Reddit mentions of The Standard Model: A Primer

On the real model the same interactions appear (the potential is always the mexican hat). The real model is actually very simple when you get used to the transformation properties of the fields. This http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Model-Primer-Cliff-Burgess/dp/0521860369 has a very simple approach!

After Halzen and Martin, you might also be interested in Burgess and Moore which has nice treatments of (reasonably) current research areas in high energy physics.

Well, I don't mind reading a few equations. My former institute would be ashamed of me if I couldn't even do that.

Let me clarify. By "non-mathematical", I don't want to read pages and pages of derivations, justifications, and proofs. I want to get a book with excellent qualitative descriptions of the particles, their functions, the stories behind their discoveries, experimental descriptions of the verification of each one, and how they interact with each other.

I've been looking at these few titles:

http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Model-Primer-Cliff-Burgess/dp/0521860369

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Standard-Model-Particle-Physics/dp/0521852498/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342797161&sr=1-2&keywords=standard+model

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Elementary-Particles-David-Griffiths/dp/3527406018/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b


Do you any experience with these few?