The eagerly awaited short list for the annual Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the most unusual book title of the year has been announced toady and the bookie's early favourite is How Green Were the Nazis? which, should you be interested, examines the "environmental policies of the Third Reich". Suggestions that these policies compare favourably with those of the Bush administration are not to be laughed at. (See there - wingnuts - I just compared Bush to the Nazis! Ha!)
The other nominees are:
The other nominees are:
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a guide to field identification
Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan
Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream, Di Mascio of Coventry, an Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans
Better Never To Have Been: the Harm of Coming Into Existence
And my personal favourite - and a true nail biter:
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium
You can vote on line at thebookseller.com so go do your thing!
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