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  1. Developing Language (1994)

    Producer
    Geoff Wheeler
    Subject
    Linguistics; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Charts the development of children’s language from birth to age five before asking, ‘What is left to learn?'. Uses narrative and children’s jokes to show that language development in the early school...

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  2. Wasting the Alps (1989 Video)

    Director
    Christopher La Fontaine
    Producer
    Christopher La Fontaine
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the threat to the Alps environment caused by pressures from tourism, the decline of mountain agriculture and acid rain. Show areas in Austria, France and Switzerland where efforts are being made to...

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  3. Children, Science and Common Sense (1994)

    Producer
    Meg Sheffield
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Explores how children explain the phenomena of the physical world and where their ideas come from. Intersperses sequences of children talking about their understanding of natural phenomena with contributions...

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  4. Windows on the Mind: Children’s Drawings (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Rosemary Hill
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (24 minutes), £34.99

    Questions Piaget’s theory that children go through a universal development process, discussing new evidence about cultural influences. The argument is illustrated by looking at children’s drawings in...

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  5. Berlin: Unemployment and the Family (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Leatham
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1994 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the German social security system through the eyes of three Berlin families. Notes the various benefits available to the unemployed and at the way different groups benefit in different ways....

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  6. Four Towns and a Circus (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Stephen Wilkinson
    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Look behind the scenes at the problems and difficulties of running Chipperfield’s Circus, the last of the animal circuses still touring Britain. Follows Tony Hopkins, the circus’s director, going about...

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  7. Easter Island (2 Parts) (1988 Video)

    Producer
    John Lynch
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each?

    Investigates the mysteries surrounding the ancient stone statues on Easter Island in the South Pacific, asking who built them, how, and why, and enquiring into the fate of the civilisation that once...

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  8. Somewhere a Wall Came Down: Unemployment and Unification (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Leatham
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1997 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the impact of increased unemployment in East Berlin as a result of German unification, examining the stresses and strains felt by families in the Berlin suburbs of Pankow and Hellersdorf, and at the...

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  9. Children and New Technology (1995)

    Producer
    Paul Manners
    Subject
    Information technology; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    This appraisal of the contribution of psychology to debates about the impact of new technology on children’s social and intellectual development examines the arguments about whether computers are...

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  10. Musical Prodigies? (1994)

    Producer
    Anne Diack
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Investigates musical talent, or giftedness, in young people. Recent research by Professor Michael Howe and John Sloboda on the development of musical ability is illustrated by mini-portraits of six young...

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