Acknowledgments

No book is written in isolation. I especially want to thank Laura Norman, executive editor for Pearson/Peachpit, for her continued support of this book; Margaret Anderson for her thoughtful editing; Conrad Chavez for his technical review and Kim Scott for the intricate jigsaw puzzle design of each page. This book has significantly benefited from their efforts.

I am deeply grateful to my intrepid team of beta readers: Jane and Paul Jordan, Annabelle Lau, Macaleigh Hendricks, and Noel Wong. They read and extensively commented on many (many) early drafts, helping me better define and explain these concepts. I’m deeply grateful for their thoughts. As well as my USC students over the years who helped me refine the most effective ways to teach these concepts.

To Stephen Roth and Paige Bravin, of Thalo LLC, for their encouragement and support of my training for many years.

I also want to thank our photos team: photographer, Janet Barnett, actors Kim Acunã, and Allison Williams, as well as Amy Camacho, for her skills at hair and makeup. Thanks to Janet, as well, for the use of her wine bar: Nabu. It is so exciting working with talented and enthusiastic people bringing the ideas in my imagination to life. You were amazing and fun to work with, as the images in this book attest.

Thinking of images, here’s a quick shout-out to the talented photographers submitting images to Pexels.com. What a wealth of diverse and quality images! Many of the photos in this book were sourced from there.

Finally, a special thanks to Steve Mills (armpitstudios.com) and his image database: Image Chest. I used it throughout the writing of this book to track my images and the copyright/permission data that each required. His willingness to quickly fix bugs and add new features—which are now in the released product—was invaluable and deeply appreciated.