Improbable book(s) of the week (3)

Oh my God... it's a tetralogy!

The 2007-2012 Outlook for Wood Bedroom Chests of Drawers Excluding Custom Furniture Sold at Retail Directly to the Customer in Greater China

IN A NUTSHELL:

This study covers the latent demand outlook for wood bedroom chests of drawers excluding custom furniture sold at retail directly to the customer across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as “regions”).

If you're not particularly interested in China, there's always India:


The 2009-2014 Outlook for Plastics Organizers and Holders for Closets, Drawers, and Shelves Excluding Foam and Wire-Coated Plastics in India


IN A NUTSHELL:

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for plastics organizers and holders for closets, drawers, and shelves excluding foam and wire-coated plastics across the states, union territories and cities of India.

But wait - there's more!

The 2007-2012 Outlook for Plastics Organizers and Holders for Closets, Drawers, and Shelves Excluding Foam and Wire-Coated Plastics in Japan


IN A NUTSHELL:

This study covers the latent demand outlook for plastics organizers and holders for closets, drawers, and shelves excluding foam and wire-coated plastics across the prefectures and cities of Japan. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,000 cities in Japan. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it’s prefecture and of Japan is reported.

(You got three for the price of one - and you dare complain...?!)

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N.B. If the author - or a (deservedly, we are sure) appreciative reader - of these works ever happens to read this, please know that we are definitely NOT laughing at the author - or at his work, for that matter.
We are laughing simply because that's what the unexpected - the "improbable" - does to people: it tickles our funny bone. :)

Improbable Book of the Week (2)

The Stray Shopping Carts
of Eastern North America:
A Guide to Field Identification

by JULIAN MONTAGUE

In a nutshell:

"A must-have for anyone with a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors.

In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

Working in the naturalist's tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found."