Acknowledgements

Thanks to my wife, Jennifer Egan, for her love and support (and occasional edits). I’m also grateful to student journalists Emma Berg, Amber Doyle, Lacy Margaret Hurd, Meredith Lee and Olivia Soosaar who brought depth, color and context to the project. Tom Arenberg had the sports perspective the book needed and generously offered his words and vast experience. Ben MacNeill was instrumental in managing the visual elements of the book’s earlier editions.

Finally, thanks to David Tully, Katya Mueller, Will Cross, and Darby Orcutt at the North Carolina State University Libraries who worked with me to make this edition happen. Thanks to their guidance, I was awarded an Open Education Grant from the N.C. State libraries’ alt-textbook committee to make his textbook more accessible to N.C. State students and beyond. The libraries’ Open Knowledge Center partnered with me on licensing resources, using digital repositories, and creating and publishing my open educational resources.