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Oddest Titles at Frankfurt Book Fair 1979-1989

ross@aimed.UUCP (Ross Morrissey)
(true, smirk)

Most memorable entries for the annual Oddest Title Award at the Frankfurt
Book Fair in the last 10 years.  Compiled by The Bookseller.

1.  The Interpretation of Geological Time from the Evidence of Fossilised
    Elephant Droppings in Eastern Europe

2.  Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice

3.  Oral Sadism and the Vegetable Personality

4.  Big and Very Big Hole Drilling

5.  The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling

6.  The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution

7.  America's Neighbourhood bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in 
    Harmony with Them

8.  The 120 year diet

9.  Detecting Fake Nazi Regalia

10. The Potatoes of Bolivia: Their Breeding, Value and Evolutionary
    Relationships

11. The Secret of Sphincters

12. Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry

13. Drying Flowers with a Microwave

14. Foundry Work for the Amateur

15. Versailles - The View from Sweden

Reprinted in the March 1989 issue of "Q" Magazine (Britain's modern guide
to music and more)

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