{"product_id":"avoiding-the-pendulum-frederick-rooney-9798255522736","title":"Avoiding the Pendulum","description":"We live in an age of pendulum thinking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn issue after issue, society lurches from one extreme to the other-mistaking opposition for wisdom and overcorrection for truth. In Avoiding the Pendulum, readers are invited into a different kind of public conversation: not a shouting match between two sides, but a round table of serious voices asking what each position protects, fears, overlooks, and sacrifices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBold, thoughtful, and deeply humane, this literary work explores the social conflicts that divide us and shows how black-and-white thinking keeps making them worse. Rather than forcing false consensus, it models something more difficult and more necessary: empathetic listening, multi-perspective reasoning, and the search for wiser judgment in a fractured world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor anyone tired of slogans, tribal certainty, and the endless swing of extremes, this book offers a better way to think.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Rooney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255522736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Frederick Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172640399615,"sku":"9798255522736","price":12.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/avoiding-the-pendulum-frederick-rooney-9798255522736","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}