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