Sacred Monsters, Other People’s Shoes and How to Travel with a Salmon

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

Fiction

• A nice stash of detective novels by Georges Simeon
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores and Love in the Time of Cholera both by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
• The Baroque Cycle Trilogy – Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World by Neal Stephenson in Hardback, First Edition
• The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Complaints [2009] by Ian Rankin
• Our Mills and Boons section is now fully stocked after a bit of a lean spell
• And second hand supplies of Eddings, Feist and Robin Hobbs have now also been replenished

Comics

• Wolverine – Inside the World of the Living Weapon by Matthew K. Manning
• Spider-man the Icon by Steve Saffel
• X-Men – X-tinction Agenda by Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson et al
• New X Men by Grant Morrison
• X-Men – Onslaught – The Complete Epic Book 3 by Mark Waid, Scott Lobdell, Jeph Loeb et al
• Doctor Who – The Ultimate Monster Guide – An A-Z of the Doctor’s Deadliest Foes by Justin Richards
• Doctor Who – Starships & Space stations– A Gallery of Spacecraft from across the Universe by Justin Richards
• Superman, Batman, The Search for Kryptonite by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Shane Davis and Matt Banning
• Now in Comical Form – Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone illustrated by Graham Thompson
• The Penguin Book of Comics (two versions) by George Perry and Alan Aldridge
• The Hobbit – Graphic Novel by J R R Tolkien and illustrated by David Wenzel

New Zealand and the Pacific

• Treasures from the Museum of New Zealand – Te Papa Tongarewa (small edition)
• The Capital Vision Collection ’09 – The Best from the Dominion Post Photographers
• The Governess – Letters From the Colonies 1862-1882 by Patricia Clarke
• Chasing the Southern Light – A Breath-stopping Photographic Journey of Southern New Zealand
• The Photographs of Matheson Beaumont
• Redemption Songs – A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki by Judith Binney
• V8 Kiwis – New Zealanders Making It Big In Touring Cars by Peter Bidwell
• Images of Dignity – Barry Barclay and Fourth Cinema by Stuart Murray
• Ned and Katina – A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
• Paul Owen – Test Pilot – Living the Petrolhead’s Dream
• Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party, Bliss, and The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories
• The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks Vol. 1 & 2 edited by Margaret Scott
• Dark out of Darkness – Poetry by Guyon Neutze and images by Jürgen Waibel
• Every Girl – A Social History of Women and the YWCA in Auckland by Sandra Coney

Essays and Books, Languages and Literati

• Misreadings and How to Travel with a Salmon and other Essays by Umberto Eco
• A Theory of Semiotics and Travels in Hyperreality also by Umberto Eco
• A Chance Meeting – Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists by Rachel Cohen
• Writing Places – The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher by William Zinsser
• The English Language – A Historical Introduction by Charles Barber
• Capote – A Biography by Gerald Clarke
• A Dictionary of Superstitions – edited by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem
• Arabic English Visual Bilingual Dictionary by DK

History and Biography

• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury
• Greenback – The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America by Jason Goodwin
• Twenty Years at Hull-House – with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams
• Mountains beyond Mountains – The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man who would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
• Good Wives? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me 1845-2001 by Margaret Foster
• The Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge by The Ariel Press
• The Africa House – The True Story of an English Gentleman and his African Dream by Christina Lamb
• The Corfu Trilogy – Three Classic Tales of Childhood on an Island Paradise by Gerald Durrell

Travel and Places

• Bold Spirit – Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt
• Women of Deh Koh – Lives in an Iranian Village by Erika Friedl
• The Lost Villages of England by Leigh Driver and photos by Stephen Whitehorne
• Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
• The Year we Seized the Day – A True Story of Friendship and Renewal of the Camino by Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles

Military and Transport

• Quartered Safe out Here – A Recollection of the War in Burma by George MacDonald Fraser
• The Mystery of Olga Chekhova – Was Hitler’s Favourite Actress a Russian Spy? by Antony Beevor
• Warriors – Brimming with great Anecdotes – 15 Illustrative Portraits by Max Hastings
• The Last Voyage of the Lusitania by A. A. and Mary Hoehling
• Lost on the Ocean Floor – Diving the World’s Ghost Ships by John Christopher Fine
• Sniper One – The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group under Siege by Sergeant Dan Mills
• The Cold War – The Deals, the Spies, the Lies, the Truth by John Lewis Gaddis
• Air-Cooled Volkswagens – Beetles, Karmann Ghias, Types 2&3 by Colin Burnham
• Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car by L J K Setright

Politics, Business and Economics

• Travels with Dr. Death – Secret Lives, Double Identities, Public Scandals, Private Investigations by Ron Rosenbaum
• Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

Philosophy and New Age, Psychology and Classics

• The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
• On Being Blue – A Philosophical Inquiry by William Gass
• Dante’s Inferno, Pugatorio and Paradiso in three volume World’s Classic set, in Italian and English
• The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking – Skillful Thought for Successful Living by Christopher Hansard
• The Tibetan Art of Serenity – How to Heal Fear and Gain Contentment by Christopher Hansard
• A Life of Jung by Ronald Hayman
• The Art of Strategy – A New Translation of Sun Tzu’s Classic “The Art of War” by R. L. Wing

Theatre, TV and Film

• Other People’s Shoes – Thoughts on Acting by Harriet Walter
• Film Fatales – Independent Women Directors by Judith M Redding and Victoria A Brownworth
• The Movie Book by Phaidon
• 700 Sundays – In a Book about Heroes, about Laughter, about Family
• One of America’s most Beloved Entertainers takes us Home by Billy Crystal
• James Cameron’s Avatar – An Activist Survival Guide by Maria Wilhelm and Dirk Mathison
• Travolta – The Life by Nigel Andrews
• Legendary Comedies by Peter Guttmacher

Music, Fashion and Photography

• I Me Mine by George Harrison
• Fortissimo – Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers by William Murray
• Bird - The Legend of Charlie Parker by Robert George Reisner
• According to the Rolling Stones – The Definitive Story by Jagger, Richards, Watts and Wood
• The Wonderful World of Ladies’ Fashion edited by Joseph J. Schroeder Jr.
• A Fashion for Extravagance - Art Deco Fabrics and Fashions by Sara Bowman
• Five Girls by Sam Haskins
• I-Pod, therefore I am – A Personal Journey through Music by Dylan Jones

Cooking, Gardening and Food

• Italian Food by Elizabeth David
• How to Eat – The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food by Nigella Lawson
• Step-By-Step Vegetarian Cookbook by Good Housekeeping
• Moosewood Restaurant – Low Fat Favourites – Flavourful Recipes for the Healthful Meals by the Moosewood Collective
• Yates Garden Guide 2008 – New Zealand’s best selling Practical Gardening Book
• River Café Cook Book Easy by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
• Olivier Roellinger’s Contemporary French Cuisine – 50 Recipes inspired by the Sea

Art, Art and more Art

• All Colour Book of Art Nouveau by Geoffrey Warren
• Early Painters of Australia 1788-1880 – Images of Australia by Shar Jones
• Expressionism by Dietmar Elger
• Mary Kelly by Phaidon
• The Dedalus Sketchbooks by Robert Motherwell
• Fire and Shadow – Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Art by Nevill Drury and Anna Voigt
• New Visions, New Perspectives – Voices of Contemporary Australian Women Artists by Anna Voigt
• Mondrian by Hans L. C. Jaffe
• Sabine’s Notebook - In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffen and Sabine Continues by Nick Bantock
• Frida Kahlo – The Paintings by Hayden Herrera
• Holbein to Hockney – Drawings from the Royal Collection by Martin Clayton
• The Crystal Palace Exhibition – Illustrated Catalogue –
• An Unabridged Republication of the Art-Journal Special Issue
• Framing Feminism – Art and the Women’s Movement 1970-1985 by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
• Old Mistress – Women, Art and Ideology by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
• Overlay – Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory by Lucy R. Lippard
• On Knowing – Art and Visual Culture edited by Paul Duncam and Ted Bracey
• Making Contemporary Art – How Today’s Artists Think and Work by Linda Weintraub
• Conversations Before the End of Time – Dialogues on Art, Life and Spiritual Renewal by Suzi Gablik
• The Logic of Sensation by Francis Bacon
• Classical Ornament of the Eighteenth Century – 435 Designs by Michelangelo Pergolesi
• Making Their Mark – Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85 by Rosen and Brawer
• Shared Visions – Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century by Margaret Archuleta
• What Painting Is by James Elkins

Architecture

• Great Georgian Houses of America – With 478 Illustrations by Architects’ Emergency Committee
• York – Historic Buildings in the Central Area by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
• Renegade Houses – A Free-thinker’s Guide to Innovative Owner-Built Homes by Eric Hoffman
• Palladio – Catalogo Della Mostra by Vicenza Basilica Palladiana (in Italian )
• The Fantastic Engravings of Wendel Dietterlin – A Reprint of the 1598 Edition of His “Architectura”

Science, Pseudo Science and Natural History

• Making Silent Stones Speak – Human Evolution & the Dawn of Technology by Kathy D. Schick & Nicholas Toth
• Sudden Origins – Fossils, Genes and the Emergence of Species by Jeffrey H. Schwartz
• Hair of the Alien – DNA and other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction by Bill Chalker
• Choosing and Keeping Chickens by Chris Graham in association with Practical Poultry Magazine

Sports and Wellbeing

• The Soul of a Butterfly – Reflections on Life’s Journey by Muhammad Ali with Hana Yasmeen Ali
• Muay Thai Basics – Introductory Thai Boxing Techniques by Christoph Delp
• An Illustrated Introduction to the Martial Arts – Aikido, Kung fu, Judo, Karate, Kendo by Jim Wilson
• The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss
• Ring of Fire – The Inside Story of Moto GP by Rick Broadbent
• Kum Nye – Waking Up for Beginners – Double Your Energy Levels in 8 Moves by Stephanie Wright

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