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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/shortlist-for-oddest-book-title.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Some of the oddest-named books of the year are up for the Diagram Prize" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-shortlist-for-oddest-book-title.jpg" alt="Some of the oddest-named books of the year are up for the Diagram Prize"/></a></p>
<p>Metalwork, multicoloured dogs and a Mongol warrior are in the running for Britain&#8217;s quirkiest literary award; the Diagram Prize for the year&#8217;s oddest book title.</p>
<p>The six finalists include the &#8216;8th International Friction Stir Welding Symposium Proceedings&#8217;, canine personality guide &#8216;What Color is Your Dog?&#8221;&#8216; and &#8216;Managing a Dental Practice: The Genghis Khan Way&#8217;.</p>
<p>Also in the running are organ procurement study &#8216;The Generosity of the Dead&#8217;, romance novel &#8216;The Italian&#8217;s One-Night Love Child&#8217; and &#8216;Myth of the Social Volcano&#8217;, a look at demographics in China.</p>
<p>The prize, run by trade magazine The Bookseller, was founded in 1978.</p>
<p>Its rules say the books must be serious and their titles not merely a gimmick.</p>
<p>The will be decided by public vote, will be announced March 25.</p>
<p>The award carries no cash prize, but prize administrator Philip Stone said last year&#8217;s champion, &#8216;Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes&#8217;, saw its sales leap from half a dozen copies a week to 95 copies in the seven days after winning.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t buy that kind of publicity,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Other previous champions include: &#8216;Bombproof Your Horse&#8217;, &#8216;Highlights in the History of Concrete&#8217; and &#8216;The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification&#8217;.</p>
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