Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Prelude -- 1. The standard model -- 2. Aspects of the theory of relativity -- 3. Quantum theory -- 4. The leptons -- 5. Antimatter -- 6. Hadrons -- 7. Hadron reactions -- 8. Particle decays -- 9. The evidence for quarks -- 10. Experimental techniques -- 11. Exchange forces -- 12. The big bang -- 13. The geometry of space -- 14. Dark matter -- 15. Inflation-a cure for all ills -- Postlude -- Appendices -- Index.