The Spanish Inquisition - Need we say any more?

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.

What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees

A splendid array of 70's Sheet Music in excellent condition came in this week: Carole King, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Elton John, Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Rickie Lee Jones, America, Jackson Browne and Crosby, Stills and Nash - this one with the added bonus of lots of pictures of the lads in their shorts (shiver)

Fictional goodies in the book candy this week include:

• Down To the Sea Again (New Zealand Sea stories) edited by Tessa Duder
• Life of PI by Martel
• Perfume by Suskund
• Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseni
• Loads of Anthony Trollope and Aldous Huxley
• Vonnegut's Man Without a Country in a brand new shiny edition
• The Last American Man, hot off the press, the latest excursion by Elizabeth Gilbert
• And Snow, My Name is Red and The Black Book all by Orhan Pamuk
• The Illustrated Christmas Cracker Illustrated by Quentin Blake By John Julius Norwich.
• Thomasina and A Cat in the Window by Paul Gallico in lovely editions.
• It Is Never Too Late To Mend and Peg Woffington, Hard Cash all by Charles Reade
• Zuleika Dobson or an Oxford Love Story by Max Beerbohm

A fabulous collection of Antiquarian books in leather and decorated cloth came in this week published from the 1840's to the 1930s and ranging in topics from beautiful early editions of great Literature, History, Essays, Travel and Science.

• The Great Cities of the Ancient World in their Glory and their Desolation by Theodore Alois Buckley
• The Speeches of Charles Dickens Edited by K.J Fielding
• History of Florence - The First Two Centuries of Florentine History - The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante by Professor Pasquale Villari
• Le Morte D'Arthur edited by Sir Edward Strachey
• At Last - A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley
• And The Hillyars and the Burtons - A Story of Two Families and Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn both by Henry Kingsley
• History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by John Lothrop Motley (beautiful large 3 vol set)
• History of the Rise & Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (in 2 volumes) and History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne both by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• History of the Conquest of Mexico With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conqueror and History of the Conquest of Peru both by William H Prescott
• History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William H Prescott
• John Wesley Among the Physicians - A Study of Eighteenth-Century Medicine by Alfred Wesley Hill
• The Spanish Inquisition by Charles Gorham
  "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again. "
  Sorry I just couldn't stop myself - All salute the Pythons!
• Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola by Professor Pasquale Villari
• Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
• A Wanderer in Holland by E V Lucas
• The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Together with the Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides in Five Volumes + Johnsoniana - Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson... by Boswell
• The Works of Lord Macaulay complete in 12 Volumes, Limited Edition (15/250), Albany Edition by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Augustus by John Buchan
• Forty-one Years in India by Lord Roberts of Kandahar
• James Nasmyth, Engineer - An Autobiography by Samuel Smiles

And within that collection there are more than a few warts and all! Check out the rare old titles on the English Interregnum and it's warty boss...

• Oliver Cromwell, A Study in Personal Religion by R F Horton
• Charles And Cromwell by Hugh Ross Williamson
• And Oliver Cromwell by John Buchan
• Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with Elucidations (a four volume set) by Thomas Carlyle

And some awesome period science books including a Natural History set with charming illustrations by J Henri Fabre. ( The author is described as The Insects' Homer)

• The Glow-Worm - And Other Beetles
• The Spoilers
• The Mason-Bees
• Bramble Bees and Others
• The Life of the Weevil
• The Life of the Fly
• The Life Of The Spider

Speaking of which we have more Science, Pop Science and Pseudo Science! What fun - time to stretch those neural networks.

• The Brain that Changes Itself - Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, by Norman Doidge M.D.
• The International Book of Trees by Hugh Johnson
• Why do Buses come in Threes - The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life by Eastaway and Wyndham
• Flim-Flam - Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions by James Randi
• Bad Medicine - Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Christopher Wanjek
• The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, and Ninety-nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini

Books on Alternative Social Movements:

• Senseless Acts of Beauty - Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties by George Mackay
• The Spanish Anarchists - The Heroic Years 1868 - 1936 by Murray Bookchin
• and Stalin-era Communism - Trotsky's Diary in Exile 1935 by Leon Trotsky
• Soviet Land and People by N. N. Mikhailov
• The Soviet-Yugoslav Dispute and The Programme of the League of Yugoslav Communists
• And lastly a title on that infamous undercover revolutionary movement bent on the destruction of western civilisation and the compulsary wearing of natty little shorts - My Scouting Memories by Nancy Wilson.

And if peaceful revolution in short pants doesn't work for you, history is full of more extreme actions...

• The First World War and The Second World War, both by John Keegan
• The World at War by Richard Holmes
• A History of the Siege of Gibraltar 1779-1783 with a Description and Account of That Garrison from the Earliest Times by John Drinkwater

Astral projection might be good, but a beautiful book on Travel, Exploration and exotic locales will do just as well as the cold weather sets in, and you dream of warmer climes....

• Good Morning Hanoi - A Year on the Airwaves in the New Vietnam by Finlay and Clark
• A Fortune-Teller Told Me - Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Asian correspondent Tiziano Terzani
• The Most Beautiful Villages in the Dordogne (I want to be there now!) photos by Hugh Palmer, text by James Bentley
• The Voyages of Captain Cook & The Concise Pepys both in shiny new paperback editions,
• A Selection of the Principal Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation By Richard Hakluyt, 1552-1616. Set Out with Many Embellishments and a Preface By Laurence Irving

Arts, Music, Theatre, and other topics of beauty and refinement...

• Jane Austen and Her Art by Mary Lascelles
• The Unexpurgated Beaton - The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them 1970-1980
• The Kiss - A Romantic Treasury A photographic celebration of the smooch
• The Look of the Century - An Illustrated Guide to 20th Century Design by Michael Tambini
• How Art Made the World to accompany the BBC series, by Nigel Spivey
• Hooker's Finest Fruit - A Selection of Paintings of Fruits by William Hooker [1779-1832]
• German Painting From The 14th To The 16th Centuries by Pierre Descargues
• Shakespeare at the Globe 'a little brown notebook', tres cute!
• Giovanni Civardi's Complete Guide to Drawing
• A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology - The Secret Art of the Performer
• The Story of The Mikado told by Sir W.S. Gilbert with Alice B Woodward

Completely unrelated Random Non Fiction titles that might take your fancy include:

• The Island Race Winston Churchill's UK History in large illustrated format
• Fiat 1899-1999 - One Hundred Years of Fiat - Products, Faces, Images
• Capone - The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen
• Rabble-Rouser for Peace - The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu by John Allen
• Two Fat Ladies; Gastronomic Adventures [with motorbike and sidecar] and the biography of the surviving fat lady, Clarissa Dickson Wright - Spilling the Beans

And lastly a couple for the kids... Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics and Dr. Seuss's Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! His last book finished off by Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith

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