An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognitionIn a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?" David Zweig explores what we can all learn from a modest group he calls "Invisibles." Their careers require expertise, skill, and dedication...

A searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments’ decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of the decision-making process behind one of the worst American policy failures in a century—the extended closures of public schools during the pandemic. In fascinating and meticulously reported detail, David Zweig shows how some of the most trusted members of socie...

To overcome their “brain drain,” some developing countries employ the “Diaspora Option,” encouraging their overseas nationals to use the knowledge they gained abroad to help their motherland. Since the mid-1990s, China’s party/state has vigorously used an extensive array of programs and incentives to persuade ethnic Chinese living in America to transfer their technological knowhow back home. Many Chinese working abroad facilitated this flow, some to strengthen their former homeland, others...

An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of the decision-making process behind one of the worst American policy failures in a century—the extended closures of public schools during the pandemic. David Zweig shows how some of the most trusted members of society repeatedly made fundamental errors in their assessment and presentation of evidence.All along, kids throughout Europe had been learning in person since the spring of 2020. Even many peers at home—in private s...

A comprehensive analysts of China's rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, local cadre power and self-interest, and the peasants' search for economic growth. Key topics covered include: the responsibility system, privatization and changing property rights, industrialization, social conflict, cadre corruption, urban-rural relations, conflict over land, rural urbanization, and the impact of gl...

What do fact-checkers, anesthesiologists, U.N. interpreters, and structural engineers have in common? When they do their jobs poorly, the consequences can be catastrophic for their organizations. But when they do their jobs perfectly . . . they're invisible.For most of us, the better we perform the more attention we receive. Yet for many “Invisibles”—skilled professionals whose role is critical to whatever enterprise they’re a part of—it’s the opposite: the better they do their job...

First Published in 1996. Beginning in 1979, the government of the People's Republic of China, hoping to catch up with Western science and technology, decided for the first time since 1949 to send large numbers of students and scholars to the West to study. Suddenly China found itself in the same situation as many developing countries: sending their best and brightest to the United States triggered a brain drain, and with it the threat that the strategy of sending people abroad to catch up ...

Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are the core eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents. In their introductions to the material, the editors address the political economy of the democracy movement, the evolving concept of democracy du...

First published in 2004. It may well be that genius begins where fear ends: not to be afraid to question what is known, not to be afraid to be original. David Ben-Gurion did not try to imitate anyone...He was endowed with a mind that sought out whats was new and was capable of penetrating the deepest recesses. First and foremost, he challenged every Jew who believed it was the fate of Jews to live in the Diaspora, and he believed that the Jews could be a nation of farmers, industrialists, ...

Entdecken Sie die außergewöhnlichen Lebensgeschichten der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller aller Zeiten. Erfahren Sie, welche Freuden und Tragödien ihr Leben prägten und ihre Prosa sowie Poesie beeinflussten, was sie veranlasste, in die Fantasiewelten ihrer Werke zu flüchten, und was sie dazu brachte, die Grausamkeit der realen Welt durch Fiktion und Satire zu zeigen. Erforschen Sie, ob sie als gut oder böse galten und was sie dazu bewegte, die moralische Ambivalenz im Menschen aufzuzeigen – d...

Dieses in weiten Teilen biographische Werk widmete Stefan Zweig dem Begründer der Psychoanalyse Sigmund Freud. Stefan Zweig gelingt es dabei, den wissenschaftlichen Beitrag Freuds auch gedenk einiger Schwächen in das rechte Licht zu Rücken und angemessen zu würdigen. Die eigentliche Leistung Freuds liegt demnach weniger im wissenschaftlichen Details als viel mehr in der Vielzahl seiner Beiträge mit denen er das Denken, Überdenken und Forschen vieler seiner Nachfolger ermöglichte und inspir...

E-artnow bietet Ihnen eine sorgfältig ausgewählte Sammlung der größten Klassiker der Weltliteratur: Englische Meisterwerke: Romeo und Julia (William Shakespeare) Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark (William Shakespeare) Othello, der Mohr von Venedig (William Shakespeare) Don Juan (Lord Byron) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Sturmhöhe (Emily Brontë) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit (William Makepeace Thackeray) Drakula ...