Grunt The Curious Science of Humans at War 1st Edition by Mary Roach ISBN 0393245446 9780393245448

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ISBN 10: 0393245446
ISBN 13: 9780393245448
Author: Mary Roach

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.

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. 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. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.

Grunt The Curious Science of Humans at War 1st Table of contents:

1. Second Skin
2. Boom Box
3. Fighting by Ear
4. Below the Belt
5. It Could Get Weird
6. Carnage Under Fire
7. Sweating Bullets
8. Leaky SEALs
9. The Maggot Paradox
10. What Doesn’t Kill You Will Make You Reek
11. Old Chum
12. That Sinking Feeling
13. Up and Under
14. Feedback from the Fallen

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