Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java

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The animal on the cover of Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java is a large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha). These mammals range throughout grasslands and dense forested areas in southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and southern China.

A solitary animal, the large Indian civet is most active at night, when it hunts prey like birds, snakes, frogs, and smaller mammals. It will also eat fruit and roots, but its diet is mainly carnivorous. It sleeps in its burrow (often a hole that has been dug and abandoned by another animal) during the day.

Large Indian civets range from 20-37 inches in length, not including their tails. Their fur is gray-brown, with black stripes on the neck and tail. Females are slightly smaller than males, and breed at any time—generally, they have two litters a year, and raise their offspring alone.

Civet is also the name of the musk these animals excrete to mark their territory. Diluted (and most often collected from the African civet), it has been used as a perfume ingredient for centuries. A synthetic version is used in many modern products, but several species of civet are still illegally trapped for their meat and scent glands.

The cover image is from Lydekker’s Natural History. The cover fonts are URW Typewriter and Guardian Sans. The text font is Adobe Minion Pro; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Dalton Maag’s Ubuntu Mono.