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The Crews text is very useful for a 400-level special topics class, particularly if the pedagogical style of the professor leans towards inquiry-driven or “flipped classroom” models of teaching. Many aspects of the text make it highly suitable for an introductory graduate or upper-level undergraduate course.

The book has a number of very useful tables, but this is not a reference book. Rather, it is instructional in nature. There are questions at the end of each chapter and a solutions manual provided to instructors. The solutions manual is valuable. Because the solutions are not to be found in textbook itself, the end-of-chapter questions are suitable for use as graded assignments. The chapters are laid out logically, beginning with a general introduction into the use of spectral data and a chapter on the basics of nuclear magnetic resonance, with subsequent chapters covering the most practical details of single and …