Name: Grunt - the Curious Science of Humans at war (en Inglés)
Price: 11.87 USD
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Author: Roach, Mary
ISBN: 9781324036081

portada Grunt - the Curious Science of Humans at war (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mary Roach

Editorial

W. W. Norton & Company

Año

2022

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.1 x 13.9 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781324036081

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia militar
Investigación científica
Ingeniería militar

Grunt - the Curious Science of Humans at war (en Inglés)

Mary Roach (Autor) · W. W. Norton & Company · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Grunt - the Curious Science of Humans at war (en Inglés)"

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.