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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Hardcover

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

by Mary Roach

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Hardcover · 288 pages W. W. Norton & Company · 2016

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Grunt

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.



The book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780393245448 in Hardcover by Mary Roach may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Mary Roach
Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Published
Jun 7, 2016
Pages
288
Reading Level
Adult
ISBN-13
9780393245448
ISBN-10
0393245446
Carton quantity
10 copies
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