Most Popular Books by Tom Roberts

The Land of Crickets is a historical satire about a boy named Tommy that was born in 1932, on an Indian farm in Oklahoma. This story is told by his supernatural self which is a Lysol Baby that woke up in "The Land of Lysol" at the time of his birth in 1932. The author attempts to show how the standards of human behavior changed during his lifetime. He describes a land where God''s children are taught to love rather than hate following what he calls the "The Great Explosion" or the apocalypse.

BEAT to a PULP Hardboiled 2 follows the blood-soaked trail left behind by the 2011 award-winning collection, edited by David Cranmer and Scott D. Parker, and pumps out another thirteen knuckle-breaking, crime tales. With writers from the 1930s and 40s golden era of pulp (Paul S. Powers and Charles Boeckman) and modern hardboiled masters (Robert J. Randisi and Wayne D. Dundee), this wild bunch is set to blaze a rat-a-tat sweep across the pulp fiction landscape. Keeping the body count high are top-shelf stories from Jedidiah Ayres, Eric Beetner, Jen Conley, Matthew C. Funk, Edward A. Grainger, BV Lawson, Tom Roberts, Kieran Shea, and Jay Stringer.

The Little Lost Sock is a simple yet poignant story of hope, the power of faith, and how true friendship can make a positive difference in the life of another. It is a poetic, pun-filled fable about a lonely misplaced sock searching for purpose. After an unsuccessful attempt to receive help from other lost souls, the sock finds meaning through friendship with a book - a very special book! Illustrated by Jim Brummond.

Australian Bicentenial year art series of famous Australian Artists.

"Return to the Farm- A Christmas Journey" is the fourth story in a collection of Christmas books by Tom Roberts produced as a benefit for Children''s Home Society. It is a sentimental journey of his childhood memories of Christmas on his family farm south of Ipswich, SD. Beautifully depicted in the form of a family scrapbook with photographs, illustrations and graphics that will conjure many fond recollections for anyone who has grown up on a farm.

Comprises: papers relating to the implementation of the Tom Roberts Horse Trail; Tom Roberts'' obituary; lectures written by Tom Roberts; judging work for Pony Club, Dressage and Shows; and black and white photos.

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".

At head of letter: "Monday Exhibition Melbourne. My dear W. H. L., Faithful promise (to write a long letter) not kept - oh procrastination! Thy name is --!".

A New Norm is a poetic tale that is intended to reflect the feelings of those of us who struggle with anxiety, depression, grief, anger, doubt, shame, fear and more, yet provide encouragement that difficulties such as these can be overcome. It expresses how routine thoughts of negativity can sometimes cloud our reality making it difficult to enjoy life, to appreciate what is truly good, to have positive relationships, or to develop to one''s full potential. It is a story that reminds us that perception is reality. That if one is willing to look, willing to accept, and willing to try, that there is a light both within and beyond available to not only illuminate, but change our world for the better. Our hope is that this story and the discussion guide that follows will become a springboard for a conversation with ourselves and/or with others to define what our dark clouds are and how we can make efforts to find the light of our new norm.A New Norm is the result of a partnership between Avera Behavioral Health and Children''s Home Society of South Dakota in a joint effort to promote mental wellness. Purchases of this book will benefit the mission of helping kids and families served by both of these organizations.

Protecting organizational information is a top priority for most firms. This reality, coupled with the fact that organizational insiders control much of their organizations'' valuable information, has led both researchers and practitioners to acknowledge the importance of insiders'' behavior for information security (InfoSec). Until recently, researchers have employed only a few theories to understand these influences, and this has generated calls for a broadened theoretical repertoire. Given this opportunity, we incorporate the framework of emotions developed in the information systems (IS) discipline by Beaudry and Pinsonneault (2010) and add the broaden-and-build theory (BBT) to understand the influence of discrete positive and negative emotions on insiders'' precaution-taking activities. Our findings demonstrate that the relationship between both positive and negative emotions and precaution taking is mediated by insiders'' (1) psychological capital (PsyCap), a higher-order, work-related construct of positive psychological resource capabilities, and (2) psychological distancing, a coping mechanism characterized by insiders'' attempts to detach themselves psychologically from a situation. By considering these factors, our model explains 32 percent of the variance in insiders'' precaution taking in organizations. Researchers and practitioners can use these findings to develop effective insider InfoSec training, including emotional appeals that increase insiders'' precaution taking.

Stock market fundamentals would not seem to meaningfully predict returns over a shorter-term horizon -- yet some economic agents could be particularly concerned about severe tail risk, rather than just mean returns. Motivated by present value logic, and the literature''s suggestion that required equity returns have declined over time, I first estimate the cointegrating relationship between the log S&P Composite Index and log earnings over 1871 to 2016. I combine this estimate with smoothed earnings to construct a trend valuation benchmark. The price-versus-benchmark residual reflects, in part, the cyclical component of earnings, and gives an economically and statistically significant estimate of crash risk while improving on alternatives such as the dividend yield and price momentum.