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Grunt : The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach (2016, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCengage GALE

ISBN-101410490696

ISBN-139781410490698

eBay Product ID (ePID)221541454

Product Key Features

Book TitleGrunt : the Curious Science of Humans at War

Number of Pages434 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicMilitary Science, Military / General, Research & Methodology

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science, History

AuthorMary Roach

Book SeriesThorndike Non Fiction Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal355/.070973

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisGrunt 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.", A New York Times Bestselling Author"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Take a tour of duty with Mary Roach, and you'll never see our nation's defenders in the same way again.