Book description
This enhanced ebook edition contains exclusive video of Professor Cox
elaborating on each chapter in detail. In Wonders of the Solar System -
the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series - Professor Brian Cox takes us
on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination
become places we can see, feel and visit.
The Wonders of the Solar System - from the giant ice fountains of
Enceladus to the liquid methane seas of Titan and from storms twice the
size of the Earth to the tortured moon of Io with its giant
super-volcanoes - is the Solar System as you have never seen it before.
In this enhanced ebook edition, watch ten exclusive videos of Professor
Cox elaborating on each chapter in detail, revealing his personal
favourite wonder of the solar system, and talking about how he shaped
this book to include even more information than in the TV series.
In the TV series, Professor Brian Cox introduces us to the planets and
moons beyond our world, finding the biggest, most bizarre, most powerful
natural phenomena. Using the latest scientific imagery along with
cutting edge CGI and some of the most spectacular and extreme locations
on Earth, Brian will show us Wonders never thought possible.
Employing his trademark clear, authoritative, yet down-to-earth
approach, Brian will explore how these previously unseen phenomena have
dramatically expanded our horizons with new discoveries about the
planets, their moons and how
they came to be the way they are. Praise for Professor Brian Cox's work:
'If you didn't utter a wow watching the TV, you will while reading the book.'
The Times
'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.'
Sunday Express
'Will entertain and delight … what a priceless gift that would be.'
Independent on Sunday 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.
