William Collins Human Universe

Simply brilliant. This is typical well written book by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen is easy to read and a great insight into the world and universe we all live. If we really want to change how live and how we treat each other this book and all of Professor Cox's books are essential reading. This book answers all the 'Big questions' you need to ask; like Where are we? who are we? Are we alone? and What is our future?. Indeed the government should be promoting science in schools and investing in scientific research at much greater degree than it does. Do yourself a favor buy this book today and I promise you will look at the world you live and interact in a totally different light and appreciate all the great scientist who have brought such great understanding to what we now know and all the future scientist to discover what we have yet to know.

I am a former MBA Professor who was made redundant in 2016 and is now a Secondary Science and A Level Physics Teacher (Polymath). This excellent book, is integrated into my teaching. It offers an excellent platform to explain the extraordinary story of humanity from African Human Ape species (Modern Day Ethiopia), to the dominate species across the Earth and beyond. It is a story, that is likely to continue towards the spread of Humanity across our Milky Way Galaxy? If we can realise, that we are all one large family called Humanity? We live on a Planet, that needs to be respected, so that it can continue, being our base for life. Diversity of species, is what has allowed life to spread across our planet. From the deepest depths in our Oceans, to inter planetary travel. With Wisdom, we will come to succeed across our own Galaxy. At the heart of this Wisdom, is a love of all humanity and that includes true equality.

Although the book was bought as a gift for a good friend, I did browse through the pages and enjoyed the words of Professor Cox, yet again. For someone like me, who likes reading, watching scientific articles, documentary shows but struggles to understand the terminology at times, I find the way Professor Cox translates science, for the layman, perfect. He makes all he writes about interesting and easy to comprehend and encourages the mind to think and to challenge the world around us. I look forward to borrowing the book and perusing it more thoroughly. For anyone who likes science and or whom is interested in what we are all about, I recommend this book and any others written by this remarkable man.

I was given a paperback copy and after reading it bought the hardback version and immediately re-read it. As with those of Sagan, Leakey, Hawking and Attenborough it’s the sort of book that fits a niche very well. It invites you back to re-read parts that stretch the mind in the need to understand of our being and place in the Cosmos. Thoroughly enjoyable update to current thinking about our existence in the immensity.

Present for my grandaughter. lovely, but packaging very loose and fell apart as I opened it. The book was slightly damaged where it had moved around in the cardboard packaging. I was disappointed, but not badly damaged and it did arrive quickly, just need to secure it better next time. It had another smaller book with it and that was undamaged. Book itself very good content.