Wednesday 12 November 2008

Odd Book Titles

"The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats, and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India".

From http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=407

 

"The 2007-2012 Outlook for Bathroom Toilet Brushes and Holders in Greater China".

From  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Parker

 

"The doctrine of life-annuities and assurances, analytically investigated and practically explained, together with several useful tables connected with the subject, Francis Baily, edited from the original, with the modern notatation, and enlarged both in the extent of the treatise, as well as in the variety of tables, including a table of deferred annuities on single lives, Carlisle four per cent.; and several others on the English life Table, by H. Filipowski, Late of the Standard, the Colonial Life Offices, Edinburgh, and of the Royal Insurance Office, Liverpool, Author of a Book of Antilogarithms, etc. etc. etc."

From  http://books.google.com.hk/books?hl=en&id=RvVCAAAAIAAJ&dq=assurances&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=g8-Pf_zHxI&sig=K4hKqi0rmH5EOpjeyImwFsJSsHQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

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