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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 Bees
Fashion, Photography, Architecture and Art
- Bloom - Amazing flower photography by Ron van Dongen
- Woof - Divine Dogs photographed by Elliott Erwitt
- Art Deco Source Book - A Visual Reference to the Decorative Style 1920-1940 by Patricia Bayer
- Great Escapes - Dream Homes in Fabulous Locations by Judith Miller
- Art Deco Interiors - Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s by Patricia Bayer
- The Art Deco House by Adrian Tinniswood
- Inspiration by Tricia Guild
- Saturday's Child - Hong Kong in the Sixties by Lynn Pan and Trea Wiltshire
- Masterpieces from the Topkapi Museum - Paintings and Miniatures by Mazhar S Ipsiroglu (Boxed)
- The Ketuba - Jewish Marriage Contracts through the Ages by E. Lewin Epstein (Boxed)
- Grandville's Animals - The World's Vaudeville introduced by Bryan Holme
- Straits Chinese Silver - A Collector's Guide by Ho Wing Meng
- International Arts and Crafts - The World's Greatest Art series by Michael Robinson
- Secrets of the Gnomes by Poortvliet and Hugyen
Books on looking good and feeling fabulous is a great way to brighten up in a winter recession - somehow the financial doom and gloom would be better if only we could see the sun a bit, but a bit of light reading like these might help too.
- The New Guide to Remedies - Homeopathy, Essential Oils, Crystals, Home Remedies
- Happily Ever After - A Book Lover's Treasury of Happy Endings compiled by Walter Browder (no Thomas Hardy in here obviously)
- By Malcolm Gladwell, (the author of The Tipping Point and Blink,) we have Outliers - The Story of Success
Great stuff to do
- Top Dive Sites of the World by Jack Jackson
- Beth Russell's Traditional Needlepoint
- Calligraphy Stroke by Stroke - A new Illustrated Guide to Calligraphy Techniques with Eleven Calligraphic Alphabets by Annie Moring
- A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- Mother Tells you How - Essential Lifeskills for Modern Young Women - Extracts from the Girl Magazine 1952-1960
- Witchcraft by Pennethorne Hughes
- A Brief History of the Smile by Angus Trumble
- Masutatsu Oyama's classic Boys' Karate
Nature and Science books in this week
- David Attenborough's classic The Life of Birds
- The Universe - A Biography by John Gribbin
- Opening the Dore on ADD/ADHD - The Miracle Cure by Wynford Dore, founder of the Dore Programme
- The White Death - Did the Use of Monkeys for Medicine Cause AIDS? by Julian Cribb
- With the 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landings this month... First Man - The Life of Neil Armstrong by James R. Hansen
- Tulipomania - The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused by Mike Dash
- Einstein - His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- The Emperor of Scent - A Story of Perfume, Obsession and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins... hasn't been in for a while
Assorted Biographies - Experiece life through anothers eyes for a while...
- Fidel Castro by Robert E. Quirk
- The Boy who Fell out of the Sky - Ken Dornstein investigates his brother's death in the Lockerbie disaster
- Life in his Hands - The True Story of a Neurosurgeon and a Pianist by Susan Wyndham
- A Wolf at the Table A memoir by Augusten Burroughs
- Sick to Death - A Manipulative Surgeon and a Health System in Crisis - A Disaster Waiting to Happen by Hedley Thomas
- The Onassis Women by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos
- Write it When I'm Gone - Remarkable Off-the-record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank
- Marley and Me - Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
- Lenin - A Biography by Robert Service
- 1599 - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
- To accompany Steven Soderbergh's movie `Che' appearing in the Film Festival this year -
Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life by John Lee Anderson, and...
- Chasing Che - A Freewheeling Adventure Through the Wide Open Spaces of South America on the Trail of Che Guevara by Patrick Symmes
History and War
- The Forever War - Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
- Justinian's Flea - Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
- What is America? A Short History of the New World Order by Ronald Wright
- Uniforms and Equipment of the Imperial German Army 1900 -1918 - A Study in Period Photographs by Charles Woolley (2 volumes)
- Frozen Desire - The Meaning of Money by James Buchan
- Emigrants and Exiles - Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller
- The Book of Lists - London by Nick Rennison
- The Avengers - A Jewish War Story by Rich Cohen
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
- 1491 - The Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- A People's HIstory of Britain by Rebecca Fraser
- Hospitallers - The History of the Order of St John by Jonathan Riley-Smith
- The Keys to Avalon - The True Location of Arthur's Kingdom Revealed by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd
New Zealand books
- Roads Less Travelled - Twenty years of Exploration with New Zealand Geographic
- E.Mervyn Taylor - Artist, Craftsman by Bryan James
- Gold in a Tin Dish - Volume One - Wakamarina Goldfield and Volume Two - Eastern Marlborough Goldfields, by Mike Johnston
- On Zealand's Hills where Tigers Steal Along - Vignettes and Memoirs From the Exploration of New Zealand by Janet Holm
- Architect of the Angels - The Churches of Frederick De Jersey Clere by Susan Maclean
- Hongi Hika - Warrior Chief by Dorothy Urlich Cloher
- The Fold of the Land - New Zealand's National Parks from the Air by Lloyd Homer and Les Molloy
- Faces from the Past - the Dignity of the Maori Age by Kristin Zambucka
- The Reed Book of New Zealand Quotations edited by David McGill
- Captain Cook - Obsession and Betrayal in the New World by Vanessa Collingridge
- For the Record - A History of the Recording Industry in New Zealand by Bryan Staff and Sheran Ashley
- Ready to Fly - The Story of New Zealand Rock Music by David Eggleton
- Island of the Lost - A Harrowing True Story of Shipwreck, Death and Survival... by Joan Druett - This is the amazing story of the 1864 wreck of the Grafton with Captain Thomas Musgrave on the Auckland Islands (2 yrs stranded) - the same year the Invercauld also wrecked upon the same island - and the crews never met.
We've also had an entire box (well over 4 - 5 feet worth) of Maori Language Books. Dictionaries, grammar & linguistics, and lots of childrens readers, you name it - we have a great hoard to get you started on Te Reo - but don't dawdle as these never last long at all.
Children's books are always coming in the door, from modern fiction classics like Harry Potters to early readers, to non fiction activity idea books, just in time for the latest school holdays.
Of special note this week is
Alice's Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll - This is the facsimile edition of Lewis Carrolls first handwritten manuscript with his own illustrations and a must for any Alice fan.
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