by W D McComb, Oxford University Press. Hardback ISBN 0198506945, £39.95 ($74.50).
Occupying a gap between standard undergraduate and more advanced texts on quantum field theory, this book covers a range of renormalization methods, including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It proceeds by easy steps to the epsilon expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on fluid turbulence. Requiring only the basic physics and mathematics known to most scientists and engineers, the material should be accessible to readers other than theoretical physicists.
