Handsomely produced monograph provides graduate students and researchers with elegantly lucid accounts of some modern aspects of the topic to which the title refers. The five chapters bear these titles: Statistical mechanics of the Heisenberg ferromagnet; Statistical mechanics of electronic models of magnetism; The method of path integration in the basic models of magnetic systems; Two- dimensional magnetic systems; Exactly solvable one-dimensional models. Translated from the Russian edition of unstated recent date. (NW) Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews. com) | Statistical Mechanics of Magnetically Ordered Systems by Izyumov Izyumov, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters