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[samscafeamericain]

Sales Analyst at The Bookseller, Philip Stone said: "We received a huge number of entries this year and the debate was furious as to which would be included on the shortlist. Six seems such a cruelly low number given titles such as Excrement in the Late Middle Ages and All Dogs Have ADHD were rejected.

"We also had to exclude a few titles because they were published before 2008 - Monumental Beginnings: Archaeology of the N4 Sligo Inner Relief Road and one of my personal favourites, Sketches of Hull Authors. The latter was first published back in 1879, but thanks to "print on demand" - the wonderful saviour of "out of print" books - you can still purchase copies to this day."

The winner of the 2008 award will be chosen by an internet vote at http://www.thebookseller.com and will be announced on March 27, 2009.

The shortlisted titles are:

* Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy 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 and 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)


For me its got to be future market for Fromage Frais in 60 mg containers, informative and possibly considered the healthy option.

[nwe]

It's not quite up there with 'The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Exfoliated Vermiculite Aggregate' (no, really), but not bad at all.

I can't quite get my head round the concept, though. 60 milligrams? What, 0.06 grams? That would just about stretch to covering one tastebud.

[samscafeamericain]

I can't quite get my head round the concept, though. 60 milligrams? What, 0.06 grams? That would just about stretch to covering one tastebud.

Its nouvelle cuisine, get with it man