BOOKS RECEIVED

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass. Frank Close. 304 pp. Basic Books, 2022. Price: $30 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1541620803.

A Standard Model Workbook. Thomas A. Moore. 584 pp. University Science Books, 2023. Price: $78 (paperback). ISBN 978-1940380179.

Soft Matter: Concepts, Phenomena and Applications. Wim Van Saarloos, Vincenzo Vitelli, and Zorana Zeravcic. 624 pp. Princeton U. P., 2024. Price: $90 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0691191300.

Statistical Mechanics of Phases and Phase Transitions. Steven A. Kivelson, Jack Mingde Jiang, and Jeffrey Chang. 472 pp. Princeton U. P., 2024. Price: $150 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0691249735.