{"product_id":"2940170514281","title":"Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePendulum\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a pattern and it is forty years: 2003 was a fulcrum year, as was 1963, its opposite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePendulum \u003c\/span\u003eexplains 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 listen to this book.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115402215664,"sku":"2940170514281","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170514281_p0.jpg?v=1763711275","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170514281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}