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Crowds on the Move (1994 Video)

Director

Marian Covington

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the increasingly sophisticated crowd monitoring techniques being deployed by police and transport authorities, whose knowledge is contributing to improved standards of safety, efficiency and design.

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Bridges 1 (1994 Video)

Director

Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at new engineering techniques that have led to innovations in bridge construction. Engineers can now measure more precisely aspects of structure and loading.

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Asthma (1994 Video)

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Asthma is reckoned to affect 10 per cent of the world’s population, but it is a mysterious disease with no single cause. Possibilities for fighting the disease range from genetic research to a new type of...

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Flatworms (1992 Video)

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A New Zealand flatworm that eats earthworms was carried to Northern Ireland and spread from there to Scotland and Denmark. Its predations cause a loss of soil fertility and make it a threat to agriculture;...

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Going Global (1998 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the phenomenon of globalisation and looks at four companies - Coopers & Lybrand, Guinness, Hill & Knowlton and Lasmo - all of which have faced the challenge of globalisation and have learned to...

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Monitoring the Peace (1998 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Free loan Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the work of arms control inspectors and some of the methods and technology they use. Notes that it is now almost impossible for a nuclear test to go undetected and chemical and biological weapons...

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Driving into the Future (1998 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores possibilities of how future cars will be engineered to less harmful to the environment and safer for the driver, and what might be done to improve the flow of traffic in cities.

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Building for Life (1999 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at four companies - DTZ, Ove Arup, Anglian Water and Keller - which are housed in attractive, functional and comfortable buildings that are the products of skill, technical knowledge and vision.

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Cycle of Life (1995 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

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Further and Higher Education (1993 Video)

Subject

Education; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Higher education has given many people the opportunity to study, resulting in unprecedented growth in colleges and universities. These changes and the resources needed to support them are investigated.

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