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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

Fiction

• Asimov’s Aurora – The New Isaac Asimov’s Robot Mystery by Mark W Tiedemann
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick

New Zealand and the Pacific

• The Awa Book of New Zealand Science edited by Rebecca Priestley
• The Amazing World of James Hector – Explorer, Doctor, Geologist, Botanist, Natural Historian and One of New Zealand’s Most Remarkable Figures
• The Elegant Universe of Albert Einstein – Leading New Zealand Scientists and Historians on the Greatest Revolution in Modern Science
• The Transit of Venus – How a Rare Astronomical Alignment changed the World
• Crew Culture – New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam by Neill Atkinson
• The Man in the Shed by Lloyd Jones
• Melting Point – New Zealand and the Climate Change Crisis by Eric Dorfman
• Nga Uruora – The Groves of Life – Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape by Geoff Park
• 44 Things – A Year of Life at Home by Kirsty Gunn
• Charles Fleming’s Cape Expedition Diary – Auckland Islands, 1942-1943 edited by Mary McEwen
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones – 1 st Edition Hardback, signed by Author
• The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook [Extended Edition] by Ian Brodie
• Working with David – Inside the Lange Cabinet by Michael Bassett
• Pakeha Maori – The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in Early New Zealand by Trevor Bentley
• Kiwi Campañeros – New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War edited by Mark Derby
• 100 Essential New Zealand Films by Hamish McDougall
• 100 Essential New Zealand Albums by Nick Bollinger
• The Other ANZACS – Nurses at War 1914-1918 by Peter Rees

Essays and Classics, Language and Literati

• Naked by David Sedaris – A Humourist Par Excellence
• After Electra – Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth Century Fiction by Eden Liddelow
• Books - The Little Black Book – A Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Rocked the Literary World edited by Lucy Daniel
• Kama Sutra of Vatsyayava – Complete and Unabridged, translated by Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot

History and Biography

• The Tyrannicide Brief – The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
• Mrs Keppel and her Daughter by Diana Souhami
• Gulag – A History by Anne Applebaum
• A Brief History of Blasphemy – Liberalism, Censorship and `The Satanic Verses’ by Richard Webster
• Old England – A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial and Popular Antiquities edited by Charles Knight
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles – The Authentic Voices of England from Julius Caesar to Henry II by Anne Savage
• Craze – Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason by Jessica Warner

Military and Transport

• My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
• Sniper on the Eastern Front – The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross by Albrecht Wacker
• The Age of the Warrior – Selected Writings by Robert Fisk
• The Battle for Spain – The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
• The Private Mary Chesnut – The Unpublished Civil War Diaries edited by C. Vann Woodward & Elisabeth Muhlenfeld

Travel, Places and Adventure

• Jaguars Ripped My Flesh by Tim Cahill
• 360° London – Includes CD-Rom containing 35 Quicktime Movies by Nick Wood
• Four Seasons in Rome – On Twins, Insomnia & the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr
• Advanced Rock Climbing – A Step-by-Step Guide to improving Skills by Malcolm Creasey et al
• The Big Trip – Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years and Overseas Adventures by Lonely Planet]
• 100 Myths about the Middle East by Fred Halliday
• The Virago Book of Women Travellers edited by Mary Morris with Larry O’Connor
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City – Inside Baghdad’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Cooking and Food

• Party Cakes by Carol Deacon
• The Devil’s Cup – Coffee – the Driving Force in History by Stewart Lee Allen
• Notting Hill Cookbook by Carina Cooper
• English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David
• Plus a Feast of Stephanie Alexanders including
  • Stephanie’s Feasts and Stories, Stephanie’s Australia - Travelling and Tasting,
  • Stephanie’s Seasons,
  • Stephanie’s Menus for Food Lovers
  • and Recipes my Mother Gave Me – Through my Kitchen Door
• And with Maggie Beer,Tuscan Cookbook – Recipes and Reminiscences from their Italian Cooking School

Craft and Fashion

• The Cool Girl’s Guide to Knitting – Everything the Novice Knitter needs to know by Nicki Trench
• Fabric - Textures and Patterns by Elisabetta ‘Kuky’ Drudi
• Ethnic Jewellery – From Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands by Rene van der Star
• The Complete Book of Jewellery Making by Carles Codina
• Vested Interests – Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber
• Bra – A Thousand Years of Style, Support and Seduction by Stephanie Pedersen
• Wonderful Today – The Autobiography by Pattie Boyd with Pattie Junior

Science and Natural History

• The Mating Game – In Search of the Meaning of Sex by John Gribbin and Jeremy Cherfas
• Slanted Truths – Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
• The Naturalists – Pioneers of Natural History by Alan C. Jenkins
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Francis Crick – Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
• Darwin and the Barnacle – The Story of One Tiny Creature & History’s Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough by Rebecca Stott

Music

• Bob Dylan – Lyrics 1962-1985
• Waiting for the Man – A Biography of Lou Reed by Jeremy Reed
• The Autobiography of Donovan – The Hurdy Gurdy Man

Art and Antiques, Architecture and Design

• The Book Of Guinness Advertising by Jim Davies
• Folding Architecture – Spatial, Structural and Organizational Diagrams by Sophia Vyzoviti
• Smash 137 – Smash Proof by On the Run - Book of the Art of Graffiti Artist Smash 137
• New York City – Black Book Masters by On the Run - Excerpts from Notebooks of prominent NY Graffiti Artists
• Part One – The Death Squad by On the Run - Retrospective of Collaboration between two Graffiti Artists
• Jeff Koons by Taschen and edited by Angelika Muthesius
• Sculptures by Duane Hanson by Martin H Bush
• Robert Gober – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Film and Theatre

• The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan
• An American Original – Walt Disney by Bob Thomas
• Halfway to Hollywood – Diaries 1980-1988 by Michael Palin
• Timeframe – The Illustrated History by David J Howe - 30 th Anniversary book of Dr Who

Health and Herbalism

• The Lost Language of Plants – The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner
• The Green Pharmacy – The Ultimate Compendium of Natural Remedies by James A. Duke
• The Druidry Handbook – Spiritual Practice rooted in the living Earth by John Michael Greer
• The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook – A Home Manual by James Green, Herbalist and Ajana Green
• The Memory Book – Everyday Habits for a Healthy Memory by Judith and Janet Wiles
• The Guy’s Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth and the first year of Fatherhood by Michael Crider

Sport and Business

• Maxed Out – Hard Times, Easy Credit – The Book the Debt Industry Doesn’t Want you to Read by James D Scurlock
• Takemusu Aikido – Vol 3 Basics Concluded by Morihiro Saito, 9 th dan
• Takemusu Aikido – Vol 4 Kokyunage by Morihiro Saito, 9 th dan
• Takemusu Aikido – Vol 5 Bukidori and Ninindori by Morihiro Saito, 9 th dan
• The Death of Marco Pantani – A Biography by Matt Rendell
• How to Solicit – A Man to Man Talk by J.B. Duryea
• Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
• In the Pits – The Real World of Formula One by Beverley Turner

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