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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. 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.

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  • Title Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
  • Author Mary Roach
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2016-06-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780393245448 / 0393245446
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Topical: Library Reads
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Military research - United States, Military art and science - Technological
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016008754
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.070

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2016, Page 5
  • Choice, 01/01/2017, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2016, Page 90
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/2016, Page 67
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/04/2016, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 12/01/2016, Page 128
  • Shelf Awareness, 06/10/2016, Page 0
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