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Odd Book Titles

Odd Book Titles

Odd Book Titles

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Apparently there is a contest at theBookseller.com called the Diagram award where the vote on the oddest book title of the year.  Here's the entries for this year:

How People Who Don't Know They're Dead Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It by Gary Leon Hill (Red Wheel/Weiser). Apparently, this book provides "an explanation of the inexplicable".

Bullying and Sexual Harassment: A Practical Handbook by Tina Stephens and Jane Hallas. The final chapter of this fine reference work appears to be titled: "Where does it all end?" Apt question.

Rhino Horn Stockpile Management: Minimum Standards and Best Practices from East and Southern Africa by Simon Milledge (Traffic East Asia). This handy paperback sounds highly dubious.

Ancient Starch Research by Robin Torrence and Huw J Barton (Berg). Presumably, a brilliant analysis of the latest methodology in finding old household starch.

Soil Nailing: Best Practice Guidance by A Phear (Construction Industry Research & Information Association). A tricky subject to hammer down.

Nessus, Snort and Ethereal Powertools (Elsevier). "If you have Snort, Nessus and Ethereal up and running and now you're ready to torque these tools to their fullest potential, then this book is for you."

As an engineer, the Soil Nailing book doesn't sound weird to me at all.  While one man's garbage is another man's treasure, perhaps one engineer's lingo is another man's odd title.

RE: Odd Book Titles

"Bullying and Sexual Harassment: A Practical Handbook"

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RE: Odd Book Titles

"Scalded To Death By The Steam", by Katie Letcher Lyle, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.

A book about songs about train wrecks, both in surprising number.  

For each song, it includes a few bars of sheet music, a history of the song and variations, and a narrative of the wreck, with period photographs and illustrations.

Engineers of both kinds will love it.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Odd Book Titles

"Nessus, Snort and Ethereal Powertools" will be recognised by many of us nerdy types as computer security programs. I guess that explains a lot!

Good Luck
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