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Big picture (United States. National Archives and Records Administration) Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Crossroads (Films for the Humanities & Sciences) Electronics and electrical engineering;. vol. 1 Geography of conflict Populations Safety videos South-Western introduction to business Southwestern introduction to business The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global IssuesFilter By Series
Big picture (United States. National Archives and Records Administration) Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Crossroads (Films for the Humanities & Sciences) Electronics and electrical engineering;. vol. 1 Geography of conflict Populations Safety videos South-Western introduction to business Southwestern introduction to business The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global IssuesSummary: Free trade is a vital source of economic growth, yet it is frequently endangered by the protectionist demands of special interest groups. Module one of this program uses the Hungarian clothing industry to illustrate the comparative advantages of international trade; module two goes inside the WTO, the only international body dealing with the rules of trade between nations; and module three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Every year this nation's economy struggles to absorb millions of the unemployed, while the rich move to gated communities with private schools and tennis courts. That might sound like America, but it isn't. This Wide Angle documentary studies the new China, once the home of Mao's rigidly imposed social equality-and today, a member of the World Trade Organization containing both staggeringly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Did protectionist tariffs initiate the Great Depression? Will free trade across international borders benefit all countries involved, or create winners and losers? Is there any middle ground in the globalization debate? This program surveys the history and politics of cross-border trade, identifying ways that nations have tried to strengthen, reduce, or prevent it. Outlining the concept known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program-a valuable tool for introducing the concepts of energy security, antiterrorism, and managing change at the global level-identifies the roots of violent conflict by way of specific examples. Through discussion of territorial conflicts (India/Pakistan, Israel/PLO), genocides (Rwanda, Srebrenica), terrorism (al Qaeda, IRA, ETA), and hybridized violence such as that found in Sudan,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program examines types of conflict that can occur at the local level, whether that locality is a single town, a region, or an entire country. After generally addressing armed conflict-different types of war, where they tend to proliferate, and kinds of weaponry used-Conflict on a Local Scale illustrates unarmed conflict through five examples. They include a clash of recreational interests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: With hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide, a net worth in the billions, and a dozen brands, General Motors is at the center of the political debate over globalization, the environment, and the future of the U.S. economy. In this program, GM President and CEO Rick Wagoner talks with BBC Chief Washington Correspondent Matt Frei. Topics under discussion include America's unending love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Every year, at least two million people are packed in shipping containers, pulled through sewage tunnels, secreted in car chassis, and ferried across frigid waters. Among this human cargo, an alarming number end up as prostitutes, thieves, or sweatshop laborers. This Wide Angle documentary explores the worldwide boom in illicit migration and human trafficking, recording the stories of those who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Each year, more than one million people try to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, contending with dangerous forces that prey on their hopes and exploit their gullibility. This program exposes the most painful, disturbing, and hidden dimension of illegal immigration: the growing black market trade in human beings. Shedding light on the poverty that causes so many to risk everything by leaving their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The modern city is a complex maze of choices and decisions. This program describes the brain's empirical approach to finding sense amid confusion. Subconscious methods of information gathering, including visual scanning to find goods in a supermarket and direction finding while traversing an urban environment, are analyzed. In addition, the natural human ability to learn by trial and error is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The consequences of armed conflict are complex and long-lasting. Using Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan as points of departure, this program examines some of the economic, environmental, and social impacts of conflicts at the national and international levels. Topics include the pernicious phenomenon of child soldiers; the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons; thorny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Filmed in a wide range of suburban and metropolitan areas around the United States, this program presents a dynamic and thought-provoking exploration of American suburbia, including its genesis and history, its dramatic political and social evolution, and its developmental challenges. Viewers are guided through specific issues facing the nation’s suburban landscape, including problems in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: When people decide whether or not to follow the crowd, what happens inside their brains? This ABC News program explores that question, highlighting neurological research that helps explain conformity and sheds light on the complex relationship between group and individual behavior. Placing test subjects in candid-camera style settings, the program illustrates how social pressures can alter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Diversity from immigration keeps cities alive, former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and other leaders assert in this program; opposing views are also presented, thus summarizing America's immigration debate with mixed evaluations of its capacity for change. Using commentary from several experts-including Michael Teitelbaum, vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and Margie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This two-hour Wide Angle special goes deep inside the global problem of human trafficking. Every year, at least two million people are packed in shipping containers, pulled through sewage tunnels, secreted in car chassis, and ferried across frigid waters. Among this human cargo, an alarming number end up as prostitutes, thieves, or sweatshop laborers. This documentary explores the worldwide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Europe's wealth represents a golden opportunity for those who smuggle cheap, easily exploited workers across international borders. But how does the loathsome mechanism of human trafficking actually occur, and what are EU authorities doing to fight it? This program investigates by recording the experiences of human trafficking victims and evaluating the work of the EU government in the battle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Like many economically developed countries the U. K. is home to a rapidly growing number of people over the age of 50. What are the social changes behind this trend, and what are its implications? The issues surrounding an aging population are examined in this program, using East Devon in the U. K. as a case study. The video addresses the strain on health care, special housing, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, narrated by news analyst Edward R. Murrow, focuses on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, of which the United States is a founding member. This alliance was created in response to the two World Wars and the Korean War, which showed that when one free nation anywhere is threatened by aggression, the safety of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Since its founding in April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has well proved its power for peace. Never before in history have Europe's rival nations formed such a working alliance. This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series presents a pictorial report of the NATO maneuvers of 1954, including Exercise Medflex Able, Exercise Keystone, and Exercise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Adventure travel has become one of the most popular vacation options. GAP Adventures, which operates tours in Central and South America, offers challenging treks mixed with environmentalism, a good-natured philosophy reflected in the familial management style of the company. This program looks at what happens when success, growth, and competition force president and CEO Bruce Poon Tip to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MALSummary: The relationship between supervisors and support staff members can often run off the smooth road of productivity. The major reason for problems between supervisors and staff is a lack of effective, open communication. This program is a dramatization of one employee's problems with his supervisor. The information he receives from the company's personnel manager gets him on track with how to cope...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Video version. Viewers meet two young managers who help workers with appropriate responses to feedback in different work situations. Whether feedback is true, unclear, or downright false, we discover how to respond in a way that enables us to develop confidence, separate our reactions from our feelings, and learn from the situation. Using live-action video, the CD-ROM program guides the user...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Chemical irritants can cause a debilitating sensitivity or even a chemical injury. This program examines the all-too-common threat of chemical exposure-often from products and materials found in the average home or office building. Showing how contaminants and irritants can travel through heating and air conditioning ducts, the program highlights a case study in which a woman developed rashes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Those who work with electricity encounter many hazards, including electric shock and electrical fires. This video details safety procedures for these hazards as well as protection of electrical instruments and solid-state devices. An excellent overview for those who work with electricity and as a general safety video for everyone.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005