Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles by Paul HalpernMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book came out in 2010, just 2 years after CERN opened so it is in the midst of CERN excitement and prelude to much that has been momentous since, such as when the physics world erupted in excitement in July 2012 to learn that scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN announced they had detected a particle that looked to be the so-called Higgs boson. This book is introductory to the relevant subatomic topics and at a much more accessible level than Warped Passages. Having read both I recommend this and then go on to Lisa Randall's book if you need to no more, although there are surely more up to date works out, now. Two impressions I came away with this is a renewed sadness CERN is not in the USA due to the descirptions of the abandoned Texas supercollider that never was and I final grok angular momentum as the product of radio, velocity and mass.
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