Acknowledgments would like to thank everyone who participated in the creation of this book. My agent Neil Salkind; Joya, Megg, and the crew at McGraw-Hill; Josh Flood; Bart Reed; Tania Andrabi at Glyph International; and everyone at Studio B. I would also like to thank my family--Suzannah, Christian, Sophia, and Giovanni-- my co-workers Jeanwill, Jeff, Tyrone, Larry, Steve, Rodney, Kelly, Soma, Eric, Orlando, Michelle, Matt, Nishad, Sarah, as well as all my colleagues in Central Florida and anyone else I may have forgotten. I xiii