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The remaining topics are topological nanophononics and chiral phononics, phonon spectroscopy, and phonons in liquid helium. This is followed by three comprehensive chapters on the I ab initio i calculation of phonons in the harmonic approximation, including both direct and linear response methods, anharmonicity, and lattice thermal conductivity, including relaxation-time, variational and linear response methods. This is a welcome revision, about 30 years after the first edition, of one of the most comprehensive monographs on the theory of phonons. [Extracted from the article]