Best Selling Books by Bob Brown

Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931 Restores a rare but highly influential modernist anthology to print in a new critical facsimile editionProvides extensive scholarly commentary, analyses, and newly discovered biographical information, setting the anthology in its broader cultural contextOffers the first collection of avant-garde writing designed to be read on a ''reading machine'' invented by the American expatriate poet Bob BrownIncludes both Craig Saper''s new Introduction and a separate chapter on the Contributors and their readies. Saper is the leading scholar of Bob Brown''s work as well as an important scholar of experimental writing, media, publishing, and artThis new edition of Bob Brown''s groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown''s Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugne Jolas and Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford and Sidney Hunt. Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential resource for those interested in print and book history, the politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading machine''s impact on reading, writing and literacy.

In 1930, Bob Brown predicted that the printed book was bound for obsolescence. The time has come, he insisted, "to rid the reader of the cumbersome book." He invented a machine that would allow one to read books and any text extremely fast and in a hyper-abbreviated form. He called these abbreviated texts, with em-dashes replacing words, "readies." He envisioned sending the condensed texts through wireless networks. The Readies, describes these eponymously named abbreviated texts and his plans for a reading machine, but since he printed only 150 copies, the volume is practically unknown outside of a small circle of scholars. With this new edition, Craig Saper hopes to introduce Bob Brown''s Roving Eye Press books to a new generation of readers.

Insightful, humorous, and inspiring memoir of self-described "regular guy" Bob Brown''s courageous battle with pancreatic cancer and his journey through the medical community to save his life. In a conversational tone that feels like youre chatting with a lifelong friend, Bob shares the play-by-play of his fight to stay alive and make the right treatment decisions, affirms the difference a positive attitude can make, and celebrates the unexpected gift of a new perspective on life. What would you do upon hearing your doctor utter the words "inoperable pancreatic cancer"? If you or someone you love has been diagnosed, this amazing story of survival will move you, amuse you, and instill hope in your heart.

The author of "The Complete Book of Cheese" got his inspiration in cuisine after his studies at the University of Wisconsin, where he got acquainted with several Swiss professors who turned out to be experts in cheese. That experience inspired him to travel around the world to seek regional wisdom and knowledge on the art of preparing cheese. The presented here book was created after his extensive travels overseas and return to New York. It contains invaluable and extremely practical information about an impressive variety of cheeses from around the world, including their preparation, taste, serving, and history.

Computing Concepts for Information Technology explains how computers really work, including how images, sounds, and video are represented by numbers and how chips with millions of transistors process those numbers. Computing Concepts for Information Technology is suitable for people with no prior study of computer systems, although it may be helpful to have experience with a high-level programming language such as Java or Python. Computing Concepts for Information Technology tells a story that begins in the 19th century and shows that the Internet, phones, tablets, and laptops that are so much a part of our lives did not spring fully formed from a Silicon Valley campus. On the inside, computers are all about numbers, and the story continues with numbers and number systems. It reveals the mysteries of binary numbers and explains why computers use a number system different from the one we use every day. One of the reviewers of the book remarked that students of computing should know enough about the digital logic that makes computers work to believe that what’s inside is not little green Martians with calculators, and the book provides a thorough explanation. Input and output, data communications, computer software, and information security are covered at a fundamental level and provide the necessary background for further study. The beginning of the 21st century is an exciting time for those who make, use, and study computers and computer systems, and this book provides the basis for keeping up with the changes that are taking place right now.

Challenging experiments with electricity, heat, light, inertia and momentum, sound, biology, gravity, etc.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Mary Cuyler, a young foundling whose foster-father had been promised 1,000 dollars if he can marry her off to one of the local young men. In the first installment, poor Mary manages to extricate herself from this humiliating situation and later the detail how she made a life for herself in the Big City.

“The First of the Assassins!” Batman is called upon to protect a shipping magnate, his fiancée, and his employee from an assassin on a supposedly deserted island.

Basic scientific principles are demonstrated in experiments & projects.

Dormammu aspire à conquérir le monde grâce au Mauvais OEil. Pour y parvenir, le Seigneur de la Dimension Noire dupe les Défenseurs et les envoie à la recherche des différents fragments de ce talisman mystique. Mais c''est compter sans Loki qui, craignant pour Asgard, demande aux Avengers d''intervenir. Débute alors une lutte acharnée entre les deux groupes de super-héros ! Steve Englehart (Captain America), Bob Brown (Daredevil) et Sal Buscema (Spectacular Spider-Man) réalisent le premier crossover d''ampleur de la Maison des Idées. [CET ALBUM CONTIENT LES ÉPISODES AVENGERS (1963) 116 À 118 ET DEFENDERS (1972) 9 À 11 AINSI QUE DES EXTRAITS D''AVENGERS (1963) 115 ET DE DEFENDERS (1972) 8.]

u003cpu003eIn his first speech in the Senate, Bob Brown raised the threat posed by climate change. It has taken 10 years for politicians to finally begin to acknowledge the causes and effects of climate change.u003cbr /u003eu003cbr /u003eSince 1996, Bob has continued to take a courageous, and often politically lonely, stand on issues around the saving of our planet, whether they have a local or international focus: saving Tasmania’s ancient forests, opposing the dumping of nuclear waste in Australia, protesting against Japanese whaling, the protection of rainforests and a host of other campaigns.u003cbr /u003eu003cbr /u003eIn 2010 Bob led the Australian Greens to a historic result with more than 1.6 million Australians voting for the Greens. In 2012 Bob stepped down as Leader of the Australian Greens, and then retired from the Senate. Since then he has continued to campaign on conservation issues across Australia and the world.u003cbr /u003eu003cbr /u003eThis book is both an inspiration and a call to action: Bob Brown''s words are a clear message on the issues facing our planet yet his positive approach is an inspiration to us all.u003c/pu003e

The former leader of the Australian Greens, Bob Brown has long been one of Australia''s most influential and admired environmental thinkers. Here he outlines the importance of a global, humane approach to the issue of overpopulation. At once compassionate, intelligent and straightforward, this is a valuable and significant extract from Brown''s memoir, Memo for a Saner World.

Over the years, Bob Brown has been assaulted, jailed, vilified and shot at for his stance on the environment and human rights. This is his account of the defining moments in that life of activism, from the famous Franklin River blockade to his parliamentary protest against George Bush – a few minutes that gave voice to what many Australians felt but had no way of saying. By turns inspiring, compassionate and outraged, this personal story of being green makes the key issues easily understood. If you''re someone who avoids reading about the world because you think it''s too depressing, here''s the good news: it''s worse if you don''t know. While some of the facts Bob presents are less than cheerful, his message is powerfully hopeful. With Bob Brown and the Greens set to become even more influential in Australian life, Memo for a Saner World is an essential record of what he stands for.

In Optimism, Bob Brown shares with us his stories and insights from throughout his public and private life, that reveal the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts. This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown and inspired him to achieve. It is a powerful book as well as a meditation on the great and the small. Inspirational, compassionate, outraged, Bob Brown’s stories are rich with metaphor, entertaining and full of warmth. A great promoter of activism he is keen for all to experience life as richly as he has. Although he has seen much of the world through the prism of politics he still believes that there is reason to believe that the changes he has pursued can be made and will be for the better. His stories reveal a complex man with a quick wit and a joy for life. “It is a fortunate life if a person feels more optimistic than ever before. That’s me.” Bob Brown

A collection of simple experiments involving such topics as heat, sound, weight, and tricks.

Brief descriptions of the life and work of nineteen important scientists from Aristotle to Nikola Tesla. Includes instructions for simple experiments demonstrating the major scientific theories discussed.

Beautifully written,Beyond Organicsis both informative and inspiring. It is a book of ideas and philosophies - as well as practical advice - that will empower caring gardeners to change the way they garden and thus improve the health of the planet. Helen Cushing presents a new perspective on the world we live in and how we garden-she goes beyond organics into a deeper ecology of gardening and explains how to transform a garden, large or small, into a perfectly balanced ecosystem, from the ground up. Everything readers need to know is discussed, including plant choices, climate, soil, living creatures and more. Peppered with personal anecdote,Beyond Organicstakes readers on a journey that will inspire them to make simple changes to the way they garden and, at the same time, provide significant benefits to the environment.