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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
Well, the Bees have been super busy this week again with the Fiction part of the shop.
The Science Fiction & Fantasy and Detective sections completely re-sorted and alphabetised over the last week or so and then restocked from the duplicate stash we have, so they are very full and titles you may have been hunting for but we thought we were out of may have miraculously re-appeared!
And this is on top of the usual array (read "loads and loads of books") of exciting goodies and fervent favourites
that have come in to tantalize and delight you, like:
- The Kite Runner (in English AND in German!) by Khaled Hosseni
- Small Gods and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett. Good to see him second hand, get in quick!
- Boogaloo on 2 nd Avenue by Mark Kurlansky (best selling author of Cod, Salt and 1968).
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (best selling author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
- A stack of SF Masterworks by a range of classic authors including Philip K. Dick
- La’s Orchestra Saves the World – The Evocation of War-Torn England and
Dream Angus – The Celtic God of Dreams both by Alexander McCall Smith
- Twilight (not the Vampire one) by Azhar Abidi, set in Kashmir
- Penguin Classic editions of
- Don Quixote by Cervantes,
- Clarissa [or the History of a Young Lady] by Samuel Richardson and
- Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Recent yumminess in the Children’s section include some lovely Non-fiction Children’s Art books.
Learn about Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse with the young ‘uns.
Also some great titles by Tamara Pierce, Phillip Pullman, Joy Cowley, Maurice Gee and C. S. Lewis have come in including two boxed sets of the timeless Narnia series.
Some of the New Zealand Books in this week:
- Classic Aircraft of New Zealand by Stuart Russell and Alex Mitchell
- Eight Minutes Past Midnight– The Wreck of the SS Wairarapa by Steve Locker-Lampson and Ian Francis
- The Perano Whalers of Cook Strait 1911-1964 by Don Grady
- Assemble – Sensational Food Made Simple by Annabel Langbein with photography by Nick Tresidder
- Wellington’s Northern Suburbs 1919-1945 compiled by Julie Bremner for Onslow Historical Society
- The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove – The Modernisation of Policing in New Zealand by Richard S. Hill
- The Story of the Great Eruption of Mt. Tarawera 1886 a fantastically kitsch pamphlet from around the 1930s (?) with no publishing info or author…
- The Exiles of Asbestos Cottage by Jim Henderson
Some turbo-charged Motoring books have come in like Larry McMurtry's Roads – A Millennial Journey Along America’s Great Interstate Highways and an Innings of Cricket books have also just bounced onto the shelves (under-arm of course) including – Barclays World of Cricket – The Game from A-Z edited by E. W. Swanton, Cricket with Grace – An Illustrated Anthology on W. G. compiled by David Rayvery Allen, Imran Khan – All Round View, Gerald Pawle's R.E.S. Wyatt – Fighting Cricketer and to help cricket novices understand it all, The Dictionary of Cricket by Michael Rundell.
For the less tweed-wearing personages among you we have a complete and somewhat painful change of topic - lots of books on Tattooing and Piercing Galore – Ouch!
- Customizing the Body – The Art and Culture of Tattooing by Clinton R. Sanders
- The Tattoo – Graffiti for the Soul by Claudio Lazi and Catherine Grognard
- Exposé – The Art of Tattoo by Tim O’Sullivan
- The Japanese Tattoo with photos and text by Sandi Fellman
- Tattoos of the Floating World – Ukiyo-e Motifs in the Japanese Tattoo by Takahiro Kitamura
- The Japanese Tattoo by Donald Richie and Ian Buruma
- The Customized Body by Ted Polhemus
- The Tattoo – A Pictorial History by Jeff Jaguer
- Pagan Fleshworks – The Alchemy of Body Modification by Maureen Mercury
- Bodies of Subversion – A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin
- Tattooed Women by Chris Wroblewski
- Piercing – A Modern Anthology by Housk Randall
- Return of the Tribal – A Celebration of Body Adornment by Rufus C. Camphausen
- Tattoo – The Exotic Art of Skin Decoration by Michelle Delio
- Tattootime series edited by D. E. Hardy including titles –
- Music and Sea Tattoos,
- Life and Death Tattoos
- and Tattoo Magic
- Skin Shows – The Art of Tattoo series, Nos. 1 and 3 by Chris Wroblewski
And for those of you who prefer your art to be on something other than your own flesh, here's some highlights from the Art and Crafts, Design and Weaving collection that came in this week.
- Greek and Roman Art a Fitzwilliam Museum Handbook
- The Book of Tapestry by Verlet, Pierre, Florisoone, Michel et al
- Ornament & Jewellery - Archaeological Finds from Eastern Europe by Klement Benda
- Textile Classics – A Complete Guide to Furnishing Fabrics and their Uses by Melanie Paine
- Great Book of Egg Decorating by Grazia Buttafuoco and Dede Varetto
- The Dough Craft Sourcebook – A Step-by-Step Guide to 50 Original Salt Dough Projects by Tilley and Welby
- The Weaver’s Book of Fabric Design by Janet Phillips
- The Craft of the Weaver – a Practical Guide to Spinning, Dyeing and Weaving by Ann Sutton, Peter Collingwood and Geraldine St Aubyn Hubbard
- A Guide to Weft Twining and Related Structures with Interlacing Wefts by David W. Fraser
- Handweaving by Iona Plath
- A Handweavers Notebook by Sharon Alderman
- Summer & Winter – A Weave for all Seasons by Donna Sullivan
- An Introduction to Weaving - The Four-Shaft Table Loom by Anne Field
- The Ashford Book of Weaving also by Anne Field
- The Joy of Handweaving by Osma Gallinger Tod
Books on Natural History and the Sciences in this week...
- Adam’s Curse – A Future Without Men By Bryan Sykes
- Genome – The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
- A User’s Guide to the Brain by John Ratey
- Homeopathic Medicine for Dogs – A Handbook for Vets and Pet Owners by H. G. Wolff MVSC
- What We Can Never Know – Blindspots in Philosophy and Science by David Gamez
- Magic of Irises by Barbara Perry Lawton
- Tulipomania – The Story of the World’s most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused by Mike Dash
- Why Do Moths Drink Elephants’ Tears? And Other Zoological Curiosities by Matt Walker
- Dark Life – A Mile Beneath the Surface of Earth by Michael Ray Taylor
- Why Aren’t they Here? – The Question of Life on Other Worlds by Surendra Verma
- Moments in Eden – Garden Photographs by Richard Brown
History they say, never repeats, but apparently colds and flu's do - especially if you forget to cover your mouth when you cough.
Read all about the the Spanish Flu in this selection of History and Biography titles fresh in this week.
- The Great Influenza – The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
- America’s Forgotten Pandemic – The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby
- America’s Living Past – Historic Villages and Restorations by John Bowen
- The Plains Indians – A Cultural and Historical View of the North American Plains Tribes of the Pre-Reservation Period by Colin F. Taylor
- Ned Kelly – The Authentic Illustrated Story by Keith McMenomy
- Cleopatra’s Palace – In Search of a Legend by Laura Foreman
- The Seven Wonders of the World - A History of the Modern Imagination by John and Elizabeth Romer
And recent additions to our Pop Culture, Sociology and Philosophy sections...
- The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
- The Post-Modernist Always Rings Twice by Gilbert Adair
- Rock’n’Roll Babylon – 50 Years of Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll by Gary Herman
- Vigor Mortis – The End of the Death Taboo by Kate Berridge
- The Nokia Revolution – The Story of an Extraordinary Company that Transformed an Industry by Dan Steinbock
Books on Fabulous Food and Tantalising Travel are a great way to wile away the last of winter - check out some of these titles... A Tale of 12 Kitchens – Family Cooking in Four Countries by Jake Tilson, Qmin – A Fresh New Approach to Indian Cuisine by Amil Ashokan, The World’s Great Adventure Treks edited by Jack Jackson, Kanchenjunga Challenge by Paul Bauer and Lonely Planet's The Travel Book – A Journey through Every Country in the World.
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