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Collector Costakis, The (2014)

aka: George Costakis

Director

Barrie Gavin

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), £17.99

George Costakis is well known as the foremost collector of early 20th Century Russian avant-garde art. The walls of his public housing flat in Moscow are crowded with his rich collection of banned and...

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Salvador Moncada: Adventures in Vascular Biology (2005)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

A recording of The Croonian Lecture by Professor Salvador Moncada FRS of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, delivered at the Royal Society on 10 May 2005 at 6:00pm. Thirty years ago it was...

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Business Structures (2004)

Subject

Business studies; FE

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £120.00

Explains what the structure of a business means, using case studies including Daimler Chrysler, Burger King, Easy Jet, ferry company Stena Line and drugs company Eli Lilly. Businesses are structured in many...

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Plasmolysis and Cytorrhysis (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Hans-Karl Galle; W Url

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the principles of plasmolysis: the movement of water from plant tissue after application of a hypertonic solution, the detachment of the living protoplast from the cell wall, the reversibility of...

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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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On Reflection: Jonathan Miller (1998 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

Four short programmes in which Jonathan Miller draws on geometry and perception to look at how artists use reflections and mirrors in their paintings. He explores not only how artists have found the...

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Steve Jones: Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right (2006)

Subject

Biology; Religious studies

A streamed video recording of a public lecture given by Steve Jones at the Royal Society. Science is about disbelief. It accepts that all knowledge is provisional and that any theory might in principle be...

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Minders (1995 Video)

Producer

Anne Laking

Subject

Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £180.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at a year in the life of a community mental health team based in South London. 1 (director Lorraine Heggessey): Follows a young black man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia who appears...

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Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews (2002)

Subject

Philosophy; Science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 180 minutes), $49.93 (set)

Buckminster Fuller described himself as a "living verb." Holder of 48 honorary doctorate degrees, born in the 1890s, he was a philosopher and engineer whose experience and global view of humanity and science...

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Ape That Took over the World (2002)

Subject

Archaeology; Biology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £99.00

In 2001, scientists announced the discovery of the oldest skull of a human ever found. The 3.5 million-year-old ape-like fossil was remarkably complete and revolutionised our understanding of how humans...

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