ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Susan Henton, my personal assistant, helped tremendously with this book. I thank her for her thoughtful, diligent and meticulous contributions to so many sections.

I would also like to thank Christopher Cudmore, my editor at Pearson Education, for his enthusiasm, encouragement and support for this project.

The production team at Pearson did a great job of turning a raw manuscript into a book. I would like to thank Lisa Robinson, Melanie Carter, Vivienne Church, Jen Halford and Kelly Miller.

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