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  1. Cracks in the Crust (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones; Alex Seaborne
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates developments in seismology. Japanese scientists claim to be able to predict earthquakes, but on 17 January 195, the Kobe earthquake came without warning and killed 5400 people. Despits the fact...

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  2. Dante Goes to Hell (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines possible contributions of volcanoes to the ozone hole. Follows a robot called Dante as it is sent into Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica, to find out how much ozone-damaging chlorine the...

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  3. Little Monsters (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Edwards
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Reports on trials being carried out a Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and on youth offenders in the north of England, looking into whether food additives cause hyperactivity in children. The results...

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  4. First Americans, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Simon Campbell-Jones
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Until recently, it was accepted that although the rest of the world was populated as early as 40,000 years ago, the first evidence of human activity in the Americas only dated from the end of the Ice Age...

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  5. Breaking in Children (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Edward Goldwyn
    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the case histories of two women who find their children impossible to control. Features the behaviour therapy techniques employed by Roger McAuley, Consultant Child Psychologist at the Royal Belfast...

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  6. Did Darwin Get It Wrong? (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Alec Nisbett
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at recent evolutionary theories that question Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest. Religious fundamentalists continue to offer well-argued objections to Darwin, but now the scientists too are...

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  7. Spend and Prosper (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Christopher La Fontaine
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Profile of John Maynard Keynes, economist and patron of the arts, who died in 1946. Notes some of his policies which were in direct opposition to the monetarist policies of the Thatcher administration. More...

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  8. Darkness Visible (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    The science of x-ray astronomy in which pioneers recall early experiments, evaluate progress made and look forward, with misgivings, to a future in which financial stringency may mean that rockets and...

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  9. Little Boxes (1980 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Patrick Uden
    Subject
    Design
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £195

    Discusses the changes in modern industrial design brought about by microtechnology and the tendency to house all new domestic and commercial electronic equipment in the ubiquitous ‘black box’. Stephen...

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  10. Moving Still (1980 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Haws
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC

    Charts the development of stroboscopic photography and how it can show things which the naked eye would be unable to detect. MIT Professor Harold Edgerton shows how it is possible to recreate ‘living’...

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