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This English undergraduate textbook on thermodynamics contains no statistical mechanics or kinetic theory, thus departing from the usual format of undergraduate textbooks. It is compact and has small but adequate line drawings. It belongs to a series designed to provide affordable basic physics textbooks, an objective that has more or less survived the Atlantic crossing. All standard thermodynamics is covered well and clearly, with applications to real gases, low-temperature physics, magnetisim, and black-body radiation. Rubber elasticity is a novel example. The book is clearly written, well organized, and has a small number of good problems with brief answers to all of them. Undergraduates majoring in the physical sciences will find this a useful book. For college libraries.-P.G. Klemens, University of Connecticut