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Thursday, 8th July 2010

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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.

 

Mission of HomorMission Of Honor
By Weber, David

Arty Bees Book ID # 63226

Publishing Details - Hard Back NZ$60.00

Out now, don't miss out!

Mission of Honor is the twelfth book of David Weber's series of novels and short stories chronicling the adventures of Honor Harrington.

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

 

Fiction

  • Magnus by George Mackay Brown (1st ed)
  • You Shall Know our Velocity by Dave Eggers
  • Espresso Tales and Blue Shoes and Happiness both by Alexander McCall Smith

Graphic Novels

  • Adolf series by Osamu Tezuka including
    • Adolf – 1945 and all that Remains
    • Adolf – An Exile in Japan
    • Adolf – A Tale of the 20 th Century
    • Adolf – The Half Aryan
    • Adolf – Days of Infamy

 

New Zealand and the Pacific

  • Sir Edmund Hillary – An Extraordinary Life – Authorised illustrated biography by Alexa Johnston
  • Ben and Mark – Boys of the High Country by Christine Fernyhough and John Bougen
  • Spark to a Waiting Fuse – James K Baxter’s Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946 edited by Paul Millar
  • Highway One – Photos by Bret de Thier
  • Where Underpants come From – From Checkout to Cotton Field – Travels through the New China by Joe Bennett
  • An Island to Oneself by Tom Neale (PB)
  • Why Go to the Riviera – Images of Wellington by Peter Shaw
  • Moriori – A People Rediscovered by Michael King (Revised PB edition)
  • A Long Slow Affair of the Heart – An Adventure on the French Canals by Bruce Ansley
  • The Treaty of Waitangi by T L Buick
  • Waiuta – The Gold Mine, the Town, the People 1906-1951 compiled and edited by Gerard Morris

Literati and Essays, Mythology and Language

  • The Saint and the Artist – A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch by Peter J Conradi
  • Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates – Shakespeare’s Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More edited by A W Pollard
  • The Poems of William Blake edited by W H Stevenson
  • A Long Time Burning – The History of Literary Censorship in England by Donald Thomas
  • Complete Verse including Sonnets and Verse, Cautionary Verses, the Modern Traveller &c by H Belloc
  • King Arthur – The Dream of a Golden Age by Geoffrey Ashe
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Wood by Peter Dally
  • Shakespeare’s Wife by Germaine Greer
  • Turning Back the Clock – Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco
  • Wilfred Owen – Collected Letters edited by Harold Owen and John Bell
  • Dictionary of Spanish Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Michael Mahler
  • The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling Verse

 

History, Politics and Biography

  • Suffragettes in the Purple, White and Green – London 1906-1914 by Diane Atkinson
  • The Mayflower by Vernon Heaton
  • True Compass – A Memoir by Edward M Kennedy
  • One Hundred Years of Heroin edited by David F Musto
  • The Magic Lantern – The Revolution of ‘89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
  • The Sack of Rome – Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi by Alexander Stille
  • Michael Collins – The Man who made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan
  • China Witness – Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
  • Supergrasses and Informers and Bent Coppers Omnibus by James Morton
  • A Distant Mirror – The Calamitous 14 th Century by Barbara W Tuchman
  • The Race Card – Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages and the Norm of Equality by Tali Mendelberg
  • A History of Scent by Roy Genders
  • Mary Tudor – The Spanish Tudor by H F M Prescott
  • The Soviet Political Poster 1917-1980 (Boxed)
  • Ireland – A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002 by Terence Brown
  • Citizens – A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
  • Natasha’s Dance – A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

 

Military and Transport

  • The Tunnels of Cu Chi – A Remarkable Story of War by Tom Mangold and John Penycate
  • Final Patrol – True Stories of WW2 Submarines by Don Keith
  • Absolute War – Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy
  • Hitler’s U-Boat War – The Hunted 1942-1945 by Clay Blair
  • A Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen by Grant Uden and Richard Cooper
  • Trawler – A Journey through the North Atlantic by Redmond O’Hanlon
  • Walking with the ANZACs – A Guide to Australian Battlefields on the Western Front by Mat McLachlan
  • The Western Front Diaries – The ANZACs’ own story Battle by Battle by Jonathan King
  • The Battle for Spain – The Spanish Civil War 1936-1949 by Antony Beevor
  • The Conquerors – Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany 1941-1945 by Michael Beschloss
  • Getting the Bugs Out – The Rise, Fall and Comeback of Volkswagen in America by David Kiley
  • George Orwell – The War Commentaries – The Recently Discovered Texts of Anti-Fascist Propaganda edited by W J West

 

Travel, Cultures and Places

  • The Italians by Luigi Barzini
  • Balkan Ghosts – A Journey through History by Robert Kaplan
  • Barcelona by Robert Hughes
  • The London Collection – Beyond the Clichés – Lesser-known Tales about the Capital of Cool by Rob Hinchliffe &c
  • Explorers of the Infinite – The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes and What they Reveal about Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication and Touching the Beyond by Maria Coffey
  • The Icon and the Axe – An Interpretive History of Russian Culture by James H Billington
  • Into the Blue – Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before by Tony Horwitz
  • Getting Stoned with Savages – A Trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J Maarten Troost
  • A Short History of San Gimignano by Duccio Balestracci

 

Music, Dance and Theatre ♫ ♫ ♫

  • Stanislavsky produces Othello by Constantin Stanislavsky
  • Ecstasy – Classical Ballet – Photographed by Dieter Blum
  • The Bob Marley Reader – Every Little Thing Gonna be Alright edited by Hank Bordowitz
  • Before the Legend – The Rise of Bob Marley by Christopher John Farley
  • Bob Marley – The Untold Story by Chris Salewicz

Screenwriting, Film and Fashion

  • Working with Gemstones by V A Firsoff
  • Masters of Starlight – Photographers in Hollywood by David Fahey and Linda Rich
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future by Michael J Fox
  • The Lord of the Rings – Gollum – How we made Movie Magic by Andy Serkis
  • Films of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Baird Searles
  • Tarantino – A to Zed – The Films of Quentin Tarantino by Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn
  • The Making of King Kong – The Official Guide to the Motion Picture by Jenny Wake
  • Star Wars Encyclopedia by Stephen J Sansweet
  • Secrets of Film Writing by Tom Lazarus
    Stealing from the Gods – The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers by James Bonnet (2 nd Ed)
  • Character and Conflict – The Cornerstones of Screenwriting by Mark Axelrod
  • How Not to Write a Screenplay – 101 Common Mistakes most Screenwriters make by Denny Martin Flinn
  • Blueprint for Screenwriting - A Complete Writer’s Guide to Story Structure and Character Development by Rachel Ballon
  • The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver – How to Recognize, Identify and Define Screenwriting Problems by Syd Field

 

Art, Design and Illuminated Manuscripts

  • The Art of the Market – Two Centuries of American Business as Seen through its Stock Certificates by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz
  • Peter Jones – Solar Wind
  • Dream Makers – Six Fantasy Artists at Work edited by Martyn Dean
  • Mexico – A History in Art by Bradley Smith
  • Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination by Kurt Weitzmann
  • Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination by John Williams
  • Methods of Book Design – The Practice of an Industrial Craft by Hugh Williamson
  • The Art of Hogarth by Ronald Paulson
  • Spectrum 13 – The Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner
  • International Crafts – Ceramics, Textiles, Glass, Lettering, Books, Jewellery, Metalwork, Baskets, Wood and Furniture edited by Martina Margetts
  • I was Vermeer – The Forger who Swindled the Nazis by Frank Wynne
  • Over and Over - A Catalogue of Hand-Drawn Patterns by Mike Perry
  • Comics above Ground – How Sequential Art Affects Mainstream Media by Durwin S Talon
  • Collection – Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
  • A Concise History of Posters by John Barnicoat
  • Fine Bookbinding in the 20 th Century by Roy Harley Lewis
  • Illuminated Manuscript - Dante’s Divine Comedy – Narration by Nino Ravenna
  • The Techniques of Rug Weaving by Peter Collingwood

 

Architecture and Photography

  • Between Victor Burgin
  • In a Spiritual Style – The Home as Sanctuary by Laura Cerwnske and photos by Matthew Fuller
  • Icons of the 20 th Century – 200 Men and Women who have Made a Difference by Barbara Cady and Jean-Jacques Naudet
  • The Forties in Pictures by James Lescott
  • Robert Rauschenberg - Photographs
  • Friendship – A Celebration of Humanity by M.I.L.K.
  • Persian Architecture by Arthur Upham Pope
  • American Image – Photographing 150 Years in the Life of a Nation by Martin W Sandler

 

Cooking and Food

  • Two Dishes – Mother and Daughter – Two Cooks, Two Lifestyles, Two Takes by Linda Haynes and Devin Connell
  • Make it Fast, Cook it Slow – The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking by Stephanie O’Dea
  • Classic Recipes – Fish by Rick Stein
  • Jamie Oliver – The Naked Chef
  • Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen

 

Science, Ecology and Natural History

  • The Lying Stones of Marrakech – Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach – An Eternal Golden Braid – A Metaphorical Fugue on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of Lewis Carroll by Douglas R Hofstadter
  • Everything and More – A Compact History of ∞ by David Foster Wallace
  • The Man who Loved only Numbers – The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
  • Deep Economy – The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
  • Edison – A Life of Invention by Paul Israel

 

Religion, Philosophy and Pop Culture

  • A Brief History of the Future – The Origins of the Internet by John Naughton
  • Hitler’s Pope – The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
  • Encyclopedia of the Occult – A Guide to Every Aspect of Occult Lore, Belief and Practice by Fred Gettings
  • Sacred and Secular – Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart
  • Become what you are by Alan Watts

 

Family and Self Help

  • Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2 by Canfield, Hansen, Hansen and Dunlap
  • Overworked and Underlaid – A Seriously Funny Guide to Life by Nigel Marsh
  • Iron John – Men and Masculinity by Robert Bly
  • Excuse me, Your Life is Waiting – The Astonishing Power of Feelings by Lynn Grabhorn
  • Kids Behaving Bravely – Raising a Resilient Child by Tania Roxborogh and Kim Stephenson

Other Stuff!

  • The Poker Player’s Bible – How to Play Winning Poker by Lou Krieger
  • 14000 Things to be Happy about by Barbara Ann Kipfer
  • Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning – The Amateur’s Primer on Mounting Fish, Birds, Animals, Trophies by Gerald J Grantz

 

Childrens' Books

  • Bill in a China Shop by Katie McAllaster Weaver and pictures by Tim Raglin
  • Walt Disney’s Treasury of Children’s Classics edited by Darlene Geis
  • Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (Young reader’s edition)
  • The Usborne Big Book of Holiday Things to Make and Do with over 800 Stickers
  • Quentin Blake’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories by Lore Segal and pictures by Sergio Ruzzier

 

Cheese Problems Solved

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Cheese Problems:
1. It's Yummy but it makes me sneeze
... Ok that's the only problem I can think of ...

 

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