Abstract
By James A. Richards, Francis Weston Sears, M. Russell Wehr and Mark W. Zemansky Massachusetts and London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc Pp. xvi + 993. Price 60s.
This book represents an ambitious attempt to cover the whole of physics in one volume. It starts at rock bottom, assuming no previous knowledge; the ideas of units (even the slug!) and dimensions are first developed, and forty-five chapters later we are introduced to the 'strange' particles.