This collection of 12 articles, based upon research initiated by the US Army Medical Research and Material Command, works to build a behaviorally predictive understanding of resilience to stress from a number of physiological and psychosocial viewpoints. Topics include psychological screening, resilience and military psychiatry, the stresses of modern war, resilience through leadership, adaptations to stress and psychobiological mechanisms of resilience, the psychophysiology of stress, resilience and survival in extreme environments, genetic and environmental risk factors for post traumatic stress disorder, resilience and personality, cognitive performance and resilience, social structure conditions and psychological resilience. The closing article delineates the state of the possible in resilience. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)