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  1. Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews (2002)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 180 minutes), $49.93 (set)

    Buckminster Fuller described himself as a "living verb." Holder of 48 honorary doctorate degrees, born in the 1890s, he was a philosopher and engineer whose experience and global view of humanity and science...

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  2. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking out Loud (1996)

    Subject
    Engineering; Philosophy; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 94 minutes), $34.99

    A true Renaissance Man, Buckminster Fuller, best remembered as the architect and creator of the geodesic dome, made an equally dramatic mark as an engineer, inventor, poet, visionary, philosopher and...

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  3. David Bohm (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION IN UK, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

    David Bohm, quantum physicist and philosopher of science, brought together a radical view of physics, a deeply spiritual understanding and a prfound humanity. In his ground-breaking theory of wholeness and...

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  4. Power of Myth, The (1988)

    Director
    Bill Moyers
    Producer
    Catherine Tatge
    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 342 minutes), £19.99

    During the last two years of Joseph Campbell’s life journalist Bill Moyers interviewed him at filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City....

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  5. World of Buckminster Fuller, The (1971)

    Director
    Robert Snyder
    Subject
    Environmental science; Philosophy; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 80 minutes), £16.99

    Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive...

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  6. Bertrand Russell Discusses Philosophy (1960)

    Subject
    Philosophy

    In an interview with Woodrow Wyatt, Lord Russell envisions an organised and static world. He also points out humanity’s capability, through education and self-knowledge, to abolish war, poverty and...

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  7. Scientific Enquiry: Big Questions - The Nature of Scientific Enquiry

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 100 minutes), £19.00

    Five 20-minute programmes on the life, work and struggles of scientists who have made great intellectual leaps: Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Mendeleev, and Hubble. The programmes ask how they did it, what they...

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  8. Gravity - History of Idea - Early Geocentric to Modern Heliocentric Models

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Follows the path of the ancient Greeks, Renaissance Europeans and early British in their search for an understanding of the properties of the universe. From the simple versions of Geocentric models to the...

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  9. Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture and Law

    Subject
    Biology

    Video recordings of a series of 34 lectures given at UCLA by Dr Bob Goldberg, a plant molecular biologist who specialises in the area of plant gene expression. The lectures examine the historical and...

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  10. Organic Chemistry Lecture Series

    Subject
    Chemistry

    Video recordings of a series of 37 lectures given by J Michael McBride at Yale University. They comprise the first semester of a two-semester introductory course focusing on current theories of structure and...

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