This Year's Crop of Odd Titles

All of us in publishing could use some cheering up, so it's great to see that it's time for the annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, with six nominees chosen by Horace Bent of the UK trade journal The Bookseller.

There's a full explanation of the award on The Bookseller, and those nominees are:

• Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M Seyfarth (University of Chicago Press)
• Curbside Consultation of the Colon by Brooks D Cash (SLACK Incorporated)
• The Large Sieve and its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski (Cambridge University Press)
• Strip & Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski (C&T)
• Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang (Woodhead)
• The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Professor Philip M Parker (Icon Group International)

The winner will be chosen by a popular vote on the home page of The Bookseller; go and vote right now, if you like.