Library Titles You May Have Missed for 1998
While it is true that you can't judge a book by its cover, often you can
judge a book by its title. Here is this years installment of bizzare,
esoteric, or just plain weird titles. Most but not all are in the Morris
library. Any comments I have to make are in parentheses....
Geology and religious sentiment : The effect of geological discoveries on
English society and literature between 1829 and 1859
Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians
Parenting a child with a behavior problem ... (and What Parent ISN'T?)
The contributions of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the revival of Anglican
choral worship 1839-62
Strong for potatoes : a novel ... (that's how it's spelled in this book)
Congress and the common good ... (oxymoron of the millenium!)
Davidsons of Mugielmoss : a history of C. Davidson & Sons makers of wrapping
papers, paper bags, paperboard and plasterboard liner
Disease, desire, and the body in Victorian women's popular novels
Hockey for dummies ... (How do they mean that?)
Work : opposing viewpoints
Sex, power and the violent schoolgirl
Studies in Hawaiian pollen statistics : part 2
O.J. the last word ... (Yeah, right!)
Hormones and body water
Eating chinese food naked
The 120 year diet: How to double your vital years
Hey Whipple, squeeze this! : a guide to creating great ads
Anxious allegiances: legitimizing identity in the early Canadian long poem
Butterflies worth knowing
The Psychic Mafia
Voice of the Martians
Gourmet guide to beer ... (or how the sophisticates get plastered)
Notes and comments on duck pots from Guatemala
Polly corrects her posture
Purity and pollution : gender, embodiment and victorian medicine
Making saints : religion and the public image of the British Army 1809-1885
Six years in Bolivia : adventures of a mining engineer
Bedside seductions : nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880
The sanitary evolution of London
Horse breeding in the Medieval world
The unwashed children of Eve : the production, dissemination, and reception of
popular literature in post Reformation Iceland
Health and fitness : opposing viewpoints
Let the record show : a legal history of Ingham County Michigan
The fine art of the tin can
Children reading print and television (How, exactly do you READ television?)
Space between words : the origins of silent reading
Peep shows a visual history
The organ in Manitoba : a history of the instruments, the builders and the
players
Our native ferns and their allies
The theater of death : the ritual management of royal funerals in Renissance
England, 1570-1625
Diarrheal disease (Makes great bathroom reading!)
Self-speaking in Medieval and early modern English drama subjectivity, discour
se and the stage
Comparative vandalism : Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude to life
If I can cook/you know God can
A history of the hemp industry in Kentucky
Morel tales : the culture of mushrooming
Cannibalism is an acquired taste : and other notes from conversations with
anthropologist Omer C. Stewart (and how does HE know??)
Last chance for the Tarzan holler : poems
Hen frigates : wives of merchant captains under sail
Fire in the John : the manly man in the age of sissification
Anglican cowgirls
cowboy metaphysics
party shoes
Biting the dust : the joys of housework
A hazardous inquiry : the Rashomon effect at Love Canal
Bulletproof Buddhists and other essays
The bends : compressed air in the history of science, diving, and engineering
The history of the German steel helmet, 1916-1945
Disco pigs ; and, Sucking Dublin : two plays
Trees as good citizens (Al Gore is a perfect example)
I can't remember
Pathways to madness
Reading toes : your feet as a reflexion of your personality
Modern Poetry after modernism
Six years : the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972 ...
Shopping cart soldiers
The subject and other subjects : on ethical, aesthetic, and politcal identity
Pigskin pulpit : a social history of Texas high school football coaches
The little book of crap
Paper tangos
Death and dying : opposing viewpoints
Violin fraud
The art of hunger
Sex in your garden (this wouldn't have happened if you had put that fence up
like I asked you to!)
A cigarette makers romance
The talking book of July : poems
The potato : how the humble spud rescued the western world
Measure of emptiness : grain elevators in the American landscape
Five generations of loom builders; a story of loom building from
the days of the craftmanship of the hand loom weaver to the modern automatic
loom of Draper Corporation. With a supplement on the origin and development
of the arts of spinning and weaving.
Fish respiration
Human rights : opposing viewpoints
Stand facing the stove : the story of the women who gave America The Joy of
Cooking.
The aesthetics of the Japanese lunchbox
Dog road woman
aquaboogie : a novel in stories
Home Material : Ohio's Nineteenth-Century regional women's fiction
Taking penguins to the movies : ethnic humor in Russia
What the hammer
The Indiana companion to traditional Chinese literature
Trigonometric delights
The pioneer printing press on the island of Madagascar
Coming home to the Pleistocene (everything is just as you remember it!)
Development and evaluation of a value-added product from chicken feet
and this years winning title of the year is (drumroll....)
Wet-scrape braintanned buckskin, a practical guide to home tanning and use
.. A big thanks to everybody who supplied me titles this year watch this
space next December for the 1999 titles of the year
Jim Elfers