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The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piantadosi, Claude A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Physiology.
Adaptation, Physiological.
Environment.
Survival.
Table of Contents:
  • The human environment
  • Survival and adaptation
  • Cross-acclimation
  • Food for thought
  • Water and salt
  • Water that makes men mad
  • Tolerance to heat
  • Endless oceans of sand
  • Hypothermia
  • Life and death on the crystal desert
  • Survival in cold water
  • Air as good as we deserve
  • Bends and rapture of the deep
  • Sunken submarines
  • Climbing higher
  • Into the wild blue yonder
  • G whiz
  • The gravity of microgravity
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Human prospects for colonizing space