Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
- ISBN-10
- 1593157061
- ISBN-13
- 9781593157067
- Series
- Pendulum
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 253
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-02
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf
- Author
- Perseus
Description
The best-selling author of The Wizard of Ads and the founder of Promote-a-Book identify patterns in the seemingly random ways society judges acceptability, revealing a 40-year cycle in Western society that explains current trends and viewpoints that are shaping the successes of today's political, business and celebrity figures.
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- 2012-10-02
- 288 pages
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