Acknowledgements

The creation of this manual was greatly facilitated and owes a major debt to Wikipedia and its large number of voluntary contributors. I very liberally copied from many Wikipedia pages and then remixed, edited, adapted and added text. With your continued support and help this manual can only get better over time. I urge you to email me with your criticisms and suggestions at nsucher@rcc.mass.edu. This manual is made available as an open educational resource under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported United States License for others to do as I did and improve and adapt to specific requirements.