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Imagining the Pacific (1998 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A collage of opinion and personal experience about the Pacific region, looking at how people view it now and have done so in the past, and structured around the themes of encounters, war, dynamism,...

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Patrolling the American Lake (1998 Video)

aka: American Lake, The

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

With the end of the Cold War there is no longer any clearly identified ‘enemy’ against which the USA can deploy military defences in the Pacific, but the US military presence is still huge, especially in...

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Waves (1989 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Two case studies concerned with waves: 1) describes the classic experiment ‘waves across the Pacific’ in which Walter Munk and colleagues tracked waves across half the globe from Antartica to Alaska; 2)...

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William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain...

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Anote’s Ark (2018)

Director

Matthieu Rytz

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 77 minutes), $295.00

What if your country was swallowed by the sea? The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of the most remote places on the planet, far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first...

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Cretaceous Greenhouse, The: A Surfeit of Carbon (1997 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses climate change, reconstructing the deposition environment in the Cretaceous period to show that the amount of carbonate deposited as ploatform limestone in the shallow seas, together with the...

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S330 Videocassette 1 (1995 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Geology

Distribution

AVAILABLE ONLY AS PART OF COURSE MATERIALS, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

Eight bands for interactive study. 1: Laboratory demonstrations simulate processes occurring within the ocean. 2: Data compiled from long-term infra-red measurements (AVHRR) of surface ocean temperatures...

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Plastic Planet (2011)

Director

Werner Boote

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 99 minutes), $295.00

We live in the Age of Plastic. It’s cheap and practical, and it’s everywhere - even in our blood. But is it a danger to us? This documentary takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan...

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Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson (2012)

Producer

James Leo Meehan; Osa Johnson

Subject

Anthropology; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 mins.), $14.95

As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, Osa and Martin Johnson describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the...

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Coming War on China, The (2016)

Director

John Pilger

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £17.99

John Pilger directs this documentary about a potential nuclear war between the United States of America and China. Pilger makes the case that, though the media are unlikely to tell you so, these two rival...

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