The Angry Aztecs and Illuminated Manuscripts

What's New at Arty Bees Books.
This is the spot to check out every week, as we bring you the latest on the fabulous, weird, interesting, intriguing, and wonderful books, big or small, mostly square-ish - although not always - that have come into the Arty Bees shops over the past seven days or so.

What's New at Arty Bees Courtenay Place

Vampires and romance. Of course they go together! We have books by Kerrelyn Sparks, Maggie Shayne, Sherrilyn Kenyon. To write vampire romances you must obviously have to have a y in your name. Why? (That's not a rhetorical question - if you know please tell us, it's been driving us crazy.)

A Guide to New Zealand Waterfalls by Johnny T. Cheng is a very specific travel book. All the waterfalls are rated on scenic value, walking ability and driving ability.

If you prefer your water more horizontal, we have the Wavetrack New Zealand Surfing Guide, which shows the best places to catch a wave. Continuing on that theme is The Way of the Surfer – Living it, 1935 to Tomorrow by Drew Kampion, A History of Surf Culture by Drew again in collaboration with Bruce Brown, and for a slant of a different kind, Walking on Water – The Spirituality of the World’s Top Surfers by Jeremy V. Jones.

Books in the kid’s information series Horrible Histories, The Knowledge and The Fame Files. Titles include Groovy Movies, Leaders and Emperors, The Angry Aztecs and The Frightful First World War.

Also for kids (of all ages) is John Christopher’s Tripods Trilogy and Cynthia Voight’s Dicey Tillerman series.

Two easy to understand guides aimed at children about New Zealand’s founding document. The Treaty by Mere Whaanga and The Treaty of Waitangi by Kevin Boon.
Other New Zealand titles this week include:

• Working with David - Inside the Lange Cabinet by Michael Bassett
• Recalling Aotearoa - Indigenous Politics and Ethnic Relations in NZ by Fleras & Spoonley
• Derek Dow's A Maori Health & Government Policy 18840-1940
• Liberty and Learning - Essays in Honour of Sir James Hight
• Shaping a Colonial Church - Bishop Harper and the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch by Colin Brown
• Jump Start - The Autobiography of A J Hackett with Aldworth, Winston
• Athol Anderson's When all the Moa-Ovens Grew Cold - Nine Centuries of Changing Fortune for the Southern Maori
• Great Mysteries of the Maori World by Matthew Eru Wepa
• The National Art Gallery's publication on Rita Angus
• From Bush-Burn to Butter - A Journey in Words and Pictures by Eric Warr

British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818 - Narrations of Modernity by Eamon Wright covers the emergence of British modernity of women writers (including Jane Austen, Hannah More, Fances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth) of diverse political & philosophical affiliations, and fills a gap in scholarship on feminist accounts of late 18th & early 19th century women's writing.
Whrew! Looks really good though....

Our Cooking section is boiling over with scrumptious books. Save yourself money and have a gourmet meal at home. To start you off there’s New to Cooking – Simple Skills and Great Recipes for Fabulous Food by Lesley Waters. We also have all your favourite tv chefs like Jamie Oliver, Clarissa Dickson (One Fat Lady), Jo Seagar, Annabelle White and many more.

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Pretty, pretty, yum, yum. Not all that glitters is gold, but as most of these books are painstakingly illustrated in gold leaf this collection may prove to be the exception to that rule.
Illuminated Manuscripts, Kells, ancient legends, prayers, and Books of Days are at Manners Street, with a large range of titles from Europe, India and the Near, Middle and Far East. (We have really only started pricing up a beautiful collection of these works of bibliographic art so stay tuned as there will be more titles to come over the following weeks / months.)

• Heaven and Hell in Western Art by Robert Hughes
• The Illuminated Page - Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting by Janet Backhouse
• Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images - Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s
• Birds in Medieval Manuscripts by Brunsdon Yapp
• The Medieval Menagerie - Animals in the Art of the Middle Ages by Janetta Rebold Benton
• The Universal Panman - A Survey of Western Calligraphy from the Roman Period to 1980 Published by the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Hebrew Manuscript Painting by David Goldstein
• The National Gallery Schools of Painting - Early Netherlandish and German Paintings by Alistair Smith
• Book Arts of Isfahan - Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia by Alice Taylor
• Manuscript Painting at the Court of France, The Fourteenth Century by Avril, Francois (translated by Ursule Molinaro & Bruce Benderson)
• Treasures of Islam edited by Toby Falk

Arctic & Antarctic books have come in including Peter Freuchen's The Book of the Eskimo's and The Search for the Franklin - The Story of One of the Great Dramas of Polar Exploration by Leslie H. Neatby and some New Zealand Antarctic classics like Penguin Summer, Hillary expeditions and titles on the Erebus Disaster.

Histories of Every-Day-Things and Inventions are always lots of fun read about and we have some great new ones in this week.

• The Electric Universe - The Shocking True Story of Electricity by David Bodanis
• One Good Turn - A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Ribczynski
• The Secret Life of Dust - From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things by Hannah Holmes
• A Most Damnable Invention - Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R Brown
• The Mould in Dr Floreys Coat - How Penicillin Began the Age of Miracle Cures by Eric Lax

Likes games, likes games, eh, eh? Yes it's time for books about Sex and Parenting (It’s never a bad time to slip in some Python… Bwahhahahaaaa - sorry that came out much naughtier than I intended)

• Married Love - A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties by Dr Marie Stopes
• Wise Parenting - The Treatise on Birth Control for Married People - A Practical Sequel to "Married Love" by Marie Carmichael Stopes
• Enduring Passion - Further New Contributions to the Solution of Sex Difficulties - Being the Continuation of “Married Lov” by Marie Carmichael Stopes (goodness she is REALLY keen isn't she!)
• What is Sex? An Outline for Young People by Helena Wright
• The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935) by John Lauritsen & David Thorstad
• The Encyclopaedia of Sexual Behaviour by Albert Ellis and Albert Abarbanel

And Now For Something Completely Different - African historical and political books, mostly from the 1950s to 1960s covering the turbulent post-colonial period, particularly in Nigeria.

• The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959 - Politics and Administration In A Developing Political System by Post
• The Nigerian Political Scene by Tilman & Cole
• A History of South Africa by Robert Lacour-Gayet
• Mr Prime Minister: A Selection of Speeches Made by Alhaji The Right Honourable Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by A T Balewa
• The Fault, Black Man... by Potter
• Nigerian Political Parties Power in an Emergent African Nation by Richard Sklar
• My Life (The Sardauna of Sokoto) by Sir Ahmadu Bello
• Nasser - The Rise to Power by Joesten
• New Nigerians. Written and illustrated by Mora Dickson
• Through African Doors - Experiences and Encounters in West Africa By Janheinz Jahn
• The Federation of Nigeria from Earliest Times to Independence by 'Wale Ademoyega
• African Portraits by Stuart Cloete

And to top things off, we have Random titles and True Crimes this week:

• The Hoffa Wars - Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians and the Mob by Dan E. Moldea

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
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Really?
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Rare and Antiquarian Books added at Courtenay Place recently

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