Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers

by John L. Casti

Book Overview

"Mood Matters" makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the "social mood" is positive and people look forward to the future, events of an entirely different character tend to occur than when society is pessimistic. The book presents many examples from every walk of life in support of this argument...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364204834X
• ISBN13: 9783642048340
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"