Special thanks to...

Cliff Colby for two in a row

Kim Wimpsett for the hyphenectomy

Tracey Croom and David Van Ness for kerning above and beyond

Rebecca Plunkett for the subsubentries

Troels Arvin (technical editor for the second edition), Bryan Steinweg (technical editor for the first edition), Russ Abbott, Darren Pennington for their suggestions and technical help

The data in the sample database are fictional. I lifted two book titles from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels.

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