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