As a quick & dirty first step towards sourcing objective material for footnotes on why books are notable and suitable for inclusion, here are some hit counts from Google. (Checking the hit counts just for "statistical mechanics" may be useful if people want to compare results for other titles in future).

• -wikipedia "statistical mechanics" 1,250,000

• -wikipedia Gibbs "elementary principles in statistical mechanics" 10,800
• -wikipedia Gibbs "statistical mechanics" 412,000

• -wikipedia Ehrenfest "conceptual foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics" 542
• -wikipedia Ehrenfest "German Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences" 33
• -wikipedia Ehrenfest "Begriffliche Grundlagen" "statistischen Auffassung" "Mechanik" 134
• -wikipedia Ehrenfest "statistical mechanics" 39,800

• -wikipedia Fowler "Statistical mechanics : the theory of the properties of matter in equilibrium" 56
• -wikipedia Fowler "statistical mechanics" "properties of matter in equilibrium" 211
• -wikipedia Fowler "statistical mechanics" 65,000

• -wikipedia Tolman "principles of statistical mechanics" 15,400
• -wikipedia Tolman "statistical mechanics" 36,300

• -wikipedia Landau Lifshitz "statistical physics" 169,000
• -wikipedia Landau Lifshitz "statistical mechanics" 108,000

• -wikipedia Khinchin "Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics" 10,200
• -wikipedia Khinchin "statistical mechanics" 24,700

• -wikipedia Sommerfeld "Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics" 871
• -wikipedia Sommerfeld "statistical mechanics" 49,000

• -wikipedia "ter Haar" "Elements of statistical mechanics" 422
• -wikipedia "ter Haar" "Elements of thermostatistics" 59
• -wikipedia "ter Haar" "statistical mechanics" 17,600

• -wikipedia "Huang" "statistical mechanics" 426,000

• -wikipedia Kubo "statistical mechanics" 35,900

• -wikipedia Reif "Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics" 35,100
• -wikipedia Reif "Statistical and Thermal Physics" 40,000
• -wikipedia Reif "statistical mechanics" 35,900

• -wikipedia Reif "Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics" 35,100
• -wikipedia Reif "Statistical and Thermal Physics" 40,000
• -wikipedia Reif "statistical mechanics" 35,900

• -wikipedia Kittel "thermal physics" 32,400
• -wikipedia Kittel "statistical mechanics" 52,600

• -wikipedia "Penrose" "foundations of statistical mechanics" 736
• -wikipedia "Oliver Penrose" "statistical mechanics" 795
• -wikipedia "O. Penrose" "statistical mechanics" 13,600

• -wikipedia "Mandl" "statistical physics" 16,700
• -wikipedia "Mandl" "statistical mechanics" 15,800

• -wikipedia "Baierlein" "atoms and information theory" 125
• -wikipedia Baierlein "thermal physics" 796
• -wikipedia "Baierlein" "statistical mechanics" 657

• -wikipedia "Mcquarrie" "statistical mechanics" 47,600

• -wikipedia "Landsberg" "Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics" 1,150
• -wikipedia "Landsberg" "statistical mechanics" 24,100

• -wikipedia "Ruelle" "thermodynamic formalism" 35,400
• -wikipedia "Ruelle" "statistical mechanics rigorous results" (NY: Benjamin, 1969; 1974; 1989; 4e 1999) 18,400
• -wikipedia "Ruelle" "statistical mechanics" 113,000

• -wikipedia "Reichl" "statistical mechanics" 27,300
• -wikipedia "Reichl" "modern course in statistical physics" 21,900

• -wikipedia "Ma" "statistical mechanics" 973,000

• -wikipedia "Waldram" "theory of thermodynamics" 258
• -wikipedia "Waldram" "statistical mechanics" 652

• -wikipedia "Chandler" "statistical mechanics" 97,900

• -wikipedia "Hoover" "computational statistical mechanics" 752
• -wikipedia "Hoover" "statistical mechanics" 61,400

• -wikipedia "Pathria" "statistical mechanics" 35,900

Jheald 14:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC) reply