"Provides a thorough introduction to the use of scaling and field-theoretic techniques that have become standard equipment in many areas of physics, especially quantum field theory. Intended for beginning graduates students, especially those with background in physics but no knowledge of quantum field theory (jargon is kept to a minimum)." --SciTech Book News

"Exceptional in two essential respects: first, it covers, in a self-contained manner, practically all aspects of the subject; and second, it is comprehensible from the beginning to the end for students with only a good undergraduate background in physics. The pedagogical level of this excellent textbook is very high. . . . frequent summaries throughout the book of main ideas as well as the arrangement of technical details and mathematical techniques in numerous boxes and appendices; this makes the book easily readable. . . . wonderful." --Condensed Matter News

"Deserves a high rating. The book is written very clearly and simply, which makes it accessible. Teachers and students either teaching or studying phase transitions . . . should find this book very useful. . . . young researchers working in the area of phase transitions will benefit from the detailed description of the renormalization group theory." --Journal of Statistical Physics

"The book is written very clearly and simply, which makes it accessible to anyone who passed the principle undergraduate physics courses."--Journal of Statistical Physics