Author's Acknowledgements

" [...] When I consider the suggestions offered during author review by the editor of this book, John Pont, and by the technical editor, Nickolas Landry, the one word that comes to mind is exacting.

Sometimes, you get a thoroughgoing project editor, and sometimes, a thoroughgoing technical editor. Rarely do you get such editors on the same book. Although they certainly put me to the test with their detailed feedback on my manuscript, I think the result justifies all our efforts. In the end, this book is stronger, tighter, and has greater technical depth thanks to their substantial input. Their persistent striving for excellence benefits all involved with the book, not the least the readers. I hope you agree.

And throughout the entire process of preparing this book for publication, neither of these fine people became, in the medical sense of the word, frenetic. As far as I know."

Notes: The project was abandoned by the author after 5 chapters.