Acknowledgments
I would like to express my sincere appreciation for the many resources of Academic Press/Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier in general and for the ongoing support provided by Karen Maloney, Managing Editor, and J. Scott Bentley, Executive Editor, as well as Scott M. Cooper, who helped streamline this manuscript for its primary audience. Finally, I would like to thank Alan Cherry, Ross Bengel, Patricia Douglas, Jim Healy, Charles Higgins, Michael Lovelady, John Mellen, Jon Saxon, David Offenberg, Chris Manning, and Maria Quijada, as well as a number of anonymous reviewers, for their many constructive comments.