John M. Coates

Professor John Coates

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. Canadian scientist Dr John Coates indentifies the loop between testosterone and success that dramatically lowers the fear of risk in men. He has dubbed the moment when traders transform into exuberant high flyers "the hour between dog and wolf". This is a fascinating account of his hypothesis.

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

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Rudyard Kipling

John D. Coates

Although Kipling has never lost his hold on a large and admiring public, recent years have witnessed an increasing critical interest in his work. This book approaches Kipling as a writer who, from the outset of his career, sensed a potential or actual horror at the heart of things. It examines Kipling's search for meaning, a research pursued on the political, moral, and religious planes, through original and highly sophisticated explorations of history and myth. It presents Kipling as a person who knew and understood his own suffering and used it in his search for strategies to deal with the temptations of pessimism that he had known and also the prevailing temptations in a political and intellectual crisis he felt obliged to address.

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