Microtrends: Surprising Tales of the way We Live Today (l. condition)

Mark J. Penn. Penguin, 2007. 425 p., paperback 

condition: very good, bus has some small stains inside; yellowed pages

People have never been more sophisticated, more individualistic, or more knowledgeable about the choices they make in their daily lives. Yet it takes intensive, scientific study to find the logical patterns that underlie those choices. While helping you to refine your own trend-spotting skills, Penn pierces remarkably stubborn conventional thinking to find the counterintuitive trends that represent a portrait of society in the 21st century. A groundbreaking book about the way people think and how they act, Microtrends explores the practical implications of these 75 trends for politics, business, and society itself.