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Warum ruft das Impfen Angst hervor? Eula Biss geht dem Phänomen der Impfparanoia auf den Grund. Indem sich die junge Mutter in die Position der Impfgegner einfühlt, lässt sie uns verstehen, wie deren Irrglaube an eine umfassende natürliche Immunität des Körpers so stark werden konnte. Dabei tastet sich Eula Biss vorsichtig voran. Sie verwebt Exkurse in die Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie autobiographische Bekenntnisse auf elegante W...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING"A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling." -Associated Press A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author, "one of the leading lights of the modern American essay." -Financial Times"M...

if you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading On Having and Being Had, you have no conscience.'AMINATTA FORNA, GUARDIAN'Calls on the controlled rush of poetry and turns experience into art.'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Nuanced .

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Es habe zwei Phasen in ihrem Leben gegeben, schreibt Eula Biss: die Phase vor und die nach dem Kauf einer eigenen Waschmaschine. Ausgehend von feinen Alltagsbeobachtungen und mit selbstironischem Humor stellt sie sich den großen konsumkritischen Fragen: Wie bestimmen Dinge unser Leben? Warum wollen wir immer mehr? Und was macht das Haben mit dem Sein?Eula Biss fragt, welchen Wert die Dinge wirklich für uns haben und wie unser Alltagsleben mit ...

In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests that we cannot immunize our children, or ourselves, against the world.

A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer. "My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts, " Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man's Land begins with a series of lynchings, ends with a list of apologies, and in an unsettling new coda revisits a litany of murders that no one seems capable of solving. Eula Biss explores race in America t...

Poetry. "Eula Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe, by turns funny, scary, dreamlike, haunting. These prose poems are shards of gleaming observation, fragments of intimacy and illusion. Here we find our families and ourselves, our words and our silences"-Martin Espada. "With deceptively quiet, unflinching compassion, Eula Biss records the perceptual wedges that cleave the self from its origins. The family history ...

In a frank and fascinating exploration of race, racial identity and the legacy of race in America, Biss intimately reveals how families, schools and neighbourhoods participate in preserving racial privilege, despite a disturbing past and uncertain future.

Mitten unter uns riskieren Eltern die Gesundheit und das Leben ihrer Kinder - in dem Glauben, sie zu schützen. Doch warum ruft das Impfen solche Angst hervor? Eula Biss geht dem Phänomen der Impfparanoia auf den Grund. Indem sich die junge Mutter in die Position der Impfgegner einfühlt, lässt sie uns verstehen, wie deren Irrglaube an eine umfassende natürliche Immunität des Körpers so stark werden konnte. Dabei tastet sich Eula Biss vorsichtig...

Why do we fear vaccines? National Book Critics Circle Award winning author Eula Biss offers a provocative examination of a flashpoint issue in our modern age, illuminated by the invaluable context provided by our scientific, mythological and literary past.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

The hugely acclaimed New York Times Best Seller, now available in paperback!*A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist*ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2014:The New York Times Book Review (Top 10), Entertainment Weekly (Top 10), New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune (Top 10), Publishers Weekly (Top 10), Time Out New York (Top 10), Los Angeles Times, Kirkus, Booklist, NPR's Science Friday, Newsday, Slate, Refinery 29, and many more...In this bold, fas...

A New York Times Best SellerA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the YearA Facebook "Year of Books" SelectionOne of the Best Books of the Year* National Book Critics Circle Award finalist * The New York Times Book Review (Top 10) * Entertainment Weekly (Top 10) * New York Magazine (Top 10)* Chicago Tribune (Top 10) * Publishers Weekly (Top 10) * Time Out New York (Top 10) * Los Angeles Times ...

Si narra che Teti, la madre dell'eroe greco Achille, per rendere il figlioletto invulnerabile lo immerse nelle acque dello Stige, il fiume che scorre sul confine con il regno dei morti. Da questo episodio mitologico parte Eula Biss, docente universitaria, scrittrice e madre, per indagare il concetto di immunità e quindi addentrarsi in tutte le pieghe di una questione di urgente attualità: quella dei vaccini. Mai come in questi tempi vediamo in...