Best Selling Books by Bob Brown

OCyOptimism is a key ingredient for any successful human endeavour - and isnOCOt keeping Earth viable the greatest human endeavour we can ever undertake? It is a fortunate life if a person feels more optimistic than ever before. ThatOCOs me.OCO. Bob Brown, one of AustraliaOCOs most thoughtful and recognised public figures, shares stories and insights from both his public and private life in Optimism . Since retiring from public life, Bob Brown has had time to reflect on the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts. Inspirational, big-hearted and impassioned, Optimism is a meditation on the great and the small, rich with metaphor and full of warmth. Here are stories from a life set for downfall that found its salvation in action: Bob BrownOCOs journey to a simple philosophy for happiness."

Visit some of the most remote and beautiful places of south and west Australia in Green Nomads Wild Places, Bob Brown and partner Paul Thomas's three-month adventure across Australia. This is a photographic and written record of a journey that took them first by yacht and then by road along the coasts and by-ways of southern Australia. They floated in hidden harbours and on ancient rivers, climbed over age-old rock formations, and camped at isolated Bush Heritage Australia properties, revelling in the beauty of the natural universe. Bob Brown and Paul Thomas remind us how extraordinary and diverse is our natural world. Green Nomads Wild Places is a superb companion to Green Nomads, the book of their first 19 000 kilometre journey inland through eastern Australia, which followed Bob's retirement after 16 years in the Senate. Praise for Bob and Paul's previous book, Green Nomads: "Green Nomads can be compared with publications by other stalwart defenders of the world's ecological systems such as David Attenborough and the Prince of Wales." - Clyde Selby, Mercury "Green Nomads is ... pretty much all that you could imagine: glorious" - Thuy On, Sunday Age

Out of the Silver Age of Comics came a very different comic book team, featuring a new breed of superheroes. Cast out of society due to their deformities, the Doom Patrol were a group of misfit loners not blessed, but cursed, with unnatural powers. These human oddities-Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, Robotman and the Chief-save the world one strange case at a time. See them take on such equally bizarre villains like the undying criminal mastermind General Immortus, shape-shifting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, the Brotherhood of Evil and more! Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Volume One kicks off Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani's beloved series also with tales from My Greatest Adventure #80-85.

"This book is a melding of art and fact ... A ramble through and around the island, stopping at various wild places that take the eye ... Each poem has a Tasmanian flavour, often featuring our native flora, birds and animals. This is followed through in the information pages; with some factual details about the animals, birds and plants that are part of our island environment."--p.viii.

Australia's federal political history.

MS Acc10.166 comprises the five-page agreement signed by Senator Bob Brown, Senator Christine Milne, Adam Bandt MP-Elect, the Hon. Julia Gillard MP and the Hon. Wayne Swan MP, following the 2010 federal election. The election resulted in a minority government formed by the Australian Labor Party with the support of the Australian Greens and independent Members of Parliament, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The agreement establishes a basis for stable and effective government, based on the Greens voting with the ALP government to ensure supply and opposing any motion of no confidence in the government from non-Green members. The principles on which the agreement is founded are: transparent and accountable government; improved process and integrity of parliament; policies which promote the national interest; and policies which address climate change. Other policy issues to be addressed include action on dental care and High Speed Rail, and a full parliamentary debate on the war in Afghanistan. The remainder of the agreement sets out the steps to be taken to achieve the stated principles (1 packet).

"This was a very difficult case to forecast. The satellite pictures show very littel indication of any significant jet approaching the coast."--Summary, page 2.

Instructions for performing experiments using readily available materials that demonstrate various scientific principles.

On banks of the River Torrens; Aboriginal stone figure (by Quinton C. Harris, sculpture) stands as monument.

"The Peace Trust was established in 1986 to provide funds for seeding peace-making activities initiated by local individuals and community groups"--Back cover.

Single mimeographed or reproduced leaf, originally appearing in My marjonary. John Luce, 1916.