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  1. Uk’s Changing Landscapes, The (2016)

    Subject
    Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £49.00

    This DVD provides an overview of the formation, geology, distribution and key features of the UK’s areas of upland and lowland landscapes. Through the use of diverse case studies, from Malham Cove to the...

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  2. Warning to the Curious, A (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50n minutes), £15.99

    A classic ghost story shown on BBC Televison in 1972. Based on a story by M R James, A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS tells the tale of three fabled crowns buried on the Norfolk coast which, according to legend,...

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  3. Managing the Dorset Coast (2012)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £49.00

    How is it possible to balance the needs of the 25,000 visitors who descend on Studland Bay on a busy day, while simultaneously meeting the requirements of Europe’s largest oil field and protect the...

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  4. Freedom Railway (1974 Film)

    Director
    Felix Greene
    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the building of a railroad from the coast at Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka in Zambia. Presents the political and economic case for the railroad illustrating the engineering problems faced and...

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  5. Waves (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Two case studies concerned with waves: 1) describes the classic experiment ‘waves across the Pacific’ in which Walter Munk and colleagues tracked waves across half the globe from Antartica to Alaska; 2)...

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  6. Ten Times Empty (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows life on Symi, a barren but beautiful Greek island in the Aegean Sea close to the coast of Turkey. The island has suffered a decline in prosperity and population over the past fifty or more years; the...

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  7. Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

    aka: Good-Bye Old Man

    Director
    David MacDougall
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...

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  8. In and out of Africa (1993 Video)

    Director
    Ilisa Barbash; Lucien Taylor
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    During the colonial period in the 1920s, European interest in collecting African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West. What has become a multi-million dollar trade lies largely in...

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  9. Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (2005)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 mins), £29.99

    Documentary presented by John Merrow on the state of higher education in the United States. Not only has the cultural commitment to sending all students to college, regardless of wealth, seemed to have...

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  10. Mechanisms of Ocean Waves (1976 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Geography
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 15 min.

    The confused waves found in a gale at sea are shown experimentally to be made up of a cumulation of simple waves of various wavelengths. Aerial and tank scenes show how every is distributed in each wave. The...

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