Delphi in a Nutshell

By Ray Lischner
Price: $39.99 USD
£20.95 GBP

Cover | Table of Contents | 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 on the cover of Delphi in a Nutshell is a Canadian lynx. This sturdy and powerful cat hunts rodents and small mammals by night in North American mountain and arctic regions. The lynx has larger paws and hence better mobility in snow than its cousin the bobcat, which cannot survive harsh winter conditions. Its fur is thick, and tufts extend from the tips of its ears and from its jaw, giving the cat a striking, stealthy appearance. Indeed, the lynx is stealthy; it is an agile climber of rocks and trees. It stalks its prey and kills alone.

The lynx is, in turn, preyed upon by cougars and wolves. Humans, however, are responsible for endangering the species' survival. For more than two centuries, hunters have been over--shooting and trapping the lynx for its soft, gray fur, decimating the lynx population in its southernmost habitat-the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. To combat the lynx's disappearance, CLAWS (Colorado Lynx and Wolverine Strategy), a steering group working in cooperation with various federal and state wildlife and forestry agencies, plans to reintroduce the species. Forty lynx from Canada are being released into the protected Weminuche Wilderness of Colorado's San Juan National Forest. Madeleine Newell was the production editor and copyeditor for Delphi in a Nutshell. Maureen Dempsey and Jane Ellin provided quality control. Emily Quill, Anna Kim Snow, and Maeve O'Meara provided production assistance. Nancy Crumpton wrote the index.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. Kathleen Wilson produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 3.32 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Alicia Cech designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Sarah Jane Shangraw.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover$#153, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used.

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