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  1. True Cost, The (2015)

    Director
    Andrew Morgan
    Producer
    Michael Ross
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 92 minutes), $12.00

    The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. This film examines the clothing and fashion industres and their impact on the world....

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  2. Management Roles: Planning, Organising, Leading, Controlling (2012)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Experts unravel the different tasks of management - planning, organising, leading and controlling - and the challenges they face in the various departments of large-scale organisations. What are the most...

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  3. Agrofuels: Starving People, Fuelling Greed (2012)

    Director
    Matt Feinstein; Loren Feinstein
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 28 minutes), $125

    An account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. The film explores agrofuels and monocrops, looking at how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial...

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  4. Secret City (2012)

    Director
    Michael Chanan
    Subject
    Economics

    Secret City investigates the City of London, the Corporation that runs it, and its role in the economic crisis. The history of London since its foundation by the Romans is recounted by Maurice Glasman, with...

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  5. Economics of Happiness, The (2011)

    Subject
    Economics; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £16.95

    THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS portrays a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalisation and the consolidation of corporate...

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  6. When China Met Africa (2011)

    Director
    Marc Francis; Nick Francis
    Producer
    Miriana Bojic Walter
    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £14.99

    Marc Francis’ documentary film explores the expanding footprint of China’s rising global power; in particular how the historic meeting of fifty African heads of state in Beijing, affected the lives of...

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  7. Issues in Globalisation: How Fair is Fashion? (2011)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £45.00

    Using the international fashion industry as a case study this resource asks: what is globalisation? Is it an economic or a geographic phenomenon? What are its causes, and who benefits from it? Filmed in...

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  8. Life on the Edge III: Nottingham Lace (2010)

    Subject
    Crafts; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £35.00

    With unemployment rising across Europe, why isn’t there more demand to learn the specialist craft skills that once brought wealth and fame to the industrial heartlands of the UK? Across the developing...

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  9. Killer Bargain, A (2008)

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 57 minutes), 28 euros

    A critical look at the cotton industry in India. Multinational companies are involved in promoting the extensive use of pesticides, many of which are banned in the western world. The bleaching and dyeing...

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  10. Jacques Ranciere and Peter Sloterdijk Debate Aesthetics and Modernity (2008)

    Subject
    Languages; Philosophy

    This podcast provides a chance to hear two leading continental thinkers and public intellectuals debating the aesthetic both as a way of understanding the modern world and as a problematic category within...

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