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Roach, Mary.
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Military art and science -- Technological innovations.
Military research.
Soldiers -- Physiology.
War -- Psychological aspects.
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Roach, Mary.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations.
Military research.
Soldiers -- Physiology.
War -- Psychological aspects.
MARC Display
Grunt
: the
curious
science
of
humans
at
war
/ Mary Roach.
by
Roach, Mary.
Thorndike Press, an imprint of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
Call #:
LP 355.07 R628g
Subjects
Military art and
science
-- Technological innovations.
Military research.
Soldiers -- Physiology.
War
-- Psychological aspects.
ISBN:
9781410490698 (hc.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
433 pages (large print) : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Second skin : what to wear to
war
-- Boom box : automotive safety for people who drive on bomb -- Fighting by ear : the conundrum of military noise -- Below the belt : the cruelest shot of all -- It could get weird: a salute to genital transplants -- Carnage under fire : how do combat medics cope? -- Sweating bullets : the
war
on heat -- Leaky SEALs : diarrhea as a threat to national security -- The maggot paradox : flies on the battlefield, for better and worse -- What doesn't kill you will make you reek : a brief history of stink bombs -- Old chum : how to make and test shark repellent -- That sinking feeling : when things go wrong under the sea -- Up and under : a submarine tries to sleep -- Feedback from the fallen : how the dead help the living stay that way.
Summary:
"The
science
of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of
war
. The
science
behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries - panic, exhaustion, heat, noise - and the scientists who seek to conquer them. Author Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World
War
II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation's defenders in the same way again"--Provided by publisher.
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