x Acknowledgments as I worked in my office/library located in our basement, or, as she prefers to call it, my “dungeon.” When I was writing the proposal for this book in 2006, I was preparing for my wed- ding. Later, as the deadline for this book was approaching in 2008, my wife and I re- ceived a new addition to our family when our son, Domenic, was born. It is, therefore, to both of them—my wife and our new son—that this book is dedicated.