Summary: More than a decade after NAFTA went into effect, many Mexicans are worse off than before. What went wrong, and why? Focusing on the clothing industry, this program goes straight to the experts south of the border-a shop owner, a factory manager, employees under constant threat of layoff, and an economics professor-to find out. A general inability to compete with Chinese manufacturing is blamed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The difference between making a sale and making a profitable sale means more than just an extra zero or two on the bottom line. This program narrated by Bob Kimball-author of the American Marketing Association's popular AMA Handbook for Successful Selling and professor of marketing at the University of West Florida-emphasizes the importance of negotiating win-win sales. Key discussion points...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Ury, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.5 URYFisher, Roger
Summary: "Since it was first published in 1981 Getting to Yes has become a central book in the Business Canon: the key text on the psychology of negotiation. Its message of "principled negotiations"--finding acceptable compromise by determining which needs are fixed and which are flexible for negotiating parties--has influenced generations of businesspeople, lawyers, educators and anyone who has sought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Voss, Chris
Summary: "A negotiation guide from a former FBI Hostage Negotiator"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program, ABC News correspondent Judy Muller reports on the quality of life along the international border between El Paso and Juarez since the implementation of NAFTA. Apart from business opportunities for Americans, employment for Mexicans, and low-priced goods for both the U.S. and Mexico, the downside of NAFTA is becoming all too apparent: worsening living conditions in Juarez and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Atwood, Margaret
Summary: What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2002
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Contents: Middle-schoolers : hormonal, disorganized, and defiant -- The overwhelmed "slacker" -- How to break the nagging cycle and turn responsibility over to your middle schooler -- Peer pressure and changing values -- Dealing with defiance -- The computer "addiction" -- Encouraging self-esteem and independence -- The push for independence -- Talking about sex, drugs and alcohol -- Sibling rivalry : a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: I want doctors! I'm gonna kill doctors! I want white coats! In 1993, gunman Damacio Torres shot up the Los Angeles County-USC Healthcare emergency room and took two hostages. Using the Torres case as a springboard, this program explains the tricky business of hostage negotiation while seeking to understand the mentality of hostage-taking. Psychologist Kris Mohandie, SWAT team supervisor Lt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Sheehan, Sean
Summary: "A book for middle and high school students about the history and culture of the island nation of Malta."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945.8 SHEMargulies, Sam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 MARAchatz, Wynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gabriel Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.12 ACHSummary: While the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement are still being argued, the perils of one of the treaty's most powerful secrets are beginning to emerge. Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy is the first television investigation of what has been called an "end run around the Constitution." Corporate investors are using the obscure NAFTA provision to challenge laws designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005