I agree with Eric,
I took the stable isotope class  using Criss' book.
And as a student I higly recommend it
The learning process is assured only if all the problems are solved

For students:

I also recommend a one year P.Chem course before solving the problems (Criss also recommends it in the introduction)

Renee
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>This is an opportunity for me to advertize Robert Criss book, "Principles
>of Stable Isotope Distribution".  Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195117751.
>
>This is a great text that covers everything in Faure (at least, everything
>to do with light stable isotopes) with a lot more attention to basic
>principles, discussion of molecular physics, etc.  I plan to use this is
>isotope classes I teach in the future, including those that include
>systems such as Rb/Sr that Criss does not discuss.  Just an example: I
>took a long day to go through the detailed development of isotope
>fractionation and the meteoric water line / temperature relationship from
>first principles (thermodynamics, etc.).  I wanted to make sure I had
>everything absolutely clear for a class I'm teaching.  Only to find a
>couple of weeks later that Criss' book does it very elegantly and would
>have saved me some time.  This is the clearest discussion of the subject I
>have seen.  There are a lot of other gems in this book as well.  I cannot
>recommend it more highly (I must note there is a bit of a diatribe against
>"global change researchers that don't know any mathematics" that could
>have been left out of the introduction.  Please ignore this, because it is
>a truly great text).
>
>Eric Steig