Wednesday, May 8, 2013

New Books -- August


SCIENCE:

Stronger than steel: spider silk, DNA, and the quest for better bulletproof vests, sutures, and parachute rope Bridget Heos
“Goats genetically implanted with the golden orb weavers’ DNA to produce milk containing proteins that can be spun into nearly indestructible spider silk.” (from the book jacket)



 
Salt sugar fat: how the food giants hooked us  Michael Moss

 

 
 
 
 
 

HISTORY / ENGLISH:


 

The carpetbaggers   Lucia Raatma

 

 
 
 
 
Thornton Wilder: a Life Penelope Niven
 
 
 
 
Life on the Mississippi   Mark Twain

 

 

 

Come hell or high water: a lively history of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers  Michael Gillespie

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