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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 Arty Bees over the past seven days or so.
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What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bee
New titles in on Wars of all ages this week at Arty Bees
- Bearded Brigands - The Legendary Long Range Desert Group in the Diaries and Photographs of Trooper Frank Jopling
- Wings of the Morning by Ian Cameron, a history of the Fleet Air Arm in WW2
- The War Poets – An Anthology by the Great Writers Library
- Burma – The Longest War (1941 – 45) by Louis Allen
- The Crucible of War – Three volumes All by Barrie Pitt
1] Wavell's Command
2] Auchinleck's Command
3] Montgomery of Alamein
- The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
- Alexander the Great - The Hunt for a New Past by Paul Cartledge
- Alexander the Great - Man and God by Ian Worthington
- The First World War - The War to End All Wars (an Osprey Essential History Range)
- And an invading hoard of other scholarly works on WW2 campaigns.
Religious classics of the “extremely heavy tome variety” (I’m waiting for the movies…) have come in including two volumes of the Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament - word-for-word translations to aid budding Biblical scholars, Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Entire Bible (One Volume Edition) abridged by Ralph Earle from the Original Six Volume Work and a Complete Jewish Bible translated by David H Stern
A little junction of Railway & Train arrivals have just steamed in; namely:
- Trains to Nowhere - British Stream Train Accidents 1906 - 1960 by J. A. B. Hamilton
- Railway Travel -Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel from Old Photographs by Jeoffrey Spence
- Keighley and Worth Valley Railway , and The Severn Valley Railway, both by Mike Heath
- Paul Theroux's The Imperial Way - By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
- Railroads - The Great American Adventure by Charlton Ogburn
- Stephen E Ambrose's Nothing Like it in the World, The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Books on our Pacific neighbours
- Vastly Ingenious – The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture edited by Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green and Foss Leach
- Bruce Connew’s Stopover (Pacific photographs of the tiny Indian-Fijian sugarcane settlement of Vatiyaka)
- Salote - Queen of Paradise by Margaret Hixon
- Oscar X-Ray Calling - The Story of the Scarlet Family in Papua New Guinea 1962-1971 by Betty Scarlet
On the Science front this week we have:
- Chironomids – From Genes to Ecosystems edited by Peter Cranston
- Mr. Darwin’s Incredible Shrinking World –Science and Technology in 1859 by Peter MacInnis
- New York Public Library, Science Desk Reference – The only one volume collection of the most frequently sought information in every field of science editorial director Patricia Barnes-Svarney
- The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
- Did Adam and Eve have Navels - Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner
Random fun and reckless topics to keep you amused for hours….
- For the “little teeny dogs that will fit in your handbag and pee on your lipstick” fan we have Whippets by Christine Cormany & Whippets by E Fitch Daglish
- Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism – Art Between the Wars by Broniy Fer, David Batchelor and Paul Wood
- Mercedes Benz 190, 190E & 190D (1983 to 1993 A to L registration) Service and Repair Manual by Haynes
- Wheels for the World - Henry Ford - His Company and a Century of Progress
- We have Dennis Lehane's latest thriller The Given Day (in trade paperback)
- Manners for Women by Mrs Humphry, (a facsimile copy of 1897 edition)
- Shadow Boxers - Sweat, Sacrifice and the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms
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The Encyclopaedia of Hair Removal - A Complete Reference to Methods, Techniques and Career Opportunities published by City and Guilds
- Living on the Wind - Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
- Nature Into Art - A Treasury of Great Natural History Books by Handasyde Buchanan - Illustrations from antique natural history books, including some colour plates, from around 1700-1900.
- Righting the Mother Tongue - From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling by David Wolman
- Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue “More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to”
- And Helena Drysdale's Mother Tongues - Travels through Tribal Europe
- The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference - An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic
- The World of Penguin - The Publisher's Complete Catalogue
- J S Bach and the German Motet by Daniel R Melamed
- Blackadder, The Whole Damn Dynasty (The complete scripts of the television series just in case you’ve forgotten how to casually recite them verboten in day to day life…)
- And lastly in the Children's Classics department we got a lovely collection of Noel Streatfeild (including first edition hardback of Old Chairs to Mend) along with a million (well a box, but it was a very full box) of Enid Blytons (especially the St Clare Stories) and some yummy hardbacks of her mysteries and fairy tales!
The National Maritime Heritage Seminar is on this weekend and we’ve had some hard to track down shipping company histories in our Shipping section this week including …
- Speed & Service - Wilhemsen`s First Century In Australia by Dag Bakka
- A history of the Port Line by Captain A Russell
- The sailing spy classic The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
- Murray & Von Kohorn’s New Zealand Cruising Guide Central Area
- Summer Cruise - Being the Grand Pleasure Trip of the S S Ngapuhi along the Northern Coast of New Zealand by David Johnson
We had a great collection of unusual Photographic History books this week.
- The Imaginary Photo Museum by Renate and L. Fritz Gruber
- Lost Ireland - A Photographic Record at the Turn of the Century
- The Magic Image - The Genius of Photography by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland
- Hungarian Photographs - Romanticism to Avant-garde
- Witness to Change - Life in New Zealand - Photographs 1940-1965
- The Birth of Photography - The Story of the Formative Years 1800-1900
- Victorian Florida - America's Last Frontier
- The Snapshot Photograph - The Rise of Popular Photography 1888-1939
- Colonial Photography and Exhibitions - Representatives of the `Native' and the Making of European Identities
- Paul Martin - Victorian Photographer
- The British Photographer Abroad, The First Thirty Years , by Robert Hershkowitz
- Seasons - The New Zealand Year , by Craig Potton
- Not seen for a while, Taschen's Living in Morocco
- Madagascar by Gian Paolo Barbieri
In Architecture (which seems to have won the “most asked for section” prize this week) we have 1970’s Hippy Houses of the “hand-knitted and rulers are for sissies” variety.
- Handmade Houses - A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art by Boericke & Shapiro
- Woodstock Handmade Houses by Robert Haney & David Ballantine with photos by Jonathan Elliot.
- Living Shelter - Handmade Houses in Australia by Peter Re, Tony Miller, Pam McKay
- And of the non-hemp variety we have Skyscrapers - A History of the World's Most Famous and Important Skyscrapers, by Judith Dupré
And on a related topic Green Living and Eating guides
- Vegan - The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus
- Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Living
- The Friendly Kiwi Garden - Reintroducing Native Plants and Animals by Tabitha Becroft
Some stunning New Zealand goodies not seen before, or not for ages:
- And speaking of Goodies! A Baker's Tale - the Life and Times of Ernest Adams by Hugh Adams
- Mary Potter's Little Company of Mary - The New Zealand Experience 1914-2002 by Ann Trotter
- A Voice for Mothers - The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907 - 2000 by Lynda Bryder
- Maoribank and The Brown Owl - A Local History by Judith A Colins
- Tiger Moths & Butterflies - With the Airforce in War & Peace by Peter Norman
- Matamata - Growth of a Town 1885 - 1985 by Joan Stanley
- A H McLintock’s Crown Colony Government in New Zealand
- Talking Music- Conversations with New Zealand Musicians by Shieff & Cross
- Rathkeale 1964 - 1988 by Bruce Hamilton
- Merino - Handspinning Dyeing & Working With Merino & Superfine Wools in New Zealand by Margaret Stove
- Home of the Giants - 100 Years of Change Maharahara - Kiritaki 1885-1985 by Martin & Cammock
- Stories of York Bay - A Community Effort by A Paterson
- Hutt City Exposed by Bowden & Paterson-Upjohn
- Khandallah - Looking Back - The Changing Times of a Prominent Wellington Suburb by the Kenneallys
- Our St Clair - A Resident's History Barbara A Newton
- Harry A Childs’ Sixty Years of Service - Rotary Club of Napier 1924-1984
- Tranzit Through Time - The Story of Tranzit Group by Juliet Oliver
- The House - New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854 - 2004 by John E Martin
- Taranaki - An Illustrated History by Lambert & Henry
- All Formed Up - A History of Wellington Returned and Services' Association, 1916 - 2007 by Peter Cooke
- On Top Of The World - Climbing The World's 14 Highest Mountains by Sale & Cleare
- Challenging Brass - 100 Years of Brass Band Contests in New Zealand 1880-1980 by S P Newcomb
Maori books include:
- Nga Taonga Takaro - Maori Sports and Games by Harko Brown
- Iwi - The Dynamics of Maori tribal organization from c1769 to c1945 by Angela Ballara
- How to Make a PiuPiu by Leilani Rickard
- Woodcarving for New Zealand - New Techniques and Materials by Austin Brasell
- Williams’s 1975 edition of A Dictionary of the Maori Language
New Zealand Science and Flora and Fauna...
- The Minefield Spiders - Using New Zealand Giant Trapdoor Spiders For Pest Control in Grasslands by Lindsay Irish
- The Children Of Tane - Bird Life in New Zealand by Mona Gordon
- Additional Lower Pliocene Mollusca From Otahuhu, Auckland (New Zealand Geological Survey Palaeontological Bulletin No 17) by C R Laws
- Bibliography of Charles Alexander Fleming 1936 - December 1980 by I W Keyes
- Exotic Intruders - The Introduction of Plants and Animals into New Zealand by Joan Druett
- Ross Sea Region - A State of The Environment Report for The Ross Sea Region of Antarctica 2001 edited by Emma Waterhouse
- On Shaky Ground - A Geological Guide to the Wellington Metropolitan Region by Graeme Stevens along with some other classics on our earthquake prone city.
- And City of Volcanoes - A Geology of Auckland by E J Searle
Sporting Triumphs and History...
- The Wellington Golf Club 1895-1995 by Wilson & Heron
- Capital Bowling - A Century of Bowls in Wellington by Peter Barlow
- The Basin signed by Neely and Romanos
- Battling On - The 25 Year Story of The Marist St Pats Rugby Football Club by Tim Donoghue
- Phar Lap by Armstrong & Thompson
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