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  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

    How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

    by John Coates ...
    **“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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Problem of Twelve

    When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

    by John Coates ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Coates

    The Man Who Built The Snowman

    by Marie Beardmore ...
    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.. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kipling the Trickster

    Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories

    by John Coates ...
    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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Kipling the Trickster

    Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories

    by John Coates ...
    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 ... Read more

    $60.19 USD

  • Hecke’s L-functions

    Spring, 1964

    by Kenkichi Iwasawa ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume contains the notes originally made by Kenkichi Iwasawa in his own handwriting for his lecture course at Princeton University in 1964. These notes give a beautiful and completely detailed account of the adelic approach to Hecke’s L-functions attached to any number field, including the proof of analytic continuation, the functional equation of these L-functions, and the class number ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, and citizens at the grassroots level. Decolonization seeks to weaken the effects of colonialism and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Indigenous Social Work around the World

    Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

    by John Coates ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Bloch–Kato Conjecture for the Riemann Zeta Function

    Edited by John Coates, A. Raghuram, Anupam Saikia, R. Sujatha ...
    Series Book 418 - London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series
    There are still many arithmetic mysteries surrounding the values of the Riemann zeta function at the odd positive integers greater than one. For example, the matter of their irrationality, let alone transcendence, remains largely unknown. However, by extending ideas of Garland, Borel proved that these values are related to the higher K-theory of the ring of integers. Shortly afterwards, Bloch and ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Environmental Social Work

    Edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Tiani Hetherington ...
    Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide attention to climate change, a string of natural disasters, and increased understanding of issues around environmental ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    The Hour between Dog and Wolf

    Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust

    by John Coates ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    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 ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Problem of Twelve

    When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

    by John Coates ...
    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 11 min

    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook