The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox

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However, these are difficult topics to explain and although I found myself having to reread pages, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Detailed with facts, advice and key dates to look out and up for throughout the year, plus monthly calendars to reveal the delights of the night sky wherever you are. Seeing Like a State is a book about why it’s impossible for ambitious programs of top-down control to succeed, and why they so often end up with millions of people dead.

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Indeed, Parsons delights in pointing out that a scientist when presented with damning evidence is duty bound to discard a favoured theory – even if it is their own! Under Sutter’s slightly irreverent treatment, iconic historical figures suddenly become personalities – characters who we can relate to, laugh at (just a little) and perhaps most importantly, marvel with.

As Sutter himself says, Your Place in the Universe is a book not just about physics and science, but also about our home, the Universe, and our human story. The world is always more complicated than the maps you make of it, and in a lot of situations, it turns out that complexity matters . Levesque's writing is witty and honest, and asks us all to reconsider our relationship with the Universe. What better gift for an amateur astronomer than an answer to all of their queries in one, pocket-sized companion? Taking the growing body of information about other planets, applying the laws of biology, principles of chemistry, and his knowledge of Earth's history, Kershenbaum presents the possibilities for alien creatures with confidence.

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Hydrogen emission from EGSY8p7 may indicate it is the first known example of an early generation of young galaxies emitting unusually strong radiation. Award-winning author Sean Carroll brings his extraordinary intellect to bear on the realms of knowledge, the laws of nature and the most profound questions about life, death and our place in it all. For more reading recommendations and free samples of new and popular books, sign up to our book club newsletter below. As the concept of an accelerating expansion itself becomes accepted, there has never been a better time to get to grips with this brave new world of cosmology. The end of the Universe may be a common feature in science fiction, but this one isn’t a crisis that can be averted by a team of superheroes.

It's not a hobby reserved for those who can afford a telescope, nor is it completely inaccessible to city-goers who spend most of their time under a light-polluted sky. For fans of The Almanacseries or subscribers of Sky at Night magazine, this is an essential piece of kit.

The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by

He tackles the deepest of questions – including the problem of finding “meaning” in a universe governed only by the laws of physics. In The Big Picture , Carroll, a Caltech physicist, tries to make sense of life, the universe, and everything. We may have occasionally got a little lost and gone down the odd blind alley, but Sutter sums up how, ultimately, we still continue to untangle our delightfully chaotic existence in the Universe. In Black Hole Survival Guide physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey into a black hole, explaining what would happen to you and why. Her BA degree specialised in science publishing and she has been working as a journalist since graduating in 2018.From the moment it first appeared, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has been controversial: misrepresented, abused, denied and fiercely debated. The obvious choices are the Moon or Mars, but there are lots of other places in the Solar System we could try, each with their own problems and opportunities. From pin-pointing the Earth’s place in an infinite Universe to black holes and dark energy, Sutter is our cheerful fact-filled guide. Stargazing does not have to be complicated, reveals Abigail Beall in this beautifully compact guide.

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It is about how our knowledge and understanding has grown and developed, and how we have decoded and deciphered, faltered and often misunderstood. Katie Mack, an astrophysicist at North Carolina State University, has devoted much of her career to exploring this topic in detail, and in The End of Everything she outlines a half-dozen kinds of fate that may befall our cosmos. The book is driven by the fascinating narrative of humanity’s developing cosmologies, from the religious philosophies of Mesopotamia to the latest scientific discoveries.Dennett is a brilliantly ingenious builder of images and metaphors that really enable you to grasp Darwin’s breakthrough, one at least as important as Newton’s and Einstein’s, but more relevant to understanding the meaning of life. Carl Sagan is still one of the most well-known astronomers, renowned for his ability to create wonder and awe in his descriptions of the Universe. This book, by former Astronomy Now editor Paul Parsons, begins with an observation by Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaître that “the Big Bang was a day without a yesterday”. Through these 21 stars (and 3 imposters) he reveals the impact that astronomy has played on science's understanding of the past, present and future.