Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
- ISBN-10
- 1593157150
- ISBN-13
- 9781593157159
- Series
- Pendulum
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-02
- Publisher
- Vanguard
- Authors
- Michael Drew, Roy Williams
Description
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind. There is a pattern and it is 40 years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite. Pendulum explains where we have been as a society, how we got here, and where we are headed. If you would benefit from a peek into the future, you would do well to read this book.
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- 2012-10-02
- 253 pages
- Paperback
- Carroll & Graf
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