The book assumes only a basic knowledge of complex numbers and matrices, and provides the reader with numerous worked examples and problems to encourage understanding. With the explicit aim of carefully developing the subject from the beginning, the text starts with coverage of quarks and nucleons and carries through to a detailed explanation of several important NMR experiments, including NMR imaging, COSY and NOSEY.

Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition features new appendices on complex numbers, Euler Angles, average Hamiltonian theory, signal selection by field gradients in addition to new material on field gradients, digitalization and exponentials of general matrices, CSA power patterns in solids, heteronuclear decoupling, Pake patterns in solids and Hartmann-Hahn cross-polarization. Additionally, a new chapter on magic-angle-spinning and recoupling experiments has been added as well as additional information on treatment of quadrupolar interaction and chemical shift anisotropy. Four new colour plates are introduced to illustrate the spins of all isotopes in the periodic table.

Praise from the reviews of the first edition:

"This is an excellent book...that many teachers of NMR spectroscopy will cherish.. It deserves to be a ‘classic’ among NMR spectroscopy texts." NMR IN BIOMEDICINE

"I strongly recommend this book to everyone…it is probably the best modern comprehensive description of the subject." ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE, INTERNATIONAL EDITION