Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: An Anthropologist Studies Physicists -- 1 Touring the Site: Powerful Places in the Laboratory -- 2 Inventing Machines That Discover Nature: Detectors at SLAC and KEK -- 3 Pilgrim's Progress: Male Tales Told During a Life in Physics -- 4 Ground States: Distinctions and the Ties That Bind -- 5 Buying Time and Taking Space: Negotiations, Collaboration, and Change -- Epilogue: Knowledge and Passion -- Notes -- Index.