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

New Zealand and the Pacific

• Selected Poems of James K Baxter edited by Paul Millar
• Comparatively Speaking – Studies in Pacific Material Culture 1921-1972 by H D Skinner
• Carbon Neutral by 2020 – How New Zealanders can Tackle Climate Change edited by Niki Harré and Quentin D Atkinson
• The Spirit of Steam by Roy Sinclair
• New Zealand Steam Finale by John Cooke and John Vogel

Literati, Mythology and Language

• The Truth will Out – Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by Brenda James and William D Rubinstein
• Shakespeare for All Time by Stanley Wells
• The Arthurian Encyclopedia edited by Norris J Lacy
• The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy
• The Complete Encyclopedia of Signs and Symbols by Mark O’Connell and Raje Airey
• War Poems and Others by Wilfred Owen edited by Dominic Hibberd
• Bitter Fame – A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
• Literary Outlaw – The Life and Times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan

History and Biography

• The Normans by R Allen Brown
• The Anglo-Saxons edited by James Campbell
• Isabella – She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
• Household Matters – Domestic Service at Blenheim Palace by Jeri Bapasola
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray
• Live Working or Die Fighting – How the Working Class went Global by Paul Mason
• Women in England 1760-1914 – A Social History by Susie Steinbach
• Capital of the Mind – How Edinburgh Changed the World by James Buchan
• Arabella – England’s Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood
• The Fury of the Northmen – Saints, Shrines and Sea-Raiders in the Viking Age by John Marsden
• Captain Cook – Obsession and Betrayal in the New World by Vanessa Collingridge
• If I were a Carpenter – Twenty Years of Habitat for Humanity by Frye Gaillard
• Conversations with Eternity – Ancient Man’s Attempts to know the Future by Robert K G Temple
• In Defence of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
• AD 500 – A Journey through the Dark Isles of Britain and Ireland by Simon Young
• Blackadder – The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917 by Curtis, Elton, Atkinson and Lloyd
• Charles Kingsford Smith and those Magnificent Men by Peter Fitzsimons
• Crude - The Story of Oil by Sonia Shah
• The Agony of Czechoslovakia ‘38/’68 by Kurt Weisskopf
• The Untold History of the Potato – The Biography of the Spud by John Reader
• The Frozen Water Trade – How Ice from New England Lakes kept the World Cool by Gavin Weightman
• Coal – A Human History by Barbara Freese

Military

• The Peninsular War by Charles Esdaile
• Trafalgar – Countdown to Battle 1803-1805 by Alan Schom
• Blenheim – Battle for Europe – How two men stopped the French Conquest of Europe by Charles Spencer
• The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
• Imperial Grunts – The American Military on the Ground by Robert D Kaplan
• Babi Yar – A Documentary Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov
• The Spanish Civil War 1946-1939 by Paul Preston
• The Spitfire Log – A Tribute to the World’s most famous Fighter Plane compiled by Peter Haining
• The Mosquito Log – The Inside Story of the Much-Loved `Mossie’ by Alexander McKee
• Cry Hungary – Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney
• Hero – The Falcon of Malta by Brian Nolan
• Great Harry’s Navy – How Henry VIII gave England Sea Power by Geoffrey Moorhouse
• The Dambusters by John Sweetman, David Coward and Gary Johnstone

Engineering and Transport

• The Locomotive Portraits by Darius Kinsey, Photographer
• Caribbean Props and Miami Props both by Austin J Brown and Mark Wagner
• Bus Blunders by Gavin Booth
• The Bridge – The Epic Story of an Australian Icon – The Sydney Harbour Bridge by Peter Lalor
• The Last Journey of William Huskisson by Simon Garfield
• The Wreckers – A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst
• The Ocean Railway – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox

Travel, Cultures and Places

• The Lake District – A Panorama of People and Places in England’s Beautiful Lakeland by Jerome Monahan
• Life at the Edge of the World – A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis
• Photographing Montana 1894-1928 – The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron by Donna Lucey
• Eastward to Tartary – Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus by Robert D Kaplan
• Chris Bonington – Mountaineer
• Yorkshire from Above by Adele McConnel
• Yorkshire Dales from Above by Adrian Warren and Dae Sasitorn
• Yorkshire Coast and North York Moors from Above by Ian Hay and Lisa Pritchard

Film and Fashion, Music and Dance ♫ ♫ ♫

• Last Interview - All we are Saying by John Lennon and Yoko Ono conducted by David Sheff
• Hollywood Musicals by Ted Sennett
• Star Wars – The Making of Episode One – The Phantom Menace by Laurent Bouzereau and Jody Duncan
• Filigree in Sound – Form and Content in Indian Music by Gopal Sharman
• The Raga-s of Northern Indian Music by Alain Daniélou
• Guilty – Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs after 9/11 by Jack G Shaheen
• The Memory of all that – The Life of George Gershwin by Joan Peyser
• Folk Music of Britain – And Beyond by Frank Howes
• Rock’n’Roll Collectables – An Illustrated History of Rock Memorabilia by Hilary Kay
• Skiffle – The Story of a Folk Song with a Jazz Beat by Brian Bird
• Sean Bean – The Biography by Laura Jackson
• The World’s Great Ballets – La Fille Mal Gardée to Davidsbündlertänze by John Gruen
• 1001 Albums you must Hear before you Die edited by Robert Dimery
• Manga by Amano Masanao and Taschen with DVD

Art and Design, Architecture and Photography

• Contemporary Graphic Design by Charlotte and Peter Fiell and Taschen (New)
• Decorating Glass and Ceramics– How to Embellish Glass, Ceramic, Terracotta and Tiles by Mary Fellows
• Building your Own House – A DIY Guide to the New Zealand Timber Framed House by R J Wilson (2 copies)
• From Sometimes Love Beth – An Adventure in Postcards by Beth Sometimes
• Words and Pictures by Quentin Blake
• Fernand Leger by Peter de Francia

Cooking and Food

• Jamie’s Ministry of Food – Anyone can learn to Cook in 24 Hours by Jamie Oliver
• Robbing the Bees – A Biography of Honey – The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop
• Edible Gifts – Home-made Presents for Friends by Kay Fairfax with photos by Martin Brigdale
• 1001 Foods You Must Try before you Die edited by Frances Case
• Almost Vegetarian – A Primer for Cooks who are Eating Vegetarian Most of the Time by Diana Shaw
• Feed the Brute by Joy Barnett (1961)
• Test Kitchen - Favourite Preserves by Tui Flower and the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Science and Natural History

• A Primate’s Memoir – Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M Sapolsky
• The Seven Daughters of Eve – How each of us can Trace our Genetic Ancestors by Bryan Sykes
• Blood of the Isles – Exploring the Genetic Roots of our Tribal History also by Bryan Sykes
• Shells – Jewels from the Sea by M G Harasewych and Murray Alcosser
• A Collector’s Guide to Seashells of the World by Jerome M Eisenberg

Religion, Philosophy and Pop Culture

• Rosslyn – Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail by Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
• The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes
• God’s Secretaries – The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
• Bottlemania – How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It by Elizabeth Royte

Health and Business

• Magic Medicine and Quackery by Eric Maple
• Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine by Benjamin Walker
• Inside Steve’s Brain – Business Lessons from Steve Jobs – The Man who Saved Apple by Leander Kahney

Out of this World

• The Dyfed Enigma – Unidentified Flying Objects in West Wales by Randall Jones Pugh
• Uninvited Visitors – A Biologist Looks at UFOs by Ivan T Sanderson
• We Are Not Alone – The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds by Walter Sullivan
• The Sky People – Visitors to This Planet in Atlantean and Biblical Times are With Us Today by Brinsley Le Poer Trench
• The Humanoids – A Survey of World-Wide Reports of Landings of Unconventional Aerial Objects and their Alleged Occupants edited by Charles Bowen
• Anatomy of a Phenomenon – Unidentified Objects in Space – A Scientific Appraisal by Jacques Vallee
• Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma by Jacques and Janine Vallee
• Inside the Space Ships by George Adamski
• Behind the Flying Saucers – Where Do They Come From? By Frank Scully
• Flying Saucers – Uncensored by Harold T Wilkins

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