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Synthetic Biology in Europe (2014)

Subject

Biology; Technology

Synthetic biology is an emerging field in at the intersection of biotechnology, information technology and biochemistry with the aim to make biology easier to engineer. But what exactly are synthetic...

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Building Forms in a Tropical Area: Nigeria (1984 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 2 x 25 min.; 2 x 24 slides. col.

Part 2: The influences of the built form in Nigeria from within West Africa, from the rest of the continent, and from outside Africa: the bungalow, Muslem architecture, South American Baroque, the European...

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Too Foolish: The Diary of Nicholas Assheton 1617 (1999 Video)

Director

Vicki Worthington

Producer

Vicki Worthington

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 2001 sale: £25.00 (inclusive)

A local history research project showing people discovering more about Nicholas Assheton, a Lancashire man who lived in the early 17th century. Part of a distance-learning programme.

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Coniston Muster: Scenes from a Stockman’s Life (1972 Video)

Director

Roger Sandall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) (video)

On Coniston Station, north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, cattle are mustered and yarded. The lease is held by a European, but the stockmen are Anmatjara people, whose...

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Senile Dementia (1986 Video)

aka: Silent Epidemic, The

Producer

John Willis

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

Describes a case of senile dementia by showing the position of one housewife, Jackie Drake, who looks after her young daughter and her 67-year-old mother who suffers from the condition. Covers her fight to...

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Majority Starts Here, The (2014)

Director

Lode Desmet

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), 6.99 Euros

In BIRN’s thought-provoking and sometimes emotional documentary film, six young people from six different countries travel across the Balkans together, discovering how nationalism, ethnic tensions and...

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No Offence (1996 Film, Video)

Subject

Business studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines harassment at work in the context of a fairy story, with the intention of helping people to identify and deal with sexual and racial harassment, homophobia and other forms of unacceptable behaviour...

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Secret People (1952)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

Crime drama set in the 1930s and starring Valentina Cortese and a young Audrey Hepburn. Maria and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their political activist father is murdered by a European...

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Cat and Mouse (Sheep) (1996 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. S-VHS. col. 80 min.

A performance recorded at the Gate theatre in London, on 19 February 1996 in the Gate Biennale, a celebration of contemporary European theatre. The play, written in 1994 by Gregory Motton and directed here...

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Marimba Music of Mexico (1967 Film)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Although in Guatemala and in Chiapas the marimba is often played by Indians in the mountains, most Latin-Americans have come to associate the marimba with the music of the mestizos, people of mixed Indian...

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