Building the Universe by Christine Sutton
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. The articles describe the scientific experiments and procedures that have led both to greater understanding of the early universe and to some of the most radical transformations in our theories about its nature and origins.