Learning VBScript

By Paul Lomax
Price: $39.95 USD
£28.50 GBP

Cover | Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Learning VBScript is an eared seal. There are 18 living species of seal, grouped into 13 genera. Of these, 14 species, in 6 genera, are eared seals, family Otariidae. Eared seals are widely distributed throughout the world, especially in the southern hemisphere. The diet of this marine mammal consists mainly of fish. Some seals can dive as deep as 600 feet in search of food.

Aside from the existence of external ears, eared seals differ from earless seals in that they can bring their rear flippers forward under their bodies. This makes them more mobile on land than earless seals. In the water, both eared and earless seals move with a rowing motions of the front flippers, not using their rear flippers at all.

Eared seals fall into one of two categories--fur seals or sea lions. Fur seals grow a thick undercoat of fur, used as insulation. In one species of fur seal, over 50,000 hairs were counted in one square centimeter of skin. This thick undercoat of fur has made the fur seal very appealing to hunters.

Of the five species of sea lion, the California sea lion is the best known. Because they are relatively small, and the most graceful on land of all the seals, California sea lions are the seals most likely to be used in circus acts or kept in zoos. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.32 using the ITC Garamond font.

The inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in FrameMaker 5.0 by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The CD design was created by Hanna Dyer. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover™, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used.

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