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Wonders of the Universe Hardcover – 3 Mar. 2011

by Brian Cox (Author), Andrew Cohen (Author)

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Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before.

13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination and scientific exploration for thousands of years. The wonders of the Universe might seem alien to us and impossible to understand, but away from the telescopes, the labs and the white coats, Professor Brian Cox uses the evidence found in the natural world around us to explain its simple truths.

The same laws of light, gravity, time, matter and energy that govern us here on Earth are the same as those applied in the Universe. Using 3D CGI imagery, his expert knowledge and his infectious enthusiasm, Professor Cox shows us that if we can understand the impact of these governing laws on Earth it will bring us a step closer to an understanding of our Universe.

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0007395825
ISBN-13

978-0007395828
Publisher

Collins
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3 Mar. 2011
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English
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22.6 x 2.4 x 28.6 cm
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256 pages
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Praise for Professor Brian Cox’s previous books:

‘If you didn’t utter a wow watching the TV, you will while reading the book.’
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‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’
Guardian

‘In this book of the acclaimed BBC2 TV series, Professor Cox shows us the cosmos as we have never seen it before – a place full of the most bizarre and powerful natural phenomena.’
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About the Author

Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of the highly popular BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System. He was also the keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream in the 1990s.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Collins (3 Mar. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007395825
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007395828
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.6 x 2.4 x 28.6 cm

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Brian Cox, PhD, is a leading particle physicist and professor at the University of Manchester, as well as a researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. A Royal Society research fellow, professor Cox was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2010. He is the author of Why Does E=MC² and is well known as presenter of the television series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe. He was also the keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream in the 1990s.

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john o'keeffe

An inspirational read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2018

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I found Brain Cox's Wonders of the Universe an absolute fantastic & fascinating read as was the BBC TV series. It is a well structured, well laid out book with a user-friendly layout. It is also very well presented with the layout of mind-blowing photos of the universe from the moon to the solar system & the entire universe. If you were a big fan of the Brain Cox BBCTV series then I would say the book is a must-have.

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Say No More 67

Well presented and highly interesting for a layman like me , however...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2012

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As much as I like the subject and TV series and as much as Prof. Cox excels in presenting complex issues in plain language, I could not understand why dozens of pictures of Brian Cox himself, some full page or even bigger, had to be included in the book. It's a pity the producers fail to understand that there's a difference between a TV production and a book, even if one is based on the other. It seems to be a recurring thing with his books.

Imagine David Attenborough popping every few pages in Life Stories (the number is 0 - from dozens of pictures, not counting the one on the cover) or Andrew Marr doing so through Britain From Above . Putting a picture in the introduction should have been sufficient.

I've ordered Carl Sagan's Cosmos Hardcover edition, which is also based on a TV production, and surely inspired Cox, and while the quality of pictures and print of this early 80's book could hardly compete with today's standards I couldn't resist the temptation to count Sagan's pictures on the book (which also has hundreds of pictures). The result is - 2. One small one and another small one in which his silhouette is barely recognizable.

I also felt the illustrations and pictures are slightly pale and lifeless. Personally I found other publications such as the Universe (Astronomy) from DK publishing more appealing.

With all that said I still think it's a good and enjoyable book .

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Peter S.

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2021

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Wonderful book full of very digestible information and beautiful images. I like Brian Cox and always loved anything to do with space and planets.
I could read the whole book over a weekend but trying to savour it and get all the information in my head.
Probably not for children unless they are geniuses.
Gives a good rundown on where it all began and how we got here, what is around us.

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K. T. Edwards

Brilliant,

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2011

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I originally wanted to buy the dvd version of this, and got my brother to buy it for me, and fortunately for me my brother got this by mistake, and so far i think its brilliant, I am doing a physics course so alot of this i already have a heads up on but there is far more i dont know about, so i can understand some of it with out much of a explanation (obviously not everything or id be a genius) and then other parts that i haven't heard or unsure about, but every thing is explained in detail, so much so that you dont need to be a rocket scientist to understand it.

The biggest down side to this book is that on my copy it looks like the printer bodged up one or two of the photos and left a small green splodge and roller scroll. Other than this small issue, i go out of my way to read this book.
Pros,
Highly understandable
Goes into depth
Alot!! of diagrams and photos
any body could pick it up and understand it
Cons
My copy has that small smudge, dont know if its supposed to be there, but if it looks out of place then it probably is, and in my case it probably is.

Id recommend this book to anybody if they have the slightest bit of interest in space or the origins of the universe.

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Geraldine Le Roes

but knew that it will be good, as have experience the enjoyment of seeing Professor ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2017

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Bought as a gift, but knew that it will be good, as have experience the enjoyment of seeing Professor Brian Cox live on stage and watched on television. A true genius who explains everything with such clarity, that I so wish he had been my science teacher. But he does inspire me to enjoy the scientific world, no matter how poor my grades were at school.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2013

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Brian Cox writes so enthusiastically about his subject he carries the reader along on this amazing journey around the Cosmos explaining all the wonders so even a complete novice can't help but be enthralled, I have always had a fascination for how our universe works and he has helped me to try and get an understanding of the complicated workings of the world of the atoms that make up the visible world, this book to me it is intensely exciting and a real page turner, I had already purchased the hard back edition from Amazon but found it rather heavy to hold while reading in bed so I bought the kindle copy and found the only drawback being the photographs in black and white which are so beautiful in the hard back so I read my kindle in bed and then consult my hardback later for the photographs to fully marvel at our universe

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Brian Cox

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2017

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Having watched the television series and once again being impressed with the delivery of a most complex subject by Professor Cox I was able to read the book and still hear his comforting Northern twang. The book, read on iPad with the colour photographs is a super read. You may not fully grasp everything but you owe it to yourself to read where we all came from.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2019

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Wonderful piece of science fiction. Imagine a world with galaxy’s such as this. Mr/Dr Cox has truly emerged himself into his childhood indoctrination of sci-fi to produce a book for the 21C.

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