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Basic Celestial Navigation

aka: Celestial Navigation Using the Air Almanac (H.O. 249)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 120 minutes), $29.95 (+p&p)

Official US Navy film explaining how to navigate day or night using the horizon system, the intercept method and H.O. 249 through observation, computation and plotting. In addition the programme contains the...

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Introduction to Creating Cal Courseware with Microsoft Excel 5, An (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

CD-ROM

Tutorial showing the step-by-step of development of an example CAL package using Microsoft Excel 5. Covers: improving the user interface with graphic objects and text boxes; adding on-sheet controls; using...

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Dalton Parlours: The Archaeology of a West Yorkshire Landscape (1980 Video)

Director

John S Murray

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale (Univ Leeds), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Leeds)

Demonstrates the social and historic development of two hectares of farming land at Dalton Parlours near Wetherby in West Yorkshire, as revealed by an excavation conducted by the Archaeology Unit of West...

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Battle of the Seas

Date released

1944

Series name

The Gen

Issue no

13

NoS ID

080913

Story no

1 / 1

A survey of the defensive (and offensive) work of the RAF, and especially Coastal Command over the seas around Britain. Convoy protection (an essential prelude to the invasion of Europe) is illustrated...

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Suburbia: The American Dream

Subject

Architecture; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $14.99

This collection of industrial films takes a trip back in time to the dawn of the American suburb. They were created to educate the public on the values of moving out of the dirty, grimy city and into newly...

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Changes in Rural Society: Piedmont and Sicily (1996 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Land use maps in the Italian state archives in Turin archives are used to research social and economic conditions in the regions of Piedmont - the hilly Langhe with sparse mixed farming, the flat Po valley,...

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Triumph of Life (2010)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 282 minutes), £24.99

A six-part series on evolution, using a combination of cutting edge model effects and superb wildlife photography. The series shows how living things adapt and use a number of strategies to survive, but that...

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World of Stonehenge, The (2011)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

Making use of the latest scientific detective work and experimental archaeology, popular author and broadcaster Neil Oliver discovers how people emerged from the last Ice Age; how agriculture really came to...

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Sphakia Survey (Greece): Methods and Results Video (1995)

Subject

Archaeology; Classical studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (50 min), £25.00

The video is designed to explain to non-specialists the methods and possible results of archaeological field survey. It takes as its focus the Sphakia Survey, which covers a long timespan, 5000 years, from...

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Crossing the Border: Images of England in the 1930s (1991 Video)

Producer

Betty Talks

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines how England and Englishness were portrayed in the 1930s in poetry, advertisements, photographs and film. W H Auden, for example, drew attention to the discrepancy between the way ordinary English...

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