This volume contains contributions from the meeting held in honour of G.F. Dell'Antonio for his sixtieth birthday. The topics covered include the theory of clas

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In Statistical Physics one of the ambitious goals is to derive rigorously, from statistical mechanics, the thermodynamic properties of models with realistic for