Acknowledgments

As with every book, a lot of work from a lot of people went into making this happen.

Our managing editor, Tim Green, proved that he’s much more pleasant to work with when we’re on schedule. Who knew? Tim offered his usual excellent motivational skills to get this project done.

Patty Mon, our editorial supervisor, did an outstanding job with the book, getting great people on board and coordinating our global team.

Our acquisitions coordinator, Meghan Riley, is the reason you’re reading this right now. She nags more nicely than anyone you’ll ever meet (and makes sure we turn everything in on a timely basis).

Ed Dinovo and Aaron Verber, the two contributing editors on the book, demonstrated technical and linguistic virtuosity. Your efforts made this edition the best ever. Thank you.

Michael Smyer provided excellent photographs for the book, and Ford Pierson added his gifted illustrations. Thanks, guys!

Lisa Theobald did great work as our copy editor, with her skill at catching the awkward and turning it into the graceful. (We were going to say that you made the book more gooder, but couldn’t bring ourselves to write that!)

Our technical editor, Chris Crayton, smacked us around, as usual, in his kind and friendly manner, and he helped keep the book on the path to true technical enlightenment. Thanks for all your input, both on the tech and the flow of the work.

The layout team at Glyph did a remarkable job putting the prose and pictures into the printable form that you get to enjoy now!

Finally, thanks to our proofreader, Laura Bowman, for catching those undotted t’s and uncrossed i’s. Excellent job.

Great work, team!