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  1. Exodus (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Rhodes
    Subject
    Environmental science; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the progress of the world’s first Environmental Impact Assessment of the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where the second largest city appeared out of nothing as half a million Rwandan refugees set up...

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  2. Farewell Fantastic Venus (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Astronomy; Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1994 the space probe Magellan burned up after a decade in orbit around Venus. It produced extraordinary images of the planet’s surface but also revealed a mass of geological puzzles that threaten to...

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  3. Foetal Attraction (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Teresa Hunt
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates a radical new theory on pregnancy and its complications, advanced by David Haig, and Australian biology, suggesting that the father’s genes are responsible for many of the illnesses and...

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  4. Human Laboratory, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates research carried out on women in Third World coutries using the implanted contraceptive Norplant. Presents testimony from women in the slums and villages of Bangladesh and Haiti, examines the...

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  5. Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Tim Haines
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses the thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun that are on a potential collision course ith earth. A warning of a possible disaster was given when a huge comet the size of Australia smashed into...

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  6. I-Bomb, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Claims that the idea of information as power is becoming a political reality: knowledge has become the weaponry of the future. Addresses the link between information technology and military power, using as...

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  7. Icon Earth (1995 Video)

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

    For 20 years the image of the earth floating in space has been adopted by environmentalists to suggest the planet’s wholeness and vulnerability, as a challenge to industrialism and consumerism. But the...

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  8. Liar (1995 Video)

    Director
    Greg Lanning
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the phenomenon of lying and looks at the modern computer-based polygraph, or lie detector, which is claimed to have a 98% accuracy rate and may soon be used in law courts world-wide. But some...

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  9. Miracle for Cancer?, A (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Mosley
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Stories of people whose cancers have disappeared without treatment and the doctors who think they know why. Many patients could perhaps benefit from a new treatment of the disease, based on the premise that...

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  10. Nanotopia (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Steve Davis
    Subject
    Chemistry; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2007 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at nanotechnology - atomic-scale engineering capable of rebuilding the world, atom by atom, in any form we wish. Notes advances in nano-engineering, interviews visionaries such as Eric Drexler who plan...

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