The Mullet - Hairstyle of the Gods, A History of the Recording Industry in New Zealand and Danger UXB - The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Team

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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 the Arty Bees shops over the past seven days or so.

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

Fiction and Fantasy

All by Nick Bantock

• Griffin and Sabine - An Extraordinary Correspondence
• Sabine's Notebook - The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues
• The Golden Mean - In which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes

New Zealand

• A Journey through New Zealand Film by Ian Brodie
• Thrift to Fantasy - Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s - 1950s by Rosemary McLeod
• The Big Picture - A History of New Zealand Art from 1642 by Hamish Keith
• Heather's Gold - A Story of a Pioneer Family in the Otago Gold Fields by Donald Offwood
• Stitch - Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists by Ann Packer
• For the Record - A History of the Recording Industry in New Zealand by Bryan Staff and Sheran Ashley
• Reading on the Farm - Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World by Lydia Wevers
• A New Zealand Christmas - Three Centuries of Kiwi Christmas Celebrations from the Alexander Turnbull Library by Sarah Ell
• New Zealand 1769-1840 - Early Years of Western Contact by Harrison M Wright
• Over the Wide and Trackless Sea - The Pioneer Women and Girls of New Zealand by Megan Hutching
• Rural Challenge - A History of Wrightson Ltd by Hugh Stringleman and Graeme Hunt
• Maori - A Photographic and Social History by Michael King
• The Six Colonies of New Zealand by William Fox - Hocken Library Facsimile Edition
• Myths and Legends of Polynesia by A W Reed and illustrated by Roger Hart
• Real Art Roadshow - The Book by the Real Art Charitable Trust
• Beside the Dark Pool - A Memoir by Fiona Kidman

Language and Linguistics, Literati, Poetry, Essays and Media and Classics

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• Divine Madness - Ten Stories of Creative Struggle by Jeffrey A Kottler
• Being Elizabeth Bennet - Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure by Emma Campbell Webster
• Turning Back the Clock - Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco
• The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader
• The Fragrance of Guava - Conversations with Gabriel Garcìa M árquez by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
• The Adventure of English - The Biography of a Language by Melvin Bragg
• Every Man In This Village Is A Liar - An Education In War by Megan Stack
• My Invented Country - A Nostalgic Journey through Chile by Isabel Allende
• Reading Like A Writer - A Guide For People Who Love Books And For Those Who Want To Write Them by Francine Prose
• Mother Tongue - The English Language by Bill Bryson
• The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference - An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic
• Clive James - A Point of View - The Book of the Radio Series
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti - The Achievements of the Divine Augustus edited by P A Brunt and J M Moore
• The Cassell Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green
• European Phrase Book - 14 Languages by DK Eyewitness Travel Guides
• Dear Sappho - A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters by Kay Turner and graphics by Sheri Tornatore and Kay Turner
• Anthony Burgess by Roger Lewis
• Emily Dickinson - Selected Poems

History and Biography

• Aztecs - An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
• Speeches That Changed The World - The Words And Stories Of The Moments That Made History - Includes CD
• The Templars - The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades by Piers Paul Read
• Tutankhamen - The Life and Death of a Boy King by Christine El Mahdy
• The Washing of the Spears - The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation by Donald R Morris
• From the Land of Green Ghosts - A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
• Restoration London - From Poverty to Pets, Medicine to Magic, Slang to Sex, and Wallpaper to Women's Rights by Liza Picard
• The Battle of Hastings - The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Harriet Harvey Wood
• A Short History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey
• Cod - A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
• The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
• The United States Of Europe - From The Euro To Eurovision - The Superpower Nobody Talks About by T R Reid
• A Pelican in the Wilderness - Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses by Isabel Colegate
• Warriors of God - Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.
• Chambers Dictionary of World History - From Earliest Times to the Present Day edited by Bruce P Lenman and Katharine Boyd
• Charlemagne - The Great Adventure by Derek Wilson
• The Practical Archaeologist - How We Know What We Know About The Past by Jane McIntosh
• The Yellow Cross - The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by René Weis
• The Celtic Realms - The History and the Culture of the Celtic Peoples from Pre-History to the Norman Invasion by Myles Dillon and Nora Chadwick
• A History of the World by R J Unstead

Politics and Espionage

• The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O Paxton
• JFK and Jackie - Unseen Archives by Tim Hill
• Intelligence Wars - American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda by Thomas Powers
• Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Martin Luther King Jr. on Leadership - Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times by Donald T Phillips
• Crunch Time - Using and Abusing Keynes to Fight the Twin Crises of Our Era by Tony Kevin
• Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Duel - Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali
• In the Line of Fire - A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf
• The Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
• Pol Pot - The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short
• Clinton - The President they Deserve - An intimate Political Biography of the 42nd President of the United States by Martin Walker

Military and Human Rights

• Clausewitz - On War
• Spitfire - The History of Britain's Most Famous WW2 Fighter by Robert Jackson
• Beyond Band of Brothers by Major Dick Winters, Commander, Easy Company
• World War One - A Short History by Norman Stone
• A War in Words - The First World War by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis
• Americans in Paris - Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 by Charles Glass
• Rifles - Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
• The Battle that Stopped Rome - Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest by Peter S Wells
• The National Army Museum Book of the Boer War by Field Marshal Lord Carver
• After the Reich - From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh
• D-Day - The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
• Forgotten Armies - Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
• Chocks Away! Recollections of World War II Airmen by Roger A Freeman
• The Day of the Barbarians - The First Battle in the Fall of the Roman Empire by Alessandro Barbero
• The World at War - The Book of the Classic TV Series by Mark Arnold-Forster
• The Assassins' Gate - America in Iraq by George Packer
• Sutton's Photographic History of Transport - Cooper by Mike Lawrence
• Key Concepts - Human Rights by Michael Freeman
• Eagle Against The Sun - The American War With Japan by Ronald H Spector
• The Road to Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin - Stalin's War with Germany, Vols. 1 & 2 both by John Erickson
• Barbarossa - The Russian-German Conflict 1941-1945 by Alan Clark
• Danger UXB - The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Team by James Owen
• Spitfire by Alfred Price
• Hitler - 1889-1936 - Hubris by Ian Kershaw

Transport

• Great Train Disasters by Geoffrey Kichenside
• The Longest Hop - Celebrating 50 Years of the Qantas Kangaroo Route 1947-1997 by John Stackhouse
• Bluebird And The Dead Lake - The Story Of The Strangest Record Ever Won by John Pearson
• Boeing versus Airbus - The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business by John Newhouse
• Steam through Five Continents by Keith Strickland
• Exploration and Travel, Culture and Places
• The City - A Global History by Joel Kotkin
• The Towns of Roman Britain by John Wacher
• The Lost City Of Z - A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest To Uncover The Secrets Of The Amazon by David Grann
• A Speck On The Sea - Epic Voyages In The Most Improbable Vessels by William H Longyard
• Carnival in Venice by Shirley Rowen and David Rowen
• Two All-Action Adventures - Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean by Bear Grylls
• Mud, Sweat and Tears also by Bear Grylls
• Gardens in Belgium by Piet Bekaert, Jean de Séjournet and René Pechère
• 1788 - The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet by David Hill

Art and Crafts, Fashion and Photography

• But is it Art? by Cynthia Freeland
• Hamlyn Costume and Fashion - A Complete History by Bronwyn Cosgrave
• Lesley Linsley's Découpage - Design - Create - Display
• The Secrets of Sculpture - From Marble to Metal - Sculpture through the Ages by Kingfisher Kaleidoscopes
• A Big Life - Jenny Kee with Samantha Trenoweth
• Confessions of a Window Dresser - Tales from a Life in Fashion by Simon Doonan
• Salvador Dali - 1904-1989 by Gilles Néret
• Shoes - A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers and More by Linda O'Keeffe
• The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance - How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti changed the Art World by Paul Robert Walker
• Gustav Klimt - 100 Drawings introduced by Alfred Werner
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing People - Illustrated by Brenda Hoddinott
• The World of Wearable Art with photography by Craig Potton
• Masters of Deception - Escher, Dali and the Artists of Optical Illusion by Al Seckel
• Discovering Art - The Life, Times and Work of the World's Greatest Artists - Salvador Dali by O B Duane
• Wisdom - Ideas by Andrew Zuckerman
• Hundertwasser by Harry Rand and Taschen
• The Art of S Clay Wilson

The World's Greatest Art Series

• Surrealism by Michael Robinson
• Picasso by Mike O'Mahony
• Art Nouveau by Camilla de la Bedoyere
• Dali by Elizabeth Keevill and Kevin Eyres
• International Arts and Crafts by Michael Robinson
• Art Deco by Camilla de la Bedoyere
• Modern Art by Michael Kerrigan

Erotica and Pin-ps

• Take a Walk on the Wild Side by Tony Mitchell
• Betty Page Rules - The Pin-Up Battles Of The Classic Beauties And Bombshells Of The 1950s In Over 300 Rare Photographs And Original Artwork by Jim Silke
• The Art Of Eric Stanton - For The Man Who Knows His Place edited by Eric Kroll and Taschen
• Bottoms - Dumont Monte by Christiane Blass
• 1000 Pin-Up Girls by Taschen
• The Big Book of Breasts edited by Dian Hanson and Taschen

Architecture and Modelling, Antiques and Design

• Skyscrapers by Antonio Terranova
• The Edifice Complex - How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World by Deyan Sudjic
• The Place Of Houses - Three Architects Suggest Ways To Build And Inhabit Houses by Charles Moore, Gerald Allen and Donlyn Lyndon
• Architecture in Arcadia - Architectural Design Magazine
• A Century of Design - Design Pioneers of the 20th Century by Penny Sparke
• Designing with Models - A Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design Models by Criss B Mills
• A Basic Guide - Modelmaking by Martha Sutherland
• Success through Failure - The Paradox of Design by Henry Petroski
• Professional Modelmaking - A Handbook of Techniques and Materials for Architects and Designers by Norman Trudeau
• How to Build Dioramas by Sheperd Paine

Twentieth Century Design Series

• Ceramics by Frances Hannah
• Electrical Appliances by Penny Sparke
• Office Furniture by Lance Knobel
• Furniture by Penny Sparke
• Fabrics and Wallpapers by Mary Schoeser
• Glass by Frederick Cooke

Film and TV, Music and Show Business ♪♫♪

• The Beatles - Unseen by John Howard
• Louis Armstrong - A Biography by James Lincoln Collier
• She Bop It - The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul by Lucy O'Brien
• Iggy Pop - Open Up And Bleed by Paul Trynka
• Jazz - The Rough Guide - The Essential Companion to Artists and Albums by Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley
• That Magic Feeling - The Beatles' Recorded Legacy - Volume 2 - 1966-1970 by John C Winn
• Bob Dylan - Behind the Shades - Take Two by Clinton Heylin
• Reel Art - Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen by Stephen Rebello and Richard Allen
• Bob Marley - His Musical Legacyby Jeremy Collingwood
• The Dictionary of Film Quotations - 6000 Provocative Movie Quotes by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa
• Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies you've Never Seen
• Grace after Midnight - A Memoir by Felicia `Snoop' Pearson and David Ritz
• AC/DC - Maximum Rock and Roll - Deluxe Edition by Murray Engleheart with Arnaud Durieux
• Hollywood - The Photographs from the Kobal Collection by David Thomson
• Is this the Real Life? The Untold Story of Queen by Mark Blake
• Chasing the Dragon - The Life and Death of Marc Hunter by Jeff Apter
• The Sundance Kid - An Unauthorized Biography of Robert Redford by Lawrence J Quirk and William Schoell
• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss
• The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion by Jude Fisher
• Man About the House and George and Mildred - The Definitive Companion by Tex Fisher
• Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks

Cooking, Eating and Gardening

• Second Nature - A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
• Grow It, Cook It by Sally Cameron with photos by Charlie Smith
• La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy by Sarah Kramer
• The Perfectionist - Did France's Obsession with Food Kill its Most Famous Chef? by Rudolph Chelminski
• River Cafe Cook Book Two by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
• The Accidental Vegetarian - Delicious Food Without Meat by Simon Rimmer
• Fish, Flesh and Good Red Herring - A Gallimaufry by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Organic and Wholefoods - Naturally Delicious Cuisine edited by André Dominé and Könemann [2 copies]
• New Kitchen Garden by Adam Caplin and Celia Brooks Brown
• The Encyclopedia of Sauces, Pickles and Preserves by Catherine Atkinson, Christine France & Maggie Mayhew
• Feast - A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong
• A Garden for all Seasons - Create a Year-Round Beautiful Garden by Pippa Greenwood
• Nigel Slater - Thirst

Science and Ecology, Animals and Technology

• The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
• One Giant Leap - Apollo 11 Forty Years On by Piers Bizony
• Guns, Germs and Steel - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years by Jared Diamond
• The Divine Proportion - A Study in Mathematical Beauty by H E Huntley
• Antarctica 2041 - My Quest To Save The Earth's Last Wilderness by Robert Swan with Gil Reavill
• Biomimicry - Innovation Inspired By Nature by Janine M Benyus
• Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home And Other Unexplained Powers Of Animals by Rupert Sheldrake
• About Time - Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies
• A Journey through Time - Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope by Jay Barbree and Martin Caidin
• The Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins

Religion and New Age, Philosophy and Pop Culture

• A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen
• The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
• Do You Think What You Think You Think - The Ultimate Philosophical Quiz Book by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom
• Eyes Wide Open - Looking for God in Popular Culture by William D Romanowski
• How to Think about Weird Things - Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick Jr. and Lewis Vaughn
• Zen Buddhism - Selected Writings of D T Suzuki edited by William Barrett
• The Bible According To Mark Twain - Irreverent Writings On Eden, Heaven, And The Flood By America's Master Satirist edited by Howard G Baetzhold and Joseph B McCullough
• The Wisdom of Crowds - Why the Many are Smarter than the Few by James Surowiecki
• Thinking about Logic - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic by Stephen Read
• The Element - How Finding your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica
• Books that Shook the World - On the Bible by Karen Armstrong

Sport and Humour, Economics and True Crime

• W G Grace by Simon Rae
• Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
• Making Globalization Work - The Next Steps to Global Justice by Joseph Stiglitz
• Blue Blood - Life in the New York City Police Department by Ed Conlon
• The Treasures of the World Cup by Keir Radnedge with the National Football Museum (Boxed)
• Great British Wit - The Greatest Assembly of British Wit and Humour Ever by Rosemarie Jarski
• Kevin Nealon - Yes, You're Pregnant, But What About Me?
• The Match - The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost
• The Facebook Effect - The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
• The King of Oil - The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann
• Madeleine - Our Daughter's Disappearance And The Continuing Search For Her by Kate McCann
• Angels of Death - Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire by William Marsden and Julian Sher
• Invictus - Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation by John Carlin
• The Globalization Gap - How The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Left Further Behind by Robert A Izaak
• Blood Horses - Notes of a Sportswriter's Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan
• The Zeroes - My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lane
• Homicide - A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
• How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

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Just looking at this book makes me depressed
- Maybe they should have named it "In Favour of Setting Your Old Folk Adrift on Icebergs" it would have been more cheerful!

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