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

New Zealand and the Pacific

• How We Saw the War - 1939-1945 Through New Zealand Eyes by Ron Palenski
• Everyday Words in Maori by Jo Litchfield and Huia Publishers
• Wahine Toa – Women of Maori Myth by Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa
• Samuel Marsden – Altar Ego by Richard Quinn
• Maori Healing and Herbal – NZ Ethnobotanical Sourcebook by Murdoch Riley and Brian Enting
• Illustrated History of Central Otago and the Queenstown Lakes District by Gerald Cunningham
• In the Wake of Endeavour – The History of the NZ Shipping Company and Federal Steam Navigation Co. by Gordon Holman
• An Island to Oneself by Tom Neale
• Maori Fortifications by Ian Knight and Adam Hook
• Fish of the Week – Selected Columns by Steve Braunias
• The Kiwi Fossil Hunter’s Handbook by James Crampton and Marianna Terezow
• Teacher and Potter – Doreen Blumhardt
• The Tuatara, Lizards and Frogs of New Zealand by Richard Sharell
• Tea – A Potted History of Tea in New Zealand by Susette Goldsmith
• Sergeant, Sinner, Saint and Spy – The Taranaki War Diary of Sergeant William Marjouram R.A. edited by Laurie Barber, Garry Clayton and John Tonkin-Covell
• Tasman Relations – New Zealand and Australia, 1788-1988 edited by Keith Sinclair
• In View of Kapiti – Earliest Days to the Late 1970s by Barbara MacMorran
• Rocked and Ruptured – Geological Faults in New Zealand by Jefley J Aitken
• Peter Bush – A Life in Focus by Peter Bush with Paul Thomas
• Classic Racers – NZ’s Grand Prix Greats by Eion Young
• The Image Always Has the Last Word – On Contemporary NZ Painting and Photography by Laurence Simmons
• The Parihaka Album – Lest We Forget by Rachel Buchanan
• It’s all Done with Mirrors – About Television by Geoff Lealand and Helen Martin
• Report on Experience by John Mulgan
• Hawke’s Bay – The History of a Province by Matthew Wright
• Bold Coasts – Annotated Reprints of Selected Papers on Coastal Geomorphology 1916-1969 by the late Sir Charles Cotton, edited by B. W. Collins

Music and Dance

• Belly Dancing – Unlock the Secret Power of an Ancient Dance by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi
• The Rolling Stones, On Camera, Off Guard 1963-1969 – Plus DVD of rare Stones Footage by Mark Hayward
• Electric Guitar Handbook by Alan Ratcliffe
• The Way you Wear your Hat - Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ by Bill Zehme
• Michael Jackson – The Man in the Mirror 1958-2009
• Stardust – The David Bowie Story by Henry Edwards and Tony Zanetta

History, Politics and Biography

• Europe – A History by Norman Davies
• The Embarrassment of Riches – An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama
• The Conquest of Morocco by Douglas Porch
• Boats in Venice – We and the Vogalonga by Ugo Pizzarello
• The Last Kaiser – William the Impetuous by Giles MacDonogh
• The Lion and the Tiger – The Rise and Fall of the British Raj by Denis Judd
• The first-time Collector’s Guide to British Royal Commemoratives by Geoffrey Warren
• British Imperialism 1688-2000 by P J Cain and A G Hopkins
• The End of Poverty – How we can make it happen in our Lifetime by Jeffrey Sachs
• Dictionary of Jewish Biography by Geoffrey Wigoder
• China – A History by John Keay
• The Worst Date Ever – War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-Throbs and other Abominations by Jane Bussmann
• Freefall – The Strange True Life Growing up Adventures of Oran Canfield
• Cassell’s Chronology of World History – Dates, Events and Ideas that made History by Hywel Williams

Military

• The Indian Army by Boris Mollo
• Flagship Hood – The Fate of Britain’s Mightiest Warship by Alan Coles and Ted Briggs
• The Imperial War Museum Book of The First World War – A Great Conflict recalled in previously unpublished Letters, Diaries and Memoirs by Malcom Brown
• Tokyo Calling – The Charles Cousens Case by Ivan Chapman
• I Flew for the Fuhrer by Heinz Knoke
• The Diaries of John Rabe – The Good German of Nanking edited by Erwin Wickert
• American Pimpernel – The Story of Varian Fry – The Man who saved the Artists on Hitler’s Death List by Andy Marino
• Albert Speer – The End of a Myth by Matthias Schmidt
• Blood, Tears and Folly – An Objective look at World War Two by Len Deighton
• Ivan’s War – The Red Army 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
• The Fruits of War – How Military Conflict Accelerates Technology by Michael White

Travel and Places

• Climbing in the Caucasus by Vilém Heckel
• Perseus in the Wind and Alexander’s Path both by Freya Stark
• Stones into Schools – Promoting Peace with Books, not Bombs, in Afghanistan & Pakistan by Greg Mortenson
• Quest for Adventure – Ultimate Feats of Modern Exploration by Chris Bonington

Arts and Crafts, Architecture and Photography

• Univers Revolved – A Three-Dimensional Alphabet by Ji Lee
• Magazine Covers by David Crowley
• Hand Woolcombing and Spinning – A Guide to Worsteds from the Spinning-Wheel by Peter Teal
• The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook – Dyeing, Painting, Spinning, Designing, Knitting by Lynne Vogel
• Adventure in Art – An International Group of Art Collections in Industrial Environments edited by H. J. Scheepmaker
• Beach Cottages by Haike Falkenberg
• Degas – Impressions of a Great Master by Gerhard Gruitrooy
• Still Looking – Essays on American Art by John Updike
• Scandals, Vandals and Da Vincis – A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales by Harvey Rachlin
• The History of the Nude in Photography by Peter Lacey
• The Home Guide to Woodwork by Chris Simpson

Cars, Trains and Planes, but not Ships, no sir, definitely no ship books here....

• Main Lines across the Border by O S Nock and Eric Treacy
• The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway by L T Catchpole
• Light Railways– Their Rise and Decline by W J K Davies
• The Welsh Narrow Gauge Railway – A Pictorial History by J D C A Prideaux
• Aviation – An Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of WW2 by Charles H Gibbs-Smith
• British Railway Tunnels by Alan Bower
• Railways of Southern Africa by John R Day
• A Collector’s Guide to the Jaguar E-Type by Paul Skilleter
• The Great Western Collection by The Guild of Railway Artists
• Railway Reminiscences of Three Continents by Gérard Vuillet
• The Railway – Heritage of Britain – 150 Years of Railway Architecture and Engineering by Gordon Biddle and O S Nock et al
• Steam on the RENFE – Spanish National Railways by L G Marshall
• Narrow Gauge Album by P B Whitehouse
• Santa Fe – Steel Rails through California by Donald Duke and Stan Kistler
• F-15 Eagle Engaged – The World’s Most Successful Jet Fighter by Steve Davies and Doug Dildy

Ok so I lied, we have had a 'few' Shipping and Naval titles in this week...

• Anatomy of a Ship – The Battleship Warspite by Ross Watton
• Modern Deep-Sea Trawling Gear by John Garner
• The Two-Ocean War – A Short History of the US Navy in the Second World War by Samuel Eliot Morison
• The Last Sailors – The Final Days of Working Sail by Neil Hollander and Harald Mertres
• The Flower of Gloster by E. Temple Thurston
• The Thames Sailing Barge – Her Gear and Rigging by Dennis J Davis
• Jutland – An Analysis of the Fighting by John Campbell
• Fifty Years of Naval Tugs by Bill Hannan
• Sea War 1939-1945 by Janusz Piekalkiewicz
• Lost Liners – From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria the Ocean Floor reveals its greatest Lost Ships By Robert D Ballard, Rick Archbold and Ken Marschall
• The Path between the Seas – The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough
• Small Craft Conversion by John Lewis
• Shipwrecks of Orkney, Shetland and Pentland Firth by David M Ferguson
• The Tirpitz – The Drama of the Lone Queen of the North by Jochen Brennecke
• The Iron Ship – The Story of Brunel’s SS Great Britain by Ewan Corlett
• Ocean Liners by Robert Wall
• Square Rigged Sailing Ships by David R MacGregor
• Song of the Clyde: A history of Clyde shipbuilding by Fred M. Walker
• 100 Years of Specialized Shipbuilding and Engineering – Centenary History of John I Thornycroft & Co. Ltd by K C Barnaby
• The Cunard White Star Quadruple-Screw Liner Queen Mary – Ocean Liners of the Past reprinted from `The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder.’
• The Severn Bore by F. W. Rowbotham
• All about Ships and Shipping – A Handbook of Popular Nautical Information edited by Edwin P Harnack
• Workaday Schooners – The Edward W Smith Photographs compiled by Edward W Smith Jnr
• London’s Docks by John Pudney
• The Red Rocks of Eddystone by Fred Majdalany
• British Sail by Robert Simper
• Warrior – The World’s First Ironclad – Then and Now by Andrew Lambert
• Raiders from the Sea – The Story of the Special Boat Service in WW2 by John Lodwick
• Salt-water Palaces by Maldwin Drummond

Science, Animals and Ecology

• Big Bang – The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time & Why you Need to Know About it by Simon Singh
• Green is the New Black – How to Change the World with Style by Tamsin Blanchard
• Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History by William Ryan and Walter Pitman
• Cats – Photos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and text by Danièle Laruelle
• Crimes Against Nature – The Kyoto Killers who are Cashing in on our World by Robert F Kennedy Jnr
• After Man – A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
• Walking with Dinosaurs – A Natural History by Tim Haines

Health and Psychology

• In Defence of Food – The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating by Michael Pollan
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• The Hospital by the River – A Story of Hope by Dr. Catherine Hamlin with John Little
• The Body Shop – Body Care Manual
• The Miraculous Fever-Tree – Malaria, Medicine & the Cure that Changed the World by Fiammetta Rocco

Cooking and Food

• Stephanie Alexander – A Shared Table
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Gentleman’s Relish and other English Culinary Oddities – A Gourmet’s Guide – A National Trust Book
• The Recipe Club – A Tale of Food and Friendship [a Novel] by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
• The Gluten-Free Gourmet – Living Well without Wheat by Bette Hagman and
• More from the Gluten-Free Gourmet – Delicious Dining without Wheat by Bette Hagman

TV, Film and Fashion

• Contemporary Korean Cinema – Identity Culture Politics by Hyangjin Lee
• Im Kwon-Taek – The Making of a Korean National Cinema edited by David E James & Kyung Hyun Kim
• Angelina Jolie – Notes from my Travels – Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan & Ecuador
• Marked Women – Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema by Russell Campbell
• The Undeclared War by David Putnam
• Film Posters of the 30s – The Essential Movies of the Decade edited by Nourmand and Marsh
• Fashion Design – A thorough grounding in the Principles of Fashion Design by Sue Jenkyn Jones
• Screen Violence edited by Karl French
• Movie Lists – 397 Way to Pick a DVD – Cult Comedies, Classic SF, Best Bogart, Top Tarantino by Paul Simpson
• Fabulous Fakes – A Passion for Vintage Costume Jewellery by Carole Tanenbaum

Philosophy, Religion and Humour and Everything Else…

• Critique of Everyday Life, Vol 1 by Henri Lefebvre
• The Vision of the Buddha – Buddhism – The Path to Spiritual Enlightenment by Tom Lowenstein
• The Joys of Engrish – Strange and Wonderful Misuses of the English Language by Steven Caires
• The QI Annual – The Book of General Ignorance
• The Knowledge Book – Everything you need to know to get by in the 21 st Century by National Geographic

Language and Books, Essays and Literati

• Shakespeare’s Language by Frank Kermode
• Trafficking in Old Books by Anthony Marshall
• K by Roberto Calasso – Essays translated from Italian

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