Best Selling Books by Mark Roberts

This writer advocates the development of modern unbiased screening through examination for academic placement, grade level, subject knowledge, giftedness, occupational vocational tracking, together with a combined test-success and job-success criteria for initial acceptance and advancement in employment. This in the West already has a foothold where the SAT-ACT tests are a criterion for entry into virtually all United States universities. These tests are also the main models for the distribution of academic scholarships and bursaries at universities, at least those awarded to incoming first-year students. Civil services, notably police and first responders, currently maintain rigid knowledge adaptation testing and job scoring for all advancementIt is asserted that the scope of such measurements to placement, advancement and continuation in academic pursuits and vocational progress be broadly expanded. In many quarters this will require considerable read tooling of the educational system through tracking and streaming and a new acceptance of scholar adepts for advanced roles within the industry and government.

While you're in the gym or working out, you're focused on building yourself, on improving your health, and on investing in your long-term well-being. However, are you aware that the 23 other hours you spend outside of the gym can completely undo all the good you built in the one hour you're in the gym? If not, then this book is for you! Inside this book, not only will you learn how to condition your body for better performance and how to get maximum results inside the gym, you'll also learn... * 7 mindset shifts to help you succeed inside and outside the gym * 5 eating strategies to help you achieve your health and fitness goals * 4 eating challenges you may experience and how to overcome them all * The real secret to transforming your body (it's not what you think!) * 6 recovery strategies to help you rebuild and grow your muscles and increase your fitness level * How to deal with injury, sickness, vacations, and time away from the gym In addition, you'll also receive a 10-point checklist to help you start transforming your health today! About Mark Roberts Mark Roberts is the owner of Journeyman Fitness and has been coaching since 2007, first as a rowing coach on the three rivers of Pittsburgh and then full time at Journeyman Fitness, where he helps individuals focus on their training, nutrition, and accountability to achieve incredible body transformations. Before Mark was a coach, he was a mechanical engineer designing fire fighter safety equipment, a professional fishing captain in the Florida Keys for the Boy Scouts of America, and a competitive rower in high school and college, as well as an Eagle Scout. He currently enjoys spending time with his wonderful son, Leon, and incredible wife and love of his life, Ola. When he's not talking to people about exercise, he's either reading up on TV and movie trivia or running in Ragnar Races (200-mile relay runs).

Join the three turtle dove sisters on their journey through the forest as they learn the importance of personal responsibility and how their actions can impact the world around them. In this charming tale, readers will be captivated by the sisters' adventure and the valuable lessons they learn along the way. This story is great for beginning readers as well as older children, and the adorable characters are sure to delight at any age.

A vigilante killer spreads terror in Merseyside in the third gripping thriller starring Liverpool DCI Eve Clay.

How old do you have to be to become a Christian? What does it feel like to be baptized? Do you have to be baptized in front of the whole church? Young people have a lot of questions about becoming a Christian, don't they? Welcome to "Am I Ready?" This study book will help you answer your questions about Christianity. You will learn what the Bible teaches about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how to respond to it. You will also learn a lot about yourself, and whether you are ready to obey the Gospel and be a Christian. This is a serious study but you will enjoy working in the Bible and learning so much about such an important subject.

When biogeneticist Carl Racine stumbles on a body at the Jade 4 research station, it's the first step into a nightmare. With the aid of his bio-engineered wolf Yukon, he manages to escape the people who are trying to kill him, but the conspiracy goes much deeper than he knows.

The first of several exciting theme Westerns dealing with the adventures of the Cherokee Lighthorse, the historic Indian police force sworn to protect the peace of the sovereign Indian Nations. The brave Cherokee Lighthorse brigade must ride the line between blood and duty, when a U.S. general is ordered to march a battalion of troops across Indian lands.

In the parable "The Prodigal Son" attributed to Jesus by the Synoptic Gospel writer Luke - a father has two sons. The word prodigal means "wastefully extravagant"), becomes destitute and he dies and is reanimated. He makes his way home expecting his his father is likely to no longer recognize him. The father welcomes him back and celebrates his return. The older son refuses to participate. The father reminds the older son that he should still celebrate the return of the younger son because he was 'dead' and is now found.A portion of this parable deals with death and reconstitution, specifically the 32nd verse of Luke 15. The Vulgate translation of the highlighted text from the Koine Greek is: "quia frater tuus hic mortuus erat et revixit." This is best translated into modern English as "because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again". English substitutions might also render this as; deceased, departed or passed on. If the meaning was that the prodigal was lost, removed, detached, parted from or estranged - the appropriate Koine or Latin word would have been employed, rather than 'dead'. This distinction is paramount to the meaning of the parable as Christ intended it to be understood. Death is death - but victory over death is possible, and integration into the community [family] is also possible. As with the Elias-John the Baptist transmigration acknowledgement of Jesus - this parable deals on several levels with death, reanimation, recognition and reconciliation. It also chastises the hubris of the older son who clings to avarice and the Mosaic law at the expense of mercy.

Over the past decade, nighttime lights have become a widely used proxy for measuring economic activity. This paper examines the potential for high frequency nighttime lights data to provide "near real-time" tracking of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Morocco. At the national level, there exists a strong correlation between quarterly movements in Morocco's overall nighttime light intensity and movements in its real GDP. This finding supports the use of lights data to track the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis at higher temporal frequencies and at the subnational level, for which GDP data are unavailable. Consistent with large economic impacts of the crisis, Morocco experienced a large drop in the overall intensity of its lights in March 2020, from which it has subsequently struggled to recover, following the country's first COVID-19 case and the introduction of strict lockdown measures. At the subnational level, while all regions shared in March's national decline in nighttime light intensity, Rabat - Sale - Kenitra, Tanger - Tetouan - Al Hoceima, and Fes - Meknes suffered much larger declines than others. Since then, the relative effects of the COVID-19 shock across regions have largely persisted. Overall, the results suggest that, at least for Morocco, changes in nighttime lights can help to detect the timing of changes in the direction of real GDP, but caution is needed in using lights data to derive precise quantitative estimates of changes in real GDP.

As of the end of 2016 there are forty-four constituent member churches of the Anglican Communion throughout the world. Notwithstanding some schismatic 'churches' (largely resulting from disputations in the last forty years), there are more than 85 million practicing Anglicans world-wide, making it the third largest Christian denomination behind Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox churches. The church began its independent (and at that time 'national') character with the break from fealty to the Pope in Rome in 1534, initiated by King Henry VIII. The doctrinal character of the church began as a practical continuation of Roman Catholic Orthopraxy and, early on, a via media (middle path) between Catholicism and emerging Protestant teachings.

This is the 3rd in the series of Abasi books.'Fear makes you run, faith makes you walk, love, makes you stay.'It has been twenty years since King Abasi reclaimed the throne from Darius. Tullius, the Roman Emperor, invades Persia and has his eye set on the palace.A faceless soldier holding a gold sword appears in the dreams of Tullius and Abasi. A recurrent dream that has been passed from person to person with a prediction made centuries ago. With the palace holding the key to the past and the present, will the prophecy come true?A dramatic story that reminds us to accept who we are and to fight for what we believe in.Other titles available: Abasi and the Palace; Abasi and the Journey Home.Coming soon: Abasi and the Dark Secret

Global poverty monitored by the World Bank for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reported only at the national level, lacking a breakdown between urban and rural areas. A key challenge to producing globally comparable estimates of urban poverty is the need for consistent definitions of urban areas and poverty. This note illustrates an innovative approach to integrating globally consistent urban and poverty measurements to estimate urban poverty statistics that are directly comparable across countries. Two approaches to quantifying urban, the Degree of Urbanization and the Dartboard approaches are applied in seven case countries. By combining these delineations with official household budget survey data, poverty is estimated with international poverty lines. The empirical illustrations demonstrate that the proposed approach is potentially useful to improve the monitoring of global poverty.

This paper uses high-frequency nighttime time lights data to estimate the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on economic activity during the first year of the pandemic for a global sample of 2,800 cities, covering a total population of 2.5 billion people. Activity is found to be negatively affected by both the spread of the virus and the imposition of nonpharmaceutical interventions, but the negative impacts of the spread are large compared to those of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Large differences in city trajectories are also observed. Cities in low- and middle-income countries faced a significantly larger overall loss of economic activity compared to those in high-income countries. Additionally, cities with higher population densities are found to be more resilient in the face of the global shock as compared to less dense ones, but this difference is only observed in low- and middle-income countries. Taken together, the findings suggest that the Covid-19 crisis gave rise to divergence in urban economic trajectories, both across and within countries.

Soteriology is the sub-study of Salvation. This term, used within Christianity, has led to schism, rancour and dissension among the principal adherent of the branches of this religion. Review suggests a five-way divergence concerning 'justification', 'election', 'salvation' and redemption between:1.The Roman Catholic position of linking Grace with a 'twinned' responsibility to execute good works (by the baptized individual)2.Pelagians (and succeeding Arminian perspectives) who hold that good works only are necessary for Salvation and for whom Grace is sometimes essential as concerns proper works3.Those Protestants who hold double predestination beliefs (Calvin et al)4.A middle way set out by Eastern Orthodoxy5.Christ-Centred (and 'hopeful') Universalism which maintains that all persons will ultimately be admitted to heaven, rendering the dichotomy of works and/or grace, or their necessity to operate simultaneously, of no intrinsic value to that theology (Taylor, St. John Paul ll and Barth)This work examines some extant sources to:1.provide an historical background, 2.set out current hardened or softened positions and3.considers the influence of ecumenism on works and grace.

The ongoing crisis should spur deeper European integration, rather than a return to the nationalism of the past. The World Development Report 2009, reshaping economic geography, spotlights several issues for new European Union (EU) member states. From 1950 to 1990, Eastern Europe was impermeable to the flow of goods, services and ideas from the West, and grew slowly. During the same period, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in fourteen Western European economies grew at three times the pace of Eastern Europe. The drivers of West European growth were market economies, regional cooperation, and global economic integration. The European Economic Community, started by six Western European nations in 1957, continued to increase its membership with the ultimate aim of full economic and monetary integration. After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, the EU10 countries, along with Malta and Cyprus, joined the expanded European Union, an economic zone based on the principles of democracy, markets and the free mobility of goods, capital and labor. The 27country European Union has a combined population of almost 500 million people and accounts for over 30 percent of the world's GDP. But the legacy of division has meant that the EU10 countries lag considerably behind most of the other member states. While the EU10 have brought 123 million people into the European Union, they have reduced its average level of GDP per capita by an estimated 15.6 percent.

This important new text provides a broad-ranging introduction to the 'new' institutional theories which have become increasingly influential in recent years and gives an assessment of their application and utility in political analysis.

Transport corridors can generate wider economic benefits and costs through their effects on a potentially diverse set of development outcomes, such as economic growth, poverty, jobs, equity, environmental quality, and economic resilience. To advance understanding of how corridors could generate wider economic benefits, this paper undertakes a quantitative review of the literature that estimates the economic benefits of large transport infrastructure projects. It conducts a meta-analysis of 234 estimated impacts found in 78 studies. It focuses on roads, rails, and waterways because transport corridors based on these modes have clearer potential for economic spillovers than, for example, airline routes. The conceptual structure for the review is guided by a simple canonical model describing the policy maker's problem in maximizing the net wider economic benefits of corridors. The meta-analysis confirms that characteristics of individual studies, as well as the placement and design of the transport infrastructures systematically influence the findings of the corridor studies. It also shows that, on average, estimated impacts of corridor interventions on economic welfare and equity tend to be beneficial, while they are often detrimental for environmental quality, and possibly also for social inclusion. Because, around this average, impacts vary widely, policy makers could use complementary policies and institutions to mitigate potential trade-offs and support losers. To clarify the nature and extent of these trade-offs and varied impacts across locales and population groups, much more research is required.

Using data envelopment analysis, we calculate indices of total factor productivity (TFP), efficiency and technological change for the manufacturing sectors of 68 European NUTS1 regions over the period 1986-2002. We subsequently examine these indices using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) techniques, before considering tendencies towards convergence in both TFP and technical efficiency levels. While the ESDA reveals significant spatial autocorrelation, the convergence analysis uncovers no tendency for regions with initially lower TFP to catch up with regions with initially higher TFP. However, convergence is found in levels of technical efficiency, although towards a relatively lower average level.