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Racial Violence / Responses to Racial Violence (1996 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min., 1997 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

1: Looks at the recent history of racially motivated violence in Britain, using expert and eye witness accounts and newspaper and film archive material. It charts the response of the authorities, which...

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Standard Maternity Information System (1984 Video)

Subject

Information technology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 min.

Explains the operation of an ICL DRS Series microcomputer-based maternity data collection system conforming to the requirements of the Standard Maternity Information System. Demonstrates a pilot scheme of...

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Russian Avant Garde, The (2014)

Director

Barrie Gavin

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 207 minutes), £30.00

This four disc set looks at the life of art collector George Costakis and three of his favourite artists.The first film is about Costakis, one of the 20th century’s most prominent art collectors, who...

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Passionate Statistician, The (1996 Video)

Producer

Pip Surgey

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL), £34.99

Florence Nightingale made use of statistics in her hospital work during the Crimean war to show that hospital hygiene was so poor that the wounded were less likely to die from disease at the front than in...

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Moon: The Great Impact (2010)

Subject

Astronomy

A look at the Japanese space probe, Kaguya, which is orbiting and cataloguing the entire surface of the moon for the first time. Launched in 2007, Japan’s first moon orbiter has been circling the moon and...

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Wallace in Wales (1997 Video)

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Some of Charles Darwin’s fame for the discovery of evolutionary theory is these days shared with fellow scientist Alfred Russel Wallace. Traces his life in South Wales and the Welsh borders, where Wallace...

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Autofab (1979 Film)

Director

John Hall

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The autofab is a beam, girder or column which is designed to carry loads above and beyond the capacity of hot rolled sections - universal beams and columns. Shows how the autofab is made from two flange...

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Gene Hunters (1994 Video)

Director

Ian Taylor

Producer

Luke Holland

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...

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Martin Waldron, Hampshire Coal Merchant (1988 Video)

aka: Hampshire Coalman - Winchester

Director

Murray Weston

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 123 min.

Shows a local coal merchant, Martin Waldron, collecting and delivering coal in rural Hampshire, two days before he gave up his business because of falling orders for domestic solid fuel. He talks about how...

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Pancreatic Secretion (1955 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes the chief mechanisms concerned in the stimulation of pancreatic secretion by a meal, as illustrated by experiments on anaesthetised or conscious dogs. The anatomy of the dog’s pancreas is...

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