Ronen Givony manages to highlight the self-evident through the biography "Pearl Jam in Present Tense"; Pearl Jam is part of our culture. Not only because their songs have become the soundtrack for birthdays and weddings, nor only because they shaped a large part of the music, legend, and tradition of the 90s. Their public image, their unabashed optimism, their social consciousness, their active participation, their activism, and the ethos they helped create were all radical in the world of mainstream rock.

After eleven albums, selling 85 million records, and more than a thousand concerts in fifty different countries, consistency and integrity, they continue to remind us of what only music can temporarily offer us: a better world.

The book "Not For You, Pearl Jam in Present Tense" is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary American band. It is a detached study of their role in the history of music, as well as American culture in general, and at the same time, a dive into the origins of the grunge music movement and the Seattle scene, as well as the entire 90s decade. "Not For You, Pearl Jam in Present Tense" is not just another band biography, nor a common retrospective of any artist, but it manages to compose a thorough study of their work, with a deeper understanding of the social background of the era, and also presents an essay on adolescence, nostalgia, and coming of age; the ultimate tribute to all their fans.