Acknowledgements

Marcia Meixler would like to thank Pete Loucks for initially encouraging her to write a textbook, and Jane Bain for providing Mark Bain’s materials from which to start. The process of sorting through Mark Bain’s materials became a journey of memories through her 13 years working directly with Mark, and she is grateful to have had the opportunity to reconnect with his words and ideas despite no longer having him with us.

She would also like to extend a heartfelt thanks to Glen Kandia for his painstaking and cheerful editing of drafts. His comments were always useful and he consistently made time on short notice to read chapters. His feedback surely helped to improve the quality of the wording in this textbook. She would also like to thank Kathy Mills and Kristi Arend for their comments on early drafts of some of the chapters in this book. Marcia Meixler’s department at Rutgers University was very supportive of her decision to write this textbook and she is grateful to them as well.

Marcia Meixler also wishes to thank her immediate and extended family who have been a source of incredible support during this process. Finally, she would like to thank her friends for tolerating her attempts to work conservation-related facts from this textbook into conversations during the writing of this book, and for providing support when the project seemed immense.

The writing of this book was supported by a Rutgers University Library Open and Affordable Textbook author award. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of Rutgers University.