Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Forces of Nature
    Forces of Nature
    Forces of Nature
    Audiobook7 hours

    Forces of Nature

    Written by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

    Narrated by Samuel West

    4.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    Sunday Times Bestseller

    A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.

    How did life on Earth begin?
    What is the nature of space and time?
    What are the chances that we will discover life on other worlds?

    Forces of Nature takes you from the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland, the volcanoes of Indonesia and the precipitous cliffs in Nepal, to the manatees off the coast of Florida and the northern lights of the Arctic, in search of the fundamental laws that govern our world.

    These universal laws shape everything, from the structure of snowflakes to the elegant spirals of the galaxies. By seeking to understand the everyday world – the colours, structure, behaviour and history of our home – we can step beyond the everyday and approach the Universe beyond.

    Think you know our planet?
    Think again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 9, 2017
    ISBN9780008238049
    Author

    Professor Brian Cox

    PROFESSOR BRIAN COX CBE FRS is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He has worked on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, the HERA accelerator at DESY, Hamburg and the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab, Chicago. Cox has written and presented numerous TV series for the BBC, including Wonders of the Solar System, Wonders of the Universe, Wonders of Life, Human Universe, Forces of Nature, The Planets and The Universe. He is also the co-presenter of The Infinite Monkey Cage radio series and podcast. Cox has written numerous bestselling science titles with Jeff Forshaw. For many years, he has lectured the introductory Relativity and Quantum Mechanics course at the University of Manchester, with Jeff Forshaw.

    More audiobooks from Professor Brian Cox

    Related to Forces of Nature

    Related audiobooks

    Astronomy & Space Sciences For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing: It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.

      Jan 12, 2017

      How do you feel about the multiverse?” The question was not out of place in our impromptu dinner-table lecture, yet it caught me completely off-guard. It’s not that I’ve never been asked about the multiverse before, but explaining a theoretical const

      14 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Oct 20, 2022

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Counterintuitive Cosmos

      Feb 15, 2024

      The Counterintuitive Cosmos
      7 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 16, 2023

      SHUTTLE HISTORY Tom Jones Smithsonian Books £33 • HB Adventure stories are best told by those who lived them. Here, astronaut Tom Jones offers an off-piste look at the 135 Shuttle flights between April 1981 and July 2011. Jones flew four times on the

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 17, 2022

      Giles Sparrow Thames & Hudson £50 • HB Johann Doppelmayr’s original Atlas Coelestis was first published in 1742, bringing together (as the introduction to this new volume explains) astronomical theories and areas of interest important to the European

      4 min read

    • Article

      Explorer 1 at 60: How Has Space Travel Changed Us?

      Jan 31, 2018

      Sixty years ago Wednesday, the United States launched its first satellite, setting in motion a shift in perspective of cosmic proportions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Jul 16, 2020

      Allen Lane £20 • HB Cosmology has allowed us to piece together the history of our Universe and explain how we got to where we are today. But have you ever wondered how it will end? The End of Everything explores five possible scenarios for its ultima

      4 min read

    • Article

      Extraterrestrial

      Dec 1, 2019

      Extraterrestrial
      7 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Sep 17, 2020

      Niall Deacon Reaktion Books £15.95 • HB Twenty Worlds takes a look at the ways we have discovered exoplanets, planets beyond our Solar System, framing the narrative around 20 alien and extraordinary worlds found in orbit around distant stars. Deacon

      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 19, 2020

      Stuart Clark Guardian Faber £14.99 • HB What is it about the sky at night that has captivated human beings for centuries? This is the central question driving Stuart Clark’s excellent book. While there are many popular science books charting the hist

      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Sep 14, 2023

      New astronomy and space titles reviewed Ariel Waldman Running Press £22 • HB Have you ever watched a science-fiction film or TV show and wondered whether the science depicted was possible? Could we travel at warp speed across the cosmos to engage wit

      4 min read

    • Article

      In The Shops: Books

      Jun 15, 2023

      In The Shops: Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Interactive

      Aug 11, 2022

      Interactive
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 21, 2020

      PJE Peebles Princeton University Press £30 • HB Among astronomy’s many achievements in the 20th century, the prediction and discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) is surely one of the greatest. It not only clinched the case f

      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 15, 2024

      Books
      5 min read

    • Article

      When We Were the Cosmos

      Jun 20, 2019

      Leading off this week’s chapter of Nautilus, physics writer Michael Brooks carries on a playful, imaginary conversation with Jerome Cardano, a crazy-bold 16th-century scientist, inventor, and astrologer (it was, after all, the 16th century). Brooks w

      6 min read

    • Article

      Anna Frebel

      May 1, 2022

      Anna Frebel
      3 min read

    • Article

      Inside The Sky At Night

      Mar 23, 2023

      Inside The Sky At Night
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Library

      Nov 24, 2022

      The Library
      4 min read

    • Article

      ASK Space

      Jun 20, 2019

      ASK Space
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Forces of Nature

    4.5/5

    152 ratings12 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Really gets into the technical details and that part of its charm form me. So much to learn from a general perspective comes from this
    • 5/5
      This is simply a fascinating book by an erudite author. Beautifully written and read. Bravo!
    • 5/5
      A clear, nicely written overview of the basic processes of living organisms. Beautifully read by a warm intelligent voice.
    • 4/5
      I think I would like it, only didn't understand most of it. Told in an easy manner it is perhaps light but also deep. I'll try it again.
    • 5/5
      Good detail. The reader is very good as well. Ok
    • 4/5
      A treat to listen to, informative and exciting, simply wonderful
    • 5/5
      Learning a lot about nature and how the world works very interesting
    • 5/5
      Excellent and lay spoken language to easy understand. Full of formulas proven theories and ideas. Excellent.
    • 5/5
      The book caused me to think. Nice job in pointing us to look around.
    • 5/5
      Very good audio book, the content and narrator kept me engaged all the time
    • 3/5
      This was far less horrible than I expected. Attempts at witticism are cringeworthy but sparse and the literary quotes while abundant are bearable. I've not seen the TV show the book keeps mentioning but going on previous experience it's probably mostly closeups of Brian Cox in gormless wonder.
    • 4/5
      Again a fascinating book. A bit on the technical side. Full of info.