Nose-Cleaning Salts
The first in Pharmacopoeia Germanica, an occasional series featuring some of the mysterious products you will find in German pharmacies:
"Emser Nose-Cleaning Salts -- physiological -- with natural Ems salt. Medicinal product for purification of the nose."
You snort them, apparently. My friend swears by them. "It's like breathing ocean air! You should try it!" I haven't worked up the courage yet.
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Czeslaw Milosz: To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays
Essays on writing, history, cities, politics, Poland, poetry, and religion. Most are as idiosyncratic as they are lovely.
English Title: "In Europe: A Journey through the 20th Century." Dutch journalist and historian Geert Mak traveled for a year throughout Europe and files this almost 1000-page report on the places he saw and the history that shaped them. A bit rambling, but packed with fascinating detail.
James Q. Whitman: Harsh Justice : Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe
Why does Europe send criminals to nice prisons for short, rehabilitative stays, while America degrades them, locks them up for decades, and even kills them? An insightful historical look at the development of criminal justice policy on each side of the Atlantic
Halldor Laxness: Independent People (Vintage International)
1955 Nobel Prize winnder Laxness's epic tale of Bjartur of Summerhouses, a fiercely backward and obstinate Icelandic shepherd, and his willful daughter Asta Solillja, told in feverish, mystical prose.
Sebastian Haffner: Anmerkungen zu Hitler
A German/English journalist's brief but lucid analysis of Hitler's worldview, his achievements, his military strategies, his mistakes, and his crimes.
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