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Accelerating Science: Particle Physics at CERNThank you for choosing to travel with Times Journeys. To show our appreciation, we are pleased to offer you a special gift certificate of $30 PER BOOKING at Longitude Books. Please use code NYTJ18 to redeem your coupon online or over the phone. Here is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/TJ26277.

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McPhee, John. La Place de la Concorde Suisse. Noonday Press, 1994. McPhee deploys his usual insight and wonderful prose on the phenomenon of the Swiss army, presenting an irreverent portrait of Switzerland and the Swiss mindset. (PAPER, 150 Pp., $16.00, Item SWZ14)

Carroll, Sean. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World. Plume, 2013. In this absorbing and accessible science narrative, award-winning writer Carroll explain big concepts (including the Higgs boson) in layman’s terms while also covering the fascinating history of CERN and especially the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. (PAPER, 353 Pp., $17.00, Item SCI343)

Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc.. Fodor’s Switzerland. Fodor’s, 2015. A practical, comprehensive guide to Switzerland from the popular series, featuring information on what to see and where to eat, sleep and shop. (PAPER, 608 Pp., $22.99, Item SWZ59)

ITMB. Geneva Map. ITMB, 2013. A detailed traveler’s map of Geneva, Switzerland, at a scale of 1:6,000. (MAP, Pp., $10.95, Item SWZ51)

MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS

Ireland, Barbara. 36 Hours Guide, Europe. Taschen, 2016. Filled with recommendations from The New York Times’ travel column, this well-curated guide to Europe is organized in a day-by-day, hour-by-hour format. A great way to inject cool, quirky and inspired experiences into every moment. (PAPER, 672 Pp., $39.99, Item EUR510)

Maycock, Kendall. Culture Smart! Switzerland. Kuperard, 2016. A concise, no-nonsense guide to Switzerland’s customs, etiquette and culture. (PAPER, 168 Pp., $11.99, Item SWZ58)

HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION

Bewes, Diccon. Swiss Watching, Inside Europe’s Landlocked Island. Nicholas Brealey, 2012. An international bestseller. Diccon Bewees, a neutral Brit, covers cheese, chocolate, William Tell, bureaucracy and banks, all with humor and thorough research. His cultural portrait of the one-of-a-kind nation includes tips on local customs, greetings and etiquette. Second edition. (PAPER, 324 Pp., $19.95, Item SWZ73)

Gerlach, Hans. Alpine Cookbook. Daedalus, 2015. Subtitled “Comfort Food from the Mountain,” DK’s Alpine Cookbook collects 110 delicious recipes from Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. The dishes, which combine traditional cuisine with modern trends, include schnitzel, potato pancakes, meaty main courses and savory vegetarian options. (HARD COVER, 224 Pp., $22.00, Item ALP49)

Nelson, Kay Shaw. Cuisines of the Alps. Hippocrene Books, 2004. Subtitled “Recipes, Drinks, and Lore from France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia,” this colorful tour of the region’s rustic cuisine offers more than 140 recipes, a section on regional wines and historical information. (HARD COVER, 197 Pp., $24.95, Item CEU38)

TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Herrmann, Anne. Coming Out Swiss, In Search of Heidi, Chocolate and My Other Life. University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. Part memoir, part history, part travelogue, Anne Hermann’s passionate celebration of what it means to be Swiss intertwines personal revelation with cultural fact. (HARD COVER, 264 Pp., $26.95, Item SWZ82)

LITERATURE

Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac. Vintage Books, 1995. Funny, stylish and spellbinding, Brookner’s novel tracks the story of a romance novelist seeking evasive peace and quiet at the luxurious Hotel du Lac in Switzerland. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. (PAPER, 184 Pp., $15.95, Item SWZ05)

Le Carre, John. The Night Manager. Ballantine Books, 2017. This best-selling, post-Cold War thriller about ruthless arms dealers in Geneva is a gripping read. Carrying on the great Le Carre tradition of espionage, a man who essentially gave up living after a tremendous failure is given a costly shot at redemption. (PAPER, 480 Pp., $16.00, Item SWZ06)

SCIENCE, NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES

Beech, Martin. The Large Hadron Collider: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe. Springer, 2010. A professor of astronomy, Martin Beech outlines not just how the Large Hadron Collider was built and how it works but also includes very good description of the physics that the LHC hopes to explore. With sections on: The Story of Matter; The World’s Most Complicated Machine; The Standard Model, the Higgs, and Beyond; The Big Bang and the First 380,000 Years; Dark Matter; Dark Energy and an Accelerating Universe; and The Waiting Game. (PAPER, 296 Pp., $34.99, Item SCI326)

Corcoran, David. The New York Times Book of Science, More Than 150 Years of Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage. Sterling Publishing Company, 2015. Straight from the pages of the New York Times, this collection of 125 articles features a range of esteemed writers and covers a century of breakthroughs, setbacks and mysteries. (HARD COVER, 560 Pp., $24.95, Item SCI356)

Dean, Cornelia (Editor), and Neil Degrasse Tyson (Foreword). The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy, More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe. Sterling Publishing Company, 2013. Selected by former science editor Cornelia Dean, this collection of 125 articles chronicles a century of important scientific advances and setbacks. (HARD COVER, 557 Pp., $24.95, Item SCI357)

Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe, Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. Greene, one of the world’s leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy. (HARD COVER, 464 Pp., $27.95, Item SCI172)

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Kane, Gordon L.. The Particle Garden, Our Universe As Understood by Particle Physicists. Addison-Wesley, 1996. A survey of particle physics including the theory, its experimental foundations, its relations to cosmology and astrophysics, and its future. Known as an excellent expositor of physics, Kane has marshaled his research and teaching experience to make this daunting subject understandable to all readers. (PAPER, 240 Pp., $15.95, Item SCI173)

Krauss, Lawrence M.. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. Atria Books, 2013. Cosmologist Krauss (The Physics of Star Trek) illuminates the big questions of the origin and evolution of the universe. With a new preface about the significance of the Higgs particle. (PAPER, 202 Pp., $16.00, Item SCI324)

Lincoln, Don. Understanding the Universe, From Quarks to the Cosmos. Aa Balkema, 2012. Experimental physicist Lincoln geared this overview of particle physics toward the lay reader, mixing in history and humor, but readers will need a basic understanding of physics and their full attention to keep up. (PAPER, 567 Pp., $31.00, Item NAT118)

Overbye, Dennis. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe. Back Bay Books, 1999. Science writer Dennis Overbye tells the story of a small band of researchers, equipped with a 200-inch telescope, whose quest for the origins of the universe led to the discovery of quasars, black holes, shadow matter and Nobel Prizes. (PAPER, 464 Pp., $24.99, Item SCI375)

Veltman, Martinus. Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics. Aa Balkema, 2003. Leaving out the equations, Nobel Laureate Veltman presents the standard model, detection, the CERN neutrino experiment, quantum chromodynamics and other features of modern particle physics without the math. (PAPER, 340 Pp., $24.00, Item SCI323)