The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation by Robert K. Adair (Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Yale University)
This introductory volume emphasises our understanding of the fundamental forces - gravitation, electromagnetism - and the fundamental particles on which they act and which go to build atoms and molecules. There are chapters on concepts; invariance and conservation laws; covariance scalars, vectors, tensors; the electromagnetic field; cosmology; and much more.