Acknowledgments

I thank Roger Day, and Paul Lewis who resolutely poured through the entire manuscript, placing insightful and useful comments in every chapter. I thank Stuart Kramer, whose valuable suggestions for the content and organization of the text came when the project was in its formative stage. Special thanks go to Denise Penrose, who worked on her very last day at Elsevier to find this title a suitable home at Elsevier’s Morgan Kaufmann imprint. I thank Andrea Dierna, Heather Scherer, and all the staff at Morgan Kaufmann who shepherded this book through the publication and marketing processes.