More Cunning Than Man - Rats, Baboons and a Mouse named Mickey

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

• The Haiku Anthology – Over 800 of the Best English Language Haiku and related works
• Omnibus edition hardback of John Wyndham's classics, it includes Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos etc.
• Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, 'Tis and Teacher Man
• Not one but two copies of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (always a popular favourite)
• Fear and Loathing in America - The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 by Hunter S. Thompson
• Gregory Maguire's Wicked, and Son of a Witch
• Sea of Poppies , nominated for the Booker in 2008, by Amitav Ghosh
• The Witch of Portobello, The Zahir, and The Winner Stands Alone, all by Paulo Coelho
• The Lollipop Shoes and Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
• Haunted and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain `Haunts as much as it terrifies'
• A lovely big stack of Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael series
• And finally, some Star Wars novels have come in. They have been scarcer than a sunny day on Hoth. From top authors such as Greg Bear, Steve Perry, James Luceno and Timothy Zahn.

• Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Memorabilia – The Vintage Years 1928 – 1938
• The World of Kong – A Natural History of Skull Island by Weta Workshop
• Special Effects in Film and Television by Jake Hamilton, DK edition
• The Lord of the Rings – The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring by Gary Russell
• The Lord of the Rings – The Art of The Two Towers by Gary Russell
• The Lord of the Rings – The Art of The Return of the King by Gary Russell
• Mirror Mask – The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
• Behind the Mask of Spiderman – The Secrets of the Movie by Mark Cotta Vaz
• Resurrecting The Mummy – The Making of the Movie by Pat Cadigan

• Toulouse-Lautrec by Gilles Neret – New from the Taschen range
• Behind the Bestsellers – The Stories behind the World’s Favourite Books by Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
• The Making of a Novelist - Patrick O’Brian by Nikolai Tolstoy
• A Plain & Easy Introduction to the Harpsichord by Ruth Nurmi

Science and Transport

• Salt - A World History by Mark Kurlansky
• The Big Oyster – New York in the World, A Molluscular History by Mark Kurlansky
• A Primate’s Memoir – Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M. Sapolsky
• Y - The Descent of Men by Steve Jones
• Wings – A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age by Tom D. Crouch
• Seeing and Believing – The Story of the Telescope or How We Found Our Place in the Universe by Richard Panek
• More Cunning Than Man – A Complete History of the Rat and it’s Role in Human Civilization by Robert Hendrickson

History, Biography and Travels

• Bonnie Prince Charlie by Fitzroy MacLean
• And Did Those Feet – Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History by Charlie Connelly
• The Devil - A Biography by Peter Stanford
• The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes
• My Word is My Bond by Roger Moore
• Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat - The Speeches of Winston Churchill by David Cannadine
• Lincoln at Gettysburg – The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
• The Illustrated Egyptian Book of the Dead by Dr. Ramses Seleem
• The Elgin Affair – The Abduction of Antiquity’s Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused by Theodore Vrettos
• The Faithful Tribe – An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions (of Northern Ireland) by Ruth Dudley Edwards
• History of World Exploration by The Royal Geographical Society (General Editor: John Keay)
• The Bolter by Frances Osbourne
• Sam Houston – A Biography of the Father of Texas by John Hoyt Williams
• Better Day Coming – Blacks and Equality, 1890 – 2000 by Adam Fairclough

And on that note, we have some really nice Native American culture including The Mystic Warriors of the Plains – The Culture, Arts, Crafts and Religion of the Plains Indians by Thomas E. Mails, along with The Spirit of Native America – Beauty and Mysticism in American indian Art by Anna Lee Walters, Becoming Brave – The Path to Native American Manhood by Laine Thom, Dancing Colors – Paths of Native American Women by C. J. Brafford and Laine Thom in three pretty matching soft-cover volumes.

Military and Media books with a few True Crime thrown in for good measure....

• Corporate Warriors – The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry by P. W. Singer
• The Shock Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Through Hell for Hitler – A Dramatic First-hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front with the Wehrmacht by Henry Metelmann
• Soldier Sahibs – The Men who Made the North-West Frontier by Charles Allen
• The Havana Mob – Gangsters, Gamblers, showgirls and Revolutionaries in 1950s Cuba by T. J. English
• Crims in Grass Castles – The True Story of Trimbole, Mr. Asia and the Disappearance of Donald Mackay by Keith Moore

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
I think the dude behind is who Jim Henson based Floyd on. Totally groovy man!

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