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2024
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**A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the “inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining” (NYTBR) memoir *Eat the Apple--***the last phase of war for US veterans: returning home.What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war--and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from t...
2021
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It has become almost cliché to say that the world has changed.The pace of technology change, the increasing number of new businesses, and growing global workforce has made the world a more competitive place. Global economic events have delayed retirement for millions around the world and thinning margins are making employers more risk adverse to prevent any disruptions in business continuity. This major shift in the business world is the recipe for a perfect storm ...
Eat the Apple
A Memoir
2018
EN
"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man.Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases ...
No Sense of Obligation
Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe
2001
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Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation. . . fascinating analysis of religious belief --Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer[A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves.Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Scien...
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- Sam Rushton
Unabridged
10 hours 57 min
2024
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Bloomsbury presents End of Active Service by Matt Young, read by Sam Rushton.A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the “inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining” (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Apple—the last phase of war for US veterans: returning home.What was it like? It’s the only thing anyone wants to know about war—and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the b...
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