Acknowledgments

Writing a book is a massive undertaking, which simply wouldn’t be possible without support. My biggest thanks go to my wife Alice for all her love and assistance throughout the writing process, always ensuring that I had space and time to work and encouraging me when a finished product seemed a very long way off. I would also like to thank Richard Siddaway for his excellent technical critique of the content, and the editors and proofreaders at Manning and everyone else who worked behind the scenes—they were unfailingly helpful and encouraging to me as a first-time author.

In addition, I’d like to thank the many reviewers who read drafts of this book in the months leading up to publication, including Terry Rickman, Nasir Naeem, Dave Corun, Jan Vinterberg, Joseph Moody, David Moravec, Nicholas Selpa, Chad McAuley, Alain Couniot, Diana Scheffler, Francis Setash, Mike Taylor, Douglas Duncan, and Allan Miller. Their contributions were invaluable.