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"-- Amazon.com.
Content Notes:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430). 1 5 20
ISBN:
9781410490698 1410490696
Accession Number:
2016015998
Accession Number:
944087722
Accession Number:
ccp.985816
Holdings
Branch: St. Andrews Library - Large Print Area
Call Number: LP 355.07 ROACH
Branch: Bees Ferry West Ashley Library - Large Print Area
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