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Why might an orangutan care which toothpaste you choose? What does yourmobile phone have to do with wind turbines? And can your morning coffee reallypower abus?Economicsaffects every aspect of our lives, from the clothes on our backs to the breadon our tables and the fuel in our cars. And there are huge changes afoot asthe global green revolution sweeps across the globe.Inthis vibrant and eye-opening book, economist and broadcaster Dharshini Davidfollows the course of an average day - from the moment we flick on the lightin the morning - to reveal the green changes that are already taking place inevery aspect of our world. Exploring industries such as energy, food, fashion,technology, manufacturing and finance, she asks what is happening, howquickly, who is driving it all - and what it means for us. Ranging fromcrucial issues such as sustainability and corporate greenwashing, to globalflashpoints such as industrialisation and trade wars, she shows how even thesmallest details in our day are part of a much bigger story about where ourworld is heading.

If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind's eye? A chickenegg, hard-boiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell,prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Or the majestic marble-blueeggs of theblackbird?Everyegg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of theanimal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life onEarth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon,animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished.InInfinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on amind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period andCarboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the ageof dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power. Eggswould evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyonsand mudflats; be dropped in nests wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests intrees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas.Whetherbelonging to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are objectsthat have been shaped by their ecology, forged by mass extinctions and honedby natural selection to near-perfection. Finally, the epic story of their rolein the tapestry of life can be told.

One woman. One ship. One astonishing true story. Summer 1856. Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, are young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they have already completed their first voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. Their dream of building a home and a family is almost within reach, but the price is one last dangerous transit - a race to deliver supplies to the other side of the country. And there is no alternative but to sail all the way around. Yet as their ship leaves New York, navigating towards the jagged coastline of South America, Joshua falls ill, confined to his bunk and delirious. The treacherous first mate is imprisoned in the brig for insubordination, and with no obvious option for a new captain, Mary Ann steps into the breach. Within days she has put down a mutiny and must now attempt to steer this 216' clipper ship laden with the modern equivalent of $11 million of cargo through Drake's Passage and around Cape Horn - the most treacherous waters in the world. To the Edge of the World is the true story of one woman who, when faced with impossible odds, would do all that was necessary to survive.