Landau L.D., Lifshitz E.M. Course of Theoretical Physics. Volume 5. Statistical physics

3 edition. — Butterworth-Heinemann, 1975. — 544 p.
ISBN10: 0750633727 ISBN13: 978-0750633727A lucid presentation of statistical physics and thermodynamics which develops from the general principles to give a large number of applications of the theory.This book is a classic, especially in the sense it is somewhat old fashioned in its basic approaches when compared with newer books. For example it examines statistics and entropy from the ergodic as opposed to the ensemble approach. Information Theory and role of symmetry and symmetry breaking is not treated in detail.