Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I'd like to thank my wife and children for their support throughout the writing process. Authoring a book rapidly becomes an obsession, voraciously devouring every spare thought for months and months. Josephine, Jessica, and Joshua took excellent care of Daddy throughout this long process.

Lenny Zeltser, who wrote Chapters 2 and 4, was instrumental in the development of this book. His keen insights in those chapters, along with his input and ideas for other chapters, were immensely helpful.

Mary Franz rocks! This wonderful advisor from Prentice Hall coordinated the development of the book. Most importantly, Mary is the best professional cheerleader I've ever met. Whenever I thought there was no way that I'd ...

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