In Grunt, Mary Roach (hailed as America’s “funniest science writer” by the Washington Post) explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and un-infested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. In this book, Roach tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise, etc.--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them.

Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you will never see our nation's defenders in the same way again.

Read the book and then come talk about it.