From reviews of the first edition‎:‎ ‎'‎Weinberg ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ is no stranger to explaining abstruse science in a clear and engaging fashion to the general public‎,‎ which is precisely what he does here‎.‎ The building blocks of matter ‎- from electrons all the way down to muons‎,‎ pions‎,‎ hadrons‎,‎ and the charmed quark ‎- become‎,‎ in his hands‎,‎ so much intellectual putty‎.‎‎'‎ The Boston Globe ‎'‎One cannot fail to be touched by it‎.‎‎'‎ New Scientist ‎'‎It is a happy fact that some of the greatest scientists have been skilled expositors of their subject for nonscientific audiences‎.‎ Einstein‎,‎ Eddington‎,‎ and Feynman come to mind‎.‎ Steven Weinberg‎,‎ a Nobel Laureate and brilliantly contemporary theorist‎,‎ belongs in this company ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ It is ideally suited to inspire a next generation of physicists‎.‎‎'‎ American Journal of Physics ‎'‎A beautiful example of a new approach with which the nonscientist can attain literacy in physics‎.‎‎'‎ Physics Today ‎'‎Weinberg takes the reader through a brief history of electric forces from Coulomb to Faraday‎,‎ enabling him to‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎