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aCknowledgments
THE TEAM
As you may have gathered from the front cover, what you are holding in your hands is
the output of many talented people who discussed, argued, reviewed, edited, and gener-
ally poked and prodded this book into what you now have in your hands. e whole is
most denitely greater than sum of our individual parts. In strict alphabetical order, I
would like to thank my fellow co-authors Dave Anderson, Joe Aultman, John Booth,
Gary Crisci, Natalie Delemar, Dave Farnsworth, Michael Nader, Dan Pressman, Robb
Salzmann, Tim Tow, and Angela Wilcox. anks also must be given to my co-editor,
Jake Turrell. Our group weekly conference calls were fascinating, freewheeling, and
educational—it was lightning in a bottle and I shall never ...