Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour and its consequences.Shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, this startling and unconventional book from neuroscientist and former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environmen...

**“Brilliant.” —David Brooks, The New York Times“A profoundly unconventional book . . . So absorbing that I wound up reading it twice.” —BloombergFinalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the YearWhat happens to your body when you take risks? What happens to it when you make or lose a lot of money?**In this startling book, physiologist and former Wall Street trader John Coates vividly illustrates what happ...

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...

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...

The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.For five years, Ben Coates lived alongside a major channel of the river in Rotterdam, crossing it daily, swimming and sailing in its tributaries. In The Rhine...

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 ...