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Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics ReviewThis is a great book. It presents the subject along the lines championed by the great Gibbs and considerably clarifies and gives organization to the method. Don't be scared by the "axiomatic treatment" boasted: it is far from a dry axiomatic treatment like those to be found on books of logic. The "axioms" are rather synthetic expressions of the physical characterization of those situations where equilibrium thermodynamics applies. The book is very readable and user friendly. There is an important review of it by R. B. Griffiths, a great authority on these matters, that regrets some changes made with respect to the previous (first) edition. This was, mainly, the addition of a few chapters on statistical mechanics. I agree. It sort of contaminates the purity of the book's spirit. But, this is not serious. It was, after all, an addition. And the treatment of phase transitions was much updated and improved, in this edition. I think this book has no competition as a text in thermodynamics. It is the ideal preparation for a book like Landau's Statistical Physics, which, in its brief but spectacular synthesis of thermodynamics, also adopts Gibbs philosophy.Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics Overview

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