From the reviews: "This is a welcome book for computational chemists. ... the book assumes an advanced knowledge of graduate and research-level statistical mechanics. ... The book can be highly recommended to serious practitioners who carry out or plan to carry out, proper liquid-phase simulations of free energy changes or equilibrium constants by the molecular dynamics method." (Donald G. Truhlar, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Vol. 121, 2008)

• Calculating Free Energy Differences Using Perturbation Theory.- Methods Based on Probability Distributions and Histograms.- Thermodynamic Integration Using Constrained and Unconstrained Dynamics.- Nonequilibrium Methods for Equilibrium Free Energy Calculations.- Understanding and Improving Free Energy Calculations in Molecular Simulations: Error Analysis and Reduction Methods.- Transition Path Sampling and the Calculation of Free Energies.- Specialized Methods for Improving Ergodic Sampling Using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations.- Potential Distribution Methods and Free Energy Models of Molecular Solutions.- Methods for Examining Phase Equilibria.- Quantum Contributions to Free Energy Changes in Fluids.- Free Energy Calculations: Approximate Methods for Biological Macromolecules.- Applications of Free Energy Calculations to Chemistry and Biology.- Summary and Outlook.

From the reviews: "This is a welcome book for computational chemists. ... the book assumes an advanced knowledge of graduate and research-level statistical mechanics. ... The book can be highly recommended to serious practitioners who carry out or plan to carry out, proper liquid-phase simulations of free energy changes or equilibrium constants by the molecular dynamics method." (Donald G. Truhlar, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Vol. 121, 2008)

• Calculating Free Energy Differences Using Perturbation Theory.- Methods Based on Probability Distributions and Histograms.- Thermodynamic Integration Using Constrained and Unconstrained Dynamics.- Nonequilibrium Methods for Equilibrium Free Energy Calculations.- Understanding and Improving Free Energy Calculations in Molecular Simulations: Error Analysis and Reduction Methods.- Transition Path Sampling and the Calculation of Free Energies.- Specialized Methods for Improving Ergodic Sampling Using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations.- Potential Distribution Methods and Free Energy Models of Molecular Solutions.- Methods for Examining Phase Equilibria.- Quantum Contributions to Free Energy Changes in Fluids.- Free Energy Calculations: Approximate Methods for Biological Macromolecules.- Applications of Free Energy Calculations to Chemistry and Biology.- Summary and Outlook.