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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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We'd like to thank everybody for their patience last week when our phones and eftpos were down for 2 days on Thursday and Friday.
Telecom finally got the fault fixed, but if you did have trouble getting through to us during that period rest assured we weren't ignoring you on purpose.

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

More Quilting, Appliqué and Craft, (continuing from last week's delicious hoard)

• The Quilters' Kaleidoscope - How to design and create individual interpretations of Favourite Quilts by Dianne Finnegan
• Piece by Piece - The Complete book of Quilt making also by Dianne Finnegan
• Rags to Rainbows - Traditional quilting, patchwork and appliqué from around the world by Miranda Innes
• A Creative Guide to Patchwork and Appliqué
• Mini Quilts from Traditional Designs by Corcoran and Wilkinson
• The Classic American Quilt Collection - One Patch
• The Patchwork Planner - 350 Original Designs for Traditional Patchwork by Birte Hilberg
• Victorian Patchwork by Freda Parker
• Glorious Knitting by Kaffe Fassett
• Quilts around the Year - Classic quilts and projects for every season by Linda Seward
• Patons - A Story of Handknitting by Michael Harvey

Take Cover! Incoming... Military Books

• ~~~ Military History~~~
• Twentieth Century Artillery by Ian Hogg
• The War of 1812 - A Short History by Donald R. Hickey
• The War that made America - A Short History of the French and Indian War by Fred Anderson
• The Man behind the Legend - Gordon - An Extraordinary Soldier and most Eminent of Victorians... by John Pollock
• A Savage War of Peace - Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne
• Infidels - A history of conflict between Christendom and Islam by Andrew Wheatcroft
• The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
• The Classic text On War by Carl von Clausewitz edited and translated by Howard and Paret
• John Keegan's Intelligence in War - Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
• A Military History of Canada by Desmond Morton
• Complete Guide to the Hotchkiss Machine Gun by an instructor (facsimile edition)
• The US Cavalry Horse by General William H. Carter
• Six Frigates - The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy by Ian W. Toll
• Dr. Space - The Life of Wernher von Braun by Bob Ward
• 1776 by David McCullough
• The Age of the Warrior - Selected Writings by Robert Fisk

• ~~~World War One~~~
• German Artillery of World War One by Herbert Jäger
• Chronology of the Great War 1914-1918 edited by Lord Edward Gleichen
• Monash - The Outsider who Won a War by Roland Perry
• The First World War in Africa by Hew Strachan
• Douglas Haig - War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 edited by Sheffield and Bourne
• Haig's Command - A Reassessment by Denis Winter
• 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour - Armistice Day 1918, World War 1 and its Violent Climax by Joseph E. Persico
• The Pity of War 1914-1918 by Niall Ferguson
• Things worth Fighting For - Collected writings of the late war correspondent Michael Kelly by Niall Ferguson
• The War of the World - 20th Century conflict and the descent of the West
  Battles on the Tigris - The Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War by Ron Wilcox
• Richard Holmes's The Little Field Marshall - A Life of Sir John French
• Anthology of Armageddon - The Complete First World War in the words of 126 Authors
• All the Kaiser's Men - The Life and Death of the German Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Ian Passingham
• Allied Artillery of World War One by Ian V. Hogg
• Forgotten Battlegrounds of the First World War by Martin Marix Evans
• The World War I Data Book by John Ellis and Michael Cox

• ~~~World War Two~~~
• Finest Hour - The Story of the Battle of Britain by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig
• Mussolini's Italy - Life under the Fascist Dictatorship 1915-1945 by R. J. B. Bosworth
• The War Journal of Major Damon `Rocky' Gause - The firsthand account of one of the greatest escapes of WW2
• The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power in matching volumes by Richard J. Evans
• The Nazis, A Warning from History and Auschwitz - The Nazis and the Final Solution both by Laurence Rees
• The Holocaust - The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
• Letters from Iwo Jima - The Japanese Eyewitness Stories that inspired Clint Eastwood's film by Kumiko Kakehashi
• Shockwave - The Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker

Amazing Ladies

• The Pankhursts by Martin Pugh
• Lady Franklin's Revenge - A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History by Ken McGoogan
• And her husband - Iceblink - The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition by Scott Cookman
• The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch - The history of the intrepid harem girl Aimée Dubucq de Rivery
• Twiggy - A Guide to Looking and Felling Fabulous over Forty Women by Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sonntag
• The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
• The Women's War - New Zealand Women 1939-1945 by Deborah Montgomerie
• Women Before 10 a.m.(Pictures of all those super models staying in bed for less than $10000) Photos by Veronique Vial

We've had an absolutely marvelous collection of Wisden Cricket Almanacs come in this week - an almost complete run from 1968 to 2001 missing only 1972 and 1978. Come in and check them out if they take your fancy - you can't miss them, look for 1 metre and a half of bright yellow short fat summer fun.

More Biography

• Katherine Graham's Washington - A huge, rich gathering of articles, memoirs, humour and history
• Atatürk - The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango
• Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
• Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Eisenhower - Soldier and President - The Renowned One-volume Life by Stephen E. Ambrose
• F D R by Jean Edward Smith
• American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Bird and Sherwin
• The Last Tsar - The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edward Radzinsky
• Mandela - The Authorised Portrait edited by Maharaj and Kathrada
• Wilhelm II - Prince and Emperor, 1859 - 1900 and Wilhelm II - Emperor and Exile, 1900 - 1941 both by Lamar Cecil
• Lawrence of Arabia - The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence by Jeremy Wilson

Assorted Histories and Random revelries

• A Pictorial History of Canal Craft by Peter L. Smith
• The Shell Book of Inland Waterways by Hugh McKnight
• A Source Book of Canals, Locks and Canal Boats also by Hugh McKnight
• A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
• Mark Kurlansky's 1968 - The Year that Rocked the World
• Modern Europe - The Decay of the Ancien Régime
• Smugglers of Spirits - Prohibition and the Coast Guard Patrol by Harold Waters
• Paris 1919 - Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
• Melody Maker - History of 20th Century Popular Music by Nick Johnstone
• Scouting for Boys - The Original 1908 Edition by Robert Baden-Powell
• Off Whitehall - A View from Downing Street by Tony Blair's adviser by Derek Scott
• The Qur'an - A Biography - Books that shook the world by Bruce Lawrence
• Khomeini's Ghost - The definitive account of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and its enduring legacy by Con Coughlin

And more Randomness... Bits, Bobs, Bikes and Boobs

• This is Your Brain on Music - The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J Levitin
• Industrial Light+Magic - Into the Digital Realm - Digital films effects by Mark Cotta Vaz and Patricia Rose Duignan
• Industrial Light & Magic - The Art of Special Effects by Thomas G Smith
• Stephanie Alexander - Cooking and Travelling in South-West France
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• The Harley-Davidson Century edited by Darwin Holmstrom
• Ultimate Harley-Davidson - new edition by Hugo Wilson
• Ralph Gibson's DeuSexMachina
• Nerve / The New Nude edited by Genevieve Field
• Influence - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen take you through interviews with the people who inspire them to do... whatever it is they do.  Fashion designers, photographers, artists etc. So now we know who to blame!

Calvin and Hobbes have come in, but they certainly won't last long so hurry if you want them. We have Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, There's Treasure Everywhere and Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat all by the talented Bill Watterson

Food, more!

• Heat - An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Burford
• Where shall we go for dinner? A food romance by Tamasin Day-Lewis
• The Cook's Canon - 101 Classic Recipes everyone should know by Raymond Sokolov
• Cooking Times - What makes Kiwi Cuisine Unique? A Culinary Journey through Kiwi Kitchens from the 1930s to the Present Day by Kate Fraser
• The History of a Temptation - Spice by Jack Turner
• A Cook's Bible - From the teachers of New Zealand's top chefs - The ultimate guide to cooking at home
• My Last Supper - Famous chefs give the low-down on what they would have if faced with a final feast.
• Fleurs Place by Graham Warman and Paul Sorrell - Recipes from Moeraki's world-renowned restaurant.
• Gary Rhodes - At the Table
• Saffron - Food from the Central Otago Heartland by Pete Gawron - Gastro and scenery-porn overload
• The Culinary Chronicle - The Best of New York and Paris Cuisine
• Gordon Ramsay *** Chef - (The asterixes this time standing for three Michelin stars, not for swear words.) A beautiful, boxed book with lots of things to do with duck and quail and veal and all those other everyday items you have lying around the pantry.

New Zealand

• An Unsettled Spirit - The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton [G. B. Lancaster] by Terry Sturm
• Western Front - The New Zealand Division in the First World War 1916-1918 by Matthew Wright
• Maori Action Songs - Words and Music, Actions and Instructions by Armstrong and Ngata
• Land of Memories - A Contemporary View of Places of Historical Significance in the South Island of New Zealand by Adams and Evison
• Defence of Madrid by Geoffrey Cox in new 2006 edition of classic 1937 Spanish Civil War Account
• John Drawbridge Limited Edition Boxed retrospective with DVD, compiled by Skinner, Fierlinger and Kent - Extremely yummy!
• Roads Less Travelled - Twenty Years of Exploration with New Zealand Geographic by Kennedy Warne
• Arms Open Wide - A Mother's Story by Judi Davidson
• Last Words - Approaches to Death in New Zealand's Cultures and Faiths
• This Horris Practice - The Myth and Reality of Traditional Maori Cannibalism by Paul Moon
• Aspiring - Mountain Climbing is no Cure for Middle-Age by Kieran Kelly   
• Whose High Country? - A History of the South Island High Country of New Zealand by Robert McIntyre
• And heaps of other amazing New Zealand titles - take a gander at the tables below....

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