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  1. Terracotta Time Machine, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Hale
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the change of culture at the Natural History Museum, now charging for entry, creating a new corporate identity and promising popular new exhibitions, and its effect on the museum’s scientific...

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  2. Maori: The New Dawn (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    The Maoris had their lands, language and culture swept away by white settlers. Now, a new generation of educated young Maoris is challenging the values of white society with its vision of a New Zealand in...

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  3. Masks of Arcadia (1989 Video)

    Director
    Geoff Dunlop
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at how a single community in Japan has been affected by the country’s massive economic changes. In the village of Kurokawa in northern Japan, rich in natural beauty, agriculture and traditions, a...

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  4. Where Does the Solar System End? (2013)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics

    Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system’s gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it’s so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic...

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  5. Let’s Kill Nanny (1994 Video)

    Director
    Norma Howe
    Producer
    Gavin Dutton
    Subject
    Economics; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With the Welfare State now 50 years old and strangling the economy, David Marsland, co-author of ‘The End of the Welfare State’, a report from the Adam Smith Institute, argues that individual...

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  6. Life and Times of Peter Drucker (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Fiona Pitcher
    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the key ideas of management expert Peter Drucker, now in his 80s and still working. In Drucker’s view the best management can be found can be found within the Girl Scouts of America.

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  7. Virus That Cures, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Judith Bunting
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at a virus derived from sewage that can kill bacteria - a bacteriophage, and the possibilities for using it against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria. Since the 1930s scientists in Tbilisi...

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  8. Smallpox on Death Row (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Although officially eradicated as a disease, the last samples of the smallpox virus, now held in the two top security laboratories in the USA and Siberia, are to be destroyed. But a debate has erupted over...

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  9. Prophet Unheard (1992 Video)

    Producer
    David Dawson-Pick
    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profile of management guru Dr W Edwards Deming’s, now aged 91, who introduced concepts of quality control to post-war Japanese industry and was a seminal influence in the Japanese economic revolution.

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  10. Before Babel (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has...

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