ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There are many individuals we need to acknowledge, individuals without whom this effort would not have been successful. This book would not have been possible without Tim Green and Meghan Riley Manfre, who navigated a myriad of problems and made life easier for the author team. They brought together an all-star production team that made this book possible. The list needs to start with those folks at McGraw-Hill who worked tirelessly with the project’s multiple authors and led us successfully through the minefield that is a book schedule and who took our rough chapters and drawings and turned them into the final, professional product you hold today. We thank all the good people from the acquisitions team, Tim Green, Meghan Riley Manfre, and Stephanie Evans; from the editorial services team, Jody McKenzie and Rachel Gunn; from the illustration and production teams, James Kussow and Jean Butterfield; and the composition team at Apollo Publishing Services. We also thank the technical editor, Kelly Sparks; the copyeditor, Bart Reed; the proofreader, Nancy Bell; and the indexer, Jack Lewis. Their attention to detail made this a finer work after they finished with it.

We would also like to thank Art Conklin for herding the cats on yet another project. Finally, we would each like to thank those people who—on a personal basis—have provided the core support for us individually. Without these special people in our lives, none of us could have put this work together.