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

Fiction, Fiction, Fiction!

• Mr. Dickens Hits Town by Jan Mark and illustrated by Regolo Ricci
• My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
• The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid (her new one)
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Comics

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare -The Complete Text Illustrated by John H Howard
• Othello by William Shakespeare - The Complete Text, unabridged & unexpurgated - Illustrated by Oscar Zarate
• Tales of the Dark Knight – Batman’s First Fifty Years 1939-1989 by Mark Cotta Vaz
• Erik Viking – The Comic Book of the Spectacular Fantasy Epic by Terry Jones
• The Red Star – Collected Edition by Team Red Star
• Arkham Asylum – Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean

New Zealand and the Pacific

• The Illustrated Denniston Rose and Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
• Tatau – Samoan Tattoo – Global Culture by Sean Mallon, Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas and Mark Adams
• The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole
• Runes by James J Baxter
• Villa – From Heritage to Contemporary by Patrick Reynolds, Jeremy Salmond and Jeremy Hansen (New)
• Weeping Waters - The Treaty of Waitangi and Constitutional Change edited by Malcolm Mulholland and Veronica Tawhai
• Tea for the Tui - Fun Recipies to Entice Birds to your Garden by Rosemary Tully
• A Photographic Guide to Insects of New Zealand by Brian Parkinson with photos by Don Horne
• A Photographic Guide to Mushrooms and other Fungi of New Zealand by Geoff Ridley with photo by Don Horne
• Attracting Birds and Other Wildlife to your Garden in New Zealand by Gordon Ell (New)
• A Photographic Guide to Sea Shells of New Zealand by Margaret D Morley and Iain A Anderson
• A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand by Laurie Metcalf
• Maori in Focus – A Selection of Photographs of the Maori from 1850-1914 by William Main
• Te Kooti by W. Hugh Ross
• Drawing the Waitakere Coast by Don Binney (New)
• ANZAC Fury – The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson (New)

Essays and Poetry, Language and Literary

• The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco
• How Beautiful It Is - And How Easily it Can be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Passionate Minds - Women Re-writing the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont
• Woman Reading to the Sea by Lisa Williams
• The Passionate Eye - The Collected Writing of Suzanna Vega
• The Stately Homo - A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp edited by Paul Bailey
• So Many Books - Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid
• The Art of Speed Reading People - How to Size People Up and Speak Their Language by Paul D Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger

Places and Travel

• Lost White Tribes - Journeys among the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio
• To the Poles Without a Beard by Catharine Hartley
• Beyond Seven Years in Tibet - My Life Before, During and After by Heinrich Harrer
• Russia in the Modern World - A New Geography by Denis J B Shaw
• Honeymoon in Purdah - An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing
• Racing with Death - Douglas Mawson - Antarctica Explorer by Beau Riffenburgh
• Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
• Yemen - Travels in Dictionaryland by Tim Macintosh-Smith
• Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded August 27, 1888 – 1 st US Edition by Simon Winchester

History and Biography

• 1599 - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
• Red House - Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House by Sarah Messer
• In Search of Kings - The Classic Australian Migrant Story by Tony De Bolfo
• Flushed - How the Plumber saved Civilization by W Hodding Carter
• Blasphemy - Impious Speech in the West from the 17th to the 19th Century by Alain Cabantous
• Towards the Light – The Story of the Struggles for Liberty & Rights that made the Modern West by A.C. Grayling
• Interesting Times - A Twentieth Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm
• Age of Delirium - The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union by David Slatter
• Lenin's Embalmers by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson
• A Certain Grandeur - Gough Whitlam's Life in Politics by Graham Freudenberg
• Sexuality & the Stories of Indigenous Peoples edited by Jessica Hutchings and Clive Aspin
• Landscape and Englishness by David Matless

Anthropological Film and Photography

• Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Ronald Barthes
• Fields of Vision - Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology and Photography edited by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman
• Innovation in Ethnographic Film – From Innocence to Self Consciousness 1955-1985 by Peter Loizos
• Film as Ethnography edited by Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton
• Anthropological Filmmaking edited by Jack R Rollwagen
• Camera Culture by Halla Beloff
• Rethinking Visual Anthropology edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy
• In Other Words - Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu
• Visual Anthropology - Photography as a Research Method - Revised and Expanded Edition by John Collier, Jr., and Malcolm Collier
• Anthropology and Anthropologists by Adam Kuper
• Ethnographic Film by Karl G Heider
• The Taste of Ethnographic Things - The Senses in Anthropology by Paul Stoller
• The Sacred Pipe - Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown
• Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer- An Ethnographic Film Monograph by Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch
• Visualizing Theory - Selected Essays From V A R 1880-1994 edited by Lucien Taylor
• Women Native Other by Trinh T Minh-ha

Film, Theatre and TV

• The Busby Berkeley Book by Tony Thomas and Jim Terry with Busby Berkeley
• Graham Norton - So Me by Graham Norton – (has a brilliant foreword in which he advises that if you should meet his Mum at any point, please don’t tell her what he’s been up to – she doesn’t want to know!)
• Star Wars – Attack of the Clones - The Visual Dictionary by David West Reynolds
• A Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860-1970 by Daniel Blum
• Mommywood by Tori Spelling
• Making a Good Script Great - A Guide for Writing and Rewriting by Hollywood Script Consultant Linda Seger
• No Room for Secrets by Joanna Lumley

Art

• David Hockney by David Hockney
• Apocalypse – Visions from the Book of Revelation in Western Art by Frederick van der Meer
• Constable – Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings by Parris, Fleming-Williams and Shields, and Tate Gallery
• Pleasure and Play in Edo Japan by Richard Bullen and Co
• Trust the Process - An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff
• Curtis’s Flower Garden Displayed – 120 Plates from the Years 1787-1807 with new Descriptions by Tylee Whittle and Christopher Cook
• 500 Cups - Ceramic Explorations of Utility & Grace edited by Suzanne J E Tourtilott, published by Lark
• The History of Western Sculpture - A Young Person's Guide by Juliet Heslewood
• Making Digital Type Look Good – A Unique Visual Guide by Bob Gordon
• Fashion by Andy Warhol
• Hundertwasser by Werner Hofmann
• The Prince of Egypt – A New Vision in Animation by Charles Soloman
• The Beginner's Guide to Drawing - Step-by-step Techniques for Beginners – Covering Figure Drawing, Human Anatomy, and the Female Nude by Patricia Monahan, Albany Wiseman, James Horton and Ian Sidaway
• Tattooing from the Japan to the West - Horitaka Interviews Contemporary Artists by Takahiro Kitamura

Photography and Fantasy, Graffiti and Animation

• Banksy – Wall and Piece
• Photo Icons – The Story behind the Pictures Volume 2 by Hans-Michael Koetzle (Taschen Icon)
• Durruti 1896-1936 by Active/Beastie, London (Spanish War Photographer)
• Mechanika - Creating the Art of Science Fiction with Doug Chiang
• Dreamland by Todd Schorr
• Happy Times by Brendan Gill and Jerome Zerbe Fabulously candid pictures of Society Figures from the Mid 20th century Architecture and Décor
• Traditional Style – How to Recreate the Traditional Period Home by Stephen Calloway and Stephen Jones
• Textiles by William Morris & Co., 1861-1940 by Oliver Fairclough and Emmeline Leary
• The Life and Works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Nathaniel Harris

Music

• I'm With the Band - Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres
• Tommyland by Tommy Lee with Anthony Bozza
• Jazz Covers – A Collection of over 650 of the most Celebrated and Rarest Jazz Album Covers from the 1940s to the early 1950s by Taschen (New)
• Cash - The Autobiography by Johnny Cash (with Patrick Carr)
• Musical Instruments for Children - Choosing what's right for your Child by Richard Crozier
• Kasabian -Sound, Movement & Empire by Joe Shooman
• Dream Brother - The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley by David Browne

Fashion and Antiques

• Fabergé 1846-1920 – Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia – Book from 1977 Exhibition
• French Fashion Plates in Full Colour from the Gazette du Bon Ton (1912-1925) – 58 Illustrations of Styles by Paul Poiret, Worth, Paquin and Others, as rendered by Georges Lepape, George Barbier et al

Military, Transport and True Crime

• D-Day Invasion by Douglas Botting and Time Life Books
• Heaven Next Stop by Gunther Bloemertz
• Waterloo - Napoleon's Last Gamble by Andrew Roberts
• 1812 – Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
• The Dragon Syndicates - The Global Phenomenon of the Triads by Martin Booth
• Nelson - A Dream of Glory by John Sugden
• Let me go - My Mother and the SS by Helga Schneider
• Choppers - Drive, Ride, Fly by Mike Seatle
• Mercedes-Benz by Pawel Huelle

Philosophy, Pop Culture and Religion

• The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom edited by Matthew E. Bunson
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu and translated by Thomas Cleary
• Miss America by Howard Stern
• Poor Story – An Insider uncovers how Globalization and Good Intentions have Failed the World’s Poor by Giles Bolton
• Orientalism by Edward W Said

Mythology and Wicca

• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
• A Joseph Campbell Companion - Reflections on the Art of Living selected and edited by Diane K Osbon
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Hero - The Myth Image Symbol by Dorothy Norman
• The Crystal Bible  A Definitive Guide to Crystals by Judy Hall
• The Raw and the Cooked - Introduction to a Science of Mythology by Claude Levi-Strauss
• A Woman's Guide to the Earth Traditions - Exploring  Wicca, Shamanism, Paganism, Native American and
• Celtic Spirituality by Vivianne Crowley
• Love is in the Earth - A Kaleidoscope of Crystals by Melody
• Spirit of the Witch- Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary Witchcraft by Raven Grimassi
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca & Witchcraft by Denise Zimmermann and Katherine A Gleason
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft by Miria Liguana and Nina Metzner
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Palmistry by Robin Gile and Lisa Lenard
• Advanced Witchcraft by Edain McCloy
• The Art of Wiccan Healing - A Practical Guide by Sally Morningstar
• Teen Witch - Wicca for a New Generation by Silver Ravenwolf
• The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells by Judika Illes

Science and Technology

• The Wikipedia Revolution – How a Bunch of Nobodies created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia by Andrew Lih
• “Surely you’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” – Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman
• The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
• The Real Global Warming Disaster– Is the Obsession with `Climate Change’ turning out to be the most Costly Scientific Blunder in History by Christopher Booker
• Catching Cold  - 1918's Forgotten Tragedy and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus that Caused It by Peter Davies
• Tinkering with Eden - The Natural History of Exotic Species in America by Kim Todd

Health, Life and Family

• Motherland by Ann McFerran
• The 4-Hour Work Week - Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
• How To Bring Up Your Parents by Emma Hennedy
• How to Bury a Goldfish - & Other Ceremonies & Celebrations for Everyday Life by Virginia Lang & Louise Nayer
• Tweak - The Horror of Addiction - The Miracle of Survival by Nic Sheff
• The Stork Club - One Woman's Journey to the Front Line of Fertility by Imogen Edward-Jones
• Ancient Indian Massage  - Traditional Massage Techniques Based on the Ayurveda by Harish Johari
• How to a Complete & Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything  - 44½ Steps to Lasting Underachievement by Steve McDermott
• Seeing Past Z - Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World by Beth Kephart
• Neo Power - How the New Economic Order is Changing the Way we Live and Work by Ross Honeywell and Verity Byth
• Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Collins Gem: 5-minute Stress-Busting - Instant Calm for People on the go by Vicky Hales-Dutton
• Understanding Stress by Professor Greg Wilkinson

Bits and Bobs

• The Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss
• The Mystery Method - How to Get Beautiful Women into Bed by Mystery (Anon)
• Hiding the Elephant - How Magicians Invented the Impossible by Jim Steinmeyer
• The Return of the Complete Revenge Book by Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine

Cooking and Food

• Active Kids Cookbook - Healthy Recipes for Active Young Cooks by Jeni Pearce
• Dinner at the New Gene Cafe – How Genetic Engineering is Changing what we Eat, How we Live and the Global Politics of Food by Bill Lambrecht
  

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