Meticulously organized, clearly written and fully interdiscipilinary, this updated edition cover three broad areas: analytical techniques (e.g., mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, atomic spectrometry); areas of application (e.g., forensic, environmental and clinical); and analytes (e.g., arsenic, nucleic acids and polycyclic hydrocarbons), providing a one-stop resource for all analytical science queries. Key new topics covered include genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, increasingly complex hyphenated techniques, and more. Prev. ed.: 2004.