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Charles Kittel 1986 Chichester: John Wiley x + 646 pp price £38.90 ISBN 0 471 87474 4 It is ten years since the last revision of this classic textbook, first published in 1955. During this time there have been many advances in the technological applications of solid state physics but, unlike in the first 20 years of the book's history, relatively few really important developments in the underlying science.
C Gough (1986) studied this question.