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| | How Green Were the Nazis? could be the title to beat this year for the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for oddest book title, with the contenders announced Friday. The book - by Thomas Zeller, Franz-Josef Bruggemeier and Mark Cioc - is billed as the first to examine the environmental policies of the Third Reich. It is published by Ohio University Press. Other nominees: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a Guide to Field Identification, by Julian Montague (published by Harry N. Abrams) Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, by Robert Chenciner, Gabib Ismailov, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov and Alex Binnie (Bennett & Bloom) Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream, Di Mascio of Coventry, an Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans, by Roger De Boer, Harvey Francis Pitcher, and Alan Wilkinson (Past Masters) Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium (Kluwer) Better Never To Have Been: the Harm of Coming Into Existence, by David Benatar (Clarendon Press). The winner will be chosen by the public, which can vote online at http://www.thebookseller.com. The prize will be announced on April 13. Last year's winner was People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It, by Gary Leon Hill (Red Wheel). |
