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Wonders of the Solar System

by Unknown Author

256 pages2010HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780007423040

About this book

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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<br>they came to be the way they are.</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2010
Pages
256
ISBN
9780007423040
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester[2][3] and The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science.[4] He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... series[5][6] and for popular science books, such as Why Does E=mc²? and The Quantum Universe.

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