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... it is correspondingly rewarding to readers who work their way through it. Using diagrams, analogies, and simplified versions of complicated mathematics, the author largely follows the historical order of discovery. ... Widely accepted information is explained in terms of widely accepted concepts, and the reader is assured that it comes with no strings attached. ... Summing up: Highly recommended . - D. Park, emeritus, Williams College, in Choice, Vol. 44, No. 11, July 2007 There seems little doubt that this version of The New Cosmic Onion will prove just as popular as the 1983 edition and encourage many of today's students to apply for physics undergraduate courses. - G. Miller, St. Paul's School, in Contemporary Physics, November 2007 . . . you get a text which is lucid, engaging and accurate . . . Overall what one gets with this text is an excellent accessible introduction to particle physics and quantumchromodynamics (QCD) which will serve both the pre-university and university markets. - Gren Ireson, Loughborough University, in Physical Science Educational Review, 2007, Vol. 8, No. 1 New accelerators are being built that will show how the seeds of matter were created when our universe was less than a billionth of a second old. The discoveries in this century promise to be no less revolutionary than in the last . . . The New Cosmic Onion will provide the explanations that students, opinion formers and intelligent citizens need if they are to understand how science has come to this frontier, and where we think it is headed in the immediate future. from the Foreword

... it is correspondingly rewarding to readers who work their way through it. Using diagrams, analogies, and simplified versions of complicated mathematics, the author largely follows the historical order of discovery. ... Widely accepted information is explained in terms of widely accepted concepts, and the reader is assured that it comes with no strings attached. ... Summing up: Highly recommended . - D. Park, emeritus, Williams College, in Choice, Vol. 44, No. 11, July 2007 There seems little doubt that this version of The New Cosmic Onion will prove just as popular as the 1983 edition and encourage many of today's students to apply for physics undergraduate courses. - G. Miller, St. Paul's School, in Contemporary Physics, November 2007 . . . you get a text which is lucid, engaging and accurate . . . Overall what one gets with this text is an excellent accessible introduction to particle physics and quantumchromodynamics (QCD) which will serve both the pre-university and university markets. - Gren Ireson, Loughborough University, in Physical Science Educational Review, 2007, Vol. 8, No. 1 New accelerators are being built that will show how the seeds of matter were created when our universe was less than a billionth of a second old. The discoveries in this century promise to be no less revolutionary than in the last . . . The New Cosmic Onion will provide the explanations that students, opinion formers and intelligent citizens need if they are to understand how science has come to this frontier, and where we think it is headed in the immediate future. from the Foreword

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