Finally, a particle physics text that doesn't suck eggs!<br><br>Update: After working with this text to prepare my class for this fall semester, I'm even more impressed with it than I was originally.  It's extremely well written, at the right level for the intended audience, and thoroughly modern in presentation and outlook.  It really conveys the way modern particle physicists approach the field.  Just as importantly is what it leaves out: all the ancient approaches to the field - historically relevant and powerful though they may be - that tend to confuse the novice.  It also eschews the historical approach to the field that many other texts use to their detriment.  For instructors, the solutions manual is fantastic!  It's one of the few solutions manuals I've ever seen that is self-contained ... the statement of every problem is repeated right before the solution.  No more need to have both the text and the solutions manual open at the same time to figure out what problem is being answered!