The pace of advances in computer simulations continues unabated. This Second Edition of our ‘guide‘ to Monte Carlo simulations updates some of the references and includes numerous-additions. New text describes algorithmic developments that appeared too late for the first edition or, in some cases, were excluded for fear that the volume would become too thick.Nonetheless, the older work often provides valuable pedagogical information for the student and may also be more readable than more recent, and more compact, papers. An additional advantage is that the reader can easily reproduce some of the older results with only a modest investment of modern computer resources. We have also added a brief new chapter that provides an overview of some areas outside of physics where traditional Monte Carlo methods have made an impact. Lastly, a few misprints have been corrected, and we thank our colleagues for pointing them out.
