Grunt the curious science of humans at war [LP]
Roach tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise. She introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer these challenges. You'll learn why a zipper is a problem for a sniper; how amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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Farmington Hills, Mich. :
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- By way of introduction
- 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.
