A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals the biology of financial boom and bust, showing how risk-taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria or stressed-out depression.The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have a lot to do with male hormones. In a series of startling experiments, Canadian scientist Dr. John Coates identified a feedback loop between testosterone and success that dramatically lowers the fear of...

The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America. Then there’s the rise of private equity fun...

How risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior—or stress and depressionIn this eye-opening book, Coates—a former Wall Street trader and now a world-class neuroscientist—describes the role our biology plays in our risk-taking behavior. Coates brings his research to life by telling a story of fictional traders who get caught up in a bubble and then a crash. As these traders place their bets and live with the results, Coates looks ...

An abundantly illustrated biography of the British animation producer behind Yellow Submarine, The Snowman, and other classics.John Coates is best known as the producer of The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Wind in the Willows, Willows in Winter, and Famous Fred—and as the man behind the Beatles film Yellow Submarine. In his long, eventful career, he earned a BAFTA and a CableACE Award as well as...

El objetivo principal de este libro es destruir definitivamente, sobre la base de las neurociencias, la concepción racionalista según la cual el ser humano toma decisiones mediante el uso exclusivo de una razón completamente separada del cuerpo. A través de múltiples experimentos científicos ajenos y propios, así como de ejemplos tomados de deportistas de élite, el autor expone la intervención de todo el cuerpo en la toma de decisiones en momentos cruciales de riesgo, así como el nivel pre...

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work. The contributors identify ways in which indigenization is shaping p...

The forces behind an economic crisis in the makingA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation. The Big Three index funds of Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America.Then there’s the rise of private equity funds such as the Big Four...

This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in ...

This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in ...

新一輪經濟和政治危機，正在成形當一小部分機構獲得能夠操控一個國家政治和經濟的手段時，就會出現「寡頭難題」（或稱為「權力集中問題」）。如今，兩個二十世紀後期的機構──指數基金和私募股權基金──正在製造新一輪的權力集中問題。這兩種基金的規模如此龐大，對經濟的影響層面又如此之廣，使得它們擁有自己也未必想要的經濟與政治權力。它們因為手握大權，成為政治威嚇的目標。這兩種機構都展現出規模經濟，都經由控制企業而直接或間接地積極參與政治。先鋒集團（Vanguard）、道富集團（State Street）、富達集團（Fidelity）和貝萊德（BlackRock）這四大指數基金掌握著超過20%的S&P 500公司的投票權，這種權力集中度在美國是前所未有的。此外，私募股權基金的崛起，諸如阿波羅（Apollo）、黑石（Blackstone）、凱雷（Carlyle）和KKR這四大基金，已聚積了2.7兆美元的資產，它們正在侵蝕美國資本主義的合法性和責任，不是透過控制上市公司，而是透過完全接管它們，使其脫離公共討論和公眾監督。在過去的幾十年裡，這種無聲的...

He wore diamonds to the theatre, forgot his lines on stage, and was booed off by audiences who came purely to laugh at him -- and yet Robert Coates became one of the most talked-about figures in Regency England. This is the extraordinary true story of a man so gloriously, catastrophically devoted to the idea of himself as a great performer that he turned his own failure into a kind of fame. Known across London as Romeo Coates and Diamond Coates, this self-styled Amateur of Fashion crashed ...

The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, A...