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Making Sex Pay (1987 Video)

Producer

Christopher La Fontaine

Subject

Biology

Distribution

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

James Gould, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, offers an explanation for mating habits, in animals and humans: that every animal is in search of a bargain from the opposite sex and doing its best...

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Shakespeare’s Starling (2019 Radio)

Producer

Zoë Comyns

Radio documentary by Zoë Comyns that explores the references to birds that appear in Shakespeare’s plays and contrasts this with the devastation that ensued following the introduction of Starlings in to...

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Manipulating Dna (1994 Video)

Producer

E J Wood

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the techniques of genetic engineering used to produce new combinations of genetic material not normally found in nature and the incorporation of this new genetic material into a host organism for...

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Evolution by Natural Selection (1997 Video)

Director

Helen Staveley-Taylor

Producer

Helen Staveley-Taylor

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 48 minutes), £25.00

Traces evolution from the Australopithecines to modern man and describes how Darwin collected evidence to support his theory. Examines the theory of natural selection, Lamarck’s alternative theory, kin...

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Stem Cells (2007)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 34 minutes), $109.00

Shows James Thomson’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin where embryonic stem cells were first cultured. Discusses what embryonic stem cells are, how they are cultured, and why they offer such...

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Dna: The Secret of Photo 51 (2007)

Subject

Biology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $19.95

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another...

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Lifestory: A Double Helix (1987 Video)

aka: Life Story

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

Biology; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 107 min., 2007 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the race to discover the structure of DNA from 1951 to Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of the double helix in 1953.

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Company of Ants and Bees, The (1990 Video)

Producer

Christopher La Fontaine

Subject

Biology

Distribution

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

Professor James Gould of Princeton University investigates ant and bee societies, which have existed for more than 50 million years and look destined to last longer than the human race. A beehive is an...

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Locomotion of Snakes (1946 Film)

Producer

James Gray; H W Lissmann

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Grass snakes swimming, gliding on sand, through grass, over a stony surface and through a rigid sinusoidal channel. Concertina movement. Measurement of the forces exerted. The rectilinear progression of the...

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Structure of Cereals and Grasses, The (2 Parts) (1975 Video)

Director

John Macpherson

Producer

James Forbes

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23, 20 min.

The detailed morphology of the cereal or grass plant throughout its life cycle. Part 1 deals with growth from seed to mature vegetable plant; Part 2 covers flower and seed production.

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