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)
(From the "Rest" of RHF)