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The book "Salt in the Coffee Cup: Notes on Creation and Writing" by Carlos Fajardo Fajardo is a reflection on poetic creation and the ethical role of the poet in a degraded world. The author emphasizes the importance of reading as part of the process of understanding and projecting the fictional worlds created by the work. The author's writing style is characterized by short texts, essays, and aphorisms. The text analyzes the poet's creative process and their role in society today, as well as the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in their work. It also mentions the influence of various authors in the text and highlights the importance of reading as a way to understand culture. In the end, it concludes that the poet possesses a method and that their work seeks to transcend death and provide serenity to the reader. [Extracted from the article]

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The book "The Relevance of Salt in the Southern Cone of America, 1750-1850. Routes, Traffickers, Producers, and Uses" is an advanced version of the author's doctoral thesis, José Vera Rodríguez. The book analyzes the importance of salt in Latin American agri-food heritage and its application in the socio-economic development of Chile. Additionally, it highlights the relevance of the designation of origin of Cáhuil salt and its value as a national symbol. The author also examines the history of muleteers and the tensions between central powers and local territories regarding access to salt. The book offers a valuable documentary corpus for understanding the history of salt and its impact on the social and economic activity of the region. [Extracted from the article]

Antczak's theoretical approach to seafarer-thing relationships becomes more succinctly articulated in archaeology-forward chapters later in the book. The fourth chapter focuses on the seafarers who camped and worked on the saltpan sites of La Tortuga and Cayo Sal. The book achieves much more than a comparative site-based analysis of seafarer-thing relations at saltpan camps. [Extracted from the article]

This book proves to be a well-structured and innovative theoretical and methodological approach to understand seafarers' dynamics and their relationships with salt exploitation in the Venezuelan islands from an archaeological perspective. I Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624-1880 i reflects a wide range of processes and the results of long-term fieldwork and research. This book is a contribution to our understanding of colonial and republican history in Venezuela, more specifically in regard to salt exploitation practices developed during the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in the Venezuelan islands of the Caribbean Sea. [Extracted from the article]

In the following chapter, Eubanks similarly discusses the Caddo, this time in northwest Louisiana, examining the effects of European arrival on the regional salt trade. Part One, "Salt Histories", opens with a chapter by Dumas which presents an overview of her research on salt manufacture at the saline springs of southwest Alabama from AD 900 up until the American Civil War. In Chapter 2, Eubanks, Kevin E. Smith, Hannah Guidry, and Larry McKee compare two Mississippian mound sites located by a salt/mineral spring in north-central Tennessee, surmising that one was perhaps a sacred space and the other the center of a local salt industry. [Extracted from the article]

Konrad A. Antczak, I Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624-1880 i . The book focuses on the seafarers who extracted salt seasonally from La Tortuga and Cayo de Sal from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The two historical periods related to Cayo de Sal reveal the more local and mundane salt raking and contraband in the Venezuelan Caribbean during the eighteenth century and the Venezuela government's neglectful leases of its saltpan to foreign merchants during the nineteenth century. [Extracted from the article]

SUMMARY:A specific lot of sodium chloride (NaCl) has a contaminant toxic to the growth of Nannochloropsis oculata. This toxic effect was markedly reduced by co-culture with Flavobacterium sp., and such detoxifying ability was specific to this bacterial strain. Bioassays of the NaCl after heat treatment and ultrafiltration indicated that the NaCl was contaminated with heat-labile organic compounds of low molecular weight. Chemical analysis indicated that one contaminant in NaCl had analogous structure to a fungicide tridemorph. Commercially available tridemorph showed a toxic effect on N. oculata, and it was reduced by co-culture with Flavobacterium sp. These results indicate that the tridemorph-like substance is a causative factor for the growth inhibition of N. oculata, and that Flavobacterium sp. has an ability to detoxify the contaminant as well as tridemorph. The detoxifying ability of Flavobacterium sp. has the potential to be widely applicable for removing the trace pollutants affecting the growth of microalgae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `Salt: Grain of Life,' by Pierre Laszlo.

The article focuses on diuretic therapy. After the discovery of the diuretic properties of organic mercurial salts, diuresis was achieved therapeutically with drugs like mercaptomerin or mersalyl, given by injection and sometimes potentiated by ammonium chloride. Diuretics may act in several ways. For example, compounds which increase renal blood flow commonly increase the urinary loss of water and electrolytes. Osmotic diuretics produce their effects largely by an osmotic action within the renal tubule.

The article reviews the book "The Hunger for Salt: An Anthropological, Physiological and Medical Analysis," by Derek Denton.

Reviews the book 'Salt: A World History,' by Mark Kurlansky.