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Gulf War Jigsaw (1998 Video)

Producer

Deborah Cadbury

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Reveals how counter-measures used to protect troops in the Gulf War against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired, making some verterans serious ill. The number of British and American veterans...

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ActualitÉs FranÇaises, Les: No 6 (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in February 1945 shows 1) students at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris donating blood for wounded soldiers; 2) Tollet, president of the...

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Design for an Alien World (1998 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tracks some of the development from 1992 to 1997 of a space mission to be launched towards Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, in October 1997. Follows two experiments being developed at the University...

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Shakespeare on the Estate (1994 Television)

Director

Penny Woolcock

Television documentary. Follows theatre director Michael Bogdanov as he spends three weeks on an inner city estate in Ladywood, Birmingham persuading local people to rehearse and perform Shakespeare. Records...

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Introduction to the Endocrine System (1997 Multimedia)

aka: Introduction to Endocrinology

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive tutorial on endocrinology: introductory overview of the function of the endocrine system and the location of important endocrine glands; chemical properties (the three main chemical groups of...

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Capitalism Hits the Fan (2009)

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 57 minutes), $125.00

University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of the current economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within...

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First World War U-Boat (1919 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 78 min.

Two newly restored World War 1 films, DER MAGISCHE G‹RTEL ('The Enchanted Circle’) (1917, 44 min), and THE EXPLOITS OF A GERMAN SUBMARINE ('U-35’) OPERATING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (1919, 34 min). The...

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Sonnet Variations: A Performance of Selected Sonnets by Shakespeare (2000 Video)

Director

James Schiffer

29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settings—as well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....

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Hopeful Monsters (1998 Video)

Director

Bryn Higgins

Producer

Peter Goodchild

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

When biologist Mike Levine came across a picture of a mutant fruit fly, with two perfectly formed legs in place of its antennae, he had found the key to the toolkit nature uses to evolve new creatures. The...

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Evolution in Progress (1956 Film)

Producer

H B D Kettlewell

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the process of natural selection, based on an experiment by H B D Kettlewell. The peppered moth is one of 70 species affected by pollution in the atmosphere. By 1848 the first black one had...

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