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Author Roach, Mary, author.

Title Grunt : the curious science of humans at war / Mary Roach.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2016]
©2016

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  355.07 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  355.07 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  355.07 ROA    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  355.07 ROA    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  355.07 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  355.07 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  355.07 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  355.0709 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  355.0709 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  355 ROA c.2  Billed

Edition First edition.
Description 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-285)
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 Explores the science of keeping humans healthy and focused in the extreme environments of war, drawing on interviews with doctors, trainers, and weapons testers to illuminate how soldiers are conditioned to survive traumas.
"'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them"-- Amazon.com.
Subject Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Military research -- United States.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01020921
Military research. (OCoLC)fst01021439
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780393245448 (hardcover) : $26.95
0393245446 (hardcover)
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