Most Popular Books by Tom Roberts

The first Tom Roberts retrospective for fifty years presenting paintings by Australia''s most popular artist, one who has helped to shape the Australian identity.

Rupert Murdoch''s extraordinary career has no parallel. His control of Fox news, which so successfully supports the Trump presidency, is a key force in American politics. In the UK, his control of The Sun and The Times leaves politicians scrambling to get him onside. But what do we know about the man himself? This book looks closely at the Murdochs, focusing on Rupert''s father Keith, who built the family''s media power and cultivated the anti-establishment instincts that his son Rupert is known for. Roberts traces the life of the Murdochs, how Rupert Murdoch''s view of the world was formed, and assesses it''s impact on the media that influences our politics today.

An assessment of the state of the Catholic Church today and the shape of the future to come.

Celebrate the real reason for the season with Santa as he takes time from a busy Christmas Eve to pause and offer a prayer to the Lord. On Christmas Eve, a brother and sister stroll through their town, excitedly discussing the gifts they hope to find under the tree. Then they suddenly spy Santa quietly slipping into the church. They follow him inside, where they witness his humble prayer at the altar crèche and hear his greatest holiday wish: that children understand that Jesus is the focus at Christmas . . . and always.

From the birth of Christianity and with the Christian churches’ separation from Judaism, a tragic misunderstanding of marriage and divorce has occurred. Not only have we lost the understanding of biblical marriage counsel and wisdom, we have also lost the process of marriage and its biblical allowances for separation of man and wife under certain conditions. Christianity often fails to understand the biblical practice of marriage, as well as divorce and remarriage. Our Lord employed rabbinic teaching to uplift the status of women in his temple discourses with Jewish sects, such as the Sadducees and many groups of Pharisees. Unless we understand the Semitic discussion within those groups and properly translate Our Lord’s response to these questions, his teaching is held in tension with that of the epistles of Paul. Jesus and Paul are dealing with different case studies together with different communities of faiths, which affects how we should interpret the general message contained in the text. These misinterpretations of this vital information have needlessly ruined the lives of many innocent victims. It is long overdue for the Christian Church to reevaluate her response to this growing problem. There is a blessing for those who will receive this teaching.

A humorous adaptation of the classic tale in which a tired and hungry little girl helps herself to the belongings of three bears in the woods.

The adventures of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf.

The greedy troll who lives under the bridge is no match for the biggest of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Chemical-free fruits, vegetables and plants. Non-toxic pest controls to protect children and pets. Riddance of cochroaches. Insect resistance. IPM principles. Biological, cultural, and acute insect control.

Monograph on planning for management development programmes in enterprises in the UK - covers alternative approaches and trends, etc. Bibliography pp. 165 and 166.

At a time when traditional funding is diminishing and costs increasing, the need to look to new external sources of money is now central to survival for many organizations. New avenues of funding often demand a new outlook, and old ways of thinking can prove to be barriers to success. This book looks not only at methods for raising funds, providing practical steps in preparing for new funding initiatives, but also at the attitudes and mind-sets that form part of the whole picture. The volume is concise and accessible, with plans of action, bullet lists and diagrams for ease of consultation.

The painting, Bailed Up, by Tom Roberts, is probably Australia''s best known work of art. In this beautiful and intriguing book, the author Patrick McCarthy, shares his painstaking researches into the background to Bailed Up, where it was painted and who modelled for the artist.

The most significant, demented, politically effective tweets from the world''s most important Twitter feed, analysed and explained by the UK''s leading expert on political lying. The most unusual feature of Donald Trump''s nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump''s tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of provocations, insults, conspiracy theories, ''alternative facts'' and outright lies. And they helped him win power. Peter Oborne, author of The Rise of Political Lying and Not The Chilcot Report , analyses Trump''s incendiary mendacity in all its bewildering guises, and shows how this fusion of entertainment and cunningly crafted propaganda has destabilised the world''s most powerful democracy.

This is the memoir of a man who had everything: family, good job, house. He walked away from it. Why? Tom Roberts learned five years after he just walked away and lost everything he had bipolar disorder II and the reason he left all that he had was because he was in a manic episode. Tom''s memoir takes the reader from what appeared to be a comfortable college professor''s life to the dirty streets of Hollywood, CA. He was living in a fantasy that he could earn a living as a film actor just as he dreamed when he was in high school. His "escape" as he calls it, was triggered by medical treatment following a horrible depression that had lasted six months by the time he was hospitalized. He was prescribed the new antidepressant Prozac and it turned out to be the worst anti-depressant for a yet undiagnosed manic-depressive. Tom''s story begins, however, 30 years earlier in a family dominated by his Father''s undiagnosed mental illness and then the sudden death of his 34-year-old Mother. Tom lived through the suicides of his brother and later his step-sister. The end surprisingly, is back in Hollywood as a working voice-over actor with several on-camera film credits. How he got there is the rest of the story and the final destination of his journey that went from nowhere to "now here."