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Pine Point: A Lead-Zinc Deposit (1985 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A case study of a large metal mine: the Pine Point deposit, one of the world’s largest lead-zine mines, lies on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Here, in the...

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Body in the Bog, The (1985 Video)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Charts the story of the discovery and investigation of a 2500-year-old murder victim found in a peat bog in Cheshire - the first Iron age bog body to be found in Britain. Scientific investigation...

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I’m Sorry Your Baby is Dead but I Can’t Tell You Why (1987 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 33 min.

Several parents with recent experience of cot death are interviewed. They relate how they felt at the time of the discovery and the way they coped immediately following the death. General information about...

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Nobel’s Greatest Hits: Medicine (2003)

aka: Understand Medicine: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

Five programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to medicine and one on Nobel himself. Each 10-minute programme gives a clear explanation of a major advance in medicine.

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Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town (2013)

Director

Paul Elston

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

Television documentary. Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard, presents new insights into the lives of the people who lived and died in Pompeii, based on the discovery of 54 skeletons in a cellar in...

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All the President’s Men Revisited (2014)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £6.99

n this special, award-winning actor and director Robert Redford looks back at Watergate the original game changer of American politics. Redford, who served as producer of the iconic 1976 film All the...

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In Search of the Dark Ages (2015)

aka: Michael Wood Presents: In Search of the Dark Ages

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 352 minutes), £15.58

Historian Michael Wood presents this BBC series about the Dark Ages. Originally aired in 1981, the series gives the audience an insight into the period known as the Dark Ages with Wood going on a journey of...

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Battling the Bugs (2001)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £ 15 per item or £ 100 for the whole set (inclusive)

One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This film looks at Nobel Prizewinners in the fields of disease, bacteria and viruses....

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Shedding Light on Atoms: Episode 1: The Dawn of Modern Chemistry (2014)

Subject

Chemistry; Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

The Shedding Light on Atoms series provides an introduction to the world of atoms. Using demonstrations and animations the film explains not only what we know about atoms, but also how we know what we know...

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Mystery of Magritte, The (1996)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid)

A stylised encyclopaedia the life and work of the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. Includes paintings; letters; sketches; interviews; examples of his Super-8 films; a biography; analysis of his...

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