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Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. UNFINISHED SPACES features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists. Reviews � "Truly exceptional...Confirms that the real power of architecture lies in its ability to both capture the spirit of a place, time and people." - Robert McCarter, practicing architect, Professor of Architecture, Washington University � "An engaging, intimate, and humane portrait that explores the lives of little-known designers and opens broad questions about the relationship between architecture and the history of ideas." - Dr. Paul Niell, Assistant Professor of Art History, Florida State University � "Lucidly filmed...A stirring study... Absorbing." - Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter Awards � Film Independent Spirit Award � Best Reportage, Montreal Festival International du Film sur l'Art � Documentary Jury Prize, Salem Film Festival � Special Jury Prize, San Diego Latino Film Festival � Jury Prize, Semana Internacional de Cine � Jury Prize, Montreal FIFA Festival � Jury Prize, Valladolid International Film Festival Item no. : HV02790827 Format : DVD Duration : 86 minutes Audience : Grades 9-12, College, Adults Copyright : 2012 StdBkNo : 193777239X Price : USD 295.00 ICT RESPONSIBLE RESPONSIBLE CORPORATIONS? CORPORATIONS? APPLE, APPLE, NEWS NEWS CORP CORP & & GOOGLE GOOGLE GOOGLE This film looks at three famous companies in the world of media and technology and explores the ethics of their approach to business. APPLE has amazing products, but they're made by people in China who work long hours for small wages. Some workers have even killed themselves: the "Foxconn Suicides". Apple now monitors its suppliers for compliance with its standards – but is this enough? NEWS CORP is a global media empire with famous brands like the Sun and Fox News. Founder Rupert Murdoch was once praised for taking on the print unions and he wielded huge power over society and politicians. But his papers have been criticised for promoting racism and homophobia. Now the hacking scandal has shaken his empire to the core. Is there an alternative to big companies controlling our media? GOOGLE: Launched in a dorm room by two students, Google is now a massive global success story. But has it been TOO successful? Does it have too much of our personal information? And how do we know what they're going to do with it? Britain's Information Commission Officer explains his concerns. Item no. : FM00110262 Format : DVD Duration : 25 minutes Copyright : 2012 Price : USD 260.00 INFLUENCE AND NEGOTIATION ACTING ACTING WITH WITH POWER POWER With Deborah Gruenfeld � How you speak has far greater impact than what you actually say. � The body language of power, and how to use it. � Why it's risky to act more important than you are. Working well with others is critical to professional success, yet many people struggle with "authority issues" that can block their progress. Professor Gruenfeld combines research on the psychology of power with the acting skills of the theater to illustrate how our nonverbal behavior affects how we are perceived in a hierarchy—far more than the words or arguments we use. In fact, she notes, our words account for only 7% of our argument's impact. The good news is that we can control how we are perceived by using our body language to influence others. From how we hold ourselves to how we speak, Dr. Gruenfeld explores the ways to "play high" when we want to be authoritative, and "play low" when it's more advantageous to be approachable. In the end, she notes, we're judged not on the quality of our argument, but on how we act and how we make others feel. Item no. : KB00300344 Format : DVD Duration : 59 minutes Copyright : 2012 Price : USD 95.00 INNOVATION INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT STRATEGY STRATEGY With Richard Rumelt � Steve Jobs' plan for Apple in 1997: hatchet job or strategy? � Why financial performance goals are not strategy. � Creating proximate goals and "riding the wave" of change. Bad strategy is long on goals and vision and short on presenting a coherent set of actions for actually solving the fundamental problems facing an organization. Good strategy, on the other hand, flows from an honest diagnosis of your most critical challenge coupled with an action plan for specific objectives that your organization can reasonably accomplish to overcome that challenge. Drawing on the successes of General Motors in the 1920s, NASA's Apollo program, Cisco, IKEA, and Nvidia, Professor Rumelt defines five elements of good strategies. First, use analytic tools to develop insight into the nature of your challenge. Then, define achievable proximate objectives toward your goal, recognize and ride the wave of change in your industry, build a "chain link" barrier to competition, and finally, expect and overcome entropy and inertia from within. Item no. : SS02500346 Format : DVD Duration : 61 minutes Copyright : 2012 Price : USD 95.00 IRISH MUSIC / CULTURE IRISH IRISH IRISH LIGHTHOUSES: LIGHTHOUSES: TTHE T HE FOLKLORE, FOLKLORE, HISTORY HISTORY AN AND AN D BEAUTY BEAUTY BEAUTY OF OF IRELA IRELAND'S IRELA IRELA ND'S COASTAL COASTAL COASTAL BEACONS BEACONS In a land whose roots are so entangled with myths and legends of the past, it is no surprise that Ireland's lighthouses, located in some of the most unspoiled and picturesque places of that beautiful isle, are surrounded by tales of danger, heroism, romance, and mystery. The lighthouses whose stories are told here include FASTNET in County Cork, which was called The Teardrop of Ireland because during the days of emigration for many it would be their last sight of Ireland; the MAIDENS, a pair of lighthouses, home to a Romeo and Juliet style love story; the SKELLIG ISLANDS, occupied by an ancient monastery built on the edge of the ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 67
cliffs high above the treacherous sea. IRISH LIGHTHOUSES presents the terrible conditions, unrelenting storms, daring keepers, mythology and superstitions surrounding these lonely bastions. Item no. : HM00770258 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 96 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769791449 Price : USD 50.00 JOURNALISM BATTLE BATTLE FOR FOR THE THE ARAB ARAB VIEWER, VIEWER, THE THE By Nordin Lasfar In early 2011, people around the world tuned into Al Jazeera to watch the Egyptian revolution in real time. Meanwhile, rival broadcaster Al Arabiya was also offering near continuous coverage, with cameras on a balcony overlooking the 6th October Bridge, where protesters and police clashed. How was the content of those broadcasts - and the networks' subsequent coverage - influenced by their political allegiances? Featuring interviews with current and former journalists from both networks, and analysis from independent pundits, The Battle for the Arab Viewer highlights the philosophical differences between the two pan-Arab networks. Al Jazeera was created by the Emir of Qatar after he deposed his father in a coup. The station typically champions the poor and social movements - such as the Muslim Brotherhood - that are hostile to the Saudi regime. The station has grown highly influential. In the film, a passerby stops Al Jazeera's chief Cairo correspondent on the street to thank him and the government of Qatar for supporting the anti-Mubarak forces, saying the network is "90%" responsible for the revolution. With Al Jazeera supporting elements hostile to Saudi Arabia, the Saudis set up their own network as a counterpoint: the more conservative Al Arabiya, owned by a close friend of the royal family. While The Battle for the Arab Viewer offers insight and analysis, it also shows how the battle between the two networks plays out on the ground in Cairo. We go behind the scenes with Al Arabiya journalist Randa Abul Azm and Al Jazeera's Abdelfattah Fayed as they follow stories, break news, and cover events such as Hosni Mubarak's trial. (Azm is allowed into the courtroom, but Fayed is not.) Azm and Fayed each mirror their networks' respective demographics. Al Arabiya appeals to well-off, middle-class viewers who value security and stability. Enter Amz, who lives in a building built by her engineer father, on a street named for her grandfather. Fayed, representing the network that purports to stand for the downtrodden, shows us a photo of his father, who worked in agriculture. Both deny that their work is influenced by the political agendas of their networks' owners. But former employees of both networks tell a different story. Particularly striking is the case of Hafez al Mirazi, who was taken off Al Arabiya's airwaves after promising to put Saudi Arabia under the microscope on his show. Media bias is nothing new - as Mirazi says, viewers of Fox News and MSNBC each know what they are going to get. What is different in the Arab world is that the networks are directly owned by states. He says, "They keep shifting according to the countries they are sponsored by, and that affects the stories their citizens get on a daily basis." Ultimately, the problem may resolve itself. As democracy spreads through the region, will truly independent media follow? Item no. : VL03400832 Format : DVD (Color) Duration : 48 minutes Copyright : 2011 Price : USD 375.00 OUR OUR OUR NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER Directed by Eline Flipse After journalist Andrey Schkolni leaves his job at The Leninist, the state-supported – and state-censored – regional paper in Uljanovsk, Russia, he and his wife, Marina, decide to start their own newspaper. The couple takes on local apathy, isolationism, criticism, and ridicule; they are determined to serve the local population, located over 550 miles from Moscow in a largely rural, often snowbound area. Week after week, everything from writing and researching the articles to designing the layout takes place in their small home. They even work to distribute the paper – which they name Our Newspaper – with their tiny family car. Slowly Andrey's doggedly reported local news and Marina's horoscopes and home remedies begin to catch on. When Our Newspaper's circulation and size climbs to 7,000 weekly readers and eight pages, it begins to pose real competition to the four-page Leninist. Finally, the isolated population can read their own news: instead of "articles" about far-off cities, golden harvests, and unrealizable state projects, Our Newspaper reports on an impoverished village without running water for three months and profiles a courageous local doctor who makes house calls her bicycle despite freezing temperatures. Andrey and Marina's light-hearted local news gathering quickly gathers gravity, however … until it eventually puts its creators in danger. The issues facing the once prosperous but now economically depressed region are very serious. Despite his best efforts to protect himself and his wife, Andrey's reporting begins to implicate corrupt local corporations and political officials and raise thorny questions of journalistic and business ethics. Juxtaposing small, personal stories against the background of contemporary Russian history, OUR NEWSPAPER creates a portrait of personal integrity and bravery under increasingly desperate circumstances. The award-winning Dutch director Eline Flipse (Broken Silence, Albanian Stories) paints subtle portraits of her film's powerful personalities with warmth, humor and complexity that will stay with you long after the film ends; it is an unforgettable illustration of modern Russia and the vital role of journalism in an emerging democracy. Reviews � "Highly Recommended…In addition to discussing the challenges of "Our Newspaper," the documentary conveys the isolation and remoteness of the place—frozen both metaphorically in Soviet time and literally in Russia's far north. It is a window into Russian provincial life in the 21st century—such a contrast to the wealthy cosmopolitan centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg." - Educational Media Reviews Online � "Constructing a road through a rural village or a new bike for a district nurse could save lives, Flipse knows how to evoke these scenes with stunning images." - Pieter Waterdrinker, De Telegraaf � "The editing and score wonderfully compliment the overarchring theme of storytelling." - Canculture Award �� Winner, Best Mid-length Documentary, 2011 HotDocs Item no. : RA03400841 Format : DVD (Color) Duration : 58 minutes Copyright : 2011 Price : USD 348.00 KEYSTONE/REGIO NAL ISSUES ISSUES PA PA GUBERNATORIAL GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE DEBATE DEBATE Gubernatorial Debate with Post-Debate Analysis Held at Eisenhower Auditorium Item no. : VM07860214 Format : DVD Duration : 90 minutes Price : USD 304.00 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 68
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