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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some tanning. Second edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> More than thirteen years have elapsed since the manuscript of the first edition was completed. For some time it has been clear that a second edition was needed. In the last fifteen years statistical mechanics has developed at an enormous pace and a textbook on statistical mechanics should take these developments into account. When I started to contemplate what changes should be made it soon became clear that if the book were to cover even approximately the same ground as the first edition did it would have to be greatly expanded. It was then decided to split the book into two parts the first volume covering the basic theory; a second volume advanced theory. As a result the present volume is now probably more suitable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate courses than the first edition was. To improve its usefulness a variety of problems has been included. I am greatly indebted to R. Kubo and the North Holland Publishing Company for permission to incorporate some of the problems from Kubo’s Statistical Mechanics and to the Oxford University Press for permission to incorporate problems from Oxford University Examination Papers.