Solid State Physics

Rating:
Summary: Competent job as an intro graduate text
Review: A good follow-on book if you have already used Ashcroft and Mermin's Solid State Physics book, or Kittel's introductory book. Some duplicate material compared to those two books. But this takes you a little further into superconductivity, for example. The treatment of which is the classic Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory.

At the graduate level, it is probably a first year text. Nothing here gets you to the research frontier. But it is a good grounding.

You should find the writing clear enough. The authors seem to have spent some time polishing the prose.