Statistical Mechanics: A Concise Introduction for Chemists
"This elegant new book by Benjamin Widom provides an attractive alternative for those faculty and students who want to go further...Widom has written a volume...that shows students the beauty and power of the theory as well as some of its most important contemporary applications.  The sections on molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods are amonng the best concise introductions to those techniques that I have read.  The prose is clear and erudite reflecting the scientific and personal style of the author...This book should be in the hands of everyone who teaches undergraduate physical chemistry to provide a model for what can be tuaght in that course beyond the material contained in the standard textbooks.  Graduate students and faculty who need to learn statistical mechanics can hardly find a better introduction.  Even those who regularly teach a graduate course in this area will get some new ideas and inpsiration from one of the leading practitioners of the field."   Jefferey Kovac