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  1. Calcutta Calling (2008)

    Director
    André Hörmann
    Subject
    Business studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 17 minutes), £15.00

    "Business Process Outsourcing" is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and...

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  2. Ou Lecture 2008: The Impact of China on Development (2008)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics

    Professor Raphael Kaplinsky explores the impact on international development of the rise of the Asian drivers in general - and China in particular - and what implications this has for development strategy...

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  3. Simon Schama’s American Future: A History (2008)

    Subject
    Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £25.99

    As the United States prepares for the 2008 election, historian Simon Schama presents a personal view of how America arrived at where it is today, and the challenges it faces for the future. With the US...

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  4. Amazon (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

    In this series, anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry journeys the length and breadth of the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Tracing the giant river from its origins high in the Andes to its...

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  5. Indian Miracle, The (2008)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 49 minutes), $295.00

    The new India has a high-tech, highly-skilled economy growing at an incredible nine per cent a year. Its universities are churning out thousands of highly qualified science and computer graduates working in...

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  6. Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport Network Podcast (2007)

    Subject
    Geography

    Gavin Jackman, Ordnance Survey’s product manager for transport network data, talks to Scott Sinclair about how the roads are represented in mapping data in this Ordnance Survey podcast. He discusses how...

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  7. Black Gold (2007)

    Director
    Nick Francis; Marc Francis
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

    An investigation into the global coffee trade, illustrating how poor farmers in Third World countries are being left penniless as their richer First World counterparts continue to pay them far less than they...

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  8. Chicken Madness (2007)

    Director
    Marcello Faraggi
    Subject
    Development studies; Economics; Geography

    How Europe’s exports harm Africa - a film on globalisation, drawing on the example of exporting surplus European chicken to Cameroon. (29 minutes). in a second programme CHICKEN MADNESS - STUDIO DISCUSSION...

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  9. Japan and China: The Unforgotten War (2006)

    Subject
    Economics; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD

    Just a few sentences in a Japanese history textbook in 2005 sparked the biggest protests China had seen since 1989. The subject of those sentences— the Nanjing Massacre —occurred during World War II, but...

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  10. Bushmen’s Secret (2006)

    Director
    Rehad Desai
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 65 minutes), $225.00

    When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer....

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