This title is a combination of Gordon G. Hammes' Thermodynamics and Kinetics for the Biological Sciences and Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences. * Includes the basic principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, and spectroscopy with a minimum of mathematics and applications to the biological sciences * Exercises to assist in learning are presented at the end of each chapter * Provides biology and biochemistry professionals a guide to understanding biophysical chemistry, with focus on thermodynamics, kinetics, and spectroscopy * Coverage on spectroscopy in includes an introduction to fundamentals, electronic spectra, circular dichroism and optical rotary dispersion, vibration in macromolecules (IR, Raman, etc), magnetic resonance, X-ray crystallography, and mass spectrometry