Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Part 1 Mean Field Approach to Cooperative Phenomena -- 1.1 An overview -- 1.2 Liquid-vapor transitions -- 1.3 Ferromagnetic transitions -- 1.4 Superconductive transitions -- 1.5 Order-disorder transitions in alloys -- 1.6 Ferroelectric transitions -- 1.7 Superfluid transitions -- 1.8 Ferroelastic transitions -- 1.9 Landau theory and effective field approach. Role of fluctuations -- 1.10 Equation of state and the scaling function -- Appendix: Effective field approach to superconductors -- Part 2 Some Applications to Ferroelectrics: 1970-1991 -- 2.1 Behavior at T = Tc of pure ferroelectric systems with second order phase transition -- 2.2 Effects of dipolar impurities in small amounts -- 2.3 Mixed ferro-antiferroelectric systems and other mixed ferroelectric systems -- 2.3.1 Comment on "Ferroelectricity in zinc cadmium telluride" -- 2.4 Relaxation phenomena near Tc -- 2.5 Polarization reversal in ferroelectric systems -- 2.6 Polarization switching by domain wall motion -- 2.7 Switching current pulse shape -- 2.8 Elementary excitations in ferroelectrics: Dipole waves -- 2.9 Low-temperature behavior of ferroelectrics -- 2.10 Logarithmic corrections -- Part 3 Some Applications to Ferroelectrics: 1991-1997 -- 3.1 Pressure dependence of the free energy expansion coefficients in PbTiO3 and BaTiO3 and tricritical point behavior -- 3.2 Ultrasonic study of the ferroelectric phase transition in RbD2PO4 -- 3.3 New technique for investigating ferroelectric phase transitions: The photoacoustic effect -- 3.4 Tricritical point behavior and quadrupole interactions in ferroelectrics -- 3.5 Frequency and temperature dependence of sound velocity in TGS near Tc -- 3.6 Dipolar and higher order interactions in ferroelectric TSCC.

3.7 Thermal hysteresis and quadrupole interactions in ferroelectric transitions -- 3.8 Specific heat and quadrupole interactions in uniaxial ferroelectrics -- 3.9 Field-dependent temperature shift of the dielectric losses peak in TGS -- 3.10 Discontinuity and quasitricritical behavior near Tc in ferroelectric triglycine selenate -- 3.11 Scaling equation of state for ferroelectric triglycine selenate at T ≈ Tc -- 3.12 Composition dependence of the ferroelectric-paraelectric transition in the mixed system PbZr1-xTixO3 -- 3.13 Observations of two ferroelectric response times in TGSe at T ≤ Tc -- 3.14 Equation of state for pressure and temperature induced transition in ferroelectric telluric acid ammonium phosphate -- 3.15 Neutron diffraction investigation of the FRL-FRH transition in Nb-doped PbZr1-xTixO3 with x = 0.035 -- 3.16 O3 tilt and Pb/(Zr/Ti) displacement order parameters in Zr-Rich PbZr1-xTixO3 from 20 to 500 K -- 3.17 Dielectric characterization of the phase transitions in Pb1-y/2(Zr1-xTix)1-yNbyO3 (0.03 ≤ x ≤ 0.04, 0.025 ≤ y ≤ 0.05) -- Part 4 Some Applications to Ferrolectrics: 1998-2005 -- 4.1 Scaling and metastable behavior in uniaxial ferroelectrics -- 4.2 Energy conversion with Zr-rich lead Zirconate/Titanate ceramics -- 4.3 Microscopic characterization of low-field switching in ferroelectric TGS -- 4.4 Brillouin scattering studies of ferroelectric triglycine selenate sound velocity versus uniaxial pressure at T ~ Tc -- 4.5 Piezoelectric resonance investigation of Zr-rich PZT at room temperature -- 4.6 Transition temperature dependence in perovskite ceramics as a function of grain size -- 4.7 A monoclinic ferroelectric phase in the Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3 solid solution.

4.8 Tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transition in ferroelectric perovskite: The structure of PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3 -- 4.9 Evolution of the ferroelectric transition character of partially deuterated triglycine selenate -- 4.10 Composition dependence of transition temperature in mixed ferroelectric-ferroelectric systems -- 4.11 Temperature dependence of mode Grüneisen parameters in ferroelectric perovskites at T = Tc -- 4.12 Quantum tunneling versus zero point energy in double-well potential model for ferroelectric phase transitions -- Index.