From the reviews: "The book is centered on the symbiotic relationship between ergodic theory and statistical mechanics, in particular on its modern applications to chaotic and non-chaotic dynamical systems. In slightly more than 400 pages the authors … discuss in detail important applications of the theory. This is achieved by treating many important and interesting questions as 'guided problems' … . the entire book is tightly and nicely knitted together." (Luc Rey-Bellet, Mathematical Reviews, 2005h) "The main novelty is the systematic treatment of a few characteristic problems of ergodic theory by a unified method in terms of convergent or divergent power series expansions. … The problems at the end of every section are an essential complement to the text … ." (Nasir N. Ganikhodjaev, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol.

1065, 2005).