Plischke (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Bergersen (University of British Columbia, Canada) have added a significant amount of new material to this third edition of a text for graduate students in physics, chemistry, and materials science. There is a new chapter on stochastic processes, and new material on magnetic work, the maximum entropy principle, and the Potts model. A new chapter on applications of mean field theory contains a description of the two-species asymmetric exclusion model to illustrate the application of mean field theory outside the scope of equilibrium statistical mechanics. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)