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Just in Time?: Restructuring Corporate America (1994 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

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

Looks at three large US corporations and examines how the are responding to the economic climate of the 1990s. Ameritech, based in Chicago, is in the middle of restructuring its telecommunications business;...

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Into Thin Air (2005)

Subject

Medical sciences; Sports science

This programme looks at the physical and mental effects that high altitude has on the body of climbers. Tim Malyon investigates the psychological drive, the physiological consequences and the payoffs of...

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Voyage of Charles Darwin, The (1978 Video)

Producer

Christopher Ralling

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 60 min., 1995 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Drama documentary of Darwin’s journey of discovery in HMS Beagle during which he developed his theory of evolution. The programme retraces Darwin’s path from Cornwall, round South America and to the...

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Hidden Side of the Algarve, The (1993 Video)

Producer

Pip Surgey

Subject

Education; Sociology

Distribution

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

Looks at the promotion of rural redevelopment in the hinterland of the Algarve. Concentrates on a largely EC-funded RADIAL project in Portugal, in which a team of educationalists based at the University of...

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Breathing Deeply (1993)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

On a rain-swept Welsh mountainside members of the 1994 British Mount Everest Medical Expedition test their physiological monitoring equipment. Having retreated to the dry, the doctors describe the...

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Traditional Peruvian Weaving: Spinning, Dyeing and Weaving Around Cusco (2003)

Subject

Anthropology; Crafts

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

The videos in the SURVIVING TRADITIONS series have all been filmed on location in countries where craft traditions still survive. This film has been made with the cooperation of Nilda Callanaupa and the...

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Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim (2006)

Director

Dawa T Lepcha

Subject

Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

Ilustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the...

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Jodorowsky Constellation the (2000)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 91 minutes), £12.99

A portrait of Alexandro Jodorowsky, born 60 years ago of Jewish parents who originated from Eastern Europe and found refuge in Chile. Beginning with his work in avant garde theatre, the film traces...

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Tuareg, The (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Charlie Nairn

Producer

Charlie Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows a group of Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains, at the foot of Tahat, the highest mountain in Algeria. Details, after some introductory descriptive material about Tuareg social life, the...

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Grass (1925 Film, Video)

aka: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

Director

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Producer

Jesse L Lasky; Adolph Zukor

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...

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