Public Executions Illustrated & Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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.

News at Arty Bees Books

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So for a slightly more real-time and informal look at our incoming stock and shop news check it out at Arty Bees Books at Facebook

And the news on the shop and shelf front is just as jolly with the long awaited debut of the Science Fiction Section - yes it's finally unpacked bar a few last boxes of hardbacks.

On an equally bright note the Antiquarian Books (we like to lovingly call them our Old and Cherished section) have all been sorted out upstairs and carefully cleaned and dusted by Wendy. They sparkle on the shelf now and you can peruse ancient, vintage and veteran tomes by topic and author now.

And the Sciences, Religions, New Age and Unexplained sections have all been sorted to within an inch of their lives this week as well . See the pretty books, find the pretty books when you want them, it seems simple doesn't it - but I think Jessica probably needed a stiff gin after a week of staring at nearly sixty linear metres of Religions, New Age and Unexplained!

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

New Literature, Art and Music books are always coming through the door - even on weeks like this last one where it was so cold we decided to put the front doors on automatic opening rather than exist in an icy blast of Southerly yuk with the doors wide open.

Interestingly, (and I'm afraid to say, not too intelligently) many New Zealanders tend to think a store is closed if the doors are shut.
This is despite an overabundance of signs that say 'Open', and the presence of other customers inside! Conversely - one staff member locked into the shop behind the 'Closed' sign, in semi-darkness, and in a coat and hat heading for the door at 10.45 pm won't stop some customers from knocking on the door plaintively, asking to be let inside to look at books. It's a funny old world...

Suffice to say - in a effort to bring down our power bills, do our bit for combating global warming (not to mention combating staff and customer cooling) we plan on keeping the doors closed a lot more often from now on in cold weather - but rest assured we still have ridiculously long opening hours and the doors do this wonderful thing where they open as you walk up to them.

• The Huxleys the full and fascinating story of England's most famous intellectual family
• The Pleasure of Reading - Illustrated contributions from forty international authors
• The Lover's Companion - Art and Poetry of Desire
• John - the biography of the be-spectacled Beatle by his first wife Cynthia Lennon
• The Word Museum - The Most Remarkable Words ever forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk
• More amazing international photographs from the M.I.L.K team - Our Beautiful Children
• Celestial Charts; Antique Maps of the Heavens by Carole Stott
• Decorative Dolls' Houses; Original Interiors for 25 Dolls' Houses by Caroline Hamilton
• Dolls and Dolls' Houses by Constance Eileen King
• Power, Politics and Culture, Interviews with Edward W. Said, and
• The World, the Text and the Critic by Edward E. Said
• Louise Bourgeois - Drawings and Observations - Fifty years of drawings and commentary
• New Taschen, first time in - Julius Shulman's giant Modernism Rediscovered with text by Pierluigi Serraino

Other Fiction includes a couple of boxes worth of new (secondhand) Science Fiction titles including books by C J Cherryh and China Mieville, classic authors for winter comfort reading like Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Gallico, and the Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent Dyer, and some beautiful sets of Literature including lots of Somerset Maugham Complete Plays & Complete Short Stories A A Milne in 7 volumes Minerva Edition and the writings of E V Lucas in 9 Volumes Minerva Edition

We've also had some Dan Brown related articles for those of you who might have been champing at the bit to see the recently released Angels & Demons - The Rough Guide to The Da Vinci Code, Fodor's Guide to the Da Vinci Guide and Beyond the Da Vinci Code - From the Rose Line to the Bloodline

Och aye de noo! According to Google, this actually means, Oh Yes, just now! So fairly appropriate really... Because we've had a bevy of additions to the Scotland section, including:

• Strathclyde by Edward Boyd with photos by Douglas Corrance
• Scotland from the Air by Colin Baxter
• Glasgow and Strathclyde a regional history from the 1930s
• It's a Long Way to Muckle Flugga - Journeys in Northern Scotland by W. R. Mitchell
• The Southern Highlands Including Arrochar, Ben Lomond, the Trossachs, Crianlarich and Lawers Groups by Donald Bennet (a special one for the mountaineers among you!)
• The Highlands by Calum I Maclean,
• Land of the Poets - Scotland by David Lyons,
• MacDonald's Rambles Round Glasgow, pub 1910,
• Highways and Byways in the Central Highlands by Seton Gordon, pub 1949
• and some other more recent regional and pictorial books including Glasgow - The Photographic Atlas (Google Maps on paper and more.)

Other History with a lot less Robbie Burns in this week includes:

• Rough Crossings - Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, by Dr. Simon Schama, `back at his best.'
• John Julius Norwich's trilogy on Byzantium - ( All in as new condition matching paperback editions and I don't think we've ever had all three in at the same time!)
  Byzantium The Early Centuries,
  Byzantium The Apogee,
  and Byzantium The Decline and Fall
• An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - Or 2000 years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell
• Weimar on the Pacific - German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism by Ehrhard Bahr
• The Battle of the Bulge - The Definitive Account by Charles B MacDonald. (Not a new diet memoir, but Hitler's last ditch endeavours in the Ardennes in December 1944)
• The Clyde Puffer by Dan McDonald (a well illustrated history of the Scottish west coast cargo vessels)

And speaking of diets.. some of the delicious Food and Garden books in this week... The Delectable Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course, Cook with Jamie - My Guide to Making you a Better Cook by Jamie Oliver (obviously) and Cultivating Myths - Fiction, Fact and Fashion in Garden History by Helen Leach

Just in time for that huge religion tidy up we have some intriguing books of the Ancients and Religion

• The Little Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Grammar included... talk like an E-gyp-tian
• Reading Judas - The Gospel of Judas and the shaping of Christianity by Pagels and King
• The Complete Guide to the Kabbalah - How to apply the Ancient Mysteries of the Kabbalah to your everyday life
• The Complete Idiot's Guide Kabbalah
• And... The Everything Kabbalah Book - Explore this mystical tradition

If the Kabbalah falls short of fixing your computing problems... we have Laptops for Dummies and... Upgrading and Fixing Laptops for Dummies and an incongruous wee pair of books - both with a mind to improving the human race
- The Genius Factory - Unraveling the Mysteries of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz
and The Beginning Was the End by Oscar Maerth "Man came into being through cannibalism - Intelligence can be eaten!"

Some of the New Zealand books this week:

• James MacNeishs The Mackenzie Affair
• New Zealand from the Air by John Gauldie, with photos by Lloyd Homer
• Singer in a Songless Land - A Life of Edward Tregear 1846 - 1931 by K. R. Howe
• Geoff Bryant's Rare and Unusual Plants for New Zealand Gardens
• Daddy was a German Spy and other scandals - A Memoir by Brian Edwards
• Art Icons of New Zealand - Lines in the Sand by Oliver Stead, published 2008
• The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841-1844 edited by Dorothy Shineberg
• Leonard  Bell's The Maori in European Art - A Survey of the Representation of the Maori By European Artists from the Time of Captain Cook to the Present Day

Some next-to-new Remainder yummies:

• MNM2 - Minimalist Interiors (ie: Not like Arty Bees) by Laura O'Bryan
• Public Executions - From Ancient Rome to the Present Day by Nigel Cawthorne. Illustrated!
• Encyclopedia of World History - An Illustrated Collection of Historical Events
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera
• Icons of our Time series for Elvis Presley, and The Beatles
• Masterworks series - Impressionists, Art Deco and Klimt
• World Cricket Grounds - A Panoramic VIsion by Michael Heatley
• Chinese Emperors - From the Xia Dynasty to the fall of the Qing Dynasty by Ma Yan
• Miller's How to Compare and Value Samplers by Stephen and Carol Huber
  
  

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
So many aspects of this cover fill me with an abiding sense of "eh?'

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