In the ensuing 22 years, many of its recommendations have been embraced. Still, Christocentrism permeates LC, racially-tinged "Oriental" and "primitive" headings abound, reminding the profession of the progress made and problems that persist. The McFarland edition includes a foreword, a new preface and an index.

    My primary objective was to provide a specific alternative to the conventional developments of statistical mechanics, an alternative based on Richard Cox's contribution to probability theory, Claude Shannon's development of information theory, and Edwin Jaynes' view of statistical mechanics.