Both a comprehensive overview and a treatment at the appropriate  level of detail, this textbook explains thermodynamics and  generalizes the subject so it can be applied to small nano- or  biosystems, arbitrarily far from or close to equilibrium. In  addition, nonequilibrium free energy theorems are covered with a  rigorous exposition of each one. Throughout, the authors stress the  physical concepts along with the mathematical derivations.
  For researchers and students in physics, chemistry, materials  science and molecular biology, this is a useful text for  postgraduate courses in statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and  molecular simulations, while equally serving as a reference for  university teachers and researchers in these fields.