The Resource Grunt : the curious science of humans at war, Mary Roach
Grunt : the curious science of humans at war, Mary Roach
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- Summary
- '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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 285 pages
- Contents
-
- Second skin: What to wear to war
- Boom box: Automotive safety for people who drive on bombs
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780393245448
- Label
- Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
- Title
- Grunt
- Title remainder
- the curious science of humans at war
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Roach
- Subject
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- United States, Navy -- Military life
- trueWar and civilization
- 2000-2099
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Armed Forces -- Military life
- History
- trueHistory writing -- Military | Military today
- Military art and science -- Technological innovations
- Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States
- trueMilitary art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States
- Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Military research
- Military research -- United States
- trueMilitary research -- United States
- trueScience Writing -- General
- trueTechnological innovations
- trueTechnology and war
- United States
- United States, Army
- United States, Army -- Military life
- United States, Navy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- '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
- Summary
- The best-selling author of <i>Gulp</i> and <i>Stiff</i> explores the science of keeping humans healthy and focused in the extreme environments of war, drawing on interviews with doctors, uniform designers, trainers and weapons testers to illuminate how soldiers are conditioned to survive traumas ranging from heat and panic to exhaustion and noise. Illustrations. Tour.
- Award
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- LibraryReads Favorites, 2016.
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2016
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10494698
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roach, Mary,
- Dewey number
- 355/.070973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- U43.U4
- LC item number
- R63 2016b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Military research
- United States
- Summary expansion
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- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the curious science of humans at war
- Label
- Grunt : the curious science of humans at war, Mary Roach
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Contents
- Second skin: What to wear to war -- Boom box: Automotive safety for people who drive on bombs -- 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
- Control code
- 20646503
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 285 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393245448
- Lccn
- 2016008754
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn921868897
- (OCoLC)921868897
- Label
- Grunt : the curious science of humans at war, Mary Roach
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Second skin: What to wear to war -- Boom box: Automotive safety for people who drive on bombs -- 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
- Control code
- 20646503
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 285 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393245448
- Lccn
- 2016008754
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn921868897
- (OCoLC)921868897
Subject
- United States, Navy -- Military life
- trueWar and civilization
- 2000-2099
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Armed Forces -- Military life
- History
- trueHistory writing -- Military | Military today
- Military art and science -- Technological innovations
- Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States
- trueMilitary art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States
- Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Military research
- Military research -- United States
- trueMilitary research -- United States
- trueScience Writing -- General
- trueTechnological innovations
- trueTechnology and war
- United States
- United States, Army
- United States, Army -- Military life
- United States, Navy
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- trueSchool Library Journal's Adult Books 4 Teens: 2016
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2016
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