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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. America does not lack policies. It lacks the courage to use them.In the United States, political debates rage louder than ever - yet nothing changes. Healthcare remains broken, housing costs soar, student debt crushes generations, and climate action stalls. To outside observers, this looks like gridlock. To Ping Xu, it is something more dangerous: a nation trapped not by partisanship, but by fear.In America Has No Left, Xu argues that the U.S. has hollowed out its progressive policy tradition, replacing it with systems designed to prevent loss rather than pursue progress. Policymakers fear backlash more than failure. Institutions prioritize protecting themselves from blame over delivering public benefit. And citizens have been taught to fear change itself - even when the status quo is failing them.Xu traces how this fear-based governance emerged from the Cold War, when anti-socialism panic rewired U.S. politics around suspicion and austerity. She shows how this mindset corroded institutions from within, turning bold programs into risk-averse bureaucracies. Public agencies became fortresses of distrust, layering audits, legal shields, and procedural barriers to avoid being accused of waste. The result is a system that spends billions to "guard ten dollars" - consuming its own resources in fear of the very public it was meant to serve.But Xu does not stop at diagnosis. Drawing on global comparisons, she contrasts America's stagnation with more adaptive, trust-based models in Finland, Uruguay, and Germany - countries that invest in people as assets rather than treating them as risks. She outlines how the U.S. can escape its fear trap through trust-centered reforms: simplifying social safety nets, empowering frontline governance, reframing public programs as long-term investments, and rebuilding policy around care rather than control.America Has No Left is a wake-up call for a nation that has mistaken fear for realism. It challenges Americans to remember that progress requires risk - and that democracy dies not only from extremism, but also from paralysis. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Beyond the United Nations: A Prototype Blueprint for Global Governance is a book of systemic design for the future. Humanity now faces crises that no twentieth-century institution can contain: accelerating climate change, the exponential rise of artificial intelligence, recurring pandemics, and fragile economic structures. These are borderless risks, advancing at exponential speed, while we remain reliant on outdated frameworks of sovereignty, diplomacy, and bureaucracy-tools that once maintained order but now obstruct solutions.Author Ping Xu asks a radical question: What if global governance were designed not by diplomats, but by system designers? Drawing upon three lineages of thought-Jacque Fresco's Venus Project, Elon Musk's engineering logic and prototype-driven method, and her own interdisciplinary journey spanning music, language, and policy design-Xu presents a "prototype blueprint" for global governance.This is not a utopia. It is a living draft of institutions that can evolve, adapt, and embed transparency, responsibility, and shared stewardship at their core. For readers who believe that governance must match the speed of technology to prevent civilizational collapse, this book is both a warning and an invitation: to take part in writing humanity's next covenant.-- Ping Xu ---""- -- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Double Inequality of Generation and ClassAuthor: Ping Xu Language: Multilingual (English + Traditional Chinese)Audience: Adult / GeneralEnglish DescriptionA new generation is falling-not just behind, but beneath.Around the world, young people are entering adulthood only to find the ladder of opportunity shattered. Housing costs have soared out of reach, wages have stagnated, and public systems built for another era no longer protect them. At the same time, wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of older and already affluent groups. This is not just an economic gap - it is a historic rupture.In The Double Inequality of Generation and Class, reform strategist and policy thinker Ping Xu uncovers how two powerful forces - age-based inequality and class-based inequality - have fused into a single trap. She shows how older, wealthier cohorts capture the majority of policy benefits while younger, working generations shoulder shrinking wages, ballooning debts, and unaffordable housing. The system quietly rewards the security of the few while draining the vitality of the many.Xu reveals how governments have ignored this shift for decades, relying on outdated assumptions of lifelong stable employment and upward mobility that no longer exist. Through cross-national comparisons - from collapsing birth rates in East Asia to widening generational wealth gaps in the United States and Europe - she shows that the generational bargain underpinning modern society has broken down. Young people are no longer simply "starting lower" on the ladder; many are being locked out entirely.But this book is not just a warning - it is a blueprint for repair. Xu outlines bold structural reforms to reset the social contract: universal basic income to rebuild the floor, tax shifts to rebalance wealth, housing policy to reclaim affordability, and intergenerational compacts to align long-term care, pensions, and education. She argues that restoring balance between generations is not charity - it is survival. Without it, nations will face shrinking workforces, collapsing demand, and political disintegration.The Double Inequality of Generation and Class shines a clear light on the hidden architecture of decline. It calls on policymakers, educators, and citizens to stop treating inequality as natural - and start seeing it as a design flaw that can, and must, be fixed.---- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Prestigious diplomas do not create wise leaders. They often create rigid ones - and in doing so, they are quietly breaking the world.Across continents, societies are faltering under crises they seem unable to solve. In the United States, healthcare reform has been paralyzed for decades. In East Asia, entire nations face demographic collapse while governments hesitate to adapt. In India, ambitious development plans are routinely derailed by bureaucratic gridlock. And in countless other places, inequality deepens, public trust erodes, and political systems seem incapable of change.We are told these failures are inevitable - that governance is simply hard, and that we must trust the "best and brightest" to lead us. But what if this assumption is the problem?In Diplomas Don't Create Leaders; Governance Is an Art, Ping Xu delivers a bold critique of the credential-worship that dominates modern politics. She argues that today's governance systems are led not by visionaries, but by "score monsters" - people trained from childhood to chase grades and rankings, but rarely trained to listen, synthesize, or imagine. These individuals rise through elite academic pipelines designed to reward conformity, memorization, and test-taking skill. Once in power, they often replicate those same rigid systems, mistaking control for competence and bureaucracy for wisdom.Xu shows how this credential obsession has hollowed out the essence of leadership. Technical mastery is mistaken for judgment. Exam performance is mistaken for resilience. Data is mistaken for empathy. The result is brittle institutions run by people who can analyze numbers but cannot read the room, who can build frameworks but cannot nurture trust. They are brilliant under artificial conditions yet paralyzed in real-world complexity.Drawing on examples from around the world, Xu contrasts this failure with historical cases of adaptive, human-centered governance. She highlights how postwar leaders in Germany rebuilt their country through humility and long-term thinking rather than prestige. She examines how Finland transformed its education system not through competition, but through collaboration and trust. She shows how Uruguay rebuilt public services after dictatorship through inclusive dialogue rather than technocratic dictates. These leaders were not the most credentialed - but they were the most courageous, empathetic, and integrative.From these stories, Xu builds a blueprint for cultivating true 21st-century leadership. She calls for educational systems that reward curiosity, collaboration, and ethical reasoning rather than rote competition. She urges governments to embed systems thinking and emotional intelligence into their leadership pipelines. And she challenges every citizen to stop equating degrees with wisdom, and to demand leaders who see policymaking not as mechanical problem-solving but as a living art: the art of weaving together diverse voices, embracing uncertainty, and guiding societies through change with creativity and care.Diplomas Don't Create Leaders; Governance Is an Art is more than a critique - it is a manifesto for systemic renewal. It invites readers to rethink what leadership is for, and to reclaim governance as a profoundly human endeavor. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Outdated systems are strangling humanity. It's time to cut them out.In this powerful trilogy, Ping Xu exposes the hidden machinery that keeps modern society trapped in scarcity, fear, and burnout. She argues that our governments and institutions still operate on an obsolete "work-for-survival" logic built for the industrial era-systems that persist like an inflamed appendix, long after they have lost their purpose, quietly poisoning the body of society.Xu shows how tying survival to wages has created artificial scarcity, trapping generations in cycles of poverty, overwork, and despair. Safety nets have been dismantled, while public systems are designed around suspicion, punishment, and control. This has produced mass burnout, housing injustice, demographic collapse, and institutional paralysis.But this trilogy is not only critique-it is a blueprint. Xu presents bold yet practical solutions: universal basic income, integrated long-term care, and human-centered welfare systems that adapt to people, instead of forcing people to adapt to them.Dismantling the Appendix Trilogy is a manifesto for those who refuse to accept "this is just how the world works." It invites readers to imagine a future built on care, trust, and human dignity-where systems finally serve people, not the other way around. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - America does not lack policies. It lacks the courage to use them.In the United States, political debates rage louder than ever - yet nothing changes. Healthcare remains broken, housing costs soar, student debt crushes generations, and climate action stalls. To outside observers, this looks like gridlock. To Ping Xu, it is something more dangerous: a nation trapped not by partisanship, but by fear.In America Has No Left, Xu argues that the U.S. has hollowed out its progressive policy tradition, replacing it with systems designed to prevent loss rather than pursue progress. Policymakers fear backlash more than failure. Institutions prioritize protecting themselves from blame over delivering public benefit. And citizens have been taught to fear change itself - even when the status quo is failing them.Xu traces how this fear-based governance emerged from the Cold War, when anti-socialism panic rewired U.S. politics around suspicion and austerity. She shows how this mindset corroded institutions from within, turning bold programs into risk-averse bureaucracies. Public agencies became fortresses of distrust, layering audits, legal shields, and procedural barriers to avoid being accused of waste. The result is a system that spends billions to 'guard ten dollars' - consuming its own resources in fear of the very public it was meant to serve.But Xu does not stop at diagnosis. Drawing on global comparisons, she contrasts America's stagnation with more adaptive, trust-based models in Finland, Uruguay, and Germany - countries that invest in people as assets rather than treating them as risks. She outlines how the U.S. can escape its fear trap through trust-centered reforms: simplifying social safety nets, empowering frontline governance, reframing public programs as long-term investments, and rebuilding policy around care rather than control.America Has No Left is a wake-up call for a nation that has mistaken fear for realism. It challenges Americans to remember that progress requires risk - and that democracy dies not only from extremism, but also from paralysis.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Prestigious diplomas do not create wise leaders. They often create rigid ones - and in doing so, they are quietly breaking the world.Across continents, societies are faltering under crises they seem unable to solve. In the United States, healthcare reform has been paralyzed for decades. In East Asia, entire nations face demographic collapse while governments hesitate to adapt. In India, ambitious development plans are routinely derailed by bureaucratic gridlock. And in countless other places, inequality deepens, public trust erodes, and political systems seem incapable of change.We are told these failures are inevitable - that governance is simply hard, and that we must trust the 'best and brightest' to lead us. But what if this assumption is the problem In Diplomas Don't Create Leaders; Governance Is an Art, Ping Xu delivers a bold critique of the credential-worship that dominates modern politics. She argues that today's governance systems are led not by visionaries, but by 'score monsters' - people trained from childhood to chase grades and rankings, but rarely trained to listen, synthesize, or imagine. These individuals rise through elite academic pipelines designed to reward conformity, memorization, and test-taking skill. Once in power, they often replicate those same rigid systems, mistaking control for competence and bureaucracy for wisdom.Xu shows how this credential obsession has hollowed out the essence of leadership. Technical mastery is mistaken for judgment. Exam performance is mistaken for resilience. Data is mistaken for empathy. The result is brittle institutions run by people who can analyze numbers but cannot read the room, who can build frameworks but cannot nurture trust. They are brilliant under artificial conditions yet paralyzed in real-world complexity.Drawing on examples from around the world, Xu contrasts this failure with historical cases of adaptive, human-centered governance. She highlights how postwar leaders in Germany rebuilt their country through humility and long-term thinking rather than prestige. She examines how Finland transformed its education system not through competition, but through collaboration and trust. She shows how Uruguay rebuilt public services after dictatorship through inclusive dialogue rather than technocratic dictates. These leaders were not the most credentialed - but they were the most courageous, empathetic, and integrative.From these stories, Xu builds a blueprint for cultivating true 21st-century leadership. She calls for educational systems that reward curiosity, collaboration, and ethical reasoning rather than rote competition. She urges governments to embed systems thinking and emotional intelligence into their leadership pipelines. And she challenges every citizen to stop equating degrees with wisdom, and to demand leaders who see policymaking not as mechanical problem-solving but as a living art: the art of weaving together diverse voices, embracing uncertainty, and guiding societies through change with creativity and care.Diplomas Don't Create Leaders; Governance Is an Art is more than a critique - it is a manifesto for systemic renewal. It invites readers to rethink what leadership is for, and to reclaim governance as a profoundly human endeavor.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. America Has No Left | Ping Xu | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | The Bilingual Pianist | EAN 9798349558788 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Beyond the United Nations | A Prototype Blueprint for Global Governance | Ping Xu | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | The Bilingual Pianist | EAN 9798349596308 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. The Double Inequality of Generation and Class | Ping Xu | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | The Bilingual Pianist | EAN 9798349558771 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Outdated systems are strangling humanity. It's time to cut them out.In this powerful trilogy, Ping Xu exposes the hidden machinery that keeps modern society trapped in scarcity, fear, and burnout. She argues that our governments and institutions still operate on an obsolete 'work-for-survival' logic built for the industrial era-systems that persist like an inflamed appendix, long after they have lost their purpose, quietly poisoning the body of society.Xu shows how tying survival to wages has created artificial scarcity, trapping generations in cycles of poverty, overwork, and despair. Safety nets have been dismantled, while public systems are designed around suspicion, punishment, and control. This has produced mass burnout, housing injustice, demographic collapse, and institutional paralysis.But this trilogy is not only critique-it is a blueprint. Xu presents bold yet practical solutions: universal basic income, integrated long-term care, and human-centered welfare systems that adapt to people, instead of forcing people to adapt to them.Dismantling the Appendix Trilogy is a manifesto for those who refuse to accept 'this is just how the world works.' It invites readers to imagine a future built on care, trust, and human dignity-where systems finally serve people, not the other way around.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Diplomas Don't Create Leaders; Governance Is an Art | Ping Xu | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | The Bilingual Pianist | EAN 9798349558665 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Dismantling the Appendix Trilogy | Ping Xu | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | The Bilingual Pianist | EAN 9798349555978 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.