Life at the extremes
Frances M. Ashcroft (Author)
"Life at the Extremes is a account of the science of survival. It weaves real-life stories with the latest scientific findings to explain what happens to the human body under extreme conditions. What causes mountain sickness? Why is it possible to reach the top of Everest without supplementary oxygen, yet if your plane depressurizes at the same altitude you lose consciousness in seconds? Why are astronauts unable to stand without fainting when they return to Earth? Why do divers get the bends but sperm whales don't? What causes the rapture of the deep? Will men always be able to run faster than women? Why don't penguins feet get frostbite?"
Print Book, English, 2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2002
xxi, 326 pages. : illustrations, facsimiles, plan, portraits ; |c 20 cm
9780520234208, 0520234200
1392155776