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America in the Fifties: The Beat (2001 Video)

Producer

Nancy Button

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Looks at the beginnings of pop music and pop culture, strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and Beat poet Jack Kerouac. However, the country’s underlying racist disregard for civil rights comes to...

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Money Programme, The: The Real Cost of Divorce and Beat the Estate Agents (2006)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

Two programmes from the popular BBC 2 series. In THE REAL COST OF DIVORCE, The Money Programme investigates the full cost of splitting up in Britain today. Recent cases have forced the stars and super-rich...

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Real Cost of Divorce and Beat the Estate Agents, The (2006)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

Two programmes from the popular BBC 2 series. In The REAL COST OF DIVORCE The Money Programme investigates the full cost of splitting up in Britain today. Recent cases have forced the stars and super-rich...

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Jack Kerouac Romnibus, A (1996 Multimedia)

Director

Kate Bernhardt; Ralph Lombreglia

Producer

Kate Bernhardt; Ralph Lombreglia

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

CD-ROM anthology of the work of ‘Beat’ poet Jack Kerouac, with texts, archival materials, paintings by Kerouac and photographs of Beat figures, quotations, readings and performances of Kerouac’s novels...

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Raulien’s District (1994 Film)

aka: Rauliens Revier

Director

Alice Agneskirchner

Producer

Alice Agneskirchner

Subject

German studies; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A humorous fly-on-the-wall documentary about a grass-roots policeman who enjoys, but does not exploit, his authority as an officer on the beat and prefers to build on the trust of ‘his’ people instead....

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Different Drums (2000 Audio)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Compact disc. 47 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Features 31 new and known works by Lemn Sissay, fusing the lyrical and polemical, up-beat humour and deadly seriousness.

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Heart Stop Beating (2012)

Director

Jeremiah Zagar

Subject

Medical sciences

In March 2011, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device, proving that life is possible without a heart beat. (4...

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Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The (1993 Video)

Director

Jerry Aronson

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 83 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A biographical study of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg, containing interviews and film footage.

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Heart Development in the Chick Embryo (1972 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The normal development of the heart is shown in time-lapse, beginning with the identification of migratory heart-forming cells. Fusion of primordia in the mid-line, tube formation and folding, and the...

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Frog Heart Experiments (1975 Film, Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the dissection of a pithed frog in preparation for experiments on the heart. A kymograph is employed to show the rate and variation of heart beat under varying conditions. The effects on the heart of...

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