As scandal & the aftershocks of the crash rock the financial world former Wall Street trader John Coates investigates why our financiers are driven to take risks. Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award & the Wellcome Trust Book Prize this startling & unconventional book sees neuroscientist & former Wall Street trader John Coates explain something we have long suspected: that we think with our body as well as our brain. & this only intensifies when we take risks; at work in sport & on the financial markets. Making & losing money provokes an overwhelming biological response & this can alter the way we behave. Could this bodily turmoil lead to the kind of irrational behaviour that so regularly upsets the global economy? In a series of groundbreaking experiments Coates has shown that under the pressure of risk our biology transforms us into different people. Traders & investors are especially prone becoming revved-up & testosterone-driven when on a winning streak & tentative & risk-averse when cowering from losses. Revealing the biology of bubbles & crashes The Hour Between Dog & Wolf sheds new & surprising light on issues that affect us all. ...

Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award & the Wellcome Trust Book Prize The Hour Between Dog & Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour & its consequences. Now shortlisted for the In this startling & unconventional book neuroscientist & former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environment. He reveals how their biochemistry has a lasting & significant impact on our economy. We learn how risk stimulates the most primitive part of the bankers brain & how making the deals our bank balances depend on provokes an overwhelming fight-or-flight response. Constant swinging between aggression & apprehension impairs their judgment causing economic upheaval in the wider world. The transformation between each split-second decision is what Coates calls the hour between dog & wolf & understanding the biology behind bubbles & crashes may be the key to stabilising the markets. ...

Following their collaboration in SPLIT SECOND ex-Secret Service agents Sean King & Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership & are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary but soon they begin to suspect links to larger more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Writghtsburg.. . The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids one shot in the back the other in the face are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime -- corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow involved & Maxwell & King suddenly find themselves racing to solve an intricate puzzle one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of solid evidence & one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. & all the while the body count is rising.. . ...

A young boy is killed in a hit & run. Under the cover of rain & darkness the driver escapes the scene. But the incident will change his life forever as he becomes the victim of blackmail.. . Meanwhile Van Veeteren now retired from the Maardam police faces his greatest challenge yet when a family member becomes the victim of a terrible crime. & as the body count rises it gradually becomes clear that the person behind these murders is acting on their own dark logic.. . ...

In the dead of night in the pouring rain a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren now retired from the Maardam police force will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is inexplicably murdered. Van Veeteren's former colleagues desperate for answers struggle to decipher the clues to this appalling crime. But when another body is discovered it gradually becomes clear that this killer is acting on their own terrifying logic.. . ...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer & Pen/ Faulkner prizes The Hours is a daring & deeply affecting novel inspired by the life & work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate profound & haunting story of love & inheritance hope & despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s taken from her beloved Bloomsbury & lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind & make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles a young wife & mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity & read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. & in New York in the 1990s Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment & goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard an award-winning poet whose mind & body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunninghams exquisite & deeply moving new novel which takes Woolfs life & work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour failure love & madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades & between England & America Cunninghams elegant haunting prose explores the pain & trauma of creativity & the immutable relationship between writer & reader. ...

This work features a young womans dream an old mans gift & the surprises that await us behind every closed door... The house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah a perfectly sensible lawyer walks through its empty rooms she is drawn to the once-grand mansion in a way she cannot explain
- to a drama that first unfolded in war-torn France & to a history she never knew she had. Using an unexpected legacy Sarah takes on the dilapidated house & its mysteries. With the help of architect Jeff Parker Sarah brings the exquisite house back to life & as one relationship shatters & another begins she discovers a whole new future. This is a novel of daring & hope of embracing life & taking chances.
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The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh the most famous bear in the world. In its pages the reader is reunited with Pooh Christopher Robin & all the familiar characters from " Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore invent the noble game of Poohsticks & investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepards beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors & all lovers of beautiful books." ...

The House at Pooh Corner" is the second of only two storybooks written by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh the most famous bear in the world. In its pages the reader is reunited with Pooh Christopher Robin & all the familiar characters from " Hundred Acre Wood". Join the friends as they build a house for Eeyore invent the noble game of Poohsticks & investigate the knotty question of what Tiggers like to eat. Delicate colourings of E. H. Shepard's beloved illustrations are complemented by an exquisite jacket design making this prestige edition a must-have for Pooh collectors & all lovers of beautiful books." ...

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party by the lake of a grand English country house a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley 98 one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor is visited by a young director making a film about the poets suicide. Ghosts awaken & memories long-consigned to the dark reaches of Graces mind begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery & a compelling love story The House at Riverton" will appeal to readers of Ian Mc Ewans " Atonement" L.P. Hartleys " The Go-Between" & lovers of the film " Gosford Park"." ...