Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Condensed Matter Hamiltonian -- 1 NATURE OF CONDENSED MATTER -- 2 DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY -- 3 ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATES IN METALS -- 4 TOTAL HAMILTONIAN -- 5 NEARLY-FREE-ELECTRON METALS -- Chapter 2 Statistical Mechanics -- 6 AVERAGING TECHNIQUES -- 7 QUANTUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- 8 THERMOELASTICITY -- 9 CLASSICAL STATISTICS: DERIVATION -- 10 CLASSICAL STATISTICS: APPLICATIONS -- 11 INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- Chapter 3 Lattice Dynamics -- 12 LATTICE STATICS -- 13 QUASIHARMONIC PHONONS -- 14 THEORY AND EXPERIMENT -- 15 EXPERIMENTAL PHONON DATA -- Chapter 4 Statistical Mechanics of Crystals -- 16 QUANTUM NUCLEAR MOTION -- 17 CLASSICAL NUCLEAR MOTION -- 18 ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS -- 19 LEARNING FROM THERMODYNAMIC DATA -- 20 CRYSTAL EQUATION OF STATE -- Chapter 5 Liquid Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics -- 21 CONFIGURATIONAL CORRELATIONS IN A MONATOMIC LIQUID -- 22 MELTING OF ELEMENTS -- 23 LIQUID DYNAMICS THEORY -- 24 VERIFICATION FROM COMPUTER SIMULATIONS -- 25 LIQUID EQUATION OF STATE -- Chapter 6 Phase Transitions and Nonequilibrium Processes -- 26 THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF PHASE TRANSITIONS -- 27 NONEQUILIBRIUM PROCESSES -- Bibliography -- Index.