ElusiveOn 4 July 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest running mysteries in physics had finally been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle's retiring namesake the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them. Drawing on years of conversations with Higgs and others, Close explores how Higgs

Korea and Japan - steamed across the Caspian Sea to explore Central Asia

breaking world records withstanding extreme temperatures and running barefoot marathons over deserts and ice fields

In a moment of despair

In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbours

'Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway' will give you the insight and tools to vastly improve your ability to handle any given situation

Five men meet at the racetrack with little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives

The walks in this book have been chosen with the aim of discovering the history of the Black Mountains and eastern Breconshire

With Pipps imprisoned

In this dazzling new history

a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else)

'Literary Links and lists' (what connects/next in the list etc

easy-to-use photographic field guide