Personal Effects

Author : Robert A. Jensen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250268006

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The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead. You have seen Robert A. Jensen—you just never knew it. As the owner of the world’s largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and the Bali bombings, to the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, and the Grenfell Tower Fire, Jensen has been at the practical level of international incidents, assisting with the recovery of bodies, identifying victims, and repatriating and returning their personal effects to the surviving family members. He is also, crucially, involved in the emotional recovery that comes after a disaster: helping guide the families, governments, and companies involved, telling them what to expect and managing the unmanageable. As he explains, “If journalists write the first rough draft of history, I put the punctuation on the past.” Personal Effects is an unsparing, up-close look at the difficult work Jensen does behind the yellow tape and the lessons he learned there. The chronicle of an almost impossible and grim job, Personal Effects also tells Jensen’s own story—how he came to this line of work, how he manages the chaos that is his life, and the personal toll the repeated exposure to mass death brings, in becoming what GQ called “the best at the worst job in the world.” A rare glimpse into a world we all see but many know nothing about, Personal Effects is an inspiring and heartwarming story of survival and the importance of moving forward, Jensen allows his readers to see over his shoulder as he responds to disaster sites, uncovers the deceased, and cares for families to show how a strong will and desire to do good can become a path through the worst the world can throw at us.

Author : E. M. Kokie
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763662035

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After his older brother dies in Iraq, Matt makes a discovery that rocks his beliefs about strength, bravery, and honor in this page-turning debut. Ever since his brother, T.J., was killed in Iraq, Matt feels like he’s been sleepwalking through life — failing classes, getting into fights, and avoiding his dad’s lectures about following in his brother’s footsteps. T.J.’s gone, but Matt can’t shake the feeling that if only he could get his hands on his brother’s stuff from Iraq, he’d be able to make sense of his death. But as Matt searches for answers about T.J.’s death, he faces a shocking revelation about T.J.’s life that suggests he may not have known T.J. as well as he thought. What he learns challenges him to stand up to his father, honor his brother’s memory, and take charge of his own life. With compassion, humor, and a compelling narrative voice, E. M. Kokie explores grief, social mores, and self-discovery in a provocative first novel.

Author : Carmel Mcdonald Grahame
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742585888

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Personal Effects by Carmel Mcdonald Grahame Pdf

Lilith and Ross have always been moving; from Cervantes on the Turquoise Coast, to Calgary in Canada, and places in between. Now, in middle-age, the work at home has dried up and they’re back in Calgary, where many years before they suffered a miscarriage and where decades later they have returned for yet another new start. While Ross works away on the oil rig for weeks on end, Lilith unpacks their apartment and is confronted with the need to balance being alone with true loneliness. Her mind wanders, back to the windy plains and white sand beaches of the Turquoise Coast, to her strained and damaged relationships with her parents and brother, to the love between her and Ross and the ache of missing her daughters. She is reminded of the compromises she has made for this life of uncertainty. Of the achievements and disillusionments of her many selves — wife, mother, friend, lover, sister, daughter, artist, expat. Brimming with dualities, Grahame’s novel deals with the ambiguity of life, and the decisions we make in the hope that they will change our lives for the better.

Author : J. C. Hutchins,Jordan Weisman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142998936X

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Personal Effects by J. C. Hutchins,Jordan Weisman Pdf

Want to try it yourself? Call the phone number shown on book's cover: 212-629-1951 and listen to the voicemail message for main character Zach Taylor. Personal Effects follows the extensive notes of therapist Zach Taylor's investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims' deaths. Zach's investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds—and often very far from the reality that we know. The items among Grace's personal effects are the keys to understanding his haunted past, and finding the terrifying truth Grace hoped to keep buried: • Call the phone numbers: you'll get a character's voicemail. • Google the characters and institutions in the text: you'll find real websites • Examine the art and other printed artifacts included inside the cover: if you pay attention, you'll find more information than the characters themselves discover Personal Effects, the ultimate in voyeuristic storytelling, represents a revolutionary step forward in changing the way people interact with novels.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Military funerals
ISBN : MINN:30000005204759

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Care and Disposition of Remains and Disposition of Personal Effects by United States. Department of the Army Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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International Encyclopedia Of Comparative Law Chapter 17 Personal Effects Of Marriage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Holdstein,David Bleich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054283133

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Personal Effects by Deborah Holdstein,David Bleich Pdf

In Personal Effects, Holdstein and Bleich compile a volume that cuts across the grain of current orthodoxy. These editors and contributors argue that it is fundamental in humanistic scholarship to take account of the personal and collective experiences of scholars, researchers, critics, and teachers. With this volume, then, these scholars move us to explore the intersections of the social with subjectivity, with voice, ideology, and culture, and to consider the roles of these in the work of academics who study writing and literature. Taken together, the essays in this collection carry forward the idea that the personal, the candidly subjective and intersubjective, must be part of the subject of study in humanities scholarship. They propose an understanding of the personal in scholarship that is more helpful because more clearly anchored in human experience.

Author : Leanne Shapton
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429958615

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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton Pdf

A love story told in the form of an auction catalog. Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person -- their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In Leanne Shapton's marvelously inventive and invented auction catalog, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris (who aren't real people, but might as well be). Through photographs of the couple's personal effects -- the usual auction items (jewelry, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pajamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks) -- the story of a failed love affair vividly (and cleverly) emerges. From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate. In an earlier work, Was She Pretty?, Shapton, a talented artist and illustrator, subtly explored the seemingly simple yet powerfully complicated nature of sexual jealousy. In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris—a very different yet equally original book—she invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives.

Author : John McNamara
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822209101

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Present Tense ; And, Personal Effects by John McNamara Pdf

THE STORIES: PRESENT TENSE. It's the day of the high-school prom, and Norm Prescot, a love-smitten teenager, is beset with doubts. Will his girlfriend, Ann, keep their date or will she claim that she has to stay at the bedside of her aunt Gladys, w

Author : Robert A. Jensen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1420048791

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Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents by Robert A. Jensen Pdf

Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents: A Field Guide presents in checklist form the recommended responses to events that result in mass fatalities, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the crash of a jet airliner, or the attack on the World Trade Center. All cities in the United States will have to have a mass fatality disaster plan in effect by the end of 1999. Mr. Jensen is a leading authority in this area and provides training for police, fire and hospital personnel (including EMTs and social workers), local, state, federal and international emergency planners and responders. This book details actions that are part of a mass fatality incident response. Specifically, they are the actions that begin once life and property preservation ceases and continues through to the release of the deceased. Thus, primary focus is on search, recovery, medicolegal investigation, personal effects operations, family assistance operations, and media operations. Ancillary steps include logistics support, security, responder protection, attitudes and coping with mass death.

Author : Chris Mason
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0764322559

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Personal Effects of the German Soldier in World War II by Chris Mason Pdf

A glimpse into the mundane minutia of the daily lives of ordinary German soldiers just before and during World War II. It covers the little things they carried in their pockets and backpacks to make a sometimes terrifying, often boring existence seem a little more bearable.

Author : Marco Giugni,Jasmine Lorenzini,Manlio Cinalli,Christian Lahusen,Simone Baglioni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000327700

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Young People and Long-Term Unemployment by Marco Giugni,Jasmine Lorenzini,Manlio Cinalli,Christian Lahusen,Simone Baglioni Pdf

Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on different dimensions of young people’s lives. When compared to employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second, however, there are important variations across the four cities. This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so even when they have important grievances to express in the face of high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim future perspectives on the labor market. This book will be useful for scholars interested in unemployment politics and youth politics, researchers and teachers in political science, sociology, and social psychology.

Author : John H. Ames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Taxation of personal property
ISBN : UOM:35112203966702

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The Taxation of Personal Property by John H. Ames Pdf

Author : Joshua Williams,Benjamin Gerhard,Samuel Wetherill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Conveyancing
ISBN : NYPL:33433008602579

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Principles of the Law of Personal Property by Joshua Williams,Benjamin Gerhard,Samuel Wetherill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112087402670

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Foreign Trade Statistics Notes by Anonim Pdf