Results

Elephant Will (1999 Video)

Producer

Adrian Pennink

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

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

As the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meets to consider whether to lift the ban on trading in ivory, a report from Africa looks the effects of a...

DVD Find Other To order

Carrying the Elephant/This is Not My Nose (2005)

Subject

English language and literature; Psychology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £12.99

A double-CD collection of prose-poems written and read by Michael Rosen.'Carrying the Elephant’ and ‘This is Not my Nose’ are both autobiographical in nature. The first of these extended sequences of...

DVD Find Other To order

Chang (1927 Video)

Director

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Producer

Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). b&w. 67 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

A documentary film about a rice farmer and his family who live on the edge of the jungle in Siam and struggle for survival against numerous wild animals including bears, tigers and leopards. Includes footage...

DVD Find Other To order

Last Mammoth, The (1994 Video)

Producer

Kate O’Sullivan

Subject

Geology

Distribution

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

Follows scientists’ quest for mammoth fossils in order to establish the reasons why the animal, an ancient relative of the elephant, finally became extinct. Fossil finds in the Siberian Arctic indicate...

DVD Find Other To order

Great Migrations (2011)

Subject

Biology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (272 minutes), $29.99 (Blu-ray) £19.99 (DVD)

A seven-part television series that follows the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species. Shot from land and air, in trees and cliff-blinds, on ice floes and...

DVD Find Other To order

Hidden Kingdoms (2014)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 178 minutes), £19.99

Stephen Fry narrates this three-part series produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit. Each episode uses state of the art technology and innovative camera techniques to show the viewer life at the level...

DVD Find Other To order

Cinemas in Britain (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, 99 slides. col., 1996 sale: £100.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Slides of an exhibition held at the RIBA Heinz Gallery 3 Feb-5 May 1996, which traced the development of cinema architecture in Britain. Arranged chronologically, the set first examines the earliest drawings...

DVD Find Other To order

Nature’s Technology (1987 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Investigates the natural engineering solutions developed by creatures in the world of nature to deal with problems caused by their environments and at ways man copies nature’s technology. By observing...

DVD Find Other To order

Expedition Congo (2013)

aka: Congo

Director

Brian Leith

Subject

Biology; Natural history

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 147 minutes), £14.19

First broadcast in 2001, this BBC documentary series focuses on the Congo River of Central Africa by exploring the rich variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 4, 700...

DVD Find Other To order

Bestiary, The (1987 Video)

Subject

Art; Biology; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15.00 (+p&p)

The Bestiary is the standard medieval encyclopaedia of animals, laid out like a modern one with a picture of the creature accompanied by information on size, colouring, habitat, gestation periods, and other...

DVD Find Other To order