Great Breakthroughs in Physics: How the Story of Matter and its Motion Changed the World by Robert Snedden
An excellent introduction to what has been described as the science that studies matter, motion, time and space.
Introduction: Superstition to Supertheories
Chapter 1: Physical Attractions
Chapter 2: Classical Gas
Chapter 3: A Mechanical World
Chapter 4: Seeing the Light
Chapter 5: States of Matter
Chapter 6: Electrifying Experiences
Chapter 7: Electromagnetism
Chapter 8: Thermodynamics
Chapter 9: Everything is Relative
Chapter 10: Bending Spacetime
Chapter 11: The Quantum Realm
Chapter 12: To the Particle Zoo, and Beyond