides., 1997 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) parts 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10 each; £12.00 (+VAT +p&p) part 4; £16.00 (+VAT +p&p) part 5; £20.00 (+VAT +p&p) parts 7 & 9 each

Oncology reference collections of colour transparencies with description and references from the World Health Organisation. Subjects of individual sets are: lung (23 slides); neoplastic diseases of the...

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Tempus de Baristas (1993 Video)

aka: Time of the Barmen

Director

David MacDougall

Producer

Paolo Piquereddu

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Depicts a fast-disappearing way of life - that of goat-herders in the mountains of eastern Sardinia. Three generations are seen: Pietro, a teenager, is thinking of going on to secondary school to study hotel...

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From Mining the Web to Inventing the New Sciences Underlying the Internet (2007)

Subject

Information technology

Video recording of a lecture given by Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s executive vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions, at the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in...

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78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017)

Director

Alexandre O. Philippe

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £9.99

The essential two-minute shower sequence in Psycho is made up of 78 setups and 58 cuts. Director Alexandre O. Phillipe breaks down this most notorious scene shot for shot, and with the help of film buffs and...

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Caribbean Roots: Poets Read Their Own Work (2011)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Audio (CD, 140 minutes), £16.00

This 2-CD collection brings together 58 recordings of ten Black British and Caribbean poets. The selections illustrate a range of experiences, emotions, styles and influences, reflecting both the culture of...

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