Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically. Historically reliant on primary exports like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income now coming from a massive emigrant workforce—over a quarter of its population—that earns money in the United States and sends it home. In American Value, David Pedersen examines this new way of life as it extends across two places: Intipucá, a Salvadoran town inf...

Will you survive the challenge?Join the Colonize Epiales Challenge and enter a world that will test your skills, challenge your strategies, and require you to think fast. Compete against 11 other teams for four intense weeks by establishing an outpost in the treacherous virtual reality world of Epiales.Using cutting-edge technology and Winside Immersion Pods, you will be logging in to a lifelike experience—but be warned: it's anything goes out there! Only o...

Entriss Online was Ian's life: by day, as one of their lead developers; by night, gaming as the accomplished Mandorf the Wizard.Now, they are shutting down the game, and Ian has no way to stop them. After years of leveling up, both professionally and personally, everything he has worked for is going to end. His goggles-and-gloves virtual reality MMORPG is being replaced with Everyworld Online, a next-gen game that provided full immersion so player...

Summer Versus. School II: The Balanced Calendar of School, Work and Life, 2nd Edition explores the successes and challenges of moving from the traditional 10-month calendar to implement ones that are more in line with the needs of modern families. Through real case studies from actual school districts in the state of Washington, this book examines research into instructional practices, programmatic challenges, and community involvement with schools that have adapted modified calen...

By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture (PA) can make agriculture more productive and sustainable.This new edition of Precision agriculture for sustainability provides a comprehensive review of the key components of PA, from information gathering to delivery systems, as well as the wide range of applications from precision tillage and seeding to site-specific irrigation and nutrition. The book also discusses recent developments in precision crop protecti...

Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah is a volume dedicated to radically transformative approaches to spaces set aside as zoological parks or gardens. Historically, these establishments served as symbols of power and venues for entertainment, but today, they have taken to portraying themselves as flagships of environmental education, scientific research, and wildlife conservation. Along with the past century's turn in exhibition design toward increasingly naturalis...

Provides a comprehensive review of the recent advances in agricultural robotics, such as advances in sensing and perception, as well as technologies and actuationAddresses our understanding of the social, ethical and economic aspects of agricultural robotics, including the regulatory frameworks and standards required to authorise their adoptionProvides examples of the practical application of agricultural robotics in an array of agricultural settings, from greenho...

I Walked the Darkest Valleys to FreedomBy: David Harold Pedersen BS, MS, CCC-A.A.A.Looking back decades later, David re-creates his emotions as a child who experienced many traumas during his childhood which gathered unbearable emotional pain by 60 years of age when he became suicidal; and his family had to commit him to a psych ward three different times. His early years are written through a child's eyes as he vividly describes traumas he experienced and learns how the ad...

The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter of seconds. This change, which has ultimately made political journalism both more open and more difficult, brings about many questions, but perhaps the two most important are these: Are the hard ...

Barack Obama Han blev valgt på løftet om at forandre USA. ”Change We Can Believe In” lød det valgslogan, der henrykkede både amerikanerne og resten af verden. I 2009 blev Obama indsat som Amerikas 44. præsident. Fem år er nu gået, siden Barack Obama blev taget i ed som præsident, og spørgsmålet er: Har han forandret Amerika? I denne antologi søger skribenterne på Kongressen.com at give svaret. Ud fra såvel indenrigs- som udenrigspolitiske vinkler ser de tilbage på Obamas første fem år ved ...

What is the importance of trust for human social life? What role does trust play in morality, in political arrangements, and in our attempts to gain knowledge and understand the world? When should we trust others, and when is withholding trust or mistrusting others warranted? While philosophers have recently turned their attention to such questions, they have generally overlooked what important thinkers throughout the history of philosophy have said on the topic of trust. Edited by David C...

Bracketed by global financial crises and economic downturns, the modern age has been defined by debates about, and transformations of, money. The period witnessed the consolidation of national currencies and monetary policies as well as the diversification of payment technologies and the proliferation of financial instruments. Throughout, even as it appeared abstracted by finance and depoliticized by expert ideologies, money was revealed again and again to be a powerful medium of cultural ...