Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
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Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
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- Label
- Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
- 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
- Award
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- LibraryReads Favorites, 2016.
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2016
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- 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
- Summary expansion
- ATLAS
- Target audience
- adult
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