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Art Deco Icons (2013)

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £9.99

In this series architectural historian David Heathcote checks into Claridges Hotel in London’s Mayfair, explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James, spends the weekend at Casa del Rio and...

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Local Heroes (1999 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at four British businesses - Courts, Tullis Russell, Rio Tinto and Northumbrian - which operate around the world and rely on local communities for their workforces. Demonstrates their impact on these...

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Sugar Mill In Venezuela

Date released

Jun 1974

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

66

NoS ID

324901

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis- A British built sugar plant at Rio Yaracuy, Venezuela.

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Turbulent Landscapes: Chico Buarque’s Brazil (1992 Video)

Director

Alex Anderson

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.

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Future with AIDS, A (1995 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Medical sciences

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the very different cultural attitudes to sexuality in India, Brazil and Zambia, and explores appropriate approaches to education and prevention of AIDS. Focuses on innovative outreach projects aimed...

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12 Days to Save the World (1993 Video)

Director

Frank Stapleton

Producer

Catherine Tiernan

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Economist Marcus Arruda analyses the UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Cuban president Fidel Castro warned that man is in danger of disappearing because of the fast and progressive...

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Nature of Impacts and Their Impacts on Nature, The (1997 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

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

Examines the evidence for and the effects of extraterrestrial impacts on the earth’s surface. Asks if scientists really know whether a crater on earth was produced as a result of impact with a rock from...

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Green Energy (1998 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £24.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

Reviews some of the sustainable energy projects and plans that have emerged in and around the area covered by the Milton Keynes-based South Midlands Renewable Energy Advice Centre, following on from the...

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Follow the Yellow Cake Road (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Michael Ryan

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Britain is importing uranium, or yellow cake, from Namibia. This is forbidden by the United Nations and appears to support the illegal occupation of Namibia by South Africa. Anthony Wedgwood Benn claimed...

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Bus 174 (2004)

aka: Ônibus 174

Subject

Psychology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £19.99

A documentary recounting the events of 12 June 2002 in Rio De Janeiro when several people fell victim to the hijacking of a bus. Unable to determine the motives of the young hijhacker, the authorities stood...

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