02125cam a2200313 4500 544116278 TxAuBib 20191106120000.0 160422s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2016008754 9780393245448 $26.95 0393245446 $26.95 (OCoLC)921868897 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX WIVLS GMP OCLCO OCLCF JSE ABG TxAuBib Roach, Mary. Grunt [large print] : the curious science of humans at war / Mary Roach. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2016] ©2016. 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-285). 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. "'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"-- 20191106. Military art and science Technological innovations United States. Military art and science Technological innovations United States History 21st century. Military research United States. TXSTN