Most Popular Books by Mark Brooks

Eleven Tales of Terror. A young reporter searching for missing teens stumbles into an eerie carnival. A lonely salesman battles an ancient alien on a motel parking lot. Four assassins try to retrieve a demonic artifact. An odd little man fades in and out of a mans life just to cause him chaos. A damaged detective battles a suicide cult leader. A grade school teacher finds out just what the All-American family is having for dinner. A vengeful husband awaits his fate while enjoying paradise. A group of sex-traffickers choose the wrong victim with a sexy waitress. A serial killer rises from the grave to claim one last victim, the woman who killed him. A dying writer plays a game of chance with hellish dice to find a cure. And lastly a janitor inherits a magical lantern that grants him wishes at a deadly cost. These stories await those who see life THROUGH A DARKER EYE.

The Collected adventures of Deadpool and Cable in Graphic Novels form.

Realistic poverty assessments necessitate high-quality household survey data. Such data provide the foundation for designing sound policies to sustainably reduce poverty. Despite of this, welfare measures from household surveys are often plagued by non-sampling errors in the form of non-response and measurement error. Current research, while generating important lessons, is often limited in scope and the majority of studies on determinants of data quality deal with quantifiable interviewer and respondent characteristics. A comprehensive study on data quality of an ongoing long-term household panel survey in Thailand and Vietnam is presented in this paper. Determinants drawn from respondent and interviewer characteristics, the interview and survey environment and interview paradata are found to have a significant effect on the overall quality of income-related data. We suggest that survey managers utilizing computerized questionnaires further develop and optimize validation and plausibility guidelines in order to minimize nonsampling errors. Furthermore, referring to validation data (e.g. from administrative records) during data processing is likely to be a promising approach in improving the identification of such errors.

Headlights. Screeching of tires. The impact of the crash. Johan Eckerman has the same nightmare every night. A horrific replay of the night he lost his beloved wife. For the first time in months, Johan has a different dream. And this one comes with a message. This is not a dream. The words are spoken by his wife. The message urgent. She needs his help. But she's gone. Killed in the crash. The dream is just a figment of his imagination. Or is it? This is not a dream. This message will lead Johan on a journey through both the waking and dream world. What he discovers will challenge what we know about dreams and the reality around us.

Follows the adventures of Spider-Man as he teams up with his new girlfriend, X-Men's Kitty Pryde, who gets a new superhero identity, in a graphic novel that features Deadpool and Morbius.

The General follows the tale of a military leader ordered to destroy a little-known place in a land thought to be uninhabited. What he discovers throws everything he knows into question.The Visitor tells the story of a young man, Mike, whose grandfather is on his deathbed. The events of his grandfather's final day forces Mike to choose how he will live the rest of his days. All proceeds will be donated to Ranelagh House Care Home, a charity based in Liverpool, UK. Richie Billing and Mark Brooks are both Liverpool-based writers. Richie has keen interests in the genre of fantasy, his favourite writers being George R.R. Martin and Raymond E. Feist. He has several publsihed short stories to date and a novel due in 2018. Mark's interests lie in existentialism and magical realism. He draws his inspiration from Ernest Hemingway and James Salter, among other writers who help him in taking himself too seriously. 'The Visitor' will be the first story in a collection currently being composed and due for completion late 2018.

"This thesis explores the controversial Panama Canal expansion proposals using an analytical framework developed by Herman Daly, an ecological economist at the University of Maryland and a critic of traditional models economic development. At a time when nearly every nation seeks to increase the size of its economy, Daly has been an ardent advocate of setting limits to economic growth, arguing that, as the earth is materially closed, there cannot be infinite growth of the consumption of material and energy resources within a finite (nongrowing) biosphere. These limits should be defined by the regenerative and waste absorptive capacities of the biosphere. My objective here is to test the feasibility of implementing a policy at the local resource management level that is guided by the recognition of ecological limits to economic growth. I employ a water management technique developed by The Nature Conservancy called the Range of Variability Approach (RVA) and test its utility in setting an ecologically-based limit to water withdrawal and river system modification in the Panama Canal watershed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)" --

In a world where superheroes exist, it will take one normal man to remind everyone what it means to be a hero. Malcolm Mills has a problem with the Newton Force. He has his reasons. Yet the rest of the world loves the world's only superheroes. Gifted with super strength, flight, telepathy, and indestructible skin, the Newton Force aren't the heroes they appear to be. They're more comfortable doing commercials and signing autographs than fighting crime. When an exo-suit clad criminal conducts a brazen attack in broad daylight, it results in the death of Malcolm's friend. Now Malcolm is going to do the one thing the Newton Force won't. He's going to find the criminal and save the day. Along the way, Malcolm discovers a criminal who is as brilliant as he is ruthless. And who is rapidly evolving from a low-level villain to a full-fledged supervillain.