The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012

Acknowledgements

xix To my friends and colleagues with a wide variety of perspectives on issues raised in this book for their willingness to discuss them with me: Gary Baddeley, Harvey and Victoria Bricker, Robert Garland, Joscelyn Godwin, John Justeson, Tim Knowlton, Susan Milbrath, Mary Miller, William Peck, Prudence Rice, Barry Shain, David Stuart, Gabrielle Vail, Mark Van Stone, Chris Vecsey, and Belisa Vranich. And to those in the production line: Darrin Pratt, Dan Pratt, Laura Furney, Beth Svinarich, and the staff at University Press of Coloradoonthis,ourseventhprojecttogether;SamanthaNewmark (my student for three years); Diane Janney (my extraordinarily able assistant for more than a decade); Faith Hamlin (my thoughtful agent for two); and Lorraine Aveni (my unremitting muse for five). A C k n o w l e d g m e n T s The end of Time ...