Odd Book Titles

This is one of my all time favourites:


What Bird Did That?: A Driver's Guide to Some Common Birds of North America

Ten Speed Press, 1991

A guide to identifying birds by the droppings on your car - with pictures!!!


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This one is so much weird but I am kind of curious about how a 'homosexual gene' is passed to offspring.


Homosexual behaviour in animals : an evolutionary perspective / edited by Volker Sommer, Paul L. Vasey.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

The no asshole rule : building a civilized workplace and surviving one that isn't / Robert I. Sutton.
by Sutton, Robert I.
New York : Warner Business, c2007.
# Subjects Organizational behavior
# Bullying in the workplace.
# Psychological abuse
# Courtesy
# Work environment.
Electronic Resource Table of contents only
Electronic Resource Publisher description
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780446526562
0446526568
Description:
210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
What assholes do and why you know so many -- The damage done: why every workplace needs the rule -- How to implement the rule, enforce it, and keep it alive -- How to stop your "inner jerk" from getting out -- When assholes reign: tips for surviving nasty people and workplaces -- The virtues of assholes -- The no asshole rule as a way life.
Summary:
"This book is more than just a reflection on the issue of social friction among corporate colleagues. Dr. Sutton sheds real analytical light on how this ongoing problem ruins morale, lowers productivity, and can truly devastate a company's culture. Sutton not only confronts this issue directly, but also provides extensive strategies and insights into how your company can pinpoint and eliminate this problem."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-191) and index.

(Neat idea hingehead.)

Tiny Game Hunting by Hilary Dole Klein & Adrian M. Wenner
Toronto: Bantam Books c. 1999

"Dozens of devilishly clever ways to get rid of house and garden pests without harming the environment -- or yourself"

Hi Tai
Just reposting coz I forgot about A2K's autcensor - and I didn't want anyone to think it was ruder than it was....

The no a55holes rule : building a civilized workplace and surviving one that isn't / Robert I. Sutton.
by Sutton, Robert I.
New York : Warner Business, c2007.
# Subjects Organizational behavior
# Bullying in the workplace.
# Psychological abuse
# Courtesy
# Work environment.
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780446526562
0446526568
Description:
210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
What a55holes do and why you know so many -- The damage done: why every workplace needs the rule -- How to implement the rule, enforce it, and keep it alive -- How to stop your "inner jerk" from getting out -- When a55hole reign: tips for surviving nasty people and workplaces -- The virtues of a55holes -- The no a55hole rule as a way life.
Summary:
"This book is more than just a reflection on the issue of social friction among corporate colleagues. Dr. Sutton sheds real analytical light on how this ongoing problem ruins morale, lowers productivity, and can truly devastate a company's culture. Sutton not only confronts this issue directly, but also provides extensive strategies and insights into how your company can pinpoint and eliminate this problem."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-191) and index.

St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell
Vintage, c. 2006

"This collection of 10 stories was one of the most praised debuts of 2006. Russell, a mere 25, makes magic with her scintillating tales of the Florida Everglades, where families wrestle alligators and dive for the ghost of a dead sister. Mover over, Flannery O'Connor."

-- as reviewed in the Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 25, 2007.