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"""Grand unification theories have long been a holy grail in science. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wilczek...offers a survey of everything in the universe from quarks to black holes, elucidating the current scientific thinking on how matter and energy interact...[This] will be a hit with hard-core science buffs."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Wilczek knows what he's writing about... Wilczek delivers an approachable verbal picture of what quarks and gluons are doing inside a proton that gives rise to mass and, hence, gravity...A near-obligatory acquisition for circulating physics collections."" -- ""Booklist"""

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Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work that he did as a twenty-one-year-old graduate student. His 1989 book, Longing for the Harmonies, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has been anthologized in Best American Science Writing and The Norton Anthology of Light Verse. He is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai, China, and a distinguished professor at Arizona State University and Stockholm University. Coming soon... Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years' experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children's stories.

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