Grunt : : the Curious Science of Humans at war

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Call Number: 355.07 Ro, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / General / Roach, Mary
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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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 might 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.
"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.

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Recommended submitted by Zekicmom on July 14, 2016, 4:32pm I'm a little surprised by how much I enjoyed "Grunt". I would have expected to be more grossed out, but somehow Mary Roach made disturbing subjects interesting, engaging and even humorous. She has a real talent for explaining things in a way that a layman can understand. I definitely will be looking into her other books.

Miltary Research is Fascinating and Fun! submitted by sdunav on June 17, 2017, 9:49am Not a subject I thought interesting, but Roach once again finds truly fascinating angles. Genital repair and penis transplants, sleeping on a submarine, protective clothing, the history of latrines and the control of "filth flies" (a wonderful historic alliteration I'd never heard, for disease-carrying flies), maggots in medicine, stink bombs in WWII, and many more obscure subjects of military research are examined.

Oddly fascinating submitted by Aimless on July 20, 2019, 11:42pm As a pacifist, I expected to hate this...but it pulled me in.