This book is a joy to read and a treasure trove to keep and share with junior and senior colleagues and students. . . this book is an outstanding resource. Spanning a wide range of communications topics, across a wide range of specialized types of writing, in language that is accessible, sometimes funny, and always useful, this book has the ingredients to make any reader into a much better communicator. Bogdan Hoanca, University of Alaska Anchorage, Optics and Photonics News