Acknowledgments

I wish to acknowledge help, suggestions, and advice from the following University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
student reviewers: Thomas Jobs, Christopher Zainer, Janice Fitzgerald, Karen Ali, David Hlavac, Paul Bartelt,
Margaret Mikolajczak, Lisa Lee Winders, Andrew Hensch, Steven Wietrzny, and Brian Polly.
I also wish to acknowledge the assistance of Professors John Reisel and Kevin Renken at UW–Milwaukee,
and Professor John L. Krohn at Arkansas Tech University, as well as the following reviewers for their valuable
comments and suggestions:

Jorge L. Alvarado Matthew R. Jones

Texas A&M University Brigham Young University
Steven J. Brown Y. Sungtaek Ju
The Catholic University of America University of California Los Angeles
Lorenzo Cremaschi Tarik Kaya
Oklahoma State University Carleton University
Gregory W. Davis Michael Keidar
Kettering University George Washington University
Shoeleh Di Julio Joseph F. Kmec
California State University–Northridge Purdue University
Haifa El-Sadi Charles W. Knisely
Concordia University Bucknell University
Sebastien Feve Kevin H. Macfarlan
Iowa State University John Brown University
Steven H. Frankel Nathan McNeill
Purdue University Purdue University
Sathya Gangadharan Daniel B. Olsen
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Colorado State University
Rama S.R. Gorla Patrick A. Tebbe
Cleveland State University Minnesota State University, Mankato
Pei-feng Hsu
Florida Institute of Technology

Finally, I acknowledge the love and support of my wife, Mary Anne, for allowing me to spend endless hours in
the dark, cold, spider-infested basement penning this tome.
The graphic illustrations in this book were produced by Ted Balmer at March Twenty Productions (http://www.
marchtwenty.com)

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