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Concrete Checks (Getting It Right First Time) (1990 Video)

Subject

Engineering; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2005 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A training video looking at quality assurance. Examines the procedure of concrete construction of ground and foundation slabs, columns and walls and first-floor slabs. Describes the checks that should be...

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British Home Front, The: First World War 1914 - 1918 (2014)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 153 minutes), £13.95

For the first time ever on DVD, a comprehensive impression of life on the British Home Front during the First World War and the very varied roles and responsibilities shouldered by British citizens during a...

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Motions of Stars, The (1973 Film)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Illustrates the proper motion of stars in various sky regions by simulating the observed motion with a time rate of 7200 years per second. The parallactic motion of Aldebaran and Vega is shown with high...

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Secret Life of 118 Green Street, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col 47 min., 1999 sale: £15.00 (+ VAT inc p&p)

Shows how under the exterior of an ordinary house in an average American town are millions of living insects, most of them invisible to the naked eye. Uses time-lapse photography and electron microscropy to...

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To die with Dignity (1975)

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £19.50

One of the first films exploring euthanasia and the right to choose one’s time of dying. This Week was the first current affairs series on commercial television in the UK and ran from 1968 to 1992.

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First Order Reactions (1972 Film)

Producer

P D Groves

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A computer-generated film which illustrates some mathematical aspects of first-order reactions. The dependence on the rate constants of the shapes of the concentration/time curves for the reactions A-B and...

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Georges Méliès: Le Premier Magicien du Cinéma (2010)

aka: Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema

Director

Georges Méliès; Georges Franju

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 896 minutes), 65.95 Euros

Geoges Méliès built the world’s first movie studio in 1896 near Paris, from where he produced his films of fantasy, dream, historical reconstructions, imaginary journeys, melodramas, slapstick comedies;...

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Time to Remember, A (1959)

Subject

Film studies; History

British Pathé has re-released all 39 episodes of the classic 1959 documentary series TIME TO REMEMBER, unabridged and in HD for the first time. The series presents scenes from life at the turn of the...

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Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry and Space-Time (1998)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), $40.00

The success of the book and audio versions of Feynman’s SIX EASY PIECES, published in 1995, led to the publication these six additional lectures, drawn from the three-volume Lectures on Physics originally...

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Alternatives to the Lecture: The Teach-Test Technique (1984 Video)

Director

D Fox

Producer

D Fox

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 25 min.

The teach-test technique is an alternative way of using the conventional one hour time-tabled ‘lecture’ time in which the emphasis is placed on student learning rather than lecturer talking. The...

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