The folks at Manning have been supportive right from the start??”particularly
Jackie Carter??™s original work with me, as well as Mike Stephens??™ help at a high level
throughout the process and Jeff Bleiel??™s constant support and diligent editing. Liz
Welch performed the near-impossible trick of making the copyediting process fun for
both of us, and Karen Tegtmeyer kept me relatively sane during nail-biting peer
reviews. These are only the people I got to know reasonably well during the last year;
many other people were involved in the project, doing marvelous things: there??™s the
production team of Gordan Salinovic, Dottie Marsico, Tiffany Taylor, Katie Tennant,
and Mary Piergies; cover designer Leslie Haimes; webmaster Gabriel Dobrescu, marketing
director Ron Tomich, and last but not least, publisher Marjan Bace.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxii
The aforementioned peer reviewers are a picky bunch. There??™s no doubt in my
mind that my life would have been easier without them??”it??™s really you, the reader,
who should thank them for a much better end result in the book that you are now
reading. They pushed, prodded, pulled, commented, questioned, and generally made
thorough nuisances of themselves??”which is exactly what they were asked to do??”as
they read the manuscript in its many iterations. So on your behalf I thank Dave
Corun, Anil Radhakrishna, Riccardo Audano, Will Morse, Christopher Haupt, Robin
Shahan, Mark Seeman, Peter A.
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