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- Personal effects : what recovering the dead teaches me about caring for the living / by Jensen, Robert A.,author.; Hider, James,author.;
"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, the Bali bombings, the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina to the 2010 Haitian Earthquake and the Grenfell Tower Fire, Jensen is 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 puts it, "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"--- Subjects: Jensen, Robert A.; Disaster relief.;
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- The legend of Barney Thomson [videorecording] / by Carlyle, Robert,1961-; Cosmo, James.; Jensen, Ashley.; Thompson, Emma.; Winstone, Ray,1957-; TVA Films (Firm),film distributor.;
Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Ashley Jensen, Ray Winstone, James Cosmo.Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Crime films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Barbers; Serial murderers;
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- Hysteria [videorecording] / by Becker, Tracey.; Cairo, Judy.; Curtis, Sarah.; Dancy, Hugh,1975-; Dyer, Jonah Lisa.; Dyer, Stephen.; Everett, Rupert.; Gyllenhaal, Maggie,1977-; Henson, Christian,1971-; Jensen, Ashley.; Jones, Felicity.; Pryce, Jonathan.; Smith, Sheridan,1981-; Waltzing, Gast,1956-; Wexler, Tanya.; Beachfront Films (Firm); By Alternative Pictures (Firm); Chimera Films (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Forthcoming Films (Firm); Informant Media (Firm);
Music, Gast Waltzing ; additional music, Christian Henson ; costume designer, Nic Ede ; editor, Jon Gregory ; production designer, Sophie Becher ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt.Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett, Sheridan Smith, Ashley Jensen.Set in Victorian London, Tanya Wexler's period comedy Hysteria tells the tale of Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), a young doctor disturbed by the way most hospitals ignore the latest research on germ theory, and still treat patients with bleedings and leeches. After being fired from his most recent job for speaking out on the matter, he ends up in the employ of Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce) who runs a private practice specializing in treating women who suffer from "hysteria" and come to the doctor for his precise digital manipulations in order to get a release. With the help of Mortimer's best friend Edmund (Rupert Everett) together they create a device that allows these women to achieve the desired result much more quickly. Complicating matters, Mortimer becomes enamored of Dalrymple's strong-willed, feminist-minded daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal).Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Granville, J. Mortimer (Joseph Mortimer), 1833-1900; Biographical films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Female orgasm; Historical films.; Romantic comedy films.; Sexual excitement; Vibrators (Massage); Women;
- © c2012., Informant Media ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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