Oracle Scripts
Oracle Scripts Powerful Tools for DBAs and Developers By Brian Lomasky, David C. Kreines
May 1998
Pages: 200

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 appearing on the cover of Oracle Scripts is a beetle (Euchroma gigantea), of the Buprestidae family of order Coleoptera. This family is commonly known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles. Jewel beetles are some of the most brightly colored insects. They inhabit forests or tropical areas and are found on all continents. In some regions, the large, common, and brilliantly colored jewel beetles are used as body ornaments or jewelry. The larvae of the jewel beetle family are wood-borers, eating their way through various types of trees and other plants.

Beetles comprise the largest order of insects in the world; there are at least 300,000 species of beetles in the world, with estimates ranging to well over a million. Species vary in size from about 0.25 mm to over 170 mm, including some of the smallest and largest of the entire insect population. Beetles have two pairs of wings, the outer of which is hardened into a leathery protective layer. They feed on various plant and animal material, and are found under earth or rocks, wood, bark, fungi, or other ground cover, frequently in rotting vegetation or carrion. ... 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. Whenever possible, our books use RepKoverTM, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used. 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 Gara mond Book. This colophon was written by Nancy Kotary; thanks to Mark O'Brien and Chuck Bellamy for their kind help with beetle identification.

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