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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.

News at Arty Bees Books

Well the big news of the week is that our delightful Tim is leaving us.
Again.
We aren't completely ruling out that one day he might come back home to us again, (we do have a history of boomerang staff who can't stay away) but as an extremely talented musician and game developer we might be sadly out of luck.

You can check out what he has been doing at http://launchingpadgames.com/

And in the meantime we have a couple of newbees (excuse the pun) Louise and Max who are looking like they will settle in very quickly, but if you spot them about please be patient - I've totally filled their brains with lots of Arty Bees information and they are still looking a bit dazed.

And you can check out Arty Bees on Facebook as well.

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

• Colour in Decoration by Annie Sloan and Kate Gwynn
• Henry Moore - Sculpture and Drawings [1946 edition]
• Henry Moore - Portrait of an Artist by John Read
• Reality and Realism - The Ceramic Art of Ah Leon by the Crocker Art Museum... Amazing!
• Marine Paintings and Drawings in Mystic Seaport Museum by Dorothy E. R. Brewington
• From Clay to Bronze - A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture by Tuck Langland
• The Alchemy of Sculpture - The Art of Bronze Casting by Tony Birks
• Avantgarde Design 1880-1930 An early Taschen title by Bröhan and Berg
• The Other Hollywood - The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne
• Grandmother's Secrets - The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi
• Dictionary of Symbols in Art by Sarah Carr-Gomm
• True Crime Detective Magazines 1924-1969 - Sin, Scandal, Sex and Death
• The Fantasy Artist's Figure Drawing Bible by Matt Dixon
• Fantasy Workshop - Mastering Digital Painting Techniques
• The Sculptor's Bible - The all-media reference to Surface Effects and how to achieve them by John Plowman
• The Faeries' Oracle - Working with the Faeries to find Insight, Wisdom, and Joy
  by Jessica Macbeth & Illustrated by Brian Froud

• Men's Fashions - The Complete Sourcebook by John Peacock
• Queen of Fashion - What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
• Honky Tonk Parade - New Yorker Profiles of Show People by John Lahr
• Scavulla - Photographs 50 Years - Retrospective of one of the greatest living fashion and portrait photographers
• Pacific Island Style by Glenn Jowitt and Peter Shaw

• Hot on the heels of Dawn French's own Dear Fatty which we featured here a couple weeks ago... This week we have Alison Bowyer's Dawn French - The Unauthorized Biography which prompted the comedienne to write her own version
• Margrave of the Marshes by UK Radio music man John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft
• At my Mother's Knee and other Low Joints by Scouse comedian Paul O'Grady
• A Night at the Majestic - Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922 by Richard Davenport-Hines
• Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire - From Sous-chef to Superstar (... to Love-Rat ? and maybe back again)
• Howling at the Moon  - The True Story of the Mad Genius of the Music World by Walter Yetnikoff with David Ritz
• Cherie Blair - Speaking for Myself
• Katherine Swynford - The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess and
  Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, both by Alison Weir
• Life in a Cold Climate - A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman Biography of Nancy Mitford by Laura Thompson
• The Education of a Woman - The Life of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

• Dangerous Nation - America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century by Robert Kagan
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• Witchhunt - History of a Persecution by Nigel Cawthorne
• Thames - Sacred River by London Biographer Peter Ackroyd
• Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area - The David King Gleason Collection
• The Birth of Europe - The History of the Christian Church from John Chrysostom to the Conversion of Russia [AD 398-999] by Leigh Churchill
• The second and third parts of Martin Gilbert's History of the Twentieth Century, much harder to find that the first part - Descent into Barbarism 1933 - 1951 and Challenge to Civilization 1952-1999
• The Great Lord Burghley - A Study in Elizabethan Statecraft by Martin Hume published in 1898

More War and Upheaval - I think the human race needs to get some quieter hobbies...

• Artists against Hitler, Persecution, Exile, Resistance by Gerhard Schoenberner
• Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer - The Nazi Annexation of Austria, 1938 by Wagner, Tomkowitz and Strahan.
• Histories of the Hanged - Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson
• Scapegoats of the Empire - The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers by Lt. George Witton [Cabinet]
• The Warrior's Honor - Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff
• Me Against my Brother - At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda - Journalist Scott Peterson reports from the Battlefields of Africa
• Airlift 1870 - The Balloons and Pigeons in the Siege of Paris by John Fisher
• Behind the Dictators by Dr L A Lehman 1946 (A study of the WW2 Vatican politics of supporting Fascist regimes – this 3rd edition published in New Zealand by John A Lee)
• A Soldiers Experience or a Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure by One of the Royal Fusiliers (T Gowing) 1892

• Ancient Mariner - The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne - The Englishman who walked to the Arctic Ocean by Ken McGoogan
• The War for all the Oceans - From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy and Lesley Adkins
• Seeking Robinson Crusoe - and all those other forgotten castaways by Tim Severin
• Samurai William - The Adventurer who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
• The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman by Andrew Sharp
• Sir Joseph Banks in New Zealand from his Journal edited by W. P. Morrell
• Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy - The Spanish Experience of Sea Power by John D Harbron
• Jack Aubrey Commands - An Historical Companion to the World of Patrick O'Brian by Brien Lavery
• Long John Silver - The True & Eventful History of my Life of Liberty and Adventure... by Björn Larsson
• Queen Of Bermuda & The Furness Bermuda Line by Piers Plowman & Stephen J Card (a extremely scarce volume in mint condition)
• Among Typhoons and Pirate Craft and A Cruise in an Opium Clipper by Captain Lindsay Anderson in yummy Ibex leather editions

• A Fish Caught in Time - The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg
• The Bride of Science - Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter by Benjamin Woolley
• Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• And The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat also by Oliver Sacks
• The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ... haven't had this sought-after title for an ion
• The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
• In Search of Schrödinger's Cat - Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbon
• The Dancing Wu Li Masters - An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
• Bright Earth - The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
• The Constants of Nature - From Alpha to Omega by John D. Barrow

• Buddhism for Busy People  - Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World by David Michie
• This is Not a Book - Adventures in Popular Philosophy by Michael Picard
• Politically Correct - The Ultimate Storybook - Three in one edition by James Finn Garner
• One of our best-ever sellers, now sadly out of print, The Thoughts of Chairman Miaow by Andrew Davies.
• Non-Violence - The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
• Dream, Wisdom and Shamanism - Spiritual Knowledge for Greater Inner Knowledge by Adcock, Powell and Watts
• Tomorrow's Islam - Uniting age-old Beliefs and a Modern World by Geraldine Doogue and Peter Kirkwood
• Fierce Pajamas - An Anthology of Humour Writing from the New Yorker edited by Remnick and Finder
• The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma
• Should I Stay or Should I Go? How to Make that Crucial Job Move Decision by Jim Bright
• And finally a scarce classic of Martial Arts - Boys' Karate by Masutatsu Oyama

• Broadmoor - A History of Criminal Lunacy and its Problems by Ralph Partridge 1953
• Sex in Prison – Revealing Sex Conditions in American Prisons by J F Fishman 1934
• Life in London's Great Prisons by T Whyte Mountain 1930 (Covers Wormwood Scrubs & Wandsworth Prisons)
• Comparative Criminology - A Text Book, 2 Volumes by Hermann Mannheim
• The Criminal - The Contemporary Science Series by Havelock Ellis 1890 2nd edition

• Adventure Divas - Searching the Globe for Women who are changing the World by Holly Morris
• On the Trail of the Last Human Cannonball - And other Small Journeys in search of Great Men by Byron Rogers
• Small Wars Permitting - Dispatches from Foreign Lands by 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the Year, Christina Lamb
• Venetian Dreaming - Finding a Foothold in an Enchanted City by Paula Weideger
• The sought-after Balkan Ghosts - A Journey through History by Robert Kaplan
• The Places in Between by Rory Stewart, a Scotsman's intrepid hike across Afghanistan
• Sea Room - The story of one Man, three Islands and half a million Puffins by Adam Nicolson
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop - a memoir, a history ... a guided tour of the book business through time by Lewis Buzbee
• Barcelona... the latest from famed art critic Robert Hughes
• Through the Children's Gate - A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik

• The Four-Legged Major by Graham Spencer - Biography of the Terrier who served with the New Zealand Infantry in the Middle East from 1940-44
• Click - A Captured Moment - Marlborough's Early Heritage by the Marlborough Historical Society
• Jaycee - Developers of People, Builders of Communities by Graham and Susan Butterworth
• Light Fantastic - Dance Floor Courtship in New Zealand by Georgina White
• Maori Bird Lore by Murdoch Riley
• Sorrow and the Pride - New Zealand War memorials by Chris MacLean & Jock Phillips
• Hotel Cabana - Thru the Decades - Limited edition on Napier's iconic Art Deco Hotel, the `best gig in the country,' by Lee Pritchard
• A Dictionary of the Maori Language by Herbert W Williams
• Acetylene Poems by Geoff Cochrane
• The Bodgie – A Study in Abnormal Psychology by A E Manning
• Passport to Hell - The Story of James Douglas Stark Bomber Fifth Regiment NZEF by Robin Hyde
• Hamilton Public Library - A Brief History by J B Ringer
• Wairau Hospital - 100 Years of Caring by J G Furness
• The Book of Panmure 1848 - 1948 - Commemorating the Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the First Settlement of the Panmure Township by the Pioneers from Britain in 1848 by J Carnachan
• Silver Fern at Perth 1962 - Highlights of New Zealand at the 7th Empire Games, Silver Fern at Tokyo 1964 - New Zealanders at the Games of the 18th Olympiad, and Silver Fern at Jamaica - A Diary of the Eighth British Empire & Commonwealth Games & New Zealand Athletics Almanac 1966 all by Norman Harris

• The Pornographer of Vienna by Lewis Crofts
• Graphic novels for bilingual buffs, in Czech and English versions - Summer Blonde / Letni Blondynka by Adrian Tomine
• The Story of Mr Sommer by Patrick Suskind – a scarce title at the best of times – this is a paperback copy of the delightful 1994 edition with drawings by Sempe
• We have some beautiful old leather 19th century editions through including The Blessed Damozel by Dante Rossetti, Across the Plains and Virginibus Puerisque by R L Stevenson, and Elizabeth in Rugen by Mary Annette von Arnim (Katherine Mansfields cousin)
• Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke with a Memoir and 1914 & Other Poems by Rupert Brooke both nice early hardback editions.

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Shakespeare must be spinning in his grave like a cat with buttered toast strapped to it's back....

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