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Games Animals Play (1986)

Subject

Biology; Mathematics

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 38 minutes), £5.00

Recording of a lecture given by biologist Professor John Maynard Smith as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture Series. He uses game theory to give an insight into animal contests (for...

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Britain’s Lost World: Story of St Kilda

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £12.99

Wildlife enthusiast Kate Humble, historian Dan Snow and biologist Steve Backshall travel to the St. Kilda archipelago in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland where they investigate the islands’ wildlife and...

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Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

Director

Steve Lansing; André Singer

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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Darwin and Diversity (1989 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows one of sciences’ most famous biologists, Charles Darwin, on the historic round-the-world voyage that prompted his ideas on evolution, the process of biological change. Almost 100 years later,...

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What Darwin Didn’t Know (2009)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £195.00

Documentary which tells the story of evolution theory since Darwin postulated it in 1859. The theory caused a storm of controversy from fellow scientists, as well as religious types, who criticised it for...

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Elephant: Life After Death, The (2011)

Subject

Biology

Elephants can live for 70 years. But what happens when one of these magnificent beasts dies in the wild and a five-tonne adult elephant is transformed into six million calories worth of fat, meat and guts,...

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Life After Death (2012)

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this...

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Silent Speech (1977 Film, Video)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A study of non-verbal communication among a group of children from 18 months to 3 years of age who spend eight hours per weekday in a French crèche. Professor Hubert Montagher, a biologist, through filming...

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Hopeful Monsters (1998 Video)

Director

Bryn Higgins

Producer

Peter Goodchild

Subject

Biology

Distribution

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

When biologist Mike Levine came across a picture of a mutant fruit fly, with two perfectly formed legs in place of its antennae, he had found the key to the toolkit nature uses to evolve new creatures. The...

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Man and Animal (1995 Video)

Director

Antony Thomas

Producer

Antony Thomas

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores peoples relationship with other animals - from love and devotion to cruelty and greed. Shows a multiple sclerosis sufferer who is totally dependent on her dog, a paraplegic who relies on his rhesus...

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