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For Additions to This Section Please See the Media Resources Desk. for Availability Check the Library Catalog UNLV LIBRARY Adaptation and Innovation: Japanese MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG Technology. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Films for the Humanities Summer 2011 Explores the roles of adaptation and innovation in Japanese industry, showing (The) Abilene Paradox. how the Japanese have learned from the CRM Films (19??) West and overtaken their teachers. Explains mismanaged agreement Assesses the future of Japanese industrial within groups --- where a condition of poor leadership. communication causes counter-productive Video Cassette (30 min.) decisions. Not all group members are in T27 J3 A33 agreement, but go along with decisions because they think the rest of the group Affirming the Future. does agree. Helps you identify the National Audiovisual Center (1988) phenomenon and gives strategies for coping Discusses the history of affirmative with it. action programs since the early 1960s. Video Cassette (28 min.) Shows two companies which have made Guide (10 p.) affirmative action part of their corporate HD 30.23 A25 policy. Interviews corporate executives and government officials who have benefited Achieving Excellence. from affirmative action. Career Track (1988) Video Cassette (26 min.) Addresses the key elements of HF 5549.5 A34 A53 excellence-oriented management. Explains how to put the emphasis on customers, AFSA Focus Group. inspire a commitment to quality among your American Financial Services (1986) people, handle mistakes the right way, get Discussion group expresses opinions instant action on your ideas, give about pros and cons of consumer finance performance feedback, and many more companies. Differences between finance techniques. companies and banks are discussed from Video Cassette (1 hr. 31 min.) consumer's point of view. Group HD 31 H399 participants explain how and why they select finance companies. Achieving World-Class Manufacturing Video Cassette (18 min.) Through CIM. HG 3756 U6 A37 (1992) One of the first efforts of firms and Against All Odds – Inside Statistics. universities in Mexico and the U.S. to form a The Annenberg/CPB Collection (1989) viable business. Kenworth of Mexico, a See Mathematics for titles and call Mexican truck company, manufactures and numbers to 13 Video Cassettes sells trucks which meet international standards. Discusses how NAFTA will Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources. affect this company. Cambridge Educational Video Cassette (47 min.) (2006) T 57.6 A24 Presents information on the following occupations in areas of agriculture, food industries, and natural resources: agriculture and food scientist, nursery and greenhouse manager, tree surgeon, and veterinarian. 1 videodisc (21 min.) S494.5.A4 A37 2006 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. BUSINESS/ECONOMICS 2 Alternative Agriculture: Food for Life. America: What Went Wrong? Films for the Humanities & Sciences Films for the Humanities (1994) (2005) Examines the forces that have Asserts that ecological, organic and contributed to the dismantling of the ethical farming is a viable alternative to American economy. Based on the research industrial agriculture. of Donald Barlett and James Steele, who 1 videodisc (46 min.) interviewed workers in nearly 50 cities in 16 HD1761 .A64 2005 states and Mexico, government officials and corporate managers. Alternatives to Globalization. Video Cassette (1 hr. 48 min.) Radio Free Maine (1996) HC 106.8 A424 Discusses topics such as theglobalization of the economy, American/Japanese Culture Clash. unemployment caused by the dollar flight to PBS (1991) foreign countries, divestiture of stock in Begins with an examination of the companies doing business in South Africa, racial stereotypes Americans have created the World Bank, and the International as they struggle to understand a different Monetary Fund. culture. Digs into Japanese perceptions of Video Cassette (1 hr. 58 min.) Americans. Considers the obstacles HF 1359 A47 Americans face while working for Japanese companies. Summarizes America's uneasy Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined. alliance with Japan. Icarus Films (2003) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Documentary on the life and work of E 183.8 J3 A67 Amartya Sen, the first South Asian to win the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. The film American Portrait. is centered around a conversation between SRI International (1983) Sen and economist Kaushik Basu, a student Looks at the 9 lifestyle categories of of Sen, and is interspersed with interviews of Americans from the "survivors" to the "I-am- other experts as well as footage of places me," and their attitudes towards life, work, connected with Sen's life. and leisure. 1 videodisc (56 min.) Video Cassette (25 min.) HB126.I4 S46 2003 HM 136 A43 America Fights Back. RMI (1991) Profiles the success of U.S. based industry in regaining a competitive edge in the international market place. Pt. 1 looks at the early days of mass production and scientific management. Pt. 2 focuses on 3 industrial plants and company efforts to find solutions to problems between management and unskilled workers. Video Cassette (1 hr.) HD 70 U6 A44 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. BUSINESS/ECONOMICS 3 American Society of Appraisers. (1972) American Porn. 1. The Professional Appraiser Looks at PBS Home Video (2002) Arbitration "Frontline reports on the forces 2. Valuation of Closely-Held Capital behind the recent explosion of sexually Stock explicit material available in American 3. Cost Manuals and Cost Data society and the pending political battle that 4. The Estate Appraiser: Fine Art, may engulf the multi-billion dollar Personal Property; Important Role in pornography industry."--Container 1 Community videocassette (22 min.) 5. The Appraisal of Fine Arts and 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Residential Contents HQ471 .A44 2002 6. Responsibilities of a Collector: All About Collecting and the Adult Anatomy of a Corporate Takeover. Learner PBS (1989) 7. Appraisal of Contemporary Art At the core of the corporate takeover 8. Experiences on the Distaff Side of issue are serious ethical questions of ASA responsibility to the diverse groups involved 9. Appraising Income Properties for in the process: shareholders, directors, Mortgage Loans investors, employees, consumers, and the 10. Appraising Intangibles public. 11. Licensing/Certification of Video Cassette (1 hr.) Appraisers: Pro Bono Publico (Part HD 2746.5 A52 2 12. The Appraisal of Machinery and Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel. Equipment A & E Home Video (1997) 13. Forced Sale and Liquidation Values Expert interviews, period photos and of Machinery and Equipment rare footage chronicle the evolution of steel 14. Mobile Home Park Appraisals into the pre-eminent American industry. 15. The Appraisal of Motel Furniture, Carnegie built an empire so large that when Fixtures, Machinery and Equipment he sold out to J.P. Morgan it created the first 16. The Profession of Appraising billion-dollar corporation in history. Industrial 17. The American Society of Appraisers historians detail the technological 18. Market Approach to Basic Rural developments that propelled steel into the Appraisal future, and provided the raw material that 18 Cassettes powered the nation's economy. HF 5681 V3 A63 1-18 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) HD9520.C3 A52 1997 America's New Economic Geography. Audio-Stats Educational Services (1987) (The) Appraisal of Golf Courses and The U.S. Competitive Future: Country Clubs. Forecasting the Action -- Regional Shifts Horizon Television Inc. (1992) Revisited -- The Winners and Losers: Cities Describes different types of golf and Sectors -- The Bottom Line. courses, their irrigation and maintenance 7 Cassettes systems, furniture, fixtures and equipment, HC 106.8 N48 operation of golf carts and landscaping considerations. Demographic and market factors are analyzed. Video Cassette (43 min.) HD 1387 A65 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. BUSINESS/ECONOMICS 4 (The) Appraisal of Shopping Centers. Assertiveness for Career and Personal Appraisal Institute (1992) Success. Describes four types of shopping Amacom (1977) centers and factors considered by 12 parts: You and assertiveness; appraisers, developers, and retailers before Assertion on the job; Assertion assessment- construction. Topics include neighborhood -where you stand; You can learn to act with trends, visibility, architectural design, overall assertion; Assertion techniques; Throw out profit forecasting. your hang-ups; Your personal assertion Video Cassette (40 min.) building program, How you may be avoiding HF 5430 A66 assertion--Games you may play and intellectual misapprehensions; Guidelines (The) Art and Science of Shoveling. you can live up to; Pitfalls; Assertion in Tutor/Tape (1980) everyday life. Cassette Workbook (163 p.) T 60 A77 6 Cassettes BF 575 A85 M62 (The) Art of Decision Making. Amacom (1978) Arthur Miller's Adaptation of An Enemy Cassette (69 min.) of the People. HD 30.23 A73 Insight Media (2000) In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Asia Capital Markets Conference. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that JRC (1991) the town's moneymaking health spa A summary of the January 16-17, "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by 1991 conference. pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to Video Cassette (1 hr. 36 min.) go public is opposed by his brother Peter, HC
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