Acknowledgments

I acknowledge my family, who worked with me to get this book completed. Without their support, this project would not have been finished; my wife Cassandra, who helped with editing, and my son, Devyn, for his research and technical editing. Their help made the content better than it was originally.

I also need to give a very special thanks to Roger Stewart at McGraw-Hill for believing in my proposal, and a thanks to Amanda Russell for answering my never-ending list of questions. Also, the others at McGraw-Hill who edited my content even more and placed everything together. Thanks to Melinda Lytle for the figures I needed enhanced.

Special thanks to everyone at “Ron’s Place”: Ron, Bobby, Jan, Tanya, Chad, Jen, James, Jim, Big John, Sylvia, Darlene, Stacia, and the rest of the crew. They were there when I needed a break to go play billiards with my wife and eat the world’s best pizza, the Strom Pizza. Thanks again to all our friends at Ron’s!

And last, but greatest of all, I thank God for all He has given me, my wife and children, my only loved ones. Through Him all things are possible. I would not have been able to write this book without Him.