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

Fiction, Fiction, Fiction!

• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• Three Stories by Alan Bennett including The Laying on of Hands, The Clothes they Stood Up in and Father! Father! Burning Bright
• A Good & Happy Child by Justin Evans
• Dawn of the Dumb - Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline by Charlie Brooker
  

New Zealand and the Pacific

• The Venison Hunters by Mike Bennett
• The Trial of the Cannibal Dog – Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
• Living with Antiques in New Zealand by Campbell Moon
• Helen Clark – A Political Life by Denis Welch
• Sweetwaters – The Untold Story by Daniel Keighley
• New Zealand Landscapes by Andris Apse (boxed)
• Battery Hen Farming in New Zealand - A Critical Evaluation
• White Trash by Gordon Rennie and Martin Emond
• Voices from a Border War – Borneo 1963-1965 by Robert Gurr
• Christianity without God by Lloyd Geering
• Blood Brothers the ANZAC Genesis by Jeff Hopkins-Weise
• Te Wai Pounamu – The Greenstone Island – A History of the Southern Maori during the European Colonization of New Zealand by Harry C. Evison
• The Carver and the Artist – Maori Art in the Twentieth Century by Damian Skinner

Language, Luminaries and Literati

• Book of Lies edited by ABC Books
• Spoken Here – Travels among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley
• The Dags Dictionary – A Book of Words that should Exist – but Don’t by Richard Glover
• Language Myths edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trugill
• The QI Book of General Ignorance and The QI Book of Animal Ignorance by the QI Team
• A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish by Rubén Cobos
• Beautiful Shadow – A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
• Miller’s Collecting Modern Books by Catherine Porter

History and Biography

• Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
• New England’s Witches and Wizards by Robert Ellis Cahill
• Privilege & Scandal - The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, sister of Georgiana by Janet Gleeson
• You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like Me – The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker
• The Hollow Crown – A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages by Miri Rubin
• Medieval Home Companion – Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century translated & edited by Tania Bayard
• On Going to Bed by Anthony Burgess
• Call the Midwife - A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth
• Mad Dogs and Englishmen – An Expedition round my Family by Ranulph Fiennes
• The Mental Floss History of the World – An Irreverent Romp through Civilization’s Best Bits by Eric Sass & Steve Wiegand
• Stiff – The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• One Palestine, Complete – Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
• The Sea Kingdoms – The History of Celtic Britain and Ireland by Alistair Moffat
• Gulag – A History by Anne Applebaum

Politics and Media

• Al-Jazeera – How Arab TV News Challenged the World by Hugh Miles
• The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
• Frost Nixon – One Journalist, One President, One Confession by David Frost

Military and Transport

• An Illustrated History of the Bentley Car by W. O. Bentley
• Fighter Boys – Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
• How did this Happen? Terrorism and the New War edited by James F Hoge Jr and Gideon Rose
• Battle Cry of Freedom – The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
• Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones & William N. Still
• The Bruneval Raid – Stealing Hitler’s Radar by George Millar
• Bamboo and Bushido by A. G. Allbury
• Intelligence in War – Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan
• The Battle of Long Tan – The Legend of ANZAC Upheld by Lex McAulay
• The Tunnels of Cu Chi – A Remarkable Story of the Vietnam War by Tom Mangold and John Penycate
• Malta Convoy by Peter Shankland and Anthony Hunter
• Colonel Henri’s Story – The Memoirs of the German Secret Agent who arrested Odette and Peter Churchill
• Enemy Submarine – The Exploits of the U-Boat Captain who penetrated Scapa Flow by Wolfgang Frank
• Escape to Danger by Paul Brickhill and Conrad Norton
• 3Para – Afghanistan 2006 – This is War by Patrick Bishop
• The Big Show – Some Experiences of a French Fighter Pilot in the RAF by Pierre Clostermann DSO DFC
• The Black Watch and the King’s Enemies by Bernard Fergusson
• Surgeon at Arms by Daniel Paul with John St. John
• Singapore – The Chain of Disaster – A Controversial Account of Britain’s Humiliation in the Far East by Major-General S. Woodburn Kirby
• Clash by Night – A Commando Chronicle by Brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts CBE DSO MC
• Rifles by Jim Supica and Doug Wicklund (New)
• Handguns by Jim Supica (New)
• Shotguns by Jim Supica and Philip Schreier (New)
• A Chindit Story by James Baggaley
• Germany at War in Colour – Unique Colour Photographs of WW2 by Lt. Col. George Forty

Travel and Places

• Duel in the Snows – The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa by Charles Allen
• Sky Burial – An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
• The Book of Cities by Philip Dodd and Ben Donald
• The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by Dr. Ian Barnes (New)

Art and Architecture

• Dynamic Anatomy – Measurements, Proportions, Anatomical Details, Surface Forms, Foreshortening Movement
• Dynamic Light and Shade – The Key to 3-Dimensional Form in Drawing and Painting both by Burne Hogarth
• The Eiffel Tower by Taschen (New)
• The Dracula Collection – A Unique View of the Horrifying Gallery of the Prince of Darkness by Octopus Books
• Peggy Guggenheim – The Life of an Art Addict by Anton Gill
• Choosing Colours – An Expert Choice of the Best Colours to use in your Home by Kevin McCloud
• New London Architecture by Kenneth Powell
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
• The Oregon Experiment by Christopher Alexander et al
• Kiddography – The Art and Life of Tom Kidd
• A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander et al

Fashion and Photography

• Harper’s Bazaar Australia – 10 Years of Fashion Photography – A Collector’s Edition
• Art Kane – Paper Dolls
• Blythe Style by Gina Garan and Junko Wong
• Leg edited in collaboration with Diana Edkins and Betsy Jablow

Music, TV and Film

• Led Zeppelin – Classics (Sheet Music)
• Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming
• Rolling Stone – The Photographs edited by Laurie Kratochvil
• Blues All Around Me - B.B. King - The Autobiography
• Playing with Fire – The Autobiography by Nigel Havers
• The Making of - Kind of Blue - Miles David and his Masterpiece by Eric Nisenson
• As Though I had Wings - The Lost Memoir by Chet Baker
• Semi-Detached - Pulling up Roots in Suburbia by Griff Rhys Jones
• The Doors – Complete Music (Sheet Music)
• Coltrane – Chasin’ the Trane by J. C. Thomas
• Dear Fatty by Dawn French
• World Music – The Rough Guide – An A-Z of the Music, Musicians and Discs - Vols 1 and 2

Cooking

• Sam Stern’s Student Cookbook
• The Diabetic Cookbook – Delicious Recipes to Improve Health and Well-being by Love Food
• The Sable and Rosenfeld Cookbook – Our Favourite Recipes by Myra Sable and Colleen Mathieu
• Red and White – Wine made Simple by Max Allen and Adrian Lander
• Diabetes Cookbook – Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living by the American Medical Association
• SuperFoods – Fourteen Foods that will Change your Life by Steven Pratt MD and Kathy Matthews
• Bake – Favourite Home-made Recipes by Allyson Gofton
• Eat, Memory – Great Writers at the Table – A Collection of Essays from the NY Times edited by Amanda Hesser
• The Cook School Recipes by Jo Seager
• The Marmite Cookbook by Paul Hartley
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma – A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Hunger for the Wild by Al Brown and Steve Logan
• The Ten Unexpected Greeks just arrived for Dinner Cookbook- Easy Greek Recipes by Ziggy Zen
• Jamie’s Dinners – The Essential Cookbook by Jamie Oliver

Science and Technology, Ecology and Natural History

• Climbing Mount Improbable both by Richard Dawkins
• 365 Ways to Save the Earth by Philippe Bourseiller
• Taming the Infinite – The Story of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
• The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Samuel C. Florman
• Dragonfly – NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough
• Fermat's Last Theorum - Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D Aczel
• iPhone 3Gs Portable Genius by Paul McFedries and David Pabian

Health and Family

• My Lobotomy – A Memoir by Howard Dully
• What’s Happening to our Girls? Too Much Too Soon – How our Kids are Overstimulated, Oversold & Oversexed by Maggie Hamilton
• Cosmetics Unmasked – Your Family Guide to Safe Cosmetics and Allergy-Free Toiletries by Dr. Stephen and Gina Antczak
• The Homework Myth - Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn

Religion and New Age

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fasting by Eve Adamson and Linda Horning
• The Illustrated Hebrew Bible with 75 Selected Stories adapted by Ellen Frankel
• The Gift - How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
  

Humour and Myth

• Ricky Gervais presents The World of Karl Pilkington
• A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
• 101 Crazy Ways to Die by Matt Roper

Philosophy, Economics and Pop Culture

• Buzzed – The Straight Facts about the most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy by the Duke University Medical Centre & Co
• Outliers – The Story of Success,
• Blink – The Power of Thinking without Thinking,
• The Tipping Point
• and… What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures – all by Malcolm Gladwell
• Commonwealth – Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs

Sports and Mountaineering

• A Significant Other - Riding the Centenary Tour de France with Lance Armstrong by Matt Rendell
• Tour de France - The History, The Legend, The Riders by Graeme Fife
• Mountain Biking by Rob Story
• Mountain Solitude - Solo Journeys in the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Aat Vervoorn
• On Top of the World - Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains by Richard Sale & John Cleare
• The Official Book of Thumb Wrestling – Competitions of Skill and Strength for Two Thumbs by Andy Mayer and Jom Becker

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