An edition of Grunt
(2016)
Grunt
the curious science of humans at war
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by Mary Roach
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"'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"--
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Military research, Military art and science, Technological innovations, History, Military art and science, history, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-06-26, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2016-06-26, War, Psychological aspects, Militärische Forschung, Ausrüstung, Soldat, Soldiers, Physiology, Military life, Armed Forces, United States. Army, United States, United States. NavyPlaces
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
2017, Thorndike Press
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
2017, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Jun 06, 2017, Brilliance Audio
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2016, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
2016, W.W. Norton & Company
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Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
2016
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-285).
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