Product Description: Red Snow: When Kayla embarks on a drive from Washington to Texas, she is just doing her job. When the black 1967 Impala starts showing up at every turn, she starts to think it might be more than coincidence. When the mysterious driver leaves her a note, she is engulfed in a race for her life...read more

Product Description: Boasting more than three hundred illustrations, the majority in full color, The Particle Odyssey takes us on an exhilarating tour of the subatomic world. The pictures here are truly marvelous--over 100 of the best images ever taken of particle 'events'--mysterious, abstract, often beautiful photographs of the tracks of subatomic particles as they speed, curve, dance, or explode through cloud and bubble chambers, stacks of photographic emulsion, and giant multi-element detectors...read more

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Describes the development of the field of particle physics, examines the nature of matter and energy, and profiles the careers of leading particle physicists

Product Description: Spaceship Neutrino charts the history of the neutrino, from its beginnings in the 1930s, when it was postulated as a way of explaining an otherwise intractable problem in physics, to its crucial role in modern theories of the Universe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Though so many aspects of our daily lives are influenced by science in action, few of us understand the physical and chemical processes at work. Written for everyone who has asked how the events they see around them actually take place--and why they occur--The Physical World offers an immensely readable, up-to-date, and entertaining survey of scientific knowledge...read more

Recreates the project at CERN, Europe's center for research in particle physics, in which scientists working with the world's most powerful particle accelerators confirmed the existence of the W particle, the carrier of one of nature's most fundamental forces

Product Description: This collection of "New Scientist" articles conveys all the excitement of major scientific discovery as it charts the ways in which physicists have pieced together a picture of the basic constituents of matter - quarks and leptons - and the four fundamental forces that hold them together...read more

Recreates the project at CERN, Europe's center for research in particle physics, in which scientists working with the world's most powerful particle accelerators confirmed the existence of the W particle, the carrier of one of nature's most fundamental forces