ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the following people for their valuable help as I researched, wrote, and published this book: Bernadette Atencio, Helene Atwan, Stephen Awoyemi, Jack Beermann, Amanda Beiner, Amy Bond, Patty Boyd, Chantal Line Carpentier, José Román Carrera, S. Y. Chu, Amy Coleman, Beth Collins, Lorri Cramer, Steven Crook, Dean Current, Shrikant Deodhar, Luis Corzo Dominguez, Kin Fai-Ho, Don Fehr, José Arbey Gomez Garcia, Megan Greene, Tom Hallock, Iris Ho, Tong Chee Kiong, Lin Kuo Chang, Elaine Yi-Jung Lin, Danny Lo, Susan Lumenello, Pam MacColl, John Masland, Carlos Maycotte, Caitlin Meyer, Laison Corzo Montejo, John Nagle, Melissa Nasson, Joe Orifici, Maureen O’Rourke, César A. Cruz Parra, Ali Putnam, S. M. A. Rashid, Jackie Schafer, Li Mau Sheng, Benkong Shi, Joe Shults, Mike Shults, Jorge Sosa, Nancy Tan, Romain Taravella, Gabe Tegoseak, Charlotte Tokos, Jim Tokos, Karen Tokos, Celeste Trujillo, Juan Trujillo, Chu Tseng-Hung (Wu Hung), Raina Isabel Valenzuela, and all the other people in the palm trade in both Guatemala and Chiapas who were nice enough to spend some time with me, as well as Alexser Vázquez Vázquez, Rosa Maria Vidal, Tong Wai Hop, David Walker, Fred Wexler, Mary Wexler, Walter Wexler, Sam Wilgus, Dennis Wilst, Duncan Wong, and Bob, Cristina, and Will from Barrow; Oscar and Lubenay from Pronatura; Vinita, Neel, and Ramanand in Mumbai; and Jen and York in Taipei.