Library Titles you may have missed for 2000



As the 21st century approaches, let us take some time and consider some otf the lesser titles for the year 2000. Most (but not all) of these books were published in 1999 and 2000. I am making NONE of these titles up. Any comments I have to make are in parentesis. Now without any further ado ....

Final drafts : suicides of world-famous authors

The Country ham book

Feedstock recycling of plastic wastes. (yeech!)

Medicine in Manitoba : a brief history.

Simple heuristics that make us smart (IF you know what heuristics are you're ALREADY smart!)

The cannibals wife : a memoir

Rats, lice and history : being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever ...

The magnificent 92 Indiana courthouses

Public sculpture in New Jersey : monuments to collective identity.

My lesbian husband

The myth of pain

Baltic light : early open-air painting in Denmark and North Germany

Noise, water, meat : a history of sound in the arts.

Muskoxen and their hunters

Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925.

French DNA : trouble in purgatory.

The advent of the algorithm : the idea that rules the world

People and pianos

Making peace with money

Weird like us : my bohemian America

The ABC : Aunt Sally and sacred cow

Outlaws of the purple cow and other stories

Virginia Woolf in the age of mechanical reproduction

The end of the world : an annotated bibliography

Intellectual odyssey : an economist's ideological journey

Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1929-1956 .. (and here I thought he was dead all that time!)

The eggbeater chronicles : the stirring story of America's greatest invention

Genetic resources of Indian major carps

Sexual generations : "Star trek, the next generation" and gender

Tupperware : the promise of plastic in 1950s America

The perverse gaze of sympathy : sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911

Touched by a nurse : special moments that transform lives

The making of the backward pupil in education in England 1870-1914

The sacred flame of love : Methodism and society in nineteeth-century Georgia

Is menstruation obsolete?

In praise of nonsense : Kant and Bluebeard

Cooking with mud : the idea of mess in nineteenth-century art and fiction

Defeated flesh : medicine, welfare and warfare in the making of modern France

Inventing Jerry Lewis (well ... back to the old drawing board!)

Home away from home : a history of Basque boardinghouses

The humanure handbook : a guide to composting human manure

Inner hygiene : constipation and the pursuit of health in modern society

Revenge of underwater man and other stories

The St. Louis Veiled Prophet celebration : power on parade, 1877-1995

Tower : faith, vertigo, and amateur construction

The insect factor in wood decay : an account of wood-boring insects with particular reference to timber indoors

Terrestrial slugs

Brooklyn book of the dead

The dead alive and busy

The psychology and the instructional pattern of teaching bookkeeping

Chigger mites of the world

Plato's garage

Fungi of Manitoba

The grasses of Texas

Milkworts of Canada

Being modern in Iran

Odd numbers or aritmetic revisited

The cube made interesting ... (a book for real squares)

French lawyers : a study in collective action, 1274-1994

Charismatic authority in early modern English tragedy

A Mayan astronomer in Hell's kitchen

The aesthetics of comics

A fly for the prosecution : how insect evidence helps solve crimes

Dry rot in the Ivory tower : a case for fumigation

God bless you Dr. Kevorkian

The primal feast : food, sex, foraging, and love

Medicine and charity in Georgian Bath : a social history of the General Infirmary, c.1739-1830

Schmelvis: The Jewish Roots of Elvis Presley

Cats who own humans : How cats are comparable to French women

Damn everything but the circus

The history of consumer credit : doctrines and practices

Air guitar : essays on art & democracy

The art of training plants

Miraculously builded in our hearts : a Dartmouth reader

What's not to love? : the adventures of a mildly perverted young writer

Strange Communists I have known

The compleat imbiber ... (isn't "a compleat imbiber" actually a total lush?)

Jewish chess masters on stamps

In search of the golden frog

Everything in this country must

One good turn : a natural history of the screwdriver and the screw

Mother of the bride : the dream, the reality, the search for a perfect dress

Life isn't all ha ha hee hee

The nothing that is : a natural history of zero

Heart to heart : expressive singing in England, 1780-1830

Painted wooden scultpure in Norway c.1100-1250

Down by the old mill stream : quilts in Rhode Island

Sussex awakens to the toot

Over the top with Jim (But enough about me!)

Nudes from nowhere

Unzipped genes : taking charge of baby-making in the new millennium

If cats could talk : a holistic approach to our feline companions

The eighth lively art : conversations with painters, poets musicians & the Wicked Witch of the West

An utterly dark spot : gaze and body in early modern philosophy

Language death

The math gene : how mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip

Extraordinary chickens

Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century

And for the first time in history we have DUAL winners of the award for the most offbeat title for the year 2000. Sharing this years award are...


Advantages of Castration

and

Castration: an abbreviated history of western manhood


Thank you to all the folks who sent dd titles my way (you know who you are)
Look for another list in 2001 -- (Remember when that was just a movie title?)

© 2000 James Elfers