Journeys with Nobby through Japan

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

Just in! Roy Stuart Volume II, only $35.00. It was disturbing how many copies we sold of the first volume of this, um, photographic art book. We anticipate a similar, er, excitement over this new addition to Taschen's 25th Year range.

New Zealand books this week at Courtenay Place include some hot off the press new fiction and a classic and hard to find work on the All Blacks.

• Getting There by Barbara Anderson
• Roosters I have Known by Steve Braunias
• Long Live the Modern - New Zealand's New Architecture 1904-1984 by Julia Gatley
• Denis Glover's Wellington Harbour
• Fresh Fields - More Writing From Out Of Town by John Gordon
• Rejoice in Hope edited by Sister M Hair
• Wild South's Living Treasures of New Zealand by Hayden & Morris
• New Zealand Shipwrecks 1795 - 1975 by Ingram & Wheatley
• Katherine Mansfield in Picton by Julie Kennedy
• Frank Sargeson, A Life by Michael King
• The Love School - Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox
• Vintner's Luck - 10th Birthday Edition by Elizabeth Knox
• Aotearoa New Zealand Faces of the Land by Holger Leue & Witi Ihimaera
• The Year of the Horse by Sam Mahon
• Syd Nicholls' All Black Tours 1953 - 1954
• Nga Uruora - The Groves of Life - Ecology & History in the New Zealand Landscape by Geoff Park
• The Way We Were by Sanders & Holmes
• Fares Please by Graham Stewart
• Whistle as you Go - The Story of the New Zealand Concert Party by Terry Vaughan
• Pictures from the Past - Canterbury by John Wilson
• Thoroughly a Man of the World - A Biography of David Monro, M.D. by Rex Wright-St Clair

Modern Music Legends are covered this week with some classic must read biographies including Dark Horse - The Life and Art of George Harrison by Geoffrey Giuliano, Total XS by Rhett Hutchence and Down the Highway - The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes


Science books
The Big Bang Theory by Karen G. Fox
Tomorrow's People - How 21st Century Technology is changing the way we think and feel by Susan Greenfield
The Canon - A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science by Natalie Angier
Simplexity - The Simple Rules of a Complex World by Jeffrey Kluger
The Richness of Life - The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
Human Instinct and The Story of God by Robert Winston
The God Delusion and The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

Random Interest this week includes:

• Killer Elite- The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team by Michael Smith
• The Soul of a Butterfly - Reflections on Life's Journey by Muhammad Ali with Hana Yasmeen Ali
• The Elephant and the Flea - Looking Backwards to the Future by Charles Handy
• Mismatch - Why Our World no Longer Fits Our Bodies by Peter Gluckman & Mark Hanson
• The Order of Things - How Everything in the World is Organized into Hierachies, Structures, and Pecking Orders by Barbara Ann Kipfer
• Telling Lies for Fun & Profit - A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block

Astrology
How to Read a Horoscope by P V R Rayudu
Beneath a Vedic Sky - A Beginner's Guide to the Astrology of Ancient India by William R Levacy
Vedic Astrology - A Guide to the Fundamentals of Jyotish by Ronnie Gale Dreyer 

Business books have come in this week with some great motivational titles like There's No Such Thing as Public Speaking - Make any Presentation or Speech as Persuasive as a One-on-One Conversation by Jeanette and Roy Henderson, Zero Resistance Selling - Achieve Extraordinary Sales Results Using the World-Renowned Techniques of Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz and The Introvert Advantage - How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney Ph D


Drinks & Fooooooooood - to get you in the mood for the warmer weather on the way...
The Art of the Cocktail - 100 Classic Cocktail Recipes by Philip Collins
Atomic Cocktails - Mixed Drinks for Modern Times by Karen Brooks, Gideon Bosker and Reed Darmon
The Caribbean Cook by Patrick Williams
The Balkan Cookbook - Traditional Cooking from Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkan Countries by Trish Davies
Eurodelices Desserts - Dine with Europe's Master Chefs by Konemann

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Japanese books have come through this week with a hiss and a roar, only exacerbating Imogen's desire to go and practice her Japanese in Tokyo. Check out our Japanese History...

• Angry White Pajamas - An Oxford poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger
• Geisha- The Secret history of a Vanishing World by Lesley Downer
• A Snake in the Shrine - Journeys with Nobby through Japan by David Geraghty
• A Ride in the Neon Sun - A Gaijin in Japan by Josie Dew
• Travellers' Tales - Japan: True Stories by Pico Iyer, Susan Orlean, Dave Barry, Alan Booth and many more
• A Touch of Sleeve - Hisashi's Story by Susan Bell

...and Fiction:

• All She War Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
• My year of Meat by Ruth L. Ozeki
• Chile of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima
• The Electric Field by Kerri Sakamoto
• The Teahouse Fire Ellis Avery
• The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
• Out by Natsuo Kirino
• One Man's Justice by Akira Yoshimura
• Strangers by Taichi Yamada
• The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
• The Bonsai Tree by Meira Chand
• The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
• The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories by Yukio Tsushima
• Hardboiled Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

Your Space Flight Manual - How You Could be a Tourist in Space Within Twenty Years by David Ashford - this book was published in 1990 so we had better all get cracking.


Horrific and Fantastic Fiction - Almost complete collections by James Herbert, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Clive Barker Stephen King, Dean R Koontz and Robert Heinlein among others.

Calling all Dungeon Masters - we've had a huge pile of 3.5 edition Dungeons and Dragons manuals and such come in and they are literally rushing out the door so be in quick

Children's Non-Fiction! Learn about Nature, Dinosaurs, Outer Space or Amazing Animal Facts with a huge stack of pictorial non-fiction from DK and Usbourne. Awesome titles such as: 4000 Things you Should Know About Animals by Parker, Johnson, Fardon & Brewer, Show-Me-How - I  Can Paint by Petra Boase, Monster Machines -The Biggest, Heaviest, Chunkiest Machines on the Move by DK, The Usbourne Great Wildlife Search.

New Zealand titles this week including a focus on the Wellington region.

• I Remember Tawa - A Collection of Memories by Barbara Adams
• Great Harbour of Tara - Traditional Maori Place-names & Sites of Wellington Harbour and Environs by G Leslie Adkin
• Fresh About Cook Strait - An Appreciation of Wellington Harbour by Grahame Anderson
• Marjorie Appleton's They Came to New Zealand - An Account of New Zealand from the Earliest Times up to The Middle of the 19th Century
• Farming Under Aspiring by Jerry Aspinall
• The Years Before Waitangi - A Story of Early Maori/European Contact in New Zealand by Patricia Bawden
• The Club on the Terrace - The Wellington Club 1841 - 1996 by A W Beasley
• The Road From Saddle Hill - Being the Biography of a New Zealander Thomas Cuddie Brash by F O Bennett
• New Zealand Letters of Thomas Arnold The Younger with Further Letters From Van Diemen's Land & Letter of Arthur Hugh Clough 1847 - 1851 edited by James Bertram
• Maori Agriculture - The Cultivated Food Plants of the Natives of New Zealand by Elsdon Best
• The Maori As He Was by Elsdon Best
• New Zealand and Its Sheep by Godfrey Bowen
• Julie Bremner's Wellington's Northern Suburbs 1919-1945
• Brett's Colonists' Guide & Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge… edited by Thomas W Leys
• The Physiography Of Wellington and The History Of Wellington by Britton & Byrne
• Hadfield of the Kapiti Coast by Ormond E Burton
• Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road 1840 - 1970 / 1982 by Arthur H Carman
• Tawa - Enterprise and Endeavour by K R Cassells
• Jenkins - Descendants of William Jenkins & Catherine Jane Mewis, May 1842 - May 1992 by Dawn Chambers
• The New Zealand Portfolio - Embracing a Series of Papers on Subjects of Importance to the Colonists by Henry Samuel Chapman
• Sheep & Sheepmen of Canterbury 1850-1914 by Sheila S Crawford
• A Century of Education in Mosgiel 1871 - 1971 edited by Cumberbeach & Thyne
• Hutt County Council Centenary 1877 - 1977 by James M Daley
• Valerie Davies' The Way We Were - Pictorial Memories of Early New Zealand (Series)
• The Dom - A Century of News 1907 - 2007
• A Holiday on Horseback - The Diary of a Tour from Blenheim to Hammer Springs, and Return, Via Molesworth by George Drummond
• Kia Toa! - A Record of Achievement of the Fielding Agricultural High School 1922 - 1971 edited by Benjamin Lindsay Evans
• Seddon's State Houses (The Workers Dwellings Act 1905 and the Heretaunga Settlement) by Barbara Fill
• Robert Fitzroy's Remarks on New Zealand in February 1846 (The 1969 Hocken Facsimile)
• Stockman Country - A New Zealand Mustering Adventure by Foster & Wright
• The Six Colonies of New Zealand by William Fox
• Flock House Farming - Reminiscences of 1948 by Timothy Gambrill
• Strait of Adventure by Stephen Gerard
• Early Days in Central Otago by Robert Gilkison
• The Making of Wellington - 1800 - 1914 edited by Hamer & Nicholls
• Maori & Pakeha - A Study of Mixed Marriages in New Zealand by John Harre
• Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand Together with a Description of the Present State of the Company's Settlements by Charles Heaphy
• Agriculture in New Zealand - Crops by Harold W Hesse
• The Quest for Origins - Who First Dicovered and Settled New Zealand & the Pacific by Howe K R
• Rails Out of the Capital - Suburban Railways, Wellington by Douglas G Hoy
• Growing Up Maori by Witi Ihimaera
• David Johnson's Wellington - A Pictorial History
• They Came on the Tides - A Short History of Porirua & it's People by Michael Keith
• A History of New Zealand by John Lockyer
• Frontier New Zealand - The Search for Eldorado 1800 - 1920 by Duncan MacKay
• Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa… by William Main
• The Story of a New Zealand Family - The Beginnings by Celia Manson
• John E Martin's The Forgotten Worker - The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
• Then and Now - Wellington, Wairarapa, Nelson & Marlborough by John McCrystal
• Island of Secrets - Matiu / Somes Island in Wellington Harbour by David McGill
• Tales of the Terrace by McGill & Tilly
• Speeches and Documents on New Zealand History edited by McIntyre & Gardner
• Gordon McLauchlan's The Farming of New Zealand - The People and the Land
• Glimpses into Early Normandale by Rosemary McLennan
• The Living Mantle - Soils in the New Zealand Landscape by Les Molloy
• The Streets of Tawa by Bruce Murray & Tawa Historical Society Inc
• Education Manual & Technical Instruction by Ministry of Education
• Recollections by New Zealand Memories Publication
• Otaki Historical Society - Historical Journal - Volume 2 1979 edited by Gordon Dempsey & Otaki Historical Society
• Geoff Park's Nga Uruora - The Groves of Life - Ecology & History in the New Zealand Landscape
• Oxford - Environmental Histories of New Zealand edited by Pawson & Brooking
• Newlands Volunteer Fire Brigade - A History 1965 - 1995 by Quinn Noel - District Chief Fire Officer (compiled)
• Manawatu and its Neighbours edited by B G R Saunders
• Graham Stewart's Wellington, Portrait of the Region - Today and Yesterday
• Telford Farm Training Institute - The First 25 Years by A W (Bill) Thomson
• The Land of New Zealand edited by Turnbull & McLaren
• Stonehenge Aotearoa - The Complete Guide edited by Mary Varnham
• Early Brooklyn Revisited by Vickers & Fitchett
• A Command of Cooperatives - The Development of Leadership, Marketing & Price Control in the Cooperative Dairy Industry of New Zealand by A H Ward
• Early Wellington by Louis E Ward
• R G Ward's Gentleman Charlie and the Settlers - A Study of Transformation
• City of Wellington Year Book 1960 - 61
• Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand by Colin Wheeler
• The Life & Times of Sir James Wilson of Bulls by L J Wild
• From the Hills With Vision - John Daniell of Wairere by Boyd Wilson Reverend
• Tractors - Across New Zealand - A History of Working the Land by John Wilson
• Wellington - Biography of a City by Redmer Yska
  

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