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In a context that may seem, to a fairly realistic pessimist, of forced choice between fanatic neo-fundamentalisms and trivializing single thought, a 'common cause' like the Italian Constitution offers itself as a reference to which to look at with motivated trust from different perspectives and situations, often conflicting. To constitutionalize means to make the Constitution more authentically itself by preserving what is to be guarded and creating what is yet to be created. The underlying theme and highly original contribution of this book is the concept of pléroma or fullness of being: a strategic concept that enhances the original personalism of the Constitution and absorbs - by unifying and orienting - the restoring, interpreting and integrating of the constitutional text, proposing a political-legal project in line with the current times.

Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror in Seattle, including the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. Ted Bundy's murder spree started in King County before reaching national attention in the 1970s. Local author Teresa Nordheim exposes these and many more gruesome events that scarred the city

"In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women's bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan's book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West." --

1. Farmland transfer: what matters most? --All the things I could tell you /Teresa Opheim --How important is it for beginning farmers to own farmland? /Members of Practical Farmers of Iowa --Farm dynasties /Helen D. Gunderson --2. Farmland transfer and why it's important --Farm transfer planning: the soft issues are the hard issues /Kathryn Z. Ruhf --Belonging /John Gilbert, Iowa Falls, Iowa --3. The ladder to farmland ownership /Michael Duffy and Teresa Opheim --4. Putting 'Map of my kingdom' on the map /Mary Swander --5. The bounty of the Lord /Tom and Irene Frantzen, New Hampton, Iowa --6. Why beat your neighbor by a bushel? /Jon Bakehouse, Hastings, Iowa --7. Constant miracles from tiny seeds /Angela Tedesco, Johnston, Iowa --8. The right family at the right price /Teresa Opheim --9. A more complete farm /Vic and Cindy Madsen, Audubon, Iowa --10. To keep family harmony /Barb Opheim, Mason City, Iowa --11. Soils as God intended /Del Ficke, Pleasant Dale, Nebraska --12. Adams County needs young farmers /Neil Hamilton, Waukee, Iowa --13. Checklist for resiliency /Margaret McQuown and Steve Turman, Red Oak, Iowa --14. Many moments of grace /Fred Kirschenmann, Medina, North Dakota --15. The importance of mentors /Jeff Klinge and Deb Tidwell, Farmersburg, Iowa --16. Make us an offer /Teresa Opheim --17. All who went before /Jim and Lisa French, Partridge, Kansas --18. A tribute to Dan Specht --One man's meat /Teresa Opheim --My responsibility now /Mary Damm --My brother's hands /Phil Specht, McGregor, Iowa --19. Food and fun for years to come /Leon and Marilyn Isakson, Charles City, Iowa --Appendix A: About Practical Farmers of Iowa --Appendix B: What matters most for the future of your farmland? --Appendix C: Write your own farm legacy letter.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface: A Letter to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Characterizing Your Challenge -- Chapter 3: Co-Creating with the Community -- Chapter 4: Designing Your Solution -- Chapter 5: Market Strategy -- Chapter 6: Delivering Your Solution -- Chapter 7: Measuring Impact -- Chapter 8: Completing the Business Model -- Chapter 9: Pitching and Networking -- Chapter 10: Funding Your Venture -- Chapter 11: Building the Organization -- Chapter 12: Communications -- Chapter 13: Managing Growth -- Back Cover

A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions confront many farmers and farmland owners today. How they answer them will shape their families and the land for generations to come. The Farm Legacy Letters project, developed by the member-driven nonprofit Practical Farmers of Iowa, is designed to help farmers and farmland owners think about their farm's future and talk about it with their families. An essential complement to handbooks on business succession, this book gathers the letters and stories of midwestern families about the land they cherish--how they acquired it, what they treasure most about it, and their hopes for its future. Some of the writers descend from families who have owned a particular patch of the earth since the 1800s, while others became farmland owners more recently--one as recently as 2015. Some are no longer farmland owners at all, because--after careful thought about what mattered most to them--they sold their land to the next generation of farmers. All of these writers hope that, by sharing their farmland legacies, they will encourage others to ponder and then write about the histories, accomplishments, challenges, and hopes for their farmland for the generations who come after they are gone.

Nineteenth-century modernization in Brazil -- The vocabulary of Brazilian modernization -- Industrial forests -- The most useful of instruments: plows and agricultural innovation -- Road-building and railroads: challenges to modernization -- Trolleys, railroads, and factories, or civilization and barbarism.