## Acknowledgments We would like to thank all those individuals who have read this manuscript and provided many useful suggestions. In particular, we thank our colleagues William Bultman, Jack Hade, Mary and Jim Kenevan, Stuart Kurtz, Don La Budde, and Miguel Vian, all of whom quite readily and thoroughly reviewed whatever was asked of them. We further thank the academic and professional peer reviewers, who made this a far better text through their insightful critiques. Many of them certainly did a much more thorough job than we would have expected. They include David D. Berry, Xavier University; David W. Boyd, Valdosta State University; Vladimir Drobot, San Jose State University; Dan Hirschberg, University of California at Irvine; Xia Jiang, Northeastern Illinois University; Raghu Karinthi, West Virginia University; Peter Kimmel, Northeastern Illinois University; C. Donald La Budde, Northeastern Illinois University; Y. Daniel Liang, Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne; David Magagnosc, Drexel University; Robert J. McGlinn, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Laurie C. Murphy, University of Mississippi; Paul D. Phillips, Mount Mercy College; H. Norton Riley, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Majid Sarrafzadeh, Northwestern University; Cliff Shaffer, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University; Nancy Van Cleave, Texas Tech University; and William L. Ziegler, State University of New York, Binghamton.