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Is it just me or do people have to much time on their hands these days?
Here's a great example.
Julian Monague's book, "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification", which was recently named the by Britain's Bookseller/Diagram Prize for strangest title, represents a way of American life that a lot of people rarely consider. It also illustrates a trend in specialty publishing.
Moreover, the idea that photographing stray shopping carts could ever end up as a book is sociologically really interesting. How many of us ever truly consider the aesthetics of a shopping cart out of its environment?
Publishers are always on the look out for strange and quirky topics to promote and this one is a fair example of this practice.