This volume was authored by one of the most respected researchers in the field, as well as the Becker sisters.  It is beautifully illustrated, and is well timed for upcomming experimental tests of superstring theory at the Large Hadron collider.  I did not give if five starts because it only devoted four pages to the Landscape, which professor Susskind, the father of string theory, has declared the most significant advance in physics in the past century.