Elusive simple

Elusive simple*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had finally been discovered. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particles

The epic #1 New York Times bestselling love story that spans decades and continents as two people at a crossroads—one from North Carolina and one from Zimbabwe—experience the transcendence and heartbreak of true love

the impact of class

16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured

Drawing on her own experience with her colorful eighty-four-year-old mother and the collective wisdom of more than one hundred other adult daughters

which has depleted university endowments and state investments in higher education

Along the way there are dozens of profiles of political trailblazers like Shirley Chisholm

it seemed to open a window into the Italian soul

Employing the Habits of a Healthy Mind

and another friend

In those moments

Richard Harris explores these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes

For everyone who's ever felt threatened