The Boost Skills Series is the definative and comprehensive four-level series of skills books for junior EFL learners. * Integrated skills approach means each of the skills are brought together at the end of each unit * Age-appropiate and cross-curricular topics develop students' critical thinking and examination techniques * Clear and transparent structure makes teaching and learning easy and fun * Complete teacher support with a Teacher's Edition for each book and a companion website www.boostskillsseries.com with free downloadable resources

With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through original data. Thad Kousser and Justin H. Phillips argue that negotiations over the budget, on the one hand, and policy bills on the other are driven by fundamentally different dynamics. They capture these dynamics in models informed by interviews with gubernatorial advisors, cabinet members, press secretaries and governors themselves. Through a series of novel empirical analyses and rich case studies, the authors demonstrate that governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but that what they're bargaining over – the budget or policy – shapes both how they play the game and how often they can win it.

This book applies methods from nonlinear dynamics to problems in neuroscience. It uses modern mathematical approaches to understand patterns of neuronal activity seen in experiments and models of neuronal behavior. The intended audience is researchers interested in applying mathematics to important problems in neuroscience, and neuroscientists who would like to understand how to create models, as well as the mathematical and computational methods for analyzing them. The authors take a very broad approach and use many different methods to solve and understand complex models of neurons and circuits. They explain and combine numerical, analytical, dynamical systems and perturbation methods to produce a modern approach to the types of model equations that arise in neuroscience. There are extensive chapters on the role of noise, multiple time scales and spatial interactions in generating complex activity patterns found in experiments. The early chapters require little more than basic calculus and some elementary differential equations and can form the core of a computational neuroscience course. Later chapters can be used as a basis for a graduate class and as a source for current research in mathematical neuroscience. The book contains a large number of illustrations, chapter summaries and hundreds of exercises which are motivated by issues that arise in biology, and involve both computation and analysis. Bard Ermentrout is Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. David Terman is Professor of Mathematics at the Ohio State University.

The Boost! Skills Series is the definative and comprehensive four-level series of skills books for junior EFL learners. Integrated skills approach means each of the skills are brought together at the end of each unit Age-appropiate and cross-curricular topics develop students' critical thinking and examination techniques Clear and transparent structure makes teaching and learning easy and fun Complete teacher support with a Teacher's Edition for each book and a companion website www.boostskillsseries.com with free downloadable resources

The Boost Skills Series is the definative and comprehensive four-level series of skills books for junior EFL learners. * Integrated skills approach means each of the skills are brought together at the end of each unit * Age-appropiate and cross-curricular topics develop students' critical thinking and examination techniques * Clear and transparent structure makes teaching and learning easy and fun * Complete teacher support with a Teacher's Edition for each book and a companion website www.boostskillsseries.com with free downloadable resources

Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex and most misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov). He argues that understanding Dostoevsky's style and goals as a writer of fiction is inseparable from understanding his religious commitments. Any reader who enters the rich and insightful world of Williams' Dostoevsky will emerge a more thoughtful and appreciative reader for it.

Massive private investment that complements public investment is needed to close the demand-supply gap and make reliable power available to all Indians. Government efforts have sought to attract private sector funding and management efficiency throughout the electricity value chain, adapting its strategy over time.