
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) is now  widely regarded as having evolved into a subscience. The field has  become immensely diverse, ranging from medical use through solid state  NMR to liquid state applications, with countless books and scientific  journals devoted to these topics. Theoretical as well as experimental  advance continues to be rapid, and has in fact accelerated by many novel  innovations. This multi-authored book focuses on the latest  developments in the rapidly evolving field of high resolution NMR,  specifically with a view to applications on the structure elucidation of  organic molecules of moderate molecular weight. Conceptually it differs  from basic educational texts, hard-core scientific papers and regular  review articles in that each chapter may be regarded as the authors'  personal account of their special insights and results that crystallised  after several years of research into a given topic. The book revolves  around several themes and offers a handful of scientific "gems" of  various colors, reflecting the great diversity of NMR. It contains 16  loosely connected chapters written by some of today's most accomplished  NMR scientists in the world. Each chapter is a unique synthesis of the  authors' previous research results in the given field, and thus projects  special insights. Much emphasis has been given to the latest  developments in NMR, in particular to selective pulses and pulsed field  gradients. As a part of the series "Analytical Spectroscopy Library",  with subsequent editions coming along this book should provide a  platform for future research accounts of similar flavor. The material is  presented in a mostly non-mathematical fashion, and is intended mainly  for chemists, application NMR scientists and students with already some  background in NMR. Some of the chapters slightly overlap in the  discussed topics, which is particularly exciting in terms of gaining  insight into the same area from different angles.