BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Baboon book makes award shortlist

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Baboon book makes award shortlist: "Bent's colleague Philip Stone revealed some of the titles which failed to make the grade - including Excrement in the Late Middle Ages and All Dogs Have ADHD.

The 2008 shortlist is as follows:

• Baboon Metaphysics by Dorothy L Cheney and Robert M Seyfarth

• Curbside Consultation of the Colon by Brooks D Cash

• The Large Sieve and its Applications by Emmanuel Kowalski

• Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski

• Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring by Lietai Yang

• The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Professor Philip M Parker

Last year's winner was If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs by 'celebrity bodyguard' Big Boom.

'So effective is the title that you don't even need to read the book itself,' noted the Bookseller's deputy editor, Joel Rickett.

The self-help tome took 33 per cent of the public vote. I Was Tortured By The Pygmy Love Queen came a close second, on 20 per cent.

Third place was taken by Cheese Problems Solved - which was described by its publishers as providing 'responses to 200 or so of the most commonly asked questions about cheese'."