PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED Edinburgh Gate Harlow CM20 2JE United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1279 623623 Web: www.pearson.com/uk _________________________

First published 2006 (print) Second edition published 2013 (print and electronic)

© Pearson Education Limited 2006 (print) © Pearson Education Limited 2013 (print and electronic)

The rights of Denzil Rankine and Peter Howson to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Pearson Education is not responsible for the content of third-party internet sites.

ISBN: 978-1-292-00063-3 (print)            978-1-292-00064-0 (PDF)            978-1-292-00065-7 (ePub)            978-1-292-00514-0 (eText)

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication ...

Get Acquisition Essentials, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.