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
