Books are hard to write; tracking their development over the years can be difficult. Over the years, David Depew, Gerald Voorhees, Joseph Bookman, Sofia Karatza, David Z. Morris, Hojin Song, Tim Havens, Paul E. Johnson, Rita Zajacz, Ron Seymour, Melissa Zimdars, Meryl Irwin, David Hingstman, G. Thomas Goodnight, anonymous reviewers, my parents, and many others have given feedback on ideas that appear in this book. Atilla Hallsby provided invaluable feedback throughout the writing process. My colleagues at Oregon State are the best: thank you.
It is entirely possible that you (the reader) engaged with some of these ideas on Facebook, Twitter, or some other social network. Those touch points are an important part of academic life in the early twenty-first century.
This book would not have been possible without the support of my partner Emily Kay Kirkeide Faltesek.