Serious Books with Zany Titles

[AuntShecky]

Reading the paper the other day, I was delighted to learn something I'd never heard about before, not that anything like this would ever have crossed my mind. The item concerned The Diagram Prize:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=acI66AODXTIA

Evidently, this is an annual award given to the book with the most bizarre title, yet the subject matter of the work itself must be straightforward and earnest. The winner this year is Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Diana Taimina, a mathematics professor at Cornell University. (Hey, at least Big Red won something!)

It's an honor just to be nominated, but other titles considered this year were:
What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua
Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich
Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots and last but not least,
The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Previous winners were Bombproof Your Houseand Living With Crazy Buttocks.

I know we're not supposed to judge a book by its cover,but have you ever judged a book by its title?

What was the zaniest title of a serious book that you've ever seen?

[PrinceMyshkin]

I wouldn't call this one zany but I love the honest merchandising quality of it: Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: a Novel, which has the most quietly heart-stopping last line of any book I've read; but of course that line doesn't work 'less you've read the whole novel first.