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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

Some interesting New Zealand titles this week include:

• Age of Enterprise - Rediscovering the New Zealand Entrepreneur 1880 - 1910 by Ian Hunter. How entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand economy in the late nineteenth century.
• Facing the Music - Charles Baeyertz and the Triad by Joanna Woods - The Triad was a journal devoted to literature, art, science and music and published in New Zealand from 1893 to the late 1920's
• The Best Man who Ever Served the Crown? - A Life of Donald McLean by Ray Fargher - The first full biography of Donald McLean, born in the Scottish Hebrides in 1820 - came to New Zealand in 1840. Appointed as the 'Protectorate of Aborigines' in 1843, and as Land Purchase Commissioner, Native Minister.
• A Touch of Sleeve - Hisashi's Story by Susan Bell
• Wharemaru & Duffie's Heeni - A Tainui Elder Remembers

We have just got in another set of the Time Life Series on The Old West.
Find out all about The Cowboys, The Gunfighters, The Pioneers, The Ranchers and quite topically The Alaskans.
(Apparently dressing a moose is really important and you might find out how to do such a thing here... )

And on that topic, Fashion - How to dress bi-pedal moose... or humans if you want to be boring about it!

• Fortuny by Delphine Desveaux
• Figure Drawing for Fashion Design
• Fashion Design, 2nd Edition by Sue Jenkyn Jones
• The Life and Work of Irish Fashion Designer Cyril Cullen by Margot Cullen
• Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture by Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears, and Susan Sidlauskas
• Figure Drawing for Fashion Design by Elisabetta Drudi and Tiziana Paci
• Fashion Drawing the Easy Way - The Amazing New and Fail Safe Way to learn Fashion Drawing (Includes the Easy Draw Rulers) by Debra Laraman

Random awesomeness:

• The Painted Word By Tom Wolfe (Art Critique)
• What's Happening to Our Girls - Too Much, Too Soon By Maggie Hamilton
• Spying on the Bomb - American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea By Jeffrey T Richelson
• Colossus - Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret By Paul Gannon
• The Pinball Effect - How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible and other Journeys Through Knowledge By James Burke
• Paul Daniels and the Story of Magic by John Fisher
• Katherine Swynford - The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir

Classic Motorcycle books from the Osprey Collector's Library have come in. We have BSA Gold Star and Other Singles, BMW Twins and Singles - The Postwar 250 Singles and 450 and 1000 Twins, BSA Twins and Triples - The Postwar A7/A10, A50/65 and Rocket III and Norton Twins - The Postwar 500, 600, 650, 750, 850 and Lightweight Twins.
Plus, from Haynes Publications - Bonnie - The Development History of the Triumph Bonneville and British Racing Motorcycles


Lots of new Science Fiction is exploding onto the floor - We like to call this the Book Bang Theory.
Some say that eventually it will stop expanding and then start it's slow inevitable collapse inward, others say it will continue to expand outward until it rips everything apart at a sub-molecular level.
Either way we're screwed and it's a big mess.
Some of the goodies involved in this recipe for apocalyptic universal destruction are Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series, Tom Holt, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Anansi Boys and American Gods, and the puppet master himself, Robert Heinlen.

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

We've had some amazing specialist Sporting books come in with topics ranging from General Fitness and Health, Pilates and those fun looking exercise ball things, to Sports Nutrition, Coaching, and Sports Physiology and Rehabilitation like Exercise for Fragile Elders and specialist books on almost every team and individual sport you can think of.
There's Baseball, Archery, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Ice Skating, Soccer, Athletics, Rowing, Basket Ball and many many more.
Lots of these are in the window but more will be added over the following week as we get to the second and third boxes in the pricing room.

Jump, Jump, Jump, Jump around - On a similarly energetic note we have beautiful Dance books...

• Dance, Sex and Gender - Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire by Judith Lynne Hanna
• An Ecstasy of Purpose - The Life and Art of Gertrud Bodenwieser by Shona Dunlop MacTavish
• Ballet in Art - From the Renaissance to the present by Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
• Dances of England & France 1450-1600 by Mabel Dolmetsch
• Chronicles of the American Dance From the Shakers to Martha Graham edited by Paul Magriel
• Dance Notation Series No 1.- Mohiniyattam - The Lasya Dance (Acting Manual with Notations of Mudra-s and Postures) by G. Venu & Nirmala Paniker
• Striking a Balance - Dancers Talk about Dancing by Barbara Newman

On a Relationships note we have Another Bloody Love Letter by Anthony Loyd and Why We Do it - Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene by Niles Eldredge and for the Self Help officionado we have had an entire box of N L P - Neuro Linguistic Programming books come in. These are very sought after and will not last long at all so we suggest you hurry.

Random nonsense to keep you occupied this weekend (but only after you VOTE!)

• The World Encyclopedia of Flags by Alfred Znamierowski
• The Great Castles of Britain & Ireland by Lise Hull
• The Secret Language of the Renaissance - Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art by Richard Stemp
• Treasures of the Buddha - The Glories of Sacred Asia by Tom Lowenstein
• Through the Eyes of Leonardo Da Vinci - Selected Drawings by the Great Renaissance Master with accompanying text by Barrington Barber
• My Lives by Edmund White
• An Army At Dawn - The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• Myths and Folklore of Ireland - Twenty Traditional Tales of Celtic Adventure, Magic and Romance, Translated Directly from the Original Gaelic by Jeremiah Curtin
• Carl Sagan - A Life by Keay Davidson
• John Maynard Keynes - The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937 by Robert Skidelsky
• Little Birds - Erotica by Anais Nin
• Selected Poems by James K Baxter
• A David Suzuki Collection - A Lifetime of Ideas by David Suzuki
• Creating Sketchbooks - for Embroiderers and Textile Artists by Kay Greenlees
• Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• New Zealand Rugby Greats - Volumes 1, 2 & 3 by Bob Howitt
• Scrying for Beginners - Tapping into the Supersensory Powers of Your Subconscious by Donald Tyson
• Mastering Astral Projection - 90 Day Guide to Out-of-Body Experience by Robert Bruce & Brian Mercer
  and lastly
• Extreme Weather by H Michael Mogil

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
No they did not.

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17 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
Telephone 04 385 1819
The Oaks, Manners Street, Wellington.
Telephone 04 384 5339
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