In the beginning of Grunt, you make a point of saying that this book isn’t about how scientists make it easier for the military to kill people, but is instead about how the scientists help the military keep soldiers alive.
But like her 2010 tome Packing For Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In The Void - which took a different approach, and looked at how scientists were figuring out how to help astronauts survive their trips to the cosmos - her new book Grunt: The Curious Science Of Humans At War ( paperback, hardcover, digital) is also more about what scientists do than how they study a certain topic. In the thirteen years since she released her first book, Stiff- which explained how scientists have used cadavers to advance human understand of the body…and plastic surgery - writer Mary Roach has applied her patented mix of intellectual curiosity and situational humor to explain how scientists study such topics as sex (2008’s Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Science And Sex), eating (2013’s Gulp: Adventures On The Alimentary Canal), and what waits for us after we die (2005’s Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife) in a way that makes these science books as entertaining as they are educational.
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