Acknowledgments

This book is for you, the single sources, but even autonomous bodies need a network behind them, and this one is mine. Thank you, John Neidhart, for sending this my way and creating favorable conditions for writer design-build. Thank you, Lynn Haller, Katrina Bevan, Renee Midrack, and the entire team at Studio B. Thank you, Rob Kamphausen and Michael O'Brien (design-builders both), for keeping me on the straight and narrow.

And a special thanks to those on the front lines of production who mixed their time and talent with this book. The philosopher David Hume is tempted to doubt your existence because he has no direct experience of you. I make no such claim. It is indeed a miracle that anything gets built at all, and you fine people are the miracle workers.