• Concise clear treatment of Analytical Chemistry that assumes little background knowledge
• Level writing style will suit readers from all disciplines including Chemistry, Forensic Science and Biosciences
• Emerging areas including bio-analytical and computational techniques are covered in depth
• All the figures from the book will be available to download free from the Online Resource Centre at www.oup.com/uk/best.textbooks/chemistry/higson/
• Many worked examples and self-assessment questions are included, especially where numerical calculations are required
• Boxed features give further explanation of topics of particular importance or relevance to other fields
• Three distinct sections make the book easy to use for reference either at an introductory level or by more advanced students

Readership: Undergraduates at all levels studying a degree in Chemistry or related subjects including Forensic Science, Environmental Science, or Chemical Pathology, who are taking a module in Analytical Science. Also suitable for use as a reference text by postgraduate Analytical Chemists.

Séamus P J Higson, Professor of Bio and Electroanalytical Science, Cranfield University

"It is essential that students have access to good textbooks, which give enough information to be useful to the specialist but do not overwhelm those begining in the subject. Higson had gone a long way towards providing such a book, which I am certain will be used widely in teaching analytical chemistry." - Education in Chemistry 2004.

"There is a simple design with well laid out text and uncomplicated diagrams. I particularly like the diagrams as they are very clear and would be easy for students to reproduce. The author has eradicated mathematics wherever possible, which will be popular with undergraduates." - Chemistry World

PART 1: The scope of analytical chemistry: ground rules and fundamentals Chapter 1: The scope of Analytical Chemistry and the nature of analytical measurements
Chapter 2: Analytical quality assurance and statistics
PART 2: Chemical analysis: key principles and processes
Chapter 3: Standard wet chemical and reagent-based techniques
Chapter 4: Analyses based on the determination of mass
Chapter 5: An introduction to the use of visible and ultraviolet light for analytical measurements
PART 3: The key analytical techniques
Chapter 6: Further applications of UV-visible absorption and fluorescence phenomena including X-ray fluorescence, Raman, Mossbauer, and photoelectron spectroscopic techniques
Chapter 7: Atomic spectroscopy in analytical chemistry
Chapter 8: Separatory methods and chromatography
Chapter 9: Mass spectroscopy Chapter 10: Electro-analytical techniques Chapter 11: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Chapter 12: Infrared techniques
PART 4: Analytical chemistry in practice: contemporary analytical science
Chapter 13: Radiochemical analytical methods
Chapter 14: Bio-Analytical methods
Chapter 15: Environmental analyses and assays
Chapter 16: Ctrical choice of technique, good laboratory practice, and safety in the laboratory