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  1. Pantanal: Lifewaters (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    The river Plate Basin, South America’s second most important river system after the Amazon, is the site of a struggle between governments and development banks on one side and environmentalists and local...

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  2. Liliane Lijn (2005)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £13.99

    Science and Surrealism, ancient myths, Buddhism and feminism are among the frameworks of ideas important to Liliane Lijn’s art. In Paris at the end of the 1950s, in Greece and New York, and in England...

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  3. Solar Sinter (2011)

    Subject
    Energy; Technology

    In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In...

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  4. Challenge, The: The Riddle of the Tay Bridge Disaster (2002)

    Subject
    Design; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 29 minutes), £34.99

    One of Britain’s most terrible railway disasters was the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when everyone on board a passenger train was killed when the central section of the bridge toppled into the Firth of Tay....

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  5. Learning Through Interactive Video (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Jeremy Cooper
    Subject
    Education; Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at three examples of videodiscs used in training: the LGTB disc WHO DO YOU THINK YOU’RE TALKING TO?, used by London Transport to train bus drivers in customer relations; the BBC’s DOMESDAY DISC...

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  6. Powder Diffraction (5 Parts) (1988 Video)

    Director
    Colin Grimshaw
    Producer
    Jenny Poland; Stephen E Tarling
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min.

    Powder diffraction is an extremely versatile technique which can be applied to many types of polycrystalline material - examples are cosmetic, pharmaceutical, refractory, cement, mineral, pigment and...

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  7. Digital Cemeteries (2007)

    Director
    Yorgos Avgeropoulos
    Subject
    Environmental science; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), 11.04 Euros

    Documentary about the environmental impact of the huge quantity of waste generated by old and obsolete computer hardware and peripherals. Much of the west’s electronic waste ends up illegally in China. In...

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  8. Energy from Waste (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Considers wither there is a cost-effective and environmentally sound way of dealing with domestic and industrial waste. Landfill sites are commonly used in the UK, but in Düsseldorf, Germany, waste is being...

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  9. Pearls of Water

    Subject
    Chemistry; Education

    This short film illustrates the effects of gravitational acceleration. The demonstration separates the horizontal and vertical motion of a jet of water as it moves through the air. As the horizontal motion...

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  10. Searching Scientific Literature (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Clarke
    Subject
    Librarianship
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 29 min.

    Introduces new postgraduate science students to the facilities and resources of local and national libraries and databases. A scientific literature search should give a comprehensive survey of the work...

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