The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less c...

Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came from a winemaking family and was a winemaker himself before leaving Spain. He planted his first New Zealand vineyard shortly after arriving in Whanganui, and his business life was one of uninterrupted success. In 1880, the New Zealand Herald proclaimed him its “New Zealander of the Year” for “his f...

Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty.At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both c...

The Carolingian conquest of Lombard Italy (774) was preceded by a massive effort on the part of the Church to convince the Frankish court of the legitimacy of the invasion. Relying on a terminology borrowed from Gregory I, the papal court produced an offensive portrait of the Lombards, depicted as treacherous, vile, and heathen. This article analyzes eighth-century papal epistolary and the Liber Pontificalis in order to establish the strategies behind this campaign. In a second moment, we ...

Un relato que nos ofrece la receta del taoísmo para una vida plena.A través de un diálogo brillante e ingenioso entre el autor y Winnie the Pooh, este libro nos introduce con profunda sencillez en los principios de la filosofía taoísta.Pocos personajes occidentales han sabido vivir de una forma tan similar a los antiguos pilares del Tao como este afable oso, capaz de disfrutar con serenidad del presente, de...

La pratique du sport en compétition ou d'une activité physique pour le loisir ou pour la santé sont des thèmes actuellement importants en psychologie du sport et de l'activité physique. Au cours des vingt dernières années, les connaissances théoriques et pratiques dans ce domaine ont considérablement évolué. Ce livre apporte un éclairage contemporain sur la connaissance dans ce domaine, en ciblant les thématiques d'actualité :pour le sport : la santé mentale, les blessures, la violence, le...

El futuro del cristianismo -en sus diferentes modos de relacionarse con Dios- está indudablemente en la mística. La mística es de una actualidad palpitante. Por eso la relectura de los místicos cristianos, para acercarlos al hombre y la mujer de hoy, más que un desafío es una obligación. Algunos lo han intentado renovando el estudio científico y el lenguaje de los místicos de antaño. El autor de este libro ha seguido un camino diferente, para acercarse a ellos desde la vida, no desde la ci...