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Springfast (1997 Video)

Director

Sherry Moran

Producer

Sherry Moran

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min., 1999 sale: £39.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A case study showing how a business has used good business practices to enhance its competitive edge. Springfast, a producer of spring-steel fasteners with 56 employees, undertook benchmarking to gain the...

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Blue Haven (1995 Video)

Producer

Anne-Marie Gallen

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

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

Human activity is a major cause of the rapid increase in the extinction rate of animals. By considering the factors in volved in population dynamics, and by creating a simplified mathematical model, this...

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Abortion: Whose Choice? (1996 Video)

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1998 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Focuses on three women speaking frankly about their different experiences of abortion, including illegal abortion. Shows some of the dilemmas and difficulties to be encountered, and challenges the view that...

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Death on the Dole (1980)

Subject

Social Studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £23.00

Reports show there is a definite connection between unemployment and suicide. This World in Action film shows three cases: a 25-year old electrician who found the pressures too much for him to take when he...

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Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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Changing Perceptions: Trees and Tombs (1990 Video)

Subject

Archaeology; Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 min.

An archaeologist and a botanist discuss the 18th-century practice of planting trees on prehistorical mounds and what happens when such trees become too old to survive.

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Katowice (1995 Video)

Director

Sharad Shankardass

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Shows how municipal authorities in Katowice, Poland, have joined forces with the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) to look at ways of improving health conditions and making it a more...

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And There’s Sociology Too (1997 Video)

Director

Paul Littlewood

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocasette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) - Uniview

An introduction to sociology that begins by looking at common assumptions and moves on to reveal the experiences and career destinations of a set of sociology graduates. Considers the methods used by...

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Vietnam: Battle’s Poison Cloud (2005)

Subject

History; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

The use of agent orange during the Vietnam war guaranteed an enduring legacy. Three generations of people are still being born with defects and genetic abnormalities. ‘I try hard to improve our life but we...

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Dread, Beat an’ Blood (1980)

aka: Dread, Beat and Blood

Director

Franco Rosso

Producer

Franco Rosso

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (45 minutes), £50.00

Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...

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