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  1. Sensory Structures (2017)

    Subject
    Biology; Natural history

    Podcast. Professor Kenneth Catania, of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, discusses some of the ways in which some vertebrates sense their environment, beyond the five senses of touch, taste,...

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  2. Hadza, The: Last of the First (2015)

    Director
    Bill Benenson
    Producer
    Bill Benenson
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £40.00

    One of the last true hunter-gatherer tribes, the East African Hadza are fighting to maintain their sustainable lifestyle. They have lived on their land near the Rift Valley in Tanzania for over 50,000 years....

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  3. Wonders of Life (2013)

    Producer
    Gideon Bradshaw; Michael Lachmann; Paul Olding; Stephen Cooter
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 293 minutes), £19.99

    This series reveals how, 3.7 billion years ago, a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the universe - life. Light, gravity, time, matter and energy are the...

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  4. Galapagos with David Attenborough (2013)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

    More than 150 years after Charles Darwin came up with his theory of evolution, David Attenborough explains how life on the volcanic islands has continued to evolve in isolation.

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  5. David Attenborough’s Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates (2013)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £17.99

    Using the latest scientific knowledge and research into fossils, David Attenborough investigates how animals have evolved from a small number of ancient life forms and in what ways modern human beings...

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  6. Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)

    Subject
    Religious studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this...

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  7. Prehistoric Autopsy (2012)

    Producer
    Nathalie Humphrey
    Subject
    Archaeology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Using cutting-edge technology and the specialised knowledge of world-class experts, this original series attempts a science and television first. Gathering all the disparate, fragmentary evidence of three of...

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  8. Origins of Us (2012)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 50 minutes), £195.00 each or £585.00 series (BA) £13.27 (2E)

    Three-part documentary series in which Dr Alice Roberts reveals how the human body tells the story of our evolution. The way we look, think and behave is a product of a six-million-year struggle for survival...

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  9. Typeface (2011)

    Subject
    Crafts; Design; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in rural Two Rivers, Wisconsin, receives very few visitors except for one weekend a month when carloads of artisans arrive to attend printmaking workshops led by, and filled...

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  10. What we Learned from 5 Million Books (2011)

    Subject
    Social Studies; Technology

    The research in this 14-minute video was made possible by Google’s book digitization efforts. Researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden show in a light-hearted way that reading isn’t the...

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