I am half-way thru this book... Alpha & Omega

It was published in 2002, I think, and only mentions the planning of the Large Hadron Collider.... but I have never seen a book which better outlines the study of the ideas..

". It is a survey of historic and contemporary efforts at cosmology: to describe the universe, trace the universe back to its origins, including the Big Bang Theory, and to determine the universe's eventual end-state."

He does as well as possible putting the ideas into a form that people who are not physicists, cosmologists & mathematicians can comprehend.
No doubt there are details which are not 'quite' in line with current thinking, but most of it lays out all the concepts that govern the basis of the Standard Model