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Art Schools on the grounds of a former<br />
golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction<br />
of their radical designs began immediately<br />
and the school's first classes soon<br />
followed. Dancers, musicians and artists<br />
from all over the country reveled in the<br />
beauty of the schools, but as the dream of<br />
the Revolution quickly became a reality,<br />
construction was abruptly halted and the<br />
architects and their designs were deemed<br />
irrelevant in the prevailing political climate.<br />
Forty years later the schools are in use,<br />
but remain unfinished and decaying.<br />
Castro has invited the exiled architects<br />
back to finish their unrealized dream.<br />
UNFINISHED SPACES features intimate<br />
footage of Fidel Castro, showing his<br />
devotion to creating a worldwide<br />
showcase for art, and it also documents<br />
the struggle and passion of three<br />
revolutionary artists.<br />
Reviews<br />
� "Truly exceptional...Confirms that the<br />
real power of architecture lies in its<br />
ability to both capture the spirit of a<br />
place, time and people." - Robert<br />
McCarter, practicing architect,<br />
Professor of Architecture, Washington<br />
University<br />
� "An engaging, intimate, and humane<br />
portrait that explores the lives of<br />
little-known designers and opens<br />
broad questions about the<br />
relationship between architecture and<br />
the history of ideas." - Dr. Paul Niell,<br />
Assistant Professor of Art History,<br />
Florida State University<br />
� "Lucidly filmed...A stirring study...<br />
Absorbing." - Todd McCarthy, The<br />
Hollywood Reporter<br />
Awards<br />
� Film Independent Spirit Award<br />
� Best Reportage, Montreal Festival<br />
International du Film sur l'Art<br />
� Documentary Jury Prize, Salem Film<br />
Festival<br />
� Special Jury Prize, San Diego Latino<br />
Film Festival<br />
� Jury Prize, Semana Internacional de<br />
Cine<br />
� Jury Prize, Montreal FIFA Festival<br />
� Jury Prize, Valladolid International<br />
Film Festival<br />
Item no. : HV02790827<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 86 minutes<br />
Audience : Grades 9-12, College,<br />
Adults<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
StdBkNo : 193777239X<br />
Price : USD 295.00<br />
ICT<br />
RESPONSIBLE<br />
RESPONSIBLE<br />
CORPORATIONS? CORPORATIONS? APPLE,<br />
APPLE,<br />
NEWS NEWS CORP CORP & & GOOGLE GOOGLE<br />
GOOGLE<br />
This film looks at three famous <strong>com</strong>panies<br />
in the world of media and technology and<br />
explores the ethics of their approach to<br />
business.<br />
APPLE has amazing products, but they're<br />
made by people in China who work long<br />
hours for small wages. Some workers<br />
have even killed themselves: the<br />
"Foxconn Suicides". Apple now monitors<br />
its suppliers for <strong>com</strong>pliance with its<br />
standards – but is this enough?<br />
NEWS CORP is a global media empire<br />
with famous brands like the Sun and Fox<br />
<strong>New</strong>s. Founder Rupert Murdoch was once<br />
praised for taking on the print unions and<br />
he wielded huge power over society and<br />
politicians. But his papers have been<br />
criticised for promoting racism and<br />
homophobia. Now the hacking scandal<br />
has shaken his empire to the core. Is there<br />
an alternative to big <strong>com</strong>panies controlling<br />
our media?<br />
GOOGLE: Launched in a dorm room by<br />
two students, Google is now a massive<br />
global success story. But has it been TOO<br />
successful? Does it have too much of our<br />
personal information? And how do we<br />
know what they're going to do with it?<br />
Britain's Information Commission Officer<br />
explains his concerns.<br />
Item no. : FM00110262<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 25 minutes<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
Price : USD 260.00<br />
INFLUENCE AND<br />
NEGOTIATION<br />
ACTING ACTING WITH WITH POWER<br />
POWER<br />
With Deborah Gruenfeld<br />
� How you speak has far greater impact<br />
than what you actually say.<br />
� The body language of power, and<br />
how to use it.<br />
� Why it's risky to act more important<br />
than you are.<br />
Working well with others is critical to<br />
professional success, yet many people<br />
struggle with "authority issues" that can<br />
block their progress. Professor Gruenfeld<br />
<strong>com</strong>bines research on the psychology of<br />
power with the acting skills of the theater<br />
to illustrate how our nonverbal behavior<br />
affects how we are perceived in a<br />
hierarchy—far more than the words or<br />
arguments we use. In fact, she notes, our<br />
words account for only 7% of our<br />
argument's impact.<br />
The good news is that we can control how<br />
we are perceived by using our body<br />
language to influence others. From how<br />
we hold ourselves to how we speak, Dr.<br />
Gruenfeld explores the ways to "play high"<br />
when we want to be authoritative, and<br />
"play low" when it's more advantageous to<br />
be approachable. In the end, she notes,<br />
we're judged not on the quality of our<br />
argument, but on how we act and how we<br />
make others feel.<br />
Item no. : KB00300344<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 59 minutes<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
Price : USD 95.00<br />
INNOVATION<br />
INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT STRATEGY<br />
STRATEGY<br />
With Richard Rumelt<br />
� Steve Jobs' plan for Apple in 1997:<br />
hatchet job or strategy?<br />
� Why financial performance goals are<br />
not strategy.<br />
� Creating proximate goals and "riding<br />
the wave" of change.<br />
Bad strategy is long on goals and vision<br />
and short on presenting a coherent set of<br />
actions for actually solving the<br />
fundamental problems facing an<br />
organization. Good strategy, on the other<br />
hand, flows from an honest diagnosis of<br />
your most critical challenge coupled with<br />
an action plan for specific objectives that<br />
your organization can reasonably<br />
ac<strong>com</strong>plish to over<strong>com</strong>e that challenge.<br />
Drawing on the successes of General<br />
Motors in the 1920s, NASA's Apollo<br />
program, Cisco, IKEA, and Nvidia,<br />
Professor Rumelt defines five elements of<br />
good strategies. First, use analytic tools to<br />
develop insight into the nature of your<br />
challenge. Then, define achievable<br />
proximate objectives toward your goal,<br />
recognize and ride the wave of change in<br />
your industry, build a "chain link" barrier to<br />
<strong>com</strong>petition, and finally, expect and<br />
over<strong>com</strong>e entropy and inertia from within.<br />
Item no. : SS02500346<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 61 minutes<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
Price : USD 95.00<br />
IRISH MUSIC /<br />
CULTURE<br />
IRISH IRISH IRISH LIGHTHOUSES: LIGHTHOUSES: TTHE<br />
T HE<br />
FOLKLORE, FOLKLORE, HISTORY HISTORY AN AND AN D<br />
BEAUTY BEAUTY BEAUTY OF OF IRELA IRELAND'S<br />
IRELA IRELA ND'S<br />
COASTAL COASTAL COASTAL BEACONS<br />
BEACONS<br />
In a land whose roots are so entangled<br />
with myths and legends of the past, it is no<br />
surprise that Ireland's lighthouses, located<br />
in some of the most unspoiled and<br />
picturesque places of that beautiful isle,<br />
are surrounded by tales of danger,<br />
heroism, romance, and mystery.<br />
The lighthouses whose stories are told<br />
here include FASTNET in County Cork,<br />
which was called The Teardrop of Ireland<br />
because during the days of emigration for<br />
many it would be their last sight of Ireland;<br />
the MAIDENS, a pair of lighthouses, home<br />
to a Romeo and Juliet style love story; the<br />
SKELLIG ISLANDS, occupied by an<br />
ancient monastery built on the edge of the<br />
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